275: Invitation, Surprise Attack

Upon learning that Xu Le had not attended a Spirit Tamer university, Xiong Jingxiang's first reaction was disbelief, followed immediately by wild joy.

A clean background, formidable strength, young age—although he was slightly mysterious, the first three attributes were enough to make him a hot commodity. The rest could be sorted out slowly, and she was confident that the Xuanwu Legion could train him into a qualified soldier.

Xu Le frowned. Xu Huan lowered her head in shame; she had assumed that after her brother had shown his Face to the authorities, he wouldn't mind being fully exposed.

Xu Le watched Xiong Jingxiang quietly. Xiong Jingxiang felt increasingly uncomfortable under his gaze, completely losing the imposing air of a squad leader. Just as she was about to buckle under the pressure, Xu Le spoke.

"What about the benefits?"

"Huh?"

"You're inviting me to join the Xuanwu Legion, but surely you can't expect me to accept just based on empty words? What will I get? What do I need to do?"

"This..." Xiong Jingxiang felt somewhat awkward. Her squad was ranked in the triple digits and was only responsible for guiding new recruits. The best benefits she could offer were making Xu Le a nominal vice-captain.

She might have been able to fantasize about it earlier, but seeing Xu Le's attitude, she suspected that if she actually said that, Xu Le would spit in her Face.

"Ahem, I can't decide on the benefits. But once we return to the Xuanwu stronghold, I will report this immediately and fight for the best terms for you."

"Fine!"

Xu Le agreed.

He discovered that the Spirit Realm was not filled with spirits everywhere as he had imagined. Joining an organization would help him find evil spirits, eliminate them, and assist in his promotion.

He found that absorbing the Spiritual Qi after an evil spirit died was much faster than trying to improve on his own blindly.

However, he couldn't just simply join the Xuanwu Legion; he needed autonomy.

Given his current strength, he felt they would give him this Face.

He casually gestured towards the Gourd Babies and the others, and paper figurines folded from leaves appeared in Xu Le's hand, which he then casually stored into his paper ring, making their eyes light up.

Xu Le then took out a few leaf-folded motorcycles and, with a casual gesture, transformed them into actual motorcycles, causing the girls to squeal in excitement.

Xiong Jingxiang still wanted to feign reserve, but her hand secretly reached out to touch the motorcycle's metal casing, wanting to test if it was real or fake.

Xu Huan was so excited that her Face flushed red: "Brother, brother, this move of yours is so cool! Can you teach me?"

"Sure!"

Xu Le tore off a few leaves nearby, recalling the contents of the Paper Control Technique. With the assistance of Ghost's spiritual power, a book filled with text soon appeared in his hand.

Compared to the original version gifted by the Night Demon, this was Xu Le's revised edition, which was relatively simpler, more practical, and stronger in power.

However, Xu Huan didn't have Ghost's assistance. With her ancestral spirit, she would likely still have to bury herself in finding Materials, creating spiritual paper, and then proceeding step-by-step with spiritual infusion and spiritual dotting.

Xu Le simply taught Xu Huan the method to activate the paper figurines, then gave her a paper ring, ten sailor moons, and a motorcycle.

"Thanks, brother. What about sister-in-law's?" Xu Huan pulled Wang Xueting over.

Wang Xueting exclaimed in shock, her Face blushing bright red with shyness, and she lowered her head, not daring to look at Xu Le. She secretly gave Xu Huan a thumbs up, then opened her five fingers, tilted them to the side, and clenched them into a fist—meaning she was giving Xu Huan a like, and she would cover all the chores for this semester.

Xu Le: "..."

Young lady, nothing within three meters can be hidden from me right now.

He sighed inwardly and gave Wang Xueting another paper ring and the ten Gourd Babies he had just retrieved.

"Thank you, brother." Wang Xueting happily put the ring on the middle finger of her right hand.

Xu Le's eyelids twitched as he watched: Are girls nowadays all this proactive? I didn't say anything!

Xiong Jingxiang approached: "Mr. Xu, would you mind submitting the method you just used to the Xuanwu Legion? Don't worry, we will help you convert it into sufficient contribution points to exchange for corresponding rewards."

"As long as the price is right, of course. However, it might not be as effective when you use it." Xu Le stated bluntly.

He knew that Xiong Jingxiang had seen the magical Paper Control Technique and was thinking about how it could save countless resources and manpower, but she didn't know that the key to why Xu Le's Paper Control Technique was so magical lay in Ghost.

If anyone else tried to fold leaves into paper figurines, the resulting paper figurines probably wouldn't even be able to walk, and wouldn't even be able to beat an infant.

Xiong Jingxiang: "Mr. Xu, among the tourists we encountered earlier, there were still some people holding out in the tour bus. Would you mind accompanying us to check on them?"

"Fine!" Xu Le agreed.

Everyone was a Spirit Tamer from a well-off background, and they all knew how to ride motorcycles, so they sped toward the location of the tour bus.

It only took a little over an hour for everyone to see the legendary tour bus.

Xu Le walked over and took a look; there were only sixteen corpses in the bus, all of them already chilled to the bone.

Everyone's Face still bore an expression of extreme terror, and there were no external injuries on their bodies; it seemed as if they had all been scared to death.

"Sigh, we arrived too late! Let's go back!" Xiong Jingxiang's expression was calm; she had seen similar scenes countless times, but a hint of pain was hidden in her eyes.

"We're just leaving like this?" The four students were very uncomfortable with this.

At eighteen, they were full of hot blood and a sense of justice; apart from feeling terrible, their only thought was to find the evil spirit behind this and take revenge.

"Let's go! The only thing we can do is improve our strength and protect Xuangu Pass; that is the only way to protect more people!" Xiong Jingxiang said, repeating the words her squad leader had advised her with. It was hard to hear, but it was the truth.

She looked at the silent Xu Le, only to find him staring fixedly toward the southeast.

Her heart skipped a beat. She pulled a yellow talisman from her pocket and infused it with Mental Energy to activate it, causing the talisman to turn into a drop of red liquid.

After wobbling in place for a moment, the liquid rolled toward the southeast.

"That talisman of yours is not bad!" Xu Le praised.

"This is the most basic Spirit Detection Talisman; it can be exchanged for 2 contribution points. It can measure the location of evil spirits within two kilometers. If there are too many evil spirits, it will display the one with the strongest aura."

Xiong Jingxiang felt more and more that Xu Le was unfathomable. He had discovered the evil spirit even earlier than her, which meant that not only was he proficient in the Paper Control Technique, but his strength was also not weaker than hers. She increasingly felt that Xu Le was a talent.

She decided not to intervene much for the time being, fully observing his performance, and would only step in when he really couldn't hold on.

"Caw, caw, caw..."

A bird flew overhead, emitting an unpleasant screech.

Xu Le felt something was wrong. He took out a palm-sized eagle-shaped leaf from his ring and pointed at it casually. The leaf expanded, transforming into a basketball-sized eagle.

It spread its wings and chased after the bird from before.

However, the eagle flew into the sky, circled around, found no other birds, and flew straight back.

"The tour bus is smoking." Wang Xueting noticed it and immediately warned them.

Xiong Jingxiang's heart sank. This evil spirit seemed even stronger than she had imagined. She could no longer stand by and watch; it was even possible that even if they joined forces, they wouldn't be able to defeat it.