I Have 10 Equipment Slots-Chapter 102 - 92: Shaking the Entire City

Hm?

’My luck is this good? I’ve already found an equippable item?’

’And its equipment effect is so familiar!’

Gu Zheng was pleasantly surprised.

He began to wander around the cave, searching for his target.

Soon, in the corner of a pile of black and blue ores, he found a purplish-red, round bead.

The bead was about the size of an adult’s fist and felt heavy. At first glance, it looked like a stone ball, but upon closer inspection, after staring at it for a long time, one would get the illusion of meeting the gaze of some distant entity.

One’s spirit and consciousness would unwittingly sink, drawn into an unknown darkness.

"Tsk!"

Gu Zheng shuddered, snapping back to his senses. He put the "Thousand-Eyed Flame Flood Dragon’s Eye" into his Storage Leaf.

He didn’t meet the equipping conditions yet, so he would put it away and equip it later.

After breaking through to the Super Body Realm, increasing any attribute required eight times the Demon Points.

Gu Zheng’s current remaining Demon Points were not enough to raise his Constitution, Strength, and Spirit to 108.

’Eyes of Golden Flame...’

’This equipment effect is pretty damn good. Just hearing the name gets me fired up.’

After all, this was one of the Great Saint’s ultimate techniques.

Of course, only the name was the same; the actual abilities were different.

Discerning truth from falsehood meant he could see through illusions and deceptions; he could see through ordinary Illusion Techniques and Illusion Realms at a glance.

Revealing true forms meant he could see the essence of things, their original state.

In other words, things like disguises or skin-changing would be useless against Gu Zheng.

Finally, Bright Ten Thousand Flames was an informational ability that, once equipped, would allow Gu Zheng to know the characteristics of ten thousand types of fire in the world.

These flames included everyday ones like firewood, charcoal fire, the fire from clashing weapons, lightning fire, and so on.

It wasn’t very practical, leaning more toward a support function.

But it was much more useful than the "Cauldron Body" and "Flame Armor" from last time.

...

After another tour of the cave, Gu Zheng collected the remaining plants and ores into his Storage Leaf.

The Double-Faced Hero Demon Fiend had brought these things from so far away; they must have some purpose.

Gu Zheng couldn’t figure out their use for now, so he decided to take them back first.

...

...

By noon, the Demon Fiend incident at Jinshan Temple had erupted throughout the State City.

The commotion from Gu Zheng leading ten thousand people to seal the mountain was too great.

Hundreds, even thousands of people, went in and out of Jinshan Temple every day.

And Jinshan Temple was less than ten li away from the State City.

Before this, although Demon Fiend infestations plagued various parts of Fengzhou and Domains were constantly opening, the State City had remained as stable as ever, even with martial law declared inside.

However, it was certain that there wasn’t a single Demon Fiend within a fifty-li radius of the State City.

If one were to name the safest place in Fengzhou, it would undoubtedly be the State City.

But now, a Demon Fiend was actually found hiding in Jinshan Temple, less than ten li away, and it had harmed hundreds of people?

Once this shocking news spread, it immediately sent the entire city into an uproar.

"Is it true? Are the Demon Fiends going to enter the city?"

"What the hell is the Demon Slayer Bureau doing? Their headquarters is right here in the city, yet they didn’t even notice a Demon Fiend creeping up to their doorstep."

"They did discover them! Weren’t the Demon Fiends in Jinshan Temple rooted out and slain one by one by a Hundred Households from the Demon Slayer Bureau?"

"What about the people who were harmed before that? What about them? Can the dead rest in peace?"

"That’s right. When the Demon Fiends come, no one can escape."

"You know you can’t escape, right? Besides the State City, where else in all of Fengzhou is safe? And even the State City is only relatively safe!"

"..."

The city was in an uproar.

Some were terrified, some were uneasy, some were nervous, and some didn’t care at all, believing it had nothing to do with them.

These were the common folk.

The well-to-do families in the middle sensed something was amiss and began to secretly hoard grain, even though grain was already under strict control.

The powerful and noble at the very top were running around everywhere, either trying to directly befriend the Demon Slayer Bureau or finding roundabout ways to connect with the Demon Suppression Guards.

Especially the Hundred Households and Thousand Households among the Demon Suppression Guards.

When Demon Fiends arrived, running and hiding were not long-term solutions. No amount of grain mattered if you couldn’t defend it or live to eat it. It was all useless. If you were dead, what good was grain?

And in the State City, the ones with the greatest martial strength were precisely the Demon Slayer Bureau.

The other government constables, the City Defense Bureau soldiers, and the Fengzhou Army outside the city were all no match for the Demon Slayer Bureau’s Demon Suppression Guards.

As the key figure who had cleared out the Demon Fiends of Jinshan Temple, Gu Zheng’s identity was exposed, and he instantly became the most popular person, the one everyone wanted to befriend.

However, they couldn’t see Gu Zheng; even arranging a "chance encounter" was impossible.

They wanted to visit him at home, but Gu Zheng lived at the Demon Slayer Bureau headquarters, where outsiders couldn’t enter.

As for asking an intermediary to pass on a message, Gu Zheng hardly knew anyone in the Demon Slayer Bureau, let alone anyone outside of it.

Thus, the city’s powerful and noble were getting desperate, trying to find a way in from all angles.

After returning to the city, Gu Zheng himself continued his simple, three-point routine.

Cultivating in his residence, eating at the cafeteria, and going to the Weapon Foundry to work with Ke Juzhen on upgrading the Celestial Frost Blade.

He remained unmoved, letting the chaos outside run its course.

...

「At the same time.」

Demon Slayer Bureau Command Headquarters.

"Gu Zheng, courtesy name Ping’an, twenty-one years old... oh, he’s twenty-two now. A native of Qingshi County, Nanyun Prefecture. He is the eldest legitimate son of a wealthy local family. He began practicing martial arts at age ten with considerable talent. At seventeen, he entered the ranks of the Martial World’s first-rate masters and was quite famous in the Nanyun area."

"A few months ago, the Great Dragon Mountain Domain in Qingshi County opened. Gu Zheng, who was still the Chief Constable of Qingshi County at the time, seized the opportunity to break his limits, and his Alien Body first began to show its edge. Afterward, he charged into the Domain, slew numerous Demon Fiends, and befriended noble youths from the Half-Demon Yuan Family, the Divine Weapon Nangong Family, and others."

"After the Great Dragon Mountain Domain mysteriously disappeared, Gu Zheng returned to the county seat and single-handedly swept away the Demon Fiends, saving the entire city... oh, no, the entire county’s population. Before the Domain’s outbreak, it was also Gu Zheng who strongly advised the Qingshi County Magistrate, Tong Yuanshan, to move the people from outside the city walls inside, thereby preventing..."