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Chapter 84 Closing the Gates, Leaving No One Behind

Chen Jue covered his face with a mask, changed his clothes, and quietly returned to the Cuihu neighborhood.

Inside Cuihu Street, crowds thronged, and all sorts of bizarre little rituals turned the entire area into a chaotic mess, like a scene of demons dancing wildly.

Following the patrol route of the Shi Huo Sect soldiers, Chen Jue navigated numerous twists and turns before finally finding the Shi Huo Sect's branch in the Cuihu District.

It was a brand-new, seven-story modern building with a glass curtain wall.

It used to be a loan center for a small local gang, but it has now been swallowed up by the Shihuo Cult and turned into a branch contact point.

Chen Jue said he came back to kill people, but he wasn't actually that bored.

He was more interested in understanding the specific plans for the Hundred-Day Grand Ceremony of the Fire Cult.

However, all news about the Fire Sect is currently being blocked by powerful clans, making it impossible for anyone to delve deeper into the matter.

The feeling of knowing you're being kept in the dark but being unable to do anything about it is awful.

Therefore, Chen Jue planned to use some extreme measures, since none of the people who could serve as instructors in the Shi Huo Sect were innocent.

He used the Dragon Diving Abyss Step and activated the Concealing Spirit Technique to its maximum. In broad daylight, he was like a silent, vengeful ghost, quietly pouncing on the guards at the building entrance.

brush!

Just as the right-hand guard lowered his head to wipe his leather shoes with a tissue, Chen Jue flashed and instantly appeared behind the left-hand guard.

呲!

Chen Jue flicked out a steel needle with his right hand, carrying a wisp of Five Elements True Qi, and pierced it into the occipital bone at the back of the left guard's head.

The steel needle, imbued with true energy, pierced the guard's skull instantly, like a knife cutting through tofu, and penetrated into his brainstem.

"————" Before the guard on the left could even utter a sound, his eyes rolled back and he lost consciousness.

At that moment, the guard on the right just looked up.

"you!

""

He also didn't have time to give a warning.

The instant he opened his mouth, a sharp steel needle pierced through his left ear, penetrating the eardrum and reaching his brainstem, before spurting out from his right ear with blood, striking the ground and creating sparks.

Chen Jue threw the two corpses around the corner of the stairwell and then locked the door behind him.

He pulled off a drill sergeant's uniform, put it on over his clothes, and swaggered into the middle of the corridor on the first floor.

When he encounters someone, he immediately steps forward to greet them warmly.

As they passed each other, he covered the man's mouth with his hand, stabbed him to death, and threw the body into an empty office nearby.

He killed his way up the stairs, clearing out each floor as he went.

During the process, he only encountered one instructor who possessed the true energy of possession.

By the time they reached the seventh floor, which belonged to the branch's upper management, no fewer than seventy Shi Huo Sect soldiers had died at Chen Jue's hands.

"unlucky----"

Chen Jue went up to the seventh floor, and the first door he opened revealed a man and a woman engaging in lewd activities in a spacious office.

The woman screamed and quickly hid under the desk.

Get out!

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Seeing that Chen Jue was wearing the lowest-ranking instructor uniform, he dared to barge into the office without knocking.

The middle-aged male protagonist suddenly flew into a rage, grabbed the ashtray on the desk, and was about to throw it at Chen Jue's head.

Chen Jue raised his hand and flung out a steel needle from a distance, intending to use the internal energy of the "Heavenly Will Blade" to activate external energy and imbue the steel needle with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Unfortunately, it was unsuccessful.

The spiritual runes floating on his arm only enhance his swordsmanship.

However, his control over "internal and external energy" has not reached the level where he can empower everything to become a weapon.

"ah!

""

Although Chen Jue was unable to imbue the steel needles with spiritual energy, he was still incredibly strong!

The steel needle that slipped from his hand pierced the middle-aged man's left eye, and the excruciating pain forced him to let out a bloodcurdling scream.

"It's too loud."

Chen Jue drew his sword and unleashed an invisible burst of energy.

The desk was instantly split in two by the force of the energy, and the man and woman were also unable to escape their fate, being cut down by the energy and scattered among the flying wood fragments.

"Who! Who's over there?!"

'

A voice, filled with shock and anger, rang out from the corridor.

Chen Jue walked out and thrust his long sword at the other man's head. The sharp energy instantly covered a distance of more than ten meters, shattering the man's skull.

Blood splattered down the corridor, covering the walls everywhere.

Seeing that he had been exposed, Chen Jue stopped hiding and began kicking open the doors of the seven offices on the floor one by one.

He had just killed two people, and two of the remaining five offices were empty.

And some people have three offices.

One of them was so frightened that he hid in the bookcase, where Chen Jue stabbed him to death through the bookcase.

One of them tried to resist, but couldn't even withstand Chen Jue's basic attack. His weapon was violently broken, and he was beheaded.

"?!?!"

When Chen Jue burst into the last office, a young man dressed in fine clothes seemed to be making a call for help, and had not yet hung up.

"Still making phone calls? I'm here to arrest you!"

Seeing that he had finally found the person in charge, Chen Jue chuckled and, with a "whoosh," pounced on the richly dressed young man.

"court death?!

""

The young man in fine clothes frowned, calmly sidestepped Chen Jue's left hand grabbing his collar, and then stretched his right hand out into the air, whereupon a long sword appeared out of thin air, its blade sweeping towards Chen Jue's waist and abdomen.

brush!

Chen Jue pushed off the ground with his feet, his body moving like a swimming dragon, gliding backward five steps, easily dodging the sweeping sword of the richly dressed young man.

"He's got some skills."

Chen Jue gave a fair assessment, and at the same time, he darted forward, his right hand wielding a long sword that swept through the air with a powerful, heavy cleaving motion, heading straight for the head of the young man in fine clothes.

With the boost from the maxed-out Dragon Diving Step, Chen Jue's speed was as fast as an arrow released from a bow. In the blink of an eye, the blade was already in front of the young man in fine clothes.

The young man in fine clothes was named Tu Li, a direct descendant of the Tu family in the inner city.

Because of his exceptional talent in martial arts, he was highly valued by his family and was entrusted with important responsibilities at a young age, taking over the "Emerald Lake" branch of the Fire Sect, which had a population of over 100,000, in the outer city.

Therefore, he was quite skilled and was considered one of the best in the late stage of the True Qi Realm.

Unfortunately, he was unlucky and encountered a freak like Chen Jue, who possessed a pure yang body and cultivated the "Five Elements Body Tempering Treatise".

The long knife fell.

There was a "whoosh" sound.

Tu Li met the attack with his sword, the sword energy flashing like a fleeting shadow, severing Chen Jue's falling longsword.

call!

The swords clashed, producing a dull sound similar to the clanging of metal.

The true energy that Tu Li had attached to the sword was suddenly exploded by the powerful force carried by the longsword.

At this moment, he could not hold the sword with his right hand at all; his tiger's mouth burst open, and his body was pushed backward by the enormous force transmitted back from the sword hilt.

Do you know who I am?!

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The long sword in Tu Li's hand crashed to the ground with a clang.

He roared angrily, trying to make his identity clear and drive Chen Jue away.

But Chen Jue ignored him completely, lunged forward with a knife in his right hand, and thrust the tip of the knife directly into his heart.

Tu Li felt a chill run down his spine. He had never seen such a ruthless bandit before. The bandit had a clear objective, did not communicate at all, and was only interested in killing people from beginning to end.

He gathered his inner energy in his feet, stomped his feet against the ground, and pushed off the table with his blood-soaked hands. Instantly, he flipped 360 degrees, like a spring up from dry land, to the other side of the desk.

Chen Jue passed by him, a cold smile appearing in his eyes. He reached into the air with his left hand, and the long sword "Rushing Stream" instantly appeared in his hand, sweeping towards Tu Li's right hand, which was resting on the desk.

Clang!

Tu Li was halfway through his somersault when he suddenly slammed his face onto the table.

The left forearm was severed in the middle, the cut was as clean as a mirror, and a large amount of blood gushed out.

"Ah! My hand! My hand!"

Tu Li lay on the desk, clutching his bleeding arm, howling in pain.

With twin swords in hand, Chen Jue used both swords to sever Tu Li's legs, cutting off any possibility of escape.

"Great hero, spare my life! You can't kill me! I am a direct descendant of the Tu family of the inner city—"

Tu Li was terrified and panicked, his mental state was broken, and he begged for mercy in despair.

Seeing that the time was right, Chen Jue sheathed his two swords and pulled the other man close by grabbing his collar with his right hand, while pointing his left hand at the man's brow.

Keywords: fire, festival, offerings!

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"Soul Search!"

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