Chapter 434: Caught You! Cold Moon Cicada!

Xu Jingming was not a soft-hearted man; even when working as a mercenary on missions, he would cut the grass and dig out the roots, absolutely leaving no survivors.

After killing the burly man and the others, Xu Jingming had Du Wan summon their souls once more for another round of questioning.

As the summoning master, Du Wan possessed an extraordinary degree of control over the souls she had summoned.

After a round of questioning confirmed they had not lied earlier, Xu Jingming likewise obliterated and destroyed their souls.

Immediately after, he and Xia Lan and the others began the universally beloved segment of collecting the spoils.

But more than ten minutes later, Xu Jingming, having finished gathering all the spoils, was somewhat disappointed:

"Tch, for all that talk of being a sixth-tier ability user, didn't expect them to be this broke."

In Great Xia, a fourth-tier upper-rank ability user could already possess a spatial ring of their own.

Most fifth-tier ability users' spatial rings already had a capacity of over 1 cubic meter.

But for this group of Blood Mark mercenaries, most of the fifth-tier ability users' spatial rings had capacities under 1 cubic meter.

Only a few fifth-tier peak ability users had spatial rings with capacities over 1 cubic meter.

The leading burly man, along with the other three sixth-tier ability users, did have spatial rings with capacities somewhat larger than that.

But they were only 3 cubic meters, 2 cubic meters — utterly incomparable to the 100-cubic-meter spatial ring on Xu Jingming's hand.

Small ring capacity aside, the items stored inside weren't worth much either.

Just some pills and bank cards; the most valuable thing on them was probably the battle suits they were wearing.

But the battle suits had already been destroyed by Xu Jingming's Doushen Shenlei, with no salvage value whatsoever.

Therefore, all the spoils combined were probably worth less than 1 billion Great Xia coins.

"Well, having something is better than nothing; there's also a bank card with 500 billion Myanmar coins.

All in all, the haul isn't bad."

With a thought, wild golden Lei Kuangyong surged forth, engulfing all the corpses on the ground.

In just a few breaths, the corpses were all obliterated into dregs.

Before the entire courtyard, only a patch of black ash remained.

Xu Jingming likewise exited Lei Ting state, returning to his normal form:

"The spoils will be kept on my side for now, and we'll distribute them uniformly after the mission ends — no problem with that, right?"

Having lost that majestic Lei Shen phantom, as well as those oppressively brilliant golden dragon pupils.

Lin Hui and the others also breathed a sigh of relief, smiling and nodding: "We'll follow whatever you arrange, Captain."

Just kidding,

That battle just now could almost be said to be Xu Jingming's solo show.

They hadn't played any key role at all — they'd even been a bit of a drag.

Even if all these spoils went to Xu Jingming, they wouldn't have any negative feelings about it.

"Alright, let's head back to the main city district first.

To check out the martial hall branch ruins, and also look into this so-called Black Lion Guild."

Under the sensing of his Heart Net battle technique, the courtyard and rooms no longer held any living people, or any items of value.

So Xu Jingming didn't linger, and directly led everyone away......

The Lei Ting Martial Hall branch was located in the busiest main city district of the Chaotic Triangle Domain.

By the time Xu Jingming and the others arrived driving Lu Qi's off-road vehicle, more than an hour had already passed.

What appeared before Xu Jingming and the others' eyes was a stretch of ruins scorched and ravaged by flames.

Outside the ruins, strips of warning tape were still strung up.

"There were elemental fire-type ability users among that group; all the records of the entire martial hall branch have very likely been burned to nothing."

Seeing this scene, Xu Jingming's brow furrowed slightly — without written records, and with all the branch survivors already dead.

Apart from knowing a 'Black Lion Guild,' they didn't have a single valuable lead in hand.

And earlier in the car, they had already looked up the detailed information on the Black Lion Guild.

But a guild founded by an eighth-tier peak Grandmaster like that —

going to confront them without any evidence would clearly be inappropriate.

"Lin Hui, contact headquarters and see if there's a backup database for this branch.

Xia Lan, you all come with me, and we'll ask around the shops in the area.

Ask if they saw the faces of that group on the day of the raid."

Xu Jingming said contemplatively.

Headquarters should be syncing the branch's data — the question is whether there's any lead they want in there.

"Understood." Everyone nodded, then immediately sprang into action.

Nine at night, the sky was pitch black, with only a crescent moon radiating a faint glow.

Chaotic Triangle Domain, outskirts.

A slender figure, like a phantom, swiftly darted through the dense jungle.

Finally, she came to a stop before an ancient, austere courtyard.

At this moment, a dark cloud in the night sky drifted aside, and clear, bright moonlight spilled down.

It fell upon the person's face, revealing a fair, comely young woman's countenance.

And atop her head, there was also a pair of fuzzy, furry ears.

Behind her, there was even a fluffy tail like a fox's, swaying idly.

Seeing that the entire courtyard was pitch black, with no trace of any human activity,

her delicate brows knit slightly as she murmured to herself: "Am I too late?"

Just as she was about to turn and leave, a sharp sizzle rang out and Jin Guang blazed bright.

A burly young man, well over two meters tall, his entire body wreathed in Lei Ting, appeared in her line of sight as if by teleportation.

Before she could react, one of his large hands shot out like a bolt of lightning and grabbed her.

He seized her Bai Xi neck directly, lifting her entire body off the ground!

"Got you..."

Golden Lei Guang flickered, casting light on the young man's sharply defined, resolute face.

It was none other than Xu Jingming!

After returning to the main city district, he had originally intended to go along and search for clues.

But then he suddenly thought—might someone go check on the courtyard?

So he doubled back and waited here for a little over two hours.

He hadn't expected someone would actually come to check.

But what puzzled him was that this woman didn't seem to be Burmese; her appearance actually looked like a Great Xia person.

"You're from the Black Lion Guild, aren't you?" Xu Jingming's dragon-like vertical pupils stared coldly at her.

"L-let go… let go of me, I'm not from the Black Lion Guild!"

The woman, her small face flushed crimson from the grip on her neck, kicked her long legs—wrapped in black battle attire—wildly in the air.

"That voice… she's really from Great Xia?"

Hearing the clearly non-Burmese accent, Xu Jingming frowned, his right hand loosening slightly:

"Who are you? Why would a child appear here?"

Crack-crackle-pop—

Thunder rumbled, golden Dou Shen Shenlei swirling around Xu Jingming.

The moment anything seemed off, that Lei Ting would ruthlessly devour the woman.

"I… I'm Leng Yuechan, I'm not from the Black Lion Guild, I'm from the Spirit Fox Guild…"

Although Xu Jingming had eased his grip, that great hand—still like an iron clamp—left the woman speaking in broken, halting bursts.