The contact to the end of the battle lasted only a few minutes, naturally alerting the attendants on the square, but they did not approach, vigilantly observing from a distance.

"Not planning to make a move?"

Su Changxing squatted down, touching Wang Yulin’s mangled corpse with his hand, as red mist in the air gathered towards his fingers.

[Trigger "Butcher’s Blade", Physique +0.1, Power +0.1]

This is Blood Energy.

"Butcher’s Blade" can absorb and convert the Power in Blood Energy.

Blood Energy is the energy born when an Orderly being dies, related to flesh and Spirit; many bloody rituals use Blood Energy for equivalent exchange.

A red glimmer flashed between his eyes.

Su Changxing walked straight to the nearest attendant, questioning: "Where did those Imperial Police go?"

The attendant stepped back a few paces, feeling immense pressure, glanced at the companion retreating even further, and with a forced smile said:

"Sir, they seem to be heading towards the castle."

Su Changxing nodded thoughtfully and said: "That person just attacked me, I defended myself and killed him, there shouldn’t be anything wrong with that."

"No, no, he deserved to die. Dare to commit murder in the castle, simply courting death."

The attendant was also somewhat unclear but had some impression of Su Changxing, seemingly just a farm owner who came to deliver pork, but now turns out to be a powerful Extraordinary.

Indeed, it seems things are on a predetermined trajectory, Lina and the others just happened to go to the castle at this very moment, very coincidental.

"Could they already be dead?" 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

Su Changxing frowned slightly, things were happening faster than he estimated, and eerie auras were emanating from the castle.

"What exactly are they trying to do, a bunch of lunatics!"

He couldn’t help but curse, also unclear why he encountered such things, maybe he shouldn’t have come here.

He then immediately ran towards the manor, wanting to see if he could stop this unknown ritual, at least not to be inexplicably killed here.

Due to the space being fragmented and distorted, his path was twisted, one moment on this end of the street, the next moment on the other end.

Several attendants saw Su Changxing and shouted: "Sir, please return to your room, the situation is critical now, and not allowed to come out."

They weren’t sure of the situation but acted on instructions given in advance.

Su Changxing looked at them, waved his hand, and said: "Okay, but I’ll take a stroll over there first."

The closer he got to the castle, the more abstract the surroundings became, lines crisscrossing between buildings, some bright, some dark, some real, some illusory.

The Doomsday Game sent a message.

[Leave the current enclosed space to follow the guidance and leave the current world]

"Can’t it just take me back directly?"

Su Changxing secretly grumbled, feeling the Doomsday Game should have this ability but didn’t want to spend more.

At this moment.

He stood on a floating piece of rubble in the air, head down, looking towards the segmented, cube-like castle not far away.

Perhaps due to the distortion of space, the wind was exceptionally strong, his black shoulder-length hair flying wildly in the air.

He looked around, feeling someone was watching him from the shadows, but couldn’t find where they were.

A person who could avoid his Perception was definitely not weak, at least not much weaker than him, both on the same level.

Zi~

In an instant, countless strands of Electric Light appeared in the space, swirling towards him, striking the stones and causing explosions, scattering shards big and small.

Dusk!

The yellow gleam refracted back and forth in the space; at the moment of contact with the Electric Light, he transformed into countless white feathers and disappeared.

"Huh?"

The person had thought Su Changxing could withstand it but hadn’t expected Su Changxing to dodge, as it was hard to evade a light.

Bang~

A gunshot rang out.

Su Changxing appeared atop a distant street, holding a black and white Sniper Rifle, shooting in the direction of the Electric Light.

The bullet became a black line, refracting back and forth in several fragmented spaces.

A violent collision sound, accompanied by Electric Light.

In the smoke, a figure holding a smoking pipe walked onto the street, somewhat surprised to look at Su Changxing.

"It’s you?"

He seemed to know who Su Changxing was.

This person was Po Lai’s butler, Huo Jia, wearing tight black clothing, holding a smoking pipe, with conspicuous Electric Light entwined around it.

A suffocating aura emanated from the butler.

Tier Six Extraordinary!

This was not a fraud like Wang Yulin temporarily elevated; this was a genuine Tier Six Extraordinary.

Su Changxing felt puzzled about this, how could an Extraordinary of Tier Six willingly serve as a butler? No wonder he would have such ambitions.

"You recognize me?"

Su Changxing smiled on his red-green face, his voice was deep and hoarse, carrying a sniper rifle, sizing up the opponent, appearing very relaxed.

The butler frowned slightly and said slowly, "I know, you’re the one who launched the attack and killed young master Po Lai."

His tone was extremely certain, without any doubt.

"Is that so?"

Su Changxing’s face changed, laughed and said, "You call Po Lai master with such affection, wasn’t all this arranged by you?"

The butler’s expression changed slightly, and he said coldly, "Give me the thing, and I’ll let you leave, how about it... It’s unexpected that you’re still alive."

Sure enough, earlier Po Lai was able to escape because Huo Jia intentionally arranged it, wanting him to kill Po Lai, knowing that killing Po Lai would trigger those data streams.

Su Changxing couldn’t figure out how he walked into the other’s scheme, or perhaps the other party always knew his true identity, even saying Huo Jia was the one writing letters.

"The thing? What thing?" Su Changxing asked with a smile, puzzled, as if completely unaware of what the other was referring to.

The butler stared at Su Changxing and said sternly, "If you don’t follow the plan, you’ll be the one in trouble, and you’ll have to bear the consequences."

Plans never catch up with changes, at this point, the assassin was supposed to be dead, and he needed to retrieve the gem from Po Lai’s corpse.

But the assassin wasn’t dead, and his strength was beyond expectations.

"Give it to you? After I leave here, then I’ll give it to you, after all, you don’t seem credible in any way." Su Changxing chuckled lightly.

In fact, his pressure wasn’t small either, his spirit was tense at every moment, the opponent’s attack methods were swift, completely capable of killing him before he reacted, so he must be cautious.

Their victory or defeat was only a hair’s breadth apart!

The butler took a deep breath, showed a relieved smile, and said, "Afraid of death, I can understand, but to die in a great cause is your honor, you shouldn’t feel dread about it."

A great cause?

Su Changxing glanced at the nearly twisted shadows above the castle, exuding a hazy aura, and said:

"It seems your definition of greatness isn’t high, I’m rather mundane, I just want to live... Let me leave here, what you want to do I don’t care."

The butler looked at Su Changxing and shook his head, sighing, "You can’t leave, before everything is over, you can only help us push the ritual forward."

"You seem to look down on me?"

Su Changxing’s smile grew stronger on his face, his eyes bursting with spots of silver light, the scope of perception rapidly expanding, completely covering the area around the castle.

Lines of void passed through the butler’s body, then dozens of bullets shot towards the butler along the lines.

While speaking, he locked onto the butler, triggering the "Perfect Bullet Screen."

This was also his most powerful strike currently, thirty-two bullets shot out in a stream of light, simultaneously, yellow light refracted in the surrounding space, quickly spreading to the space where the butler was.

Dazzling electric light exploded in the night, piercing through the domain covered by dusk, the butler’s strong power broke free from the domain’s confinement, and he used a tobacco pipe as a weapon in front of him, forming a blue electric wall to try to block Su Changxing’s attack.

As the gunfire went silent, the blue electric wall was intact, the butler flew more than ten meters away, sliding on the ground, his body incomplete, one hand and one leg missing.

The bullets perfectly curved around the edge of the electric wall.

"Why!"

He spat blood, his face full of disbelief, such a supreme attack had broken through the sky, making him tremble, yet the opponent was just an Extraordinary of Tier Seven.

Su Changxing carried the gun, walked towards him in an exaggerated posture, with a seemingly kind smile, and said:

"Seems you’re not that great either, you don’t seem qualified to look down on me."

Through the stacking of numerous abilities, his attack capability was pushed to the extreme, surpassing the tier’s framework, if he gained the upper hand, even a Tier Six Extraordinary had the chance to be taken down in one blow.

"Just wait and see~"

The butler snorted coldly, his body turned into a ball of electric light, vanished into the night.

"Not a bad way to escape..."

Su Changxing looked towards the castle and immediately chased after it, after taking down the butler, he could figure out a way to stop the ritual.

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The strong smell of blood permeated the air, many people had died, on the street in front of the castle, quite a few attendants’ corpses lay, they died, but died peacefully, smiles still on their faces.

Su Changxing pursued all the way here, without finding the butler’s figure, but saw such a scene, someone had slaughtered all the castle’s attendants, including those Imperial Police.

Some died in the chaos, long halberds piercing their belly, some died peacefully with serene smiles on their faces.

Such a scene was very strange, just before there was a battle here, it seemed these Imperial Police and castle attendants fought each other.

Almost no one survived.

"There’s no body of Lina... nor of Chris."

Su Changxing checked the corpses on the ground, found that these two Imperial Police he was more familiar with were not among them.

He guessed something, lightly snapped his fingers with his left hand, shadows of ghostly green formed from the corpses on the ground, emerged.

Strong Extraordinary often can nurture strong Evil Spirits, but can’t directly nurture Undead like Tao Yi.

The Evil Spirit has a limit, very difficult to break through that innate barrier, but Undead don’t, they have flesh, can grow infinitely, are terrifying creatures.

After advancing to Tier Seven, the ability of "Pastoral Spirit" also grew stronger, and can be fused into the domain for use, the benefit is he can spend less Spirit to recruit Evil Spirits, spend less effort to control them, correspondingly can control more Evil Spirits simultaneously.

However, these Evil Spirits seem to be cannon fodder for High Tier Extraordinary, unless the number reaches a certain extent.