Chapter 59: Heaven Helps Her Strike Down the Scoundrel with Lightning

Master Qiu's speed was extremely fast, and within just two or three breaths, he arrived at the artificial lake where Yun Zhi was located.

However, Yun Zhi's reaction was not slow either. Right before Master Qiu's eyes, she flashed once more into the space safehouse.

Master Qiu was extremely confident in his own strength, or perhaps he had sat at the pinnacle for too long, completely disregarding an intermediate-level esper like Yun Zhi, who only temporarily hid using a magical artifact.

However, although he was disdainful in attitude, in battle he would never show mercy or hold back simply because his opponent was weak.

He was even determined to make a quick decision and unleash his strongest strike to annihilate the opponent instantly!

However, the premise was that he had to find Yun Zhi's location first!

"Eh, the mental power and aura clearly disappeared right here..."

Even within a radius of dozens of meters, he had carefully perceived every corner, yet Yun Zhi's figure was completely absent!

Could it be that this girl was also a spatial esper? Impossible! The esper aura on her should be of the water attribute. Although it was somewhat different from ordinary water attributes... it definitely did not belong to the spatial attribute!

Just as Master Qiu was planning to return and harvest his three disciples, who had accumulated quite a bit of fortune, if he still couldn't find anyone, and sweep away the other celebrities and wealthy merchants living in the hotel in one go, he finally discovered a trace of abnormality...

Right, that young woman whose fortune was more than twice as prosperous as Dou Wanqin's and Bai Miao's was currently positioned right above his head!

Who would have thought that the girl simply hurled a basketball-sized water ball in his direction...

To Master Qiu, this water ball was truly like a graduate student looking at a primary school math problem involving addition and subtraction within ten; it carried zero deterrent force.

The water ball came straight at his face. Master Qiu was still planning to use this disguise after dealing with the people in the hotel, changing his hairstyle and clothes to pretend to be a bar hostess, blending into the red-light district of Y City to evade Ming Su's pursuit.

Naturally, he would not let this water ball actually hit his face. Not to mention ruining his makeup, it would also make him look utterly incompetent.

There was no need to dodge anyway—it was just a tiny water ball!

Master Qiu swiftly slashed out a blade of wind qi, splitting the water ball in half.

Water splashed all over the ground.

Wait, what was that?

Master Qiu felt a trace of extremely faint spatial energy fluctuation and his expression changed drastically, causing him to rapidly retreat a dozen or so meters backwards!

This was a spatial bomb! It was Ming Su's energy aura!

Hmph, this water-attribute girl was somewhat clever, actually hiding a destructive spatial bomb inside a water ball.

But being amateurish was the original sin; she was too slow, everything was simply too slow!

She couldn't possibly think that he, a dignified peak tier-six profound master, couldn't even dodge this child's play, could she?

Just as a trace of pride in his own strength arose in Master Qiu's heart, and his mental power swept toward the spot where the water ball had just appeared—the front-left, intending to find Yun Zhi's location...

A hand was suddenly and gently patted on his back...

...Damn, when did this girl hide behind him? And in such close proximity, she dared to show herself?

Yet Yun Zhi only appeared for a single second before vanishing again. When Master Qiu instinctively turned around and bombarded the space behind him with a wave of wind qi-blade, he once again grabbed empty air.

By the time he realized that the key point he should be paying attention to was whatever Yun Zhi had patted onto his back, the ten lightning talismans directly pasted onto him had already been detonated.

Rumble, rumble, rumble—

Crack, crack, snap—

Thunder, lightning, roaring!

Master Qiu's expression changed drastically. These were tier-four lightning talismans imbued with the power of heavenly thunder! And there weren't just one or two, but a full ten of them!

Even though Master Qiu's mental power exceeded tier four, it was of no use; his physical body was only at tier four. Moreover, what he feared most was lightning imbued with the power of heavenly thunder.

Having three defensive magical artifacts successively blown to pieces, Master Qiu barely managed to survive the assault of those ten lightning talismans.

However, aside from a ragged hole blasted into the back of his cheongsam, revealing a dull skin tone that contrasted sharply with his fair face, neck, and arms, he sustained no obvious physical injuries.

Yet something had changed from before: the evil and baleful aura that Master Qiu had previously kept well-concealed inadvertently leaked out a trace.

The heavenly secrets that had been completely shielded now had a crack. This crack was invisible and intangible, but it was expanding rapidly until it could no longer be masked.

Just when Master Qiu assumed these lightning talismans were Yun Zhi's strongest attack, and that she surely had no other trump cards left, leaving her at his mercy to be molded however he pleased...

The already gloomy sky suddenly became covered in dark clouds, flashing with lightning and roaring with thunder, whipped up by violent winds!

Streaks of white lightning locked onto Master Qiu at lightning speed, striking straight down toward his forehead!

Master Qiu: ......

Struck directly by the five bolts of heavenly thunder on the spot!

He wanted to escape, but escape was impossible!

He still had more than a dozen defensive magical artifacts on him, but the heavenly thunder in the sky was endless and aggressive, striking down one after another.

Master Qiu was quickly battered by the heavenly thunder until he vomited blood.

Even his youthful appearance could no longer be maintained. No matter how heavy the makeup, it could no longer hide the gullies and wrinkles surfacing on his face...

Inside the space safehouse, Yun Zhi watched the sexy beauty transform into an old codger, clicking her tongue in wonder: "This is the consequence of doing all kinds of bad things! You deserve it! Brother Heavenly Thunder, hit a bit harder, are you even capable of doing the job?"

The heavenly thunder striking straight down at Master Qiu trembled, took a sharp turn, and almost hit Yun Zhi instead.

Yet Yun Zhi was not in the surface space at all; she was hiding in the deeper inner space. Furthermore, not only did she lack any evil baleful aura, but she also carried a distinct layer of golden light of merit...

Thus, the heavenly thunder turned back and fiercely struck Master Qiu once more.

Moreover, the subsequent pillars of lightning visibly grew a circle larger, striking even faster as they continuously battered Master Qiu.

It was as if to say—Your daddy is fully capable!

Yun Zhi twitched the corner of her mouth. Why did this heavenly thunder even come with sentience, as if it could understand what she said?

The chat group system speechlessly remarked: "The thunder from an ordinary thunderstorm naturally doesn't come with any sentience, but this is the exterminating heavenly thunder sent by the Heavenly Dao to punish evildoers, so of course it has sentience. Otherwise, what would happen if it struck the wrong person? You'd better quiet down and stop drawing aggro. Unless you never plan to walk the path of immortal cultivation in the future, sooner or later you'll be struck by heavenly thunder too. Be careful it holds a grudge and retaliates."

Yun Zhi: ......

In this day and age, even heavenly thunder was this expressive?

She honestly shut her mouth.

Of course, the recording was kept running the whole time. The scene of her relying on the heavens to help solve the evil-cult leader was definitely a highlight reel and absolutely had to be recorded!

Later on, she could use it to make the wealthy sugar-mamma of the interstellar world, Miao Miao Bai Miao, pay up—ah no, send energy stones to support her!

The exterminating heavenly thunder struck a full forty-nine times.

If previously Master Qiu had merely shed his disguised beauty persona to reveal his true old-codger form...

Right now, he had turned into a human-shaped lump of charcoal.

He was thoroughly and completely dead.

Even the various evil magical artifacts he wore on his body, nourished by fortune and fresh blood, were all destroyed.

The chat group system popped up a light screen to remind Yun Zhi: "Quickly, come out of the space!"

Before Yun Zhi could figure out what was going on, she was directly tossed out of the space safehouse by the system.

A faint stream of golden spiritual light fell onto Yun Zhi, quickly merging into her body and disappearing.

Yet Yun Zhi could feel that she was refreshed, clear-headed, and sharp-eyed, and even the slight fatigue brought about by staying up late and traveling continuously had diminished significantly.

"Ah, what was that golden light just now?"

The chat group system, having been harassed by Yun Zhi too many times, knew she was asking it and replied: "The golden light of merit, duh!"

Hehe, it had a share in this golden light of merit too! After all, it had provided Yun Zhi with a lot of assistance.

Yun Zhi asked with puzzlement: "Can the golden light of merit even be materialized?"

The system answered: "Generally speaking, no. But after the heavenly thunder appears, the golden light of merit can also manifest alongside it."

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Yun Zhi's operation this time directly prevented the hundreds of people throughout the entire hotel from falling victim to Master Qiu's murderous hands.

And these hundreds of people were either quite famous figures in the entertainment industry or tycoons in the business world.

Most of them had done a fair amount of charity work, and tonight they had gathered together precisely because of a charity gala.

Although Yun Zhi used lightning talismans to summon the power of heavenly thunder to deal with Master Qiu—which carried a slight element of taking shortcuts—if not for her, had all these people been killed by Master Qiu after having their fortunes seized, it was impossible to imagine what kind of horrific impact would have been caused.

Therefore, it was entirely fitting for the heavens to bestow a reward of merit upon Yun Zhi as a token of encouragement.

Yun Zhi had not formally embarked on the path of true cultivation, and her esper system didn't put much emphasis on merit either; she didn't yet realize how rare and important merit was.

Still, she knew this was definitely a good thing, so she happily accepted whatever reward came her way!

Yun Zhi added a few extra words: "Thank you, Heaven Daddy! Love you, mwah!"

System: ......

You really know how to gild the lily for yourself; people only gave you a tiny reward, and you're already calling them daddy.

The dark clouds in the sky dissipated, and the previously gloomy night sky revealed a scattering of sparse stars and a crescent moon.

Seeing security guards approaching the garden from the hotel side to investigate—after all, the previous spectacle had been far too loud, with bolts of lightning striking toward the artificial lake in the hotel garden, who could possibly miss it?—many guests staying in the hotel who had already fallen asleep were awakened and stood by the floor-to-ceiling windows looking out.

Some even used their phones to record short videos.

However, the distance was too great, and coupled with the pitch-black night, they could only capture blurry human silhouettes when the lightning flashed brightly.

Someone even guessed: "My god, such a huge spectacle, could it be that some Daoist friend is undergoing a heavenly tribulation?"

Yun Zhi thought to herself that this statement wasn't entirely wrong; Master Qiu was indeed a practitioner of the Dao, albeit an evil one, and what he underwent just now was indeed a tribulation—the kind where nine out of ten die with zero survival rate!

Before the security personnel arrived, Yun Zhi suppressed her nausea and disgust, using her mental power to collect Master Qiu's charcoal-like corpse into his storage ring—the only magical artifact of his that hadn't been blasted to pieces.

As for Master Qiu's mental imprint, it had also been blasted away by the thunder.

This storage ring wasn't particularly large, holding about 300 cubic meters, but all the other magical-type items had been taken out and consumed to block the thunder during Master Qiu's ordeal. The remaining empty space was entirely sufficient to hold Master Qiu's corpse.

Inside were quite a few possessions Master Qiu had accumulated over the years, as well as some items emanating an evil baleful aura, and even two corpses...

They were presumably decoys he used as a golden cicada shedding its shell, much like his previous "self-detonation" trick.

Yun Zhi didn't examine them closely, planning to hand them over to the Supernatural Management Bureau for processing later, along with the evil magical artifacts looted from Liu Yuxuan's study.

Having finished all this, Yun Zhi flashed into the space.

By the artificial lake, the two security guards discovered that the area had been blasted into utter chaos, with flowers, grass, and trees toppled everywhere.

Yet there was not a single trace of any "person".

Security Guard No. 1: "I told you it was impossible for anyone to actually be out here getting struck by lightning; they must have seen things."

Security Guard No. 2: "Who knows? Maybe the person undergoing the tribulation succeeded and has already left?"

Security Guard No. 1: "Hey, that's a good point! I'll report it to the shift supervisor like this later and have the PR department market our hotel this way from now on—a five-star hotel where an expert once transcended a tribulation..."

Returning to the 28th floor of the hotel, Yun Zhi retrieved the trapping array and maze array discs whose array patterns had been damaged by Master Qiu earlier.

The damage to the array discs wasn't too severe; handing them over to Lu Ziji to find someone to repair them later should make them usable again.

As for Qi Yue, Xu Jiao, and Wu De—Master Qiu's three disciples—every single one of them had committed numerous wicked deeds.

The fortune-seizing restriction on Dou Wanqin and the restriction preventing her from leaving X City had been personally cast by Qi Yue, this "eldest senior brother"!

As for the other two, although they had no direct grudge with Yun Zhi, they were no good eggs either.

Since she was already here, these fellows were all walking contribution values, so she might as well round them up along the way.

Although Yun Zhi didn't find much she wanted to exchange for at the Haihai Supernatural Management Bureau's exchange counter besides esper recovery potions, the headquarters of the Supernatural Management Bureau—namely the Dragon Team—might just have some good things she could use.

If Earth truly lacked any good resources, Ming Su could never have reached tier seven relying purely on the ambient energy in the air or the esper cultivation rooms.

Yun Zhi's consumption during this mission assignment had also been quite substantial: several invisibility talismans, ten lightning talismans, expending 190 points to place mental positioning brands on Qi Xingxue and Li Taifeng, plus breaking two array discs.

In short, whenever there was wool to be plucked, one must never let the opportunity pass.

Yun Zhi quietly and stealthily slipped into Qi Yue's room.

Fortunately, because of the flashing lightning in the hotel's back garden earlier—although the hotel building was equipped with lightning rods and theoretically very safe—the guests in the hotel remained deeply worried about any eventualities...

In short, no one was in the mood for any disharmonious activities, and they had all dressed themselves properly, planning to bolt the moment anything looked suspicious.

Qi Yue hadn't been in the room of the wealthy socialite B from earlier at this moment; instead, he had returned to his own room, unaccompanied by anyone else.

He was also a practitioner of the profound arts, a tier-four profound master, and even though he was quite far away, he had vaguely sensed that something was amiss.

The thunder and lightning scene just now looked much more like an evil-cult practitioner's shield against heavenly secrets failing and being struck by exterminating heavenly thunder!

Consequently, Qi Yue quickly packed his things, changed into outdoor clothing, and prepared to leave immediately.

Using the space safehouse, Yun Zhi circled behind Qi Yue, materialized, and swiftly slipped a spirit-suppressing collar around his neck.

——This was stuffed into her hands by Uncle Liu, who said that while it was useless against tier-five, six, or seven bigshots, it worked exceptionally well against espers and profound masters at tier four and below.

And it truly worked exceptionally well!

Yun Zhi's move directly suppressed Qi Yue's mental power!

Qi Yue spun around, smashing a fist toward Yun Zhi's direction.

Yet Yun Zhi had already hidden back inside the space.

Shifting her footing to a spot a few meters behind Qi Yue and pulling a distance away, she blew a puff of water mist laced with soul-stunning powder toward Qi Yue, whose mental power was crippled and whose sensory acuity had drastically plummeted...

Qi Yue was filled with reluctance, only managing to squeeze out a single sentence: "Who... exactly are you?"

Before he could hold on any longer, he fainted and collapsed.

Yun Zhi stepped forward and slapped energy-suppression handcuffs on him.

Next came Xu Jiao and Wu De. To Yun Zhi's surprise, these two had also abandoned their respective male and female companions and converged together.

Xu Jiao was inherently one of the artists managed under Wu De, and the relationship between the two had always been close.

When Yun Zhi slipped in using the space safehouse, the two of them were bad-mouthing Qi Yue.

"Qi Yue must have realized that the thunder just now was abnormal. That guy is inherently selfish; in a critical moment, he definitely won't take us along for fear that we'll become dead weight. But we must stick closely to him—after all, he's the second master's biological son and holds the most defensive magical artifacts!" Wu De said.

Xu Jiao chimed in: "That's the logic. He even had the nerve to look down on me for being indiscriminate with my partners; fellow apprentices of the same sect, and he was unwilling to even give me a few more resources. He never stopped to think where he himself was any better, crawling into the bed of a sixty-year-old wealthy woman!"

Wu De wanted to say that this couldn't entirely be blamed on Qi Yue; Qi Yue at least kept his numbers under control, with at most a dozen fish in his pond.

Unlike Xu Jiao, who had hundreds of fish in her pond!

Xu Jiao behaved far too high-profile and flauntingly; many male celebrities and tycoons were her patrons, and quite a few newcomers entering the industry had also been ravaged by her. Reaching the limit of being a second-tier actress notorious for both good and bad fame was already her ceiling; any higher, and she would be jointly blackballed by the circle of wealthy elites' wives.

Still, Wu De himself was no clean bird either, having twenty or thirty fish in his pond. Who told him he lacked any seductive esper abilities; his kidneys couldn't handle keeping too many fish anyway.

"I reckon Qi Yue should be coming down from the upstairs about now. Let's head out too!"

"Alright!"

Yet before they could step out of the room, Yun Zhi suddenly materialized.

Ambushing them from behind, she first slapped a spirit-suppressing collar onto each of them.

This time, Yun Zhi didn't use the paralyzing water mist on them.

Her soul-stunning powder was running low; she needed to use it sparingly.

Both of their mental powers were at tier three, but their physical constitutions were only at tier two.

Once their mental powers were suppressed, Yun Zhi fighting a two-on-one head-on had a very high chance of winning.

Xu Jiao's seductive esper ability wasn't suited for combat, nor could she bewitch Yun Zhi.

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Wu De mainly specialized in talismans; his hand-to-hand combat skills were far inferior to Yun Zhi's martial arts training.

A few minutes later, another two knocked down!

When Ming Su arrived, she had originally expected to see a scene of rivers of blood...

Instead, what she saw was Yun Zhi easily and effortlessly resolving a scenario involving two tier-three espers/profound masters.

As for Master Qiu...

His aura was densest by the artificial lake in the hotel's back garden, but the area there was in utter ruin, having apparently been blasted and damaged by powerful lightning forces not long ago.

Ming Su materialized.

"Junior Sister Yun, what's the situation right now?"

Yun Zhi scratched her head: "Uh, it's just the situation Sister Ming Su is seeing..."

Ming Su: "Where is Master Qiu?"

Yun Zhi took out Master Qiu's storage ring, which was wrapped in a plastic bag.

"Right here."

Ming Su: "......?!"

Master Qiu was a peak tier-six veteran profound master with endless tricks and countless magical artifacts!

Even Ming Su, a tier-seven, had stumbled and fallen against him once, allowing him to escape once. Yet Yun Zhi was telling her that the man was inside a storage ring?

Weren't such storage-type magical artifacts incapable of holding living creatures?

Could it be...

Ming Su instinctively took the storage ring, her mental power probing inside.

Aside from two corpses wrapped in preservation talismans that clearly hadn't just kicked the bucket, there was also a corpse shaped like a lump of charcoal.

Ming Su was shocked: "That lump of charcoal is Master Qiu?"

Yun Zhi said apologetically: "Circumstances forced my hand; if I didn't kill him, he would have gone on a killing spree in the hotel. I had no other choice..."

Yun Zhi knew that capturing Master Qiu alive would naturally have been best, as officials might have been able to pry some useful information out of his mouth.

However, the difficulty of capturing him alive was simply too high. Yun Zhi lacked the capability, so she had no choice but to let him kick the bucket.

Anyway, given all the wicked deeds he had committed, dying a hundred times over would not be an injustice!

Ming Su said: "It's fine, you did nothing wrong in killing him. Had I known he possessed so many tricks, I should have killed him when I captured him back then, or else it wouldn't have caused Senior Brother Zhang and Little Li to be gravely injured."

"What I'm curious about is, you're only tier two, how on earth did you manage to kill him?"

This was seriously outrageous!

It wouldn't have been easy for Ming Su to kill Master Qiu if he truly went all out with his arsenal.

During their previous battle, Master Qiu must have been reluctant to damage too many magical artifacts and held back his attacks, determined to seek an opportunity to escape later, which was why he was so easily captured by Ming Su.

Yun Zhi recounted the sequence of events.

Ming Su: ......

She had no idea where Yun Zhi got those lightning talismans, or how ten lightning talismans could actually summon true heavenly thunder to make the heavens help her strike someone.

That was seriously explosive!

Ming Su said: "Have you ever considered joining the Dragon Team? If you come, I can let you take over my position as the leader of Team Three."

Yun Zhi: "Sister Ming Su, please stop joking around. I'm just a tier-two newbie esper. This time was purely a coincidence; the lightning talismans were given to me by a friend, and I don't have many reserves left on hand either."

She only had ninety left, and once those ran out, she could just continue asking Ziji or Lu Ziji for more.

Ming Su also knew that some people simply disliked excessive restrictions, but Yun Zhi's performance was simply too astonishing.

Being only tier two, yet having countless trump cards, and subduing three tier-five and tier-six experts relied on an ambush.

Causing the peak tier-six profound master to kick the bucket relied on coincidence.

Yet Yun Zhi had also successfully subdued one tier-four and two tier-three opponents...

That was definitely pure strength!

Ming Su stated: "I will help you apply for the status of an external affiliate member of the Dragon Team. Don't rush to refuse; the restrictions are minimal, roughly comparable to your freedom level within the Supernatural Management Bureau branch. However, the good items available for exchange will be much more abundant. Many special resources are given priority access exclusively to Dragon Team members."

Yun Zhi didn't refuse further: "Alright, then thank you, Sister Ming Su."

Returning to the X City Supernatural Management Bureau with Ming Su, Yun Zhi rested in the bureau's dormitory.

This mission assignment from Bai Miao was nearing its conclusion, but there were still some people left to settle.

——Su Man and the Su family!

The towering trees behind Su Man had all been uprooted by her, leaving Su Man with zero backing whatsoever.

As for how specifically to deal with her and the Su family, she would leave that decision to Bai Miao.

Resisting her drowsiness, Yun Zhi simply edited the video she had recorded throughout the day, clipping out the empty parts, and sent the video directly to Bai Miao.

She then outlined the current progress bar.

She also organized the gathered information and sent a copy to Ming Su, so that follow-up personnel could take over the deployment.

As for that dragon-like and elusive Xiao Si, Master Qiu's fourth disciple, Yun Zhi didn't need to worry about him either; the cybersecurity experts of the Dragon Team would make their move and track him down sooner or later.

Yun Zhi also left a message for the hacker Xiao Jiu, settling the final payment for this period and telling him he didn't need to investigate further since she had already coordinated directly with the Supernatural Management Bureau.

Having finished all of this, Yun Zhi fell into a deep sleep...

Why did she feel like she had forgotten something?

What could it be?

It wasn't until she woke up at noon the next day that Yun Zhi remembered, and she hurriedly called Ziji: "Ziji, my grandmother's body must have been planted with restrictions, along with fortune-seizing gu worms..."

Yesterday she had been running around in a whirlwind of tasks. Moreover, because her grandmother had previously recovered exceptionally well and seemed completely unaffected by the restrictions or gu worms—likely because she had left X City and because Ziji had set up an isolation array at the Lu family home—she had temporarily slipped her mind.

Ziji: "Oh, that? I didn't notice it carefully before, but when I came to visit Grandmother yesterday and checked her body using soul power, I saw it. Just some petty tricks; I've already cleared them all out."

"When are you coming back?"

Yun Zhi: ......

Wait, that was her grandmother! Why was Ziji casually calling her grandmother too!

Still, calling a friend's grandmother grandmother didn't seem to have any particular flaw either.

Yun Zhi: "I'll be back in a day or two."

Ziji: "Alright then, bye-bye, I won't chat with you anymore; Grandmother and I are going to continue watching TV."

Yun Zhi: ......?!

What, could it be that Grandmother was right there beside him just now? Why hadn't she chatted with her for a bit either.

Yun Zhi felt a bit out of sorts, feeling as though her grandmother had somehow been snatched away.

Meanwhile, at the Lu family estate.

Ziji asked: "Grandmother, did saying that really make Yun Zhi come back as soon as possible?"

Dou Wanqin smiled warmly: "Definitely! That little ingrate went to X City and didn't send us a single message, and we didn't dare casually call or text her for fear of distracting her. The fact that she remembered to call you today means she must be basically finished with her business."