Chapter 91: Unity of Man and Sword, Parasite Insect

Thunder descended upon the world, instantly engulfing the body controlled by the parasite in the distance.

The dazzling lightning filled Li Jing’s vision.

An instant after, the lightning faded away.

Li Jing squinted.

Then, a health bar that showed a reduced value of 1974 appeared in his sight.

It didn’t die!?

This didn’t even kill the parasite?

Li Jing was stunned for a moment, then realized something was amiss.

The location of the health bar was now significantly farther than when the Nine Heavens God Thunder fell, and it’s moving at a ghost-like speed disappearing from his sight.

Seeing this, Li Jing reacted immediately.

Before the parasite was bombarded, it abandoned the host body and escaped!

The Nine Heavens God Thunder did not hit its main body, it probably just slightly scraped it, not enough to be fatal.

"Damn it!"

Li Jing cursed under his breath.

This turn of events was beyond his expectations.

But even if he anticipated it, he was helpless.

Non-instant magic skills require a target lock to be lethal.

From beginning to end, he was unable to sense the aura of the parasite at all.

The parasite merely roared twice without using other means, not even leaking aura.

Moreover, with the corpse as a guard, Li Jing could only rely on his eyes to establish the parasite’s body as the target of the Nine Heavens God Thunder, determining the bombing range and distance.

These factors gave the parasite the opportunity to escape.

Within the blink of an eye, the blood bar of the parasite nearly disappeared from his sight. Not having time to think, Li Jing used Sky Control to start chasing.

Vanishing Skill, full throttle!

"Blue Edge!"

With his soft calling, the Flying Sword Blue Edge, that was driven by Li Jing to a safe distance to avoid being hit by the Nine Heavens God Thunder, flew over steadily into his hands.

Blue Edge Sword in hand, Li Jing hovered in mid-air, raising his weapon to the sky.

"Sky Sword!"

"Clang!"

A loud sword cry echoed through the night sky.

The Blue Edge, reconstructed into a flying sword from a sword light, lifted Li Jing up into the sky.

Throughout this process, the Blue Edge Sword expanded to envelop Li Jing within, transforming into a sword shadow around three meters long.

In the midst of the sword shadow, Li Jing’s mind was clear.

All distractions in his heart dissipated at this moment.

Unity of Man and Sword!

The true essence of Sky Sword Technique.

At this moment.

Li Jing was no longer Li Jing, but the sword in his hand.

The sword, only for slaying existence!

In the blink of an eye, the large sword shadow created by the Flying Sword Blue Edge reached the sky.

"Whoosh!"

The sword shadow rotates horizontally, aiming straight below where the blood bar is about to escape his vision.

Just then, a prompt rang in Li Jing’s ear.

"Flying Sword Blue Edge nurturing progress 100%, quality improved, Eight-level Treasure."

Before the prompt ended, the sword shadow formed by the Flying Sword Blue Edge increased once again as if injected with adrenaline, stopping only after expanding over ten meters.

"Clang!"

A joyous sword cry.

The horrifying sword shadow tore through the night sky, catching up with the fleeing blood bar over the outer sea in an instant.

The next second, the massive sword shadow easily crushed a weird winged insect-like creature, leaving only a gem-like object.

The blood bar, emptied and disappeared.

"Experience +4124."

"Level up, 19. Spiritual Power Intensity +38, Skill Points +2."

Accompanied by the two prompts, the sword shadow dissipated.

Li Jing broke out from the Unity of Man and Sword state, his mind returning to normal.

Noticing that the weird creature had dropped something, he quickly rode the wind and caught it before it fell into the sea.

The object was cool to touch upon holding.

What is this thing?

Li Jing lowered his head to check.

In his hand was an irregularly shaped crystal.

Taking out the small device from his storage space, Li Jing turned on the camera.

"Check what this is, Xia Ai."

"Received."

The Artificial Intelligence Xia Ai responded.

After giving orders to Xia Ai, Li Jing looked back towards the shore with a frown.

At this time, in the North City area near the shore, sword lights could be seen shooting into the sky everywhere.

His sudden urgency and various coincidences had caused a huge commotion, causing the city patrol to be alarmed.

In the Unity of Man and Sword state, his mind was clear, only thinking about chopping something down without considering anything else.

As luck would have it, the Flying Sword Blue Edge had just completed its nurturing process.

Not only did its quality improve, the defects of its poor Spiritual Qi conductivity and "leakiness" were also filled with the improvement.

Defects are not supposed to be filled so easily.

The coincidence lied in the fact that Li Jing was in the Unity of Man and Sword state, and all his spiritual power was automatically filled into the Qingfeng Sword, filling the defects that were supposed to take time to fill in one fell swoop.

Truth be told, this was purely accidental.

If he hadn’t been in the Unity of Man and Sword state, Li Jing might not even have known that defects could be filled so crudely and brutally.

So...

What now?

The Nine Heavens God Thunder is easy to explain.

Viewed from a distance, it is nothing more than a thunderbolt in a clear sky.

When casting the spell, Li Jing used the Spirit Control Skill to compress the original large range of its impact to as small as possible, reducing the visual impact while gaining a stronger pinpoint lethality.

Whether one is discerning or not, it’s not easy to tell something is up without a close look.

But the sword shadow transformed from the Unity of Man and Sword of Sky Sword Technique was somewhat shocking.

A sword shadow over ten meters long hanging in the sky, probably half of the people in North City could see it if they were on the street!

In principle.

As there’s a reason behind it, Li Jing only needed to report the actual situation without the need for further explanation.

But once the large number of patrols arrive, there might be bystanders trying to get involved, and the fact that the sword shadow was driven by him will surely be spread.

Proficiency and whatnot, are not the issue.

Who could tell the proficiency from that distance?

An impressive sword shadow is not exclusive to Sky Sword Technique Unity of Man and Sword.

Sword Shadow Techniques that specialize in Sword Controlling are much more exaggerated than Sky Sword Technique.

Right now, what Li Jing has to face is that once the matter spreads, he could become a netizen sensation in minutes!

Becoming a netizen sensation, even if he successfully joins the patrol, he might end up being assigned to a desk job.

For patrolling officers, being famous is a taboo, unless you hold a high position and are part of the leadership.

This situation is a bit troublesome.

Especially considering that Li Jing is still an assistant patrol.

If he were a patrol, a simple statement of patrol work could solve most of the problem, there won’t be a large number of patrols being alerted, giving bystanders the courage to approach the scene of the "battle".

After thinking for a moment, Li Jing quietly pulled out Chen Jing’s Immortal Message number from the small device and quickly composed a message.

"Uncle, it was me who acted on the eastern coast just now, I apologize for alarming the city patrol. I need you to inform them that the issue has been resolved and they should return to their posts to avoid disrupting the city’s public order."

Whether or not Chen Jing was using his phone at the moment, his Immortal Message was sent immediately, and he promptly sent back a voice message.

Seeing it was a voice message, Li Jing instinctually clicked on it.

"I was wondering who was bold enough to recklessly use attack magic in my jurisdiction of North City, it turns out it’s you, causing trouble huh?"

Just as the audio message finished playing, Chen Jing sent a text message.

"I will cover for you this time, be cautious next time. No matter what you encounter, don’t act rashly unless absolutely necessary, leave it to the patrollers. It’s good to have the ability to handle situations, but heedlessly acting before you officially become a patroller and understanding its implications will only invite trouble."

The message had barely appeared for two seconds when the countless sword lights that were supposed to come to the coast under the night sky suddenly retracted.

Seeing such a sight, Li Jing couldn’t help but sincerely admire.

Chen Jing’s influence is undoubtable, able to instantly calm down the panicking patrollers.

Just as he was about to reply to Chen Jing, the latter unexpectedly sent another voice message over.

?

Li Jing was slightly surprised and clicked open the voice message.

"A subordinate who had just arrived at the eastern coastline reported to me that your Heavenly King Group found a drowned Disaster Management Bureau member a moment ago. I had them bring the body back, it’s something that they can’t handle. I didn’t expect you to stumble upon this mess. The commotion you caused must have been to kill a Parasite Insect. Bring the corpse and the Parasite Insect directly to the patrolling bureau to find me, the members of your Heavenly King Group should be the only ones to know about this, do not disclose it. I will dispatch senior patrollers to patrol the eastern coastline and warn the surrounding sea area."

Hearing the instructions in Chen Jing’s voice message, Li Jing slightly furrowed his brows.

Parasite Insect, apparently it was the name of the unknown parasitic creature he encountered.

After pondering the intriguing part of Chen Jing’s message, he easily connected it to the disaster that befell the Disaster Management Bureau during their secret exploration and the secret order for arrest.

Without making any assumptions, Li Jing responded with an "Understood" to Chen Jing.

Just as he finished replying, a notification popped up on his phone screen.

"Master, I’ve found out what the stone you got is, I also looked up the Parasite Insect."

While speaking, she waved her small hand and pulled out two sets of data.

Parasite Insect:

A highly dangerous parasitic foreign insect often seen deep in the tropical rainforest.

Its parasitic method relies on its piercing shriek causing its prey to become dazed, entering the body forcefully through any opening in the prey’s body that is big enough for it to pass through.

Once parasitized, if not treated promptly, the prey will die due to the toxin secreted by the Parasite Insect within two hours and become a puppet under its control, turning into its food.

The Parasite Insect loves to consume blood and is very cunning.

Before completely consuming its prey, unless there’s no other choice, Parasite Insect will not easily abandon its host.

After successfully parasitizing, they will disguise themselves as their prey and actively seek and inhabit in the corresponding groups to more conveniently find their next target, they only resist when they are attacked and exposed.

For every place where Parasite Insects breed and live, human intervention is needed to control their population, failing to do so would severely impact the ecology, even leading to the complete disappearance of all life in the area and the transformation into a barren land.

Soul Devouring Crystal:

A crystal-like spirit material derived from Parasite Insects, its texture is extremely hard and difficult to destroy.

Its value is relatively moderate, the base market price being 5.1 million, with the price varying depending on the quality.

Every Parasite Insect houses one of these, located at the end of their oral organ’s sound sac, and it’s the main reason behind the Parasite Insect’s scream that induces confusion and daze in victims. Manually shaking it will produce an eerie sound wave.

The Soul Devouring Crystal can be used as a supplementary material or inlay for crafting high-grade treasures with a focus on sound damage, greatly enhancing the effectiveness of the treasure’s sound attack.

Glancing over the two sets of data the small AI pulled out, Li Jing could only feel chills running down his spine.

Parasite Insect parasitizes by forcing entry through any opening on a body big enough for it to pass through?

Which means...

it can parasitize not only through the mouth?

God damn it!

Good thing its sound attack was easily blocked by his spirit robe, or else...

Li Jing was still feeling the lingering fear, as his mind started wandering again.

The existence of Parasite Insects may lead to a barren land, this piece of information confirmed his suspicions about the connection with the secret realm.

The whole secret realm is essentially a barren land, its formation is likely directly associated with the overpopulation of Parasite Insects.

It’s easy to infer from this that the murdered Disaster Management Bureau personnel and Research Institute personnel likely encountered a large group of Parasite Insects in the secret realm, resulting in their team being completely annihilated.

The Parasite Insect then, by using its ability to impersonate a victim, successfully sneaked through the secret realm’s entrance into the mortal world.

With the addition of Jiang Guanwen and others being secretly arrested, we can deduce...

The Disaster Management Bureau was too late in realizing the vast amount of parasitized individuals infiltrating the mortal world and found out about the situation.

However, they were unable to eliminate all of them on the spot, some of the parasitized individuals managed to escape, as a last resort they alerted the patrolling bureau.

This explains why a parasitized corpse of a Disaster Management Bureau member was washed up onto the area their Heavenly King Group was assigned to.

The parasitized individual that Yi Xiuzhu found is very likely one of the two Disaster Management Bureau members on the wanted list!

Upon this thought, Li Jing couldn’t help but look at the virtuous small AI on his phone screen.

The Jiang Guanwen she developed is probably dead...

On this matter, Li Jing was hesitating whether to inform the small AI.

Xiao Ai was an elementary-level Artificial Intelligence, so it didn’t have human emotions.

However, since she had expressed hope that he could help Jiang Guanwen, she must feel some concern for her developer.

If he were to tell her the truth...

As he was thinking, Lu Yangcheng’s voice rang out from Li Jing’s communication earpiece.

"Heavenly King?"

"Mm, I’m here."

Li Jing collected his thoughts and responded.

"I am fine, the problem is resolved..."

Before he could finish speaking, Lu Yangcheng’s voice sounded faintly.

"I know you’re fine. I’m not blind, neither is Xiuzhu. We didn’t see what you were fighting with, but your combat power after stepping into the Three Realm is a bit terrifying."

Hearing these words, Li Jing chuckled secretly.

Just as he was about to say something, Yi Xiuzhu’s voice rang out from his earpiece.

"Kong Wu just reported to us, saying that you have received an additional task and asked us to continue patrolling."

Upon hearing this, Li Jing immediately knew that Chen Jing had contacted Kong Wu and given a directive.

Without thinking too much, Li Jing replied.

"Alright, I understand. There’s one thing you two must be aware of."

With that, he told them about the Parasite Insect and the information he had obtained through Xiao Ai, warning them to be cautious and not to disclose this information.

After hearing Li Jing’s explanation, both men fell silent over the earpiece.

After a moment, Lu Yangcheng murmured.

"Heavenly King, do you think, if I apply for sick leave now, will Kong Wu approve it?"

Before his words fell, a "clang" echoed from the earpiece, followed by the sound of a sword.

Then, Lu Yangcheng’s words filled with righteous indignation rang out.

"Xiuzhu! How could I, your brother, abandon you to guard on your own? It’s just a Parasite Insect, there’s nothing big about it! Even if we are infected, we still have a two-hour window to rescue each other! We can definitely solve this, unless..."

His words cut off halfway, and he weakly changed his tone.

"Let’s talk properly, I didn’t mean to jinx it! Can you put your sword down first..."

After that, there were no more sounds coming from the communication earpiece.

As he listened to the last words from the earpiece, Li Jing could roughly imagine the scene where Yi Xiuzhu was threatening Lu Yangcheng with his sword. Despite laughing, he felt a great sense of reassurance.

Compared to the more tactful Lu Yangcheng, the straightforward Yi Xiuzhu often gave people more worries.

Drawing his sword to threaten Lu Yangcheng, this was very like Xiuzhu.

At the same time, it showed that he clearly recognized the horror of the Parasite Insect and refused to stand guard alone.

Removing the earpiece, Li Jing exhaled lightly.

Thanks to Lu Yangcheng’s interruption, he decided to wait until he met with Chen Jing and confirmed his assumptions before telling Xiao Ai.

Just as he was about to control his flight back, Xiao Ai in his hand trembled.

Before he could look, Xiao Ai kindly spoke up.

"Immortal Message contact Chen Jing sent a message: Your sword shadow has been photographed by the coastal residents and uploaded online. No one from the patrol team is on site, and some nosy journalists might be on their way. Hurry up and don’t get caught."

!!!

Li Jing.

Why are these residents so idle?

What’s there to shoot?

Never seen Unity of Man and Sword?

With countless negative thoughts running through his mind, Li Jing threw out the Qingfeng Sword from his hand, stepped on it, and turned into a sword light heading towards the coast.

Being filmed was actually not an issue.

In the state of Unity of Man and Sword, no one could see who he was.

But if he were to be caught by the media, he would undoubtedly be caught in a whirlwind of attention and become headline news.

With full force, Li Jing quickly reached the coast on top the Qingfeng Sword and picked up the two arms that had been severed by Qingfeng just now.

The corpses were only left with these parts.

The photos he took before couldn’t serve as proof to confirm the dead’s identity, so these two arms were needed for biological verification.

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