24: Neglected issues

Jiang Fei followed the trail of 'Chen Yun' and arrived here.

At a single glance, he could tell that this mother and daughter were suffering from supernatural mental pollution... Fortunately, it was just pollution and not a direct mental attack.

Seeming to have extreme trust in the reputation of the Zhenwu Bureau, Han Cui's expression relaxed somewhat.

Then, as if remembering something, she said nervously: "Officer, can you please save my son? He encountered... he encountered a supernatural entity outside Dafeng Mall."

Jiang Fei's movements paused; he thought to himself that the boy had likely already been eaten.

He then completed the hand seal, and two clusters of energy separated from his fingers, sinking into the bodies of Han Cui and Chu Ying.

"I understand. Stay hidden." He thought for a moment, then took a bronze plaque from around his neck: "Keep this safe. This plaque comes with a disguise effect. As long as you don't run around, no one will find you."

In any case, he likely wouldn't survive, so he might as well save whoever he could.

He was no match for the supernatural entity possessing Chen Yun, but he couldn't just stand by and do nothing...

Han Cui knew such a treasure was precious and was about to refuse, but Jiang Fei simply shoved the bronze plaque into her hand.

He then turned around and vanished in a single leap...

...

Chu Yuan found himself becoming increasingly irritable.

There seemed to be some kind of force field around, affecting his thoughts.

It wasn't obvious at first, but after staying here for a while, he felt more and more that something was wrong.

Fortunately, after circulating the Evergreen Foundation Establishment Method, he could suppress those abnormal emotions.

Still, he couldn't afford to keep wasting time here with this supernatural entity...

A young man's figure approached from the distance, getting closer and closer.

Chu Yuan casually slashed a blade strike at him...

"..." Jiang Fei drew his sword to block, shouting urgently: "Chu Yuan! I am Jiang Fei from the Zhenwu Bureau! I'm not an illusion created by that thing!"

He was in charge of Chu Yuan's case, so naturally, he recognized Chu Yuan and knew he had roughly the strength of the Inner Breath Realm.

But why was Chu Yuan here?

"...My apologies." Chu Yuan spoke. He wasn't surprised that this stranger had called out his name.

After all, he was from the Zhenwu Bureau; perhaps they had already been investigating him in secret...

"It's fine... Where is she?"

Chu Yuan looked around, but did not find the woman's trail.

He then turned around skillfully and slashed down with his blade!

The air rippled, and a pale hand grabbed the blade, though it didn't fully catch it, and wisps of black blood dripped down.

A painful whimper rang out again...

The woman vanished again, and Chu Yuan looked at Jiang Fei with a complicated expression.

A Martial Artist from the Zhenwu Bureau... was this the level of their quality?

With such a good opportunity just now, he actually didn't follow up with a strike!? Instead, he just stood there dumbfounded like he was watching a show?

Yet, seeing Jiang Fei finally snap out of it, his eyes widened, and even his injured, tightly shut left eye opened a slit: "You can directly injure her!?"

Hearing him ask that, Chu Yuan understood the situation.

He made up an excuse: "I've mastered a special Martial Skill that has miraculous effects against supernatural entities..."

Jiang Fei searched his mind for a long time but couldn't recall any Martial Skill that would allow a low-level Martial Artist to directly harm a supernatural entity in its possession state.

After a supernatural entity possesses someone, the Human Race body is merely a vessel.

What did some minor damage to the vessel have to do with the supernatural entity hiding inside?

"Um... can you deal with it?" Chu Yuan asked, already knowing the answer.

"Why?"

"I need to go protect my family... You came from that direction; did you see a mother and daughter?" Chu Yuan's tone carried a hint of imperceptible apology.

It wasn't that Martial Artists of the Zhenwu Bureau were meant to go to their deaths, but he was truly worried about Han Cui and Chu Ying.

Jiang Fei immediately remembered and asked uncertainly: "Is the girl only thirteen or fourteen years old? Wearing the uniform of the Second Experimental Middle School?"

"Yes! Where are they?"

"They're fine..." Jiang Fei didn't know what he recalled, but he shook his head: "Go ahead. They're on this street, at the Chengxin Store about six hundred meters away."

"Thank you."

Chu Yuan turned around and activated the Luo Yan Step to run outward.

The supernatural entity indeed launched another attack on him, with strands of black hair appearing out of thin air and shooting toward his vital points!

However, this time Jiang Fei did not stand there dumbfounded. Before Chu Yuan could act, a gust of sword wind brushed past him, shredding those strands of black hair!

Chu Yuan glanced back at him, then his figure vanished.

Jiang Fei looked at the supernatural entity appearing before him, a trace of deep sorrow in his eyes.

He murmured: "Xiao Yun, you're going to be bald..."

Responding to him was a hand with pitch-black nails thrusting toward his chest...

...

"Brother! We're here!"

Inside the store, Chu Yuan asked in surprise: "How did I not notice you just now?"

"It's this thing." Han Cui showed him the bronze plaque: "A Martial Artist from the Zhenwu Bureau passed by earlier and gave us this, saying it had a disguise effect."

"Also, also! I was so cold earlier, but that big brother shot a ball of light into my body, and I wasn't cold anymore..."

"It's true, Yingying was crying the whole time earlier..." Han Cui handed over the bronze plaque and said: "Yuan Yuan, were you also saved by him?"

"You could say that..."

Chu Yuan hadn't expected Jiang Fei to have done so much. What Yingying said... they had likely already been affected by the supernatural entity, but he hadn't noticed!

If Jiang Fei hadn't happened to pass by...

But he hadn't mentioned it at all just now, nor had he asked Chu Yuan to stay and help him deal with the supernatural entity because of what he had done...

Taking the bronze plaque into his hand, the System immediately displayed a notification:

[ ... Small Light Simulation Formation;

Convertible to: Invisibility Formation.

Daily conversion limit: 1. ]

The name was quite direct, letting one know its purpose at a glance.

The effect of the Invisibility Formation was indeed much stronger than the Light Simulation Formation, but Chu Yuan did not intend to convert it.

After all, this was someone else's item...

Wait!

Chu Yuan's heart skipped a beat as he suddenly discovered a problem he had overlooked!

He had long guessed that the System might be able to convert Formations, and had even thought about getting a set of Energy Gathering Array to convert into a Spirit Gathering Array.

So, wasn't the Blood Sucking Array also a Formation?

Why hadn't he thought of converting it from the beginning?

Chu Yuan thought about it; perhaps it was because the System hadn't popped up a notification when he touched the blood patterns.

That was why he subconsciously assumed it couldn't be converted...

But those blood patterns weren't the core of the Formation at all!

It could also be that the Blood Sucking Array was so massive in scale that he instinctively thought this wasn't something he should be involved in at his current level.

However;

It was he who was weak, not the System!

As long as he could get in contact with the core of the Formation... Chu Yuan looked up at the six pillars of light in the sky, a plan forming in his mind once again.

But as for how to operate specifically, he needed to obtain more information.

For example, were these six pillars of light one Formation, or six Formations?

If they were six, would they become one large Formation once the six pillars connected?

"Mom, hold onto the bronze plaque and hide here a bit longer."

"Brother, where are you going?"

"I'm going to save that person from the Zhenwu Bureau!"

"Yuan Yuan... be careful!"