[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-heavenly-official-bestows-evil":3,"chapter-heavenly-official-bestows-evil-heavenly-official-bestows-evil-chapter-71":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},2316690,4530,"Chapter 71: The End of the Cycle","heavenly-official-bestows-evil-chapter-71",71,"\u003Cp>Wu Xian’s words took the two a moment to process.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a pause, Wei Dian asked Wu Xian: “Can I ask how many cycles you’ve actually experienced while fully conscious?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian smiled shyly: “Not many, not many—just seven or eight times.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then how did you solve the memory and curse problems?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian thoroughly enjoyed the feeling of boasting before these two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tilted his head slightly and said: “All easily solved.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What about killing the key figure? Like that fat detective—he might be the cycle’s linchpin…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wei Dian’s face turned fierce, edged with resolve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian smiled—he knew these two wouldn’t overlook this point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sweat broke on his forehead; he regretted showing off before them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Killing just one has no effect—the dead person revives in their original spot, losing all memory.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Through this disruption, I discovered another feature of Xianwei City.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The curse problem is even simpler.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He cowered outside, secretly watching the doctor’s house, like a miserable husband who’d been out carousing with bad company and only dared return after his wife fell asleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Showing off his superiority before these two was an opportunity he’d never have in a normal lifetime, so Wu Xian had grown a bit carried away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“For memory, write down everything you’ve investigated and recite it three times a day—morning, noon, night—to ensure you never forget. That’s what ‘never letting go’ means.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Wu Xian killed the Goldfish Lady, he had confidently believed he no longer needed to purge the curse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian nodded smugly, propped his legs on the table, his tail nearly twitching into the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he made grand boasts to the Goldfish Lady.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wait. Wait.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My name is Wu Xian.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He realized he’d used up all his Flying Blade Talismans; the razor could only be used once or twice—and he truly had no way to counter the curse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You think you’re the only one who can go down together?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Your method might work, but when you first tried to avoid the curse, you didn’t have Flying Blade Talismans—so how did you kill those four malevolent spirits?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is a cycle of cause and effect—so long as one of us lives, it will never end!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is the Miasma Curse—it releases a deadly toxic miasma. The interrogation room is enclosed; once released, all three of us will die. But dying here isn’t final, so don’t be afraid—come die with me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jia Sheng corrected Wu Xian: “No, this has meaning—it proves everything outside us three is false. To break the cycle, we must start by changing ourselves.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“At midnight every day, everything in the city refreshes except for us three and related objects. After refresh, the city returns to its original state—so destroying the city is meaningless.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You have no idea how far I’ve gone.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Even after all that, the cycle still continues?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While the four malevolent spirits were performing their sentimental act, he secretly completed his worship—and before they revealed their true forms, he killed them all with four Flying Blade Talismans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sss… that’s some heavy stuff. But if it were me, I might do the same.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wei Dian stared at Wu Xian and Jia Sheng for a moment, as if he’d figured something out—but he didn’t speak it, instead asked thoughtfully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“In summary…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wei Dian also proposed several viable options: “Have you tried destroying the city? Assassinating city administrators? Large-scale arson? Detonating gas pipelines?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jia Sheng’s eyes flickered with madness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian had truly discovered something new.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian instantly panicked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I won’t come back!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he wore a raincoat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ve tried it—I tried killing just one, and then killing two at once.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He held a talisman in his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the two men on the verge of violence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian rubbed his forehead and sighed deeply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jia Sheng, though slightly slower, fully grasped the situation and raised his hand to propose a possible way to break the cycle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jia Sheng released the grenade, still gasping for breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I kicked the fat detective into the septic tank and detonated every septic tank in the city—the urban order collapsed completely, streets filled with screaming people…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you kill two, the cycle stalls for a day—but eventually resumes… because the three of us are deeply linked; as long as one lives, his actions cause the other two to be reborn.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian frantically calmed them down, sweating profusely, until they finally lowered their weapons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wait, wait… calm down!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when he, as the doctor, was about to return home, his whole body went numb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The topic reached this point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Through the Demon-Reflecting Mirror, I saw my own face was only about one-third complete. When soul transfer occurred, the ashes on the cosmetic clinic floor left only half a footprint. When I strayed too far from you, I felt a tearing sensation—and my Ten Soul Banner was only one-third whole…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pulled out a high-powered grenade, hand on the pin—it was obtained under the detective’s identity. If it exploded, none of the three of them would escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wei Dian’s gaze turned dangerous. He stared at Wu Xian: “Have you tried killing us?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The malevolent family of four had been waiting for Wu Xian in the living room. At 11:59 p.m., three statues of Cui Fu Jun suddenly appeared in the room—but the family of four acted as if they saw nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why the septic tank?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Wu Xian gathered his courage and went home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After mastering the statue refresh timing, the number of Flying Blade Talismans in Wu Xian’s possession gradually increased…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The first time was a bit troublesome…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This summary was oddly phrased, but both Wei Dian and Jia Sheng understood. They fell silent for a moment, then smiled together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jia Sheng froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wei Dian mentally reviewed Wu Xian’s method of avoiding the curse—and found a flaw.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So if all three of us die, this tedious cycle ends. I guessed as much long ago—so I prepared this.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wei Dian was also startled—he’d only pulled out the Miasma Curse to scare Wu Xian for his arrogance, never expecting Jia Sheng to be this… violent?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian finally dropped his pretense and began sharing real information that could change the situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you kill all four before then, you won’t be troubled by the curse—but even without the curse, you still can’t break the cycle.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“When the doctor first returned home, he carried no curse. The four malevolent spirits appeared and surrounded him for over ten minutes—that’s when the curse was cast.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Come on—see who kills whom first, you with the poison or me with the bomb?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Refresh!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I am Wu Xian.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Me too!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1107,"2026-06-20T14:31:06.102Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","c95b12b8ef150fbd9d07810ee0fff9bdf71c0ba77020ce01f9ecba20d8ea2d37","heavenly-official-bestows-evil-chapter-72","heavenly-official-bestows-evil-chapter-70",556,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fheavenly-official-bestows-evil-cover.jpg"]