264: Chapter 265 Seventh Brother, you call this a little tired?

Longya Academy, abandoned construction site on the back mountain.

Inside the cab of a heavy truck, Zhang Wei was restless.

He looked up at the time on the vehicle terminal from time to time, his ten chubby fingers rubbing against each other nervously.

"It's been an hour... Seventh Brother has been in there for over an hour..."

"Why is there no movement at all?"

The fatty's forehead was covered in sweat, and his heart was almost in his throat.

That was Longya Academy!

The Federation's top transcendent organization, with military fortress-level defense.

Seventh Brother just went in alone, just like that.

Although he had an almost blind worship of his Seventh Brother's strength, reason told him this was too risky.

What if he got discovered?

What if some reclusive old monster blocked him?

"No, no, can't scare myself."

The fatty took a deep breath, forced himself to calm down, and opened another screen.

On the screen was the Federation's largest social networking platform.

At this moment, the entire platform's trending list was almost dominated by one name and one enterprise.

#Li Family on the verge of bankruptcy, head suspected of sacrificing to extend life#

#Shocking scandal! Kyoto Li Family colludes with overseas organizations to steal national treasure#

#Biggest suspect in the theft of the skull of the old god emerges#

#Expert analysis: Li Qingcang's crazy gamble#

...

A series of sensational headlines, paired with various blurred photos that were photoshopped to look real—the Li family mansion emitting black Qi in the middle of the night, Li Qingcang looking withered as if his essence had been sucked dry, and so-called "insiders" exposing the Li family's broken capital chain and embezzlement to fill the hole...

Truth and lies, reality and illusion.

Driven by the massive army of internet trolls hired by Zhang Wei, an opinion storm against the Li family had swept through the entire Federation network.

Everyone's attention was drawn to the so-called "press conference" tomorrow.

Everyone wanted to see how this once-prestigious Kyoto Li Family would end.

And as another focal point of the storm, Lin Qi was also shaped into a lone hero image, ready to storm the press conference site single-handedly to retrieve the skull and expose the conspiracy.

"Hehe, I can brag about this operation for a year."

Looking at his "masterpiece," a proud smile appeared on the fatty's Face, and the nervousness in his heart eased a lot.

Diversion.

Seventh Brother's move was truly brilliant.

Now the whole Federation thought Seventh Brother was preparing for tomorrow's big battle; who would have thought he went to raid the Longya Academy's base tonight?

"When Seventh Brother returns fully loaded, that old guy Li Qingcang will probably be angered to death on the spot."

The fatty thought happily and opened an encrypted chat box.

It was a message from Xiao Zhenguo.

"Young Master Zhang, I have used all my connections to dig deep. The Li family's theft of the national treasure indeed had an expert behind it, but the trail broke at Chen Shu. That person is like an iron barrel."

"Also, the Li family is sparing no cost to acquire all high-level potions and equipment related to 'mental stability' and 'Soul defense' on the market, seemingly guarding against something."

The fatty's eyes lit up.

Guarding against mental and Soul attacks?

Isn't this just fearing Seventh Brother's unreasonable 'Law' ability?

It seemed that old guy Li Qingcang was scared witless by what Seventh Brother did at the gate of the Xiao Family last time.

"Well done, keep investigating, money is not an issue."

The fatty replied, then closed the screen, feeling more confident.

The more the enemy fears something, the stronger Seventh Brother's deterrence is.

Just as he wanted to lean back on the chair to relax, a black shadow flashed past the car window without warning.

The fatty was startled and almost jumped up from his seat.

"Who?!"

He looked closely, the car door had been pulled open, and a familiar figure sat in.

It was Lin Qi.

"Sev... Seventh Brother!"

The fatty was so excited his voice trembled when he saw who it was. "You're out! How is it? Are you hurt? Did you get the item?"

He threw a series of questions like cannonballs, looking up and down at Lin Qi, fearing he was missing a hair.

"Got it."

Lin Qi threw the silver cube on the passenger seat, making a dull thud.

He leaned back on the seat, let out a long breath, and closed his eyes.

"Drive, back to the safe house."

His voice sounded calm, but the fatty still keenly sensed a trace of weakness.

Seventh Brother's complexion was much paler than before he went in, and his breathing frequency was a bit chaotic.

This was an unprecedented situation.

In the fatty's impression, Lin Qi was always that kind of calm and unruffled image, even facing rewards and encirclement of hundreds of billions, as easy as taking a walk.

What happened today?

"Seventh Brother, are... are you okay?" The fatty asked cautiously, while hurriedly starting the truck.

"I'm fine." Lin Qi didn't even open his eyes. "Just a little tired."

A little tired?

The fatty secretly glanced at the strangely shaped metal block on the passenger seat, then looked at Lin Qi's pale side profile, and a turbulent sea stirred in his heart.

To make Seventh Brother say "a little tired," what kind of terrifying battle must he have experienced?

Breaking into the S-level restricted area of Longya Academy, snatching things from the Sword Saint, and still being able to retreat unscathed...

This is called "a little tired"?

If someone else said this, no one would believe it!

The fatty's worship of Lin Qi instantly rose to a new level.

He didn't dare to ask more, stepped on the accelerator, the heavy truck let out a low roar, quietly drove away from the abandoned construction site, and merged into the night of Tianhai City.

In the carriage, Lin Qi closed his eyes to rest. In fact, his consciousness was sinking into his body.

The battle with Sword Saint Ye Qingtian consumed him quite a bit.

Especially the last punch against "Return to Ruins," it almost drained all the Qi and blood power accumulated in his Organ Refining Realm Physical Body, and his internal organs felt bursts of stinging pain.

This was the first time he had pushed this body to the limit.

However, the harvest was also huge.

First, he verified the correctness of his path. Pure Dao, taken to the extreme, can indeed shake the Law of this world.

Secondly, Sword Saint Ye Qingtian's "Sword Intent seed," although not of much help to his Realm improvement, contained techniques about the use of the "space Law" of this world, which gave him a lot of inspiration.

He was now more handy in controlling "Protective Aura," and could even simulate some simple space cutting and distortion effects.

This was an unexpected joy.

The most important thing, of course, was getting the "Abyss Rift simulator master control core."

The three-piece set, two of which had already fallen into his hands or been suppressed by him.

Li Qingcang and that mysterious person's biggest trump card had been dismantled by two-thirds.

The initiative had returned to his hands.

"Seventh Brother, where are we going now?" The fatty's voice came from the front.

"Go back to Huichun Hall, I need some medicinal materials to recover." Lin Qi slowly opened his eyes. "Then, prepare."

"Prepare what?"

"Tomorrow, go watch a show."

The corners of Lin Qi's mouth curled into a cold arc.

Didn't the Li family set up a stage, waiting for him to perform?

If he didn't go, wouldn't it be too disrespectful to their Face?

However, he wasn't going to be an actor.

He was going to... wreck the show.

"Alright!"

The fatty became excited as soon as he heard this, and stepped on the accelerator deeper.

He could already imagine how wonderful Li Qingcang's Face would be when Lin Qi appeared at the press conference tomorrow.

...

Meanwhile.

Longya Academy, S-level restricted area secret room.

Instructor Su Qing was still guarding beside Sword Saint Ye Qingtian's "corpse."

She had notified the highest level of the academy that the restricted area had been invaded and Instructor Sword Saint Ye Qingtian was seriously injured and unconscious.

Of course, she concealed all information about Lin Qi, only saying that he was ambushed by a mysterious shadow person.

At this moment, several high-level academy officials with terrifying auras had arrived and were investigating the scene.

The white-haired old man leading them was the Vice Dean of Longya Academy, a genuine Fourth-turn "Saint Word Mage."

He squatted beside Sword Saint Ye Qingtian, checked carefully, and a look of extreme confusion appeared on his Face.

"Strange... too strange..."

"Life signs have completely disappeared, the Soul fire has also extinguished, logically speaking, he is already dead."

"But in his body, there is an extremely pure energy, like a lock, forcibly locking his last trace of vitality, keeping his Physical Body from rotting, and his Soul from scattering."

The Vice Dean stood up, looked at his colleagues, and said in a deep voice: "Old Ye's current state is neither born nor dead, neither dead nor alive, between 'existence' and 'extinction.' I have lived for over three hundred years and have never seen such a weird method."

Another Fourth-turn "Eagle Eye" who was good at tracking and investigation patrolled around, also with a heavy Face.

"There are two completely different Law residues at the scene."

"One is Old Ye's 'Return to Ruins' void Law, domineering and peerless; it looks like he risked everything."

"The other... I cannot describe." Eagle Eye shook his head. "That is not any Law known to this world, no elemental fluctuations, no mental traces, pure, primitive, like a kind of 'concept'... a kind of 'Dao'..."

He pointed to the direction where Lin Qi punched, where the space structure still retained a trace of extremely subtle traces of being forcibly "corrected."

"The intruder, using a way we cannot understand, forcibly defeated Old Ye's 'Return to Ruins' head-on."

"Then, he also bare-handedly snapped Old Ye's legendary-grade sword 'Silent'."

"Finally, he used this unfathomable method to 'extend' a breath for Old Ye."

"Vice Dean..." Eagle Eye looked at the white-haired old man, his voice dry. "What we are facing may not be a human."

"But a... 'God' walking on earth that we are completely unknown to."

Once said, the whole secret room was dead silent.