"This minor issue doesn’t need to trouble you."
Lu Yan responded without expression, then casually tossed the fragmented soul to Blood Mustache beside him.
Blood Mustache eagerly caught the soul, then began to chew voraciously, with painful howls emanating from his mouth.
"You are nothing but a fallen one, yet you possess soul technology to command hundreds of special soul bodies. You’ll be targeted by the Heaven Computation Center sooner or later!"
"Don’t think that just because you defeated me, you can act unchecked.
I am merely a regional manager of the Universal Giant Corporation. There are many stronger than me in the Upper City District, and the general manager of City No.14 is an Extraordinary Psychic who can crush you with a single finger!"
"Not to mention Him! As long as He exists, you’ll never dream of stepping into the sunlight again!"
"Your time is running out. I’ll be waiting for you in Hell!!!"
The voice gradually faded, as Blood Mustache completely devoured the soul.
Although the system of Spiritual Ability Users has its flaws, and Upper-Rank Spiritual Ability Users’ souls do not fully transform, it was at least at the level of a Foundation Establishment Divine Soul.
Blood Mustache had already consumed a Demon Cultivator’s Divine Soul nearly reaching the Foundation Establishment Stage, and now, having devoured the soul of an Upper-Rank Spiritual Ability User, he finally took the crucial last step.
The soul body became more solid, with tendrils throughout extending continuously, ultimately transforming into a bizarre soul body covered in long hair.
Lu Yan roughly calculated that the newly promoted Foundation Establishment Blood Mustache could now merge with over eight hundred vengeful ghosts, meaning Blood Mustache could fuse all the vengeful ghosts into one.
Once the Blood-Bearded Giant Ghost with eight hundred vengeful ghosts took shape, its power could even soar to the late Foundation Establishment stage.
With one more card in his hand, Lu Yan nodded satisfactorily, then swung the Soul Banner to retrieve all the vengeful ghosts and the main soul.
The Ghostly Realm receded, revealing a scene of ruins before Lu Yan, the aftermath of the previous battle having changed the environment of this area.
Several streets away, the roar of engines was continuous, with patrol squads evidently having detected the events and rapidly approaching this place.
If Lu Yan had taken a minute or two longer to eliminate his formidable enemy, he’d likely have been caught by the patrol squad and the law enforcement team.
Just as he was about to leave directly, Lu Yan’s attention fell on the corpse of a young man in a silver suit and the numerous spiritual weapons previously arranged around the cave.
After a brief moment of thought, Lu Yan took the Intelligent Brain Terminal from the corpse’s hand, then used the Profound Yellow Merit Fire to burn the body.
As for those spiritual weapons, Lu Yan packed them all up and stored them in a spare storage bag.
After cleaning up the scene, Lu Yan decisively fled towards the nearest cave entrance.
A minute later, a squad of heavily armed law enforcement officers arrived at the scene.
The group examined the surrounding traces, only able to confirm that a great battle had taken place here.
As for the strength, identity of the combatants, or even if it was related to the Heaven Transport Vehicle’s hijacking, there was no way to determine.
The occurrence of a major battle at such a sensitive time inevitably led some to suspect whether the combatants came from beneath the cave.
The cave’s environment could never produce an Upper-Rank Spiritual Ability User, but that didn’t mean there were none in the caves.
If a fallen one from a certain city secretly settled underground, it would be normal for them to wield the power of an Upper-Rank Spiritual Ability User.
Thus, the Central City District began to screen the situation of fallen ones in surrounding cities, trying to identify which fallen one might be lurking beneath the caves.
Thirty-Third Cave, Law Enforcement Building.
Scott remained in the office. In recent days, he had grown more accustomed to the office environment, as if only here could he gain some slight sense of security.
Reflecting on his decision to report the entire matter to his father the day before, Scott felt a vague unease in his heart.
"Perhaps... I shouldn’t have reported it, but instead struck a deal with the other party?
After all, from the transaction’s perspective, that deal could be considered a win-win."
"But since I’ve already decided to have my father intervene, I can’t continue to hesitate and be timid.
I just hope my father can resolve the issue quickly, as today’s probing invitation communications have multiplied, I’m about to reach my limit."
Just as Scott was overwhelmed with anxiety, a familiar sense of threat arose from the depths of his soul.
It was that special soul body!
Scott was instantly terrified, rushing towards the office door.
And at that moment, a cold voice sounded within the office.
"Your father is already dead. As compensation for enlightening me, I will send you to join him."
The next moment, a chilling wind seemed to blow forth from the depths of the earth, instantly filling the entire office with howling wind.
The office desk, chairs, files, lights... everything within the office seemed to have been accelerated, with everything rapidly decaying.
And Scott, at the forefront, had lost the last chance to escape the office.
The wind scattered his soul and flesh, leaving a white skeleton in place, which collapsed and fell as the bones lost the support of muscles.
The entire process occurred almost soundlessly, apart from the sound of the wind. Even the law enforcement members outside the door didn’t realize that Law Enforcement Officer Scott was already dead.
A few hundred meters away in a deserted building, Lu Yan, using a vengeful ghost, observed everything.
Knowing it was Scott causing trouble behind the scenes, Lu Yan naturally wouldn’t give him the opportunity to continue struggling, sending Scott to join his father the moment he returned to the cave.
Usually, Lu Yan acted with prudence, but once he had the intent to kill, he wouldn’t hesitate.
With Scott’s death, fourteen vengeful ghosts engraved with spiritual ability codes emerged from the ground, returning to Lu Yan’s side.
Gazing at the flickering spiritual ability codes on the ghosts, which seemed ready to extinguish at any moment, Lu Yan nodded slightly with satisfaction.
"At this stage, while the Yin Wind Array may not be effective in large-scale battles, for such small-scale covert assassinations, it is the most suitable.
It is discreet, easy to set up, and attacks both the physical body and the soul, leaving those below Foundation Establishment with no room for resistance."
Retrieving the ghosts into the Soul Banner, Lu Yan picked up his personal terminal and sent Shaq a message.
With the message sent, a deafening shout of slaughter erupted instantly from the law enforcement building several hundred meters away.
Hundreds of spiritual energy users stormed the law enforcement building, beginning a wholesale massacre of the law enforcement team stationed in the Thirty-Third Cave for a month and a half.
This intense shouting and killing drew even the residents of the Thirty-Third Cave, as everyone looked at the law enforcement building with expressions of immense delight.
In this chaotic slaughter, the life and death of Law Enforcement Officer Scott were already of no concern to anyone.