Online: I Can See Health Bars Chapter 1614 - 723: Reward Money (Part 2)

He immediately shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Lords of the Absolute Sect, save me!!"

As the words fell, a hand suddenly clamped down on the Beast Demon’s claw.

The Beast Demon’s pupils abruptly contracted.

Because it hadn’t sensed the other party approaching at all! It couldn’t even understand how the other had appeared out of thin air!

Before it could think deeper...

"Black Flame."

Boom!!!

Black fire instantly engulfed its beast claw.

The violent burning pain made it suffer intensely, and at the same time it even felt as if its innate demonic abilities were being pressed under a seal, unable to be unleashed at all.

The Beast Demon immediately roared and slashed over with its other clawed hand!

Snap!

That utterly berserk claw strike was actually blocked by a woman with just one finger, lightly.

"Zuo Dao, Inversion."

Boom!!!

Its vision spun a hundred and eighty degrees.

Heaven and earth seemed to swap places in an instant.

The Beast Demon didn’t even understand what had happened before its entire body had already slammed heavily into the ground.

And the beast claw that should have been grabbed by the Black Flame man—who knows when it had already burned off and snapped apart.

"Roar!! Roar!!!!"

It was terrified, it was furious, it struggled with all its might, yet under the Black Flame man’s flurry of black-flame punches, it was forced back step by step.

With the final strike...

Boom!!

The Beast Demon’s body was smashed flying, and the wall behind it collapsed with a thunderous crash!

Its demon body fell into the backyard of the house, tumbling several times. It tried to climb up and fight again, but its body was so drained of strength that it couldn’t muster any power.

And only then did it notice the two blood-drenched demon corpses lying in the courtyard.

They were clearly its "old mate" and "child."

Exposed.

Old Lu’s family had been wiped out, and it had dragged him down as well!

Who was it, where did the leak come from.

They had lurked in Jin’an City for years without anyone seeing through them, otherwise they wouldn’t have been able to expand their ranks so smoothly.

As for the local Foolish Underworld, they were all trash, they simply shouldn’t have that kind of ability!

"You... it’s you! Who are you!"

The Beast Demon glared furiously at the man and woman before it.

And the so-called Captain Di followed behind this pair like a lackey, bowing and scraping.

"Absolute Sect, Hei Ao."

Hei Ao crossed his arms over his chest, speaking aloofly and calmly.

"Absolute Sect Disciple, Zuo Lv."

Zuo Lv smiled slightly, standing shoulder to shoulder with Hei Ao.

Absolute Sect?

The Beast Demon’s expression was first somewhat blank, then slowly, as if remembering something, its expression visibly turned to horror, dread, to the point that all the hair on its body stood on end!

Absolute Sect!

That Human Sect that hunted demons to the last, that had proclaimed they would slaughter every demon under heaven—the Absolute Sect??

It had once heard a Great Demon mention this Human Sect, but back then that was something very distant to it.

Because those kinds of big figures, that kind of vast background, targeted and slaughtered only Great Demons; there was no way it would ever be the turn of a small demon like it.

Yet it had never thought...

Realizing just what kind of Monsters it had provoked, the Beast Demon turned and fled without the slightest hesitation!

But two Shadows appeared at its sides almost simultaneously, one to the left and one to the right.

They were Shadows that meant death!

...

"How many days are we staying in Jin’an City?"

Already having booked the room, Ding Hui, who was constantly fiddling with the flesh tumor, spoke up.

"Three days. What Da Liang City wants is your antidote, and their target is us. They shouldn’t make things too hard for Captain Song and the others. So we’ll just stay here and wait for news, see how things play out."

Ding Hui turned back and blinked: "You’re not afraid Song Zhenrong will draw the enemy over?"

Fang Yu smiled.

"Then they’ll probably have to send some ancestral elder over if they want to. Ordinary experts right now don’t have what it takes to hunt us down."

"Husband, you’re a bit too confident. People can adapt. Maybe they don’t have anyone at hand, but they have resources. They can mobilize manpower, recruit experts, and specifically target us."

Hearing this, Fang Yu fell silent for a moment.

"We got lost in that maze Illusion Realm; to the people of Da Liang City, our life or death is probably unknown. They shouldn’t go to such lengths just to discipline us, right?"

"They’re just sending someone to follow along with Song Zhenrong, it’s not like they’re personally leading troops out of the city. If we’re talking about ’going to great lengths,’ it probably doesn’t really count." Ding Hui still stuck to her view.

Fang Yu mulled it over and felt that Ding Hui’s worries did make sense.

But...

Fang Yu looked at Ding Hui.

"Are you... not too happy about Captain Song tagging along with us?"

"Of course I’m not!"

Ding Hui spoke bluntly: "Captain Song is kind and soft-hearted. We already have our hands full taking care of ourselves; once we’re stuck with him, future trouble will be endless."

"But... Captain Song does have a debt of gratitude toward us, he saved your life..."

"That’s why we brought him to Da Liang City, and we humored his emotions, safely delivering all those refugees to Da Liang City. We’ve fulfilled Captain Song’s request, and we’ve also carried out Master Quan Heng’s instructions. Husband, we’ve already done what we ought to do."

"But..."

"No buts. I know you still want to keep looking after him, but you have to separate things. Everything after arriving in Da Liang City, the arrangements from here on out, that’s a different matter."

"..."

Fang Yu fell silent.

He understood what Ding Hui meant,

but understanding was one thing; to make clean-cut distinctions like Ding Hui did was something he found hard to do.

The subtleties of human relationships are not so easy to divide with such clear lines of gratitude and resentment.

Ding Hui seemed to feel that she’d gone a bit too far, and her tone suddenly softened.

"Let’s drop it. You said we’d wait three days, so we’ll wait three days. If there’s no news after three days, we head straight to Shangjing. That’s fine, right?"

Fang Yu thought for a moment, then nodded firmly.

Only then did Ding Hui resume her research on the tumor. Fang Yu saw that she was holding a thin strip of flesh in her hand, crystal-clear and almost translucent, and was little by little feeding it into the tumor, as if nourishing it.

Staring at that strip of flesh, Fang Yu suddenly felt something strange. He kept feeling... that thing was the flesh Ding Hui had cut off him earlier, sliced into a sliver...

He shook his head slightly, driving out that odd feeling from his mind, then settled down, calmly going over the gains he’d accumulated along the way since leaving Da Liang City.

Honestly, without that crowd of commoners, even walking a stretch of wilderness road only meant running into Great Demons with fifty or sixty thousand HP in varying numbers, which brought him a bit of minor trouble.

Everything else was just Little Demons.

Once they made it onto the official road, it became even safer.

They only ran into a few scattered small problems, and with the caravans pointing the way, they smoothly arrived at Jin’an City.

Come to think of it, that caravan was cautious; they only gave directions and had no intention of taking the two of them along.

Which makes sense. Running into strangers in the wilderness, with no way to confirm whether they’re demons or not—who would dare bring them along on the road?

He opened the attribute panel.

[Name: Diao Deyi.]

[Realm: Heart Soul Realm, Initial Stage.]

[Demonization: 5%.]

[Erosion Level: 5%.]

[Life: 182616/182616.]

[Physique: 1000.]

[Spirit: 830.]

[Attribute Points: 198.]

Not bad. The successive ordeals had been dangerous, but the gains were real.

Fang Yu did want to allocate some points to level up, but before that, he wanted to first fully learn the Six-Star Formation Art cultivation technique he’d taken from the Nanyuan Family.

Then he’d invest attribute points to light it up and increase his stock of Martial Arts a bit.

As for the Finger-Snap Thrust, the Ancient-style Life-break Blade Technique, and the others, he could learn those along the way too.

After all, inside a city it’s basically safe, so these three days were perfect for settling down and digging in.

Ever since he got the Six-Star Formation Art, Fang Yu had been studying it, but he’d never managed to fully master it.

Once they entered the wilderness, that kind of perilous place, he naturally had no spare mental focus to calmly study.

So only now was he picking up where he left off and continuing the cultivation.

As for the murder case in Jin’an City, and that demon wearing human skin they ran into this morning, Fang Yu wasn’t very interested.

In a word: stir up less trouble. The lesson from Da Liang City is still fresh.

While Fang Yu was busy studying, on the other side Hei Ao and Zuo Lv had already become honored guests of the Foolish Underworld in Jin’an City.

"Two lords of the Absolute Sect, if not for you two personally taking action, we never would have discovered that demon lurking in the city. You must accept this reward money!"