Chapter 86: Chapter 85: Surprisingly, He Can Also Command Needles (Third Update)
Lin Rui and his two companions left Zuihua House and jumped onto the rooftops, sprinting along the ridges.
Many people along the way spotted their figures, all turning their eyes towards the trio, with so even raising their hands to greet them.
“Arrest Officer Lin, are you going to slay demons again? Don’t damage my rooftop, okay?”
“Officer Lin is mighty, haven’t seen you stop these past few days!”
“You’ve been working hard, Officer. Co drink at my place when you’re back; I’ll prepare the feast now. Please, slay more demons—the more, the better!”
“Damn you, Officer Lin, my husband’s been hanging around Hanhua Alley these days again.”
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While running across the rooftops, Lin Rui connected to Zhang Tianchang using his waist token communicator.
“Old Zhang, my protector demon has located that Fourth-Realm Thousand-Thread Demon’s trace. It’s at the Ning family ancestral hall to the west of the city. I’m headed in that direction now. Send two teams over first. Yes, no need to explain the situation to them for now. You will also need to keep an eye out for ; if things go south, co to support .”
He was actually very cautious and careful.
Even though his overall combat power could crush that Fourth-Realm Thousand-Thread Demon, he would still make full preparations.
Lin Rui feared that the Fourth-Realm Thousand-Thread Demon might have other accomplices, or even interference from the person behind the scenes, so he made sure to give Zhang Tianchang a heads-up in advance.
However, Zhang Tianchang remained silent for a few breaths before responding in a faint voice, “Sure! ‘Old Zhang’ will keep an eye on you and be ready to assist.”
“Don’t just be ready to assist, Old Zhang,” Lin Rui said with dissatisfaction. “What about the people you promised ? I’m now a respectable arrest officer, and besides Twenty-Seven, I don’t have a single person under my command—”
The waist token suddenly emitted a ‘beep beep’ sound, indicating that Zhang Tianchang had actively cut off the communication.
Lin Rui cursed in his heart, ‘Damn it,’ thinking how dare Old Zhang hang up on him—didn’t he have any sha?
Since the day the County Magistrate and the archivist fell out, over twenty new governnt officials had been recruited, yet not a single one had been assigned to him.
Zhang Tianchang always claid that other places needed people more urgently, and that the routine patrols of Hanhua Alley were assisted by army soldiers, so there was no imdiate need for more people, hence his reluctance to allocate anyone to Lin Rui.
Indeed, office politics were all the sa, whether among the people of Planet Tianji or the Earth Federation.
The harder you work and the better you handle your tasks, the fewer resources you get from above. This was the so-called maxim of the more capable getting more work.
Lin Rui had pretty much cleared the area near Hanhua Alley of demons, and naturally, Zhang Tianchang was unwilling to allocate precious manpower to him.
“We’re here!”
Ji Xueying suddenly halted in mid-air.
Closing her eyes in concentration, she sensed, “It has noticed us and is throwing a fit. Master, this is, after all, an upper Fourth-Realm demon; do you need my help?”
The Blood Blade Ji not only possessed powerful concealnt abilities to deceive the senses and Divine Sense of most people in Silvermoon County, but she also had an extrely keen Divine Sense.
Lin Rui looked towards the small, three-room wide ancestral hall not far ahead, his eyes lighting up, “It should not be necessary; this Thousand-Thread Demon has not recovered from its heavy injuries!”
After becoming a demon master, Lin Rui was able to acquire one innate ability from Ji Xueying.
The bloodline talent that Lin Rui most wanted from Ji Xueying was ‘Divine Concealnt,’ hoping that he could, just like Ji Xueying, stealthily move beneath the notice of many Fourth-Realm masters.
Unfortunately, what he ended up with was ‘Spiritual Intuition,’ a high-level sensory ability.
However, this also enhanced his Spiritual Sense.
“Xue Ying, you go to the north side to block it and anwhile keep an eye on the civilians nearby. Once the fight starts, act accordingly and cover for us,” Lin Rui instructed as he tossed the Flash Thunder Talisman and Blazing Fire Talisman into the air.
In his right hand, he held his blade, beginning to gather montum.
The talismans exploded in the sky one after another, attracting a large amount of thunder and fire elental force from the heavens and earth, turning into crimson flas and thin strands of lightning about as thick as chopsticks.
These bolts of fire and lightning were drawn by the montum of Lin Rui’s blade, gradually forming a two-ter wide network of thunder and fire above him.
And yet, the net of lightning and fire kept expanding.
Before Lin Rui could complete his build-up of power, the small temple suddenly exploded, and a three-ter-tall Thousand Thread Demon rushed out from within.
This Thousand Thread Demon looked quite similar to the old nanny they had encountered several days before, also using its hair for swift movent, just like a spider, only it was much larger in size.
At the end of its thickest hair-whip hung a horn-like organ resembling a sickle, swinging with intimidating force.
Additionally, the Thousand Thread Demon had a terrible wound on its chest and abdon, likely inflicted by the county magistrate ten days prior, and it had not yet healed.
The Thousand Thread Demon dared not flee toward Ji Xueying’s direction, nor did it wish to charge towards Lin Rui, instead, it escaped towards the east.
Lin Rui shook his head slightly, interrupted his build-up of power, and suddenly leaped into the air, then, with two thick purple lightning fire serpents entwined, he slashed towards the Thousand Thread Demon with the velocity of lightning and thunder.
This was one of the most powerful secret moves in the Purple Glare Lightning Blade—the Purple Glare Lightning Extre!
The move was extrely potent, capable of injuring opponents beyond one’s level when powered to the limit.
Lin Rui also self-taught, had learned to augnt the blade’s power with talismans, making it several tis more tyrannical than a normal Purple Glare Lightning Extre.
However, before Lin Rui’s blade could strike, his Spiritual Sense detected two powerful presences hidden twenty ters below the surface ahead of him.
Lin Rui’s expression shifted slightly, “Be careful, Twenty-Seven! There are two fourth-realm, three-legged Mud Demons beneath us!”
—This was yet another ambush!
Lin Rui thought this really never ended.
The setup this ti was quite clever, with two fourth-realm mud demons hidden deep underground, eluding not only the Blood Blade but also Lin Rui.
But these re three fourth-realm entities, who were they looking down on?
Lin Rui, being mid-air, was no longer able to change his move.
But he pushed his blood energy to the extre, drawing in more thunderous flas and released all twenty flying needles he had hidden up his sleeve!
The Thousand Thread Demon that pretended to flee also stopped, its lips curving into a smug smile; all its hair was launched towards Lin Rui like an arsenal of blade and spear, slashing and stabbing at him.
It thought this person was certainly dead!
Lin Rui’s lightning-fire double serpents t the hair first, exploding with a thunderous boom!
The imnse lightning fire instantly burned away nearly eighty percent of the Thousand Thread Demon’s hair!
At this mont, the two fourth-realm mud demons had already burrowed out of the ground, each stretching out a huge hand, ready to seize Lin Rui.
Standing at a distance, Ji Xueying of the Blood Blade also leapt into the air simultaneously.
However, just as she was ready to swing her blade, a piercing pain shot through her head, forcing Ji Xueying to moan involuntarily and fall from the sky.
Delighted by the sight, the Thousand Thread Demon cackled maliciously and swung its sickle-bearing hair-whip at Lin Rui while simultaneously growing more hair from its head.
At that mont, the Thousand Thread Demon felt a sharp pain at all its vital points simultaneously.
Those were twenty steel needles, penetrating its eyes, ears, and mouth—the weak spots, wreaking havoc in its flesh, even piercing into its heart and brain!
Not only did this cause the aim of the Thousand Thread Demon’s sickle to deviate, but it also drained much of its strength.
“Could this be Needle Control?”
The demon felt a wave of confusion and despair.
— This guy, a re third-realm Martial Cultivator, could actually wield the art of Needle Control?
Once again in midair, Lin Rui’s long blade erupted with two imposing lightning-fire double serpents, ferociously slashing into the brow of the Thousand Thread Demon with a ‘pong’ sound of explosion.
This slash from Lin Rui took off half of the Thousand Thread Demon’s head, and the fierce lightning fire pursued the demon’s brain tissue, intent on burning it to ashes!
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