From Abyssal Invasion to Bursting Stars with a Single Sword-Chapter 93 - 87: Evil God’s Finger, Divine Attribute Source Material

The timeline rewinds to half a month ago.

On the 23rd floor of Building 6, Unit 1, in the Andu Academy District, was Fei Zhijie's dwelling.

In the span of half a month, two separate groups, one led by Lu Heng and the other by Chen Linian, had visited one after the other to investigate Fei Zhijie.

On the same day, just ten minutes before Lin Zeyu knocked on the door.

Fei Zhijie, holding a withered finger, was engaged in an intense internal struggle.

This withered finger was something he had brought back from the Abyss World; it belonged to Evil God Barton.

During the melee, he found this finger in a temple.

The finger seemed to possess some sort of magic, constantly tempting him.

After the failure of the Resurrection Ceremony, he chose to return and brought the withered finger with him.

In the following few days, he hesitated over whether or not to follow the mission hint.

Because he had received a mission, hinting that transplanting the finger into his palm would grant him endless strength.

He knew how powerful this strength was because Lei Jinhao had once possessed it.

Although Lei Jinhao was dead, he was acutely aware of how terrifying that strength could be.

Thus, in the days following his return, he constantly wavered, several times rushing into the kitchen, picking up a kitchen knife and preparing to chop at his finger, but each time he ultimately held back.

He feared both the pain of chopping off a finger and the prospect of ending up with the same fate as Lei Jinhao.

Yet, the desiccated finger had an irresistible magical allure.

Until that afternoon.

A surge of impulse took over, and he dashed into the kitchen. Grasping the knife, he attempted to chop at his finger.

Just at that moment.

A knock on the door resounded, followed by Lin Zeyu's shouts.

Startled, his knife veered off course, slicing a chunk of flesh but not severing the finger.

He quickly bandaged his finger and disposed of the shriveled piece in the toilet, flushing it away, then fetched a piece of meat from the refrigerator, pretending to cut vegetables.

Afterward, he went to answer the door, leading to Lu Heng and two others entering to search and inquire about the whereabouts of the Evil God's Finger.

Half an hour after Lu Heng's trio had left, the senior inspector from the Iron Blood Investigation Bureau also arrived.

Their inquiry was also about the Evil God's Finger.

By then, the finger was already flushed away and while the wound on his hand was a genuine cut, his fingers were his own—no test would indicate otherwise.

Once both groups had departed, he fell into intense turmoil.

He gradually realized that his own strength was too feeble in this world; had he been stronger than Lu Heng and the others, he wouldn't have been at the point of a gun, unable to resist.

So, he finally decided.

Taking advantage of the night, he lifted the manhole cover to the building's independent sewer settling tank, fished out the finger, severed his own finger, and transplanted the Evil God's Finger onto it.

From that moment, he felt an immense power flooding through him.

Afterward, he killed a Superpower User who had a grudge against him, the Evil God's Finger draining the person's flesh and blood.

Under the influence of the Evil God's will, he developed an intense thought; he resolved to eliminate all the Superpower Users who had hindered the Resurrection Ceremony.

Only, someone was investigating the Evil God's Finger.

He couldn't wait for them to come investigating. Now that he had transplanted the Evil God's Finger, if those two groups were to come back, he would have no way to conceal it.

Thus, he chose to go to Siam first and kill the Superpower Users there.

To conceal his movements, he used a different identity.

After arriving in Siam, there appeared two dry corpses in Chiang Mai and Bangkok.

While taking action, he delighted in the sensation of this newfound power. Those two Power Users, once so arrogant, were now impotent under the pressure of his power.

Holding Su Cha and Weiseg by their necks, lifting them, he saw the fear and begging in their eyes.

It was a sensation of supremacy he had never experienced before the transplantation of the Evil God's Finger.

Following the deaths of Su Cha and Weiseg, his next target was Sitichai.

From time on the Abyss Battlefield, he knew Sitichai was formidable in combat.

That's why he saved Sitichai for last.

After draining Su Cha and Weiseg's flesh and blood, his strength multiplied many times over.

He was confident that Sitichai was no match for him now.

Thus, the next day, he went to Sanpalan County.

However, upon his arrival, Sitichai had already left the house and his whereabouts were unknown.

He captured an employee from Bangkok Airways, extracted flight information from them, and on departure, drained the employee's blood as well.

Afterward, he boarded a flight and arrived at Phuket Island, heading towards the Xilai Bay Resort Hotel.

As he was about to enter the hotel.

He saw two individuals entering before him—the high-ranking inspector from the Xia Country Iron Blood Investigation Bureau.

He quickly hid, taking refuge in the Palman Hotel across the street, observing the situation at the Xilai Bay Resort Hotel.

It wasn't long.

Lu Heng and his companions reached the Xilai Bay Hotel, and both groups broke into Sitichai's room.

Later the Siam police arrived, and not long after that, they left.

From the room at the Palman Hotel three hundred meters away, Fei Zhijie's gaze was chillingly cold as he watched it all.

He felt lucky, twice skirting the edge of death, but luck was on his side both times.

The first was when Lu Heng's trio came to investigate; had they been a few minutes later, he would have attached the Evil God's Finger.

Then outside the Xilai Bay Resort Hotel, Chen Linian entered the hotel a step ahead of him, sparing him yet another brush with fate.

…

Meanwhile.

Inside the Xilai Bay Resort Hotel, Lu Heng speculated that it was Fei Zhijie and also thought of many things.

"Inspector Chen, I'm going to have to trouble you to check if there have been any similar cases of desiccated corpses within the country."

There was no need for explanation; Chen Linian had also thought of this and had already dispatched agents to investigate domestically.

Case files were directly accessible, so a response came within a few minutes.

Chen Linian briefly outlined the case: "There's one inside the country that happened a week ago, and the victim was also turned into a dry corpse."

Lu Heng continued, "Let's use this person's identity to check the flight information."

As soon as he finished speaking, the information arrived.

Chen Linian had already sent someone to investigate, "There's flight information. A week ago, they flew from Coastal to Chiang Mai, then to Bangkok, and this afternoon, from Bangkok to Phuket Island. They were on the flight just in front of us, disembarked half an hour before we did."

A gleam flashed in Lu Heng's eyes as he spoke, "Then he's near us. Mu Yu, try to find him. He must be hiding in a corner, watching us right now."

The invisible reconnaissance eagle flew out from the Siam Bay Holiday Hotel, beginning its search for suspicious targets in the vicinity.

Lin Zeyu wanted to walk to the balcony and look outside.

Lu Heng immediately spoke out to stop him, "Come back, don't just look around aimlessly."

Su Muyu's perception was sufficiently high, so as long as the curtains of the rooms weren't drawn, the reconnaissance eagle could make a round outside each hotel and clearly see the situation of the people inside.

Five minutes later.

She suddenly opened her eyes and said, "Found him, in the Palman Hotel, on the third floor, farthest to the right."

No sooner had the words left her mouth than her tone changed, "Not good, it looks like he's alerted. He has rushed out of the room… he's killing people!"

"Stop him!"

Lu Heng's figure moved. He rushed toward the balcony, leapt into the air, and burst out.

At the same time.

Su Muyu controlled the reconnaissance eagle to dive at Fei Zhijie.

Two terrifying tentacles stretched out from Fei Zhijie's back, striking and shattering the reconnaissance eagle with one blow.

Seeing Lu Heng dash out, Lin Zeyu also immediately followed suit, running to the balcony and preparing to jump out. However, after a glancing below, he was so frightened he quickly stopped himself, "It's so high!"

This was the 8th floor; a fall wouldn't turn one to mud, but it would certainly break every bone in the body.

But Lu Heng had already jumped out, and he was now falling downward.

Just then.

The cry of an eagle came from behind, as the second reconnaissance eagle flew out, gliding above Lu Heng.

Lu Heng reached out to grab the eagle's talons and glided towards the Palman Hotel opposite.

The distance of 300 meters was covered in a matter of seconds.

Lu Heng smashed through the glass of the third-floor room on the far right, rolled upon landing, and then drew his sword and rushed out of the room.

In the hotel corridor lay many lifeless bodies.

Some had been drained of blood; others were half-drained.

This scene recalled the terrible scenes of Evil God Barton's rampage in his previous life.

Evil God Barton extended countless tentacles, draining the blood of all living creatures he encountered.

Following the bloody trail, Lu Heng pursued the perpetrator to the staircase. There, he heard the urgent roar of a car engine from below. A sports car with its gas pedal floored burst out of the hotel entrance.

Lu Heng's gaze sharpened. If the creature got away in the car, things would complicate further.

With Siam's police involved in a high-speed chase against this monster, they wouldn't stand a chance.

Lu Heng made a split-second decision, activating "Shadow Traversal." His feet picked up the Gale's speed, speeding out at five times the usual pace. He charged onto the street just as the sports car was leaving the hotel entrance, turning and hitting the gas. In that instant, he brought down his sword with a decisive slash.

Boom!

The front end of the sports car split in two, tumbling into a wall.

The monstrous figure covered in tentacles got out of the car, its tentacles lashing out toward Lu Heng.

Lu Heng initiated "Bullet Time," sprinting forward, drawing nearer to the monster. He cut off three attacking tentacles, closed in within a step's range, then unleashed the skill "Thunderous Heavenly Prison."

Roar!

The divine thunder fell, enveloping the tentacled creature.

The wild thunder shredded all of its tentacles.

The tentacled monster roared and howled in the thunder, desperately struggling.

Ultimately, it broke free from the Thunderous Heavenly Prison, setting off a thunderstorm that scorched all the tentacles on its body until smoke billowed.

Lu Heng pursued and stabbed through its body while thunder wreaked havoc.

Its tentacles all fell limp, and Fei Zhijie regained a hint of consciousness, his eyes unwillingly looking up at Lu Heng.

Lu Heng used his sword to lift his right hand, and on that hand... the ring finger was missing.

Without seeing the Evil God's Finger, his right hand's ring finger was completely severed, the finger now missing.

Lu Heng immediately called to the approaching reconnaissance eagle, "Quick, find the finger, the finger's gone."

The reconnaissance eagle flew back into the hotel to search.

At that moment.

Lin Zeyu, Chen Linian, and others arrived. They aimed their guns at the dying Fei Zhijie and asked, "How did it go?"

"The finger's gone."

Having said that, Lu Heng turned back and walked into the hotel, starting to inspect every corpse.

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Lin Zeyu took to examining the fingers of every corpse.

Lu Heng reminded, "It's not just the finger—the piece of the Evil God's Finger doesn't necessarily have to be attached to a hand. It could grow on any part of the body."

As he spoke.

Lu Heng rapidly recalled in his mind the bodies he had seen while running through the corridor earlier. He quickly identified one body that seemed out of place.

While other bodies had been drained of blood, only one had fresh blood at the corner of its mouth.

Lu Heng walked back to the third floor and stood over that particular body. He raised his sword toward the corpse's abdomen.

Just then.

The body suddenly opened its eyes and lunged at him.

Lu Heng swung his sword, felling it to the ground.

A bloodstained finger shot out from the corpse's mouth. It fell to the floor, squirming like a worm.

Lu Heng stabbed his sword into the finger, picking it up, igniting a burst of thunder to burn the Evil God's Finger.

Black smoke billowed out of the Evil God's Finger. It condensed into a fearsome face of the Evil God, struggling and roaring in the flames.

At the same time.

Lu Heng felt a surge of Spiritual Pollution attacking him, reducing his spiritual power by 1.

However, the effect of the "Spirit Slash" of the Aurora Blade meant that the Spiritual Pollution from the fragment of the Evil God's Finger wasn't too strong.

Lu Heng was affected, but the impact was not severe.

Thus, enduring the Spiritual Pollution, he burned the Evil God's Finger to ashes, from which emerged a clump of Divine Attribute Source Material.

"Divine Attribute Source Material: full of divinity. It can be used to enhance Source Material Ability."