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The battle at Beast Mountain is nearing its end.

Without those Divine Realm warriors, the remaining members of the Ge family were nothing but a rabble.

The investigators from the Zhenling Bureau and the military warriors worked in perfect harmony, advancing from the foot of the mountain to the summit in groups of three, like a comb.

Occasionally, a Spirit Sea Realm cultivator would attempt to break through, but they would be precisely killed by snipers waiting on the perimeter with Spirit-Breaking Bullets.

In less than the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, the entire Ge family was wiped out.

A figure slowly descended from the sea of ​​clouds.

Cangling landed very lightly, her boots landing on the gravel.

She looked around—the manor had been reduced to ruins, and the valley was littered with the unseeing corpses of the Ge family members.

Her gaze swept calmly over the corpses before she began to search.

Jiang Qin was not found.

A faint, almost imperceptible sense of loneliness gradually surfaced in those eyes that had remained as calm as still water.

"Is he dead...?"

This is the 98th one already.

Just then, a pile of rubble not far away moved.

A hand reached out from the rubble, rummaged around a few times, and then a dusty, dirt-covered head popped out.

Jiang Qin sneezed several times, spitting out a mouthful of ash. He looked utterly disheveled, but his face was beaming with joy.

He had just crawled out of the rubble and hadn't even had time to brush the dirt off himself.

He then noticed a gaze fixed on him.

Jiang Qin looked up and met Cang Ling's gaze.

The melancholy in those eyes had vanished, replaced by an emotion he couldn't understand.

Jiang Qin felt uneasy under her gaze and instinctively protected the spatial ring on his finger, his expression turning serious.

"Let me make this clear first—I played a huge role in this battle. There were more than twenty Divine Phase Realm cultivators, and I killed them all by myself. You have no idea how much pressure I was under. I almost died just now. So... I want 30% of the Ge family's property."

He paused, then added, "Not even a little less."

The Ge family has been entrenched on the frontier for a century, possessing countless valuable items.

He has no reason to let this go.

Cang Ling stared at him for two seconds.

Then she turned around and walked out of the mountain.

"If you want them, you can have them all. I don't need them anyway."

"real?!"

Jiang Qin was stunned for a moment, then quickly climbed out of the ruins, dusted himself off, and chased after them.

Behind them, a group of Spirit Sea Realm warriors looked at each other in bewilderment.

What does it mean to almost die?

You clearly overpowered and beat a whole group of people, and all you did was get a little dirt on your clothes!

Cang Ling and Jiang Qin left first.

The aircraft took off and disappeared into the sky as a streak of light.

The aftermath was naturally left to the Zhenling Bureau and the military.

In the ruins, a young investigator from the Soul Reaper Bureau was moving a body when he suddenly stopped.

He looked down and saw a swaddled baby peeking out from the cracks in the rubble at his feet.

"Wow--"

The baby's cry was so faint it sounded like a cat's meow.

The sound came intermittently from deep within the ruins.

He instinctively bent down, trying to clear away the rubble, but a hand pressed down on his shoulder at that moment.

He was a senior member of the team, a veteran investigator with graying temples, and he spoke calmly:

"Don't move."

The young investigator turned around, opened his mouth, and said, "But..."

He hadn't finished speaking.

The senior had already drawn his sword; with a flash of light, the crying stopped abruptly.

Clean and efficient, without the slightest hesitation.

The young investigator froze on the spot, staring wide-eyed at the blood-stained swaddling clothes, his lips trembling as he couldn't utter a word.

The old investigator sheathed his sword and said calmly.

"This is a member of the Ge family. If you spare his life today out of pity, what if he finds out about his origins twenty years later? You might harbor resentment. Moreover... once we open this door, there will only be more forces rebelling."

"Remember, we are now on the battlefield, and there can be no mercy on the battlefield."

He turned and walked towards another pile of ruins without looking back.

"Keep working."

...

On a rapidly moving aircraft.

Jiang Qin tore into the beast's flesh, watching the scenery flash by outside.

The sea lies in the distance.

"I didn't expect the benefits at our East China Bureau to be so good. After completing the mission, I can even take a vacation. I've never been to the beach before."

"Taking a vacation? When did I ever say I was going on vacation?"

Cang Ling tilted her head and said in a nonchalant tone:

"We're off to carry out the next mission now. We have five missions to complete today, and eliminating the Ge family is just the first one. So you'd better rest now, because the new extermination mission will begin in an hour."

Jiang Qin stopped moving, and the meat in his hand suddenly tasted bland.

"Could it be... another SS-rank mission?"

"Of course not."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Qin breathed a slight sigh of relief. As long as it wasn't a mission like the one involving the Ge family, it was fine. Although he could fight against people of the same realm as easily as beating a dog, he couldn't stand being involved in fights all day long.

There's not even time for cultivation.

But what happened next?

Cang Ling's addition sent chills down his spine.

"A fourth-order interdimensional rift has appeared outside a coastal city. According to the investigation, at least hundreds of thousands of ferocious beasts are entrenched inside. Headquarters plans to set up this rift as a training point, so we have been assigned to clear out the fourth-order ferocious beasts inside the rift, leaving only second-order and third-order ferocious beasts."

"...A fourth-order rift? How are you going to get in?"

It is common knowledge that martial artists whose level is higher than the level of the rift cannot enter it.

"When did I say I was going in? You'll handle the clearing out of the rift, and then I'll go carry out the next mission. Let's split up."

Cang Ling replied matter-of-factly.

Jiang Qin's face darkened; what kind of ridiculous task was this?

Even if there are only a thousand fourth-tier beasts among the hundreds of thousands of ferocious beasts in the fourth-tier rift, how long would it take him to kill them all? He wouldn't even have time to drink water, let alone rest.

I heard more than once during my work review trip that the East China General Administration was short of staff.

But it wasn't said that they were that short!

But upon closer reflection, it's understandable. The vast nation of China faces the ever-present threat of otherworldly rifts, the threat of beast tides attacking cities on the borders, and the need to guard against attacks from enemy nations and cults.

Martial artists are already rare, and high-level martial artists are even rarer.

No wonder that besides being at the university,

Even in Shanghai, a city renowned for its martial arts, you can hardly see many martial artists at the Divine Aspect Realm. They are usually too busy traveling all over the country to have time to show their faces in public.