Embracing the Dan Grandmaster

Magic City Security Bureau.

Having just finished a video conference with headquarters, Deputy Director Lu Huai walked out of his office with a grave expression.

"To think that a powerhouse from the Fusang Kingdom, comparable to a Transformation-stage Grandmaster, has fled all the way from the North and may have already infiltrated the Magic City..."

Lu Huai felt immense pressure.

He was well aware of the destructive power a Transformation-stage Grandmaster could unleash within a city.

"Headquarters wants us to find this person and retrieve the Tianshan Snow Lotus that this Fusang individual stole..."

Lu Huai felt a headache coming on.

A Transformation-stage Grandmaster.

Hiding in a Magic City with tens of millions of people—how was he supposed to find them?

"At the very least, someone from headquarters will arrive within half a day..."

Lu Huai could only hope that the Fusang individual wouldn't go on a rampage in the Magic City; if they caused too much of a stir, his career as Deputy Director would likely be over.

Just as he passed the bureau's dispatch room, Lu Huai suddenly heard a telephone ringing.

"Why isn't Xiao Lin here?"

Lu Huai glanced into the dispatch room and saw it was empty, save for the phone ringing incessantly.

"He must have gone to the restroom."

Lu Huai walked into the room and picked up the receiver.

Although answering phones was not the responsibility of a Deputy Director, Lu Huai had a strong sense of duty. What if this emergency call involved a life? What if a delay of even a second led to a tragedy?

As soon as Lu Huai picked up the phone, he heard a voice on the other end ask, "Hello, is this the police?"

"It is. Please, go ahead."

Lu Huai spoke immediately.

He had originally assumed this was just a routine report—perhaps a petty thief or a stolen e-bike.

But when he heard the words "Fusang people" and "Tianshan Snow Lotus" mentioned over the line, Lu Huai's pupils constricted.

He immediately asked, "Are you saying that you are at Dingxing Coffee Shop and saw several Fusang people acting suspiciously, discussing how to transport a Snow Lotus obtained from the Tianshan Mountains in the North back to the Fusang Kingdom?"

"Yes, that is correct."

The voice on the other end of the line replied with certainty.

"This..."

Lu Huai was momentarily stunned. He had just been agonizing over how to track down the Fusang powerhouse who had stolen the Snow Lotus, and now someone was calling in with a lead?

Was this a case of being handed a pillow just as he was falling asleep?

"Are you certain they are Fusang people? And the Tianshan Snow Lotus?"

Lu Huai asked again to confirm.

If it were just a few Fusang people, it wouldn't mean much, as there were many of them in the Magic City.

But adding the Tianshan Snow Lotus to the mix? While he still couldn't be one hundred percent certain that these were the people he was looking for, he was at least seventy or eighty percent sure.

After receiving confirmation from the caller once more, Lu Huai's expression turned spirited. He said in a low voice, "The information you have provided is very important to us..."

After praising the caller and promising a reward in the near future, Lu Huai hung up the phone and immediately began mobilizing his personnel.

"If they really are the fugitive Fusang people, the bureau's current manpower will be far from enough."

Lu Huai did not underestimate them in the slightest. After all, they were dealing with a powerhouse comparable to a Transformation-stage Grandmaster. If the arresting force wasn't overwhelming, the cornered beast might fight back; even if they were eventually suppressed, the collateral damage would be catastrophic.

Furthermore, the caller had mentioned that they didn't see just one Fusang person, but several.

Could the others also be powerhouses on par with a Transformation-stage Grandmaster?

With that thought, Lu Huai made his decision.

Magic City, Central District.

It remained bustling and lively, with people coming and going.

After turning off the phone he had just used to make the report and tossing it by the side of the road, Su Yuan began walking toward the Jinshan Villa District.

As for why he hadn't returned the phone to the dark-skinned international friend he had borrowed it from? Su Yuan knew that in half a day, the police would track the phone's location.

They would find the device, trace the real-name registration of the SIM card inside, locate the international friend, bring him into the bureau for repeated questioning, and only then return the phone to him.

"It's over."

A smile appeared on Su Yuan's face.

Making this emergency call was the final link in the plan provided by Grey Mirror.

Looking at the plan as a whole, every link was interconnected; every action Su Yuan took, every word he spoke, and every shift in his tone and expression served to achieve a predetermined goal.

If even the slightest error had occurred in any of these links, it could have affected the entire plan or even led to his identity being exposed.

Take the final link of calling the police, for instance: why did Su Yuan choose this specific moment to make the call?

Was it because the four members of the Chizuru Family would be gathered together at this time?

That was only one of the reasons!

The other reason was that if the call had been made even a minute earlier or later, the person receiving it would not have been Deputy Chief Lu Huai, but the dispatch room staff member, Xiao Lin.

After hearing Su Yuan's report, Xiao Lin would not have taken it seriously and would have merely recorded it as a routine matter, only for Deputy Chief Lu Huai to hold a meeting twenty minutes later to inform everyone to pay attention to the news regarding the people from Fusang and the Snow Lotus.

Only then would Xiao Lin have realized the importance of the report and immediately notified Lu Huai.

Unfortunately, it would have been too late; twenty minutes would have passed, and the four members of the Chizuru Family would have already received their next instructions and dispersed, causing the difficulty of their capture to skyrocket.

Calling at the right time was crucial; it determined whether or not the report would be treated with immediate importance.

From here on out, there is nothing left for me to do.

Su Yuan thought casually to himself.

Through Grey Mirror, Su Yuan had long known that by making this call, he would draw the attention of the Xia Kingdom's authorities, who would dispatch a Baodan Grandmaster to suppress the four members of the Chizuru Family.

Dingxing Coffee Shop.

Chizuru Kami and the other three finally received the next set of instructions from their family.

"Disperse the four of you and return to the clan immediately."

Looking at the specific orders, Chizuru Kami and the others immediately understood the situation and planned to leave the coffee shop one after another to depart from Magic City separately.

Just then, Chizuru Kami's expression shifted slightly. He looked around, his face as solemn as still water.

He realized that, at some point, the large coffee shop had become empty, leaving only the four of them, with even the staff having vanished.

The other three also sensed that something was wrong. They exchanged glances, preparing to bolt in different directions instantly.

Whoosh! A wave of mental power, vast as the ocean, came rolling in. For a moment, the three Great Martial Artists—Chizuru Qi, Chizuru Takahashi, and the others—felt their thoughts slow down, as if a ten-thousand-ton mountain had been placed upon their shoulders.

"What is this?"

As an Onmyoji, Chizuru Kami possessed a powerful soul, so the mental suppression was not as pronounced for him. He turned his head with great difficulty and discovered that, at some point, an old man in shorts had appeared at the entrance of the coffee shop.

The old man looked completely ordinary, even wearing slippers, no different from any grandfather in the park, yet the mental power he was currently exuding was like a raging storm.

"A Baodan Grandmaster..."

Chizuru Kami's face turned ashen.