Free Web NovelA graceful figure moved forward, her steps neither fast nor slow, as if she were walking all the way into the abyss.
“Boom—Boom—!”
In the darkness, invisible, heavy doors opened with a rumble, shaking as they did. A cold wind carrying the scent of decay and foulness blew from behind the doors, stinging her cheeks slightly.
“Boom—!”
When the last door opened, the person stopped in a chaotic and ignorant space. Light gray mist drifted, and her vision was confined to a very small area.
Ahead, a massive vortex, seemingly at the end of the world, churned like molten gold and silver, emitting a scorching light.
Brilliant light rose from the abyss-like vortex, shimmering and illuminating Wang Meili's face.
Her complexion was somewhat pale, tinged with a waxy yellow, as if she were critically ill.
This was the core area of the special space. Deceased beings fell from that vortex into the endless darkness, returning to the purest Spiritual Energy, and then, after a long wait, gained projections and descended into the special space in new appearances and forms.
Eight light-forged chains, distributed according to the positions of the 先天八卦 (Eight Trigrams), extended from the void like eight giant dragons, nailed to the edge of the vortex with dense incantations, like thousands of silver-winged butterflies, circling and dancing. ƒrēewebnovel.com
This was the anchoring the Night Watch had applied to this special space, very simple yet very effective.
Over the past nearly twenty years, it had successfully fixed the special space within the spatial rift, preventing tragedy.
But now, it was having problems.
Wang Meili's gaze swept around, finally landing on the chain in the Li position. On the surface of that chain, a patch of dark red spots had appeared at some point, looking like rust or mold.
“Is this what's causing trouble in the city? But...” Wang Meili muttered to herself.
However, since the unknown flesh had already affected the chain in the Li position, it should have quickly spread to the entire anchoring.
But now... it looked as if some force was preventing the flesh from spreading.
Is it someone from the Night Watch?
Wang Meili furrowed her brow slightly, and her figure flickered, disappearing from the spot.
Everything seemed like an illusion, with exaggerated and rich colors, overlapping double images, and rapid regression.
When her vision stabilized, Wang Meili looked up, paused, and frowned.
On the outer shell of the special space, which resembled a golden bubble, a large amount of dark red flesh was attached, churning like a sea of flesh.
And right where the chain in the Li position extended, she saw a massive, unfamiliar urban legend.
The urban legend looked like an ugly monstrous fish, with an anglerfish-like head and a long, slender body like a sea snake.
It opened its distorted mouth filled with sharp teeth, biting the chain. Its scarlet tongue and its dark, fluid-like body were tightly wrapped around it, emitting a strange Spiritual Energy fluctuation from within and without, preventing the rampant flesh from approaching.
“What a strange urban legend...” Wang Meili murmured.
She had always considered herself well-informed, but facing this urban legend, she couldn't immediately discern the type of Power it possessed.
It was as if this urban legend didn't belong to this world at all.
Even more perplexing to her was why this urban legend would risk being eroded by the dark red flesh to protect the anchoring the Night Watch had placed on the special space.
If its efforts hadn't had some effect, those pieces of flesh would have likely eroded three, four, or even more of the anchoring chains by now.
“Little fellow, are you Xiao Bei's friend?” Wang Meili asked.
The system, whose consciousness was on the verge of collapse, vaguely heard Wang Meili's voice. It managed to open its eyes and glance at her, remaining silent for a long time before weakly uttering two words, “Used to be...”
“Oh...” Wang Meili nodded thoughtfully. “No wonder you're helping her, you're a true friend!”
Although she couldn't determine the type of Power the system possessed, through the Spiritual Energy fluctuations constantly emanating from the system, she could sense that the system had some hidden yet profound connection with Lu Yibei.
The system, “...” How could I be helping her!
It really wanted to refute Wang Meili.
It wanted to tell her that it was only doing this because it was worried that the Invasion Beast would completely erode the special space, causing irreversible damage to the real world, but it was too weak to say a word.
“However, that ‘used to be’ of yours is a bit concerning! Did you have a fight?” Wang Meili said, gently stroking the system, while patiently persuading it, “Since you're good friends, I hope you can sit down and talk it out properly. What if you reconcile?”
The system, “...” Don't be ridiculous, I've already tried!
“Still not talking!” Wang ➤ NоvеⅠight ➤ (Read more on our source) Meili said with a wry smile, “You're a stubborn little fellow.”
As she stroked the system, she felt a very strong sense of hatred and anger on its body.
“However, I still want to say something. If Xiao Bei did something wrong, I'll apologize for her here first. Although she lacked maternal love since childhood and her personality might be a bit strange, her nature is actually not bad.”
The system, “...”
Seeing that the system still wasn't speaking, Wang Meili opened her mouth, about to say something, when at that moment, a strange feeling flashed through her mind.
Although she hadn't seen Lu Yibei yet, her intuition told her that Lu Yibei was about to arrive.
“Oops, looks like I won't have a chance to keep guiding you.” Wang Meili said, looking at the system, “Little fellow, you've done enough. Now, why don't you rest well?”
As her words fell, the outer shell of the special space, which resembled a bubble, suddenly seemed to bubble up, swelling into a mass that completely enveloped the system...
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Hua City, Folk Culture Research Bureau, small conference room.
Inspector Xing Yuan, dressed in a dark blue professional suit with her long hair neatly tied up, sat on a chair with her legs crossed, looking at the two men in front of her with a dark expression, and said faintly, “So, just because you two were worried that your superiors would take extreme measures against the Disaster, you planned to rescue her privately?”
“And you even sent a Psychic into Qinan Bamboo's special space, causing a Psychic to be unconscious for twenty-four hours?”
“Hey! Yuan'er, Gu Xiliu's unconsciousness isn't our fault!” Bai Kai hastily explained, “She was unconscious because that special space had a problem, and her consciousness was impacted.”
Qi Dong glared at the fawning Bai Kai out of the corner of his eye, “Bootlickers won't have a good end...”
Inspector Xing Yuan glanced at Qi Dong, then looked back at Bai Kai and said, “You think you're in the right, do you? As a Night Watch Psychic, when you discovered such a threat, shouldn't you have reported it immediately?”
“If Black Emperor hadn't discovered that the anchoring he left was loosening and reported it in time, I might still be in the dark right now!”
Bah! Zhang Huainan, that old man... Qi Dong cursed in his heart.
That's right, 【Black Emperor】 is Zhang Huainan. Calamity level Psychic like him are usually rarely called by their names within the Night Watch. They usually have corresponding codenames, firstly to prevent identity leakage, and secondly to reduce disturbance to them.
Zhenwu Mountain has always been known for its mastery of water techniques, and Zhang Huainan's Spirit Mark is closely related to the Five Elemental Heaven Lords who are said to preside over the methods of Ren and Gui, hence the codename 【Black Emperor】.
“It's come to this, what do we do now!” Bai Kai spread his hands and said.
“What else can we do?” Inspector Xing Yuan rolled her eyes and said, “Black Emperor is already on his way to Hua City. Once that special space surfaces, it can only be destroyed.”
“How can that be!” Bai Kai exclaimed, “Psychic Jiang Li and... and the Disaster are still inside! What if they have a way to stop the Invasion Beast's flesh and prevent that special space from surfacing?”
Inspector Xing Yuan frowned, looked up and met Bai Kai's eyes, and said calmly, “Although the possibility is extremely small, I think Black Emperor will try to reinforce the anchoring at that time.”
Hearing this, Qi Dong's face showed a look of realization, and he said sarcastically, “Oh! I finally understand! Whoever wins between the Disaster and the Invasion Beast, we'll deal with them, right?”
Inspector Xing Yuan nodded indifferently, “If you want to understand it that way, you can.”
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“I've said what I needed to say. You two are on your own. After this matter is over, the disciplinary action will be issued.”
“Finally, let me remind you, you are Night Watch Psychic. Your primary task is to eliminate the impact of urban legend incidents, understand?!”
“...” Bai Kai's brows were tightly furrowed, and he hesitated to speak.
“Tch—!” Qi Dong snorted indifferently, turned around, and left the conference room.
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That night, behind Zhenwu Mountain.
A burly Old man with white hair and a youthful face, shirtless, was diligently tying up a sleeping girl.
The incantation rope, twisted with talismans, wrapped around the girl's body layer after layer, literally wrapping her into a human zongzi.
“Hmm...”
Feeling the very uncomfortable tightness on her body, the girl slightly furrowed her brow, let out a soft nasal sound, and then slowly opened her eyes.
“...”
Seeing the Old man busy tying herself up, the girl paused, and slowly asked, “Sect Leader... What are you doing?” fɾeewebnoveℓ.co๓
“Hua Sang, don't you know something big has happened?”
“I know!” Hua Sang nodded, “It's only three or four in the morning, and it's still over four hours until dawn. I actually woke up, which is so annoying.”
“You rebellious disciple! Not being able to sleep in is a big deal?” Zhang Huainan blew his beard and glared, “I'm talking about something big happening in Hua City, the anchoring I set up before has loosened.”
“Oh, and then?”
“Then... you know, I can't go to that place!” Zhang Huainan said with a bitter face, “I've calculated it, that man is in Hua City! So, I can only let you go in my place.”
“Oh, okay.” Hua Sang nodded.
Looking at her appearance as if she didn't care about anything, Zhang Huainan frowned, shook the incantation rope in his hand, and asked, “I'm asking you to go take the hit for me, and you're not even going to resist?”
“Too lazy to resist.” Hua Sang answered without hesitation.
“Then aren't you going to ask why I'm tying you up?”
“Too lazy to ask.”
“I'm planning to use a flying sword to launch you over...”
“One question.” Hua Sang looked at the incantation rope on her body, frowned, and said, “When I get there, who will untie me?”
“Your Senior Brother, Li Xuan!” Zhang Huainan said in a deep voice.
Although he knew that Hua Sang herself had plenty of ways to untie these incantation ropes, he knew even more that if he asked Hua Sang why she didn't untie them herself, she would definitely reply, “Too lazy to untie!”
If he didn't arrange someone to help her untie in advance, even if the flying sword carried her and embedded her in the square in the center of Hua City, she probably wouldn't move until she starved to death.
Hearing this, a smile appeared on Hua Sang's face, “That's great, I'll just sleep a little longer.”
“Aren't you afraid something will go wrong?” Zhang Huainan said angrily.
“...”
Hua Sang opened her mouth, about to speak, but Zhang Huainan saw through her mouth shape and interrupted, “Too lazy to be afraid, right?”
“Mm, mm.” Hua Sang nodded and replied perfunctorily twice.
If there were always people like Sect Leader who understood my intentions and could speak for me, that would be wonderful. Hua Sang thought.
“Hmph! Rebellious disciple, truly a rebellious disciple, you're infuriating me!” Zhang Huainan cursed fiercely and tightened the incantation rope in his hand.
Although tormenting junior brothers and sisters, and even disciples and grand-disciples, is a traditional art of Da Chunyang Palace, what's the point if the grand-disciple doesn't resist at all?
For so many years, only Hua Sang has shown no signs of resistance when facing Zhang Huainan's “torment,” which greatly angered Zhang Huainan.
It was precisely because of this that he, unknowingly, revealed over eighty percent of his skills to her every time she came to the back mountain to fish for turtles.
Although Hua Sang has always been too lazy to learn the Sect Leader's “true 傳授” (true transmission), but...
It was precisely because she didn't want to learn and was too lazy to learn that she improved rapidly, almost reaching the point where she understood upon seeing and mastered upon practicing.
As the saying goes, “The highest good is like water, water benefits all things without contention.”
Only by not contending can one comprehend the profound meaning of Da Chunyang Palace's water techniques.
...
After a few breaths, ten meters of incantation rope were completely wrapped around Hua Sang's body.
Zhang Huainan looked at the “human zongzi” in front of him with a gloomy expression, and with a casual wave of his hand, the bottomless pool beside him immediately boiled.
“Boom—!”
With a roar, tons of water instantly rose into the air like a dragon sucking water, wrapping around Hua Sang's body and transforming into a giant water sword that broke through the air.
Under the night sky, a turquoise stream of light streaked across the sky, like a brilliant meteor.
Then...
With a thought from Hua Sang, the water sword beneath her “upgraded” into a three-meter by three-meter large bed, complete with soft “water bed” bedding.
Zhang Huainan, “...”
Watching the water sword transform into a water bed in the stream of light, the corner of his mouth twitched violently.
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Late at night, Hua City, a sports car sped on the road leading to a high-end residential area in the suburbs.
Suddenly, his phone rang. Li Xuan slowed down the car, took out his phone and glanced at it, his face immediately showing joy, and he eagerly answered the call.
“Master, you finally called me, have you forgiven me?”
“No, I have something to tell you. Later, help untie your junior sister Hua Sang, that's it, bye bye!” On the other end of the phone, a muffled voice simply instructed and quickly hung up.
It was as if he was avoiding some plague god.
Li Xuan, “???” Help untie junior sister Hua Sang? What does that mean?
Just as he was wondering, the moisture outside the window suddenly thickened, and then, a turquoise light pierced the night.
Li Xuan followed the source of the light and saw a huge “water bed” descending from the sky, flying straight towards him.
“...”
Oh no, I'm finished, my beloved car is going to become a waterlogged car!
This thought flashed through Li Xuan's mind, and the next moment he was swept into the surging water current.
