Wasn't This Very Simple? What Were You So Surprised About?

Inside the Suffocation Screen, Su Yang was alone.

He sat cross-legged on the ground, a long blade as black as ink resting across his legs.

Su Yang's palms were covered in dirt—after the remaining two monsters had also dropped dead, he had used his hands to rebury the Sword-Guardian whose grave the monsters had dug up.

At that moment, the Northern Suburb Cemetery was empty, save for the pits and hollows covering the ground and the scattered chunks of green-haired flesh.

"I can't wait to see the looks on Mr. Director's and Lina's faces when they find out I killed those three monsters!"

"They'll be quite a sight, won't they?"

Su Yang muttered to himself.

After testing it, Su Yang had confirmed that his blood was indeed the reason the monster had suddenly dropped dead.

For some reason, Su Yang's blood was like a poison that killed the instant it entered the monster's bloodstream.

After Su Yang smeared his blood on his black blade and slashed at the monster again, the Mutation Monster lost its ability to regenerate!

The places touched by Su Yang's blood rapidly dissolved, like ice beneath the sun.

But Su Yang didn't know what caused it, and he didn't dare reveal the secret to anyone in the Soul-Reaping Bureau!

On the contrary, from now on, Su Yang would be even more careful with his blood and wouldn't entrust it to anyone else!

Su Yang wasn't naive enough to put his fate in someone else's hands!

"The Dead Man's Book, that terrifying whisper, my blood..."

"I've got more and more secrets!"

Su Yang gave a wry smile.

Closing his eyes, Su Yang stopped thinking about the matter. He was going to review every part of the battle he'd just fought!

He had to learn from his mistakes to improve! It was the same principle as studying!

For Su Yang, who had long held the top rank in his grade, summarizing and reviewing had become muscle memory.

In the distance, a person-sized opening quietly appeared in the constantly flickering Suffocation Screen.

A middle-aged man holding a disc walked in.

After he entered, a foreign woman with a shapely figure also stepped inside the Suffocation Screen.

These two were Zhao Shengshen and Lina, who had waited outside the Suffocation Screen for two hours!

Zhao Shengshen wore a smile and looked full of vigor.

As the director everyone considers the most dependable, I ought to descend from the heavens just when Su Yang is feeling desperate and distressed! I'll save Su Yang from fire and water...

I can't wait to see the look on Su Yang's face!

While Zhao Shengshen was lost in his fantasy, he felt a hand tugging repeatedly at his expensive suit, seemingly in a great hurry.

"Director, Director..."

Without thinking, Zhao Shengshen knew it was Lina.

Frowning, Zhao Shengshen turned to look behind him and saw Lina with her lips slightly parted and a look of surprise on her face.

"What's wrong, Lina? Why are you making that face?"

Lina covered her freshly painted lips with one hand and pointed at the open ground ahead with the other.

"Mr. Director, look ahead. Why is Su Yang the only one sitting there..."

"Su Yang's the only one sitting there? How is that possible? There were clearly three Mutation Monsters here."

Zhao Shengshen was quite surprised to hear this, and he hurriedly looked in the direction Lina was pointing.

Sure enough, across Zhao Shengshen's vast field of vision, Su Yang was the only person sitting cross-legged there.

Apart from him, there were only gravestones all over the place and pieces of flesh left on the ground.

Judging by the pockmarked ground and the lingering traces of Sequence Abilities in the air, a battle had undoubtedly taken place here not long ago!

But Su Yang really was the only one sitting cross-legged there.

"Where are those Mutation Monsters? Where did they go?!"

The smile vanished from Zhao Shengshen's face.

He and Lina exchanged a glance, and each saw the disbelief on the other's face.

A moment later, the two ran toward Su Yang.

Su Yang, sitting cross-legged in the distance, also noticed Zhao Shengshen and Lina.

He rose from the ground and walked toward Zhao Shengshen, holding his long black blade.

Once the three met, Su Yang was the first to flash a dashing smile.

"Mr. Director, I didn't let you down!"

Zhao Shengshen was frantic. "Never mind that. Where are the three monsters? Where did they go?"

Su Yang shrugged and said lightly, "I killed them! But it was thanks to Sister Lina's Sequence Ability. Otherwise, I'd have been in danger today."

"Killed them? You really killed those three Mutation Monsters? How is that possible?!"

"Su Yang, I'm not joking! As the person in charge of the Soul-Reaping Bureau's Nineteenth Jurisdiction, I'm asking you seriously: did you really kill those three monsters?"

Zhao Shengshen stepped forward, gripped Su Yang's shoulders with both hands, and stared fixedly at him.

Seeing Zhao Shengshen react so intensely, Su Yang deliberately feigned surprise and asked in return,

"Yes. Is there a problem? With Sister Lina's Sequence Ability boosting me, I was practically undying and indestructible. How could I not kill those three monsters?"

Undying and indestructible? You're not the one who's supposed to be undying and indestructible! Do you even understand the situation?!

The casual tone in Su Yang's voice nearly drove Zhao Shengshen mad!

Lina stepped forward from the side, her eyes grave as she looked at Su Yang.

"Little Brother Su Yang, perhaps you don't know what this means."

"If what you say is true, you'll become our sharpest blade against the Mutation Monsters, and the entire Soul-Reaping Bureau will spare no expense in nurturing you!"

Zhao Shengshen shook his head sharply and added to Lina's words,

"No! Not just the Soul-Reaping Bureau!"

"Even the Witch Coven, the Land of Peace, and the other organizations that worship the Seven Gods of the Human Race will become your strongest support!"

"But that's only if what you say is true! If you really do have the ability to eliminate those Mutation Monsters on your own!"

Zhao Shengshen's expression had turned fervent, and he looked at Su Yang as though he were gazing at a priceless treasure passed down through the ages.

His gaze made Su Yang feel a little unnerved.

He was immensely glad he hadn't acted like some naive fool and told Zhao Shengshen the truth outright.

If the Soul-Reaping Bureau learned the truth, he, Su Yang, would definitely become a blood pump! A blood pump supplying blood to the entire Soul-Reaping Bureau!

Perhaps every member of the Soul-Reaping Bureau would even be issued a vial of Su Yang's blood as standard equipment.

The thought filled Su Yang with dread!

He pulled free of Zhao Shengshen's grip on his shoulders, picked up a green-haired chunk of flesh from the ground, and slashed at it with his blade—before Zhao Shengshen and Lina entered the Suffocation Screen, Su Yang had already coated his Black Blade in his blood.

Su Yang knew he had no way to explain how he had eliminated those Mutation Monsters.

Rather than say he knew nothing, he might as well shift all the credit to the Black Blade that lived in symbiosis with him!

That way, Su Yang could also explain that the monsters had died because of his Sequence Ability!

When Su Yang's black blade touched the chunk of flesh, it sizzled and dissolved in an instant, right before Zhao Shengshen's and Lina's eyes.

"There, that's it. Wasn't it very simple? Mr. Director, what exactly are you two so surprised about?"