"To think it's actually a Priest." A voice that Su Chen found slightly familiar came from the heavenly vault, harboring a faint trace of astonishment.
'Is it that Sixth Chief Inquisitor?'
"En?" Su Chen's heart skipped a beat as he detected the 'Evil God Artifact' moving secretly. 'The other party is going to flee?'
Su Chen's eyes shifted slightly. He stealthily took a shortcut and rapidly followed after it.
"With such a slow speed, he's not a high-tier professional," Su Chen deduced. "That makes sense. High-tier professionals are too eye-catching. Furthermore, since other people aren't Evil God Cultists, they can't lock onto a target via perception. Lower-tier professionals are actually easier to escape with."
Booming explosions resounded from behind, and the color of the heavenly vault changed.
"Have they already engaged?"
The street scenery flitted by. Su Chen glanced back; golden flames and black fog intertwined, forming an interwoven canopy.
Su Chen's speed increased, yet he was also wondering inwardly, 'Where are Zhang Hongbo and the rest? Why is there no backup? It's just this Chief Inquisitor alone?'
"That guy is right up ahead..." Su Chen halted his footsteps, stopping on the roof of a building while staring at the pitch-black alleyway below.
The Azure Cable unfurled silently in his hand. Su Chen's eyes shifted slightly. "Just the right time to test out the enhanced Crimson Thunder Strike."
Mental power surged out wildly, and a smear of scarlet light abruptly flashed in mid-air.
Boom!
A scarlet thunderbolt over a dozen meters long and as thick as a thigh suddenly struck down like an arrow from a deity!
The fleeing Evil God Cultist was startled. Subconsciously looking up, his pupils reflected a sheet of scarlet, and his entire person lost consciousness.
【Path of the Hunt: Complete!】
"It's gotten much thicker, much longer too... The power has also increased by thirty or forty percent..." Su Chen watched the charred corpse on the ground radiating black flames and inwardly clicked his tongue. He didn't even launch any other attacks this time. "But the commotion has also gotten much louder."
With a sweeping motion of his psychokinesis, both the corpse and the metal suitcase on the ground flew toward him and sank into his Storage Space.
Looking at the distant heavenly vault that was gradually quieting down, Su Chen turned his head and ran.
...
Elsewhere, Xia Hanshi descended from the heavenly vault into a room in a building with a cold and detached expression. On the floor, there were only a few shattered crystal fragments.
"To think it's actually a Priest. Nanfeng City could actually attract a Priest." His expression became increasingly solemn. "I've been keeping an eye out for several days, yet I was lured here. He was making a feint to the east while attacking in the west here to attract my attention."
"In secret, there are even more important things happening. Nanfeng... Nanfeng..."
But subsequently, his eyelid twitched slightly. His figure flashed with a speed so fast that no silhouette could be seen. Soon, he arrived at a certain remote alleyway. Staring at the pitch-black road surface, he muttered in a low voice:
"Someone made a move here. What explosive lethal power..." He sniffed. "A charred smell, and the scent of sulfur as well... That Evil God Cultist who escaped is dead, not even leaving a corpse behind."
"And that item suspected to be an Evil God Artifact is gone too?" Xia Hanshi's expression darkened. Suddenly, he smiled sinisterly. "To think there's still an oriole behind me..."
...
"What... what is this situation!?"
Upon receiving the report, Zhang Hongbo brought people and hurriedly arrived half an hour later. The nearby Supervision Guards had already begun evacuating the panicked crowd.
Sweeping his gaze around, he finally spotted the ugly-looking Yang Yan and Gu Bing in a temporary command cabin in the distance.
"What's going on, how did such a huge..." Zhang Hongbo aggressively walked inside, but then he caught sight of Xia Hanshi sitting in the corner, and swallowed the remaining half of his sentence back into his stomach.
"Elder Xia..." Yang Yan, carrying some resentment, continued what he hadn't finished saying. "I know this operation centers on respecting you as the supreme authority, but you also shouldn't keep everything hidden from us, right?"
"Since you know I am the supreme authority, then cut the crap." Xia Hanshi didn't even lift his head.
Yang Yan froze slightly and said helplessly, "The situation is completely different now. A Priest is spying in the dark. With a moment of carelessness, major problems will arise."
"A Priest?" Zhang Hongbo's eyelids twitched violently. Casting politeness aside, he repeatedly said, "How is that possible!"
"What does my Nanfeng City have that warrants a Priest spying on it?"
"I am also curious." Xia Hanshi spoke faintly. He knew more; today was likely a tactic of luring the tiger out of the mountain.
A Priest was exposed, but in the dark, even more important things were likely happening. He urgently wanted to know exactly what it was.
The Evil Gods worshipped by the Evil God Cults were not illusory things; they were powerful living beings that actually existed and had their own desires.
Black Buddha was not an Evil God who took pleasure in destruction. What on earth did he want to do in Nanfeng, or... what was he searching for?
Moreover, tonight, an interceptor had bafflingly popped out of nowhere.
The more he investigated the things hidden in Nanfeng, the more there were.
No one could give an answer. Everyone had different thoughts and fell into silence.
Zhang Hongbo's expression changed incessantly, looking both dejected and anxious at the same time.
...
The curtains fluttered, and the window automatically closed. Su Chen's figure surfaced in the room. He took off the Shadow Evasion Cloak. The scenes from just now still continuously flashed in his mind.
"The power ratio in that place was severely unbalanced."
That gigantic phantom of Black Buddha looked very scary. Logically speaking, there should have been quite a few secondary-level professionals assisting from the sidelines, but the result was just two or three small fry.
"When that Chief Inquisitor made a move, he didn't seek any backup either. Even if he doesn't trust the people of Nanfeng, aren't there still the special envoys from Yingfeng?" Su Chen muttered inwardly. "Used to being a lone wolf?"
"Truly bizarre enough..."
He then looked at his panel. No matter what, the harvest tonight was pretty good. He had obtained another portion of 【Low-Tier Evil God Power】, and all three targets of the 【Path of the Hunt】 had finally been completed.
He'd originally thought that the 【Gale Hunter】 would begin its transformation on the way back, but the 【Path of the Hunt】 merely flickered with light, as if waiting for his agreement.
"This is more like it..." Su Chen muttered to the air. "Unlike that 【Mystic Scholar】 looking as if it couldn't wait a moment longer. It's still the 【Gale Hunter】 that knows how to be considerate of others."
After a round of lifting one up while trampling the other, the panel didn't show any reaction. Su Chen curled his lips inwardly and first switched to a Black Buddha Cultist to see if anyone was following him.
The events that transpired tonight were truly too bizarre; he felt a faint unease in his heart.
As a result, as soon as he switched, Su Chen felt his heart palpitate abruptly. He detected an extremely strong attractive force, which made his expression change slightly.
"What's going on? There's actually still more!?"
"Moreover, furthermore, this attractive force is just way too massive. It simply can't be compared to an Evil God Artifact. What the hell is it?"
His Black Buddha Cultist persona was disguised from a 【Believer】, so he would only feel attraction. If it were a pureblooded Black Buddha Cultist, they would probably have already kneeled down in fanaticism by now.
This sensation was far, far stronger than the attraction brought by an Evil God Artifact by several times!
"It also seems like it was just transported in... still moving," Su Chen's expression fluctuated between dark and clear before he suddenly realized, "No, could the previous Evil God Artifact be bait that was intentionally released?"
"Just to let this thing safely enter Nanfeng City."
"Something major is going to happen." Su Chen realized this point.
An empty Evil God Artifact was already enough to make Yuan Chenyang treat it as an impending enemy attack. And the hazard of the thing he was currently sensing probably far exceeded that of an Evil God Artifact.
His originally rather good mood turned very bad. When the nest is overturned, no egg remains intact. If any problems occurred in Nanfeng City, it would be very difficult for him to remain aloof from the affair.