Luo Zhou let out a breath, locking onto The 13th of the Month Devil.
Nothing had been in vain.
He looked at Wang Xiaoya's Dead Spirit, saying:
"Don't worry, I will kill him. I will avenge you!"
"If I cannot kill him, I will enter the abyss of hell and never be reborn!"
The Dead Spirit showed no reaction. Luo Zhou left.
The next day, June 10th, twenty-three days left!
With a target, Luo Zhou had motivation.
Time was short, and there were four Woodworm Devils left!
Luo Zhou felt anxious.
However, Li Haitian was different from the other Woodworm Devils. Through the Dead Spirit, Luo Zhou could know everything about his opponents.
He knew nothing about Li Haitian's specific situation.
He would observe first, find an opportunity, and then strike with a killing blow.
The enemy is known, and I am hidden. No problem.
From this day on, Luo Zhou began to observe Li Haitian.
Find him, track him...
But, how easy was that!
Li Haitian, as a constable, was not like other constables who just muddled through and neglected their duties.
He was particularly fond of solving cases and spent his days running around the city.
Luo Zhou followed him stealthily but discovered that Li Haitian was extremely vigilant.
Just a glance from afar, and the other party would sense it, let alone trailing behind him.
Luo Zhou used his Keen Dharma Eye to observe from a distance, and Li Haitian immediately noticed, counter-tracking and investigating.
Fortunately, the distance was far, or Luo Zhou would have been cornered by Li Haitian.
This meant that even at close range, Luo Zhou's Keen Dharma Eye could not lock onto the target, and Dragon-Slaying Thrust could not be activated.
Killing Li Haitian would be too difficult.
June 11th, Zuo Sanguang had recovered and was full of energy again.
Luo Zhou hadn't been to school for a few days, so Zuo Sanguang came looking for him.
Every time Luo Zhou used him, he would shatter his spirit. There was an unspoken understanding between them.
Seeing Zuo Sanguang, Luo Zhou's eyes lit up, and he said, "Come, let's go play hero!"
"We haven't played in so many days. Let's go find that classmate?"
Luo Zhou chuckled and said, "This time it's not our classmate, it's some thugs!"
"Thugs?"
They were looking for Wang Qiang and Wang Gang, the brothers of the bald old man Wang.
These two were beaten up by Liu Jinpeng over their family inheritance, and the authorities didn't care. They were full of resentment.
Luo Zhou had found them a couple of days ago and hired them under the guise of needing laborers to move bricks for his shop. He gave them some trivial tasks to fool them, but paid them generously. Their good days had finally arrived.
Seeing their employer, the two bowed and scraped, overjoyed.
Luo Zhou smiled and said, "You've been doing a good job lately. Keep working hard for me these next few days.
Since you have nothing to do now, Uncles, accompany me for a game."
Wang Qiang and Wang Gang didn't understand what Luo Zhou wanted to do, but their employer had spoken, so they had to cooperate.
"Do you see this classmate of mine?
Pretend to be robbers, yell at him, threaten to kill him, and hit him a couple of times lightly!"
Although they didn't know what it meant, Wang Qiang and Wang Gang surrounded Zuo Sanguang, shouting:
"Kid, robbery! Your money or your life?"
"Hand over all your money!"
"No money? Hurry up and take off your pants!"
They pushed and shoved, cursing. Zuo Sanguang was used to this and immediately sent out a mental plea:
"Help! Two old geezers, thugs, are robbing me and telling me to take off my pants! Someone save me!"
Luo Zhou smiled, walked over, and kicked Wang Qiang and Wang Gang each once, then slapped each of them.
The two were dazed. Did he really have to hit them?
Luo Zhou gave each of them five taels of silver, and they were overjoyed again.
"Hit harder, that's fine too!"
Luo Zhou gave Zuo Sanguang ten Spirit Fragments, and Zuo Sanguang left with a smug grin.
The reason he brought Wang Qiang and Wang Gang was that the bald old Wang could bring the Vortex Guard. Although these two were cousins with Old Wang, they shared the same bloodline, so there should be some benefits, right?
As expected, at midnight, in a daze, he felt countless tidal waves, immense and crashing, destroying everything in their path!
"Water..."
"Wave, Vortex, Surge, Tide, Float, Flow, Gush, Tide..."
"Overturning Rivers and Seas, immense waves!"
"Reward good deeds!"
"Award ability Wave, award ability Gush Burst, forming one of the nine abilities of Spiritual Power's Overturning Rivers and Seas!"
Luo Zhou was overjoyed. Just as he had thought, the Wang Family brothers actually awarded two abilities.
Ability Wave: After using it, it felt like a water wave appeared under his feet, allowing Luo Zhou to increase his running and walking speed by going with the flow.
However, this ability was far inferior to Continuous Sprint and could only be used three times a day.
Ability Gush Burst: Similar to Berserk, it increased all of Luo Zhou's strength, reaction speed, and senses.
But it could only last for ten breaths before naturally dissipating. Moreover, due to water's formlessness, there were no fatigue backlash effects. It could also be used three times a day.
Combined with Float Dodge, which was transformed from the Water Avoidance Technique, and Flow Control, transformed from the Water Control Technique, he now had five of the nine abilities.
In a few more days, after Zuo Sanguang recovered, he would continue to extract abilities from the Wang Family brothers.
Luo Zhou had a feeling that this Spiritual Power could be extracted from them.
It was their family's bloodline Spiritual Power, so extracting it from them was only logical!
June 12th, twenty-one days left!
Cheng Wanli sent someone to invite him; there was work to be done.
Cheng Wanli had already gathered enough manpower and was preparing to go to war with the Sanjiang Gang.
He invited Luo Zhou to curse and kill Zhang Meng, one of the five leaders of the opposing faction.
Zhang Meng had reached the Great Perfection of Body Tempering and possessed the innate talent of "copper head, iron skin." He practiced the tough martial art of Golden Bell Shield and Iron Cloth Shirt, making him extremely difficult to break through. Therefore, he invited Luo Zhou to curse and kill him.
Luo Zhou agreed, but it had to be in a private, enclosed environment with no one else watching.
Cheng Wanli agreed and made the necessary arrangements.
Zhang Meng had a mistress he visited every three to five days, which presented an opportunity.
Cheng Yubo arrived that evening and led Luo Zhou to a secluded courtyard.
It was the residence of Zhang Meng's mistress. The guards, servants, and the lady of the house had all been dealt with.
Luo Zhou waited there. When Zhang Meng arrived, it would be a one-on-one situation, allowing for the curse to be cast.
Luo Zhou nodded and waited in the courtyard.
Zhang Meng had killed countless people and committed all sorts of evil deeds.
Luo Zhou had specifically searched the places where he had killed people, but there were no Dead Spirits.
Without Dead Spirits, he couldn't activate the Underworld Crossing Reward Method and couldn't get rewards from rewarding good and punishing evil.
Luo Zhou found it strange. It seemed his Underworld Crossing Reward Method only worked on those Woodworm Devils?
However, the Crocodile Dragon had Dead Spirits. Could it be that Zhang Meng hadn't reached the Qi Refining stage, which was why there were no Dead Spirits?
Or perhaps the Crocodile Dragon wasn't human, not a Woodworm Devil, and still had Dead Spirits?
But this time, he didn't think too much about it and waited silently.
At the second watch, footsteps could be heard outside the courtyard.
Zhang Meng had arrived, and he wasn't alone; he brought two guards.
However, upon reaching the outside of the courtyard, the old butler of his mistress's house led the guards away, and only Zhang Meng entered.
The old butler had likely been bribed or was a fake, showing no flaws.
Luo Zhou smiled, picked up an Eyebrow-Level Staff, and took out the Dragon-Slaying Thrust.
He waited silently!
Zhang Meng seemed to have just finished drinking heavily, staggering as he walked. He pushed open the door and entered the room.
He saw Luo Zhou at a glance and was stunned.
Without a word, golden light erupted from his body, activating his Golden Bell Shield and Iron Cloth Shirt, and he immediately lunged forward.
His combat experience was incredibly rich!
Even though he was staggering from drinking, it didn't affect his combat.
There was no need for any pleasantries; it was a fight to the death, a matter of life and death!
Luo Zhou remained motionless. When Zhang Meng entered within ten feet, he suddenly made his move.
The Dragon-Slaying Thrust shot out instantly, a brilliant melt, transforming into a strange primal energy that converged into a single point of spiritual light.
It struck Zhang Meng's right eye. The Golden Bell Shield and Iron Cloth Shirt were utterly useless!
It broke through the Horizontal Refinement, broke through the Golden Bell Shield, broke through the Iron Cloth Shirt, pierced the eye, and entered the brain. However, Zhang Meng's head did not explode.
He had Horizontal Refinement cultivation and powerful defenses.
But his brain was pulverized, and he fell to the ground with a plop, dead!
The person was dead, but his body was still twitching.
Luo Zhou let out a long breath of energy. He didn't step forward, waiting for a while until the other party completely stopped moving.
Only then did he go over. This time, he could search the body.
Luo Zhou carefully examined Zhang Meng's corpse. On him, he found a bag of shattered spirit stones and three bottles of pills.
There were as many as three thousand three hundred shattered spirit stones. The pills were Spirit Sun Pills, most suitable for cultivators in the Body Tempering stage.
One hundred shattered spirit stones would be strung together with fine thread, like a string of coins, to facilitate counting.
Now Luo Zhou's shattered spirit stones had recovered to twelve thousand.
Luo Zhou was very satisfied. He didn't need to break open the seven orifices and disguise it as a curse.
He directly used corpse-dissolving powder to melt Zhang Meng's body.
After dealing with everything, Luo Zhou walked out of the courtyard.
Cheng Yubo had been waiting outside. The guards Zhang Meng had brought earlier were all headless.
The deceitful steward had also been killed.
When Cheng Yubo saw Luo Zhou emerge, he gave him a thumbs-up.
Killing Zhang Meng removed a major enemy, giving Cheng Wanli more confidence.
Luo Zhou returned home. Midnight had passed, and naturally, there were no sin-punishing rewards. He sighed.
Only one Dragon-Slaying Thrust remained. He took out the Spirit Wood he had purchased last time, preparing to refine two more Dragon-Slaying Thrust.
This time, he used Water Flow energy.
The birch wood he bought was truly worth it. The refinement went without a hitch, and the power of the refined Dragon-Slaying Thrust increased.
After the refinement, the remaining spiritual energy was six strands of Geomagnetic Qi, two strands of Water Flow energy, three strands of Heavy Dust Qi, and one strand of Three Eyes Qi.
If the three Dragon-Slaying Thrust were used up, and no more spiritual energy came in, he would have to return to the old path of using shattered spirit stones.
The Dragon-Slaying Thrust refined with shattered spirit stones was very difficult to use and its power was weak. It was absolutely unacceptable.
The next time he hunted dragons, he would only act if there was a Crocodile Dragon with Dead Spirit!
On June 13th, the Dragon Fang Troop achieved a complete victory. Last night, they killed the five leaders of the Sanjiang Gang and annihilated the Sanjiang Gang.
However, Cheng Wanli renamed the Dragon Fang Troop to the Dragon Tooth Gang, completely taking over the territory of the Sanjiang Gang.
The dragon slayers, in the end, became evil dragons!
Luo Zhou had been mentally prepared for this long ago, and it had no effect on him.
Soon, June 15th arrived. In eighteen days, the Full Moon Devil would appear.
The Full Moon Devil was not human at all; it was truly a great demon. Luo Zhou had no certainty of killing it and would absolutely not act.
Despite such a terrifying Woodworm Devil, some people still didn't believe it.
On the night of the 15th, there were still pedestrians walking around. In the end, they were killed by the Full Moon Devil at the crossroads...
At the crime scene, Luo Zhou had a sudden realization and thought of a way to deal with Li Haitian.
Li Haitian was constantly vigilant and extremely cautious, leaving no room for opportunity.
However, there was one moment when he would relax.
That was at the crime scene!
Whenever there was a crime scene, he would focus on handling the case, studying the details, and at this moment, he would completely let down his guard.
The pedestrian death at the crossroads this time was handled by him, and it was at this moment that Luo Zhou discovered this flaw.
In fact, this flaw was quite dishonorable.
If Li Haitian were not the 13th of the Month Devil, he would be a good constable, diligently handling cases, apprehending criminals, and saving the common people.
A gentleman can be deceived by his straightforwardness.
But when he thought of Wang Xiaoya, and the two hundred and thirty-five people who had died at the hands of the 13th of the Month Devil, he had to kill him!
Luo Zhou began to scheme, studying it bit by bit. Gradually, a plan quietly took shape!
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