Chapter 68: Crossed the Red Line!

Killing an enemy chief could earn eighty spirit stones, and one could even imagine that there must also be considerable merit.

If this enemy chief hadn't been encountered by Xu Qing, and he hadn't taken action against him, that would be one thing.

But he had already severely injured him and was about to capture him, yet the other party had forcibly attacked him to steal the credit. This kind of thing made murderous intent permeate Xu Qing's eyes.

But at this moment, it was too late to chase out, and the blue ghost hand manifested by the talisman treasure was also whistling toward Xu Qing from behind.

Seeing that the Merfolk youth was about to succeed, Xu Qing instantly pinched a seal, and instantly, a large number of water droplets appeared beside the Merfolk youth, forming a giant jellyfish, whistling away.

"Trifling skill!"

The Merfolk youth sneered. His figure didn't pause in the slightest, and light flashed outside his body. Instantly, a layer of protection manifested, letting the jellyfish approach and bombard it. Its protection was extremely strong, causing the incoming jellyfish to collapse on its own.

But he clearly underestimated Xu Qing's jellyfish.

Following the collapse, the countless water droplets formed by the jellyfish's body didn't dissipate but gathered rapidly, actually forming a giant net, shrouding the Merfolk youth and trapping him in place.

This scene made the Merfolk youth's brows furrow, and his speed inevitably slowed down, missing the opportunity to grab toward the enemy chief, causing the enemy chief to escape more than three zhang away.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Xu Qing's body rushed forward fiercely. For the blue ghost hand whistling toward him from behind, he didn't dodge at all, letting this talisman treasure-manifested ghost hand bombard his own body.

With a loud bang.

Xu Qing bled, but with the impact of this ghost hand, his body speed was added, and he rushed out faster in an instant, surpassing the Merfolk youth in the blink of an eye, turning into a residual shadow and rushing straight at the enemy chief.

In the instant of approach, his right hand lifted rapidly, the black iron skewer shining with cold light.

But at this moment, the Merfolk youth also cut open the restraint. Cold light shone in his eyes, and a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth. With a wave of his hand, the sharp blade flying wheel that had flown toward Xu Qing earlier whistled from afar, the sound it stirred up astonishing, rushing toward the enemy chief ahead of Xu Qing.

Seeing it was about to approach...

At the critical moment, the black light transformed by the black iron skewer, with even faster speed, like a black lightning, amidst the sharp and ear-piercing screech, broke through the bamboo, rushing ahead of the flying wheel, stabbing into the back of the enemy chief's head, piercing through the head, and revealing the tip at the forehead!

Amidst the shrill screams, the flying wheel whistled and approached, cutting open the enemy chief's neck, causing the head to fly up, fresh blood erupting, and he died!

Not bothering with the flying wheel, Xu Qing's speed didn't decrease in the slightest. He leaped over and grabbed the enemy chief's head, only then pausing, turning around, and looking coldly at the Merfolk youth whose expression was incomparably ugly behind him.

"What kind of thing are you, daring to come and steal my credit?" Before Xu Qing could speak, the Merfolk youth gritted his teeth and spoke.

His murderous intent was incomparably strong. He lifted his hand to catch the returning sharp blade flying wheel, his whole body permeated with murderous intent, his green eyes revealing ferocity, walking toward Xu Qing step by step.

Xu Qing, holding the enemy chief's head, also had murderous intent in his eyes. He didn't speak, but his body was already prepared for action, and he even secretly crushed a poison pill, letting it disperse with the wind.

At the same time, the shadow under his feet that no one could see also spread rapidly to the front of the other party. This Merfolk youth only needed to take one more step forward, and he would step on the shadow.

Once he stepped in, the shadow would erupt instantly, and Xu Qing would also strike instantly.

He was confident that in this suddenness, he could finish off the other party in a very short time.

But just as the Merfolk youth lifted his right foot, and the moment his eyes were about to fall, and Xu Qing's murderous intent was about to erupt, a sneer came from the fog.

"What kind of thing are you, daring to come and steal the credit of my Sixth Team?"

The words echoed, and the captain of the Sixth Team, who was eating an apple, walked out from the fog. While walking, he was eating, and behind him were some team members of the Sixth Team. Four people were missing, and each of the remaining ones held a head in their hands, imposing and fierce.

Especially the captain there, the bloody smell on his body was extremely heavy, and the cold light in his eyes seemed to be able to turn into substance, making the air in the surroundings instantly freeze.

The Merfolk youth's body paused, his footsteps didn't fall, but he turned to look at the Sixth Team crowd after putting it back in its original place. For a few breaths of time, the team members of the Third Team in the fog also arrived one after another.

The atmosphere between the two sides was very tense. The Merfolk youth sneered, turned his head back to look coldly at Xu Qing, the murderous intent still there.

"You temporarily saved your life, but I have remembered this matter." Saying this, he flicked his sleeve and left with his people.

Xu Qing's gaze was restrained. He stood there with a calm expression, not speaking.

"Well done." After the Merfolk youth left, the Sixth Team captain walked to Xu Qing's side with a smile, circled him, and looked at the head in his hand, speaking with a smile.

Then he handed Xu Qing an apple.

"Here, treat you to eat."

Xu Qing took it with his left hand, took a bite in his mouth. The taste was still sweet, but there was more bloody smell in his mouth. After swallowing it together with Xu Qing, he looked up at the direction the Merfolk youth left.

At this moment, the Sixth Team team members around were all excited.

"The captain got one enemy chief, and Xu Qing also got one. This time we are rich!"

"Twenty spirit stones as a foundation, hahaha, this job was worth it!"

"Xu Qing, the ones you killed, we helped you take the heads. The Night Dove you killed are very easy to identify—the ones with their necks cut are yours."

Looking at the team members who were usually cold to each other, today they were rarely so sincerely happy. That kind of team feeling made the captain very satisfied, seemingly forgetting the few who died, and waved his hand.

"Collect the team!"

The group of people talked and laughed rarely, carrying their spoils of war, left the manor, and walked toward the Murder Investigation Department in this night. On the way, the team members looked at Xu Qing with some respect.

It wasn't just anyone who had the strength to kill an enemy chief like the captain, nor was it just anyone who dared to compete for credit with the captain of another team.

So, whose credit it was didn't matter; being able to get it into his hands already explained Xu Qing's ferocity.

Xu Qing was accustomed to being in the rear, and the captain also walked a few steps slower. At Xu Qing's side, he handed him a blue talisman treasure. That was the ghost hand talisman that the Night Dove enemy chief had waved earlier to manifest a giant hand to attack Xu Qing.

Following his death, this ghost hand talisman became a spoil of war, but it was broken a lot and could only be used once or twice more.

"Take it, this is what you deserve."

Xu Qing was somewhat surprised, accepted it silently, and looked at the captain. At this moment, the captain's expression also had deep meaning.

"Just now, did I come early?"

Xu Qing didn't speak.

"There were too many people there, not Murder Investigation Department people, but hidden alien protectors. Although it wasn't impossible to kill them, after all, people are allies. Although the Merfolk race has rebellious bones and is fickle, I heard that many years ago they wanted to rebel and were discovered by the old guys on the mountain, so they suppressed it during the competition, but after all, they are still allies, so it's not good to take action directly."

"That fish, I don't know what he is doing, occasionally always likes to leave all his clan protectors aside and go out alone..." The captain's smile was very sunny.

Xu Qing was thoughtful, put away the ghost hand talisman, took out two pears from his leather pouch, handed one to the captain, ate one himself, and suddenly asked a question.

"Captain, is the body structure of the alien race very different from my human race?"

The captain was somewhat surprised that Xu Qing actually gave him fruit, so he took it, weighed it in his hand, and smiled.

"There are some differences. For example, poison. Many poisons that our human race cannot bear have no effect on alien races, and vice versa. For the human race, some tonics are enough to be fatal to them."

Xu Qing glanced at the captain, and the captain also glanced at him, and neither spoke again.

While moving forward, in Xu Qing's calm eyes, a coldness was brewing. In his personality, there was a red line. Once touched, he must try every means to strangle the danger, even if the conditions and strength didn't allow it, but he would also firmly remember it, like a fishbone in his throat, hard to be at peace without killing.

This red line was his life safety.

The slums were like this, the scavenger camp was like this, and the Seven Blood Eyes was also like this.

For Xu Qing, the difference was that here he had to find opportunities more cautiously and strike more decisively to kill.

That Merfolk youth had seriously touched his red line, even more seriously than the Banquan Road old man, and was already at the same level as the Diamond Sect Ancestor.

So, he wanted to finish off the other party as soon as possible.

Thus, Xu Qing was silent. As the Sixth Team completed this mission and dispersed in the Murder Investigation Department, he didn't return to the magic boat immediately but hid near the Murder Investigation Department, waiting silently.

An hour later, he saw the Merfolk youth's figure.

But the other party was not alone. Under Xu Qing's careful observation, he saw that there were strands of aura hidden in the surroundings. The largest strand gave Xu Qing a feeling of Foundation Establishment, which made Xu Qing even more cautious.

At the same time, there was indeed no sign of poisoning on the Merfolk youth.

Xu Qing determined that he had used poison, which showed that the captain's words made sense. Coupled with the fact that there were strong people guarding him by his side, Xu Qing didn't follow him forcibly but judged the general direction and turned to leave.

This night, the Seventh Peak's action to close the net on Night Dove was a complete success. All seventeen strongholds in the harbor area were wiped out, and even other forces that had ties with Night Dove were also uprooted by the disciples arranged by the Murder Investigation Department on this night.

Several deputy department heads also took action personally, killing many Night Dove powerhouses, and other districts were also like this.

This action saw nearly two thousand Night Dove members die, and the number of people from forces that had ties with them who were cleared out was even larger. And all these heads were hung on the city wall the next day, blood permeating, shocking all directions.

However, the Murder Investigation Department's own casualties were not small, with more than three hundred disciples dying, including the man and woman Xu Qing met when he first went to the Seventh Peak Murder Investigation Department to report.

But overall, the battle results were brilliant, and the various forces in the main city were also cleared out because of this, so in the following days, most were in awe, and the plundering between disciples also subsided a lot.

And the reward for this action was also issued quickly. Xu Qing obtained a full one hundred and thirty spirit stones, unprecedentedly wealthy. This made him even more vigilant against the greedy people existing in the surroundings, and his murderous intent also rose.

Whoever comes to rob, he will kill whoever.

And with such a large sum of spirit stones in hand, Xu Qing felt that the refining materials he had looked at before seemed to be of lower quality and not that good, so he pondered whether to buy better materials to reinforce his magic boat.

At the same time, Xu Qing had also been extremely concerned about that Merfolk youth these two days, following him many times, but the other party's protectors were always there, and Xu Qing didn't find an opportunity.

But he was not in a hurry, he had patience.

Until three days passed. This afternoon, Xu Qing was on rotation and was cultivating in the magic boat when he received an invitation in his voice transmission jade slip.

The person who sent the invitation was exactly Zhou Qingpeng, the wealthy family disciple who entered the Seventh Peak with him at the beginning.

"Junior Brother Xu Qing, I finally got the Ghost Desire Horseshoe Crab, but there aren't many, only two. Also, we have been distant from each other since entering the sect. Tonight, I invited Li Zimei and Xu Xiaohui. How about we have a dinner together? By the way, I will also bring the Ghost Desire Horseshoe Crab for you."

The words were sincere.

Xu Qing pondered. After experiencing the incident where the Merfolk youth didn't get poisoned, he indeed very much wanted the Ghost Desire Horseshoe Crab to try refining new poison. Thus, he checked his duty and agreed to this matter, continuing to cultivate.

Soon dusk descended outside. Xu Qing opened his eyes from cultivation, calculated the time, got up and walked out of the magic boat, and walked toward the restaurant Zhou Qingpeng had agreed upon.

The restaurant Zhou Qingpeng chose was not far from the harbor and was a two-story building that looked very luxurious, quite famous in the harbor.

Xu Qing hadn't been in here, but the Murder Investigation Department had records of all shops, and Xu Qing had paid attention to all of them, recognizing the background of this restaurant—it was opened by the Harbor Defense Department.

The Harbor Defense Department was different from the Murder Investigation Department, but somewhat similar to the Patrol Department, except that the former was mainly patrolling at sea, and the latter was on the shore in the city.

Approaching at this moment, Xu Qing swept a glance cautiously and looked at the surroundings again, confirming it was safe, only then stepping into the restaurant.

Just as he entered, the waiter inside noticed Xu Qing and came to greet him enthusiastically. After learning which room Xu Qing was going to, the waiter was even more enthusiastic, taking Xu Qing to the second floor.

The room Zhou Qingpeng booked was at the end of the second floor, and the second floor of this restaurant was actually not open to commoners, only Seven Blood Eyes disciples had the qualification

As he approached the room, Xu Qing heard the laughter of Zhou Qingpeng and the others coming from the end private room.

"Senior Brother Zhou, this is my first time coming here. I heard that this restaurant is extremely hard to book, and they don't pay any attention to ordinary disciples at all. Plus, there are three special dishes here that are said to have certain nourishing effects on one's cultivation."

"It's nothing, this is an industry of my Coastal Defense Department. For disciples of our Coastal Defense Department, we can book it whenever we want. Xiaohui, if you have any needs in the future, just let me know, and I'll help you book it."

"Then I'll thank you, Senior Brother Zhou. Senior Brother Zhou, I'll toast you."

As the charming voice echoed, Xu Qing had already reached the entrance. As the waiter opened the private room door, what was reflected in Xu Qing's eyes was a table full of dishes, and the three people sitting there.

Two women and one man; the man was none other than Zhou Qingpeng, who was currently beaming with joy, holding a wine glass. Beside him, petite and charming, was Xu Xiaohui.

The last one was Li Zimei. She was still as she had been at the beginning, her expression very reserved, sitting there looking somewhat nervous and at a loss.

Xu Qing's appearance made the two people other than Zhou Qingpeng freeze for a moment, and they all looked toward him.

"This Senior Brother, who are you?" Xu Xiaohui's eyes lit up. Looking at Xu Qing's face, there were ripples in her eyes, and she even felt the astonishing spiritual energy fluctuations on Xu Qing's body.

Seeing Xu Qing arrive, Zhou Qingpeng stood up with a smile. Before he could speak, Li Zimei, who was beside him, looked toward Xu Qing and spoke softly with some hesitation.

"Is it Senior Brother Xu Qing?"

She actually recognized him at a glance.

I was tired from writing late last night and saw a very cool board-catching move while scrolling through videos, so I couldn't help but run out and play with my land surfboard for an hour. Sweating crazily in the high temperature, it felt great~~~