The Penitent's Treasure

Human Skin Paste—just the name sounds incredibly disgusting.

And the reality wasn't pleasant either. Tang Qi scooped up the oily paste and silently glanced at it. The special interface popped up.

[Mystical Item: Human Skin Paste.]

[Information Fragment 1: Norman always wanted to become a woman. He craved beautiful human skin. For this, he killed thirteen young girls. The Dugong Sea Demon used Supernatural Power to refine those thirteen young girls' skins into a box of paste.]

[Information Fragment 2: Applying it will create a control effect on creatures with weak willpower in the area filled with its scent.]

[Information Fragment 3: Diluting it with clean water into perfume can keep a woman's skin in optimal condition for thirty years.]

A box of oily paste emitting an exotic scent, yet it provided three information fragments.

This made Tang Qi raise an eyebrow. After reading, he fell silent.

It was a supernatural item, perhaps with some ethical issues. However, Tang Qi wasn't overly squeamish. He just thought about it for a moment but couldn't come up with many uses, so he temporarily put the paste away.

Stana watched Tang Qi do this, instinctively wanting to say something, but the scenes she had just experienced immediately replayed in her mind. The word "evidence" that was about to come out of her mouth was swallowed back.

At this moment, the Police Chief was still in shock from witnessing another world. Countless questions emerged, awaiting answers from the "insider" in front of her.

Tang Qi knew this, so he looked at the second piece of evidence.

It was a small cloth bag, miraculously unstained by blood amidst a pile of bloody flesh.

Opening it, inside were individual grains of sea salt, like diamonds.

Within his sight, the interface popped up.

[Mystical Item: Sea Demon's Tears.]

[Information Fragment 1: The Dugong Sea Demon imprisoned a hostile female sea demon, forcing her to cry every day until death. The blue sea salt possesses the power to break curses and purify evil. The red sea salt can allow a person to briefly unleash a sea demon's howl, causing the target to fall into confusion or death.]

[Information Fragment 2: Returning these to the sea demon race will earn their friendship.]

Tang Qi, who had been expressionless towards the Human Skin Paste, this time almost failed to hide the joy on his face.

Good stuff!

The thought instinctively arose in his mind.

After reading the two information fragments, Tang Qi held the cloth bag and gave it a slight shake. As expected, he saw a few bright blue sea salt grains on the surface scatter, revealing a total of two slightly larger red sea salt grains underneath.

Blue was for purifying evil, while red was for temporarily transforming into a sea demon.

Even though he was already considered someone in the Supernatural Realm, Tang Qi couldn't help but be surprised.

With the first experience, Tang Qi smoothly stuffed the entire bag of sea salt directly into his pocket.

Then, he reached out and grabbed the last item.

This time, his hand grasped a piece of soft fabric.

It felt similar to when he first obtained the parchment containing the Golden Furnace Meditation Method. Unfortunately, when Tang Qi opened it, what he saw was a treasure map.

It was a very simple map drawn on an unknown animal hide. Looking at the terrain, it seemed to encompass the entire Divine Eagle Federation, with many places marked with red pigment.

Unlike Tang Qi, Stana was clearly more excited when she saw it was a treasure map.

"A treasure map?"

"These places... they seem to be monasteries? Is it a distribution map of the Federation's monasteries?"

"Take a closer look."

Tang Qi suddenly handed the treasure map directly to Stana. The Police Chief instinctively took it and looked at it carefully. First, she frowned in thought, then her expression suddenly shifted, and she said hesitantly, "This is... the Path of Penitence?"

"At the beginning of the Divine Eagle Federation's establishment, twelve powerful individuals made great efforts. They were collectively known as the Twelve Saints."

"One of the saints, Martin Sims, was called The Penitent."

"As an ascetic, he set out from East Town in the Eastern Federation, killing demons and rebels along the way, enduring countless hardships, and traveled to Barlow City in the far north. Along the path, he established many monasteries and churches."

"The predecessor of St. Thorn High School, Thorns Church, was one of them."

As he spoke, Tang Qi pointed to a certain location on the map. Compared to other places marked with pigment, Thorn High School was indeed quite inconspicuous.

"So, it came here to search for the Penitent's Treasure? Perhaps the killing was a result of being unable to restrain its desires?"

Stana glanced at the large pile of flesh on the ground and asked.

"Not a treasure, but a legacy. Many rumors believe that Martin Sims left his ascetic experiences in a monastery along the Path of Penitence. Perhaps it came for those things."

After answering this question, Tang Qi directly skipped the topic, pointing to his house that looked like it had been ravaged by a hurricane, and asked, "Chief Inspector, will your police station compensate for these?"

Although she wasn't used to Tang Qi suddenly changing the subject, Stana, who had reacted, immediately said, "Yes, they will. After all, the killer tracked me here. I'll contact the police station right away to send people over, but they're probably coming soon anyway. The commotion just now was so big, the school must have called the police too."

"Oh, and you were the one who killed the culprit. After I report it, you'll also receive a generous reward."

"No, Chief Inspector Stana."

Just as Stana finished her last sentence, she saw Tang Qi looking at her very seriously, his tone incredibly sincere, saying word by word, "This culprit, you were the one who killed it."

Taking credit?

Those two words would absolutely never exist in Stana's police career.

But this time, looking at Tang Qi's eyes that seemed to glow, she couldn't bring herself to refuse.

Especially the next moment, when Tang Qi added, "I'm just a student, I need to protect myself," as his reason, Stana could only break her principles for the first time. She nodded hesitantly, accepting this huge credit.

However, constantly taking a loss wasn't Stana's style.

The beautiful police chief seemed to have thought of something. She scanned the ground, the scenes from before replaying in her mind, and even further back, the officers who had died in front of her, their heads exploded by the Sea Demon's howl. The experiences of just one day had directly shattered her previous worldview.

Even the most obtuse person would realize they had come into contact with another level of the world.

Besides, Stana was known as the rising star of the Messer City police force.

She was decisive and certainly not lacking in resolve.

"Young... Wizard, don't you think you should explain some things to me?"

Saying this, Stana handed the third piece of evidence in her hand towards Tang Qi.

But this time, Tang Qi waved his hand and refused, "This thing is useless to me. It's just a map of the Path of Penitence. You can find it in any library in the Federation. You can take it back to the police station as evidence."

"As for the explanation you want, I can only tell you, cruelly but also kindly."

"Chief Inspector Stana, you don't belong in that world. Perhaps you have great deterrence among ordinary people, but once you step into that world, you will... die. This case is over. Forget about those things that defy science. Just treat it as an accident."

Being flatly rejected by Tang Qi, Chief Inspector Stana was obviously not happy. If she hadn't been wary of the Supernatural Power on Tang Qi, facing such an uncooperative teenager, she would have already flicked his forehead. Besides being a rising star in the police force, she also had the nickname Violent Beauty.

Even so, she didn't give up. Pointing at the disgusting Sea Demon's flesh on the ground, she put on a look of collapse and slightly roared, "Look at these chunks of meat, how am I supposed to... Hmm?"

Mid-roar, Stana suddenly saw that the chunks of meat, clearly belonging to a monster, were slowly turning into dust. In the end, only the body of the sexual deviant serial killer, a high school student from the Anglo States named Norman, was left on the ground.

If the experiences of that day hadn't been so real, especially the recent battle and the house that hadn't been repaired along with everything else, Stana would have thought everything before was an illusion.

The words that were on the tip of her tongue had to be swallowed back.

At this moment, the wailing sirens of approaching police cars could already be heard.

When Stana looked up again, she could only see Tang Qi's back as he walked towards the second floor. She really wanted to say something threatening, but Stana found that she couldn't threaten Tang Qi.

A wealthy teenager whose parents were deceased, who possessed Supernatural Power, and was hiding in an aristocratic high school – he was untouchable.

After thinking for a moment, Stana was even preparing to think of ways to go beyond the rules. After all, a Supernatural Realm had been revealed before her eyes, and she had experienced it but couldn't truly enter. The frustration and impulse had surpassed the feeling she had when she wanted to defeat countless muscular men to win first place at the police academy.

It was at this moment that she suddenly saw a few yellow bullet casings on the ground. Her eyes lit up instantly. She glanced triumphantly at Tang Qi's back, then turned and left, without any of the previous reluctance or entanglement.

However, just as she stepped out the door, Tang Qi's voice drifted into her ears.

"Madam, those bullets are called Furnace. Each one is the result of my hard work. It's best not to waste them until the very last moment."

"Tsk!"

Suddenly hearing this voice, Stana almost stumbled.

She turned around directly and glared fiercely at the figure by the second-floor window, then turned back and explained things to the police who had just arrived. She got into the second police car directly, and this time, she was truly gone.

However, as she left, Tang Qi, whose eyesight had improved, clearly saw a faint curve at the corner of the police chief's mouth.