Brass Dragons in the Dragon World

Seeing that the mandarin jacket was unwilling to cooperate, Ander blinked, and his black eyes turned into golden vertical pupils.

Ander stared at the mandarin jacket and subtly released a bit of his dragon aura, a trick that proved useful in many situations.

"You should know what the consequences are of offending me. Take me to the Demon-Slaying Hall."

Under the oppressive aura of the dragon, the man in the mandarin jacket trembled uncontrollably. Without thinking carefully, he gave an address to the rickshaw puller in front of him.

Along the way, Ander asked Ma Gua some more questions, and only then did he understand what this Demon Slayer Hall was.

In China, demons appear from time to time. These demons are incredibly powerful and can fly over rooftops and walk on walls. Only demon slayers can deal with them. The Heaven and Earth Society naturally has demon slayers as well. They have set up a separate hall called the Demon Slayer Hall.

It seems that China has its own set of terms for hybrids; those Deadpools are called demons, and hybrids within the country are called demon slayers.

Ma Gua didn't know much about the Demon Slaying Hall, only that the hall master was named Lu Shanyan, courtesy name Boping, and was a very powerful person.

"I heard he was a scholar who studied abroad, just like you."

Ander never expected to hear Lu Shanyan's name in such a place; it seemed that Lu Shanyan's identity was indeed not simple.

The rickshaw driver moved swiftly, pulling the two men to a Taoist temple on the outskirts of the city.

The man in the mandarin jacket led Ande through the winding paths of the Taoist temple to the backyard, pointed to a secluded house, and said:

"Hero, the Demon Slayer Hall's headquarters is right here. I won't be able to go there after this, so please proceed on your own."

The man in the mandarin jacket hurriedly ran out, as if afraid of getting into any trouble.

Ander entered the house, where only one man was sitting cross-legged on the floor. He was shirtless, revealing strong, powerful muscles, and his golden vertical pupils stared at Ander like a raging beast.

"Are you in charge here?" Ander asked.

But the man's words shocked Ander:

“Mr. Lu Ander, we have been waiting for you for a long time.”

Chapter Nineteen: Riddler, Get Out!

Ander looked at the man in front of him. He had a very serious, square face with no expression, and looked like a righteous hero from a martial arts novel.

It was already December, and although it hadn't snowed in Shanghai and people on the streets were all wearing cotton-padded coats, this man was shirtless, proudly displaying his muscular physique.

“Mr. Lu Ander, we have been waiting for you for a long time.”

Ander could assure him that he had never met this stern, stone-like man before, but he knew exactly what to do when faced with such an enigmatic and cryptic man.

Ander secretly gathered his strength, and before the man could finish speaking, a Mud Swamp spell struck the ground beneath him.

The man was sitting cross-legged on the ground. Before he could react, he felt the ground beneath him soften, as if he were trapped in a swamp and unable to escape.

"Mr. Lu, I meant no harm."

The man didn't move, wanting to explain, but Ander wasn't going to listen to this cryptic riddle-maker.

He made a hand gesture, silently channeled his magic, and aimed it at the ground beneath the man, turning mud into stone.

The ground, softened into a swamp, hardened again through the process of turning mud into stone, thus blocking the man's movement.

Ender used this tactic many times, sometimes to block enemy attacks, and sometimes to add a little fun to a dull life.

"Mr. Lu..."

The man wanted to say something more, but Ander thought it would be more reliable to restrain him, take him to a safe house, and interrogate him properly.

Since the man was able to give his pseudonym, there are only two possibilities:

One possibility is that he or his companions possess some kind of prophetic ability, which is rare among hybrids but not unheard of.

Secondly, he had been investigating himself and had obtained some information about himself.

Regardless of the method, Ender intends to make him reveal everything he knows under the influence of magic, so that the initiative can be in Ender's own hands.

Seeing that Ander wouldn't listen to him at all, the man frowned, revealing a very troubled expression.

"Excuse me, Mr. Lu!"

The man closed his eyes and shouted, and a bright light burst forth from his exposed skin, illuminating the entire room like a blazing sun.

Ander was staring at the man, preparing to cast his next spell, when he was caught off guard by the flashbang.

"Flash spell, you lowlife bastard."

Foul language poured from Ander's mouth, but his hands didn't slow down at all; he immediately cast a Stone Skin spell on himself to defend against any possible attacks.

The light lasted only a moment, but it blinded Ander for a few seconds. When he came to his senses, the man had vanished, leaving only a large crater with rubble on the ground.

"Ran?"

Ander stared at the large crater in the ground. It was clear that the man had shattered the rocks that bound him. Judging from the cracks in the ground, his strength was roughly equivalent to two Angers.

Footsteps came from behind, and the man appeared behind Ander without anyone noticing. He clenched his fist and punched Ander straight to the back of the head with a whooshing sound.

"Do you want to kill me?"

Ander turned around and fired a fast-moving arcane missile at the man, sending him flying.

"Mr. Lu, we just need your help."

Ander was naturally unwilling to do something that sounded troublesome and offered little reward.

The man had just stood up when Ander's long-prepared spell finally came in handy.

"Dominating humanity"

The man had just gotten up when he took a hit from Ander's fifth-circle enchantment spell "Dominate Man," and immediately began to use his hands and feet non-stop.

"Alright, we can talk about it when we get back."

Ander manipulated the man to stand aside while he sat down to recover his magic. Fighting this man whose chest glowed had also greatly depleted Ander's own energy.

While uttering obscure and incomprehensible words about Jia Nailiang and Li Xiaolu, Ander sat cross-legged on the ground, waiting for his magic to recover.

After resting for a while, Ander felt his magic power recover somewhat, stood up, and controlled the man to walk to his side.

Ander had the memory teleportation spell, but the location had to be familiar, so he chose the hall in the safe house, where he spent a relatively long time.

As Ander chanted in a cryptic and incomprehensible manner, most of his newly restored magic was depleted, and the half-naked man and Ander disappeared.

Inside the Secret Service's safe house, Angers was firing a revolver at a target in front of him.

He didn't actually like revolvers, but they were the lightest and most portable weapon in his arsenal; the others were bulky and not suitable for public display.

To outsiders, it appeared that Angers had fired six bullets in an instant, but if one counted the new bullet holes on the target paper in front of him, one would know that Angers fired 60 bullets in one second, and that was far from his limit.

"Although I still think the knife is more useful, having multiple attack methods isn't a bad thing."

Angers learned a lesson from his previous battles: you have to use both a knife and a gun to be considered complete.

After all, it didn't seem appropriate to have only one hand holding the knife while the other was empty.

Just then, Angers heard the sound of something heavy falling to the ground in the living room.

"Damn it, I miscalculated the distance again."

Angers walked over and found Andre lying on the stone floor of the living room, holding a half-naked man. The stone slab beneath him was broken, indicating that he had fallen quite hard.

“I didn’t even know you had this kind of hobby.” Angers looked at Ander, who was pinned down by a half-naked man.

Ander pushed the man away, walked unsteadily to the side, and slumped onto the sofa.

"I had a teleportation problem and fell from the ceiling to the ground, becoming this guy's cushion."

Perhaps because he had fallen quite hard, Ander didn't try to be arrogant, but instead told everyone what had happened to him.

As Angers listened to Ander's experiences along the way, he was somewhat surprised by the dragon's familiarity with China, but thinking of those strange magic spells, he didn't delve into the matter.

"Didn't you say you wouldn't use magic?"

"I'm useless. I was able to find the Heaven and Earth Society entirely because of my years of experience as a bard."

Angers didn't believe Ander's words, but that wasn't the important thing now. What mattered was the half-naked man who seemed to have prophetic abilities.

Under Ander's control, the man was tightly bound with ropes and tied to a chair.

Ander released a fireball, illuminating the man's face and prompting him to ask.

"Name?"

"Chu Hao..."

"identity?"

"Deputy Hall Master of the Demon-Slaying Hall of the Heaven and Earth Society..."

This Chu Hao is not of low status. Let's ask him later if he can come up with the matching line "The earth shakes the high hills, and the streams and mountains are beautiful for a thousand years".

"What do you want from me?"

"Help us..."

The man paused for a long time at this moment, seemingly resisting the mental control that came with dominating humans.

Ander had no choice but to increase his magical power, and Chu Hao finally couldn't withstand it, uttering four words:

"Destroy the dragon vein!"

Chapter Twenty: Destroying the Dragon Vein

Ander looked at the expressionless man in front of him. Just now, the man had told Ander that he wanted Ander's help to blow up the "Dragon Vein".

An Deping didn't know what a dragon vein was, but it was obvious that it must be a very troublesome thing.

Please explain in detail.

Ender tried to control the man to reveal their plans, but dominating humans was not enough to subdue the man.

The man named Chu Hao resisted the control of the magic, and Ander could not break through his will, at least not with this magic.

"What a hassle..."

Seeing that his method of controlling humans was ineffective against Chu Hao, Ander simply released him from control.

There are many ways to interrogate a person; there's no need to get hung up on one particular method.

"Your secret society should have interrogation methods, right? Why don't you give it a try?"