“This won’t do.”
“I’m clearly not trying hard enough.” Mu Qingtong retracted her gaze to the sky and looked down at the amethyst in her hand. She hadn’t been very focused on her experiments for over a year, which had led to slow progress.
“It looks like I need to speed things up.”
With a flicker in her eyes, she put away the crystal and, sword in hand, swiftly returned to the street.
The street was filled with out-of-control Calamity Eaters devouring people. She had to pick up more kills while the Holy Department was too busy to pay attention to her.
With that thought, she didn’t hesitate and turned into a ghostly stream of light, charging into the battlefield.
Like an assassin harvesting weakened enemies, she was elusive, taking them down one by one with a single strike.
“A dramatic turn of events, devouring the heavens and swallowing the earth, terrifying indeed.” Old Taoist Chen stood on the rooftop in his Taoist robe, sighing in disbelief.
“Stop with the terrifying, look over there.” Freya whispered.
Following Freya’s gaze, Old Taoist Chen saw a mysterious person wearing a Red Spade Mask running through the street, with blood and severed heads flying wherever they went.
“Red Spade?” Old Taoist Chen narrowed his eyes.
The mysterious person seemed to notice their gazes. After taking the last head, they disappeared into the alleys, leaving no trace.
“Click—” The sound of a phone camera rang out. Freya looked at the photo, deep in thought, “Red Spade Mask. I think Li Sheng mentioned it before.”
“The Bureau Chief and the others are here.”
They looked up and saw a group of people in white robes flying towards them from a distance.
*
As the remaining Calamity Force mist was completely consumed.
The sky brightened, and a rosy dawn rose from the east, with golden sunlight pouring onto the land.
The frightened people on the city streets, facing what seemed like the end of the world, looked up blankly at the suddenly clear sky, momentarily stunned.
A mother held her child, weeping tears of joy.
Couples embraced, and even single people held each other, occasionally sharing an excited kiss of relief after surviving.
The scene was beautiful.
Many people near Blood Calamity Street also noticed the mysterious figure in the black robe, with their hand raised towards the sky and their cloak fluttering in the wind, at the center of the storm. Their gazes turned towards them.
Xia Feng was very satisfied. The Boundless Stone had gradually increased to 496 grams.
He concentrated and absorbed the last ball of Calamity Spirit Fluid. Ding ding—500g, exactly what he needed.
Adding the scattered 3g he had before, it totaled 503g. This meant he could enter the Evil Dragon Space to absorb dragon essence every day from now on.
He wouldn’t have to worry about absorbing dragon essence for at least two years.
As for lifespan, 5×7 is 35, meaning at least 3500 days, which translates to at least an additional 9.6 years of life.
Rounding it up, that’s ten years. Ten years would be enough for him to collect a lot more Boundless Stone, say… 5000g?
In short, he no longer had to worry about his lifespan!
Well, the most important thing was that he had completely solved his “dragon-absorbing addiction.” He felt uncomfortable if he didn’t absorb dragon essence for a day now.
Thinking of this, he felt a pang of longing for the sleeping Miss Evil Dragon.
“We, the God’s Calamity Society, admit defeat this time.” The man wearing mink fur and red heart-shaped sunglasses had a somber expression, but he suppressed his anger and asked in a deep voice, “But, honored Venerable, could you tell us your name?”
Xia Feng opened his eyes. The Spade Mask was mysteriously inscrutable. He said indifferently, “What are you, that you deserve to know my name?”
“!!!” Ninth Master choked, his face growing more unsightly. However, he didn’t dare to get angry. The life level of a Venerable was different from that of mortals; they were terrifying existences who could solve him with a flick of their fingers.
Fortunately, this Venerable did not seem to be from the Empire. According to the Jester, the Spade Person came from the Burning Heaven Sacred Hall, where everyone was insane. It was likely why the Venerable was too lazy to bother with them.
He didn’t dare to make any further probes or linger. He waved to his subordinates.
“We’re leaving.”
A dozen or so people in red robes looked nervous and quickly entered the spatial gate behind them, fearing that the Spade Person might suddenly take an interest in them and want to “discuss life.”
Swish—
The spatial gate snapped shut.
Seeing this, Xia Feng also secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, my acting talent is maxed out. I completely nailed the tone and demeanor of a powerful being. Dealing with these low-level characters was a piece of cake~~
Just then, a sound of breaking air came—
Someone else was approaching? Xia Feng’s gaze shifted. A large group of white-robed investigators was speeding towards him. He even saw Lord Earl and the legendary Xuanwu Bureau Chief!
Just when one problem was resolved, another popped up.
“Gotta go, gotta go…” He rotated his masked face, indifferently glancing at the approaching people from afar, then turned and leisurely headed towards the rooftop of Pingshan Hospital.
!
A swirling oval-shaped black vortex hovered on the rooftop. It was the entrance to the Calamity Realm – Mino’s Bar.
The entrance seemed to sense his approach and quickly accelerated its shrinking motion, preparing to escape.
“See if you dare to run.”
As Xia Feng said indifferently and softly, the vortex instantly stalled and changed. It even opened its dark entrance slightly to welcome Xia Feng.
When everyone arrived, the Spade Masked Man and the Calamity Realm vortex had already disappeared without a trace.
In fact, Xuanwu could have stopped the Spade Person, but he ultimately didn’t take action. After all, the other party clearly intended to leave and had no desire to entangle with them further.
He naturally wouldn’t stir up unnecessary trouble.
“Not from the Empire.” Lord Earl stood with his hands behind his back on the rooftop, his gaze deep as he stared at the spot where the Spade Person had disappeared. “And judging by their methods, they don’t have much connection to the Imaginary Number Royal Court either. That leaves the Burning Heaven Sacred Hall as the only possibility.”
“It can’t be Burning Heaven,” Xuanwu shook his head and said coldly. “How could those evildoers, who constantly talk about world destruction, be willing to indirectly save this city?”
“Bureau Chief, this is a scene we just captured on Blood Calamity Street.” Freya handed over her phone.
“Red Spade Mask?” Everyone looked at the photo on the screen. Li Sheng nodded thoughtfully and suddenly realized, “I remember now. I was wondering why that Spade Mask looked so familiar. These two masked people appeared together at a steamed bun shop on Blood Calamity Street before.”
“It seems they really are a group.” Freya nodded, then asked with some confusion, “Li Sheng, the spirit science criminal you mentioned earlier was this Red Spade person, right?”
“Yes, Red Spade started operating on Blood Calamity Street half a year ago. Their actions were ruthless, and they rarely used Spirit Robes when killing, often delivering a fatal blow with a single strike. About a month later, they suddenly disappeared.”
The middle-aged man continued in a deep voice, “For some reason, they reappeared on Blood Calamity Street these past few days, killing a cumulative total of 31 Calamity Eaters, 198 severely ill patients, 4 low-level Spirit Masters, 3 ordinary people selling spirits of calamity… and 1 Holy Department agent.”
“Because this Red Spade person was too rampant and committed heinous crimes in just one month, the Holy Department established a special task force half a year ago to investigate ‘Red Spade.’ Unfortunately, the task force had just been formed when this person disappeared.”
“Their last case was also the well-known ‘Agent Boze Bribery and Suicide Case.'”
The middle-aged man sighed. “We pursued for so long, thinking she was alone. Never did we expect her to have a companion, and a Venerable at that…”
After listening to Li Sheng’s account, Bureau Chief Xuanwu nodded. “Based on current observations, Red Spade and Spade are very likely from the same organization, and it’s a newly formed one.”
“Li Sheng, remember to file this as an S-grade priority case upon your return. For the organization’s name, let’s provisionally call it – [Spade].”
My stomach hurts, so this is a bit late.
