A Fleeting Encounter, Blood on the Blade's Edge
"Get out of the way!"
The middle-aged man wearing a baseball cap let out a hysterical roar, and his blood energy at the Early Blood Transformation Realm exploded, smashing a bloody path through the dense crowd like a heavy bulldozer.
"Ah!"
Exclamations and screams erupted, and the once silent domed hall instantly descended into chaos.
"Take it down."
The Qi Gathering Realm Night Watchers in the center sharpened his eyes, completely ignoring the E-grade Tang sword in Dongfang Yueming's hand. He blurred into a black lightning bolt and chased after the fleeing middle-aged man.
The other two Night Watchers immediately spread out, forming a flanking maneuver.
"Go! Go quickly!"
Seeing this, Instructor Wang didn't dare linger for even half a second. He quickly called to the students of Jinling Martial University, and taking advantage of the chaos in the hall, they squeezed out of the exit.
A howling, cold wind blew in their faces. Dongfang Yueming mingled at the back of the group, his expression still calm, but the hand hidden in his hoodie pocket had already quietly loosened the [Purple Extreme Heavenly Might Dragon King Seal] that he had been holding between his fingers.
"I completely shattered the Judge's phone into ice shards long ago; they couldn't possibly track me down through location or signal strength."
As Dongfang Yueming walked, he quickly reviewed the details of what had just happened in his mind.
"That Night Watchers, in the vast sea of people, only glanced at this E-grade Tang sword in my hand."
He glanced down at the cheap weapon he had bought for ten thousand yuan on the black market in Jinling.
"The knife is faulty? Impossible. You can find these kinds of mass-produced Demon Capital all over Shanghai."
"The only explanation..."
A glint of light flashed in Dongfang Yueming's eyes.
"It's this knife that still retains the blood essence of Variants!"
This sword once killed Xiahou Jing!
"It seems that the Great Xia Night Watchers are indeed quite capable of becoming a sharp weapon to suppress the world. Even a trace of extremely faint Variants aura is enough to alert them."
"Phew... that scared me to death, Demon Capital is too terrifying."
Stepping out of the huge plaza of the high-speed rail station, Lin Feng patted his chest, panting heavily, completely devoid of the imperious manner he had displayed in the train carriage.
The three senior students were still shaken, their backs soaked with cold sweat. The pressure from the Qi Gathering Realm was like a dimensional attack to them, who were at the Blood Refining Realm.
"Alright, everyone, pull yourselves together! Don't embarrass Jinling Martial University by acting like you've never seen anything like this before!" Instructor Wang scolded in a low voice, leading the group toward the designated shuttle bus station.
Just as the group was crossing a relatively secluded tree-lined path on the outskirts of the square...
A woman walked towards us.
She was an extremely eye-catching woman.
She wore a dark purple turtleneck trench coat, cinched at the waist with a thin black leather belt that perfectly accentuated her tall and curvaceous figure. Her long, flowing black hair cascaded casually over her shoulders, and she wore large sunglasses that obscured most of her face.
Even so, her exposed, alabaster-like skin and fiery red lips still exuded a deadly charm that was extremely mature and even carried a hint of dangerous allure.
"Gulp."
Lin Feng and the others walking ahead couldn't help but swallow hard, their eyes almost unable to leave the woman.
Even Instructor Wang couldn't help but take a second look.
The woman seemed quite used to such stares. She walked lightly and gracefully in her high heels, as if strolling a runway, brushing past the group of students from Jinling Martial University.
Just as she passed Dongfang Yueming, who was walking at the back of the group, the moment...
The woman's gaze, hidden behind sunglasses, shifted slightly, seemingly casually sweeping across Dongfang Yueming's face, which was covered by a mask.
One glance.
The pause lasted less than 0.1 seconds.
Dongfang Yueming did not turn around, and his pace remained unchanged, as if he was completely unaware of the woman's gaze.
But, in that fleeting moment when they passed each other!
The originally calm and Qi Gathering Perfection energy within Dongfang Yueming's body actually produced a very faint... tremor!
That's the instinctive reaction of top-tier experts when facing threats of equal or even higher cultivation levels!
"This woman..."
Dongfang Yueming's eyes, hidden in the shadows, narrowed slightly.
"Not simple."
And so, like two parallel lines that never intersect, the two crossed paths on the bustling streets of Demon Capital, each heading in a different direction.
at the same time.
Inside the domed atrium of Demon Capital's high-speed rail station.
"Bang!"
The escaped man wearing a baseball cap was slammed heavily onto an interrogation chair in a makeshift isolation room by the Night Watchers, who handled him like a chick.
The man's nose was broken, his face was covered in blood, and his whole body was trembling violently like a sieve.
"Tell me! Why did you run?!"
The Qi Gathering Realm Night Watchers captured him stepped on his chest.
"I... I confess! I confess everything! Sir, please spare my life!"
The man's mental defenses completely collapsed, and he burst into tears.
"I shouldn't have smuggled goods... I have elderly parents and young children to support; I was just momentarily blinded by greed and wanted to make a little extra money..."
As he spoke, the man's hands trembled as he pulled out more than a dozen extremely well-concealed miniature vacuum tubes from the soles of his specially modified shoes.
The vacuum tube contained a liquid that emitted a pungent, fluorescent green odor.
"This is... the latest type of second-tier berserk potion?"
The Night Watchers frowned, picked up a vacuum tube, and glanced at it. Although this potion was a strictly prohibited item on the market, capable of granting a person superhuman strength for a short period, it had severe side effects. If caught, the minimum sentence would be three years.
No wonder that kid ran away in terror when he saw the Night Watchers checking.
"Sir, I really only smuggled some medicine, I didn't kill anyone or commit arson..." the man cried out.
The surveillance cameras inside the isolation room transmitted this scene to headquarters in real time.
The Great Xia Night Watchers headquarters, inside a secret meeting room.
Star-level Night Watchers "Demon Blade" stared at the smuggler on the screen, who was weeping bitterly. His face was so dark it was almost dripping with water.
"Idiot."
Demon Blade pressed down on his headset, his tone revealing extreme impatience.
"Did we go to such lengths to blockade the high-speed rail station just to catch a scoundrel smuggling illegal drugs?!"
"Release this idiot immediately! Everyone, get back to your seats and continue the search! Don't let any suspicious living creature escape!"
"Yes!"
Upon receiving orders, the Night Watchers in the isolation room kicked the man away with disgust, then quickly left the room to continue his intense investigation.
At this moment.
On the quiet, tree-lined path outside the high-speed rail station, the beautiful woman in the dark purple trench coat had vanished without a trace, as if she had never been there at all.
"My God, that really scared me to death. That was Qi Gathering Realm expert! Grabbing someone was like catching a chicken."
Sitting on the maglev bus heading to Demon Capital Martial University, Lin Feng and the others looked out at the skyscrapers and still felt a little apprehensive.
The prosperity of Demon Capital far surpasses that of Jinling.
Skyscrapers hundreds of stories high pierce the clouds, and private aircraft belonging to powerful factions can even be seen traversing the skies. The concentration of spiritual energy here is at least three times that of Jinling City!
Here, those at the Blood Nourishing Realm are truly just commoners at the bottom; only those who step into the Blood Refining Realm are barely qualified to breathe in this vast steel jungle.
"Stop sighing."
Looking at the group of students, Instructor Wang said in a deep voice, "The campus of Demon Capital Martial University is just ahead."
"Remember what I said before: put away all that arrogance you had in Jinling! Here, dragons must coil up and tigers must lie low!"
"Especially you sophomores, you're just auditing classes, you're not even official students yet. Don't cause trouble, you hear me?"
Instructor Wang's stern gaze swept over Xiahou Ying and Lin Feng, finally settling on Dongfang Yueming.
"Understood, Professor."
Everyone nodded in agreement.
As the bus slowed down, a massive complex of buildings, resembling a city within a city and exuding an aura of antiquity and majesty, slowly came into view.
We've arrived at one of the twin stars of the Great Xia — the Demon Capital Martial Dao University.