Interrogation

"Bang, bang, bang, bang!"

Four deafening blasts rang out.

Chang Ping pulled out his gun and blew off all four of Black Fox's limbs.

The mighty Black Gold One-star Demon Spirit Master Black Fox hadn't even had a chance to summon his demon spirit before Chang Ping took him down.

"I've hunted eagles my whole life, only to have my eyes pecked out by a little sparrow today." Black Fox was seething with hatred.

Chang Ping slid the Space Ring off his finger, gave him a hard slap, then grabbed a handful of salt and sprinkled it into the wound at the top of his thigh.

"So you like to play, huh? Fine. I'll play with you all you want!" Chang Ping slipped the black Space Ring onto the ring finger of his left hand. Now he had one Space Ring on each hand. "This little sparrow of mine has plenty of strength and tricks up his sleeve."

The scum of the Dark Guild deserved to die, so Chang Ping didn't bother showing him any mercy. In no time, he had torn off Black Fox's black clothes and tossed them into the bonfire for fuel, leaving him with nothing but a black thong.

When he was done, Chang Ping pulled a burning stick from the fire, held it up, and walked toward Black Fox with a wicked grin.

"What are you going to do?" Black Fox clenched his buttocks in fear.

"Tell me! Are you a member of the Dark Guild?" Chang Ping was only guessing; he wasn't sure whether Black Fox belonged to the Dark Guild.

He waved the burning stick near Black Fox's thong.

"Yes, yes, yes! I'm in the Dark Guild. Get that thing away from me—this is dangerous!" Black Fox confessed.

After questioning him, Chang Ping learned that the androgynous man was called Black Fox, an elder of the Dark Guild. Vice President Ghost Fiend had sent him to capture Chang Ping.

They had two reasons for doing this: first, they wanted to recruit him; second, they wanted to learn how to make the Desert Eagle.

"What's the relationship between the Sacred Family and the Dark Guild?" Chang Ping continued the interrogation.

Black Fox froze at the question, then his eyes darted around before he said, "Obviously, we're enemies! It's kill or be killed!"

"Bullshit!" Chang Ping raised the Desert Eagle and fired straight at his thong. Black Fox shrieked in pain, rolling his eyes back.

If Black Fox hadn't had such strong willpower, he would have passed out.

"Don't think I don't know. The Sacred Family and the Dark Guild have been conspiring together for a long time! Shen Hong, the Family Head of the Sacred Family, is now your Vice President and the Dark Guild's fourth-in-command, outranked only by the Demon Lord, Dragon Fiend, and Ghost Fiend. Am I right or not?"

Black Fox looked as though he'd seen a ghost in broad daylight.

"How do you know that? Who are you?"

How could this little brat know so much? Was he a traitor who had once escaped from the guild?

"Want to know?" Chang Ping asked with a beaming smile.

Black Fox nodded.

"Not telling!" Chang Ping tossed the burning stick back into the bonfire.

He carried the three unfortunate men's bodies far away, then returned to the boulder and continued barbecuing.

He put the lamb chops on the grill to cook by themselves, then opened Black Fox's Space Ring to inspect his spoils.

"I can't believe I'm strong enough to defeat a Black Gold One-star Demon Spirit Master now. My chances of going down into the underground caverns tonight just got even better." Chang Ping was thrilled.

The ring's storage space was huge, several hundred cubic meters. As expected of a Black Gold Demon Spirit Master's gear—it was luxurious!

Chang Ping dumped out everything Black Fox had.

A mountain of all kinds of women's intimate apparel piled up.

"What a pervert!" Chang Ping was disgusted. He hurriedly prodded the clothes with the burning stick and tossed them all into the fire.

There were only a few things in the ring that Chang Ping could use.

A small golden bow and several bags of pointed arrows. Black Fox had used them to ambush him from a distance, but failed.

Watching his treasures burn one by one made Black Fox feel as if his heart were bleeding.

"If I'd known Chang Ping was so strong, I would've activated Demon Spirit Possession right away. Sigh, it's too late to say anything now."

Who could have imagined that a Silver-rank fighter would be capable of killing a Black Gold Demon Spirit Master?

After checking the spoils, Chang Ping put the little yellow bow and several bags of arrows into Shen Xiu's small Space Ring. Then he stood up and put the mountain of sheep horns, hides, and demon crystals into Black Fox's large Space Ring.

He'd sell them on the street after dinner.

Twenty thousand Demon Spirit Coins could buy so many delicious things!

"I'm done grilling. This is too much trouble!" Chang Ping, impatient with how slowly the meat cooked, picked up a leg of lamb and started gnawing on it raw.

He was now around Gold Two-star in cultivation, with nearly twenty thousand pounds of strength. Crushing a Horned Sheep's bones with his teeth was as easy as could be.

Watching Chang Ping devour raw lamb and gulp down its blood, looking even more like a demon beast than a demon beast, Black Fox couldn't help trembling. Was Chang Ping going to eat him, too?

An hour later, Chang Ping had devoured every Horned Sheep. Only the intestines and other innards remained.

"I'm finally full!" Chang Ping was so moved he could have cried.

It was his first proper meal since the system activated. Getting this full had been no easy feat!

After burying the bonfire with dirt and putting the grill into Shen Xiu's small Space Ring, Chang Ping grabbed the barely breathing Black Fox by the neck and hurried out of the Trial Ground.

As soon as he stepped outside the gate, a guard stopped him.

The guard pointed at the naked Black Fox and asked, "What happened here?"

"This man's an assassin from the Dark Guild. He killed three of our academy's students in the Trial Ground, and I caught him," Chang Ping explained truthfully. "I'm taking him to Vice Dean Ye Sheng now. Do you want to come with me?"

The guard was dumbfounded.

Why had an assassin from the Dark Guild gone into the Trial Ground? And why had he killed three students?

After such a serious incident, the Dean would surely hold him accountable for dereliction of duty!

"This is a serious matter. I'll go with you," the guard said, nodding.

Chang Ping handed Black Fox over to the guard and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

At last, he didn't have to touch that disgusting androgynous man anymore.

After handing Black Fox over to Ye Sheng, Chang Ping led them back to the Trial Ground to find the students' bodies. He was kept busy until the middle of the night before he could finally leave.

By then, all the shops on the street had long since closed, so he'd have to wait until tomorrow to sell the spoils in the ring.

"Shen Xiu's probably gone home already, right?" Chang Ping muttered as he returned to his dorm.

He froze as soon as he opened the door.

A candle was burning inside. Shen Xiu had waited for him and hadn't left.

She was now slumped over the rickety round table, snoring softly. She had clearly fallen asleep.

Chang Ping was a little surprised and a little touched.

"Hmph! It's fake! All of it!" He quickly shook his head. He would never forget the evil look Shen Xiu had worn while eating his heart.

Chang Ping lunged forward, grabbed Shen Xiu by her pigtail, and slapped her hard across the face twice.

"Wake up! Don't sleep!"

Shen Xiu was completely stunned.

What was going on?

Before she could figure it out, Chang Ping grabbed her by the neck and pinned her against the wall.

"Tell me! What's your relationship with Ghost Fiend of the Dark Guild?" Chang Ping glared at her with bloodshot eyes as he interrogated her. "You're not related, so why did he give you a cultivation technique? Did he take a fancy to you? Tell me! Did you sleep with him?"

He had already learned from Black Fox that Ghost Fiend had once given Shen Xiu a cultivation technique called the Bloodthirsty Demonic Art.

It was only after cultivating this evil art that Shen Xiu had started eating the hearts of young boys.