“At twelve o’clock, I need to seclude myself for a while, you all go about your business.”
Xiang Xiaoyuan looked at Chen Huaian, who had two paper balls stuffed up his nose, and blinked her big eyes: “Governor, you seem to have lost quite a bit of blood. Are you really okay?” She glanced at the back seat of the cockpit where the seats were covered in blood, estimating at least a thousand milliliters.
She then looked at Chen Huaian’s pants.
Hmm…
She could rule out it being menstruation.
The thought didn’t mean she was crazy; some evil spirits have irrational abilities. They’ve encountered one before that could make men pregnant with ghost babies. So, it wasn’t impossible for there to be an evil spirit that could cause men to menstruate.
“It’s nothing, the weather is dry, so losing a bit of nose blood is normal.”
Chen Huaian got out of the car and entered the room.
Zhao Ying and Xiang Xiaoyuan exchanged glances, looking silently at the sky drizzling with rain.
…
Chen Huaian spent an hour thoroughly refining the energy provided by the evil spirit.
“First volume of Heavenly Demon Art, Blood Cocoon, complete.”
Chen Huaian stared at his clenched fist, which was covered in blood-red scales. As he moved his fingers, these scales that adhered to his skin twisted like living creatures. He looked in the mirror and saw that his entire right arm was completely inflated with scales. The veins looked like purple dragons moving under the light, spitting blood.
“This appearance is a bit too sinister…”
Chen Huaian frowned.
This was only covering his arm. If it covered his whole body, wouldn’t he become a demon?
Although he hadn’t seen any demon-slaying master more powerful than him yet, the world is vast, and there are always stronger people out there! What if someday a particularly strong one mistakes him for a demon cultivator and wants to fight him? The appearance can be evil, but it must come with a loud and righteous slogan.
Chen Huaian used his super brain to think for a second and came up with a super answer.
“Xiang Xiaoyuan, Zhao Ying, come in here.”
As the two girls came in with puzzled looks, Chen Huaian didn’t hold back. His whole body was covered in blood-red scales, and his size expanded twofold, making him look like a monster rather than human.
Xiang Xiaoyuan turned pale and her teeth chattered.
Zhao Ying took a step back, drew her Tang Dao from her waist, and looked serious.
She had felt something off with Chen Huaian since he returned from the ruins.
Earlier, he had bled so much on the back seat…
Even a demon-slaying master couldn’t lose this much blood without consequences, right?
Now… Was he finally exposed?!
Zhao Ying gritted her teeth, thinking, as they both prepared for battle.
Just as they were about to engage…
Chen Huaian opened his mouth wide, revealing sharp fangs, and shouted in a super low voice with a thousand tires stuck in his throat: “Blood Demon Armor, combine!!!”
Xiang Xiaoyuan: “???”Zhao Ying: “…”
…
The misunderstanding was cleared up. It was Chen Huaian’s new ability.
Outside the partition, Zhao Ying and Xiang Xiaoyuan sighed in relief simultaneously.
“Just now, I really thought the governor was possessed by something dirty…” Xiang Xiaoyuan patted her chest, still shaken.
“Isn’t that true?” Zhao Ying pulled out her electric baton and shocked herself lightly to relieve stress. “If he had delayed that shout by just a second, I would have swung my knife. Although it probably wouldn’t have killed him…”
“The governor’s power is impressive. Should be the latest gain from his companion spirit item, but I wonder what the cost will be…” Xiang Xiaoyuan glanced at the figure in the room holding his phone and chuckling lewdly. She bit her lip and furrowed her brows.
The glass of the partition was frosted, allowing them to see the situation inside vaguely.
The governor said he was in seclusion, but this laughter clearly had nothing to do with it.
It was like a driver who had been starved for a long time suddenly finding the right URL.
Zhao Ying was about to comfort Xiang Xiaoyuan when she noticed Chen Huaian’s nose spouting two streams of blood.
The blood splattered onto the ceiling.
Looking at Chen Huaian again, he was actually sitting cross-legged, seemingly meditating?
“So, this is the price of gaining strength…”
Blood dripped from the ceiling, even though it was unclear, the danger was palpable. You have to pay the corresponding price for whatever you gain.
Zhao Ying understood now.
The governor, who seemed casual every day, had always been fighting demons and evil spirits in his own way.
He was trading his lifespan for power!
These streams of blood coming out of his nose were proof!
Splat—
Chen Huaian picked up his phone, and another two streams of blood gushed out.
It was confirmed!
Picking up the phone meant gaining power from the companion spirit item.
And the blood was the price Chen Huaian paid.
Xiang Xiaoyuan couldn’t hold back anymore. Wiping away tears that streamed down her face, she sniffled with red-rimmed eyes: “The governor is truly dedicated and great. I doubted his motives earlier! With Mustache Luo dead, he must be the most heartbroken and guilty one, right?”
“Governor! Even if headquarters doesn’t recognize him, I Zhao Ying do!”
Originally, they were only reluctantly accepting Chen Huaian as the governor.
But now, whether it was Xiang Xiaoyuan or Zhao Ying, they fully recognized Chen Huaian as the governor.
And Chen Huaian, who was currently spraying blood through his nose while facing Li Qingran’s training video, was completely unaware of this.
“Amazing! Truly, truly amazing!”
He knew Li Qingran had a great figure before.
Seeing it more closely confirmed it.
If he had to describe it with his super scientific brain, it would be:
A hyperbolic waist-to-hip ratio breaking the limits of the Cartesian coordinate system, causing a gravitational lens effect in Riemannian geometry!
He even wanted to summarize that perfect figure with a beautiful mathematical formula.
Unfortunately, he found that all scientific formulas were tasteless in front of Qingran Baby…
…
At eleven fifty-nine PM.
In front of the bone porcelain ruins in Jinde Town.
Lin Chen and Huang Gubei had been waiting for a long time.
As the hour and minute hands aligned perfectly, a pair of bright headlights illuminated the darkness, making them squint.
In the headlights, a tall figure walked calmly.
With a stride that showed no mercy, even the two followers behind him walked confidently.
As they approached.
Lin Chen recognized the person.
It was Chen Huaian with two tissues stuffed up his nose.
“You’re here? But your nose…”
“Woman, don’t ask.” Chen Huaian raised a finger, his eyes deep and cold, a thin smile on his lips: “This is the price of gaining immense power, just a matter of lifespan. Just becoming a monster everyone fears. As the saying goes, if not me, then who? After tonight, hell will be empty, and there will only be me, Chen Huai-an!”
With those words, in Lin Chen’s stunned gaze,
Chen Huaian made hand seals, and images of Li Qingran training flashed in his mind.
He saw snow-white mathematical formulas and beautiful geometric curves.
Chen Huaian narrowed his eyes, and the tissues stuffed up his nose instantly turned red with blood.
“Blind to the light? So what…
Today, I shall make you—
Unseen!
Seek Dragon Guide—!!!”
As the words fell, a golden light shot into the sky, transforming into a winding dragon shadow rushing towards the bone porcelain ruins.
