96: Chapter 96 The Dragon-Suppressing Stone of Nanzhou is Gone; The Prince of Runan Has a Plan

The people behind them also chimed in, painting themselves as incomparably heroic while exaggerating the enemy to be invincible.

The core message was simple.

The mission failed, not because we didn't try, but because the enemy was too strong; we did our best.

They had long since mastered this classic workplace tactic of shifting blame.

However, the scene where Lin Feng would comfort them, or at least say a few polite words, did not happen.

Lin Feng just listened quietly, the warm smile on his face never changing from beginning to end.

After everyone finished their tearful complaints, he asked slowly, "Oh? Is the Blood Skull so cunning?"

His gaze fell on Deputy Commander Wang Kun, his smile undiminished.

"But how is it that I heard Deputy Commander Wang didn't go to Black Wind Forest at all these past three days? Instead, you were at Zuixian Restaurant in Anyuan Prefecture, paying for the top performer, Miss Cuier, and listening to tunes for three days and three nights?"

The look of grief on Deputy Commander Wang Kun's face froze instantly.

A chill shot straight from his tailbone to his crown!

"As for you, Deputy Commander Li He."

Lin Feng turned to the pale-faced Deputy Commander Li He, "I don't know if the Golden Armored Corpse King is fierce or not, but the girls at Chunxiang Pavilion must be quite fierce, right? I heard Deputy Commander Li He spent a fortune; have you been drained dry these past few days?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the whole place fell into dead silence!

Everyone looked at Lin Feng as if they had seen a ghost.

Deputy Commander Wang Kun and Deputy Commander Li He were struck by lightning, their bodies trembling violently, bean-sized cold sweat rolling down their foreheads.

How could he know?!

Going out of town for drinking and pleasure was done extremely secretly.

How could a newly arrived commander know about it so clearly?!

At this moment, not only them, but everyone felt a bone-chilling cold rising in their hearts.

This young commander was not only terrifying in strength, but his intelligence-gathering methods were unfathomable!

In front of him, they felt as if they were naked, with no secrets at all!

"Admitting it by silence?"

The smile on Lin Feng's face finally faded, replaced by a biting coldness.

"Very good."

In front of everyone, he slowly drew the crimson-black Life-Slaying Blade, which seemed capable of swallowing all light.

"This Seat thinks you all have your own reasons."

"But here with This Seat, that is a path to death!"

The moment his voice fell, he moved!

There was no warning, and no unnecessary nonsense!

A streak of blood-colored blade light, fast to the extreme and seemingly from the depths of Hell, flashed through the crowd!

Puchi!

Puchi!

The heads of Deputy Commander Wang Kun and Deputy Commander Li He, still filled with terror, flew into the air.

These two Deputy Commanders, who had lorded over the Nanzhou Demon Suppression Division for decades, didn't even have time to react before they were decapitated on the spot!

Blood stained the high platform red.

At this very moment, a cold System notification rang out in Lin Feng's mind.

[Ding! Successfully killed Divine Sea Realm Eighth Stage Deputy Commander Wang Kun!]

[critical hit multiplier increased to 1150 times! Obtained 1,000,000 critical hit points!]

[Ding! Successfully killed Divine Sea Realm Seventh Stage Deputy Commander Li He!]

[critical hit multiplier increased to 1200 times! Obtained 1,000,000 critical hit points!]

"Now, who else wants to state their reasons?"

Lin Feng sheathed his blade, his cold gaze sweeping over the subordinates of Wang and Li below, who were already scared to the point of Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering.

"..."

The answer to him was death-like silence and the violently trembling bodies of the crowd.

"Very good, it seems everyone has completed the mission to Perfection this time."

Lin Feng nodded with satisfaction, "Since that is the case, hand over the prey you caught."

The crowd below: "..."

Where the fuck would we have any prey!

Looking at this group of old workplace veterans, their faces ashen and trembling like chaff, a demonic smile appeared on Lin Feng's face.

"What? None?"

"That's easy to handle too."

"From today on, the Nanzhou Demon Suppression Division will add a new rule."

"Silver Rank envoys who fail their missions will have to fill the gap themselves; use your heads to make up the merit for those brothers who completed their missions."

"Now, who approves? Who opposes?"

These words were like the final straw that broke the camel's back, completely shattering the psychological defenses of all the old veterans.

Plop! Plop!

Led by those few captains, all the Silver Rank envoys knelt down in unison, kowtowing like pounding garlic, crying heart-wrenchingly.

"Commander, spare our lives!"

"We are guilty! We deserve to die! We were slacking off on purpose! Please give us another chance, Commander!"

"We'll go catch them right now! No! We'll go dig up the ancestors' graves of the demons and bring them back for you!"

From then on, there was not a single discordant note within the Nanzhou Demon Suppression Division.

Everyone was completely subdued by Lin Feng's bloody, cruel, yet unfathomable iron-fisted methods.

Laying flat? Impossible! If they lay flat again, they would really have to lie in a mass grave!

The entire Nanzhou Demon Suppression Division, from top to bottom, became completely competitive!

And Lin Feng, having completed the internal corporate culture construction in the most direct way, finally had time to deal with another matter he had always been concerned about.

He walked with his hands behind his back, passing through the noisy Martial Arts Field, and went straight to a quiet corner in the backyard of the Demon Suppression Division.

Here, a three-zhang tall xuanjing power measurement stele stood.

The stele was pitch black all over, having weathered countless storms; its surface was covered with old marks of blades and axes, bearing witness to the rise and fall of the Nanzhou Demon Suppression Division for hundreds of years.

Before Lin Feng's arrival, it had not been activated for a long time and seemed somewhat lonely.

Lin Feng stood quietly in front of the stele, eyes slightly closed, his ocean-like Divine Sense turning into countless invisible tentacles, silently infiltrating the interior of the stele.

The Divine Sense drove straight in, easily penetrating the simple defensive Formation on the outer layer of the stele.

Soon, he "saw" the core of the stele.

There, a fist-sized "dragon-suppressing stone" that should have been embedded there, connected to the earth's veins and used to suppress the Luck of Nanzhou, was missing.

However, at this moment, there was only a hollow groove left there!

The edges of the groove still bore traces of being forcibly pried open by external force and then repaired, along with a faint but familiar aura.

"As expected..."

Lin Feng slowly opened his eyes, his gaze as deep as an ancient cold pool.

Just as he had expected! The dragon-suppressing stone here was gone!

"Nine Divine Stones... one from Nanzhou is gone... and if I hadn't appeared in Qingzhou, letting the Prince of Runan's subordinates move in, it would likely be gone by now too..."

"Prince of Runan, what exactly are you planning?"