Decaying World

Chapter 175, Mission 175

The government office outside the city of Xingdao.

In the spacious courtyard, a middle-aged man dressed in an official robe with crow patterns stood with his hands behind his back by the pond, admiring the colorful fish swimming inside.

The man had a small mustache and a handlebar mustache, which added to his cunning appearance, but his burly physique added a strange sense of oppression to this cunning.

"As expected, just as you predicted, the Benevolent Sect has indeed mobilized experts from other districts in an attempt to take action again." A soldier from the Anmin Army, nearly three meters tall, stood behind and bowed to the man.

"Do you think the people we've arranged can stop them?" the man chuckled.

“Impossible. Since they already knew your strength during the last assassination attempt, they would never send someone of low strength to their death again. So this time it must be the High Priest,” Anminjun said in a low voice.

"Indeed, but do you know why I arranged for those five Zhou Tian to be sent to their deaths?"

“Those were just five death row inmates whose final potential had been unleashed. They were called Zhou Tian, ​​but in reality, they were just expendable resources,” Anminjun said in a deep voice.

"Do you think five cycles of energy circulation would be enough to deplete the High Priest's energy?" the man asked again.

“Of course it’s impossible. If it were a genius with a high level of cultivation, perhaps it would be possible, but such a temporarily elevated level of cultivation wouldn’t have any impact.” An Minjun shook his head.

"Yes, so their purpose in going there wasn't to consume resources, but rather..."

The middle-aged man raised his gaze over the wall, as if he could already see the three members of the Good Heart Sect leaping down.

boom!!

The distant outer city wilderness.

On the moth-shaped cart, the ox and the fox had just jumped off to face the five Zhou Tian martial artists charging towards them. Before they could even make contact or get close, they sensed something was amiss.

As the martial artist's body rapidly expanded, a deafening explosion rang out simultaneously from all five individuals within a second.

The five people resembled five balloons filled with black powder. When they exploded, the fox and the ox were immediately covered in a large amount of black powder.

"It's a tracking device!" The scalper recognized it. His eyes narrowed.

"What do we do now?" the fox asked, looking at him.

"Since we've been marked, let's charge! Let's finish this quickly!" the scalper shouted.

He turned around and transmitted his voice to Lin Hui, "We might be moving quite fast from here on out, so stay close and don't get separated!"

"Okay!" Lin Hui nodded. He had just gotten off the moth cart and hadn't been stained with black powder at all.

Swish!
The next instant, Huang Niu slapped his palms together, his inner force forming a huge palm print that smashed the other martial artists to the ground.

Then he and the fox bowed together, their inner strength rapidly condensing and glowing.

boom!
The next second, a large number of internal energy light spots exploded behind the two of them. With the help of this huge explosive force, the two rushed towards Xingdao City at a much faster speed than before.

"Where?"

"The outer city government office, that's where our target is! He's waiting for us!" Huang Niu said in a deep voice.

The two sped across the wasteland, entering and exiting large sections of the outer city's boundary zone.

In this dividing area, the dilapidated houses are so densely packed that they completely block the view.

In terms of numbers, they may even outnumber the remaining residents of the surrounding towns.

But the three of them had no time to think and rushed at full speed toward Zhu Chengqiu at the outer city government office.

Street after street was swept away, and many skilled patrolmen who tried to stop them were dispatched, but they were all pierced through by the sharp blades of the ox and fox, resulting in heavy casualties.

All the martial artists who stood in their way were smashed into pieces of flesh in a single blow.

Bang.

Soon, the vermilion painted gate of the outer city government office was smashed to pieces by Huang Niu's palm.

The broken pieces of the door flew in and killed several constables and soldiers who were nearby.

Inside, Zhu Chengqiu stood quietly on the high platform, just behind the judge's bench, watching the ox and the fox rush in.

"You've finally arrived. We've been waiting for you for so long."

As soon as he finished speaking, the entire ground of the government office instantly lit up with silver light.

A massive silver array, resembling a spider web, enveloped all the government offices, and also trapped the oxen and foxes.

"Wait outside, Sifang. We'll come out once we've taken care of the target. Don't worry, it won't take long." The ox's expression remained unchanged as he stopped and, while transmitting his voice, took out a black cube from his pocket. Mysterious symbols on the cube flashed with white light.

Click.

The block shattered.

The surrounding silver array instantly seemed to freeze, ceasing its flickering and operation. It completely lost the momentum it had when it was activated.

Taking this opportunity, the fox leaped forward and shot out like an arrow, its brow suddenly contorting into a ferocious expression, revealing a black pattern.

The next moment, Zhu Chengqiu stood there in astonishment, as if frozen in place, his raised hand hanging in mid-air.

boom!!

The fox burst into dazzling white flames, its body surrounded by ethereal energy. It began to spin rapidly in mid-air, its right hand forming a sword finger, its index and middle fingers joined together, and it slammed it hard into Zhu Chengqiu's chest.

puff!
The sword, however, mysteriously missed its mark.

Her judgment of distance was no longer accurate, and her finger struck Zhu Chengqiu a dozen centimeters in front of him.

The immense impact, accompanied by a white internal energy flame, sent Zhu Chengqiu flying backward.

But it also woke her up.

"It's actually a top-tier divine technique that interferes with the sense of time!! Good, good, good!!" Zhu Chengqiu was both shocked and furious. He spun around in mid-air like a swallow, then pounced on the fox. "The Nine Hua Divine Technique of Distance? It's actually been cultivated to such a level that it can make me make such a mistake." The fox's expression also turned serious as it focused intently on fighting its opponent.

The two clashed fiercely from the moment they opened fire, unleashing their full power through divine techniques, their invisible energies colliding violently. The energies, propelled by the explosive burning of internal force, moved with incredible speed and their power surged dramatically.

Seeing the strength of these two made Lin Hui, who was guarding outside the door, itch with excitement. He compared them to the Black and White Blades from back then and found that those two were clearly a level below these two.

Although both are high priests, judging from their application of divine techniques and their speed and power in combat, even if the Black and White Blades joined forces, they might not be a match for either of them.

At this moment, Huang Niu, having dealt with the surrounding bystanders, also rushed into the battlefield.

His brow was contorted in a ferocious grimace, and his hands formed a large mass of energy that was a mixture of internal and external forces.

Then he suddenly pushed forward.

When it was still more than ten meters away from the battlefield, the object twisted and tumbled as it flew out.

boom!
explode directly.

The light spots formed by the mixture of illusory force and internal force bombarded the fox and Zhu Chengqiu indiscriminately.

Strangely, all the light spots on the fox's side precisely and naturally avoided her, which is understandable. But on Zhu Chengqiu's side, it was odd that he would actively hide in the direction with more light spots.

"The divine technique of controlling the surface is interesting. What merit do I, Zhu Chengqiu, have?" Before Zhu Chengqiu could finish speaking, he was struck by a large number of light spots.

Each of those points of light was like a sharp blade, densely cutting countless bloody wounds into his body.

At this moment, the entire courtroom of the government office was bombarded by a large number of light spots, creating a through passageway.

The three rushed out from behind, fighting as they smashed through the walls and houses behind them.

Lin Hui followed behind, keeping a safe distance.

At this point, it seems that our side has the advantage.

The enemy's ambush formation was countered and frozen by Captain Huang Niu. Clearly, the enemy never expected that after being tracked, Huang Niu and Fox would not only not retreat, but would also take the initiative to penetrate deeper and carry out an assassination.

Such audacity is utterly disregard for the inner city government offices and the Rain Palace.

Seeing that the situation was going well, Lin Hui only needed to pay attention to the surrounding dynamics and wait for the final result.

A short while later, a shrill and furious scream rang out.

Not far away, a two-story black stone building was smashed in half, collapsing and scattering rubble.

It was Zhu Chengqiu's corpse that smashed the stone building.

His eyes were wide open in anger, seemingly filled with resentment. Only his upper body remained; his lower body, from the waist down, had been completely smashed into powder by the ox's palms, mixed with stone dust and indistinguishable from the rest.

From a distance, Lin Hui saw the fox and the ox give each other a high five and then turn to leave.

Two tall figures dressed in white robes blocked their way.

"Zhu Chengqiu colluded with foreign enemies and embezzled government property and relics. He deserved to die, but that cannot be a reason for you to assassinate him."

Both wore golden masks and were shrouded in wide white robes, beneath which one could vaguely see that they were wearing full-body golden armor.

At this moment, the two appeared together, their internal and external forces intertwining and spreading out beneath their feet, transforming into white, snake-like ropes that slowly slithered and crawled across the surrounding ground.

Looking from afar, Lin Hui had a vague feeling that something was wrong. It seemed that Xing Dao's inner city deliberately didn't save Zhu Chengqiu, only stepping in to clean up the mess after he died.

By this time, Zhu Chengqiu had already exhausted the fox and the ox's energy, making it much easier to take action next.

Before he could continue observing, the fighting had already resumed.

This time it was two against two. Thunderous clashes exploded continuously, and the surging and flying internal energy indiscriminately blasted large holes into everything and everyone nearby.

This time it seems to be a close contest.

Lin Hui squinted to observe. He was extremely fast and his dynamic vision was naturally excellent, so he could easily keep up with the four people fighting.

The two opponents wanted to take advantage of the situation, but they didn't expect that the scalper and the fox had quite a bit of energy left, and they still couldn't win the fight.

And as time went on, the ox became increasingly ferocious and powerful in his attacks. It seemed that he had cultivated a technique similar to using battle to sustain himself, which allowed him to continuously recover some of his own strength from his opponent's power.

'It seems there are no problems.' Lin Hui nodded to himself.

The Shanxin Sect is indeed well-established; they dared to send these two out, showing they've made thorough preparations.

He mentally compared the strength of these two men with that of his elder brother, Liu Wujun, to see who was stronger.

But nothing came of it. He never saw his older brother use his full strength.

But he should at least be a top-tier expert.

Just as the two were about to defeat the people from Amamiya, Lin Hui also lightly leaped up and landed on top of a house ruin, where he stood still.

Suddenly, his eyes spotted something unusual in the distance.

The battlefield covered an area of ​​almost a hundred meters in radius, and the fighting had turned the entire surrounding neighborhood into ruins.

But at this very moment, two people calmly walked towards the center of the battlefield without changing their expressions.

The two men were dressed as young masters and their servants. The young master in front wore a moon-white robe, and his long hair was draped over his shoulders. His hair was not the usual black, brown, or gray, but white—an odd white that seemed almost transparent.

His face was handsome and flawless, with almost no blemishes, and his eyes had a faint bluish-green tint.

"A python?" Lin Hui recognized the other party's race.

He noticed that all the splashing illusory internal energy would strangely deflect and disperse automatically when it approached the two people, unable to touch anything within a meter of them.

At this moment, as he was being watched, the white-haired young master also paused and looked up at him.

(End of this chapter)