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He closed in on the Three-Headed Hound with Flash Step and stabbed its paw twice with all his strength.

The Three-Headed Hound didn't fight back.

It had promised Jiang Chen three chances.

Besides, those tiny needles had only pricked it twice. It barely felt a thing, and they hadn't hurt it at all.

After being struck twice, it still felt perfectly fine.

It shifted one of its paws and asked, "Human, you have one chance left. Aren't you going to use it?"

"That was enough," Jiang Chen replied calmly.

"Then are you ready to make your final farewells to this world?"

The Three-Headed Hound stuck out its scarlet tongue and licked its paw as it asked.

"No. You're the one who'll be saying goodbye to this world forever!"

Hearing Jiang Chen say that, the Three-Headed Hound seemed to hear the funniest joke imaginable.

Its body hadn't suffered so much as a scratch. Now that it was in its complete form, its strength had risen by several levels.

What could a puny human like Jiang Chen possibly do to kill it?

"Ha ha!"

The Three-Headed Hound burst into loud laughter.

The sound was especially grating.

As if telling a joke, it said, "Do you know why I look down on humans?"

"Humans will sell everything for power, even their own souls."

"Yet they never see themselves clearly. They're human, and from the moment they're born, they're fated never to possess power like mine."

"Everything was already decided, yet they still delude themselves into thinking they can obtain power that doesn't belong to them."

"In the end, they meet the same fate as the Ghost-faced Man."

"They become my food."

Jiang Chen replied calmly, "It's true that we're human, and we have our own selfish desires. Some people even sell their conscience to get things that don't belong to them."

"But at least, that's not what I've seen."

"They start out weak, but they keep working hard to grow stronger. No matter how much sweat it takes, they never give up."

"I'm not talking about just a few people. I'm talking about so many of them."

"They may be weak, but they prove through their actions that they can do it too."

"Is that your final regret?"

The Three-Headed Hound stared at Jiang Chen and said, "Now that you've said your piece, you can die!"

It was just about to move when it realized it couldn't move at all.

Finally, it noticed something was wrong. At some point, black butterfly patterns had appeared all over its body.

The patterns seemed to carry some kind of poison, paralyzing its body.

How was this possible? Human poison shouldn't affect divine beasts.

Unless he wasn't using human power.

"Human, who are you, really?" The Three-Headed Hound sensed something was amiss and demanded, "How do you possess such power?"

"Who am I? Go ask King Yama in hell!"

As he spoke, Jiang Chen dismissed Suzumebachi and returned it to the system space.

He stared coldly at the Three-Headed Hellhound. Honestly, if it hadn't underestimated him, he wouldn't have succeeded so easily.

Suzumebachi's ability had successfully activated: two strikes to kill.

Naturally, divine beasts were far tougher than humans, so the poison needed time to spread.

Fortunately, everything had gone smoothly.

He had bought enough time for Suzumebachi's poison to spread through the Three-Headed Hound's body.

"I'm a divine beast! How could I die?"

Jiang Chen replied, "Every living thing has to face death. Even divine beasts are no exception."

By now, the Three-Headed Hound no longer had the strength to speak.

It felt its life ebbing away bit by bit, with no way to stop it.

At last, when Suzumebachi's poison covered its entire body,

it vanished completely.

The night was still dark, and everything around them was quiet.

The fat man looked around. The Three-Headed Hound was gone. Did that mean it was all over?

"Brother Chen, did we win?"

"Yes!"

Jiang Chen turned and smiled at the fat man. "We won!"

Just as Jiang Chen finished speaking, General Pagoda arrived with the Law Enforcement Team, long after the battle was over.

Seeing the desolate scene and the vanished Three-Headed Hound, with only wisps of flame left behind, he hurriedly asked, "Where's the beast that invaded the city? Why is it gone?"

"Brother Chen took care of it!"

The fat man replied irritably, "What took you so long? Aren't you the Law Enforcement Team? If something had happened to Brother Chen and me while you were taking your time, would you have taken responsibility?"

General Pagoda knew the fat man's background was no ordinary one.

He thought that if anything happened to this young master, it wouldn't just be him in trouble—the entire Law Enforcement Team would lose their heads. He hurriedly explained, "A powerful barrier kept us out. We couldn't get in."

"I don't have time to listen to your explanation. I need to take Brother Chen home first."

The fat man had been watching Jiang Chen closely. Noticing that he looked a little off, he quickly asked, "Brother Chen, what's wrong?"

"Nothing. I just overdid it."

Jiang Chen couldn't use any soul power at all now, and he had run out of Restoration Potions.

The world before his eyes was spinning. He could collapse at any moment.

"Brother Chen, I'll take you home!"

The fat man found a car and drove Jiang Chen straight home.

On the way, Jiang Chen fell asleep in the car.

Then he arrived in his inner world.

Sode no Shirayuki had clearly been crying. A faint tear stain still marked her face as she ran up to Jiang Chen. "Master, you're all right! Thank goodness!"

"With me here, what could possibly happen?"

A young man with his face covered appeared in front of Jiang Chen and greeted him. "Hello! I'm Suzumebachi."

Jiang Chen hadn't expected Suzumebachi to look like that. He'd thought it would be a bee.

Suzumebachi seemed to know what Jiang Chen was thinking and replied, "A Zanpakuto's form changes according to how compatible it is with its user."

"You're my user. You don't even know something that basic?"

He didn't. In the entire Soul Society, there were only a few Zanpakuto whose names he knew.

He didn't know much about Zanpakuto.

Seeing Jiang Chen's blank expression, Suzumebachi found it rather amusing.

He was about to say something else when Sode no Shirayuki pulled him away.

She stayed close to Jiang Chen and asked, "Master, do you feel unwell?"

"I just feel like I've used up a lot of soul power."

"Then rest your head on my lap for a while."

Jiang Chen really was tired, so he didn't refuse.

He rested his head on Sode no Shirayuki's lap and gazed up at the sky.

At some point, Suzumebachi had disappeared.

Beneath that sky, only Jiang Chen and Sode no Shirayuki remained.

Jiang Chen closed his eyes and rested.

Half asleep, he seemed to hear Sode no Shirayuki speaking to him.

She said, "Master, I'll sing you a song."

"Mm," Jiang Chen murmured sleepily.

So Sode no Shirayuki began to sing softly. Her voice was clear and sweet as a lark's.

It was beautiful.

As he listened to her song, for some reason, an image appeared in Jiang Chen's mind.

A woman with long hair trailing to the ground stood with her back to him and asked, "When will you come? I've been waiting for you."

"Who are you?"

Jiang Chen asked.

"My name is Su Daji!"

At that moment, without Jiang Chen noticing, the system's mission refreshed!

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