Feng Shui Has Problems

"Directly altering the local climate?"

Gu Yuan's eyes widened, a sudden chill creeping down his spine.

If that janitor was truly a sorcerer of at least the Pill Master Realm, had he lingered even a second longer staring at him back at school, he would likely be lying flat in the morgue by now.

In the footage, the burly man clenched his right fist, and the dark golden Qi armor covering his body receded like a receding tide, all of his Qi surging frantically toward his right fist.

When Qi forms armor, defense is multiplied.

When Qi forms blades, it cuts through iron like mud.

The dark golden Qi on the man's arm suddenly condensed violently toward his knuckles, his right fist glowing as if cast in gold.

Then, he struck the ice spreading toward him.

"BOOM--!"

The ice encasing his legs was shattered into a sky full of debris, and the golden fist-Qi, its momentum undiminished, tore across dozens of meters and slammed into the ground.

The factory floor was first blasted into a crater ten meters in diameter, followed by the fist-Qi exploding and releasing a ring-shaped shockwave.

The surrounding abandoned equipment was swept up by the shockwave, shattering and flying into the air.

Iron frames twisted, brick walls collapsed, and dust billowed into the sky.

The moment his frozen legs regained their freedom, the man used the water tower's support pillars to launch himself.

The steel frame beneath his feet twisted and deformed under his force, and he shot upward again, his figure transforming into a dark golden arrow, piercing straight toward the sorcerer atop the water tower.

Is this the limit of explosive power for a Qi Transformation Realm martial artist? Gu Yuan couldn't even track the movement, let alone dodge it.

But the Pill Master Realm sorcerer's reaction speed was even faster.

The gray-robed sorcerer quickly formed a seal with his right hand, and the light from the divine pill at the center of his brow surged instantly.

A sky full of flames poured out from before him.

The fire cascaded down from the top of the water tower like a waterfall; the iron frame softened into molten metal within the flames, dripping onto the ice below.

The entire abandoned factory was half frozen, half sea of fire.

Ice and fire collided violently at the boundary line, sending steam billowing into the sky.

The person filming was clearly terrified, the camera shaking violently.

However, these violent attacks clearly could not stop the burly man's advance.

The dark golden Qi tore a path through the sea of fire, and that figure, braving temperatures of several thousand degrees, forced his way upward.

The distance between the two sides closed rapidly.

Ten meters.

Five meters.

Three meters.

The sorcerer's expression finally shifted; he frowned slightly, stopped forming seals with his right hand, and pushed it forward horizontally.

The martial artist in mid-air suddenly stiffened.

It was as if a giant, invisible hand had clamped tightly around his throat, the muscles on his face twisting instantly.

His entire body halted in mid-air, the momentum of his charge completely erased, and then, like a puppet with its strings cut, he plummeted straight down.

"A mental attack?"

Gu Yuan swallowed hard.

The sorcerer looked down at the falling martial artist, his right hand beginning to form seals again, blinding lightning igniting at his fingertips.

Just then.

A sudden change occurred!

The martial artist, who had been falling rapidly, suddenly snapped his eyes open.

In the final moment of his descent, the burly man brought his right fingers together and whipped his hand upward.

A streak of dark golden Qi, condensed to the absolute limit, erupted from his palm.

The Qi left his body, transforming into a massive fist-projection that tore through the air across several yards, striking directly at the sorcerer's face!

And then--

The screen went black.

The video ended abruptly.

A cold notification box popped up in the center of the screen: "This video has been flagged for violations and has been ordered for deletion. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation."

Gu Yuan froze.

He stared at the notification box, stunned for a full three seconds.

"What the hell! You show me this after I've already taken my pants off?"

Gu Yuan was so angry he nearly smashed his phone; this feeling of being left hanging was even worse than being killed.

He lay on the bed.

What rotten luck, having everything pile up all at once!

He hoped the missing persons cases would end quickly and that no more moths would fly into the flame.

School competitions, school disappearances—it was just one thing after another.

The feng shui at First High School was definitely problematic.

"I am absolutely not going back to that school; not even if the Heavenly King himself comes down, I won't go."

He needed to go buy a protective talisman tomorrow.

No, he would buy ten and hang them all around his neck.

Deep beneath Sea City, in the depths of an abandoned air-raid shelter.

Sunlight never reached this place, and the air was thick with the heavy stench of mold and fermenting sewage.

A dim, yellow lightbulb hung from the concrete ceiling.

A few rats scurried through the gutter in the corner, kicking up splashes of water.

A dilapidated folding table sat in the center of the open space.

Three men dressed in wide black robes stood around the table.

"Smack!"

A loud slap exploded through the empty underground passage.

The echo reverberated between the concrete walls, startling the rats in the gutter into instant silence.

The black-robed man standing on the far right had his head whipped to the side, his body staggering back two steps.

His hood slipped, revealing the plain, unremarkable face of a middle-aged man.

It was the very same janitor who had been pushing a cleaning cart at First High School during the day.

The black-robed man in the center retracted his right hand; it was covered in long, black hair, clearly not the arm of a normal human.

"Yu Xiaozheng! I told you to fix your bad habits! You caused trouble the moment you arrived!"

The man in the center's chest heaved violently as he pointed at Yu Xiaozheng's nose and cursed.

"We came to Sea City with a mission! The higher-ups gave a death order—there cannot be a single slip-up!"

He suddenly raised his foot and kicked the folding table over.

The metal table slammed against the concrete floor.

Several maps of Sea City and a few formation stones carved with intricate patterns scattered across the ground.

"Look at this now! We just arrived in Sea City!"

"The people from the Destiny Bureau headquarters have already intervened!"

"All seven teleportation arrays we set up around Sea City have been disabled!"

The man in the center pointed at the formation stones on the ground.

"Our retreat is completely cut off! This is all your damn fault!"

Yu Xiaozheng straightened his body and raised a hand to cover his swollen left cheek.

"Big Brother, I didn't expect this either!"

He took a step forward, speaking urgently.

"I also don't know how the disappearance of an ordinary high school student could alert the Destiny Bureau to come and investigate the scene directly!"

"Not to mention how they guessed that a Dan-Master Realm warlock was involved!"

The man in the center stepped over the overturned table and grabbed Yu Xiaozheng by the collar.

"If you hadn't been so redundant at the crime scene and erased all traces of energy, they never would have noticed anything unusual!"

Yu Xiaozheng was lifted until his toes left the ground.

"Big Brother, if I hadn't erased them, what would I have done if they tracked us down by our aura?"

"If you hadn't been unable to kick your bad habits, and if this person hadn't gone missing, the Destiny Bureau wouldn't have come to investigate in the first place!" the man in the center roared at him as he tried to explain.

Yu Xiaozheng argued loudly, spittle flying from his mouth.

"Big Brother, I never imagined that in a third-tier city like Sea City, the Destiny Bureau branch would actually have someone capable of probing and guessing my realm!"

"And she's only a Second-Order warlock—I really couldn't have imagined it!"