FWF Chapter 17 The Sky Over Jiangcheng Has Collapsed
Chapter 17 The Sky Over Jiangcheng Has Collapsed
The black SUV bumped along the dirt road, the atmosphere inside silent and still.
Sitting in the passenger seat was a middle-aged man in his forties, calm and composed, who remained silent.
His name is Dong Sheng, and he is the captain of the Night Watch Vanguard Squad, a fourth-level martial artist.
His gaze fell on the rapidly receding wilderness outside the window, his eyes still filled with disbelief.
The driver was a young team member named Arui, who looked to be around twenty-four or twenty-five years old and also possessed the strength of a late-stage Tier 3 player.
He's usually the most talkative; he's known as the team's chatterbox.
There was another person sitting in the back seat, the team's scout, a silent man in his early thirties, codenamed "Old Hunter," whose strength was also at the third tier.
He leaned back in his chair with his eyes closed.
However, the rapid movement of his eyeballs beneath his eyelids indicates that he is not in a calm state of mind.
Arui finally couldn't hold back anymore.
"team leader."
"How did that kid do that?"
"Did he really kill the Bloodthirsty Wolf all by himself?"
"They were still killed by being hacked to death, one blow at a time!"
No one answered his question.
Everyone was completely baffled.
A bloodthirsty war wolf at the late stage of the fourth tier.
This was a being capable of wiping out an entire Night Watch Vanguard squad, yet it was killed by a mere Tier 2 brat?
There was no earth-shattering fighting.
There are no particularly dazzling or flashy skills.
Is it a freshman taking a long alloy sword and hacking away?
"Are you fucking kidding me?"
Arui couldn't help but pat the steering wheel.
The vehicle rattled and swayed on the rough road.
Ari straightened the steering wheel and said, "That bloodthirsty war wolf, it's the late-stage fourth-tier one, right?"
"Is it the one we've been chasing all day?"
"It's the one you personally injured, Captain, right?"
"And then he got stabbed to death by a second-tier college student?"
"The fatal wound wasn't a knife wound." Dong Sheng opened his eyes.
"The knife only cut open the abdomen; the fatal wound was in the heart!"
Dong Sheng paused for two seconds, then uttered a few words: "Psychic Master".
The air inside the car seemed to freeze.
Arui opened his mouth, a very complex expression on his face.
He was filled with shock, disbelief, and a vague sense of frustration.
"No," Ari's voice trembled slightly, "Captain, are you sure that was a psychic? Even if a second-tier psychic is incredibly powerful, it doesn't make sense for them to kill a fourth-tier beast, does it?"
A master of mental power.
This profession is far less common than martial artists in the Great Xia Dynasty.
One out of a hundred awakened individuals might not be able to achieve this.
It's not because the threshold for awakening is high, but because the cultivation system is unique.
Mental strength must grow and improve along with a martial artist's cultivation level.
Moreover, all psychic practitioners are born that way.
It is impossible to become a psychic later on.
This is a profession that God has blessed us with.
"What was that kid's name again?" the old hunter suddenly asked.
"Ye Feng," Arui said, "He just said it himself."
Dong Sheng's fingers stopped tapping.
He remembered someone.
"The Ye Tian who sacrificed himself three years ago," Dong Sheng said slowly, "also had the surname Ye."
Arui paused for a moment, then slammed his hand on the steering wheel.
"That's right! Clan Chief Ye Tian! A fifth-tier martial artist, he was a great hero who saved the entire Jiangcheng three years ago!"
"Captain, you mean that kid is the son of Hero Ye?"
"The age matches up," Dong Sheng said. "When Chief Ye sacrificed his life, his son should have just started high school."
"I remember the Night's Watch headquarters gave out compensation back then, and I later heard that his son awakened a purple-level talent."
"But I was recently seriously injured, and my purple attribute was also destroyed, so I became an ordinary martial artist with only white attributes." Arui's voice was filled with confusion.
"Everyone in Jiangcheng is saying that Ye Tian was a hero all his life, but his son was a good-for-nothing. How come he's so powerful now?"
He didn't finish his sentence, but the meaning was clear.
A useless creature with a purple attribute that's been rendered obsolete can still kill a late-stage Tier 4 beast with a single strike?
Can one become a psychic?
"Rumors are not to be believed," the old hunter said calmly.
"This isn't just a matter of rumors," Ari said, scratching his head.
"With a population of three million, the Night Watch headquarters should have been in an uproar over the emergence of a genius who can kill a fourth-tier alien beast at the second tier."
Dong Sheng did not respond.
He recalled something else: yesterday, the energy detection equipment at the Night's Watch headquarters had detected an orange-level awakening fluctuation.
The location is in the North City low-rent housing area.
Headquarters immediately launched "Project A," sending people to secretly search for the awakened one.
If that awakened one is Ye Feng.
That makes sense.
The orange-level attribute awakened, coupled with the talent of a mentalist, and Ye Tian's bloodline.
"Once we get back," Dong Sheng said slowly, "we'll check all of Ye Feng's information. The more detailed the better."
"Understood," Arui replied, then paused and asked, "Captain, about the Bloodthirsty Wolf...should we report it?"
Dong Sheng remained silent for a while.
According to the rules, the records of killing exotic beasts must be reported truthfully, especially those of beasts of the fourth rank or higher.
But the Bloodthirsty Wolf was their prey that they had been chasing all day, and it would be a bit embarrassing to report it to an outsider.
"Report," Dong Sheng finally spoke.
"Report the truth. Include Ye Feng's name as well."
"Huh?" Arui was a little surprised. "Isn't that giving him credit?"
"The record of killing a fourth-tier beast is a real achievement for the Night Watchers." Dong Sheng looked out the window, his tone calm.
"Since he's going to join the vanguard battalion, he should be able to make use of this merit."
Arui opened his mouth as if to say something, but ultimately didn't.
A genius who can kill a fourth-tier beast at the second tier has limitless potential for future achievements.
Rather than making an enemy of him over a kill record of a strange beast, it's better to do him a favor and build a good relationship.
Having spent so many years in the wilderness, Dong Sheng knows better than anyone else.
Some people are simply not to be trifled with.
"Also, report that Ye Feng is Ye Tian's son."
"Many of the older staff at headquarters know Ye Tian."
"The son of a hero deserves the utmost respect."
"The Li family has gone too far!"
Arui nodded and said nothing more.
The car continued forward, heading towards Jiangcheng.
They knew that the sky over Jiangcheng was about to be pierced by this suddenly appearing genius!
The Li family is probably in big trouble.
They targeted the descendants of martyrs, seizing their spots for admission to Taoist academies.
Every single one of these things is like a rave in the Night Watch's minefield.
……
Wilderness, ruins.
Zhao Laoda and his three companions hurried off to deal with the corpse of the Bloodthirsty War Wolf.
As wilderness hunters, dealing with the carcasses of exotic animals is a piece of cake for them.
Ye Feng didn't offer help but instead checked his own attribute panel.
Name: Ye Feng
[Occupation: Martial Artist, Psychic]
【Entry: Lingbo Weibu (Purple)】(Note: Can split into five illusory figures)
[Entry: Instant (Purple)] (Note: Bullet time effect increased by 400%, thrust distance: 0-8 meters)
[Entry: Regeneration (Blue)] (Note: Can quickly heal non-fatal injuries, increasing recovery speed by 1000%)
[Cultivation Level: Late Stage 2 (Martial Artist), Early Stage 2 (Psychic Master)]
[Qi and Blood: 3488]
【Mental Power: 202】
[Cultivation Technique: Stellar Transformation (Orange) (First Two Chapters) (Mastery Level Perfected)]
Martial Arts Techniques: Sword Drawing Technique (Red) (Proficiency 13%), Basic Footwork (White) (Proficiency 99%)
[Kill Value: 3480 points]
[Achievement Points: 6]
"Having skill books and not using them is a complete waste!"
"System, consume the talent upgrade scroll to upgrade the blue-attribute talent to a purple-attribute talent."
[Ding! Consumed one Talent Upgrade Scroll and 1000 Kill Points]
[Ding! Upgrade successful!]
[Ding! Regeneration (Purple)] (Note: Quickly restores all injuries, increasing recovery speed by 2000%.)
(Note: You can consume kill points to instantly restore all injuries!)
"Wow! That's fucking awesome! From now on, they'll be like cockroaches that can't be killed!"
"The system has increased your Qi and Blood points to 5000."
Although he couldn't break through to the third tier, Ye Feng still planned to raise his strength to the peak of the second tier first.
The wilderness is fraught with danger. What if another fourth-tier beast comes along?
Even Ye Feng couldn't guarantee that he would survive.
[Ding. 1512 kill points consumed!]
[Ding. Health and mana increased to 5000 points. Martial artist cultivation reached the peak of the second tier.]
[Ding. The host does not possess a third-tier cultivation technique, therefore cannot break through to the third tier. Please learn a third-tier cultivation technique as soon as possible!]
[Ding! Remaining kill points: 968]
"System initiates lottery!"
Ye Feng didn't use up all his kill points; he needed to save some for his purple attribute, [Regeneration].
But the six achievement points are still usable; you might be able to draw something good from them.