Chapter 98 - 97: Sealing the Blood, Perfect Completion

A few minutes later.

In the tent area belonging to the Research Institute.

Li Jing led the way, with Li Qidao and the other seven insisting on following him, four on each side.

The party of nine hurried to the central area.

The administrative personnel responsible for protecting the safety of the Research Institute were all perplexed when they saw them.

Indeed, the key point was their imposing manner.

Li Jing, leading in front, possessed an icy-looking face.

Li Qidao and the other seven followed him, generating a gust of wind as they walked.

The nine of them were advancing swiftly.

From their bearing to their appearance, they emanated an overwhelming pressure.

Li Jing was merely participating for appearance.

Li Qidao and the other seven were all seasoned inspectors.

Not to mention that all of them were from the Fourth Realm, their ranks were also not low.

When the inspectors displayed their majesty, it was utterly intimidating.

The administrative staff, who usually had a more relaxed "surfing the web" status, simply couldn’t compare.

The mere mention of the word ’inspector’ was enough to make human-shaped demons’ hair stand on end, and evil cultivators shudder in fear, there’s a reason for that.

They represented Hua Country’s only officially designated sector.

Under the backing of the eight people, Li Jing, who led the "charge", appeared even more domineering.

Observing the ostentatious parade of the nine individuals, each member of the administrative staff was totally puzzled.

Due to Li Jing’s special instruction to Su Qiong, they were not informed and did not understand the situation.

At this moment, following behind Li Jing, Li Qidao and the others were also a bit puzzled.

Mainly because they didn’t know what Li Jing was trying to stir up.

Li Jing took the initiative to handle the task of stalling Liu Yushan alone.

There was nothing to say about that.

The eight of them, now accept Li Jing as their leader.

So...

Wouldn’t there be a problem with Li Jing leading them so boldly and directly?

It couldn’t be possible that all nine of them simply charged straight to Liu Yushan and intimidated him with their momentum, right?

As Li Jing led the team straight to the highest tent in the central area of the Research Institute’s camp, Li Qidao frowned slightly.

Just as he was hesitant to say something, Li Jing glanced over and ordered.

"Everyone, remove your Management Bureau badges and replace them with the Inspector patches."

Upon hearing his command, everyone moved hastily, taking off their Management Bureau badges while walking and wearing their Inspector patches.

Li Jing also took off his Management Bureau badge with them.

If he could, he would also like to put on an Inspector patch.

Unfortunately, he didn’t have one...

However, just the actions of Li Qidao and the others were already enough.

The moment the eight of them took out their Inspector patches, the surrounding personnel belonging to the Jianghai City Management Bureau instantly changed their expressions.

Especially the two men guarding the tent right in front.

When it comes to the Secret Realm, the priority level of the Inspectorate is far lower than that of the Management Bureau.

But there is one situation where inspectors unconditionally rank above any official organization.

When dealing with criminal activities.

No one could undermine the authority of the inspectors, not even the Director of the Management Bureau himself.

Otherwise, it would constitute resistance to law enforcement!

Upon seeing Li Qidao and the others take off their Management Bureau badges and wear their Inspector patches, the affiliated Management Bureau members were immediately stunned on the spot.

The sudden appearance of nine inspectors who shouldn’t even be in the Secret Realm, disguised as Management Bureau personnel, what could this mean? This was more than just thought-provoking!

At the same time as many members of the Management Bureau were puzzled, Li Jing led the team to the front of the target tent and met with the two management personnel who were guarding the entrance.

"Inspectors on duty, unrelated personnel step aside."

Without his prompting, lead by Li Qidao, they all spontaneously took out their own credentials.

This was standard procedure.

Announcing the inspectors’ duty requires the presentation of the credentials.

Eight blood-red licenses, with a crossed flying sword on the cover, were collectively revealed, causing the two members of the Management Bureau not to utter a single peep as they moved to the side.

Seeing this, Li Jing turned his head.

"Qidao, you stay outside."

Upon speaking, he led the others into the tent in a single file.

As soon as Li Qidao received the instructions, he subconsciously stopped. He paused for a moment, then quickly realized what was happening.

Looking at the two members of the Management Bureau who had just moved aside, he sternly issued his command.

"I ask for your cooperation. Inform all the associated Management Bureau personnel and evacuate all unrelated individuals immediately."

As he uttered these words, he waved his Five Thunder Talisman into his hand and hid behind a nearby tent.

The two members of the Management Bureau, who hadn’t had time to decipher Li Qidao’s words, were startled by his actions.

High-quality talisman crafts.

Just by taking it out, one could sense the power it possesed.

The two of them had a genuine sense of how terrifying the power contained in Li Qidao’s Five Thunder Talisman was.

Observing him concealing his figure behind another tent, both hurriedly walked away and informed their colleagues guarding the surroundings via their communicators.

Even a fool could see that Li Qidao was preparing to activate his Five Thunder Talisman at any moment.

By now, what was actually happening didn’t matter.

What mattered was this -

That once Li Qidao’s Five Thunder Talisman was activated, the surrounding area would be flattened.

To avoid getting harmed, one has to quickly move away.

With the two of them giving the warning, the surrounding administrative personnel guarding the tents sprung into action, approaching the tents to evacuate the staff of the Research Institute.

At the same time.

Inside the central tent.

Under the astonished gazes of over a dozen academicians, including Liu Yushan, Li Jing, accompanied by seven inspectors, stood in front of everyone.

Seeing these eight people burst in, everyone was a little baffled.

Even Liu Yushan was not aware of what was happening.

Unlike the Management Bureau staff outside, they did not witness Li Jing and his group’s journey here.

How could they react immediately to a group of people wearing inspector emblems who suddenly appeared with vigour?

Li Jing didn’t give them any chance to think, and he calmly spoke up.

"Academician Liu Yushan stays, the rest can leave."

Upon hearing these words, all the academicians in the room looked over at Liu Yushan.

Becoming the focus of attention, Liu Yushan finally caught on.

The person in front of him, Li Jing, looked familiar!

Wasn’t it him who came with Su Qiong not long ago, to borrow his geological survey instrument?

Within a blink of an eye, many thoughts raced through Liu Yushan’s mind, causing his face to darken.

However, just as his expression changed, Li Jing suddenly raised his hand and slapped it down.

"Bang!"

A loud noise.

A massive amount of liquid spiritual power erupted from his palm, completely blowing up the tent.

This sudden move shocked everyone present.

That’s right.

Everyone.

This included not only the seven inspectors who came with Li Jing but also Liu Yushan.

The gushing liquid spiritual power was visually stunning.

It was completely different from the spiritual Qi possessed by ordinary people.

Spiritual Qi is gas.

Spiritual power is a liquid entity!

Nobody present had ever seen spiritual power or knew what it was.

Therefore, in their eyes, the massive spiritual power exerted by Li Jing with one slap was highly concentrated spiritual Qi that had broken its limits.

How high must one’s cultivation level be to solidify spiritual Qi to such an extent?

Before anyone could react,

"Snap!"

With a soft noise, Li Jing snapped his fingers.

The massive amounts of spiritual Qi that had blown up the tent and soared into the sky quietly condensed into spikes, hanging in the sky.

At first glance, there were thousands, densely packed, almost covering the entire sky.

The crowd, which was just shocked, looked up at the sky in a daze.

What...

Such a display of power?

Seeing the sky full of spiritual power, the seven inspectors who had followed Li Jing finally understood.

Li Jing’s "performance" was quite shocking.

When Li Jing said he was good at intimidation earlier, he wasn’t joking.

Although they did not know how he did it, even they were intimidated...

Luckily, they remembered.

The display of spiritual power was a signal, the Management Bureau was about to take action.

Without any delay, the seven people each grabbed the shocked academicians in the tent in a very crude manner, dragged them out without a word of explanation.

...

Meanwhile, at a certain location in the garrison.

Su Qiong, with a bewildered expression, stared at the thousands of spiritual power spikes hanging in the sky.

Spiritual power spikes?

This is spiritual power spikes?

Thousands, all at once!?

Who did this?

A Fifth Boundary entity!?

Or a Six Realm one!?

Who can play with the Second Realm’s spell of spiritual power spikes to this extent, are they trying to reach the heavens?

Out of shock, she hastily pressed her communication earpiece.

"The signal is the spiritual power spikes, take action!"

As she gave her order, a massive spell diagram silently appeared on the ground, covering the entire base.

As soon as the spell diagram appeared, the ground heavily sank.

...

The central tent.

Liu Yushan, who had been stunned by Li Jing’s series of "moves", became alarmed once again as the ground suddenly sank.

He had a connection with the Parasite Insects hidden under the ground.

Just that one moment earlier, tens of thousands of Parasite Insects had been eradicated.

Feeling this, Liu Yushan was both shocked and furious.

Li Jing saw the change in his expression and gave a cold smile.

"Surrender or be considered guilty and eliminated on the spot."

"..."

Liu Yushan’s face turned pale.

Li Jing had directly approached him with intent, which clearly meant his cover was blown.

He wanted to resist, but he did not dare to.

The thousands of spiritual power spikes hanging in the sky had intimidated him.

He couldn’t figure out the depth of Li Jing’s power.

If the tens of thousands of Parasite Insects hidden underground were still alive, he would have the confidence to resist, even if it meant mutual destruction.

However, the Parasite Insects had been entirely exterminated.

At that moment, he could clearly feel a horrifying, unknown killing array covering the surface of their station, silently operating.

Persistent despair seeped underground.

What was even worse...

When he was just startled by thousands of spiritual strikes, all the other academics in the tent had been "invited" out, leaving no hostages at hand.

Resistance was futile!

Resistance would mean certain death!

Liu Yushan’s expression rapidly changed, his gaze fixated on Li Jing, who stood alone before him. He was quickly evaluating the situation.

Li Jing had brought people to confront him, but hadn’t made a move.

What did that imply?

He had no evidence!

Investigations require evidence!

From the current situation, it seemed that Li Jing had just discovered the Parasite Insect underground and suspected him for some reason.

Yes!

That must be it.

Otherwise, he would have acted by now!

Thinking of this, Liu Yushan couldn’t help but feel a glimmer of hope.

"Inspector, I don’t know why you’re here against me, may I ask..."

Before he could finish speaking, he felt a horrifying power gathering in the sky.

???

Liu Yushan looked up, confused.

Clouds of potent gloom covered the sky above him.

High-level Thunder Skill?

This mighty power...

His intuition told him that the spell formula in the sky had been completed and was locked onto him.

If it fell, he would have no chance of escaping!

Liu Yushan was filled with dread.

The already-formed Thunder Skill cloud told him there was another unseen expert hidden!

Without giving it much thought, Liu Yushan quickly turned to Li Jing.

Just as he was about to speak in order to buy himself a lifeline, Li Jing raised his hand.

The next moment, thousands of spiritual strikes suspended in the sky fell like a violent tempest, crashing down with utter ruthlessness.

!!!

Liu Yushan’s eyes widened.

Li Jing was suddenly making a move, which left him perplexed.

However, at this moment, he no longer had time to reflect on this.

With a fierce roar, Liu Yushan exploded with a dark and sinister aura, forming a solid protective shield around him.

The next second, thousands of spiritual strikes rained down.

"Pak, Pak, Pak!"

When the spiritual strikes hit his shield, they melted away like snowflakes.

Not to mention power, they didn’t even cause a minor impact.

???

Liu Yushan.

Such a tremendous amount of spiritual strikes must have been the work of a master beyond the Fifth Boundary.

Even if they’re just spiritual strikes, they should not have...

Before this thought could run full course, Liu Yushan watched in shock as Li Jing waved his hand, summoning a flying sword that turned into a streak of sword light, flying into the distance.

That action, so elegant and flowing.

Uncomplicated, yet determined.

In such a situation, Liu Yushan was momentarily stupefied.

Immediately after, a look of fury surfaced on his face.

A light sprinkle of spiritual strikes followed by Li Jing’s swift departure — how could he not realize he had been set up?

Li Jing was no expert at all!

All his tricks were just to intimidate him, devoid of any real value.

Their true purpose was to stall for time!

"Boom!"

A thunderclap echoed with a bang.

A horrifying multicolored thunderbolt tore through the sky and crashed down.

Liu Yushan tried to hold up his shield with all his might, but he only managed to withstand it for a split second before the multicolored thunderbolt shattered his shield and swallowed him whole.

Li Jing floated mid-air on his sword, watching as Liu Yushan was consumed by the thunderbolt. He exhaled a long breath and relaxed.

When he blew up the tent and stunned Liu Yushan with the spiritual strikes, five breaths of time had actually already passed, and the hidden Li Qidao was fully prepared.

However, the seven inspectors who were accompanying Li Jing were too busy watching his "performance" and had not yet managed to remove the other academicians from the tent.

Li Jing had to put a lot of thought into making his show convincing enough.

He didn’t care about power.

Only quantity mattered!

Otherwise, given the changed density of his current power, he could still cause quite a commotion.

Even though he was at a lower level, there had been more than just a change in power density when compared to his Second Realm days.

Putting those thoughts aside.

The multi-colored thunderbolt, while rapid in its descent, also dissipated quickly.

It lasted less than half a second before it completely vanished.

Liu Yushan left no traces.

Where the central tent had stood, a bottomless hole had been blasted into the ground.

Li Jing gaped at the hole from afar.

The Five Thunder Righteous Method at its peak in the Fourth Boundary was this terrifying!

Quietly marking the Five Thunder Righteous Method as a skill he needed to learn when he reached the Fourth Boundary, Li Jing descended straight to the ground.

The job was done, it was time to wrap up.

Just before he landed, he suddenly spotted a long, narrow health bar that had been sucked down to just 1 point floating leisurely out of the hole in the ground in front of him.

???

Li Jing paused, instinctively halting his flying sword.

Health bar?!

Of Liu Yushan?

point?!

He locked on?

You could lock onto that?

Li Jing vigorously rubbed his own eyes.

The health bar was indeed floating upwards.

But underneath the health bar, there was nothing.

Wait!

It wasn’t Liu Yushan!

Li Jing furrowed his brows.

Liu Yushan had been completely obliterated. The thing that had been locked onto with just 1 health had to be something else!

Staring at the health bar that was bobbing slowly upwards, obviously devoid of any survival instinct and just naturally rising, Li Jing slightly squinted his eyes.

From his contact earlier with Liu Yushan, he could now be 100% sure.

Although Liu Yushan had been "altered", his consciousness was still his own.

If his consciousness had been taken over, even if he had been tricked, he was unlikely to hold onto any hope once he had been exposed.

The possibility of body snatching was ruled out.

The only possibility left was that he had made a deal with an unknown wisdom inside the Secret Realm and had obtained something that was enough to tempt him and make him not want to be human anymore.

The invisible object with a health bar in front of him was obviously that something!

It was the one that had given Liu Yushan his cultivation level at the late stage of the Four Realm.

With the application of Management Bureau’s method to suppress the Parasite Insect, Liu Yushan had evidently changed color once again. It could be concluded that he had the ability to control the Parasite Insect.

This ability, he feared, was also given to him by the Invisible object with a health bar.

So...

What was this thing?

Li Jing was confused.

At this time, Li Qidao flew to Li Jing’s side.

"It’s finished, we should go, let’s leave the rest to..."

Before he could finish speaking, Li Jing turned his head.

"Do you know Pupil Technique?"

?

Li Qidao slowly produced a question mark, nodding silently.

"Help me see if there is anything over there."

Li Jing raised his hand and pointed down at the health bar.

The sudden request made Li Qidao realize something wasn’t right.

But out of trust in Li Jing, he raised his hands quickly forming two handprints, uttering a light command under his breath.

"Hole Gaze!"

Immediately, a layer of blue luminescence covered the bottom of his eyes.

Looking at the place where Li Jing pointed, Li Qidao furrowed his brows slightly.

"There is indeed something, it’s a colorless mist."

Before his sentence was over, Li Jing’s blade shot out.

Maximum firepower with Heaven Sword Skill.

In the blink of an eye, he was near the health bar.

"Boom!"

A thick Palm Thunder passed straight underneath the health bar, and the 1-point locked health bar was reduced to zero.

"Experience+5961."

"Level increased, 20. Spiritual Power Strength +40, Skill Points +2."

Hearing the emotionless female electronic voice next to his ear, Li Jing felt greatly satisfied.

Without the gain of experience points, he always felt that something was missing.

Now, at last, it’s perfect.

Just as he was enjoying this, Li Qidao came over with a bizarre look on his face.

"Li Jing, you..."

"Don’t misunderstand, I’m merely confirming whether this thing can be killed."

Li Jing said, continuing,

"The thing was left behind by Liu Yushan after his death. I think this is the perk he obtained from some unknown wisdom civilization in the Secret Realm."

Li Qidao didn’t really want to ask anything, he just wanted to say that if you are going to act, at least wait for me to see clearly.

After hearing Li Jing’s words, his expression changed slightly.

That mist was left by Liu Yushan?

"I suspect that this thing belongs to some sort of Yin-type entity. When Liu Yushan opened the protective shield earlier, what he was controlling was not Spiritual Qi but Yin Qi. It should be this thing that gave him the cultivation level of the late stage of the Four Realm."

Li Jing said casually, further,

"This thing that managed to dodge your Five Thunder Talisman must have some special abilities."

After saying this, Li Jing ended the discussion.

"Let’s go, time to get out. Regarding this, I need to submit a detailed report to the Director. The details will have to be communicated through him to the Management Bureau."

"Hmm."

Li Qidao nodded.

The task assigned by Chen Jing had been completed. It was time to go back and report.

Not only Li Jing needed to write a report, but he and the others also seriously had to write one.

The details of the incident could be understood after getting the report written by Li Jing. There was no need to ask right here.

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