Demon Infant

Early the next morning, on a pre-marked private flight path, a sword shadow carrying three people flashed by.

"Hey bro, did you see yesterday's headlines? It was about that internet celebrity breaking through to Spirit Transformation."

On the modified flying sword, Xiao Hu, a middle-aged Flying Sword Gang, looked on with a gossipy and curious expression.

"You weren't in Demon Metropolis last night, so didn't you see the extraordinary celestial phenomenon that alarmed the entire Peace District?" Hu Mang retorted.

"No, I took a night shift last night and didn't get back until early this morning. I came to pick you up as soon as I got back. I only saw this news online. Were you in Peace District yesterday?"

"It wasn't just in Peace District; I personally witnessed that internet Spirit Transformation," Hu Mang sighed.

"Then tell me quickly, is that guy's Nascent Spirit Transformation real or fake? Are those videos online real?"

Well, how should I put it...?

Hu Mang was feeling a little emotional while organizing his words.

I never expected that someone so intelligent would think the same way I did.

Moreover, he was a brilliant strategist from Heavenly Gate.

No wonder she's a major internet celebrity; she can even ride the wave of trending topics from a world away. Impressive.

The current chapter is incomplete! To view the complete chapter, please exit reading mode! Loading... Although Hu Mang didn't know what was wrong with this guy, shouldn't you be excited if your idol becomes popular?

As for the Old Fourth and Old Fifth, they were relatively calm, treating it as if they had witnessed a big news story. Once they saw it, they moved on. Early in the morning, they went to the investment institution where the Old Fourth worked, supposedly to study the prospects of "artificial Spirit Stone," seemingly preparing to make a big splash.

Compared to the thrill of that big internet celebrity, Hu Mang felt that his own experience was even more thrilling.

However, Hu Mang was happy to see it happen. If the Old Fourth and Old Fifth really intended to start a business and it was truly promising, he could also invest his resources. He was just worried about where to use the Lightning Crystal and Spirit Stone stones he had.

Hu Mang chatted casually with the middle-aged Flying Sword Gang, unaware that the man had a thoughtful and hesitant expression on his face.

He was even less likely to realize that he was on the list of a special department in Heavenly Gate.

Demon Metropolis, the workplace of a special department

It's not in the city center, nor in any officially designated building.

It is hidden deep in an inconspicuous old park. A faded wooden sign hangs at the entrance, with the words "Demon Metropolis Branch of the Geological Exploration Bureau" written on it. The paint is peeling and looks like it hasn't been changed for at least twenty years.

Pushing open the door on the first floor, the interior scene is completely different from the exterior.

The hall was spacious and bright, with dark gray anti-magic tiles on the floor and rows of aura lamps embedded in the ceiling, illuminating the entire space as if it were daytime. Facing the entrance was a huge aura display screen, which displayed in real time the Dragon Vein trends of major holy sites and blessed lands across the country. Lines of light representing the flow of earth energy slowly crawled on the screen, their colors ranging from light blue to dark red, each marked with its activity level.

The current chapter is incomplete. To view the complete chapter, please exit reading mode. Loading... For example, if you are an official cultivating virtue, your accumulation of virtue is strongly tied to the economic development of the blessed land where you are located. If you happen to encounter "natural disasters or man-made calamities," such as a sudden collapse of the real estate market, your cultivation may even regress instead of progress.

The same principle applies to accumulating good deeds in Yin Virtue. If a large-scale heinous crime is discovered in your area, not only will you not accumulate Yin Virtue, but you will also be held accountable.

Therefore, only cultivators who have truly entered the system can know what a wonderful benefit the Five Virtues Rotation is!

However, this benefit comes at a price. The tasks in this department are ten times more dangerous than those in other departments, and to join, one must be among the elite of the elite.

Moreover, this department can be said to be responsible for protecting the entire Heavenly Gate —supervising the Dragon Vein and preventing Dragon Vein from being abused by anyone, including the Ten Lords!

Indeed, from the very first day of its establishment, this department was, to some extent, responsible for overseeing the Ten Lords.

Minister Hong frowned as he looked at a stack of documents, the subject of which was Hu Mang.

This thick stack of documents contains a detailed account of Hu Mang's life, including his experience fighting in underground deathmatch tournaments overseas, detailing how many matches he fought and who his opponents were in each match—the details are terrifyingly detailed.

As a civil servant who rose through the ranks, Minister Hong immediately noticed the problem with the information.

One issue is his mother.

One problem lies with Hu Mang himself.

Even his mother's problem was simpler.

The current chapter is incomplete! To view the complete chapter, please exit reading mode! Loading... However, with those large-scale crackdowns, the demonic forces were basically wiped out.

In recent years, the demonic path has shown signs of resurgence, especially after receiving covert support from certain overseas forces. It has also begun to extend its tentacles towards Heavenly Gate again. Some tentacles have been severed, while others have not. The most heinous case was a large-scale demonic infant refining incident in the north of Heavenly Gate, which resulted in the deaths of a large number of newborns.

The result of this incident was that Lord Mao, one of the Ten Lords, personally led a team to destroy all the demonic sect branches, and then fought his way overseas to wipe out the mastermind behind the incident.

The main reason why the demonic path came to Heavenly Gate to refine infants was to take advantage of the massive surge of Spiritual Qi brought about by the large-scale infrastructure construction at Heavenly Gate in an attempt to cultivate a group of infants with demonic Root Bone, and then take them overseas for further training.

The reason why Minister Hong linked this matter to Hu Mang was...

This is because, judging from Hu Mang's birth time, birth place, and the time when he was adopted by that woman surnamed Hu, his childhood experiences have a significant overlap with the demonic infant refining incident of that year.

The key point is that, according to the "Demon Extermination Report" brought back by Lord Mao back then, apart from the batch of infants who were taken away that year, all the infants still within the Heavenly Gate area should have been rescued, registered, and had their Root Bone refined again.

If this Hu Mang was one of the babies from back then, how could he have ended up living away from home and even been adopted by someone else?

They even became suspected of Dragon Disruptor.

Minister Hong frowned, closed his eyes, and leaned back in his chair, lost in thought.

One of them is the most mysterious and unpredictable of the Ten Lords, the Ghost Lord.

One of them is Lord Mao, who controls all the demon-slaying forces of Heavenly Gate among the Ten Lords.

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