My Professions Have Too Much Personality

Chapter 222: Chapter 144: A Small Test, a Head Rolls

Xiao Ying spoke with sincere earnestness, “By the time he becomes Chief Judge, you’ll be old and gray. The ruin of your family will be at hand!”

“My family…” An indescribably complex expression crossed Wei Yinsuo’s face. He asked faintly, “What exactly are you trying to say?”

“Kill him,” Xiao Ying said, a cold light flickering in his eyes.

“Did Wei Yufan send you with this message?” Wei Yinsuo asked, his eyes narrowing.

“Whether he did or not, would that change your decision?” Xiao Ying asked in return.

“Su Chen is only Tier Three. Do you really need me to kill him?” Wei Yinsuo shook his head. “Even you could take him out.”

“I could,” Xiao Ying said, his voice grave. “But he almost never leaves the Judicial Court, and his movements are erratic. It would be very difficult to do it without leaving a trace.”

“You’re planning to break the rules,” Wei Yinsuo said, his brow furrowed.

Xiao Ying lowered his voice to a bare whisper, but the vicious glint in his eyes was almost tangible. “To the victor go the spoils.”

“Is Wei Yufan that afraid?” Wei Yinsuo’s gaze was dark and inscrutable, like a bottomless pit.

“It’s not fear, it’s about nipping a threat in the bud.” A hint of displeasure tinged Xiao Ying’s voice. “If the Chief Judge hadn’t been so insistent on his own way, it never would have come to this.”

A challenge arena had inexplicably wiped out years of their hard work. It was great for newcomers like Su Chen and Zhu Xuan, but what about them?

“If you agree, your family will have another Chief Judge in its ranks. If you refuse, you can turn me over to the Chief Judge.” Xiao Ying seemed to have burned his bridges.

After a long silence, he finally heard Wei Yinsuo sigh. “I understand.”

A flicker of joy crossed Xiao Ying’s eyes. He didn’t press the matter, only saying sincerely, “You won’t regret this.”

As he watched Xiao Ying leave, Wei Yinsuo once again heard the voice by his ear. “This Wei Yufan… he might be worth approaching.”

…

’Just as I thought!’

As Xiao Ying walked out the main gate of the medical ward, he could barely contain his excitement. His joy was written all over his face. Even the churning sea of Crimson lightning on the horizon seemed to be celebrating with him.

’I knew it. How could that old fox Wei Yinsuo have some grand epiphany just from being seriously injured once? It was simply a matter of the price not being right.’

The gloom in Xiao Ying’s heart vanished. His desire to eliminate Su Chen stemmed from two things: Su Chen’s own Talent and strength, and the lingering shadow of that bidding day.

’How long has it been? Su Chen can already convince the Inspectorate’s upper echelon to step in on his behalf. If they wait any longer, who knows what he’ll be capable of.’

’The Security Department had also sent people to approach Wei Yufan, but his circle was already packed. There was no room for more people to meddle.’

’Su Chen, on the other hand, was all alone, which paradoxically made him a hot commodity in their eyes.’

Because of You Shan’s mobilization order, the area around the already remote medical ward was practically deserted.

The sky rumbled without end, like muffled thunder, occasionally bursting with brilliant light. The massive rift was gradually closing; Chong Jingtian was the real deal.

Out of a habit ingrained over many years, Xiao Ying stuck to the shadows at the sides of the road as he walked.

’Should I take out Ming Lin too…?’ he wondered, then dismissed the idea. ’No, forget it. He’s not as much of a threat as Su Chen. Killing him as well would be too obvious.’

’If Wei Yufan hadn’t decisively advanced to Tier Five, he would have been defeated by Su Chen head-on in the challenge arena. What the hell would be left to fight for then?’

’A pity…’ For a moment, a look of compassion filled Xiao Ying’s eyes. ’If he weren’t so formidable, perhaps we could have even been friends…’

KRAK!

Suddenly, another thunderclap echoed. Xiao Ying froze, his expression twisting in horror, because this thunder wasn’t cracking across the sky—it was right beside his ear!

The air beside him was abruptly torn asunder. A ball of lightning, condensed to its absolute limit, exploded with a ROAR. Amid the blinding white light, the silhouette of a straight-bladed longsword was faintly visible, its blade completely enveloped in crackling arcs of lightning.

The lightning didn’t scatter. Instead, it coiled around the blade like a living thing, emitting a continuous, deafening CRACKLE.

The descending blade’s trajectory left a visible ionization trail in its wake, scorching black fissures into the very air it passed through.

The blade had yet to arrive, but a sharp, needle-like sting already pricked at Xiao Ying’s skin.

’I’m being attacked!’

’Who?!’

Xiao Ying was both shocked and enraged. He had no time to react; the blade was already upon him, having seemingly materialized from thin air without a single warning.

The dazzling lightning completely obscured his vision, making it impossible to see the blade’s wielder.

Su Chen’s eyes were frigid. He gripped the hilt with both hands, his arms trembling, every muscle and fiber in his body twitching with exertion.

This one strike had consumed more than half of the nutrients stored in his Abyssal Stomach.

He had first used “Holy Hand” to empower “Azure Thunder Cloud Collapse,” infusing it into the blade formed by his “Liquid Gold Illusion Blade,” then hidden in the shadows, charging the attack to its absolute limit.

Xiao Ying was a Tier Four Professional, after all. Even if he was only on the Spiritual Side, Su Chen hadn’t underestimated him. He went all out, unleashing the strongest attack he could currently muster.

’Who! Who the hell is it!’

Xiao Ying roared—or at least, in his own mind, he was roaring.

’The lightning blade descending upon me is powerful, yes, but not so powerful that I can’t stop it. If I can just… just…’

He was stunned to discover that his own immense Spiritual Power was inexplicably disintegrating.

Not only that, but the world began to spin before his eyes. Everything fell silent—the rumbling in the sky, the thunderclap right beside him—it was all fading away.

And as a Mental Professional, that same immense Spiritual Power had now become his greatest burden.

He could clearly sense himself dying, yet was powerless to stop it.

“Who!?”

Xiao Ying seethed with indignation. His earlier excitement hadn’t even faded. The greatest threat was about to be eliminated, and yet here he was, ambushed and killed right inside the Judicial Court.

’Who is it… who in the world is it…’

In its final moments, his dissipating Spiritual Power attempted to coalesce, as if trying to get a clear look at his ambusher.

CRACKLE!

But with a flash of lightning, it disintegrated completely.

His head, severed from his body, disappeared along with the teetering corpse before it could even hit the ground. Not even a drop of the spurting blood touched the pavement.

Su Chen’s figure, too, vanished without a trace. The entire event was masked by the rumbling from the sky.

*Whew…*

Within the spatial interlayer, Su Chen moved slowly. He retrieved a vial of compressed Nutrient Liquid from his Storage Space, then little by little, raised it to his lips.

This served to both replenish the energy consumed by his Abyssal Stomach and to quickly convert into Spiritual Power, allowing him to remain active within the spatial interlayer.

’I can’t believe I ran into that guy,’ Su Chen thought, surprised himself. He was already familiar with the area and had proceeded with extreme caution.

’But as soon as I got close, I saw Xiao Ying walking out of the medical ward, looking pleased as punch about something.’

’After a moment’s thought, I decided to use him to test the waters, to see what the current situation in the Judicial Court was like.’

’Still, killing him was far easier than I’d imagined.’

Xiao Ying was a Tier Four Mental Professional. He had dabbled in physical-type professions to increase his bodily strength, but he was only at Tier Two in them.

Su Chen had hidden in the spatial interlayer and struck with his full power.

But Xiao Ying, lost in thought about who-knows-what, had practically zero defenses up, making it child’s play for Su Chen to succeed.

He waited another moment. There was no movement. No one seemed to have noticed anything amiss or come to investigate.

’The situation is more or less as I expected. Most people’s attention has been drawn to the events outside,’ Su Chen mused. He took a deep breath. Xiao Ying was just the appetizer; the main course was next.

Inside the spatial interlayer, Su Chen gradually shifted into his “Priest Black Tuo” form. That distinct, fervent sensation was emanating from the medical ward right in front of him.

’I hope I guessed right.’

…

“…I like people who have desires. People who are willing to trample over any line to satisfy them.”

Wei Yinsuo listened to the voice in his ear and shook his head. “You’ll have a hard time winning Wei Yufan over. He’s not like me. Even after Su Chen is gone, he’ll still be the most likely candidate for Chief Judge.”

“He’s just a potential piece on the board. Su Chen is an extra assignment. We need more people.”

Wei Yinsuo’s eyes twitched. He was about to ask for more details when he noticed the voice in his ear suddenly rise in pitch, filled with shock and suspicion. “I sense it again! That Priest from before—he’s appeared! He’s right outside!”

“How is that possible? That Priest was executed today.” Wei Yinsuo instinctively denied it, but then it dawned on him. He said, stunned, “There’s another Priest outside?”

“Didn’t Ying Feng only have one Priest? Where did this one come from?”

The voice by his ear was also puzzled, but it quickly said, “This won’t do. I have to meet him.”