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The elevator doors slid open silently, and Shen Chongshan stepped out with a stern face.

Seeing Jin Xuan standing guard like this, his anger flared up again.

"Deputy Director Jin Xuan, can you explain this? Operation Eclipse is at a critical moment. As an important member of the command, you have been away from your post for more than 24 hours, and your communications have been switched to an untraceable state. And now you're here... acting as a doorman for a corporate executive?"

You must provide a reasonable explanation!

"This is not Jinling, this is the Demon Sea. All actions here are under the unified command and coordination of the Demon Sea Spirit Group. Your actions have seriously interfered with our plans and violated the basic principles of cooperation."

"Director Shen, I am not derelict in my post," Jin Xuan said. "I am here to carry out another, more important mission."

"More important? More important than investigating the eclipse and protecting the safety of tens of thousands of citizens? What mission could make the deputy director of Jinling abandon his established plans and become someone's bodyguard?"

"It was Senior Ye's arrangement." Jin Xuan didn't beat around the bush and directly stated the name.

Shen Chongshan was taken aback. "Senior Ye? You mean... Ye Heng?"

"Yes."

"He arranged for you to protect Su Yingxue here?" Shen Zhongshan's voice was filled with disbelief and absurdity.

"Jin Xuan, do you know what you're saying? Ye Heng is a special operations agent sent by Director Kang. His duty is to assist in dealing with the Eclipse Moon threat, not to mobilize manpower for his own personal matters! Besides, with your abilities and position, why should you listen to him?!"

"I won't say more. You can ask Senior Ye directly. My mission is assigned by him, and he is the only one who can change or terminate it."

Shen Chongshan felt a surge of blood rushing to the top of his head.

Should we go directly to Ye Heng?

These words sound polite, but they are actually full of evasion and... arrogance!

Why would a director of the Demon Sea Spirit Group have to go and ask a young, dispatched "special personnel" who has not yet demonstrated any substantial command or operational results, whether he could be transferred back to his position as deputy director in the command center?

This is a blatant challenge to his authority and an insult to the entire collaborative system of the Demon Sea Spirit Group!

"Jin Xuan! Do you know what you're saying? This is blatant disobedience to the cooperation order and a disregard for the overall situation! As the director of the Demon Sea Spirit Group, I now order you to immediately cease all irrelevant missions and return to command post! I will bear all the consequences! As for Ye Heng, I will handle the communication with him!"

He took half a step forward, and the aura of a Foundation Establishment cultivator subtly spread out, attempting to force Jin Xuan to submit through sheer force.

The air in the corridor seemed to freeze for a moment.

However, Jin Xuan's body didn't even sway.

"I'm sorry, Director Shen." Jin Xuan's voice remained calm, devoid of any emotional fluctuation. "I cannot carry out your orders. The priority of my mission will be determined by Senior Ye."

Shen Chongshan felt a tightness in his chest and was so angry he almost laughed.

"Fine, very well." Shen Chongshan squeezed out a few words through gritted teeth, his face as black as the bottom of a pot. He knew that he absolutely couldn't take Jin Xuan away from here today.

Continuing the stalemate will only make things more embarrassing for yourself and is pointless.

He glared fiercely at Jin Xuan, his eyes seeming to want to devour him alive.

"I'll go find Ye Heng!"

After saying that, Shen Chongshan left without looking back.

He pulled up the temporary location that Sirius had recently synchronized with his encrypted communicator—a coffee shop near the Xinghai Sports Center.

The car blended into the traffic flow in the night.

Ye Heng sat by the window in the coffee shop, with a glass of water that had long since gone cold in front of him.

The shop door was suddenly pushed open, and the wind chimes made a series of rapid clanging sounds, interrupting the soothing background music inside.

Shen Chongshan strode in, his gaze instantly locking onto the window like that of a hawk.

"Are you Ye Heng?"

"That's right, it's me." Ye Heng's divine sense had already noticed this Foundation Establishment stage expert.

"I am Shen Chongshan, the director of the Demon Sea Spirit Group."

"What do you need me for?" Ye Heng asked.

This excessive calmness seemed more like a form of indifference to Shen Zhongshan.

"You're so calm. I'll get straight to the point. What's going on with Jin Xuan?"

"Jin Xuan? He's naturally carrying out the task I assigned him."

Ye Heng had anticipated that his rash decision to send Jin Xuan to protect Su Yingxue would definitely provoke dissatisfaction from some people.

"Your mission?" Shen Chongshan almost laughed in anger. "Comrade Ye Heng, I hope you understand the situation! Jin Xuan is an operative sent by the Jinling Spirit Group to support the Demon Sea and assist in dealing with the Eclipse Moon threat, not your personal bodyguard! You arbitrarily transferred him away from command to protect an entrepreneur unrelated to the mission. What kind of behavior is this? Do you know how much chaos and risk this has brought to our command system and preliminary deployment?"

"Su Yingxue is my fiancée. She's in the Demon Sea, and her safety is my concern. I felt it was necessary for Jin Xuan to protect her, so I sent him."

Fiancée? Shen Chongshan was stunned.

But even if Su Yingxue is his fiancée, that's not a reason for Ye Heng to do this.

"What kind of reason is that! Most importantly, by what right do you have the authority to order Jin Xuan around? He's a Foundation Establishment Realm deputy director; what power do you have to command him?"

This is Shen Chongshan's core question and his greatest unease.

In the current crisis-ridden situation, this unknown may bring not only assistance, but also greater variables.

"Gada".

The door was suddenly pushed open.

Ye Heng's gaze passed over Shen Chongshan's shoulder and looked towards the doorway.

It was Lin Ruofei, and there was a man following behind her.

The man was around forty years old, with a burly build like an iron tower. He wore a sharply tailored black outfit, and his short hair stood up like steel needles.

This is the Qin Wu that Lin Zhenhai mentioned.

Ye Heng guessed who the visitor was.

His divine sense swept over the opponent's entire body like mercury spilling onto the ground—the fourth level of the Acquired Realm, with solidified true qi, vigorous blood and qi far exceeding that of ordinary people, and muscle and bone density different from ordinary martial artists, clearly indicating that he had undergone extremely rigorous external martial arts training.

He is indeed a skilled fighter, capable of roaming freely in the secular world, and even playing a decisive role in some small-scale supernatural events or conflicts among martial artists.

Unfortunately, this is the Demon Sea, and the opponent is the Eclipse Moon.

Lin Ruofei spoke up: "Mr. Ye, this is Qin Wu, the bodyguard arranged by my father. Qin Wu, this is Mr. Ye Heng from the Spirit Group. He will be mainly responsible for coordinating security matters during the concert."

Qin Wu's gaze fell on Ye Heng, and his sharp scrutiny immediately revealed a hint of undisguised doubt and...disdain.

too young.

With fair skin and a slender, well-proportioned figure, he showed little sign of physical training and sat there with a calm demeanor like an ordinary person.

Is this the person in charge of such an important matter sent by the Spirit Group?

His gaze then swept over Shen Zhongshan, whose face was ashen and whose chest was still heaving slightly.

The man was dressed in plain clothes, was not young, and had no cultivation at all. He was glaring angrily at Ye Heng.

He looks like an ordinary middle-aged manager who is furious because his subordinates are disobedient.

Qin Wu immediately understood—it seemed that the Spirit Group was not very harmonious, and this young man probably got his position through connections, and even the senior members of his "unit" couldn't keep him in check.

He was completely unaware that it was because these two people's cultivation levels far surpassed his that he mistakenly believed they were ordinary people without any cultivation.

A sense of superiority mixed with anxiety about the mission and responsibilities prompted Qin Wu to take a step forward.

He ignored Shen Chongshan, facing Ye Heng directly, his voice low and commanding:

"Mr. Ye, is that right? From now on, I will be in full charge of Miss Lin's safety."