Chapter 799: Kill! Perfect Rating!

'Ding~! Slain one Eighth-Rank Mid-Level Divine Blood Envoy. Psychic Points +40, 00.'

Although enhanced by Divine Blood Techniques and Bloodrage Pills, Lu Wenliang's physique had reached an absurd level of strength.

Yet he still could not withstand Xu Jingming's furious onslaught; within mere dozens of seconds, a system alert sounded.

Whoosh—

The golden thunderstorms across the sky all retracted into his body, restoring the night to darkness.

Lu Wenliang's body had turned completely charred, plummeting from the sky like a rag doll.

With a flap of his Thunder Dragon Wings, Xu Jingming shot forward as a golden streak to catch Lu Wenliang's corpse.

He removed the space ring from Lu Wenliang's finger and stored the corpse inside the ring.

The rest can be handed over to the Public Security Bureau—they've completed the mission.

"Incredible! Director Xu, you truly are Lei Di!"

When Xu Jingming flew back to the rooftop of the residential building, Yang Yao's expression was electric, his voice thick with reverence.

He had assumed Xu Jingming merely needed to hold Lu Wenliang off—that would've been enough.

Yet he never imagined Xu Jingming had actually killed Lu Wenliang!

Beside him, Catherine gently bit her red lip, gazing at Xu Jingming with complex eyes.

Though both were SS-rank Psychic Awakeners, she was vastly inferior to Xu Jingming!

More crucially, her mother—her own teacher—was a Supreme!

With her mother's backing and the Holy Church's resources, she had endless means to expend.

Yet even so, her cultivation speed still couldn't match Xu Jingming's.

She had always been unable to understand this.

After all, another SS-rank prodigy from Great Xia, Su Yu, cultivated at nearly the same pace as her.

Only Xu Jingming was the exception.

"Mission complete. Send your people to clean up. We'll return to submit the task."

Xu Jingming, having exited Thunderstorm State, stored his Heaven-Defying Halberd in the space ring and ordered.

Though he had exerted every effort to contain his Doushen Thunder during the battle,

some lightning still splashed outward, destroying several residential buildings.

And this was precisely the drawback of a high-rank Psychic.

Their power was so immense that ordinary buildings, impregnable to civilians, could be obliterated at will.

Of course, this only applied within city limits.

In the wilderness, the greater the psychic power and the wider its range, the better.

That's precisely why, once the Public Security Bureau detects a high-rank Psychic criminal, they spare no effort to apprehend them.

Even if they ultimately fail to capture them, it's acceptable—as long as they're expelled from Great Xia.

Because if such high-rank Psychic criminals unleash slaughter within a city, casualties will inevitably exceed ten thousand.

"Understood!" Yang Yao replied respectfully.

Yet at that moment, a clear voice echoed from the distant sky:

"No need."

Hearing this, Xu Jingming immediately looked up toward the voice's source, his SS-rank Doushen Thunder flickering faintly across his body.

He sensed the aura of an Eighth-Rank Upper-Level Grand Master.

In the uncertainty of friend or foe, he must remain perpetually alert.

Hu—

A gust of wind swept in, and a voluptuous, stunningly beautiful woman landed on the rooftop terrace.

"Director Zhou!" Yang Yao immediately bowed respectfully.

"Hmm."

Zhou Yu gave a slight nod, her elegant phoenix eyes fixed on Xu Jingming:

"Don't harbor hostility toward me. I am Zhou Yu, Director of the Public Security Bureau. Hand over Lu Wenliang's corpse."

Zhou Yu wasn't just beautiful—her voice was melodious, brimming with the warmth of an elder sister.

Seeing this, Xu Jingming no longer hesitated. He retrieved Lu Wenliang's corpse from the space ring and handed it to Zhou Yu.

"Good." Zhou Yu, having confirmed the corpse's identity, nodded in satisfaction.

Her bureau's Interrogation Division had many experts; even a corpse could yield abundant useful information.

More crucially, with Lu Wenliang—Red Robe Archbishop—dead, the Heavenly Fate Cult's threat in Magu City would diminish greatly.

As for the space ring Xu Jingming had taken from Lu Wenliang,

she didn't ask, nor did she need to.

After all, it was Xu Jingming's rightful spoils; the Public Security Bureau had no authority to intervene.

"Xu Jingming, you completed this mission exceptionally well.

I will assign you a Perfect rating in the official mission completion report."

Tasks on the Swordbearer Forum were rated as Ordinary, Excellent, or Perfect, based on performance.

After all, capturing a criminal at the cost of thousands of civilian lives

was vastly different from capturing one with zero casualties or completing a mission flawlessly.

The higher the mission rating, the more favored one became on the Swordbearer Forum.

Originally, when Zhou Yu first learned of the mission from her secretary, she intended to give Xu Jingming only an Ordinary rating.

Even when she learned the Thunder Martial Arts Hall's experts hadn't shown up and she'd need to intervene,

she had already planned to mark the mission as a failure.

But upon arriving at the scene and discovering Xu Jingming had slain Lu Wenliang entirely alone, she changed her mind.

"Thank you, Director Zhou." Xu Jingming gave a slight nod, not bowing with the reverence Yang Yao displayed.

On one hand, he wasn't part of the Public Security Bureau and wasn't under Zhou Yu's authority.

On the other, his strength now permitted him to treat Zhou Yu as an equal.

"I never imagined you, who was still competing in the Prodigy Tournament last year, had already grown this strong.

How about joining our Magu City Public Security Bureau? I'll appoint you as Deputy Director.

Annual salary: 1 billion Great Xia Coins. Mission rewards will be increased by an additional 10%.

And this position won't conflict with your Thunder Martial Arts Hall affiliation."

Zhou Yu's admiration was unmistakable.

Though the Magu City Public Security Bureau had many personnel, it lacked high-end combat strength.

Among its Eighth-Rank Grand Masters, only she and one other Deputy Director existed.

Yet Magu City spanned over six thousand square kilometers and housed over thirty million permanent residents!

Unlike ordinary cities, Magu had two overseas maritime ports.

Consequently, many Psychic criminals flocked here, hoping to escape to other nations.

After all, naval vessel inspections were far less stringent than those for air combat aircraft.

This made the Public Security Bureau's workload extremely heavy.

Both she and the other Deputy Director were constantly deployed in the field.

Had there been even one more Eighth-Rank combatant, today's mission to kill Lu Wenliang wouldn't have been posted on the Swordbearer Forum.

"Thank you for your kind offer, Director, but I have no such plans for now." Xu Jingming shook his head.

Zhou Yu wasn't surprised: "Here's my contact information. If you ever consider joining our bureau, reach out directly. I'll be leaving now."

With swift decisiveness, Zhou Yu gave Xu Jingming her contact details, added a remark that they would meet again,

then activated her Wind Psychic ability, soaring upward, her slender figure vanishing swiftly into the night sky.