145: Chapter 145 Displaying the Token

Everyone's gaze involuntarily turned toward the entrance of the passageway.

Within the passageway, there was an extremely overbearing presence, strong enough to make them ignore everything else at that moment.

This feeling was completely different from when they faced a Transcendent.

When facing a Transcendent, that sense of inferiority stemmed more from the education they had been immersed in since childhood—a subjective consciousness deeply embedded in their bones that made them never dare to harbor the slightest thought of defiance.

At this moment, their feeling was like facing the vast and boundless Universe.

Placed within this majestic presence, the individual felt as insignificant as a drop in the ocean; a sense of inferiority flooded over them like a tide, and their minds instantly went blank.

Except for Zhang Hu and the other five, everyone present had their thoughts briefly halted, standing blankly in place.

And this was naturally because Chen Moxuan's Spiritual Sense pressure perfectly bypassed Zhang Hu and the others.

With only a few footsteps echoing, Chen Moxuan's figure had already crossed the hundreds-of-meters-long passageway and arrived behind Zhang Hu and the others.

He met their turned-back gazes squarely.

"Well done; leave the rest to me."

Chen Moxuan's voice was steady, carrying a magical power that put people at ease.

After speaking, he gently placed one hand on Zhang Hu's shoulder.

A stream of True Qi representing the Wood attribute flowed slowly from his palm into Zhang Hu's body, like a murmuring brook.

Gradually, Zhang Hu felt the pain in his previously throbbing wounds begin to rapidly diminish.

Those wounds that had been bleeding incessantly were healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

This stemmed from a Martial Skill that used Wood-attribute True Qi to strengthen the human body's self-healing ability.

Although the effect of this Martial Skill when used on others was far less significant than when applied to oneself, it was more than enough to treat these minor injuries.

Zhang Hu was slightly stunned; the words on the tip of his tongue swirled in his throat before he swallowed them back down by force.

Even though he usually acted solely on instinct, and despite having many questions at this moment, his intuition told him that he could unconditionally trust this man who had subdued him with just three punches.

Seeing that Chen Moxuan intended to continue forward, he hurriedly turned his sturdy body to the side so that Chen Moxuan could pass.

The others also successively cleared a path.

Chen Moxuan passed through them and arrived in front of the crowd, who seemed to have been immobilized by a binding spell.

Thanks to Zhang Hu and the others blocking everyone inside, not a single person had managed to run out.

Unlike him, the ordinary citizens born and raised in the Dazhou Nation were exceptionally compliant with the rules set by the Transcendent.

It was certain that almost all the teachers and students of the Third Hope Middle School were gathered here.

"No similar faces..."

Too many creatures with a Soul gathered together would somewhat affect the observation effect of his Spiritual Sense.

Previously, he had thought it was due to the distance, but now he scanned everyone's faces again at close range.

He confirmed that no one present matched Zhang Qing from the Martial Arts World in his memory.

Looking at it this way, there were only two possibilities left.

First, Song Xin had made a mistake when hearing the name and had misheard the information.

Second, these two people just happened to share the same name; they were two unrelated people, and there was no correspondence between them in the two worlds at all.

Now, Chen Moxuan leaned more towards the first possibility.

Because in this school, the name Zhang Qing was too unique and had extremely high recognizability.

If there really existed a second person with the same name, it was unlikely that Zhang Hu and the others would be completely unaware of it.

"In the end, I still have to use the clumsy method." Chen Moxuan sighed.

He intended to have everyone who might be the host for the Lust Maniac take a look at the token one by one.

"Everyone whose surname does not contain 'Zhang', squat down!"

Chen Moxuan's voice seemed to carry a certain magical power as it surged into everyone's Soul along with his Spiritual Sense.

In the application of Spiritual Sense, there was a technique called the 'Mind-Reading Technique'.

It could make the other party subconsciously obey his commands.

The simpler and clearer the command, and the greater the gap in Mental Energy, the harder it was to resist.

But even though ordinary people's Mental Energy was weak, to make thousands of people present obey simultaneously, one would need Mental Energy at least comparable to that of a Martial Artist in the Middle Stage of the Spirit Ascension Realm.

Before the crowd could even think, their bodies had already subconsciously reacted.

They all squatted down in unison, a hundred times more orderly than the calisthenics they did when dealing with inspections from leaders.

Only a scattered few dozen people remained standing, at a loss, staring at the surrounding situation for a moment before hurriedly squatting down as well.

But in that instant, Chen Moxuan had already memorized the locations of these few dozen people.

He was about to cast the Mind-Reading Technique again to pull them out, form them into a circle, and display the token all at once.

If it weren't for this air-raid shelter being narrow and the line of sight being restricted.

Otherwise, shouting 'Everyone look at me' and directly displaying the token would have been much more convenient.

"Boss, I've been wanting to ask, when you told us earlier to find everyone in the school with the surname 'Zhang', did you mean the 'Zhang' of Big Brother Zhang Hu?"

Suddenly, a timid voice came from behind Chen Moxuan.

Chen Moxuan turned around to look; it was a face that looked quite feminine.

He recalled it after a moment and remembered it was the Fifth Heavenly King he had designated later.

He had originally been worried that Zhang Hu and the others would act recklessly, so he had chosen someone who looked a bit sharper to supervise them.

The Fifth Heavenly King avoided eye contact and continued:

"It's just... the 'Zhang' you are looking for, does it include other multi-pronunciation characters?"

"For example, my surname is 'Zhang'..."

As he spoke, he stretched out his finger to trace the structure of the character.

"Multi-pronunciation character..." Chen Moxuan murmured.

He hadn't noticed this before because the APP task Song Xin had issued him clearly required him to find Zhang Qing.

So he had preconceived notions and assumed the other party's surname was 'Zhang'.

But thinking about it carefully, since Song Xin had passed on information spoken by the Lust Maniac before his Soul transfer, the possibility of it being a multi-pronunciation character was quite high.

"Come to think of it, what is your name?" Chen Moxuan said with a complex look in his eyes.

He only just realized that he hadn't gotten around to asking the other person's name.

The Fifth Heavenly King's expression flickered, and he struggled internally.

For some reasons, he had always used a pseudonym with the outside world.

But for Chen Moxuan, who had already become his idol, he decided to tell him his real name truthfully.

"My name is... Zhang Qian."

"Zhang Qian?" Chen Moxuan said, somewhat stunned.

This name... why does it sound so much like a woman's name?

But he had indeed observed male characteristics on the other person, such as an Adam's apple.

Chen Moxuan decided to set this question aside for now and took the token out of his storage space.

The pronunciation of these two characters was too similar to Zhang Qing, and if spoken in an emergency, it was indeed easy to confuse them.

With such a coincidence, the possibility of the other party being the Lust Maniac was extremely high.

Regardless, Chen Moxuan intended to first display the token to test it.

He held the blue box containing the token in one hand and opened it with the other, handing it in front of Zhang Qian.

As soon as Zhang Qian's gaze touched the object inside the box, his whole body froze, and his earlobes flushed red at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Zhang Hu and the other Four Heavenly Kings—Red, White, Yellow, and Blue—all gasped in unison.

"Boss... so he's into this?" one of them couldn't help but mutter in a low voice, his tone full of astonishment.

Facing this sudden and abnormal reaction from everyone, Chen Moxuan was also slightly stunned.

He turned his head to the side, his gaze bypassing the half-open lid of the box, and after seeing what was inside, he immediately had black lines across his forehead.

It was a snake-shaped dark gold ring...

Right now, combined with his solemn actions, it was indeed easy to make people think the wrong thing.

However, at this very moment, wisps of faint black Qi quietly emerged from the ring, winding their way into Zhang Qian's body.