Joker

Joker

The one who had arrived was naturally Lu Su.

After leaving the cave, the lingering aura of the centipede inside had kept all other centipede demons away from the mountaintop.

Thus, Lu Su could only return to the mountainside to keep farming materials.

But the moment he returned to the mountainside, he saw a tree collapse in the distance from midair.

If Lu Su had been inside the Woods, he might not have noticed what was happening so far away.

By the time he rode Pidgeot to the scene, he saw Du Heng shove Jiang Nanxi out.

But this was no time for pointless talk.

The monster had already lunged at Jiang Nanxi, who had fallen to the ground.

"Yoriichi!" Lu Su's gaze sharpened as he summoned Tsugikuni Yoriichi.

"Clang clang clang clang!"

The Katana in Tsugikuni Yoriichi's hand rapidly deflected the monster's incoming Claws.

Only then did Lu Su have the chance to look at Du Heng.

"Du Heng, fine, you didn't save them. But you actually tried to make Jiang Nanxi take the hit for you?" Lu Su asked with a frown.

In his eyes, it would have been understandable even if Du Heng had run away on his own. But he should never have harmed a classmate.

Hearing Lu Su's words, Du Heng became somewhat hysterical. "It's their honor to die in place of a future Hall of Fame Card Master like me! Lu Su, stop meddling!"

Lu Su sighed. He ignored Du Heng, who had already gone mad, slowly descended beside Jiang Nanxi, and pulled her up. "Are you okay?"

Jiang Nanxi shook her head. Other than being shoved to the ground by Du Heng, she had not suffered any other injuries.

Thinking of Du Heng, Jiang Nanxi turned back and looked at him coldly. "I'll tell my father what happened here."

Lu Su said nothing upon hearing this. How Du Heng would be dealt with was Jiang Nanxi's business. Besides, if it had been up to him, Du Heng's outcome would probably be far worse.

Du Heng was instantly drenched in cold sweat at Jiang Nanxi's words. His legs went limp, and he dropped to his knees. "Jiang Nanxi, I was wrong. I'll kowtow to you. Please don't tell your father."

As he spoke, Du Heng began kowtowing on the ground.

Du Heng's family was merely an ordinary middle-class family, while Jiang Nanxi's father was a Gold Grade Card Master in the Association.

If Jiang Nanxi told her father what had happened here, Du Heng's fate would likely be grim.

After all, the Card Master Association explicitly prohibited registered Card Masters from killing one another.

Jiang Nanxi showed no reaction. She merely turned back to watch the battle.

At that moment, Tsugikuni Yoriichi and the monster were locked in a standoff. Neither dared to attack rashly.

But in the end, the mindless monster lost patience first and charged at Tsugikuni Yoriichi.

"So fast." Lu Su's expression was grave. This monster was the strongest one he had seen since coming to this world.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi barely dodged the monster's attack, but several bloody gashes were still torn across his forearm.

"Yoriichi, use the Markings." Lu Su frowned.

There was no time to drag this out any longer. Lin Yue's condition on the ground was clearly poor. The longer this went on, the more dangerous it became.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi took a deep breath. The reddish-brown Markings on his forehead seemed to spread further.

Feeling his Spiritual Power consumption suddenly surge, Lu Su's face went pale.

Fortunately, it was still within the limits he could endure.

The next moment, Tsugikuni Yoriichi vanished from where he stood. When he reappeared, he was already in front of the monster.

The monster clearly failed to react to Tsugikuni Yoriichi's sudden burst of speed.

The blade, carrying blazing firelight, flashed through the monster's body in an instant.

The monster froze in place, completely motionless.

"Slash!" The next moment, the monster split into several pieces.

The largest remaining upper half fell to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.

Jiang Nanxi stared at the scene in shock. Was this Lu Su's card's true strength?

Tsugikuni Yoriichi's sudden outburst made Jiang Nanxi realize that Lu Su had not used his Full Strength at all during the earlier ranking test.

Meanwhile, Du Heng's heart was filled with jealousy and resentment. Why? Him again? It's always him!

Du Heng found it hard to accept. Lu Su's current display proved that he had not used his Full Strength when fighting him a few days ago, making all of Du Heng's Harsh Words seem like those of a joker.

Though in Lu Su's eyes, Du Heng had looked like a joker from the start.

Ignoring what the two were thinking, Lu Su frowned and walked to Tsugikuni Yoriichi's side. The flesh entwined around the monster's body was slowly dissipating.

The flesh covering its face gradually receded as well, revealing a familiar face beneath.

The instant Lu Su saw what lay beneath the flesh, his pupils contracted sharply.

It was Old Wang, the man the elite class students had seen when they entered the secret realm.

Silently shifting his body to block the view of the two behind him, Lu Su asked softly, "How did you become like this?"

At the final moment of his life, Old Wang seemed to regain a little clarity.

He kept coughing up blood as he spoke in broken fragments. "I... I don't want... don't want to die."

"My... my mother is still waiting for me at the hospital..."

Tears continuously rolled down Old Wang's ruined face. "Save me..."

"I... I'm sorry, Captain..."

"Spirit..."

Before he could finish, Old Wang gradually dissipated into the air, just like a card dying.

All that remained was a card flickering with a scarlet glow.

Seeing Old Wang's reaction, Lu Su could not help frowning. "Spirit?"

"The Spirit Summoning Society?"

Silently committing the information to memory, Lu Su bent down and picked up the card from the ground.

Black Iron Grade Flesh Demon (Gold).

Lu Su was startled when he saw the material in his hand.

He had thought Old Wang had left behind his card, but he had not expected it to be something like the materials condensed after demons died.

And it was actually gold. Lu Su had never seen a gold material before. Even on trading websites, Black Iron Grade gold materials were rare.

Just as Lu Su was pondering Old Wang's words, Jiang Nanxi walked over. "What's wrong? What did that demon say just now?"

Thanks to her father, Jiang Nanxi knew that some demons in secret realms possessed great intelligence, and some could even speak human language.

She had also taken Old Wang for one of those highly intelligent demons.

Lu Su fell silent for a moment, then ultimately decided not to tell Jiang Nanxi what he had discovered. "Nothing. It just told me to kill it quickly."

Then Lu Su changed the subject. "There should be a monitoring station in this kind of secret realm, right? I'll go check the situation there first, then head out to call for help."

"Oh, and Yoriichi will stay here to guard you for now."

Jiang Nanxi nodded. She thought Lu Su was worried about centipede demons.

But she did not know that while Lu Su was indeed concerned about the centipede demons, he was also wary of Du Heng, who had looked utterly lost ever since Jiang Nanxi said she would tell her father what had happened here.

Lu Su would naturally not underestimate the Human Heart. With a lunatic like this, who knew whether he would lose his mind and do something after Lu Su left?

Summoning Pidgeot, Lu Su hurried toward the foot of the mountain.

Upon reaching the monitoring station, Lu Su finally understood why Old Wang had said he was sorry to Captain.

Before his eyes was a headless corpse with a massive hole blasted through its chest.

Without time to think further, Lu Su immediately left the secret realm.