Sun Family compound.
Everyone had gone a full day and night without closing their eyes.
They could not understand it. So much time had passed—why had the two still not returned?
Had they failed to find that brat?
"Nothing will happen. Nothing will..."
Sun Zhanting's eyes were bloodshot, and dark clouds hung heavily between his brows.
Just then, a shout rang out.
"Something happened! Uncle, something happened!"
The man ran up, his voice trembling.
"Uncle, something happened to Ling'er and Fifth Uncle..."
He then told them about finding the two bodies in the Earth Abyss.
At those words, the tightly drawn strings in everyone's hearts nearly snapped outright.
Veins bulged on Sun Zhanting's forehead as he glared savagely.
"Where are the bodies!?"
"They're outside, but... sigh, Uncle, you should go see for yourself..."
The others hurried outside as well.
When they saw the two corpses, several women fainted on the spot from fright.
One body had been cleaved in half down the middle.
The other's head had been crushed flat.
Moreover, both bodies were covered in bite marks from Demonic Beasts.
They had utterly lost all human semblance.
"Who did this!?"
Although Sun Zhanting already vaguely had an answer in his heart, he still found it hard to believe.
"It was probably Chu Sheng. Their bodies were found in the Phantom Wolf territory. Yesterday, Chu Sheng was the only one who went there."
Hearing that, Sun Zhanting instantly spat out a mouthful of old blood.
The others cursed furiously. "That beast..."
Although the Sun Family had wanted to kill Chu Sheng first,
they did not think there was anything wrong with that.
On the contrary, Chu Sheng had dared to kill members of the Sun Family. That was an unforgivable crime deserving death!
"Bring him to me! Bring that brat to me!!!"
His son had been crippled, while his daughter and younger brother had died miserably. Sun Zhanting instantly lost his mind.
The Sun Family members hurriedly tried to dissuade him.
"Zhanting, don't be too impulsive. This is the city. Even if we want to arrest someone, we can't make such a huge spectacle of it."
"That's right, Big Brother. There'll be plenty of chances for revenge. At the very least, we should wait until nighttime to grab him."
"That brat is definitely hiding in the school right now. We can't exactly storm the school..."
Hearing them, Sun Zhanting sobered up considerably.
The Sun Family did indeed hold considerable influence in Baian City.
But this was still the city. If they caused too much trouble, there would be no way to clean it up afterward.
After all, quite a few people had their eyes fixed on the Sun Family.
The Sun Family members then discussed the matter.
"Report it to the Wind Chasing Hall. Have them arrest him, then we'll pull some strings and get him transferred to us."
"No. Wu Qingshan has some connections in the city too. On top of that, that beast is at the Opening Meridian Fifth Layer and a promising candidate for a top academy. Without conclusive evidence, the Wind Chasing Hall won't arrest him."
"Then wait. Wait until that brat enters the Earth Abyss."
"He's not an idiot. He killed members of our Sun Family—would he still dare to enter the Earth Abyss?"
"Then what do we do? We can't drag this out. The National College Entrance Examination is coming up soon. If he gets into a top academy, we may not get another chance to make a move."
In the end, Sun Zhanting came up with an idea.
"We truly can't delay any longer. We can't arrest him, but someone else can!"
"Lingyue Academy!"
As a first-rate academy that had stood tall in Great Xia for centuries,
Lingyue Academy possessed an enormous amount of influence.
Arresting someone who had killed one of their students—and an orphan with no backing, at that—would be no more than lifting a finger.
In fact, even without Sun Zhanting's call,
Lingyue Academy had intended to send someone to Baian City to investigate the situation.
The life-saving measure in the waist token had been triggered, and they could not contact Sun Ling'er.
That undoubtedly indicated that this student had likely met with disaster.
Lingyue Academy.
"She's dead!? How could Ling'er have died!!!"
Upon learning of Sun Ling'er's death, the heart Wang Lian had been holding up finally died completely.
What she could not understand was how Sun Ling'er had merely taken leave to return home and visit her younger brother, only to lose her life in the process!
After hearing that Sun Ling'er had only wanted to seek justice for her younger brother, yet had been cruelly murdered,
Wang Lian was so furious that she overturned the desk before her.
"A poor backwater breeds cunning scoundrels. What a lawless beast!"
Sun Ling'er had been her most beloved student, and she had been on the verge of advancing to the third-stage Qi Sea Realm.
Naturally, Wang Lian could not let the matter go so easily.
Wang Lian knew that things certainly were not as simple as Sun Zhanting had claimed.
However, Sun Ling'er's death was a fact.
The course of events no longer mattered.
The murderer had to die. Not even Jesus could save him!
After she reported the matter, the academy also attached great importance to it.
The National College Entrance Examination recruitment period was about to begin. For something like this to happen now—was that not simply picking a fight with Lingyue Academy?
They had to punish the culprit severely and seek justice for their student.
Not only that, they also intended to publicize the matter, using it to prove how much they valued their students!
After Wang Lian met up with the investigators assigned by the academy, they immediately set out for Bai'an City.
When the Sun Family learned the news, they felt immensely gratified.
At the latest, Lingyue Academy's people would arrive that night. When that time came, it would be Chu Sheng's doomsday!
A genius!?
So what if he was a genius!
Wouldn't he still die all the same?
Meanwhile, at Bai'an Second High School, in the principal's office.
Great Xia had a total of five top academies. At this moment, special recruitment personnel from four had already arrived.
Only Longwu University remained. Because it was too far away, it was expected to arrive around noon.
Unlike when they had first arrived in high spirits,
their faces all carried traces of worry.
The reason was that the condition Chu Sheng had proposed was simply too bizarre.
Resources, cultivation techniques, even the most straightforward Federal Currency—he wanted none of it.
His exact words had been:
"I was born unable to tolerate even a grain of sand in my eyes. I enjoy hunting down criminals and eliminating evil, so—"
"I have only one condition: help me get into the Jingwu Bureau!"
The Wind Chasing Hall mostly handled cases involving ordinary people or low-level martial artists. There was no future in it, and it was not righteous enough.
The Jingwu Bureau was responsible for handling crimes committed by high-level martial artists, clearing Demonic Beasts that had broken out of the Earth Abyss, and dealing with the dependents of the Starry Sky Aliens.
However, its entry requirements were extremely strict.
One had to graduate from a first-rate academy, reach the Qi Sea Realm in cultivation, have a clean personal and family background, and possess five years of work experience in the Wind Chasing Hall.
For Chu Sheng to enter now was fundamentally impossible.
As for waiting five years, he did not have that kind of patience.
Even though the special recruitment personnel had anticipated countless possibilities, they had never expected Chu Sheng to raise such a condition.
Looking across all of Great Xia, they had never encountered anyone this bizarre.
They were academies, not the government!
Furthermore, the Jingwu Bureau's management was harsh and its rules were strict.
For them to interfere was harder than climbing to the heavens.
Forget stuffing someone into it—even getting someone out might not be possible.
Wang He, Jingwu University's representative, spoke up.
"Chu Sheng, you're only eighteen. What are you in such a hurry for?"
"How about this? We'll first arrange for you to hold a nominal position at the Wind Chasing Hall in Shangjing."
"Wouldn't it be better to enter the Jingwu Bureau five years later? That way, no one could say you entered through the back door."
Chu Sheng rolled his eyes.
"So what if I enter through the back door?"
He did not think there was anything bad about entering through the back door.
Those who said it was bad were simply people with no back door to go through.
Chu Sheng's tone greatly displeased Wang He.
He thought that he was, after all, from a top academy.
And no matter what, Chu Sheng was merely at the Opening Meridian Fifth Layer. Wang He had made an exception to come recruit him personally, so why should he let Chu Sheng hold him by the nose?
Four days, three consecutive breakthroughs—who knew whether there was something fishy about it?
There were so many geniuses. Jingwu University did not lack this one.
Wang He then rose directly to his feet, making as if to leave.
"Then I'm sorry."
"We have no way to meet that condition..."
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