Unfilial disciple, do not ruin your master's dream of ascension and peaceful life.

Ye Yinqiu's abdomen suddenly swelled, and with a sound like a water balloon bursting, her body exploded in two.

It was too sudden.

It's completely inexplicable.

"…?"

Former disciples.

His disciple, who was embracing him tightly.

One second they were crying and lamenting their longing.

The next second, flesh and blood flew everywhere.

Warm, solidified blood splattered all over his body.

Ye Yinqiu's expression froze at the moment of crying and laughing, her eyes quickly becoming empty. Her torso, from the diaphragm to the hip bone, had completely exploded into blood and foam, and the two severed pieces of her body fell to the ground with two "thuds".

The sensation in his arms suddenly felt empty. Qian Jing looked at Ye Yinqiu's upper body; her face was still twitching slightly, blood gushing from the severed area. His once loyal disciple, whom he had nurtured, was gone—

"...Tsk!"

Qian Jing kicked Ye Yinqiu in the upper body, sending her flying several meters like a soccer ball. At the same time, the space where she had been standing emitted a strange, deflated sound! After kicking her away, Qian Jing also took a big step back. His combat experience from his previous life prompted him to take action—the real culprit of the human exploding case was coming!

In a split second, he took in all the information about his surroundings. This was the back alley of the museum, with only one road in front and a dead end behind. To the left was the back side of the museum, and to the right were unremarkable office buildings, all high-rise buildings. He could not see the attackers within his field of vision!

"Long-range area damage? But from where... um?"

He suddenly caught his breath in his trachea, his entire body subjected to immense pressure from all directions! This pressure came quickly and violently, the rapid compression of his chest cavity almost crushing his lungs, his sunken abdomen almost touching his back, and his bones cracking! Not only his body, but also the scattered household garbage such as aluminum cans and plastic lunch boxes on the ground around him were turned into clumps under the high pressure!

(It's not just me; the pressure in this space in the alley is... Can the other side create localized high pressure?)

Creating high pressure inside the human body to burst it from the inside, or applying pressure over a wide area of ​​the surrounding environment to crush a person, can be done remotely without the perpetrator being close.

(It works really well, whether it's for mass destruction or precise assassination, hmm...!)

The external pressure suddenly shifted from evenly covering the entire body to being concentrated on the left side! Qian Jing reacted quickly, jerking away to avoid having her heart crushed, but her left arm twisted and deformed under the pressure, with her humerus, ulna, and radius all shattered!

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On the top floor of the museum, by the window facing the back alley, two men were looking down at the scene below.

The bald, tattooed man, Zhou Rong, wore a sadistic grin as he stared intently at the horrific scene in the back alley.

The couple below are now one dead and the other seriously injured. The woman was being pressurized and exploded inside her body, while the man was being crushed from the outside. This is a great pastime for a sadist like Zhou Rong.

The man in casual clothes, Zhong Wei, sighed in frustration and said:

"Didn't I tell you to spare their lives? Why did you try to kill them right away?"

"Hehehe, isn't that great? When you're unsure if someone is a threat, killing them directly is definitely a good deal!"

"We're targeting that woman simply to figure out why she's also trying to steal the box, not to start a killing spree!"

Zhong Wei held a jade box he had taken from the museum lobby. It was a jade puzzle box, and that was their purpose in coming here. He had originally only intended to capture Ye Yinqiu, who also wanted to steal the box, for questioning, but Zhou Rong had killed him on the spot.

"So, since things have come to this, are you still going to spare their lives?" Zhou Rong said provocatively.

"...Fine, whatever. Stop playing around and just kill them already."

"Yes, ma'am!"

Zhou Rong's superpowers are extremely brutal.

He once crushed more than 300 people in a shopping mall in Western Europe by pressurizing air, and he also caused the head of an idol on stage to explode by pressurizing his body at a concert in Osaka. This was not out of any strategic consideration, but just out of a perverse sense of fun to test his superpowers, just as he did in the world of magic in his hometown.

Now that the woman is dead and the man's left arm is completely useless, let's use internal pressure to set him off like fireworks. It'll be quite a sight. That's what we'll do—

Suddenly, Qianjing looked up.

He stared straight at the top floor of the museum, at them by the window, even though from his angle he shouldn't have been able to see anything at all.

"...Hmm?" "Huh?"

They all made confused noises, and in that instant, Qian Jing used her good right hand to make a gun gesture towards them.

boom!!!!!

Having been through countless battles in their hometown, they had already moved away from the window the moment the roar resounded! The window shattered instantly, and a huge hole was blasted into the entire wall by some powerful external force. The flying debris, metal, and flames left the interior walls and floors riddled with holes, and thick smoke swept into the room!

Amidst the dust, a blood-red soap bubble, three meters in diameter, appeared out of nowhere and enveloped the two, withstanding the violent explosion.

"Cough cough cough—what's going on!?" Zhou Rong roared angrily.

"What else could it be? He fought back!" Zhong Wei replied impatiently.

"Alright! Let's fight him!"

"How many times have I told you to keep a low profile! What are you trying to do after making such a big fuss? Get out of here!"

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"........."

Qian Jing looked at the museum's top floor, which had been blown open. He knew it was a restricted area under repair and shouldn't affect innocent people. Even if it did, the blame would fall on the enemy. He wasn't some saint.

"...No response, should we withdraw?"

The spatial pressure anomaly has been resolved, the enemy has moved away, this small skirmish has ended, and the crisis is over.

So, what's next...?

Qian Jing instantly restored his shattered arm, looked at his disciple's mangled body, and sighed heavily.

"You caused me so much trouble in my past life, and you still cause me so much trouble in this one. Did I owe you something in my previous life...?"

Watch my super assembly!

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"...Hmm?"

When Ye Yinqiu woke up again, she found herself lying in the green belt of a park not far from the museum.

She seemed to have blacked out. She didn't know how long she had slept or why she was lying here. She only remembered that when she was hugging her master tightly, she suddenly had a sharp pain in her stomach, her vision went red, and then she lost consciousness.

"Master...Master? Where are you?"

She staggered to her feet, looking around but not seeing Qianjing anywhere. Her intuition told her that Qianjing had brought him here, but where was he?

What exactly happened during the moment she lost consciousness?

"Could it be that Master punched me in the stomach and knocked me unconscious... and then moved me here? But why?"

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~~~~Ascension Guide~~~~

Name: Zhou Rong

Hometown: The Tower of Black Mist in the World of Wizardry

Ability: Applying maximum pressure

It can remotely control the air pressure within a certain spatial range, either by pressurizing the inside of an object to burst it or by pressurizing it from the outside to crush it. It simultaneously meets the requirements of both wide-area lethality and precise operation, and the clearer the boundaries of the locked spatial range, the stronger the destructive power.