Chapter 111
Chapter 111
Shen Zhuoyang was the captain of a squad under the Special Management Bureau. Tall and lean, with clear-cut features, he liked doing things step by step. He looked upright, but also a little rigid.
While leading his team on patrol nearby, he sensed a surge of powerful Yin Energy coming from the Song Family Grand Hotel, so he immediately brought his squad over to investigate.
When they arrived, all they found was a fallen palm tree and, buried beneath it, a piece of jade overflowing with extremely heavy Yin Energy.
Sensing the powerful Yin Energy coming off the jade, Shen Zhuoyang did not rashly approach it. Instead, he prepared to question Song Huaiming’s people about what had happened.
But before he could begin, he saw Master Quede suddenly appear on the spot out of thin air, with a young girl beside him.
The Special Management Bureau and the Mystic Studies Association had frequent dealings with each other, often working together to handle supernatural incidents, so Shen Zhuoyang knew Master Quede.
When he saw him, he politely stepped forward and greeted him. “Master Quede.”
Today, Master Quede had been thoroughly outclassed by Xia Sheng. Aside from sighing over how there was always someone better out there, he had also developed a small inferiority complex over his own lack of skill.
Now, seeing a junior who still treated him with respect, that tiny sense of insecurity instantly swelled into self-importance.
Master Quede stroked his beard, putting on the bearing of an exalted expert, and asked in a steady voice, “Mm. What are you doing here?”
Shen Zhuoyang replied, “I was patrolling nearby with my team. When I sensed Yin Energy appearing, I brought them over to check the situation.”
After explaining, he asked, “Master Quede, may I ask what’s going on with this jade under the tree that’s giving off such strong Yin Energy? Were you performing an exorcism here?”
“I came today to help President Song inspect the feng shui. As for this piece of jade, it was this one beside me… mmph mmph…”
Master Quede had only gotten halfway through his sentence when he suddenly realized he could no longer make a sound.
Suspicious, he glanced at Xia Sheng beside him and saw her shake her head.
Master Quede understood what she meant.
Although he didn’t know why this Little Fellow Daoist wanted to hide her abilities, he still cooperatively rephrased himself. “I found this jade by accident while inspecting the feng shui just now. It’s part of an Evil Formation set up by an evil cultivator to siphon off other people’s luck and wealth.”
“An Evil Formation like that still exists in this day and age?” Shen Zhuoyang asked in surprise. Then he added, “And where did you go just now, Master? When I arrived, I didn’t see you.”
Before Master Quede could speak, Xia Sheng said, “Master had gone to track down that evil cultivator.”
Shen Zhuoyang immediately asked, “Did you catch him?”
“No. Master Quede’s Daoist Magic is a hundred times more profound than that cultivator’s, but he was simply too fast. Master Quede only managed to cut off one of his legs and wasn’t able to capture him on the spot.”
Hearing Xia Sheng calmly say that his cultivation was a hundred times deeper than that old evil cultivator’s, Master Quede himself felt too embarrassed to bear it.
After all, back at the apartment, he hadn’t lifted a finger even once. Xia Sheng had handled everything from start to finish.
All he had done was follow her over to watch the drama, then get carried back with her.
If he’d really had to face that evil cultivator alone, he might not even have been capable of injuring him.
After hearing Xia Sheng’s words, Shen Zhuoyang was instantly filled with admiration for Master Quede. “As expected of one of the elders of the Mystic Studies Association. Your Daoist Magic is actually this profound. This junior truly admires you.
“Next month, the Special Management Bureau will be holding training for its interns. Master Quede, I hope you’ll honor us with your presence and teach us some Daoist Magic.”
Master Quede knew exactly how capable he really was. Being looked at by Shen Zhuoyang with such admiration right now filled him not with vanity, but with overwhelming embarrassment.
He cleared his throat, then stroked his beard and said, “I’m busy with work, so let’s forget about the teaching. But if you have any questions in the future, you can ask me.”
Seeing that Master Quede hadn’t agreed, Shen Zhuoyang felt a little disappointed.
The Special Management Bureau ran on fixed salaries, and on top of that, there were regulations forbidding active personnel from taking private jobs. Because of that, the Daoist Magic of the Mystic Sect practitioners they recruited was generally not as strong as that of the people over at the Mystic Studies Association.
After all, you get the quality you pay for.
He had originally thought he might be able to learn a thing or two from Master Quede, but now it seemed there was no chance.
Still, Shen Zhuoyang quickly pulled himself together and asked, “How does Master plan to handle this jade?”
How would Master Quede know?
This thing was supposed to have been handled by him in the first place.
He shot Xia Sheng a look for help, and Xia Sheng said, “Master Quede said this thing can just be smashed directly with a hammer.”
Shen Zhuoyang: “?”
That simple and brutal?
“This jade has extremely heavy Yin Energy. Could it be dangerous?”
“No.” Xia Sheng replied, then pulled out a small iron hammer seemingly from nowhere.
Before anyone else could react, she walked over with the little hammer to the large pit beneath the palm tree, jumped straight in, raised the hammer, and smashed the jade apart in one blow.
The moment the jade shattered, everyone felt a powerful wave of Yin Evil Qi spill out from inside it. Yet for some reason, within just a few seconds, all of the Yin Energy vanished without a trace.
The others had no idea where that Yin Energy had gone, but Master Quede had vaguely seen it.
It seemed that all of it had been swallowed by Xia Sheng.
Aside from being shocked that Xia Sheng could absorb Yin Energy, Master Quede couldn’t help frowning as well.
He had never heard of anyone in the Mystic Sect who could absorb Yin Baleful Qi.
In the past, he had seen some evil cultivators. Although those people all cultivated sinister and evil paths, when you traced it back to the source, they still needed Spiritual Power to cultivate, or else they had to steal other people’s luck and lifespan to increase their cultivation.
But someone like Xia Sheng, who could directly absorb that much Yin Energy and still stand there as if nothing had happened, was something he could honestly say he had never heard of, let alone seen.
But with so many people around, Master Quede didn’t ask any further questions. For the time being, he suppressed the doubts in his heart.
Off to the side, Shen Zhuoyang watched Xia Sheng shatter the jade with a little iron hammer, and his feelings were extremely complicated.
When he had rushed over here with his team earlier, he had sensed the supremely yin and frigid aura radiating from the jade. Worried that the Yin Energy might invade his body, he hadn’t even dared get close.
Yet this little girl was so fierce that she cracked the jade apart with a tiny iron hammer. More importantly, the Yin Energy inside the jade hadn’t harmed her in the slightest.
Shen Zhuoyang looked uncertainly at Master Quede. “Master, is this Little Fellow Daoist your newly accepted disciple?”
Master Quede: Disciple? He wished Xia Sheng would accept him as her disciple.
It wasn’t easy for Master Quede to explain at the moment, so he only said, “No. She’s a friend’s disciple.”
Shen Zhuoyang seemed like he wanted to ask more, but at that moment, his phone rang.
The call was from a member of another team. They said they had found Fierce Ghosts causing trouble on their end and needed him to go over and take a look.
Shen Zhuoyang agreed, then said to Master Quede, “Master, I’m on duty right now. I’ll pay you a visit another day when I have time.”