Chapter 94: Chapter 93: Accidental Ingestion, Strange Ears, Hearing and Seeing Divine Techniques

"Yes!"

The old servant in the Black Robe could only nod in response to the Golden Robe youth’s words.

After venting his frustration, the Golden Robe youth’s dark pupils gradually regained their clarity.

He then asked about something else.

"That youth Hei Sanlang brought the other day—have you discovered his identity?"

The old servant in the Black Robe shook his head. "We can’t find anything."

"However, Hei Sanlang is a famous Transformed Great Demon, after all. His strength is comparable to the Innate Realm Ninth Layer!"

"For even he to be so utterly respectful toward that young man... he must be a Great Demon of the Spirit Transformation Realm!"

"He was probably just bored and decided to come to the Imperial City to amuse himself!"

"Did you use the Carefree Powder?"

"We did! We used at least a hundred times the normal dose, and the man still complained it wasn’t enough!"

"Heh..."

The Golden Robe youth’s expression turned cold. With a light chuckle, he said, "Then let him have his fill. Keep increasing the dosage!"

"The Soul-devouring Demon Sect can certainly afford a little something like this!"

Then, his tone shifted.

"Tsk, tsk... In this vast Imperial City, Demon Fiends run rampant and ghouls lie in hiding!"

"Even the imperial court is filled with nothing but corrupt officials!"

"The Great Xia Dynasty... its fate is sealed!"

"It would be better to let my Soul-devouring Demon Sect be the one to usher in a new dynasty!"

The Golden Robe man looked out at the brilliant sunlight and sighed wistfully.

In a daze,

he thought he saw a speck in the distance, rapidly approaching the manor.

The Golden Robe youth couldn’t help but squint.

Only then did he vaguely make out what looked like a human figure.

...

「An hour earlier.」

「Inside the Great Xia Prison.」

Su Bai was on his routine patrol in Zone B Prison.

He hadn’t been walking down the corridor for long when he saw two young Prison Guards escorting a thin, wiry inmate toward him.

This inmate had obviously just been brought in, as Su Bai hadn’t yet contained him within the Purification Tripod.

At this thought, Su Bai’s expression flickered, and he stepped forward.

"Lord Su!"

Upon seeing Su Bai, the two young Prison Guards immediately spoke with deference.

Su Bai gave a slow nod and asked,

"What did this man do?"

At the same time, Su Bai noticed that there was something unusual about the inmate’s ears.

Pointed and narrow!

Quite peculiar!

One of the more sharp-witted Prison Guards immediately replied respectfully, "Lord Su, this man is a habitual offender from a major city. He frequently steals from the Government Office, and he’s ’visited’ the homes of more than a few wealthy merchants and nobles!"

"Tsk, tsk... They say that in the city, the punk also assaulted more than one woman!"

The other Prison Guard, who was slightly chubby, chuckled and nodded repeatedly. "That’s right, Lord Su! It took a ton of effort to finally catch this kid!"

The captured, wiry inmate simply listened in silence.

His head was bowed, and his body trembled faintly.

Just then, the sharp-witted guard glanced at him.

A peculiar glint appeared in his eyes.

Then he spoke.

"But it’s strange, you know!"

"We have no idea what strange Cultivation Technique this kid is practicing, but he managed to escape our roundups time and time again!"

"It was as if... he knew our plans ahead of time!"

"It’s the weirdest thing!"

Hearing this, the chubby Prison Guard beside him nodded in agreement.

He looked at the captured inmate with a hint of apprehension.

’A mysterious Cultivation Technique that lets him predict our plans?’

Su Bai was now genuinely interested in this man.

As the conversation continued, Su Bai secretly sent a wisp of True Qi into the inmate’s body,

to contain him within the Purification Tripod.

The inmate, suppressed by the True Qi, gave a visible shudder, his eyes filled with terror.

"Behave yourself!"

The two Prison Guards holding him thought the scoundrel was trying to pull a fast one.

They immediately started yelling at the inmate!

Once the three of them were a good distance away, Su Bai checked the information on the Purification Tripod.

[Criminal: Mo Sanlang]

[Sin Level: Five-Star]

[Strength: Divine Power Realm Seventh Layer]

[Status: Lightly Injured (Imprisoned)]

[Suppression Involvement: 1%]

[Reward: 80 Experience Points/Hour]

What interested Su Bai wasn’t the paltry amount of Experience Points he would gain from this man, but rather that mysterious Cultivation Technique he practiced!

「Some time later.」

Su Bai was chatting with Elder Qing in the corridor as the elder held a cup of Health Tea.

Just then, the silver-white point of light on the Purification Tripod representing the wiry inmate he had just contained

began to slowly fade away!

’The man died?’

Su Bai was rather surprised.

After asking around, he learned that the man had committed suicide in the interrogation room, apparently out of fear of his crimes.

Su Bai found this strange; something seemed off.

He made an excuse to return to his personal quarters, where he decided to extract the Cultivation Technique the man had practiced before his death.

’I wonder what kind of Cultivation Technique he was practicing?’

With that thought in mind, Su Bai initiated the extraction.

Upon selecting the extraction, a scene materialized before Su Bai’s eyes.

In the vision...

Su Bai saw that the man had been an abandoned infant.

One day, wandering in the wilderness, he had accidentally eaten a magical flower, which granted him a special Divine Technique!

After he ate the flower, his ears changed dramatically, transforming from their originally broad shape to become long, narrow, and pointed.

The vision faded.

Su Bai came back to his senses and checked what he had gained.

[Divine Techniques: Hearing and Seeing Divine Techniques! (Fifth Grade), Realm: 2nd Layer (45,370/300,000)]

’The Hearing and Seeing Divine Techniques?’

’So he wasn’t practicing a mysterious Cultivation Technique after all, but had obtained a special Divine Technique!’

As Su Bai carefully examined it, he found this Divine Technique to be quite interesting.

To put it simply, this Divine Technique practically fused one’s ears and eyes into a single sense.

When the Divine Technique was active,

he could see and hear the faintest stirrings from far away.

Conversations, fights, arguments, and more...

he could hear and see them all with perfect clarity!

It was just like being there to witness it firsthand!

And as the level of the Divine Technique increased, its "viewing" range would also expand.

Moreover, it even allowed for custom "filtering"!

He could filter for what he wanted to see and exclude what he didn’t.

’This Divine Technique...!’

’...is really something!’

Realizing this, Su Bai was overjoyed.

’If I can use custom ’filtering,’ I just need to ’filter’ for the words and actions of criminals.’

’Wouldn’t my efficiency at capturing criminals skyrocket?’

After a moment’s thought, Su Bai immediately called up his personal status panel.

’I’ve saved up two million Experience Points. Let’s dump it all into this Divine Technique and see what happens!’

Seeing his accumulated Experience Points, he immediately poured all of them into this new Divine Technique!

As the Experience Points flowed in, the level of his Hearing and Seeing Divine Techniques rose steadily!

3rd Layer... 4th Layer... 5th Layer...

In the end, the Hearing and Seeing Divine Techniques reached the 6th Layer!

He had successfully unlocked the "filtering" function!

And after the Hearing and Seeing Divine Techniques rose to the 6th Layer, its information panel updated.

[Divine Techniques: Hearing and Seeing Divine Techniques! (Sixth Grade) Realm: 6th Layer (145,370/1,000,000)]

’The Divine Technique Tier rose to Sixth Grade!’

’Now that the grade has increased, the Divine Technique’s power should be much stronger, right?’

Su Bai immediately activated the Hearing and Seeing Divine Techniques.

He discovered,

that the entire Imperial City was now within the range of his Divine Technique!