88: Chapter 88 Uprooted

It felt like Director Wang Dewen had phlegm stuck in his throat; that name was dancing on the tip of his tongue, but he just could not get it out.

The first thought that popped into his head was to run!

Bang!

Director Wang Dewen turned around and smashed through the wall behind him.

A row of bone spurs erupted from his spine.

The aura of a Rank 4 Demon Human exploded outward.

He kicked off the windowsill with all his might, his body catapulting outward in a desperate attempt to escape.

Just as his toes left the windowsill, the space in front of him rippled.

Li Zhengyang appeared out of thin air in front of him, less than half a meter apart.

"What's the rush?"

Li Zhengyang raised his hand and grabbed the row of bone spurs that had just emerged.

He yanked them downward with a violent snap.

Crack!

The bone spurs broke off at the root.

"Ah!"

Director Wang Dewen let out a miserable scream as his body lost balance in mid-air.

Li Zhengyang grabbed him by the scalp and dragged him straight back from mid-air.

Boom!

Li Zhengyang stomped his foot onto the jagged, broken bone stumps on Director Wang Dewen's back.

He ground his heel down with force.

"You're quite the player, aren't you? Turning a martial arts school into a blood cow farm, draining blood on a weekly basis. Who taught you that?"

Director Wang Dewen's face twisted in agony.

"How could you possibly have this kind of strength!"

Li Zhengyang applied a bit more pressure with his foot.

The sound of bone breaking was exceptionally crisp in the office.

Director Wang Dewen knew he could not escape now, and a fierce glint flashed in his eyes.

He suddenly opened his mouth and spat a glob of venom toward Li Zhengyang.

Li Zhengyang did not even bother to dodge.

The crimson-gold Qi flowing across his body vibrated slightly, and the venom was deflected the moment it hit the Qi barrier.

"Is that all you've got?"

Li Zhengyang increased the pressure on his foot a few notches.

Splat!

His entire right arm was crushed into a pulp.

"You cannot kill me!"

Director Wang Dewen struggled frantically, roaring as he played his trump card, "I was sent by Lord Blood Demon to guard the East City! If you kill me, Lord Blood Demon will absolutely hack you into ten thousand pieces!"

Li Zhengyang laughed.

"You're counting on Xue You to avenge you?"

"I just took off one of his arms in the Northern Territory, and he ran away much faster than you."

Director Wang Dewen was completely stunned.

Lord Blood Demon had his arm taken off? How is that possible! That is an existence about to break through to the Overlord Level!

But the pressure radiating from the other party, which made him unable to even catch his breath, could not be faked.

That was an aura that transcended the Martial Emperor level.

"What the hell are you guys up to in East City?" Li Zhengyang pressed the tip of his dragon spear against Director Wang Dewen's face, piercing through the skin.

"I'll talk! I'll talk!"

Director Wang Dewen's psychological defenses completely collapsed, "The Spark Financial Group is our base of operations. The rogue martial artists and students who did not get into university that we've captured over the past few months are all locked on the tenth underground level of the group headquarters!"

Li Zhengyang narrowed his eyes: "What are they locked up there for?"

"To refine blood soul orbs... The Spark Group dug ten blood pools underground. Tomorrow at noon, the special envoy sent by headquarters will personally initiate the Great Sacrifice. Using the Qi and blood of one hundred thousand people, they will tear open a spatial rift directly above the center of East City to teleport the main army over!"

Using the lives of the entire city to open a spatial portal.

These bastards have quite an appetite.

Li Zhengyang did not ask any more questions.

The special envoy must be carrying plenty of loot, and the stock in the underground blood pools is a windfall in itself.

"The intel is very useful. I'll grant you a quick death."

Splat.

The abyssal meteor dragon spear pierced straight into his head.

Li Zhengyang pulled out the dragon spear and used its tip to pry open the chest cavity, digging out a magic core.

A Rank 4 magic core.

"Poor bastard."

Li Zhengyang complained with his mouth, but his hands were honest as he tucked the magic core away.

Even a fly's leg is still meat; cannot let it go to waste.

Alarms blared outside the office.

The commotion just now was too loud, attracting all the security guards in the school.

Chaotic footsteps were rapidly approaching in the hallway.

Li Zhengyang carried his dragon spear and walked out the door of the Academic Affairs Office.

Dozens of security guards in black emerged from both ends of the corridor.

A dozen of them tore off their disguises halfway through, ripping their clothes apart to reveal grayish-brown scales and bone spurs.

They were all Demon Human lackeys.

"There he is! Kill him!" The lead Demon Human raised a long blade and lunged forward.

Li Zhengyang shook his head.

Soaring Dragon Sky-Stepping Footwork.

His figure vanished into thin air.

When he reappeared, he was already behind the lead Demon Human.

He swept his dragon spear horizontally.

The Dragon Tooth Armor Piercing trait triggered; this strike met with zero resistance.

The three Demon Humans charging at the front were sliced in half at the waist; their upper bodies were still crawling on the ground, while their lower bodies had already collapsed with a thud.

Li Zhengyang did not even bat an eye, his dragon spear moving like a black dragon emerging from the sea.

Thunder Fall.

Violent black lightning exploded from the tip of the spear, ricocheting indiscriminately through the narrow corridor.

Screams merged into a continuous chorus.

Ten seconds.

The entire corridor was carpeted with severed limbs.

Li Zhengyang skillfully dug out the magic cores.

He stuffed them into his watch storage space one by one.

"The quality is too poor; the strongest of these security guards is only Rank 3 or 4."

After counting the dozens of low-rank magic cores, Li Zhengyang stood up and shook the remaining blood off his dragon spear.

He walked down the stairs, and just as he reached the teaching building lobby, the playground outside suddenly lit up like daylight.

Three armed helicopters circled overhead, their searchlight beams locked firmly onto the exit of the teaching building.

Boom!

The school's tightly closed heavy iron gates were forcibly rammed open by several heavy armored vehicles.

Fully armed City Defense Army soldiers filed in, guns raised, surrounding the playground until not even a drop of water could pass through.

All kinds of heavy firepower were aimed directly at this teaching building.

A black bulletproof off-road vehicle stopped in the middle of the armored vehicles.

The car door opened, and two people stepped out.

One was a City Defense Army commander in uniform, his expression stern, his hand resting on his sidearm.

The other was an acquaintance.

Sticking out a big belly and wearing a flashy suit.

It was none other than General Manager Sun, who had originally sent people to collect Li Zhengyang's debts.