NOVEL NEXT Chapter 85 - 85: The Six Factions Can Be Invincible (Thanks to sfhaskfjqfaf and Xinzhan Sha Fa for their rewards and support)_1
Chapter 85: The Six Factions Can Be Invincible (Thanks to sfhaskfjqfaf and Xinzhan Sha Fa for their rewards and support)_1
Translator: 549690339
The night was filled with shadows.
In the bustling pedestrian street, a ragged old beggar maintained a bowing posture.
As he bent down, the sound of coins clinking in his ceramic bowl caught him by surprise.
The old beggar quickly raised his head and saw a banknote accompanied by several coins. His murky eyes immediately brightened as he looked at the legs beneath the stranger’s coat and moved his gaze upwards, sincerely praising and thanking with gratitude, “Thank you, thank you, you must be a very kind person!”
The young person who had given the money had calm eyes and a clear brow and handsome appearance.
And this person was none other than the upstanding youth who had just been acting in the name of justice, Pei Jinye.
He turned away.
Having done the good deed anonymously, he disappeared into the crowd.
Meanwhile, he was also carrying a brown handbag wrapped in an outer garment and a sealed bag containing several Blood-red Carps. The meticulous protection made it impossible to discern what exactly he was carrying.
Besides, that was not Pei Jinye’s real face.
Ten minutes later.
Tang Huoyang’s call came through: “Old Pei, my third uncle has already made preparations. When would be a good time to pick you up?”
“Twenty minutes later, wait for me at East Street Station.”
“Got it.”
Meanwhile.
Inside the VIP suite of the hospital.
The blazing light contrasted starkly with the dark and grim night outside.
“Have you found out who it was?”
“The Night Patrol Department is looking into it… The family’s wishes are not to make too much noise about it,” the middle-aged butler said respectfully. “We’ve been too conspicuous lately, so it’s normal to upset some people, but someone will definitely give us an explanation for this.”
The lady of the house looked on coldly: “Is that his intention?”
The middle-aged butler bowed his head and did not dare to answer.
Her face grew increasingly displeased: “He can’t even protect his own son, yet now he only cares about his official position. The older he gets, the more he regresses.”
The middle-aged butler didn’t dare to continue on this subject and excused himself with a bow.
On the bed, Wei Xia lay wrapped in bandages, showing no signs of waking up since the beginning.
Pei Jinye quietly returned to his rental room first.
He skillfully placed the dried Blood-red Carp in the freezer, then opened the handbag that Wei Xia had protected with his life.
“A password?”
“Making it so secretive?”
Pei Jinye raised an eyebrow slightly.
After confirming that it wasn’t a password lock for a small bomb, he applied a gentle pressure with his hand, and the lock that was as solid as a rock snapped like brittle chocolate.
So he didn’t really understand the point of a password lock.
Inside the briefcase, however, were several documents.
Most of them involved transfers of business properties.
This greatly disappointed Pei Jinye.
Those documents were of no use in his hands; glancing at the verbose text, he stuffed them back in.
He then carefully examined the handbag again.
He turned it inside out three times, ensuring there was nothing else to find. Satisfied, Pei Jinye tossed it aside.
Afterward, he set up traps at the doorstep once more.
With his hand on the light switch, Pei Jinye glanced around once more to confirm everything was in order before he quietly turned off the lights and left.
At the station.
Tang Huoyang sat in the car, eagerly waving his hands when he saw Pei Jinye appear.
Once Pei Jinye was in the car, Tang Huoyang spoke softly, “By the way, the Blood-red Carps from the association have been delivered to my place. Old Chang is really reliable. Right after the city hall established trade with the neighboring city, he already got his hands on the Blood-red Carps. Have you eaten any? How’s the effect?”
“Delivered by the association? Then I haven’t received them,” Pei Jinye shook his head, telling the truth.
After all, how could he say he received something from the association when he had obtained it through his own means?
Tang Huoyang looked puzzled for a moment, then mused, “Maybe they haven’t arranged it yet. Why are they dragging their feet this year…”
Pei Jinye just smiled, his demeanor as calm as the clear sky.
Tang Huoyang couldn’t help but shake his head with a wry smile, “I’m getting more and more baffled by you. You devote yourself to training daily and stay away from romantic entanglements, and now, in light of this situation, you’re still truly unattached. If it were me, I’d probably be itching to storm down to the association and demand an explanation.”
Pei Jinye spoke with deep meaning, “Heaven has its own plans.”
Tang Huoyang was momentarily taken aback, “That’s an interesting way to put it. Well, the association will definitely send them to you. All of this year’s inhouse disciples are due to receive some. Heh, I got lucky myself. I was initially an outsider, but Teacher Chang thought highly of my performance this year and took me in. I used to seldom come for training at the association, but now as the end of the year approaches, I’m coming much more frequently.”
Reminded of something.
Tang Huoyang suddenly asked, “By the way, did you return Sun Ruofan’s lunchbox to her?”
Pei Jinye shook his head.
“I’ll go,” Tang Huoyang instantly perked up, teasingly asking, “Are you planning to keep it as a love token?”
Pei Jinye looked over with a helpless expression.
He found the more he interacted with Tang Huoyang, the more he realized how whimsical the man was.
“She hasn’t been to the association.”
“Strange, I thought she would be surreptitiously keeping you company.”
Thirty minutes later, he habitually put Tang Yulou under hypnosis for sleep.
Afterward, Liu Huilan inquired concernedly about the condition outside the door; Pei Jinye still shook his head.
Liu Huilan’s concern was evident on her face as she sighed lightly, “The hospital’s checks have also found nothing, but fortunately, his condition has started to recover a bit.”
“Third Aunt, Uncle will get better,” Tang Huoyang comforted her from the side.
“I hope so…”
After leaving Tang Yulou’s villa, Tang Huoyang looked bewildered, “My uncle’s insomnia can’t really be related to a curse, can it?”
Pei Jinye shook his head, “Hard to say.”
He stroked his forehead back and forth with his fingers.
He reflected on the memory fragment he had received that night, uncertain and questioning.
The waves of fire surged, and the crackling sounds of burning branches were exceedingly clear in the night.
Bodies lay scattered across a blood-soaked ground…
In Tang Yulou’s line of sight was a figure with his back turned to him.
“Is all this worth it?”
The figure in front raised his head, looking towards the mysterious patterns on the ceiling of the underground palace.
“It’s worth it.”
This voice was very old, very familiar…
There was some kind of sacrificial activity going on in the Underground Palace. Who killed the person?
Why carry out a sacrifice?
Which organization did they belong to?
Pei Jinye furrowed his brow, feeling as though he had touched upon some secret.
Therefore, until Tong Yulou’s identity could be determined, these matters couldn’t be spoken about lightly, lest they invite a fatal disaster.
But he asked indirectly, “What did Third Uncle used to do?”
Tang Huoyang heard this and replied, “Speaking of which, my third uncle truly was an extraordinary man in our family. He made it from scratch when he was young.
Afterward, he spent a few years as a tomb robber. The famous God’s Burial Mound was dug up by his little gang, but that incident caused quite a stir…
After the God’s Burial Mound incident, his team was either dead or missing, and my third uncle was saved only because the old man at home pulled strings to protect him. It was like getting a second chance at life…
After resting for a few years, he began to take over some of the family’s businesses, mainly in trade. He actually did quite well… It’s just that no one knows why all of a sudden this happened…”
“Third Uncle didn’t have a child?” Pei Jinye asked as if out of curiosity.
Tang Huoyang was startled, scratched his head, and said, “My third uncle is only 33 this year. He got married late to begin with. He said he was planning on having children, but then this happened.”
Pei Jinye nodded upon hearing this, suppressing the doubts in his heart and no longer dwelling on the subject.
Ten twenty in the evening.
Tang Huoyang dropped Pei Jinye off at his home and then left.
Pei Jinye, however, didn’t go straight home. Instead, he slipped away quietly, circled around for a bit, and soon returned to his place carrying a mysterious small package.
Lingering in front of the door and after checking that the traps were still in place, he then entered confidently and gently closed the door behind him.
But the moment his left foot crossed the threshold, the dream about his third uncle suddenly flashed in his mind.
“It’s worth it…”
He pondered the voice he had suddenly heard, and a figure emerged in his mind out of the blue.
Teacher Chang!!!
“Could it be?” Pei Jinye felt a sudden chill in his heart.
If this matter really involved Teacher Chang, then it would mean that Teacher Chang wasn’t as “benevolent” as he appeared to be.
Pei Jinye’s expression became very serious.
He silently vowed to be even more careful in his future actions within the Bronze Association.
“But wasn’t he the former head coach of the Night Patrol Department? How could he commit such an act?”
“Or maybe I’m guessing all wrong… Maybe those people in the dream weren’t killed by them…”
Pei Jinye pushed aside the current palpitations in his heart.
A short segment of memory couldn’t represent anything…
Of course, that’s what he said.
Now, Pei Jinye’s first reaction was to sit on the sofa and meticulously recall how he had conducted himself in front of Teacher Chang, as well as Teacher Chang’s every move.
All he had done was display a bit of genius, which was far from being considered a prodigy…
Of course, it wasn’t certain yet that the person in the dream was Teacher Chang.
But it was always better to be cautious.
After closing his thoughts, Pei Jinye opened the package.
The Old Gods Association had delivered the movement technique!
[Dark Shadow Assault]: Slight Achiever 0.1%!
After nearly two hours of study, Pei Jinye finally got the hang of this movement technique. Taking advantage of the momentum, he added proficiency points to it and spiritedly raised it to Slight Achiever status.
A myriad of memories from his cultivation practices surged like a tidal wave.
The next second, in the tranquil night, shadows flickered within the room.
Pei Jinye crossed from the bedroom to the living room. This was somewhat similar to the Extraordinary Ability “Dark Shadow Flicker,” but there were still differences.
The Technique [Dark Shadow Assault] would consume a certain amount of Vitality when used.
So in terms of stamina, it was nowhere near the Extraordinary Ability “Dark Shadow Flicker.”
However, Pei Jinye wasn’t demanding; his goal was to conceal.
Moonlight flowed like water, serenely falling onto Pei Jinye’s shoulder, accentuating his deep and mysterious aura at this moment.
Pei Jinye, however, was indifferent as he pulled up his attribute panel.
[Name]: Pei Jinye;
[Extraordinary Genes]: Devour·First Form (8/100) (Psychic Power·Mind Cannon (1/3), Body·Diamond (1/3), Spirit·Shadow (1/3), Form·Variant (1/3), (Strength Series Fragments 2/3));
[Extraordinary Abilities]: Blood Spear; Retrogression; Golden Armor; Dark Shadow Flicker; Phantom Body; Metal Telekinesis;
[Vitality Value]: 12.4-14.9;
[Stamina]: 10.6-15.3 (average value for an ordinary person 1);
[Psychic Power]: 10.5-10.8;
[Skill]: Shock (Great Success 35%); Thousands of Autumns in a Big Dream (Great Success 36%); Twelve Lotuses (Great Success 31%); Shadow Sword Technique (Great Success 7%); King Kong Indestructible (Slight Achiever 25.1%); Knife in Sleeve (Beginner 55%); Dark Shadow Assault (Beginner 1%); Appraisal Technique (Beginner 11%); Firearms (Beginner 8%); Basic Breathing Method (Beginner 1%); Blood Guiding Art (Beginner 0.01%);
In just a few days, Pei Jinye had accumulated as many as four Techniques of Great Success on his person.
The combination of six Extraordinary Abilities was enough for Pei Jinye to sweep across his peers at the same level.
But the problem was that he couldn’t easily display them in front of people he knew well, as it would be far too easy to reveal the secret that he possessed multiple Extraordinary Abilities.
Unless
He continued to look for Techniques that could serve as camouflage!
However, similar Techniques were not easy to find.
Either they were too expensive, or they were simply not available in Da Peng City.
What Pei Jinye could do now was to add the task of [Finding Similar Techniques] to his to-do list.
Above this task on his to-do list was plainly written—
[Kill Lin Jun and Lin’s industry! Killing Shadow Bow is a bonus! (Black Shark… okay to kill)]
Closing the to-do list.
He gently exhaled.
Pei Jinye’s face was filled with regret.
“Another day ends… Only three days left.”
“I hope to gain something from the elite assessment this time around. When I come back, I’ll find time to pick one of the Lin twins from Heaven God to Devour…”
“Still too weak, unable to take down even a single person…”
Amidst the murmurs.
The night fog gradually enveloped the entire city. Far from the bustling city center, in the mountainous woods, there lay calm and silence.