Eldritch Horror Theatre

Fu Qian’s opening ultimatum made even Huang Zhixun pause for a moment.

A moment later, the man let out an uncontrollable burst of laughter.

”Truly an arrogant bastard.”

”Unfortunately for you, Shangjing isn’t a place where you can just do whatever you please.”

”That’s exactly what I wanted to say to you.”

Fu Qian remained expressionless.

”Even the Blood Lion cannot casually disrupt public order.”

Since this guy was clearly looking for trouble, Fu Qian had no intention of being polite.

”I remember now. I heard rumors before that the Blood Lion has close ties with the Gulade Family.”Wen Li stepped closer to Fu Qian and whispered in his ear.

Not surprising.

Fu Qian wasn’t surprised by the information Wen Li shared.

The probability that this man showing up here—and stopping their car with a single, precise slap—had nothing to do with those three from earlier was practically zero.

He had probably been watching from the shadows the whole time, and when he saw them fail, he jumped out himself.

The key was that Huang Zhixun’s identity was perfect for this. If someone directly from Gulade made a move, it would be harder to explain away.

”Very impressive. To think you could actually sense my attack.”

At such a close distance, Wen Li’s whispers naturally couldn’t be hidden from Huang Zhixun.

His gaze swept across Wen Li’s face, making no effort to hide his appreciation.

”Given time, your future will be limitless.”

’Actually, it wasn’t me...’

Wen Li sighed inwardly, though she had no interest in explaining it to him.

At this moment, she finally realized what Fu Qian meant when he said not to smash The Bookstore.

Those police officers were indeed just pawns.

”Relax, I won’t make things difficult for you, as long as you don’t insist on interfering.”

Huang Zhixun sneered, then turned his gaze back to Fu Qian.

”You accuse me of disrupting public order, yet right after you infiltrated the hospital, an incident occurred at City Hall. Care to explain that?”

”Didn’t they tell you?”

Fu Qian looked surprised upon hearing this.

”I made it very clear at the time. I was inspecting the state of ideological and moral construction, and from the looks of it, it’s honestly quite terrible.”

”Stubbornly incorrigible.”

Huang Zhixun gave a heavy snort. He wasn’t surprised by Fu Qian’s response.

The next moment, the bright yellow aura shrouding his body shot up into the sky.

”Then I’ll just capture you first and interrogate you at my leisure.”

’He really is much stronger than Old Man Huang!’

Facing the murderous Huang Zhixun, Fu Qian offered a silent critique.

A Peak Tier 4 truly lived up to its well-deserved reputation. Using the exact same cultivation method, this man’s imposing aura was vastly superior; the yellow qi was so dense it looked like severe constipation.

Speaking of which, this kind of family-inherited cultivation method had always been a point of curiosity for Fu Qian.

In Fu Qian’s understanding, he categorized this sort of thing in the same broad class as the sword path.

The common trait of this advancement method was that it didn’t inherently carry any miraculous properties.

It relied entirely on tempering the body and spirit in a specific manner and receiving feedback from the cultivation method itself.

At the same time, its advancement nodes were much smoother compared to the paths taken by him and Yuan Shan, making it far less likely to veer off into chaotic, twisted tangents.

The only requirement was probably the cultivator’s aptitude—to put it bluntly, their degree of compatibility with the technique, such as the concept of ’qualified products’ within the Huang Clan.

Overall, this was undoubtedly much closer to the traditional concept of cultivation.

Unfortunately, after everything Fu Qian had been through and all the bizarre, unimaginable advancements he had witnessed, it was difficult for him to view it so simply anymore.

”It looks like your friend has already abandoned you!”

As he pondered, the aura on Huang Zhixun’s body surged to its absolute peak, accompanied by a mocking taunt.

By this point, Wen Li, realizing that a clash was inevitable, had very obediently moved out of the way and stood off to the side.

Of course, in Huang Zhixun’s eyes, her behavior was naturally seen as being very sensible, playing it safe through wise discretion.

And after delivering his sneer, he had no intention of giving Fu Qian a chance to retort. He leaped high into the air and attacked, trailing a streak of flowing light.

On this bustling street full of pedestrians, Huang Zhixun’s dramatic display was undoubtedly quite shocking.

Unfortunately, Fu Qian, who was facing the brunt of the assault, remained completely unmoved.

Because at this very moment, he had also confirmed Classmate Su Gao’s evaluation of this Blood Lion.

Although they were both Peak Tier 4, compared to Li Weixuan, this man was honestly lacking a little something.

At the very least, Fu Qian couldn’t sense any momentum for further advancement from him.

’How truly boring!’

Facing Huang Zhixun, who was charging down with the force of Mount Tai crushing down from above, Fu Qian directly fired an Air Bullet right at his face.

Huang Zhixun was clearly well-prepared for Fu Qian’s counterattack.

The bright yellow aura swirled rapidly and quickly gathered at his chest, forming a thick lump that looked like a backward-growing camel hump at a glance.

The man was obviously planning to withstand this blow head-on and then directly take Fu Qian down.

A swift and decisive battle. This was indeed an excellent choice when dealing with someone you could crush with sheer strength.

Unfortunately for him, it was only when the fierce wind reached his body that Huang Zhixun finally realized something was wrong.

His expression shifted drastically as he scrambled to dodge with all his might.

It was a pity that while this kind of palm strike descending from the sky was certainly flashy, its biggest flaw was a lack of agility.

In the end, he couldn’t dodge in time and took the hit head-on.

With a muffled thud, the yellow qi exploded everywhere, much like a firecracker tossed into a cesspit.

Fu Qian’s immediate reaction was to carefully adjust his position, terrified of getting splashed with any ’shrapnel’.

”You... how is this possible!”

Upon landing, before Huang Zhixun could even finish his exclamation, a Thorned Long Whip lashed right at his face, forcing him to swallow the rest of his shock.

Huang Zhixun clearly didn’t want to keep dodging, but the dark fire flickering along the long whip quickly extinguished his thoughts of taking it head-on.

Even just having the whip brush past his body gave him an indescribable sense of discomfort.

’This guy deliberately hid his aura! His true strength is probably no weaker than mine!’

”Just who the hell are you?”

After dodging this strike, Huang Zhixun’s scalp tingled as his thoughts raced.

’Could this be a trap set in advance? Is someone targeting me?’

Unfortunately, reality didn’t afford him more time to think. Just as he dodged the whip, two more Air Bullets—one high, one low—came flying at him.

The gap in strength combined with losing the initiative wasn’t something so easily resolved.

As he scrambled to dodge, no longer able to care about his image, Huang Zhixun grew increasingly horrified.

No matter what, he never expected to face such a terrifying opponent, to the point where he couldn’t even find an opportunity to escape.

’When did such a monster arrive in Shangjing!’

’And more importantly, why is he targeting me?’

What the paranoid Huang Zhixun didn’t know was that Fu Qian was actually holding back considerably.

If he had truly gone all out, the man would already be lying on the ground.

’After all, I’m just an audience member this time around. There’s no need to accidentally turn myself into the main character.’

While forcing Huang Zhixun to parry desperately, Fu Qian had already noticed that people were beginning to evacuate the surrounding crowd.

’They arrived quite quickly!’

’Their response was very reasonable, too. A clash between two transcendents in a place like this might be quite the spectacle, but it was genuinely a bit too dangerous.’

”Please stop, you two.”

Just as the gawking crowd had mostly been evacuated, someone finally rushed forward to call a halt.