The ringtone rang for a long time before the call was answered. The voice on the other end was articulate but cold:

"I'm reviewing Ou Xiangrong's information, predicting his movements. I'll give you ten seconds."

Within the official The Way of the Extraordinary organization, the teams are the main force for handling cases, while the executives coordinate behind the scenes, only intervening personally when faced with tricky cases.

The Centurion must be under a lot of pressure... Li Dongze cleared his throat and reported in a low, serious voice:

"Centurion Fu, we have eliminated Ou Xiangrong."

This answer clearly took the other side by surprise. The phone went silent. After a few seconds of silence, Fu Qingyang's voice came through, no longer cold:

"Where did you find him?"

Li Dongze said:

"We eliminated him at Songhai University. He was trying to force Xu Yingying to reveal the location of the Holy Grail and the List, but Xu Yingying wasn't aware of them. She's just an ordinary female student. Your judgment was correct, Ou Xiangrong has indeed lost his mind."

Fu Qingyang praised, "Good, Li Dongze. You've been very perceptive this time. You've successfully prevented a large-scale bloodshed. I will recommend you to the Elders Council. Were there any casualties?"

"No," Li Dongze paused for a moment, "Centurion Fu, we weren't the ones who killed him."

"Not you?" Fu Qingyang's tone was mixed with doubt. He seemed to have thought of something and suddenly realized, "I almost forgot, there's an Elder from the Water Goddess Palace at Songhai University. Was it her who took action? It seems I'll have to pay a visit sometime to express my gratitude."

An Elder at Songhai University? Li Dongze looked stunned, then realized that Centurion Fu had misunderstood. He explained:

"Ou Xiangrong was killed by Yuan Shi Tian Zun, the Night Wanderer I recently recruited."

A Level 1 Night Wanderer killed a Level 3 Enchantment Fiend?

The Centurion on the other end of the phone was silent again. After more than ten seconds, Fu Qingyang said, "Understood. Have him submit a report."

He paused, then added with a hint of a smile, "Well done."

Ending the call, Li Dongze steered the wheel with a beaming face, unconsciously pressing harder on the accelerator.

Bai Long opened his phone and pulled a few team leaders into a temporary group chat: "Look how smug Li Dongze is, his mustache is practically reaching his eyebrows."

Qing Teng: "Their team accomplished a great feat. If I had a subordinate like that, I'd be proud too."

According to the internal rules of the official organization, to deepen the team's sense of collective honor, one person's achievement is rewarded to the entire team, and other team members also receive bonuses and performance evaluations.

Regarding this Night Wanderer recruited by Li Dongze, if they were simply envious before, now, the team leaders were jealous to the point of wanting to abandon all sense of fair play.

..........

Kangyang District Public Security Bureau, morgue.

Li Dongze closed the morgue door, blocking the team leaders outside.

He looked at Zhang Yuanqing beside him with a deep gaze and said:

"Night Wanderers can increase their experience by devouring spiritual bodies. The side effect is that over time, their minds will become tainted. If you've tried to increase your strength in this way, you should understand what I mean."

Zhang Yuanqing nodded.

"Have you tried using that item to purify distracting thoughts?" Li Dongze prompted. This was his solution.

Seeing Zhang Yuanqing frowning in thought, Li Dongze smiled. "It seems the price of that item isn't small."

Yes, using it too much can easily lead to anemia, and a deficiency of both qi and blood... Zhang Yuanqing suddenly remembered a detail. He had once found a spiritual body crystal in the Mountain God's mouth.

Now it seemed that the crystal was most likely formed from the souls of The Way of the Extraordinary who had died in the Mountain God's temple.

That's why the information introduction said it was the best tonic for Night Wanderers.

The impurities in the spiritual body crystal must be mental contamination, but it was purified by the Goddess. From this, he deduced that the Demon Subduing Pestle must also be able to purify mental contamination.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yuanqing opened his inventory and took out the Demon Subduing Pestle, cast from brass, with exquisite patterns and spells carved into it.

He briefly explained the item's effects and costs, saying: "If I go crazy later, use it to stab me, uh, stab my thigh."

"Okay!" Li Dongze took the item.

Zhang Yuanqing walked to Ou Xiangrong's body, placed his palm on the other's chest, took a deep breath, and a viscous, dark energy surged in his eyes, awakening the residual spiritual body within the corpse.

A sharp pain shot between his eyebrows, and his consciousness immediately expanded. Something that didn't belong to him forcefully entered his brain.

........

In a daze, Zhang Yuanqing saw himself, saw the underground parking garage, saw the strange red dancing shoes.

This was the battle that had just taken place in the parking garage.

Zhang Yuanqing quietly waited for the battle to end. The scene quickly changed. This time it was a dim room. Ou Xiangrong was standing in front of a masked man holding a beautifully crafted crystal goblet, the liquid inside as scarlet as blood.

"As an Enchantment Fiend, your evil is pure. You have good potential. Drink the wine in the Holy Grail and you will be my servant."

"Every half month, you must drink the wine in the Holy Grail again, or even the Immortals won't be able to save you."

"Remember my name, Judge of the Deviant Eye."

......

In a cheap rental house, a man wearing a mask and a baseball cap stood in the living room, coldly saying:

"Judge of the Deviant Eye is dead. His confidant, Black Impermanence, has fled with the Fallen Holy Grail and the List, hiding in Songhai City. If you don't want to 'die of poisoning,' then help us find him. The Spiritual Alliance won't treat you unfairly."

.......

The scene changed again. He saw the blue sky, saw a group of hooligans wearing strange clothes, punching and kicking him.

The change in style was too sudden, and Zhang Yuanqing was a little confused. It took him several seconds to realize that he was being bullied.

These were Ou Xiangrong's past memories? He never thought that such a ruthless villain would have had such an experience before...

"Ou Xiangrong, are you taking my words as a joke?"

"Ou Xiangrong, you should cherish the times we talk to you nicely."

Don't hit me, don't hit me... Zhang Yuanqing felt Ou Xiangrong's intense fear, cowering in terror.

.......

"Useless thing, bullied again? If you get hit, hit back! Why are you crying to me? How could I have given birth to such a useless thing like you?"

A middle-aged man cursed loudly, spitting everywhere.

This time, Zhang Yuanqing felt despair in Ou Xiangrong's emotions.

Many chaotic, fragmented images flashed by quickly. In each similar event, his mentality became more and more distorted, more and more violent.

Just then, a radiant and pure golden light broke into his consciousness, dispelling the violence and pain, bringing warmth.

Zhang Yuanqing suddenly opened his eyes, seeing the bright fluorescent lights and the white walls, and also seeing Li Dongze, bruised and swollen, his suit disheveled.

"Chief, are you okay?"

Zhang Yuanqing was shocked. He immediately touched his face and found it covered in tears.

"I'm fine." Li Dongze casually threw the blood-stained Demon Subduing Pestle on the ground, straightening his clothes, and complaining:

"I should have had Guan Ya come. She's a better fighter than me. This wasn't elegant at all."

After he finished fixing his appearance, he eagerly asked: "How was it? Did you discover any new clues... you look terrible."

"I'm just... a little sad."

His experience had increased again, but this time, Zhang Yuanqing wasn't happy about it.

Li Dongze showed a look of realization and said, "Is it because of Ou Xiangrong's memories?"

"Yeah."

The memories of a spiritual body are incomplete and fragmented, only remembering some unforgettable experiences.

For so many years, Ou Xiangrong had been bothered by his experiences in his student days, which had affected his entire life.

Although the other party was a damned criminal, Zhang Yuanqing still felt very uncomfortable.

Li Dongze sighed:

"Although I don't know what you saw in the memories, I can understand. The Night Wanderers of the Taiyi School hate devouring the spiritual bodies of evil professions the most, precisely for this reason. Yuan Shi, do you know why the concept of evil professions exists?"

He didn't rush to ask about case clues, but took this opportunity to enlighten him, teaching him, saying:

"In factional conflicts, we've killed countless evil professions. After summarizing the data from the Taiyi School Night Wanderers' soul-interrogations, we observed a phenomenon: every evil profession is a villain and criminal in reality.

"In other words, the Way of the Extraordinary of evil professions are selected by the Spiritual Realm from a specific group of people."

Zhang Yuanqing was stunned, "So, they didn't become bad people because they became evil professions. They were already bad people."

"But their badness isn't all innate, it's created by humans themselves." Li Dongze sighed:

"The Spiritual Realm won't actively cultivate evil. The birth of any evil profession is the karma of humans themselves. This phenomenon is depressing and not positive enough, but that's the real world. It's good that you understand, but don't publicize it."

Zhang Yuanqing nodded silently.

"Also, let me tell you one more thing, you've already killed Ou Xiangrong, you should have gained Fame." Li Dongze said:

"The Way of the Extraordinary don't deduct moral value for hunting each other, but if you have Fame, it will make The Way of the Extraordinary of the same camp wary of you. If you have 10 points of Fame, killing you will deduct 20 points of moral value for The Way of the Extraordinary in the same camp. Haha, order and kindness are different."

After saying this, Li Dongze patted him on the shoulder: "Okay, let's talk business, don't waste time."

Are there kind, chaotic, and neutral people among the orderly professions? Then in the evil professions, will there be those who turn over a new leaf... Zhang Yuanqing regained his thoughts, steadied his mind, and said in a deep voice:

"Chief, I think I saw something big in Ou Xiangrong's memories."

"Something big?" Li Dongze smiled. "He's just a Level 3 Enchantment Fiend, how big can anything he knows be? I've been working for so many years, I've seen all kinds of big things, tell me."

He wasn't being arrogant, but in Li Dongze's view, Yuan Shi was inexperienced, and his definition of big things might not be accurate.

"It's like this..." Zhang Yuanqing narrated the memories he had read in detail.

A few minutes later, Li Dongze rushed out of the morgue, roaring at the team leaders outside:

"Something big has happened!!"

......

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