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Magic designed specifically for killing.

Xiao Mufeng used this to kill many people, which eventually attracted the attention of the Spiral Pavilion.

Xiao Mufeng thought he had a chance of winning, but in the end he found that his opponent was not even human.

The original gunpowder mines were cleared by the tree roots he controlled, and the familiar bomb birds he controlled were also swept away by those tree roots.

Primitive gunpowder grenades couldn't harm him in the slightest. Primitive gunpowder guns and primitive cannons bombarded him relentlessly, but he remained motionless, only protected by the strange veil that appeared on his body.

The primitive rocket did blast him several meters away, but judging from its appearance, it seemed to have little effect on him.

Xiao Mufeng was almost completely out of options and could only resort to his last primitive nuclear weapon.

Using all the raw gunpowder he had stored as fuel, he created a cloud of gunpowder.

Gunpowder cloud was originally created for the final form of the Demon-Slaying Divine Thunder. It uses artificial clouds to represent the clouds in the sky and nurtures the Divine Thunder of the Origin. This is a super technique that can truly rival, or even surpass, the thunder in the sky.

But now, he has completely distorted this technique, turning it into a primitive nuclear bomb solely for killing.

However, the opponent actually summoned a giant dragon head, which swallowed the gunpowder cloud he had created in one gulp.

How is this possible? Why would this happen? Just how strong is the opponent?

Xiao Mufeng thought of many things in an instant.

Then he saw the giant dragon head spew out a huge fireball, which crashed to the ground.

Then, a small mushroom cloud slowly rose.

Xiao Mufeng was directly thrown away by the powerful shockwave it generated.

He slammed heavily into the trunk of a tree, the immense impact making his already frayed body feel even closer to complete shattering.

Xiao Mufeng took two heavy breaths and looked towards the center of the field.

There, after the smoke cleared, a large crater appeared, tens of meters in diameter and several meters deep.

The man walked up to him and said in a calm tone, "Want to continue?"

……

Du Can glanced at the large crater created by the bombing.

He mentally assessed the power: "This power feels almost comparable to the beggar's version of the two-colored fire lotus that Xiao Yan created by fusing the Green Lotus Earth Core Flame and the Purple Flame in the original novel."

Of course, there are still significant differences.

The basic two-tone Fire Lotus bomb targets stone surfaces, which are relatively hard and not easily create large craters.

His "Fire Dragon Flame Bullet" attack targets soft mud, which is more prone to creating large craters.

However, despite the different materials, the power of this move is still extraordinary.

The magician's ultimate trump card was indeed not to be underestimated; it almost hurt him, but luckily he was one step ahead.

Du Can nodded, then slowly walked over to Xiao Mufeng, who was sitting under a tree some distance away, and asked him, "Want to fight again?"

The black mask covering Xiao Mufeng's face had been blown away by the huge shockwave, revealing his true face beneath.

It was a face that was almost half-disfigured, like the marks left by severe burns, with skin wrinkled and ugly like withered tree bark.

He usually doesn't want others to see him like this, but now he doesn't care anymore.

Xiao Mufeng stared at Du Can and asked a seemingly unrelated question: "Who sent you to find me?"

"A woman named Ye Sizhen," Du Can said. "Do you know her?"

Xiao Mufeng's eyes flickered slightly, a complex expression crossing his face, as if he were recalling something, or perhaps avoiding something. After a moment, his voice was somewhat hoarse: "...It's Junior Sister Ye. How has she been lately?"

"She should be alright," Du Can replied truthfully. "By my standards, she's doing much better than most people."

Xiao Mufeng nodded and said softly, "That's good."

Du Can didn't respond to that, but instead steered the conversation back on track: "You still haven't answered my previous question. Do you still want to fight? If you do, I'm happy to oblige."

Xiao Mufeng shook his head with difficulty: "It's pointless. I've used everything I can, and it's all ineffective against you. You win."

He paused, then raised his withered hands: "You can kill me and take the mind key patterns from my body. Do it."

“You haven’t offended me before, and you didn’t curse at me just now,” Du Can said. “Killing you wouldn’t do me any good, so why would I kill you?”

Xiao Mufeng paused for a moment, then smiled bitterly: "I have killed countless people, I am a murderer. It is a righteous act for you to kill me."

“You broke the law, so the law should punish you.” Du Can’s tone was calm. “I came to you this time only to retrieve the thought keyprint. As for the rest, you can talk to someone else.”

Xiao Mufeng was stunned. He stared intently at Du Can, as if trying to discern something from that calm face.

After a long while, he slowly nodded, rolled up his sleeves, revealing his withered arm, displaying the thought key patterns on his arm to Du Can.

"Take it if you want it." His voice was soft, with a hint of self-mockery. "Anyway... all I have left are some broken scraps."

Chapter 30: Broken Keyprints Reclaimed

Xiao Mufeng displayed his thought patterns.

Du Can glanced at it, then carefully sensed it with his mental power and immediately noticed a problem, his brow furrowing.

“Your thought pathways have become much less active; they were once broken,” Du Can said. “You added a lot of random things to them just to keep them functioning.”

Xiao Mufeng wasn't surprised. His tone was calm, tinged with a hint of self-deprecation: "Your observation skills are truly astonishing. You noticed the clues with just one glance. Indeed, my thought key patterns have a serious problem; they're practically half-destroyed now. Take it if you want."

"Is this related to the injuries you sustained in the Middle East?" Du Can guessed.

Xiao Mufeng's face suddenly darkened, a ruthless glint flashing in his eyes. He gritted his teeth and said, word by word, "I was betrayed by a traitor, and then shot in the back by mercenaries. That shot shattered my body and nearly destroyed my inheritance. In the end, I still killed the traitor, seized the traitor's thought key, and merged it into my half-destroyed thought key, which is how it was able to barely function."

In the world of magic, it is almost impossible to steal someone else's thought key and merge it into one's own.

Different thought patterns contain different information and form different concepts, which may lead to conflicts between them.

Furthermore, thought patterns are active, and like bone marrow transplants, they can be rejected by different organisms. That's why they need to be transplanted slowly from childhood to gradually achieve compatibility.

He actually managed to forcibly transplant the brainwaves successfully, and even integrated the other person's brainwaves into his own half-destroyed brainwaves.

One possibility is that his thought key and the thought key of the person he plundered originally came from the same source, from the thought key of a common ancestor, and then went down different branches, which is why they could reunite.

Furthermore, this also requires immense luck and extraordinary skill; both are indispensable for a possible reunion.

If that's the case, the person he plundered, the traitor he mentioned, is very likely his relative, or perhaps his fellow disciple.

His relatives and fellow disciples betrayed him, no wonder he was so angry. Judging from his recent killings of illegal immigrants, they were very likely colluding with foreign powers.

Of course, there is also a very low probability that the compatibility is simply excellent, in which case it is possible to combine different thought keys or magic imprints.

Du Can didn't press further, but simply nodded: "No wonder, the original concept of 'exorcising evil' in your gunpowder magic has almost completely disappeared, replaced by the concept of killing with firearms in modern magic."

Du Can placed his hand on Xiao Mufeng's shoulder and used his mental power to examine his body through internal vision. He then discovered that the magic circuits in Xiao Mufeng's body had become extremely disordered, as if they had been cut off and then haphazardly tied into a knot.

“Your magic circuits are almost completely destroyed.” Du Can withdrew his hand. “It’s really impressive that you can still cast a spell under these circumstances.”

Magic circuits are almost a prerequisite for modern magicians to perform magic. Only by using magic circuits to convert small or large sources of life force into magical power can magic be performed.

With the opponent's magic circuits in this state, the generation and transmission of magic power will definitely be a huge problem.

For a magician, with the magic circuit in this state, the path is completely cut off, essentially a death sentence with no hope of recovery.

But the fact that he could still perform magic just now made Du Can a little curious.

Du Can used his internal vision to search carefully and found that not all magic circuits had been cut and knotted, but rather one complete and usable magic circuit remained.

Just one.

His magic generation and circulation efficiency had reached its lowest point. He must have been desperately generating magic and storing it in those firecrackers, ready to use it in battle.

That must have been really tough on him.

"Heh." Xiao Mufeng sneered, "Although I can't compare to you, even if I'm crippled, I'm still ten thousand times better than those mediocre magicians."

Du Can was silent for a moment, then sighed: "Sigh, after seeing you like this, I'm almost reluctant to take your thought key pattern... The main thing is that I'm afraid if I take it and show it to the people at the Spiral Pavilion, they'll probably think I didn't complete the mission and just found a bunch of junk to hand in."

"Take it or leave it," Xiao Mufeng said, turning his face away.

Du Can said, "We still need it; it's better to have something than nothing."

Du Can immediately began to peel away Xiao Mufeng's thought patterns.

After watching Wang Wei's peeling technique last time, he went directly to the light sphere space and practiced it several times, and has already learned this operation.

In no time at all, he had successfully separated them.

He preserved the extracted thought patterns.

"Thought Key Retrieval Complete." Du Can stood up. "If there's nothing else, I'll be going now."

"You really won't kill me?" Xiao Mufeng asked.

“I’ve already called the police,” Du Can said. “Someone should be coming to this remote mountain forest to look for you in a little while. Let them decide whether you deserve to die or not.”

Du Can wasn't worried about Xiao Mufeng escaping. In his current crippled state, it would be extremely difficult for him to use magic. And without magic, he would be nothing in this Savage Mountain.

Furthermore, Du Can also left a contingency plan on him to prevent him from escaping.

Xiao Mufeng remained silent for a long time before finally saying in a low voice, "...Alright, whatever you want."

Du Can left immediately.

As Xiao Mufeng watched Du Can walk further and further away until he disappeared into the forest, a hint of ruthlessness flashed in his eyes, which then turned into a sense of desolation.

He muttered to himself, his voice so soft it was as if he were speaking to himself: "Revenge... Now, am I really only after revenge? Or, as I said, am I killing the deserving and leaving the innocent alive? Or... have I gone mad?"

……

Du Can boarded a plane and returned to his city.

He arrived at the Spiral Pavilion, found Ye Sizhen, and handed over the thought key patterns he had obtained to Ye Sizhen.

When Ye Sizhen saw the thought key pattern that Du Can handed over, which looked like a broken jigsaw puzzle, she was immediately filled with question marks.

Ye Sizhen asked, "What did you give me? Are you sure this is Xiao Mufeng's thought key pattern? Or is it some random product made up by some small family?"

Du Can replied, "I knew you wouldn't believe me, so I recorded a video beforehand. Take a look."

Du Can handed the phone to Ye Sizhen.

He had previously thought that Ye Sizhen might not recognize the item, so he specially filmed a video beforehand as evidence.

You must leave a trace of what you do, otherwise others will think you never did it at all.