Chapter 58: Fire Bird in the Sky

Chapter 58: Chapter 58: Fire Bird in the Sky

Gu Qing was incredibly fast.

He sprinted into the residential complex across the street in the blink of an eye.

To save time, he didn’t even use the gate.

He moved in a straight line the entire way, vaulting directly over the wall, which startled the security guard into jumping to his feet.

Holy shit!

’Did something just flash past? Or are my eyes just getting old?’

The guard pressed his face against the glass window, staring at the two-meter-high iron fence outside, his eyes filled with confusion.

Meanwhile,

Gu Qing had already reached the old banyan tree.

He kicked off the ground with explosive force.

His body soared into the air.

He threw a punch at the black shadow in the tree.

The black shadow either failed to react or was simply a mindless wisp of mist.

Faced with Gu Qing’s direct punch,

it showed no intention of dodging at all.

HUMMM—!

A low roar suddenly tore through the air.

The massive fist, brimming with terrifying physical power, plunged straight into the black shadow’s body.

The violent impact that erupted from it detonated inside the shadow, blasting its entire form into a vast, spreading cloud of black mist.

Before Gu Qing could even breathe a sigh of relief, the dissipating black mist suddenly converged on him.

In a single instant,

it had completely enveloped him.

Then, countless black threads materialized, slithering into his body like venomous snakes.

Anger, resentment, regret...

A torrent of complex, negative emotions exploded in Gu Qing’s mind.

They surged up layer by layer, attempting to disrupt his focus and erode his consciousness.

Anger, anger, extreme anger.

Resentment, resentment, utter resentment.

Regret, regret, intense regret...

Seeing that he was about to lose his sanity,

Gu Qing couldn’t afford to worry about being seen by passersby.

His eyes suddenly focused.

He activated his Muscle Knots Attribute.

In an instant,

the muscles all over his body bulged. His Qi Blood Power surged and roiled, and his entire aura expanded dramatically.

Feeling the power steadily rising within him,

Gu Qing clenched his jaw, forcefully suppressing the increasingly chaotic negative emotions.

Then, he focused his mind and unleashed his power.

He frantically drove the scalding Qi Blood Power within him,

forcing it to erupt from every powerful muscle cell and scorch the bizarre threads in his body like a wildfire.

"AAAAAAAHHH—"

As if it were an auditory hallucination, Gu Qing seemed to hear the threads inside him screaming in agony.

The next instant,

the countless threads writhed violently and surged out of his body as if seared by flames.

They then rapidly converged, reforming into the humanoid black shadow, which hit the ground running.

’Hmph, trying to escape?’

Gu Qing slammed his foot down and immediately gave chase.

He knew how to deal with this bizarre black shadow now.

’This thing is afraid of being burned by Qi Blood Power.’

’If I can just catch it and pin it against a wall, I can flood it with Qi Blood Power until it burns to death.’

The man and the shadow chased each other at extreme speed, moving so fast they left a series of afterimages.

The occasional resident they passed only felt a fierce gust of wind sweep by, sending their hair flying, unable to see what had just flashed past.

Gu Qing’s speed far surpassed the shadow’s.

In just a few seconds,

he had closed the distance to within arm’s reach.

Seeing that it was about to be caught,

the black shadow, already a spent force, decisively dissolved into a cloud of bizarre threads.

It abruptly shot into a passerby’s body to hide.

It was betting that Gu Qing wouldn’t harm an innocent bystander just to destroy it.

As long as it hid inside a human body and refused to show itself, Gu Qing would be powerless against it for the time being.

And that was indeed the case.

When he saw the bizarre black shadow suddenly dissolve into a mass of threads and bore into a passerby,

Gu Qing was at a loss, unsure how to handle the situation.

"I’ll kill you!"

"I’m going to kill you!"

"AAAAHHH!"

The shadow ignited the latent hostility in the passerby’s heart, instantly enraging the person, who charged at Gu Qing like a madman.

Seeing this, Gu Qing raised his hand and knocked the person out with a single karate chop.

Afterward, he stood guard.

He took out his phone and informed Lin Tianyang of the situation.

He asked him to quickly notify their Night Court colleagues to come deal with it.

However,

the bizarre black shadow didn’t just wait to be captured.

The moment another person walked by,

it immediately surged out of the unconscious person’s body and into this new passerby.

Gu Qing had no choice but to knock this person out as well.

He then casually picked them up, moved them to a deserted corner, and waited for the people from Night Court to arrive.

But after waiting only a few seconds,

the shadow once again broke free from the new victim’s body and reformed into its humanoid shape.

It hit the ground and took off at a full sprint.

This time, its speed had skyrocketed. The moment it landed, it covered a hundred meters in an instant.

Gu Qing was a little surprised.

’What’s going on?’

’How can it suddenly burst out with so much speed?’

’Did it use some kind of technique to temporarily boost its power?’

’Since I awakened my power, this is the first time I’ve encountered such a troublesome enemy.’

’All the Assassins I met before were taken down in an instant, without the slightest effort.’

’It seems this Extraordinary World is far more complex than I imagined.’

’I have to be more and more cautious from now on...’

He didn’t have time to dwell on it.

Seeing the shadow race off into the distance, Gu Qing immediately pushed off the ground and gave chase.

The man and the shadow continued their back-and-forth chase.

They soon rushed out of the residential complex.

And arrived in front of a nearby abandoned, unfinished building.

The black shadow headed straight for the building.

Just as it was about to crash into the wall,

countless tiny tentacles sprouted from its body, and it scurried up the wall like Spider-Man.

In the blink of an eye,

it had climbed more than ten meters high.

Seeing that Gu Qing had stopped below and wasn’t following, apparently unable to climb the wall in pursuit,

the shadow also stopped climbing. It looked down on Gu Qing from its high perch, its empty eyes staring fixedly at him, as if to burn his appearance into its consciousness.

Gu Qing looked up at the black shadow as well, his expression grave.

’This thing is too slippery. I can’t catch it at all.’

’So...’

’What should I do now?’

’Keep following it?’

’Report its position to Lin Tianyang in real time?’

’Wait for the Night Court to show up and handle it?’

Gu Qing was unwilling to accept this.

But there was nothing he could do. His own abilities were limited, and it seemed this was as far as he could go.

As a newcomer to the Extraordinary World, he knew nothing about the bizarre black shadow above and had no idea how to fight it. All he could do was stare at it in a standoff.

WHOOSH—!

A piercing sound suddenly tore through the sky.

Gu Qing heard it and looked up.

He saw a streak of crimson light in the sky, wrapped in blazing flames, hurtling down toward the black shadow on the wall.

Looking closely, he saw it was a crow completely wreathed in fire.

In a flash, the Fire Crow swooped down in front of the black shadow and spat a scorching pillar of fire at it.

The black shadow scrambled to dodge.

Unfortunately,

the pillar of fire was simply too fast.

It instantly engulfed the shadow in a sea of flames.

In an instant, it was incinerated into nothingness, as if it had never existed.

’Did the Night Court colleagues Brother Yang notified finally arrive?’

Gu Qing subconsciously scanned his surroundings, searching for the signature black trench coats of the Night Court.

The surrounding night was dark and silent.

As the Fire Crow in the air retracted its flames, it slowly flew toward a dark area to the side.

Soon, a graceful figure emerged, walking slowly out of the darkness.

Before he could see the person’s face,

a pair of fair, alluring, jade-like feet entered his line of sight, capturing his attention.

’Her nails were painted a pale purple, both innocent and seductive...’

’Her toes were rounded and delicate...’

’like plump, glistening grapes...’

With just a glance, Gu Qing recognized those near-perfect feet, a shock running through him:

’Is that... Sister Zhiyi?’

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