Chapter 73: The Jade Pendant was Bought for 9.9 on PDD

“Boom!”

The blast wave from Night Owl’s body sent the two flying.

“I admit, I really underestimated you.”

Night Owl reached up and took off her half-mask.
A centipede-like scar pierced through her eye, winding from her forehead to her jaw.

“How can she even burst out like that…”
Gu Xiyan struggled to get up from the ground.
Just now, it had been a checkmate situation.
Why had it turned into this in the blink of an eye?

The aura emanating from Night Owl’s body pressed down on her, preventing her from lifting her head.
The fear instinct rooted in her DNA was awakened, and she lost all her strength.

That aura seemed to have a natural suppressive force on the demon bloodline.

“What are you doing on the ground!”
Bai Ling roared, and shot over with a leap.
A pair of daggers, like fluttering butterflies, stabbed at Night Owl’s throat.

She had also felt that soul-crushing aura of fear, which was suffocating her.

This familiar feeling of being completely crushed had only been seen by her in Guan Qing.
The person in front of her seemed to be completely different from a few seconds ago.

The aura she was emitting was very familiar to her.

‘Baleful aura.’

Xu Zhi had once emitted this kind of aura that would make demons instinctively afraid when he was slaying demons.

But when people were in a state of fear, they usually had two reactions.
The first was the brain shutting down, commonly known as being scared stiff.
The second was to show extreme aggression.

It was obvious that Bai Ling belonged to the second type.

Besides, Bai Ling had a secret weapon—that jade pendant!

Xu Zhi had said that the jade pendant could resist the baleful aura!

The butterfly-like twin daggers flickered with a cold light, and were about to cut through Night Owl’s throat!

But the pair of sharp blades, which had cut through the rain curtain with a swift wind, froze in front of Night Owl’s throat, unable to advance an inch.

“Crack!”

Then, a piercing sound of metal shattering was heard, and the Demon Suppression Division’s special daggers actually shattered into a pile of metal pieces.

“Wh…”

Bai Ling’s eyes widened.
Before her cry of surprise could come out, her throat was grabbed by Night Owl.

“Let her go!”

Gu Xiyan struggled and fired three shots at Night Owl, but the three bullets shattered into a sky of metal fragments just as they were about to hit her.

Thump!

Gu Xiyan seemed to have heard the mournful cry of her own bones in that instant.
The pressure on her body suddenly multiplied.
She felt as if several road rollers were pressing down on her.

“Clearly a mixed-blood mongrel, yet you still want to fight with human means.”
The mechanical voice snorted coldly, and the hand grabbing Bai Ling’s throat gradually tightened.

The pressure on her neck made Bai Ling’s vision go black.
The pain of suffocation lingered in her mind.
Unconsciously, fine scales gradually appeared on the back of her neck.

‘This is bad.
I’m about to lose control of my heartbeat frequency!’

Suffocation and lack of oxygen, while her arteries were being choked.
Bai Ling only felt her heartbeat frequency slowly decreasing.

If this continued, she would turn into her snake demon form!

Perhaps if she completely transformed into a snake demon, even if she couldn’t defeat her, she would have the ability to escape with Gu Xiyan.

‘It didn’t matter anymore if she found out she was a snake demon!’

The scales on her back pierced through her skin like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, slowly opening and closing under her soaked clothes.

“Hmm?”

Just as Bai Ling’s heartbeat was about to drop below the 72 beats per minute mark, Night Owl suddenly let go.

“Phew!”

Bai Ling fell to the ground, panting heavily.
The water droplets from the tips of her hair slid down the scales on the back of her neck and into her collar.
She suddenly had a sense of relief after a narrow escape.

‘I can’t beat her! This woman is too strong! Why can a human be so strong?!’

‘Even if I were fully demonized, I wouldn’t be able to survive in her hands!’

“This jade pendant, where did you get it?”
Night Owl suddenly bent down and grabbed the jade pendant hanging on Bai Ling’s neck.

The crack on the jade pendant flickered with a fluorescent light in her pupils.

She didn’t know if it was a hallucination caused by the suffocation, but Bai Ling suddenly felt that this woman’s sharp gaze seemed to have softened a lot.

“I bought it for 9.9 on PDD!”

A sonic boom suddenly sounded by Night Owl’s ear.
Several ice cones, formed from condensed raindrops, shot over like lightning, each one aimed at Night Owl’s vital points as a human.

“Boom!”

The aura around Night Owl’s body suddenly condensed into a strong wind, which instantly ground all the ice cones into a fine powder.

“Bang!”

Gu Xiyan struggled and fired another shot.
The bullet pierced through the rain curtain, but only sparked half a meter behind Night Owl.

“Has she lost her mind…”
Night Owl’s mechanical voice was suddenly interrupted by the sizzling sound of flames.
The sparks that had just burst out had actually ignited the rain?

‘No!’

‘It’s not rain!’

‘It’s gasoline!’

The flames instantly engulfed the woman’s figure!

However, these flames couldn’t cause any harm to Night Owl.
The only effect they had was to block her vision for a few seconds.

With another burst of strong wind, the raging flames were instantly extinguished.

But a few seconds of vision obstruction was enough.
When the flames were extinguished, both Bai Ling and Gu Xiyan had already disappeared.

‘So that’s how it is?’

She looked up at the eaves above her head and suddenly understood.
From beginning to end, she had not only been facing Gu Xiyan and Bai Ling, but also a person hiding in the dark.

That person had probably been hiding on the roof just now, mixing gasoline into the rainwater and pouring it on her.

Because of her past injuries, she had lost her sense of smell and hadn’t noticed the smell of gasoline in the first place.

‘Was this a fluke? Or did someone among them know from the beginning that she had no sense of smell?’

Night Owl pulled out the combat saber that was stuck in the ground and moved her shoulders.

They shouldn’t have run far in such a short time.
Night Owl still wanted to catch Bai Ling and ask about the jade pendant.

That jade pendant was…

“Since they’ve run away, don’t chase them.
What’s the point of you bullying the younger generation?”

A deep male voice suddenly came from behind.
The man was sitting on a long bench by the corridor, sheltering from the rain.
A greatsword was leaning against the side of the long bench.

And he was holding a roujiamo?

If Gu Xiyan were still here, she would have recognized him.
This disheveled-looking man was the Demon Suppression Supervisor of Lin’an, Cheng Yu!

“When did you get here?”

“When you called my child a mongrel.”
The man didn’t look at her, and took a bite of his roujiamo.
“Ptooey, ptooey!”

He immediately spat out the food in his mouth, his face as ugly as if he had eaten a fly.
“What’s wrong with this chef? Is this how they make roujiamo in Tianque?!”

“Aren’t you afraid I’ll kill your subordinate?”
Night Owl sneered.

“She can be injured, she can die at your hands.
That’s just because she’s not skilled enough.”
The man raised his head and grinned a dangerous smile.
“But you called her a mongrel, that’s not okay.”

“I heard you’ve been missing for a while.”
Night Owl slowly paced, shaking the water from her combat saber.
“Abandoning your duties and disappearing, and now you’re here protecting your calf?”

“I was just hiding.”
The man casually threw the roujiamo into the trash can and clapped his hands to wipe off the crumbs on his fingers.
“If I didn’t hide, how could I trick you into coming out?”

“This is called luring the snake out of its hole.
Am I right, old friend?”

Cheng Yu reached out and picked up his greatsword, shouldering it, and slowly walked into the rain curtain.
“From now on, this place is under the jurisdiction of the Demon Suppression Division.
Any objections?”