The Ignored Problem

Jiang Fei followed the trail of "Chen Yun" until he arrived here.

He could tell at a glance that this mother and daughter were suffering from eerie spiritual contamination... Fortunately, it was only contamination, not a direct spiritual attack.

Seemingly placing great trust in the reputation of the Martial Suppression Bureau, Han Cui's expression relaxed somewhat.

Then, as if remembering something, she said nervously, "Officer, can you save my son? He encountered... he encountered an anomaly outside Dafeng Mall."

Jiang Fei's movements stalled; he thought to himself that the boy had likely already been eaten.

He then completed his hand seals, and two orbs of energy detached from his fingers, sinking into the bodies of Han Cui and Chu Ying.

"I understand. Stay hidden." He thought for a moment, then unclasped a bronze medallion from his neck: "Keep this safe. This medallion has a built-in camouflage effect. As long as you don't run around, no one will find you."

Since he likely wouldn't survive this anyway, he might as well save whoever he could.

He was no match for the anomaly possessing Chen Yun, but he couldn't just stand by and do nothing.

Han Cui knew such a treasure must be precious and was about to refuse, but Jiang Fei shoved the medallion into her hand.

He then turned and vanished with a single leap.

Chu Yuan found himself becoming increasingly restless and irritable.

There seemed to be some kind of force field in the surroundings affecting his thoughts.

It hadn't been obvious at first, but after staying here for a while, he felt that something was increasingly wrong.

Fortunately, he could suppress those strange emotions by circulating the Evergreen Foundation Establishment Method.

However, he could not afford to keep wasting time here with this anomaly.

A young man's figure approached from the distance, drawing ever closer.

Chu Yuan reflexively slashed his blade toward him.

"..." Jiang Fei parried the strike with his sword, shouting urgently, "Chu Yuan! I am Jiang Fei from the Martial Suppression Bureau! I am not an illusion created by that thing!"

He was responsible for Chu Yuan's case, so he naturally recognized him and knew he possessed roughly the strength of the Internal Breath Realm.

But why was Chu Yuan here?

"...My apologies." Chu Yuan spoke, though he didn't find it strange that this stranger knew his name.

After all, he was from the Martial Suppression Bureau; perhaps they had already been investigating him in secret.

"It's fine... Where is she?"

Chu Yuan looked around, but found no trace of the woman.

He then turned around with practiced ease and slashed downward!

The air rippled, and a pale hand grabbed the blade, though it didn't fully catch it; trickles of black blood dripped down.

A painful whimper echoed once more.

The woman vanished again, and Chu Yuan looked at Jiang Fei with a complex expression.

Was this the caliber of a martial artist from the Martial Suppression Bureau?

He had such a good opportunity just now, yet he didn't follow up to finish her off! Instead, he just stood there like a statue watching a show?

He then saw Jiang Fei finally react, his eyes widening so much that even his injured, tightly shut left eye cracked open a sliver: "You can directly injure her!?"

Hearing this question, Chu Yuan knew where he stood.

He improvised, "I have mastered a special martial art that is highly effective against anomalies..."

Jiang Fei searched his mind for a long time, but couldn't recall any martial art that allowed a low-level martial artist to directly harm an anomaly in a possession state.

Once an anomaly possessed someone, the human body was merely a vessel.

What did minor damage to the vessel have to do with the anomaly hiding within?

"So... can you deal with it?" Chu Yuan asked, already knowing the answer.

"Why?"

"I need to go protect my family... You came from that direction, did you see a mother and daughter?" Chu Yuan's tone carried a hint of imperceptible apology.

It wasn't that a Martial Suppression Bureau officer was obligated to die, but he was truly worried about Han Cui and Chu Ying.

Jiang Fei immediately recalled them and asked uncertainly, "Was the girl only thirteen or fourteen? Wearing a Second Experimental Middle School uniform?"

"Yes! Where are they?"

"They are fine..." Jiang Fei shook his head, as if remembering something: "Go ahead. They are on this street, at the Integrity Store about six hundred meters away."

"Many thanks."

Chu Yuan turned and activated his Smoke-Drifting Steps, sprinting away.

The anomaly launched another attack on him, strands of black hair appearing out of thin air and shooting toward his vital points!

But this time, Jiang Fei didn't stand there in a daze. Before Chu Yuan could even react, a gust of sword wind brushed past him, shredding the black strands to pieces!

Chu Yuan glanced back at him, his figure vanishing.

Jiang Fei watched the apparition appear before him, a trace of deep sorrow in his eyes.

He muttered, "Xiao Yun, you're going to go bald..."

His only response was a hand with pitch-black fingernails thrusting toward his chest...

"Brother! We're over here!"

Inside the shop, Chu Yuan asked in surprise, "How did I not notice you all just now?"

"It's this thing." Han Cui showed him a bronze medallion. "A martial artist from the Martial Suppression Bureau passed by earlier and gave this to us, saying it has a camouflage effect."

"And there's more! I was so cold earlier, but that big brother shot a ball of light into my body and I stopped feeling cold..."

"It's true, Yingying was crying the whole time..." Han Cui handed the medallion over and asked, "Yuan-yuan, were you saved by him too?"

"You could say that..."

Chu Yuan had not expected Jiang Fei to have done so much. What Yingying described... they had likely already been affected by the apparition, yet he hadn't even noticed!

If Jiang Fei hadn't happened to pass by...

Yet, he hadn't mentioned any of it just now, nor had he asked Chu Yuan to stay behind and help him deal with that apparition because of what he had done...

As he took the medallion into his hand, the system immediately displayed a prompt:

...Small Light-Mimicry Array;

Can be converted: Invisibility Array.

Daily conversion limit: 1.

The name was quite direct, making its purpose clear at a glance.

The effect of an Invisibility Array was indeed far stronger than a Light-Mimicry Array, but Chu Yuan had no intention of converting it.

After all, this belonged to someone else...

Wait!

Chu Yuan's heart skipped a beat as he suddenly realized a problem he had overlooked!

He had long suspected that the system might be able to convert arrays, and he had even thought about acquiring a set of Energy Gathering Arrays to convert into Spirit Gathering Arrays;

So, wasn't the Blood-Sucking Array also an array?

Why hadn't he thought of converting it from the start?

Chu Yuan pondered for a moment; perhaps it was because the system hadn't popped up a prompt when he came into contact with the Blood Veins.

That was why he had subconsciously assumed it couldn't be converted...

But those Blood Veins were not the array core at all!

It was also possible that the sheer scale of the Blood-Sucking Array had made him instinctively feel that this was not something he should be involved in at his current level.

However;

He was the weak one, not the system!

As long as he could get his hands on the array core... Chu Yuan looked up at the six pillars of light in the sky, a new plan forming in his mind.

But as for how to execute it, he needed to obtain more information first.

For instance, were these six pillars of light a single array, or six separate ones?

If they were six, would they form a massive array once they connected?

"Mom, keep the medallion safe and hide here a little longer."

"Brother, where are you going?"

"I'm going to save that man from the Martial Suppression Bureau!"

"Yuan-yuan... be careful!"