Yi Qingchuan moved at an unbelievable speed, rushing up in an instant. His hands whooshed through the air as he thrust them toward Lu Li's head.
At this critical moment, Xiao Cha still tried to come to his aid. But the enemy had her seeing stars; she couldn't make out a thing.
The average person's reaction time was about 300 milliseconds.
Xiao Cha had trained for years, but could only just manage 120 milliseconds. She couldn't catch Yi Qingchuan's movements at all!
But under the influence of Alpha Brainwave, Lu Li's reaction time had reached an astonishing 50 milliseconds!
And after entering Meditative Entry, everything in his field of vision slowed to 0.6 times its normal speed!
Thus, even the enemy's impossibly fast movements were captured in full!
In a flash, Lu Li raised the shotgun in front of himself to meet Yi Qingchuan's hands.
The steel barrel and body snapped like disposable chopsticks, buying him less than half a second.
Yi Qingchuan smiled, certain of his victory. His hands kept moving, ready to follow through and pluck Lu Li's head off!
But in the next instant, the expression on his face froze...
Lu Li's hand flashed to his waist and drew an M1911!
Under the influence of Alpha Brainwave, his movements were just as unbelievably fast!
With the dark muzzle pointed at him, Yi Qingchuan gritted his teeth and continued his attack, both hands thrusting straight toward Lu Li's head!
But Lu Li had already read his movements. He simply leaned back a little, letting the fierce strike skim past the tip of his nose.
His movement was perfectly timed, as though the two of them had rehearsed it.
Yi Qingchuan's face filled with disbelief!
Even a fellow practitioner at the Organ Refining stage might not have dodged that strike, yet a cripple had evaded it with ease!
Yi Qingchuan knew Spirit Refinement and Meditative Entry brought all manner of wonders, but he'd never experienced them himself. He'd never imagined they could be this powerful!
The tide had turned.
Without hesitation, Lu Li fired three shots in a row. Amid the roar, three .45-caliber bullets burrowed into the enemy's chest!
They were among the most powerful bullets used in handguns. Yi Qingchuan felt as though a sledgehammer had slammed into his chest.
At first, it didn't hurt, just felt a little numb. His brain had urgently blocked the pain signals from that area, letting his body focus on the crisis.
Yi Qingchuan pushed off the ground and shot backward, flying more than twenty meters in an instant. He was clearly trying to escape!
At that distance, Lu Li's old marksmanship wouldn't have been enough.
He raised his gun and fired. As expected, he missed.
Yi Qingchuan's face brightened. He ran a few more meters, and the distance between them neared thirty meters!
Hitting a moving target with a handgun from that range was something only expert marksmen in the military could manage.
But now, under the influence of Alpha Brainwave, Lu Li's mind and body moved as one. His Body Follows Will!
Using the first shot's point of impact as a guide, he precisely adjusted the force by fine-tuning his arm muscles. The gun roared again!
The bullet screamed out of the barrel and struck Yi Qingchuan's shoulder, making him stumble.
Lu Li did the same thing again. He fine-tuned his muscles and pulled the trigger!
This time, his aim was even more precise. The bullet struck Yi Qingchuan squarely in the back, erupting in a great cloud of blood!
Blood gushed out, staining Yi Qingchuan's green robe black.
He fell to the ground in a sorry heap. Driven by the will to survive, he struggled to crawl forward, mumbling, "Spare me. Spare me..."
By then, the outcome was clear.
Xiao Cha's heart finally settled, and she stared at Lu Li in astonishment—
Could he really have entered Meditative Entry!? How long ago had he even broken through Spirit Concentration?
The strange light in Lu Li's eyes had faded, and he looked utterly ordinary again.
He said to Xiao Cha, "Let me use the shotgun."
"Oh, sure." The young woman started forward to hand it to him.
But Lu Li's eyes suddenly lit up, shining with dazzling brilliance!
His brainwaves gathered into an invisible force and burst forth, wrenching the shotgun out of the young woman's hands and pulling it through the air!
Moving objects with Mind Power was the greatest sign of the Meditative Entry realm!
Lu Li raised a hand and caught the flying shotgun. Without hesitation, he turned and fired, blowing Yi Qingchuan's head apart!
All the enemies were dead, but Xiao Cha was still stunned. "You just broke through...and you can already move things with Mind Power?"
Lu Li looked at the Kunlun Mirror, which was swimming around cheerfully.
The reason he'd gained the ability to move objects with his mind as soon as he broke through was naturally the Kunlun Mirror, which had been continually expanding his Sea of Consciousness.
At that moment, Xiao Cha came back to her senses and asked curiously, "You said your belief was simple. So what is it?"
Standing amid the corpses, Lu Li gave a slight smile, his face spattered with blood, and said:
"My belief is to wipe out these things wearing human skin."
His voice was soft, yet it seemed to echo between heaven and earth.
Xiao Cha was slightly taken aback. The words sounded rather grand.
But after what she'd experienced today, she found herself thinking...maybe it really was possible!
With all the enemies dead, their next task was to find Tong Shao.
But Lu Li's expression turned grave.
He swept the area with his Heavenly Eye, but there wasn't a single human silhouette left anywhere in the manor!
Hoping against hope, Lu Li and Xiao Cha searched every room...but, just as expected, they found nothing.
Xiao Cha thought of the child's corpse wrapped in a straw mat by the entrance and felt despair wash over her. Could Tong Shao already have been killed!?
Lu Li had thought of that possibility too, and his heart felt heavy.
At that moment, they were standing in front of Yi Qingchuan's main room, one of the key places they'd searched.
Tong Shao was in the cellar right beneath their feet!
She'd also heard the shotgun blasts from above, but after that, there'd been no sound at all.
The little girl pulled out her own brass whistle, her face full of indecision... Should she blow it? What if the bad guys took it from her?
By then, Lu Li and Xiao Cha had reluctantly given up.
In an era like this, sudden, irrevocable goodbyes were simply the norm.
Heavy-hearted, they found kerosene and poured it throughout the manor.
Just as Xiao Cha struck a match...Lu Li's expression tightened, and his ears suddenly twitched!
"There's a whistle!"
He pinched out the match and entered Meditative Entry!
Besides the 0.6-times-speed Bullet Time, this state also sharpened his hearing and eyesight.
At that moment, Lu Li heard the whistle clearly. It was coming from beneath their feet!
"Tong Shao's underground! There's a space down there!"
The two rushed back into the main room and searched carefully, inch by inch, leaving no place unchecked.
At last, they discovered a mechanism on a beam more than three meters above the ground!
Xiao Cha climbed up and pressed it. A passage opened in the floor.
It was the cellar. Once they went down, they found Tong Shao!
"Xiao Cha-jie~ Waaah!"
The little girl threw herself into Xiao Cha's arms and wept her heart out.
Lu Li let out a long breath of relief, but couldn't help wondering—how had this place blocked his Heavenly Eye?
He walked around the cellar and pulled a brick from the wall to examine it, but his hands came away covered in "dust."
Behind the brick was a dark gray substance. Lu Li rubbed some between his fingers and immediately recognized it.
"Lead!"
The thing blocking his Heavenly Eye was something as ordinary as...lead!
"Could it be because lead absorbs radiation? Then the principle behind the Heavenly Eye...is it similar to X-rays?"
Lu Li had already guessed the answer.
Seeing him examine the material, Xiao Cha said:
"To block the Heavenly Eyes of Spirit Refinement experts, places like vaults and wealthy families' estates are usually built this way."
As she spoke, she thought of Lu Li's earlier actions and eyed him suspiciously.
"Hey, do you really have a Heavenly Eye? That's a Divine Ability of the Embryonic Breathing realm..."
Lu Li smiled and changed the subject. "Let's go see how much silver Yi Qingchuan had stashed away."
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