Chapter 134: Order Me To Stew Them—i’ll Take The Fall!
At the edge of the farmland, it was clearly divided into two groups of people, one group having around thirty, students like diligent old farmers, sickles flying nonstop in their hands, harvesting crop after crop.
But they were very cautious, seeming to advance quickly, but upon closer look, they were just continuously nibbling from the farmland edge, actions fast but hands precise, wielding sickles before other crops could cling on.
And the situations differed; those skilled in lightness skill who walked the Divine Movement Pass were quick in action, sharp-eyed and fast-handed.
Those who walked the Vajra Pass were bold and sweeping, unafraid of demonic creatures entangling, grabbing a handful and starting to harvest.
The Qi Meridian Pass emphasized endurance, neither hasty nor panicked, one sickle down yielding few but winning in persistence.
The Army Breaking Pass was even more adept at using weapons in hand, playing sickle like saber and sword, even with fitting large sickles treated as spear or great halberd, sweeping to harvest a whole area.
The Five Senses Pass had astonishing senses; some people occasionally darted left and right in the crowd, finding the most suitable gaps to breakthrough, even some acting as commanders.
Soul Settling Pass.
This was rarer, only one person.
“Go this way!”
The martial artist walking the Soul Settling Pass route as the vanguard pioneer found a position with the lowest pollution level, directly burrowed in, and instantly shouted out, then under a martial artist’s command, all martial artists followed up.
“Vajra Pass first hold the front, don’t rush, unify steps don’t get too chaotic, don’t go too deep! Army Breaking Pass, now go up! Other martial artists follow!”
The martial artist in charge of commanding was named Lu Shi, a freshman at Jianghuai Dragon Martial University, also one of the martial artists participating in this mission; because he walked the Five Senses Pass martial arts thus having keen senses, and inherently high command ability, he had already served as commander three times in a row.
He could assign division of labor based on different martial arts, different Mysterious Pass routes having different roles; under division of labor and cooperation, it formed an irresistible momentum.
While the other group, wearing the same school uniforms, numbered only eleven or twelve, not as clearly divided in roles as the other group, but obviously higher in martial arts strength, harvesting the farmland patch they were responsible for in various positions, not slow in speed either.
Relying solely on individual bravery, they cut down all the crops until this patch of farmland instantly fell in a piece, forming a large empty area.
“This!”
Among the larger-numbered group of martial artists, the one walking the Soul Settling Pass route again found a low-pollution gap, just about to rush in, but at this moment a blur suddenly darted over, stunningly knocking him out.
This sudden move made everyone collectively stunned, all crowding over.
The martial artist who knocked that person away shrugged, “I discovered it before you.”
“Bullshit!”
A female student from Lu Shi’s side stood up, pointing at his nose and shouting: “You, walking the Divine Movement Pass, how can you be keener than one walking the Soul Settling Pass? You did it on purpose!”
“That doesn’t make sense, what’s wrong with Divine Movement Pass?”
From that side stepped out a person with arrogant demeanor, arms crossed: “We practice high-level martial arts, meant to breakthrough passes later, martial arts powerful, of course the Mysterious Pass aspects they drive are also powerful, so discovering low-pollution spots is of course fine, you wouldn’t not know that, right?”
Saying this, he showed a look of realization, “Oh, you came from a martial arts school, haven’t contacted high-level ones, indeed wouldn’t know.”
“You!”
The female student’s face instantly flushed red, just about to speak, Lu Shi stepped forward one step, blocking in front of the female student, solemnly saying: “Ji Chen, what do you mean?”
“No meaning, everyone harvests their own, your people are slower than us, just a little conflict arose.”
The arrogant student named Ji Chen sneered, “Small conflicts between martial artists are too normal, haven’t you experienced them at your own home? Oh, from a third-tier small city, the strongest you’ve met is probably Second Realm, powerful martial artists are few, maybe haven’t even participated in high school martial arts competition, understandable to not adapt for a moment.”
Saying this, he turned back to look at the similarly gathered people, “If it really doesn’t work, we can hold another intra-school martial arts competition, we compete in martial arts to decide winner, whoever’s fist is bigger has the reason, you all say right?”
Those people upon hearing all burst into laughter.
“Many bullying few, also fine, I don’t mind.”
The previous one who knocked the person, the martial artist walking the Divine Movement Pass route laughed: “Like this, me one against five no problem.”
“Then I can take six.”
“Hahaha, I’ll take all, my Vajra Pass route Eight Dragon Gates, they shouldn’t break my defense.”
In the laughter was obvious contempt and teasing toward the weak.
While Lu Shi’s side people all had iron-blue faces, tightly gripping the sickle handles.
Lu Shi took a deep breath, saying: “Ji Chen, I know you all are geniuses of breakthrough pass routes, in martial arts competition we can’t compare to you, but now we’re doing a mission, about how to more efficiently clear demonic creatures, not comparing who is braver.”
“I practice medium-grade martial arts yes, but I’m not a newbie. Mysterious Passes differ, the effects shown differ; among you no Five Senses no Soul Settling, by what can you discover low-pollution spots?”
“This matter even to the principal, your reasoning doesn’t hold!”
“Reasoning? What reasoning?”
Ji Chen grinned ferociously: “High school experience doesn’t talk reasoning, in Demon Realm still talk reasoning? Just annoyed by your kind who always rules and reasoning, relying on rules to ignore this ignore that.”
“Like Demon Realm is opened by your family, say want which spot is which spot, strong can’t discover before weak? Lu Shi, if dissatisfied, now have a match, whoever wins takes charge. If you have the balls, agree!”
“You’re bullying people!”
The previously indignant female student angrily said: “Breakthrough pass route so great huh, isn’t it just parents gave you good talent? If I were breakthrough pass route, I wouldn’t bully people like you!”
“Lu Shi, ignore them, let’s go!”
She grabbed Lu Shi’s clothes, about to withdraw back.
Jianghuai Dragon Martial University is the only top martial arts university in Jianghuai Province, located in Yangcheng, admission condition is Qi and Blood reaching Eight Dragon Gates to qualify.
Whether from foundation establishment technique or breakthrough pass martial arts, only look at Qi and Blood, not intensity.
Sometimes, students from heavy martial arts aren’t necessarily worse than top martial, those practicing breakthrough pass martial arts going straight to the end, not wanting foundation establishment technique’s Qi and Blood to pollute their martial arts intensity, in heavy martial can also enjoy huge resources.
And the ordinary Martial Artists entering the top Martial Arts University still have to compete.
For example, this Demon Realm [River Flood Harvest Shade Zone] now has cooperation with the school and is a mandatory Demon Realm point for their school in recent years.
Because it’s simple and easy to deal with, as long as you don’t rashly charge in, you can easily earn credits.
People like Lu Shi’s batch, whose limit is at most Medium-grade Martial Arts, like such Demon Realms. As long as they unite and find methods, they can earn a large number of credits.
But such places are not exclusive to them; those strong ones also like these simple, direct, and quick Demon Realms.
Martial Arts University is not all united as one; wherever there are people, there will be fights.
Ji Chen and his batch of Martial Artists are all on the Breakthrough route and look down on people like Lu Shi.
Originally, in such a large Demon Realm, everyone could choose an area to compete for their own credits—you show off your Martial Arts, he earns credits with his command, without interfering with each other—but some people insist on making trouble.
They have to choose one area and deliberately harass people, just like now.
Without Soul Settling Pass, even if these people want to find weak points with low pollution levels, they still need to spend some time. No matter how they follow the Breakthrough route, different Mysterious Pass directions mean it’s still different.
Now it’s obviously just harassing people, picking fights, and provoking.
But Lu Shi doesn’t take the bait.
“I won’t do meaningless things.”
Lu Shi was pulled by the female classmate, took a deep breath, turned back to everyone and said: “That’s enough for today. Let’s pack up the harvest and go rest to avoid getting too deeply polluted. No matter how strong the Martial Arts is, it has nothing to do with whether you can resist pollution; it still depends on Qi and Blood.”
“What’s there to pack? We haven’t made things clear yet.”
Ji Chen blocked Lu Shi and sneered: “You can’t argue your way out, and you won’t fight with fists. You say we’re exploiting your loopholes; I say you’re targeting us to pick up scraps, after all, we’re stronger.”
“If you want to leave now, I’ll count it as you automatically withdrawing, so the harvest you’ve beaten down this time belongs to us.”
After saying that, he raised his brow at the female classmate, “And you, come over and apologize to us. You’re the one who talks the most, don’t think being a woman means we won’t hit you—Martial Artists don’t distinguish between men and women.”
“I’ll fight you to the death!”
The female classmate’s eyes instantly turned red; she drew the Long Sword from her waist and was about to rush over. Seeing this, the Martial Artists on this side all moved, their faces showing anger.
And the Martial Artists on Ji Chen’s side showed even more disdain. The student on the Vajra Pass route twisted his neck, clenched his fist, and was about to step up.
“Stop!
Lu Shi shouted at this moment, “Don’t start fighting in the Demon Realm—demonic creatures are right next to us! Including you all, you’ve resisted pollution until now and it’s almost at the limit. If you fight at this time, do you still care about the big picture!”
“That’s the excuse of the weak.”
Ji Chen sneered disdainfully:
“Mere pollution won’t affect us at all. Your credits are staying here today. After you leave, we’ll continue fighting. You always talk about these demonic creatures’ ‘clustering escape tendency.’ I remember your General Knowledge score wasn’t full marks, right? What high knowledge are you pretending to have there? It’s annoying.”
Lu Shi frowned and said: “This doesn’t require full marks in General Knowledge. The demonic creatures in this Demon Realm are not dead objects; there are records. If too many die at once, they will automatically cluster. If they pile up and form a dense effect, the Sickle can’t cut through.”
“Failing the task isn’t a big deal, but the Purpose of the company issuing the task is to make money. If you let them turn into dense crops, it means the demonic creatures in this area can only be eliminated but not harvested—this season will be wasted, and it will also affect the school.”
“If you insist on doing this, I’ll report to Supervisor Hu over there.”
The Demon Realm [River Flood Harvest Shade Zone] belongs to seasonal crops, not that they grow only in specific seasons—this seasonality means crops and demonic creatures regrow every season.
If not fully harvested within one season, it’s wasted. If a dense effect forms, it costs even more to exorcise demons, which is a greater loss.
For these students, it greatly affects their reputation, and the next season they might switch to another school for tasks.
All of Shenzhou doesn’t have only their one top Martial Arts University; it’s just that they are in the same province and close by.
“I knew you’d bring up this set.”
Ji Chen smiled at his people upon hearing this, “Tell him who I am!”
The Divine Movement Pass route Martial Artist who bumped into someone earlier mocked upon hearing this: “Brother Chen signed a Directional contract with Yangtian Agriculture three days ago. After graduation and breaking through to Second Realm, he’ll be a supervisor just like the one over there!”
“So, I know more than you.”
Ji Chen stared at Lu Shi’s sinking face and said smugly: “I heard your aspiration is to enter the Disinfection Bureau after graduation? That rotten department is quite suitable for you—full of typical showy but useless types.”
“Just knows how to talk about clustering escape tendency, how many need to be killed to reach that level—I know better than you. Moreover, as long as you forcibly clear it the moment it forms, you can still harvest.”
“Hard? How hard can it be? In the face of strength, everything is illusory. Even if demonic creatures cluster together, my Sickle can still break through them!”
As he spoke, he swung the Sickle and viciously chopped at the nearest Wheat Stalks.
Dang!
But the sound it made was so crisp that it echoed in the open area, stunning everyone.
That Sickle was stuck in the wall formed by the crops, unable to advance an inch.
The crops in front of them were clearly much denser than before, with no gaps at all.
Lu Shi’s eyes widened at this moment, “Clustering escape tendency?”
But isn’t this density too excessive?
Their harvesting progress is still far from that.
Whoosh!
While everyone was still stunned and puzzled, the crop demonic creatures that had turned into a steel wall suddenly disintegrated.
Like fragments burned away by fire, or ice blocks melted away, one wall of crops after another inexplicably dissipated into nothingness under a gust of gale, and dissipating along with them were the crops they had labored so long to pile up, still uncollected there.
What should have been land where crops grew and harvest brought joy, with the crops before their eyes disappearing, revealed its true face in a fan-shaped area before them, vast and flat as far as the eye could see, leaving the land truly clean.
In this land, there was only one figure, appearing so abrupt.
That figure was still a bit distant, but in the next instant, like Frame Skipping, clearly without even blinking, the person abruptly appeared right in front of them.
That person was wearing casual clothes, with his hair combed back, but leaving a few strands of messy hair at the front. He looked utterly ordinary, and his age seemed about the same as theirs.
Li Ye glanced at these people, his gaze settling on the two people standing at the back of the students.
“You are…”
Just as Ji Chen was about to voice his question, the last “who” hadn’t even left his mouth when he saw the young man glance over, making all the hairs on his body suddenly stand on end, as if he had encountered some man-eating beast, leaving him frozen in place.
It wasn’t just him; the students around who were glanced at by that gaze all felt their blood turn cold.
The student on that only Soul Settling Pass route was shaking like a sieve, his eyes filled with terror as if he had seen some great demonic creature.
But soon, that person vanished in an instant, like a ghostly phantom, as if he had never appeared.
But in the next second, they saw the vanished person appear in front of the supervisor conducting the rear patrol and that soldier.
Battalion Commander Zhou was stunned for a moment, immediately showing a look of realization, but before he could speak, the supervisor from the side howled out.
“My food!!”
The supervisor, who had originally been handling everything with ease and chuckling cheerfully, suddenly scrambled away in a frantic rush, tumbling and crawling.
He looked at the vast expanse of flat land, his eyes nearly popping out, and after a miserable scream, he immediately glared at Li Ye:
“Compensate me for the rice! This place is contracted by us! Who the hell are you! What the hell are you doing! Do you know how much loss this will cause!”
He didn’t know how this person did it, but he knew that as soon as this person appeared, all demonic creatures and all grain turned to nothing.
Then it must be related to him.
“Hm?” Li Ye turned his head to glance at him, then turned to this officer, “Need to compensate?”
“Strictly speaking, it’s not necessary. We haven’t signed any contracts stating that everything produced here belongs to any particular group. Yangtian Agriculture was merely invited to participate in the cleanup of the Demon Realm.”
Battalion Commander Zhou extended his hand, “Hello, Director Li. I am Battalion Commander of the Monitoring Camp, Zhou Sheng. I received the news of your arrival earlier, but to ensure the students’ safety, I did not receive you. Please forgive me.”
Li Ye shook his hand, then subtly sized him up once more, revealing a smile: “It’s my duty, there’s no need for forgiveness or not. It was I who disturbed you.”
Three Realms
The same aura as Pan Zhengyang and Chen Hualong whom he had met, with true essence of unique attributes swirling around his body.
“No, Battalion Commander, you can’t put it that way. Our cooperation has always been very pleasant. How can you just turn hostile like that? We didn’t sign a contract, but this set of rules has existed since Shenzhou was established. It has no legal basis but has become an established fact.”
The supervisor shouted: “Moreover, who are you anyway? What bureau chief?”
“Ningjiang City Disinfection Bureau Chief Li Ye.”
Zhou Sheng introduced them to him once, then said to Li Ye, “This is the local supervisor of Yangtian Agriculture Company, Hu Lu.”
“Disinfection Bureau?”
Hu Lu was stunned, then cried out even more fiercely, “The current problem is that I have suffered losses, Battalion Commander, and it’s not a small matter. You also know that our company has put in a year’s worth of grain in Jianghuai Province, all at cost price.”
“It’s all to let more people become martial artists through dietary supplements, responding to Shenzhou’s call. That’s enough, but now the grain for this last winter is gone.”
“With the current area, I see it’s a third empty! So many demonic creatures died all at once, the others will definitely flee in groups, mixing together makes harvesting impossible at all, it’s totally wasted! This statement has to be given, right!”
“You don’t know?” Now it was Battalion Commander Zhou’s turn to be stunned.
“What do I know? The Disinfection Bureau has nothing to do with us. We do business in the Demon Realm, which naturally has demonic creatures. The Disinfection Bureau can’t control here. Anyway, this matter needs an explanation!”
“Hmm, I want an explanation.”
Li Ye nodded at this moment, glanced at Zhou Sheng again, suddenly stretched out his hand, and a black object like a bead appeared in his palm.
“Something’s changed, take action!”
These inexplicable words caught Battalion Commander Zhou somewhat off guard, but in an instant, his pupils contracted, he clenched his fists with both hands, and assumed a combat stance.
Hah!
The next second, Hu Lu, who was still complaining, had a ferocious expression and slapped toward Zhou Sheng from behind with one palm.
Bang!
Then, a loud bang rang out.
Li Ye thrust his foot like a sword, piercing through Hu Lu’s abdomen, leaving Zhou Sheng, who was preparing to fight, stunned once again.
He turned his head and saw that Hu Lu’s arm was covered in barbs full of insects, transformed into an arthropod limb.
“You”
Hu Lu opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of green blood, looking at Li Ye in shock.
“Stupid as hell.”
Li Ye slipped with his legs and feet, slamming him to the ground. He stepped on his head with one foot and roared out Thunder Sound, shocking him so his whole body trembled and he collapsed limp on the ground.
“I was just preparing to bluff, and if there wasn’t any, then forget it, but there really was an unexpected gain.”
Li Ye sneered: “Are the heads of cultists all this dumb?”
“Cultists?”
Zhou Sheng was stunned for a moment, then suddenly reacted, looking at the black bead in Li Ye’s palm, and exclaimed: “Locust Eggs? Locust God Cult?”
The renowned Locust God Cult, born from the White Lotus, he naturally knew about it.
“Locust God Cult, I discovered this, so I tried it out.” Li Ye said.
This Locust Egg didn’t appear when he first swallowed it.
But once it entered inside, reaching the central position of the Demon Realm, that rice and wheat fragrance smell, after being eaten, mixed with some special stuff.
Something Li Ye was very familiar with.
Before he broke through Dragon Gate, he had encountered this thing.
Locust Eggs!
The moment he discovered it, Li Ye knew there were Locust God Cult cultists here.
He just didn’t know who exactly.
Conveniently, along the way he saw everyone was there, so he suddenly had an idea.
Bluff first.
What if?
And it actually worked.
Zhou Sheng reacted for a while before figuring it out, then shook his head with a bitter smile:
“Chuang Wang lives up to his name, great at killing, great at investigating demonic creatures, you’ve even suspected me, typical Disinfection Bureau style.”
“But because of this move of yours, I have to file a report. Cultists appeared within my Monitoring Camp’s supervision range, and I didn’t discover it—it’s my dereliction of duty.”
This Bureau Chief Li had put him on the suspect list too.
“Bold hypothesis, careful verification.”
Li Ye said: “Your military isn’t good at this, it’s understandable. Anyway, just find the result. But the food from the previous season was also supplied to Jianghuai Province?”
He looked at the person whose arms had turned into insect limbs and legs, used force with his legs to press his head halfway into the soil, “Pretty scheming. This year’s food was just a cover? Only throwing it out in the final season? The range chosen was very cautious too. I deliberately circled around the surroundings before coming, only the central area has it.”
“Release some, hold some back, then distribute privately? If this portion is taken out as benefits, passed off as normal food, Jianghuai Province would probably suffer a locust plague.”
“Impossible, how could you possibly discover it, impossible”
Hu Lu opened his mouth and spat out another mouthful of green blood, his eyes full of disbelief.
He didn’t know who Li Ye was. Chuang Wang was famous but not everyone knew him, at most the local tyrants knew, and he had always been in the Demon Realm, unable to receive related information.
Even if he knew, it wouldn’t matter, because he was confident no one could discover it.
The eggs distributed within the cult were special eggs effective in the Demon Realm. The scheme was simple, just as Li Ye said, but it took more than a year—from the moment the Demon Realm was born, they had been laying the groundwork.
Three years ago they found the opportunity, infiltrated, always dutiful, never overstepping, strictly following a supervisor’s duties, including just now, he had been acting that way.
And only in this final season of this year did he plant the Locust Eggs, so that part of this final season’s food would be privately held back by them, then distributed as benefits, mixed into the market.
As long as ordinary people ate it, at the right time it would erupt into a locust plague.
It was a long-term plan, but once the first step was done, they just needed time afterward.
Even the current Locust Eggs weren’t fully formed yet, purely injected into crop roots through special means, only fully turning into food would make the eggs hatch and mix into the grain.
No matter how well-versed in general knowledge, how well they understood the Locust God Cult, they couldn’t investigate something that didn’t exist.
So when Li Ye showed the Locust Egg, his first reaction was that a fellow cultist had come to warn him, and something extremely serious had happened, so he needed to act first.
How did he bluff this out?
What thought process could bluff this out?
The flood area has Locust Eggs, but the Demon Realm doesn’t!
If there really were, it would have happened long ago, from the start, and he wouldn’t even be here—that would be the most heavily guarded.
Li Ye naturally didn’t have that thought process. The Locust God Cult was Pan Zhengyang’s main target at present, he hadn’t seen it in Ningjiang City, and coming here to cultivate in a Demon Realm, he wouldn’t pay attention to that aspect.
But his Authority had the condition.
Whatever he ate, he knew exactly what components were inside. In the pollution, besides the three demonic creatures of the Demon Realm, there was locust scent, and in the swallowed converted energy, there was Locust Egg flavor too.
Purely discovered as a side effect while cheating.
This one was him timely stopping the conversion, forcing it back up as evidence.
“Don’t talk nonsense, say something I’m interested in.”
Li Ye said: “I’ll give you a quick death.”
“The Divine Cult will eventually return to His seat!”
Hu Lu suddenly roared, his face turning into a locust monster visage, his aura surging wildly at this moment.
“Shriek!!”
It let out a strange cry resembling both a bird and an insect. Its originally Second Realm strength climbed and elevated at this moment.
Bang!!
Li Ye stomped and shattered its skull with one foot, stopping the change, leaving only a headless ordinary human corpse.
He cursed, “Damn it, you’re even more ruthless than a traitor to the Han; you’re a traitor to humanity. Forget it, I didn’t expect you to provide any information anyway.”
He wasn’t unfamiliar with the Locust God Cult’s cultists; they could transform to begin with.
He had just been thinking of using his Qi Force to paralyze it and force out evidence, but now it seemed there was something special about it—it could still transform even when subdued.
“Battalion Commander Zhou, this batch of grain has gone out, right?” Li Ye asked.
“Yes, this isn’t the first batch. Those students and the previous employees have harvested quite a bit, but it doesn’t have market permission yet.”
After Zhou Sheng finished speaking, he stood at attention and saluted, “Monitoring Camp Lieutenant Colonel Zhou Sheng, awaiting orders!”
It had nothing to do with cultivation level, only with duty.
The powerful Disinfection Bureau could make the military cooperate.
Li Ye didn’t even need to investigate further; just finding the major issue right upon arrival demonstrated precise business ability, enough for him to cooperate.
“What is the Monitoring Camp’s configuration?”
“One battalion of a thousand people, one company stationed at the Yingcang City Experience Point, companies two to four responsible for the Demon Realm perimeter. This includes ten tanks, fifteen infantry fighting vehicles, six self-propelled gun-howitzers, eight wheeled assault guns, three anti-tank missile launchers, including self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, anti-demon missiles, and vehicle-mounted light missiles.”
“Stop, stop, stop, I don’t understand that; just say the specific strength directly.”
This was Li Ye’s knowledge blind spot.
He dealt with Demonic Creatures and couldn’t handle equipment; his deepest impression was still the military’s Explosive Gun—that thing had extremely high gunpowder content, very suitable for targeting Demonic Creatures.
“When necessary, it can level the current Demon Realm, vacuum the pollution, enter the re-pollution stage, expected to clear it for a month. If full firepower in the wild, it could stalemate with the God Illumination Realm for a period!”
God Illumination
Four Realms!
Li Ye narrowed his eyes, “Yangtian Agriculture has a Four Realms?”
“Yangtian Agriculture founder Tian Zhixing is a God Illumination Realm powerhouse, but he’s not in Jianghuai now. His son Tian Daoli is the regional manager, Three Realms Earthly Origin level, currently at the Yingcang City Company branch.”
Zhou Sheng spoke, then paused, “If inside the City, equipment can’t be used; it’s not a cooperation issue then—no orders means it can’t be done. Bureau Chief Li, my suggestion is to contact your superiors, then combine with the local Disinfection Bureau to arrest people in the City.”
“Superiors need contacting, but the local Disinfection Bureau can be skipped—how many Disinfection Bureaus nationwide are up to standard? If I get them to move, I’d still have to clean up over there first. If Yangtian Agriculture really has ties to the Locust God Cult, it could alert them prematurely.”
After Li Ye finished speaking, he narrowed his eyes slightly, having made some resolve, and was about to continue when a voice suddenly sounded from behind.
“What’s the situation?!”
Ji Chen brought a group of Martial Artists forward and said, “I’m a Martial Artist from Jianghuai Dragon Martial University, carrying out a mission here. Officer, and this student, give me an explanation!”
Zhou Sheng frowned slightly, about to rebuke, when Lu Shi hurriedly rushed over from behind, disregarding the earlier Conflict, and pulled Ji Chen.
“It’s fine, it’s fine, our mission is over; we’re heading back now. Ji Chen, don’t make trouble; let’s go quickly.”
“Get lost; this doesn’t concern you. I’m asking these two.” Ji Chen frowned, shook off his hand with a jolt, sending Lu Shi tumbling to the ground.
Li Ye frowned but ignored him, continuing to Zhou Sheng:
“Arrest people directly; control all relevant personnel from Yangtian Agriculture here. I’ll handle the Demon Realm issue; you don’t need to deal with that Three Realms—I have my own way.”
“I’m Ji Chen from the Ji Family in Yangcheng, also a Directional student of Yangtian Agriculture. My family has shares in the Demon Realm business too—what do you mean you’ll handle the Demon Realm? This season’s Demon Realm is completely ruined; there needs to be an explanation!”
He shouldn’t have done this originally, but Li Ye’s sudden appearance earlier had shocked him.
After the shock, jealousy stirred in his heart.
Roughly the same age, how was this guy so strong?
That officer, he probably couldn’t afford to provoke, but due to status, the other wouldn’t do much.
This youth was about his age; what right did he have to boss around like this?
His family in Yangcheng was Second Realm; he knew those geniuses already—none looked like Li Ye. Even if there was some unknown background, asking wasn’t illegal.
Even if it meant killing someone, he had to ask, because he had lost out!
Pressuring Lu Shi to hand over the harvest was not just because he disliked him; this harvest included not only academic credits but also his money. Supervisor Hu had promised him that whatever grain he obtained was his own, with the right to resell.
This season, based on their harvest quantity, if he forced Lu Shi to comply, he could buy 20% of the grain at low price—a considerable quantity.
That’s why he had mobilized his family, paying a large deposit upfront, but now, aside from the previous batch he collected, there was nothing left!
“Your family has shares?”
Li Ye, who had been speaking, was stunned, turned to look at this person, “The grain concerns you? How much did you take? Sold it yet?”
That condescending attitude infuriated Ji Chen; he gritted his teeth and said, “None of your business; however much I take is my family’s. I paid for it, and now I’m asking you!”
“Ji Chen, Ji Family, Yangcheng.”
Li Ye didn’t respond to him, just nodded, then whoosh—his arm turned into an afterimage.
Bang!
In the next instant, this person’s head burst open like a balloon. The headless body stood swaying for a moment before crashing to the ground, leaving the accompanying Martial Artists pale-faced.
Li Ye continued: “Mobilize heavy firepower, deploy explosive guns, orders come from me, I’ll take the blame. Open fire on any suspicious activity or resistance, don’t give them any chance, and don’t waste time!”
“Understood! I’ll get moving right now!” Zhou Sheng saluted again.
At this moment, Li Ye’s figure moved, turning into several afterimages in mid-air as he appeared in the low sky, instantly shifting to the remaining fields with crops.
All these crops turned into a whirlwind, bursting apart as if struck and scattered.
From a distance, it looked like Li Ye was flying low, his Qi Force radiating outward, shaking all the demonic creatures in the Demon Realm into ashes.
“Six Passes all broken?”
Zhou Sheng, seeing this scene, widened his eyes in shock.
Li Ye was in the Second Realm, he knew that, not yet at the Three Realms level, since there was no True Essence in his body.
But among the Second Realm, if the Six Passes were all broken, the intensity was exceptionally high.
Looking at Li Ye now, it was more than just the Six Passes broken; at least a “String-level” Mysterious Pass was required for this capability.
And this style of action.
“The title fits perfectly. The Disinfection Bureau really produced a Chuang Wang.” Zhou Sheng murmured.
“Disinfection Bureau”
Lu Shi, still shocked by Ji Chen’s death, trembled upon hearing Zhou Sheng’s words.
That was the Disinfection Bureau?
He wanted to join the Disinfection Bureau, but only to put his knowledge to use; with his strength, only the Disinfection Bureau could let him shine, he didn’t like other companies much.
Though the Disinfection Bureau was weak in power, it was at least a staffed department.
But now, seeing this, something was off.
How was this weak?
Lu Shi looked at Ji Chen’s headless corpse, clenching his fist slightly, his eyes flashing with unusual fervor.
……
The Demon Realm was quickly devoured by Li Ye, accumulating pollution, and after confirming the insect eggs were all converted, he leaped out of the Demon Realm’s range, took out his mobile phone, and called Pan Zhengyang first.
As soon as the call connected, before the other side could speak, Li Ye said:
“Director Pan, two things. I found the Locust God Cult in the Demon Realm in Yingcang City, with insect eggs and cultists; the people were killed by me. Now it’s linked to Yangtian Agriculture, I’ve coordinated with the local military.”
“Yangcheng’s Ji family is connected to this Demon Realm and Yangtian Agriculture, they bought a batch of grain possibly carrying insect eggs.”
The other side fell silent.
But not long after, Pan Zhengyang’s voice quickly sounded.
“I’ll handle that Ji family. The grain you mentioned, the River Flood Harvest Shade Zone’s ‘Zhu Blood Grain’ series—winter stock hasn’t hit the market yet, we can trace it.”
“The director has gone to find his father, but this probably has nothing to do with his father. Tian Zhixing is a good guy. But you need to withdraw from Yingcang. Tian Daoli isn’t someone you can handle. If it’s really him, he’ll come after you, the instigator.”
“Let him go?”
“Let him go. I can’t go either—first, not in time; second, he’s Earthly Origin rank, stronger than me.”
“He’s a cultist.”
“Even cultists depend on strength. Swatting a mosquito with a cannon? Once you reach Three Realms, do whatever you want. Right now—”
The phone line suddenly paused, then rapidly spoke, “Li Ye, run!!”
Whoosh!!
A gale suddenly howled, blocking Li Ye who was heading toward the downtown area, forcing his body to drop. The gale was like knives, shredding his outer clothes and slicing his mobile phone in half.
At this moment, he was in a suburban wilderness. Looking up, he saw a figure emerging from the gale over the flat terrain ahead.
Clang!!
Li Ye’s body suddenly emitted a clashing sound, forcing him back several steps. Ahead and behind him, huge fissures cracked open, the cuts smooth as if sliced by a blade.
And right in front of him, a middle-aged man wearing gold thread glasses with impeccably combed hair held two oversized cleavers utterly mismatched to his build, tilting his head and looking at him coldly.
“Your body is tough, your heart is tough too—killing without hesitation. My carefully nurtured subordinate is gone just like that. I wonder if your strength is tough enough.”
The middle-aged man sized up Li Ye and frowned: “Still a youth. Shenzhou produces talents.”
“Tian Daoli?”
Li Ye said gravely: “So fast? How did you do it?”
Zhou Sheng?
Or someone in the stationed company tipping him off?
“Neither.”
As if guessing Li Ye’s thoughts, Tian Daoli said:
“Shenzhou’s military still has strong resolve; you should have faith in that. When a Second Realm person turns into a locust, they’re linked to the locust nest. The cry is a warning, signaling exposure, so I naturally withdrew. Also, you have a scent; I can track you.”
“With the man dead, the plan is gone, of course. I figured I’d go abroad to lie low, but you forced me to stay. Before I go, I’ll take your life.”
Hearing this, Li Ye sneered, “If you have confidence in the military, then why are you a traitor to humanity?”
“This is a personal choice and has nothing to do with whether one is a traitor to humanity or not.”
Tian Daoli reached up to adjust his glasses, “You say that worshiping gods—no, worshiping demonic creatures—is being a traitor to humanity. I think you who kill demonic creatures are the real traitors to humanity.”
“The Heavenly Emperor has said that demonic creatures are the resistance!”
Buzz!
Two guillotines blades pressed down, and the resulting wind pressure cracked two deep gullies in the ground.
“The world is too filthy and must be resisted to achieve purification, so let me, the vanguard, purify you in advance!”
Burned out tomorrow, try to continue updating like this
