Secret Technique Book, Part Two!

At this critical moment, Jiang Xinglan's face remained cold and composed.

She opened her Technology Watch, projecting a 3D image. Several figures appeared onscreen.

"Director Jiang, the Laser Flyer is in position and ready to launch at any time."

"Director, what's happening over there?"

The voices of the Inspection Chief Office, the South City director, and several other senior officials came through. The background showed they were aboard the aircraft.

Through the projection on their Technology Watches, everyone saw the terrifying Blood God nearly crawling out of the mirror in the room. They drew in sharp breaths, realizing just how dire things had become!

"There's no time to explain."

Jiang Xinglan glanced at the blood shadow about to emerge. "Lock onto the basement coordinates immediately. Display position 304:150. Await my command, then fire the D4 Type Laser Light and kill the Blood God!"

"Understood, Director. The laser's too powerful. You should get out first—"

"Move!"

Without another word, Jiang Xinglan ordered them to retreat, and the three of them immediately rushed through the small door nearby.

"Fire! Now!"

Then Jiang Xinglan sent the command through her Technology Watch.

At the very moment he went out the door, Chen Xia saw a sight that would stay with him forever.

Blinding beams of light shot in from every direction, as if they had appeared out of thin air. Each one pierced the Blood God with pinpoint accuracy.

The creature let out a shriek that sounded nothing like a human voice. Its body twisted and melted like a wax figure under a spotlight. Black blood sprayed everywhere, but turned to wisps of smoke the instant it touched the light.

"Keep firing... don't stop!"

The three of them had rushed out of the room and into another passageway, but hadn't yet made it outside. At Jiang Xinglan's command, the beams continued to strike the same coordinates, firing again and again dozens of times before finally stopping.

When it was over, they returned to the secret chamber. As the last wisp of black smoke vanished, the basement fell silent. It was as if nothing had ever happened.

Was the Blood God dead? Chen Xia tried to make out what was inside. Jiang Xinglan took out a flashlight and illuminated the entire basement. A pool of blood on the floor was still smoking, and the mirror had been blasted to pieces.

The Blood God had been reduced to a wisp of blood mist. Its features twisted in what seemed like resentment, but before it could even get started, it had met its end. It dispersed just like that.

"We've driven the Blood God back!" Jiang Xinglan sighed in relief. "Good thing we got here in time. If we'd waited until it came out, things would have been dangerous."

"Director, if it had really come out, wouldn't all of Yijiang City have suffered?" Chen Xia asked.

Jiang Xinglan's expression was impassive. "If it had come out, the incident would have been upgraded, and the Demon Slaying Team from Chujiang Province would have come to kill it."

"An avatar of an Outer Domain Evil God like this is weaker than its true form, but still equivalent to a Sixth Rank Flying Martial Warrior. If it harmed humans, the consequences would be grave. Fortunately, it didn't emerge completely. Otherwise, it would have been much harder to hit."

Jiang Xinglan turned to Chen Xia. "You nipped the Blood God crisis in the bud this time, and earned yourself merit. You also found the missing girl and solved the case. You did very well!"

"The Blood God... it's really gone? You damnable people! My life's work... three whole years of experiments..."

Seeing the group still chatting, Edel glared at them from the corner, his body still smoking. He wasn't quite dead yet, and his eyes were full of murderous rage.

The Blood God hadn't fully manifested earlier, and the laser beams had struck it precisely. Protected by the Blood Demon, Edel had hidden and survived by sheer luck.

He'd thought that once the Blood God emerged, everything would be settled and he'd soon receive the Embrace. But his dream had been shattered by those laser beams.

All his plans had gone up in smoke. He was finished.

His face contorted with pain. He pulled three Blood Pills from his pocket and threw them at Jiang Xinglan and the others. After the explosion, he dragged his recovering body through the hole blasted by the laser and ran upward.

"After him!"

Jiang Xinglan furrowed her brows. She hadn't expected Edel to still be alive.

It was the power of the Blood Demon Illusion God!

Chen Xia narrowed his eyes slightly, thinking that the technique was truly powerful. Too bad he hadn't gotten his hands on it.

Chen Xia didn't chase after the fleeing Edel. Without the need to maintain the summoning technique, Edel was even stronger; Chen Xia wouldn't be of any use if he went after him.

"Better find the secret technique first." Chen Xia hadn't forgotten his goal. He'd already earned merit, and the mission was complete.

Seeing Jiang Xinglan and Lin Qinghan chase after Edel, Chen Xia first searched the bodies of the Night God Sect Members on the ground.

He found quite a bit of cash, as well as a Red Book hidden in the chest of the male Night God Sect Member from earlier.

The man's chest had been blasted open by electricity, and he was already dead. He hadn't lied: the first two mental secret techniques really were in the book.

Chen Xia didn't have time to examine it closely. He used his knife to cut open the lining inside his jacket, slipped the book in, zipped it up, and straightened his clothes.

"Finally got it!"

When he was done, Chen Xia took a deep breath. He hadn't come all this way for nothing. Getting the book was enough.

With that, he went out through the small door he'd used earlier.

He followed the passage all the way to the end, where he found a ladder. When he climbed up, he emerged in a patch of weeds two hundred meters from the house. There was a wooden cover there, which the people who had fled earlier had lifted.

In the end, everything that had happened had taken only half an hour.

After tidying himself up and making sure nothing seemed amiss, he returned to the house.

He found many members of the Patrol Inspection Office gathered there, with the people from the Gathering Justice Mercenary Group lying on the ground.

Before long, he saw Jiang Xinglan return from a distance, carrying the badly wounded Edel in one hand. She casually tossed him to the ground and had someone cuff him.

Also among those who returned were Liu Jun from South City, two branch directors, and a director.

Several experts from the Central District Chief Office arrived too, fully armed and clad in Mechas as they flew in.

Edel, who had used the Blood Demon Illusion God, was eventually surrounded and captured by the group.

Looking closely, Liu Jun from South City had a new wound on his arm. He'd been infected by the blood aura. He gave a bitter smile; Edel's blood aura had wounded him, and its corrosive properties had turned his entire arm black.

Fortunately, medical personnel at the scene injected him with Protein Active Factor, which managed to save his arm.

Of the two deputy directors from the South City Branch Office, one had suffered a minor abdominal injury but was otherwise fine. The other had been struck by Edel's Illusion Technique, suffering some mental damage. He lay on the ground foaming at the mouth while receiving treatment.

Several other mid-level officials had also been injured, including a deputy commander of the South City Branch Office, who was badly hurt. At least the incident was over.

The others looked at Chen Xia in different ways. They'd seen what happened in the projection earlier. Chen Xia had stood against an Evil God and survived. That alone was enough to earn their admiration.

But among the crowd, Deputy Director Qian from the Chief Office, a portly man, glanced at Chen Xia with an inscrutable look, seeming to find it a pity.

Lin Qinghan leaned close to Jiang Xinglan, who looked somewhat tired, and whispered, "Director, I saw blood mist on Chen Xia's fist earlier."

"Mm. We'll talk about it later." Jiang Xinglan nodded, her expression unreadable. She ordered the others to clean up the scene, send the kidnapped girls to the hospital, and call their families.

Jiang Xinglan oversaw all the arrangements, issuing one order after another. The Patrol Inspection Office members around her went about their assigned work: cleaning up, tidying the place, taking the criminals to the Criminal Prison, and handling the rest of the follow-up.

Throughout it all, Jiang Xinglan's expression was solemn and her voice authoritative. No one dared question her.

Afterward, Jiang Xinglan, tall and slender in her fitted black Combat Suit, walked up to Chen Xia and said in a tone that brooked no refusal, "Come to my office in two days."