Chapter 242: Sorry, Officer, I Didn

Generally speaking, why do villains usually get into trouble?

Answer: Too much talking!

The detective woman who claimed she was no righteous soul, having learned this truth from past experiences, did not even dare to utter another word when facing Chunhu, and fled in panic.

Under Chunhu's gentle, water-like gaze—devoid of any evil aura—the detective woman felt an overwhelming pressure crash against her, as if every inch of her body had been laid bare, making her shiver like a startled cat.

But what she never expected was that the first to strike and pursue her was not the terrifying immortal avenger who haunted all of Yuedu, but… that human.

In an instant, the position where the detective woman stood was almost entirely covered by a dense barrage of aura waves, blue You light slicing her figure into countless fragments like laser beams.

The next moment, the sound of the slash reached her ears—the tearing of space by the blade-foot echoed like thunder.

If it had landed, Jia Ji was confident he could unleash a flawless combo and send her flying with ten consecutive strikes…

"Hit."

The One-Winged God softly uttered the very words Jia Ji had been thinking.

She lowered the hand that had been covering her lips, extended it forward in a defensive gesture, and every one of those inescapable, net-like shockwaves missed entirely.

Only faint scratches marred her palm, cut by the residual waves; her body showed no other signs of injury, save two fallen feathers.

Troublesome ability…

Jia Ji frowned. His attack had been a zero-frame ambush, yet it was still slower than the detective woman's high-speed divine incantation—once she reacted, inflicting effective damage became nearly impossible.

And this ability had another trait… low cost.

Just as humans breathe, their hearts beat, and blood flows without conscious effort—all instinctive—using this reversal ability was as natural to the detective woman as breathing, with zero burden.

Unreasonable. Illogical.

But this was the power a Mad-Class powerhouse should possess.

To defeat such an opponent, beyond overwhelming absolute strength, ability synergy mattered greatly. Jia Ji's brute-force, aura-blasting style worked fine against a demon king who fought head-on, but against the detective woman's poison-healing mechanism, if he didn't kill her instantly, he'd likely be worn down to death.

"But… isn't this more fun? If I don't crush all these weird, messy abilities with my Northern Dipper Divine Fist, how can I prove my Northern Dipper Divine Fist is unmatched under heaven…"

Jia Ji clenched his fist, the word "enemy" still unspoken—then he suddenly fell silent.

No sound, no tone, no melody, no warning—pure power, power itself, the primordial essence of all things, the force of the world—

The night sky's starry curtain was abruptly torn open; the moon's usual silence turned perilous as something indescribably vast suddenly filled the heavens. A terrifying purple divine light teleported outward, striking the detective woman with full force and slamming her into the ground a kilometer away.

BOOM!

The detective woman's vision went black. She tried to speak, to resist—but had no time to react at all.

An immensely concentrated, tangible force crushed through her body, shattering her bones as if under a hydraulic press—first her chest, then her abdomen, shoulders, head, limbs—all collapsed inward under the blow, nearly flattened into a pancake.

In the instant that colossal tail struck, all of Yuedu trembled like an earthquake; kilometers of ground and metal structures were simultaneously pierced and flattened.

From above, one corner of Yuedu city had sunk inward, riddled with cracks—so deep it nearly breached the moon's outer crust, threatening to unleash its molten interior.

Jia Ji whirled around, staring at the golden-haired woman hovering midair behind him, and the slender purple spiritual tail now retracting behind her, flicking gently at her right side.

"Huh? Can't I fight?"

Facing Jia Ji's stunned expression, Chunhu asked innocently, though the faint curve of her lips betrayed her.

"Uh… whatever makes you happy."

Jia Ji awkwardly lowered his fist and rubbed his hands together.

He finally understood why they needed all of Yuedu's sages just to face Chunhu. Back then, Yiyi Yonglin must have used the Pot Heaven technique to trap her in a separate realm just to barely repel her.

This was only one tail—if all seven were unleashed, plus some kind of murderous lily technique, she might truly obliterate the entire Moon Capital.

Yet he could sense that Chunhu's tail-swing, like swatting a fly, had only nearly destroyed the detective woman's divine body and damaged the environment—harming no lunar citizen, lunar rabbit, or other lifeform.

Probably because Chunhu's revenge was aimed solely at Chang'e, with no malice toward other beings in the Moon Capital—perhaps she was even savoring the process of avenging herself upon Chang'e.

This sudden strike against the detective woman might have been for past interference, recorded in her little notebook, or perhaps just revenge for the crash earlier…

Either way, it proved Chunhu wasn't as easily fooled as she seemed.

Of course, Jia Ji had told nothing but the truth from start to finish—he hadn't deceived her at all—or else she might've added him to her notebook too.

"Aren't you going to deal with her?"

Chunhu pointed at the detective woman, now a broken patch of moon pavement. As the aggressor, she could say this with perfect innocence—was she truly clueless, or just secretly cunning?

BUHAO!

Jia Ji finally snapped back to reality. Though they'd invaded Yuedu from another direction and had only encountered the detective woman so far, such a commotion must have drawn the attention of everyone on the front lines.

In less than two seconds, new enemies would appear—the demons would likely fail to hold back the native lunar forces.

"Go, go quickly!"

In less than a tenth of a second, both shot skyward—trails of cracks split the air, and their figures vanished instantly.

As for the detective woman's shattered body, it was silently sucked into a suddenly appearing "gateway."

(End of Chapter)