Chapter 1628
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Chapter 1628 The Name of That Slash
“Marquis, should we take action?”
The young man in Confucian attire walked to Huo Qubing’s side, his expression gradually becoming serious.
“This Marquis has been entrusted by His Majesty to protect the people. Whether it’s the Xiongnu from the northern borders or evil spirits in Han territory, they are all enemies of the common people. Since we are here today, we naturally cannot stand by and do nothing,” Huo Qubing said calmly. “Heaven has bestowed upon us supernatural powers, which should be used for the people, to protect all living beings.”
“Hmph.”
A disdainful voice came from the corner as the female prisoner sneered, “Protect all living beings? The world is so vast, how can just a few of you protect all living beings?”
“Even if we cannot protect all the common people, we should still do our utmost, rather than being a monster who harms people like you!” The deputy commander flew into a rage, drawing the curved blade from his waist and pointing it at the female prisoner’s nose.
Huo Qubing stood by the window, turning his head to glance at the female prisoner.
“Upon returning to the capital, I will petition His Majesty to gather extraordinary talents from across the land and establish a special bureau dedicated to suppressing evil spirits and quelling chaos. Since our few people may not be sufficient, we shall borrow the strength of the entire world.”
The female prisoner snorted coldly, avoiding Huo Qubing’s gaze.
“Marquis, the evil spirits have appeared,” the scholar said solemnly. “Should we go after them separately? Or…”
“There’s no need for that,” Huo Qubing’s voice was perfectly calm. “The entire city is now dark, with only this tavern brightly lit. We don’t need to find them… they will naturally come to their deaths.”
…
The night grew deeper.
Low, guttural howls emanated from the dim city walls, sounding like wolf howls but with an inexplicably eerie quality.
In the front hall of the simple medical clinic, Lin Qiye, who was sitting cross-legged on the table, slowly opened his eyes.
Faintly red starlight fell on the ground through the cracks of the tightly closed doors and windows. Lin Qiye had taken the old man’s advice and not lit any candles. After all, this was his first day in this dynasty, and he was extremely unfamiliar with everything here, so caution was paramount.
He silently slipped off the table and peered outside through the crack in the tightly closed door.
Under the hazy starlight, he saw numerous shadowy figures darting across the rooftops opposite, rushing rapidly toward the only brightly lit tavern in the city. A few broken tiles slid off the eaves and shattered on the ground, frightening the people inside who cried out in alarm, before being silenced as if someone had covered their mouths.
“So these are indeed ‘Mysteries’… but the number is far too many, isn’t it?”
Through the door crack, Lin Qiye saw the forms of those shadowy figures. He had already known that “Mysteries” existed in ancient Da Xia, but he hadn’t expected them to be so rampant, brazenly running across people’s rooftops. Just on this street alone, there were at least four or five of them.
Lin Qiye roughly estimated that within this city, there were at least thirty “Mysteries” present. If the city was like this, what must it be like outside the walls?
No wonder every household closed their doors and windows so early, and most pedestrians during the day looked haggard, appearing mentally exhausted.
Lin Qiye’s gaze followed the direction of the “Mysteries'” charge. He saw a figure easily flip onto the roof of the brightly lit tavern, holding a sword in hand, proudly surveying the monster shadows surging around like a tide, releasing the mental pressure of a “Klein” boundary.
Lin Qiye had seen that person during the day – he was Huo Qubing’s deputy commander. However, he hadn’t expected that the man was also a Forbidden Domain holder.
According to the intelligence Lin Qiye had, the Western Han Dynasty should be the era when the first batch of Forbidden Domain holders appeared, with the most representative figure being humanity’s first ceiling, Champion Marquis Huo Qubing… but Forbidden Domain holders should be very rare at this time.
Could it be that the Demon Suppression Bureau had already been established?
Lin Qiye looked back at the unconscious Wu Quan on the sickbed, a gleam flashing in his eyes!
With ordinary methods, Wu Quan’s injuries would take half a year to heal, but if there was a Forbidden Domain holder skilled in healing, that would be different… If the Demon Suppression Bureau had already been established, Huo Qubing would certainly have such a person by his side.
Thinking of this, he took a black robe hanging on the wall that belonged to someone unknown, found a bamboo hat from under the medicine cabinet, and quietly pushed open the wooden door of the clinic, moving along the shadows toward the tavern.
…
“One, two, three… thirty-eight, thirty-nine, forty.” The deputy commander stood on the roof, his gaze sweeping over the approaching shadows one by one. “Perfect, forty in total. We’ll take half each.”
“Who said anything about half each?”
The scholar in Confucian attire unhurriedly climbed onto the roof, his robes swaying in the wind. “Whoever kills faster and more, gets the credit.”
The deputy commander looked at him in surprise. “You usually try to slack off whenever possible with these things. Why are you suddenly so enthusiastic today?”
The scholar smiled mysteriously.
“The Marquis just said that after returning to the capital, he will petition His Majesty to establish a bureau for extraordinary talents… The bureau chief will definitely be the Marquis, so who do you think should be the deputy chief?”
Hearing this, the deputy commander suddenly understood. He slapped his thigh: “You, Yan Zhong! You’re trying to compete with me for the deputy chief position?!”
“What do you mean compete? The arrangement of the deputy chief position depends entirely on the Marquis’s will. I’m just seizing the opportunity to show my abilities.” The scholar in Confucian attire put his hands behind his back, white ribbons fluttering, resembling a literary sage, his noble character fully displayed in the cold wind!
“Pah!”
The deputy commander glanced at him disdainfully as a black aura climbed up his curved blade, releasing a terrifying destructive force!
“By the way, I recently gave my Forbidden Domain a name. Do you want to hear it?” the deputy commander asked, holding the black curved blade.
“What good name could a brute like you come up with?” The scholar raised his chin. “Let’s hear it, I can polish it for you.”
The deputy commander slowly raised the black curved blade in his hand. His eyes burst forth with a brilliant cold light, and his lips curled slightly upward as he spoke word by word:
“Black, Moon, Slash!!”
Whoosh——!!
A black crescent moon dozens of meters long suddenly swept across the night sky, instantly slicing three howling “Mysteries” into countless pieces. The black light devoured their remains, turning them into a rain of blood that drifted over the brightly lit tavern.
Pfft!
The scholar couldn’t help but laugh. “Black Moon Slash? Only you, Zhan Yuwu, could come up with such an ugly name!”
The deputy commander gritted his teeth and spoke fiercely, “Then you come up with one?”
The scholar thought for a moment, then declared loudly: “The blade resembles a crescent moon, extinguishing all living beings… Why not call it [Life-Extinguishing Crescent Flash]!”
