Chapter 1 In the Lingjing Xingzhe World, Super-Spies Aren't So Easy to Be

In the world of Lingjing Xingzhe, being a super-spy isn't easy. The Knight's Oath, the Illusionist's emotional perception, and the Scout's intimidation can easily expose a spy.

In theory, implanting a spy is extremely difficult. High-level Lingjing Xingzhe have too many ways to "see through" a person. So far, the only means to perfectly conceal the problem is Taiyin (the moon).

Although Illusionists are ever-changing, their methods are personal and cannot cover a group. Items like perfect human skin are similar.

"We have accepted the protection of Taiyin," Qianning Lu confessed to his companion without reservation. "At our regular monthly gatherings, we pray to the supreme being to obtain Taiyin's protection. But we don't have to hold prayers every time; Taiyin's protection lasts a long time."

"Taiyin's protection..." The Palace Master's eyes narrowed slightly. She asked directly, "Do you remember the summoning ritual?"

High-level Night Watchers can create unique Ling Zhuan (spiritual seal) formations, which, combined with materials rich in the Night Watcher's spiritual power, can form a summoning ritual.

A certain spineless, stinky man often used similar methods to seek help from a female Chang of over a thousand years ago.

"I remember!" Qianning Lu replied.

"Draw it," said the Palace Master of Zhisha Palace.

At this moment, the three Rulers simultaneously lowered their heads to look at the broken floor, where the figures of the Heavenly Punishment's Wind Mage and Lightning Mage were appearing.

The battle between the Rulers alarmed the duty personnel. While Qianning Lu shot lightning beams from his fingertips, engraving a charred array on the wall, the Palace Master of Zhisha Palace gently hummed a lullaby.

Thump, thump!

The swarming Lightning Mages and Wind Mages collapsed one after another, falling into a deep sleep.

After recording the Ling Zhuan formation that Qianning Lu had engraved, the Palace Master of Zhisha Palace manipulated the red thread to erase the charred lines on the wall. She looked at the single-lineage Knight and Winnie behind her: "I'm done asking."

Winnie opened her inventory and took out a black wooden nail, saying coldly, "Drive it into Qianning's heart, and cut off his limbs."

Zhai Cai took the wooden nail and flicked it into Qianning's chest. With a puff, blood splattered. Qianning swayed a few times, his eyelids heavy, but he refused to fall.

Zhai Cai walked in the air, and with a wave of his sword, he severed Qianning's hands and feet. The Director of the Administrative Department finally fell, without a scream, and fell into a deep sleep.

Winnie said in a deep voice, "I will call headquarters and have them send a specialist to receive Qianning. Until then, I hope everyone can continue to stay in Heavenly Punishment in case of any unforeseen circumstances. I will pay you for it."

The Palace Master of Zhisha Palace and Zhai Cai nodded. The latter remembered that Winnie was blind and quickly added, "Okay!"

On the street leading from the port to the city, brilliant starlight constantly rose. Each rise was more than a hundred meters, with a few minutes of silence in between. When it lit up again, it was already a kilometer away.

With alternating use of Night Travel and Star Escape, even Wind Mages of the same level would find it difficult to track him. Initially, there were still a few Wind Mages overlooking him from above, barely keeping up, but under the harassment of Wraith Spirits, the Wind Mages completely lost track of him.

But the Star Official of Dark Night Rose still dared not be careless. He was not absolutely safe until he reached the densely populated urban area.

Because among the Lawful faction's Saints, there were Void-type practitioners, the only ones who could threaten him.

In comparison, that guy named Ju Mang, although powerful in combat, could not compare to the Star Official in terms of tracking and speed—even if he transformed into a bird, he could not catch up.

Why did such a powerful Beast King suddenly appear in the First District?

In the brief ten seconds of Ju Mang's fight with Typhon, he blocked the petrifying beam and the mutated toxic gas. And before that, the combined attacks of several Saints were also avoided by him.

And none of this relied on Ruler-level items. Everyone mistakenly thought that the source of Ju Mang's strength lay in items, but they ignored Ju Mang's own strength. This was misleading.

This Beast King's combat power was probably stronger than the Jealousy God General. Was such a powerful Saint really nurtured by Fu Qingyang? What a joke!

Fu Qingyang was only at Level 6 peak before June this year—the same level as Ju Mang. Once he escaped from here, he would talk to the Great Protector and have the Great Protector use Star Gazing to deduce Ju Mang's identity and find out this person's background.

At this moment, a strong drowsiness surged in the eyes of the Star Official of Dark Night Rose, almost causing him to fall asleep on the spot. He was greatly alarmed, knowing that this was the Dream Weaver's "Dream Entry" ability. He was being attacked by a Dream Weaver.

"Where did this Dream Weaver come from?" Just as he was wondering, bright blue light lit up in the night sky. A bolt of tree-like lightning struck down accurately. In this critical moment, there was no time for him to use Star Escape. This Star Official nimbly dodged most of the attack with a sideways roll.

But the lightning was too fast. He was swept by a forked arc of electricity on his leg.

His trouser leg instantly turned to charcoal, and his thigh was charred black, emitting a burst of roasted meat aroma. Just as the Star Official of Dark Night Rose was about to use Star Escape, he saw a deep darkness surge like a tide, covering everything around him with a dark, starless light.

He still used Star Escape but found himself on the edge of the night. This area was sealed.

At the same time, footsteps came from the darkness. The Star Official of Dark Night Rose looked back; it was Ju Mang.

"How is this possible?" he exclaimed in horror. "You couldn't have caught up with me; this is impossible."

How could a Beast King catch up with him? He was one of the strongest escape artists in the Second District.

"What's impossible? Who doesn't know Star Escape?" Zhang Yuanqing raised his right hand, wearing the Lightning Armguard, and snapped his fingers. His body instantly turned into starlight and dissipated, then reappeared in the starlight that rose up a dozen meters away.

The Star Official of Dark Night Rose was stunned. "An item? No, it's not an item."

As a Level 6 Star Official, he immediately ruled out the possibility of the other party using an item. He still had that much discernment.

"You're also a Star Official?" he blurted out, not believing it himself after saying it.

Zhang Yuanqing curled the corner of his mouth and raised his hand to wipe his face. His face rippled like water, then settled into a rather handsome, young face.

The Star Official of Dark Night Rose seemed to have been hit by a petrification spell; his body instantly stiffened. His eyes stared fixedly at that face, and after a long time, his lips trembled as he spoke: "Yuan... Yuanshi Tianzun!"

Zhang Yuanqing stopped wasting words. Without giving the other party another chance to speak, he activated the Lightning Armguard, using the Thunder Burst skill. Then, "Pop..."

Bright blue light erupted, illuminating the night-shrouded area. The violent Lightning-attribute spiritual power turned into shockwaves, sweeping in all directions.

The road surface was forcibly thinned, and the green belt on the roadside turned into dust. The Star Official of Dark Night Rose immediately took out a robe covered in yellow mud from his inventory, put on a rattan armor, and spat out a large number of Wraith Spirits to surround him.

The next second, the arc of electricity sizzling... The arriving shockwaves first annihilated the Wraith Spirit defense wall, then the rattan armor turned into charcoal, and then the yellow light burst.

The Star Official of Dark Night Rose's body was torn apart, and the scattered limbs and organs that fell to the ground were still steaming. Zhang Yuanqing also fell straight down, turning into a piece of black charcoal.

After a few seconds, he spat out a puff of black smoke and recovered from the severe pain: "Damn it, that hurt..."

He groaned as he climbed up and looked at the Star Official who was torn to pieces in the distance... and the spiritual body floating in mid-air, his eyes dull, like a wisp of green smoke that could be blown away at any time.

The Star Official's spiritual body was extremely powerful. Even if the physical body died, the spiritual body would not dissipate and could maintain consciousness...

In the current situation, the Thunder Burst attack had directly destroyed the spiritual body. Lightning-attribute abilities were especially effective against yin spirits.

Zhang Yuanqing staggered up, grabbed the Mountain God Scepter to heal his injuries, and with the Night Watcher's powerful vitality, the injuries from the lightning strike were healed in three minutes.

Then, he walked to the spiritual body and a dark, viscous energy appeared in his eyes. He opened his mouth and sucked in the spiritual body. Fragmented images flashed by like a revolving lantern. He finished reading the Star Official's incomplete life.

In his memory, he saw important information. In a dim chamber, the Great Protector, wearing a black robe, looked at him with deep eyes.

"Go to New York County. I saw a blazing sun in the River of Fate that makes me very uneasy..."

"A blazing sun?" The Star Official asked in confusion.

"In the near future, a Lord of the Sun may be born in New York County of the Free Federation. This means that the Night Watcher supported by Heavenly Punishment is very likely to ascend the throne and become the third demigod of the Night Watcher class." The black-robed Great Protector said in a solemn tone, "There are countless possibilities in the future. We must change it!"

"Can't you notify the leader?" the Star Official asked worriedly.

"The leader is doing a major event in the Lingjing," the black-robed Great Protector said. "If that thing succeeds, the whole world will undergo earth-shaking changes. Free professionals all over the world are waiting for that day to come."

While Zhang Yuanqing was calming the dizziness caused by absorbing the spiritual body of a Star Official of the same level, he frowned.

Star Officials have the ability to deduce the trends of everything. The Great Protector's deduction revealed a piece of information: he has the potential to become the Lord of the Sun? Was it because he was too high-profile in New York County recently, becoming one of the characters who could change the alignment war, and thus stood out in the River of Fate, so he was deduced by the Great Protector.

He remembered that the Great Protector mainly cultivated the power of Taiyin. If so, wouldn't a Ruler who mainly cultivates the power of stars see more clearly?

Fortunately, the Great Protector only deduced that a Lord of the Sun might appear in New York County, but could not specifically locate the target. It had nothing to do with Yuanshi Tianzun.

This should be the credit of the Blackened Heart. Although this Illusion God-level item was sealed, its level was still there, and it had a strong ability to resist deduction. As for a piece of information, it reminded Zhang Yuanqing of the information he saw in the memory of the demonic beast Haas.

The Evil Camp was waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity to destroy the Sea God Church, combined with the words of the Great Protector.

He suspected that the opportunity the Evil Camp was waiting for was related to Ling Tuo. Ling Tuo was brewing a big move.

"I have to tell the chairman about this." Zhang Yuanqing put away the Box of Black Night, looked around, the night was dark, the surroundings were silent, and there were no Wind Mages nearby. So he took out the Little Red Riding Hood, shook his phone, turned it on, and contacted the Five Elements Alliance support team lurking around the port, and got the news that the escaped Saint had been annihilated.

"Retreat immediately, don't give the Rulers of the Evil Camp a chance to counterattack," he said.

"Understood!"

Seeing Guan Ya's reply, Zhang Yuanqing put away his phone, thought for a while, and turned into starlight and disappeared.

Half an hour later, he appeared on the rooftop of an uninhabited villa in the suburbs of New York Port. The Great Protector's deduction sounded an alarm for him. He wanted to deduce the benefits and hidden dangers that this action might bring to him.

Then consider whether to abandon the Ju Mang persona. Anyway, he still has the Tongtian Jiaozhu and Xiaoyao Jianxian aliases. If he can't deduce any major problems, he will continue to use it for now. It is the end of October, and in a month and a half, it will be the Killing Instance.