[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-heavenly-official-bestows-evil":3,"chapter-heavenly-official-bestows-evil-heavenly-official-bestows-evil-chapter-494":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Heavenly Official Bestows Evil",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2317113,4530,"Chapter 494: The Human Trap","heavenly-official-bestows-evil-chapter-494",494,"\u003Cp>In the darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A woman with a twisted neck and blood all over her face ran toward them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When she was only two or three meters away from Wu Xian, she leapt high into the air, pouncing like a beast, her mouth gaping wide as her cheeks tore open from within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shu! A spear over three meters long materialized automatically in Wu Xian’s loosely clenched hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spear was ancient in design, consisting only of a long wooden shaft and a sharp tip as thick as the shaft itself; Wu Xian stood on its end while gripping it firmly with both hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The twisted-neck woman had no time to dodge—she slammed straight into the spear, her body easily pierced and impaled upon it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Macedonian spear was a divine artifact empowered by the faith of countless people, possessing the power to pierce through all things; ordinary wandering spirits struck by it should die instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the woman hung from the spear, clawing frantically, her blood streaming down the wooden shaft.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The feel of this blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slippery, warm, with only a faint metallic tang—not the foul stench of many malevolent spirits, but like the blood of a normal human.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shi Ji flicked his finger, and something entered the woman’s mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the woman showed no reaction; instead, she glared savagely at Shi Ji and spat a mouthful of blood at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shi Ji’s expression flickered with surprise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the blood splashed past, he spun around and drew a ritual knife engraved with inscriptions from his official credential, executing a clean overhead slash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pata.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman’s head fell to the ground; her body finally went still.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though Shi Ji looked somewhat foolish and untrustworthy, he was a Lotus Favored One who had survived multiple Fudi, and his true strength was far from what he appeared to be.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stared sternly at Wu Xian: “Be careful. Something’s odd.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian nodded: “Yeah, it’s strange.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the real world, Favored Ones cannot voluntarily reveal Fudi information to ordinary people, nor can they use Divine Blessing abilities in front of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this restriction applies only when no malevolent spirits are present.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once malevolent spirits appear, Favored Ones have the right to use Divine Blessing abilities for self-defense, and any ordinary person who witnesses such abilities will have their memories erased by the City God afterward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian turned the spear and sliced lightly, breaking open the gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he pulled out a playing card and temporarily stored the Macedonian spear—it was over three meters long and awkward to carry into a room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the gate opened, two unbound people rushed out, gasping for fresh air; the middle-aged man pulled several stacks of cash from his bag and eagerly tried to hand them to Wu Xian and Shi Ji.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m Wang Deyuan. Thank you so much—you saved my life. Please, take this money.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this time,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian felt no urge to accept.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He walked into the stinking room, stepped over the corpses crawling with maggots, and moved to the back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was a third captive—unlike the other two, he was bound and had tape over his mouth; since Wu Xian and Shi Ji arrived, he had been struggling violently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian peeled off the tape from the man’s mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man stopped struggling and shouted urgently at Wu Xian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t bother with me—those two outside, and the woman just now—they’re all in cahoots!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian spun around sharply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw Wang Deyuan and the young man moving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both their faces twisted into savage grins, blood spurting from their eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Deyuan opened his arms to embrace Shi Ji, while the young man drew a buffalo-horn dagger from his lower back and lunged for Shi Ji’s throat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Shi Ji was ready. His slightly chubby body dropped nimbly, dodging the dagger and Wang Deyuan’s embrace, then rolled sideways in a drunken donkey’s flip to escape between them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the roll ended,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shi Ji waved his hand toward the two charging at him, and a stream of yellow gas erupted forth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Deyuan and the young man moved normally through the gas, but their vision was obscured by its density; Shi Ji charged forward and cleanly severed both their heads with the ritual knife.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While Wu Xian watched,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bound man quietly rose, preparing to attack Wu Xian—only to find Wu Xian’s hand already behind his back, clutching a playing card.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The card ignited without fire; Wu Xian’s fingertip now held a single clear droplet of water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Go! The droplet shot out, striking the man’s chin—apparently with no effect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the next second,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A violent spray of mist erupted from the man’s chin; the droplet shattered his skin, cracked his jawbone, and surged upward, ripping open his entire skull!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the Water-Drills-Stone Spell: it concentrated the force of water dripping on a single point for years or even decades into a single droplet’s explosion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man’s head was now half gone; his body swayed and collapsed to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian turned back to the corpse, his face thoughtful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Brother Xian, what are these things?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t know.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before Shi Ji cut off the woman’s head, he had thrown a yellow pill into her mouth; for a normal malevolent spirit, this pill would induce a poisoning-like reaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the woman’s reaction was unnervingly mild—less than eating a sour candy. This meant whatever they were facing was completely immune to impure forces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the woman was immune, then Wang Deyuan and the other two, who had also swallowed the yellow pill, could not be cleared of suspicion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So after opening the door, Wu Xian and Shi Ji had been watching all three closely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they couldn’t confirm their true nature—if these three were merely innocent bystanders caught up in this? So they decided to observe their reactions first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were so impatient that they struck the instant Wu Xian entered the room, with no patience for the perfect moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“These things—they came for us.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“From the sabotage of the car tires outside Jinmu Building, to the woman’s taxi, to these three prisoners in this cell—this wasn’t random. It was a deliberate trap laid for Favored Ones.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But what’s their goal?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian was puzzling over this\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When clapping echoed from afar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A man in a taxi driver’s uniform walked over—it was Zhao Licheng, the first missing person, the immoral Old Zhao!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhao Licheng spoke coldly: “I didn’t expect even this elaborate trap would fail to kill even one of you. Looks like Favored Ones are just as troublesome in this world as they are in the Fudi.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind Zhao Licheng stood over a dozen others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Men and women, fat and thin, some holding baseball bats, others wielding large cleavers—all with vicious expressions, none showing any sign of malevolence; clearly, they were the same type as the previous three.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Zhao Licheng seemed approachable, Wu Xian asked curiously:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That woman just now—what kind of malevolent spirit is she? So weak, yet she didn’t die from the divine spear, and she’s immune to the yellow pill...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Malevolent spirit?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhao Licheng’s fist clenched, veins bulging on his forehead as he glared at Wu Xian with fury.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We’re not that kind of thing—we’re human!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1211,"2026-06-20T14:31:07.793Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","2efeb5830975d4e5850fc2e7feae85bd83a96d508536e2eb5ad6dee7f227a0d9","heavenly-official-bestows-evil-chapter-495","heavenly-official-bestows-evil-chapter-493",556,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fheavenly-official-bestows-evil-cover.jpg"]