314: Chapter 313 Overall Considerations

At this moment, everyone looked toward Chu Xuan in unison.

Lin Jie clenched his fists even tighter.

Under everyone's gaze, Chu Xuan simply gave a faint smile. "Lin Jie is fine. Everything is within my arrangements."

"Brother Chu Xuan..." Lin Jie's voice trembled slightly.

"He says it's fine and it's fine?" Huo Gui's smile stiffened. "Elder Yan, what is the meaning of this?"

"The old era has passed, and we old fogies of the Supervisory Commission should die off. According to Yang Yu's proposal before he left, the Supervisory Commission will be abolished soon, and a new position will be established. Chu Xuan is one of the candidates," Yan Guofa said.

"What? Just him, a newcomer? How long has he even been with the authorities?!" Anger flashed in Huo Gui's eyes. "Elder Yan, are we to distrust Revelation and instead choose to believe this dubious Chu Xuan?"

"It's not about believing in Chu Xuan, but believing in Yang Yu," Yan Guofa corrected him. "As for Revelation... since Yang Yu made this choice and Chu Xuan has already identified Revelation's identity, then it cannot be wrong."

"Elder Yan, by showing such favoritism and vouching for Chu Xuan, many people will certainly be dissatisfied! It's not just me; even among the Night Watchers nationwide, Revelation's influence is deep-rooted. Unless Captain-General Yang personally steps forward, I won't be convinced by anyone's words."

Huo Gui said with a gloomy expression, "Where are Elder Wei and Elder Wu, the other two Supervisory Commissioners? I want to see them!"

"You cannot see them for the time being." With a soft sigh, Yan Guofa said faintly, "I'm not vouching for Chu Xuan; I'm protecting you."

Huo Gui's expression froze.

Yan Guofa shook his head and ignored Huo Gui, turning his gaze back to Chu Xuan. He said slowly, "Chu Xuan, let this matter end here. Can you give me this bit of Face?"

"After all that talk, it still comes back to this..." Chu Xuan shook his head.

"You are a Senior, and logically, I should give you enough respect. However, they wanted to kill me, and you want to settle it with a single request for Face. Wouldn't that leave me with no Face at all?"

"You think I'm afraid of you? At worst, we'll perish together!" Huo Gui's gaze was ice-cold. The red sphere he gripped tightly began to throb like a heart again, though it didn't feel as heart-stopping as before.

Clang!

A Slash arrived instantly.

At the critical moment, Huo Gui used Teleport to dodge, leaving a long Slash mark behind him that emitted bursts of rumbling.

"Enough!"

Yan Guofa spoke in a deep voice, and an invisible restraint appeared in the area once more. "Chu Xuan, the headquarters will establish a new position for you later, and you will become a high-ranking member of the Night Watchers. I hope you can consider the bigger picture and not be impulsive."

"Didn't you want to perish together? Why don't you just trigger that broken sphere in your hand and see if you're qualified to take me down with you!"

Chu Xuan shot a cold glance at Huo Gui, then looked at Yan Guofa, his lips curling slightly. "As for those positions you mentioned, I'm not interested. On the other hand, Elder Yan, as a Supervisory Commissioner responsible for monitoring the conduct of internal personnel, shouldn't you be purging the black sheep from the ranks? Why are you asking me to stop instead?"

Chu Xuan was smiling, but there was a hint of coldness in his eyes.

His original intention for joining the Night Watchers, besides the instructions from Future Tang Zheng, was to be able to hunt Specters in peace. By using an official identity, he hoped to avoid trouble and prevent things like the Tao Jiajia incident from happening again.

But now, Huo Gui's words and actions were, to Chu Xuan, comparable to a second Tao Jiajia.

He no longer cared whether the other party was connected to Revelation; he had only one thought in mind.

—He had to kill this Huo Gui!

Whether it was the man's own malice or the red sphere in his hand that was clearly quite powerful, Chu Xuan was unwilling to leave this threat alive.

As he spoke, Chu Xuan had already condensed thirty more Slashes within his body, with 1,980 points of spirituality value remaining.

With sufficient resources and a random teleportation scroll in hand, Chu Xuan feared no one, and he certainly wouldn't back down easily just because of a few words from Yan Guofa.

Huo Gui gritted his teeth and stared intently at Chu Xuan, his eyes also filled with killing intent.

At this moment, the other three Deputy Captains, including You Hongle, had finally recovered from their heavy injuries after taking several healing potions and stood beside Huo Gui once again.

Seeing this, Chu Xuan laughed. "Elder Yan, look. It's not that I'm not giving you Face, but that others aren't giving you Face. How about you step aside for a bit, and after I'm done, you can come back to clean up the mess?"

"Sigh, it seems this old fogey really has become somewhat useless."

With a long sigh, Yan Guofa raised his hand. The small bronze mirrors in the hands of You Hongle and the other two vanished instantly, appearing in Yan Guofa's hand before they even had time to react.

The expressions of You Hongle and the others all changed.

"The sealing tools created with my ability are truly wasted on you," Yan Guofa sighed and shook his head, then beckoned again.

The indestructible flowing shadow in Chu Xuan's hand, which had transformed into a long saber, also vanished at that moment and appeared in Yan Guofa's hand.

Steal?

Chu Xuan's eyes narrowed slightly.

"A Curio tainted by the aura of The Gloom? Let me help you seal The Gloom as a token of my sincerity."

Yan Guofa reached out and gently stroked the indestructible flowing shadow, which had reverted to a demon-subduing pestle. Bursts of strange light flashed, and then it returned to normal.

Then, the demon-subduing pestle in his hand vanished, only to abruptly appear in front of Chu Xuan. As it began to fall without external support, Chu Xuan caught it.

On the surface, the demon-subduing pestle looked the same as before—still entirely black and emitting a faint dark glow—but it no longer felt as eerie as it had.

Most importantly, the System notification changed: using the indestructible flowing shadow would now consume only 1 point of spirituality value per minute, down from the original 10 points.