It was raining cats and dogs.
However, the Inner City Guards still insisted on their duty of patrolling the districts.
On the Seventh Street in District 2, a team from the Second Guard Team was in charge of patrolling the empty street. They were talking about the bloody fight that happened on the street in District 3 not long ago.
"I heard that it was a student participating in the Soul Gathering. They killed their way through the street!" The person in the middle seemed to have seen it with his own eyes. He pointed at the street and gestured. Then, he suddenly stopped and froze on the spot. He stared straight ahead.
"And then?" Someone asked.
"There's … something in front." He said in a tone of disbelief.
Everyone turned their gazes over, and their hearts were instantly filled with shock.
This was a street that they often patrolled, and they were familiar with almost every inch of this place. But now, in the corner of this street, where they were facing, there was a large pile of vines growing there. At this moment, the vines were hanging limply on the wall due to the heavy rain. But in the middle of the vines, they could vaguely see a human figure. He stood there with his arms open.
"Who is it!" The strange scene made the team immediately alert. Everyone pulled out their weapons and asked while carefully moving forward.
No one answered.
The person leaning against the wall was still motionless. The wind and rain blew, and the vines on his body swayed.
As they got closer, everyone finally saw that a dagger was buried deep in this person's chest. The blood had long been washed away by the rain. Not even a trace was left on the ground.
One of the team members rushed forward and checked his breath and pulse. He then turned around and shook his head regretfully at everyone. He moved the vines away and saw Matsuoka's clothes.
"It's someone from the Academy Commission," he shouted.
"The Academy Commission?" The team leader walked forward and looked at the pale face that was filled with suspicion.
"The Fourth Commander of the Academy Commission, Matsuoka …" He recognized this person.
Everyone sucked in a breath of cold air.
The Guards did not have much contact with the Academy Commission. Both parties had different powers and systems. The Guards were under the command of the Castellan of each district. The Academy Commission of each district was directly responsible to the Empire Academy Headquarters. He did not accept the jurisdiction of the City Lord's Mansion.
However, they were well aware of the rank and strength of the Director of the Council. But now, the Fourth Commander of the State Council, who had a high status and strength, was hung on the wall just like that?
"Inform the Commission," the captain ordered. He didn't do too much. It was best for the Commission to handle the matter itself. He was just curious. The academy's supervisory committee was a special organization that targeted the academy. Normally, they would not provoke people outside of the academy's system, but the academy would be scared to death of any random inspector from the academy's supervisory committee. Who was this person? He actually killed the commander of the State Council and hung him on the side of the road?
Was this a demonstration? The team leader stretched out his fingers and fiddled with the vines. He accidentally thought too much.
"Any other discoveries?" the squad leader asked the other members who were searching around.
"Not at the moment," everyone replied. The heavy rain had washed away all traces of Morin's departure.
"Leave two people here. The rest of you continue patrolling with me," the squad leader ordered. For some reason, he suddenly thought of the bloodbath in the streets of the third district that his team members had just mentioned. Such an incident had not happened in the inner city for a long time. He couldn't help but feel a little worried. There would probably be more things happening in the second district today.
Siffin ran to an intersection. He still couldn't shake off the Director of the Council who was chasing after him. The distance between the two sides was constantly shrinking. After all, Siffin's Soul of Strength was only at the third level. His speed wasn't too fast, and he didn't have rich experience in escaping like Morin. But Siffin knew that these were not the main reasons.
The main reason was that he didn't want to escape at all.
Some people died, some people lived. The living avenged the dead?
He didn't want that to happen. He hoped that everyone could live.
He wanted to protect everyone, but he also knew that. His ability was limited. Teacher Chu Min also knew this, so even if she had to risk her life, she didn't say any comforting words. She only hoped that her risk would win more opportunities for everyone.
Siffin wasn't afraid of risking his life. But he wasn't like Chu Min, who was at least at the same level as the enemy. He was only at the Connected Single Soul. Any one of the people chasing after them was stronger than him in terms of cultivation base. Risking his life required methods. He couldn't just send himself into the enemy's group.
But now, the opportunity was here.
Scattering to escape would cause the enemy to scatter as well. One on one, if he wanted to risk his life. This was the best chance he could fight for.
Just hide at this intersection and ambush.
Siffin made up his mind. He walked to the intersection and was about to turn left. Suddenly, his eyes lit up!
The saber light came from the left side of the intersection. The splashing rainwater instantly hit Siffin's face. The intersection he wanted to ambush had already been hidden by the enemy.
Siffin slid to the right hurriedly, and the saber light fell. Fortunately, he was in the middle of the street, and there was some distance between him and the enemy hiding behind the wall. The saber did not cut him in half, but only a corner of him.
"That's it," the enemy said.
The Sixth Commander of the Council, Senhai, held the Level Two Divine Weapon, Iron Cutter. As he spoke, he didn't stop attacking. Because they had seen Siffin's superpower.
Broken Mark!
The legendary superpower, the ability to cut off memories. Even people with a higher level than Siffin were afraid of him. So, Zong Zhenghao directly sent two commanders, two cultivators with Double Broken Mark, to deal with him.
One of them was in hot pursuit, but the other had already circled to the front of Sivan at an even faster speed.
Senhai didn't have the face to use his nickname of not needing the sixth saber to kill. Against Lu Ping, he used a total of 28 saber strikes. Even when he was exhausted, he didn't succeed. He could only watch as Lu Ping swaggered away.
Humiliation. Absolute humiliation.
So this time, Senhai wouldn't count whether it was six or seven strikes. His insignificant legend had been broken. Only by killing his opponent could he not seem so useless. But he was afraid of Siffin. He had to attack first, so that Siffin wouldn't have the energy to use Broken Mark.
The Spirit of Essence's superpower could be activated at will. It was the fastest to activate, but it required absolute concentration. Senhai crazily used his Evading Slash. In an instant, he had already used six strikes. In the past, he would feel ashamed if he couldn't defeat his opponent. But he had completely forgotten about this. What he wanted was for Siffin to fall without any chance to fight back.
The seventh strike!
The rain was blown away by the wind of the saber. The seventh strike finally hit the target, but Lu Ping didn't fall!
Sen Hai was shocked. He knew the power of his attack, but his opponent was completely unmoved. There was only one possibility, and that was that he had already been hit by the Fracture Mark. What his saber had struck was only his memory that had stopped here.
"Where?!" Senhai roared, and the rain in the air splashed. A saber came from afar, and the sound of air breaking rang out. Senhai twisted his body. Accompanied by the sound of the flying saber breaking through the air, he used the Evading Slash again.
"Hit!" Senhai roared, and a bigger splash spread out in the air with his saber. But Siffin had already moved. He dodged to the side and avoided the saber. He knew the secret of Senhai's Evading Slash. It was to chase after the sound. And this time, he was chasing after the flying saber, not him, Siffin.
Who would have thought that just as he took a step to the side, the flying saber in the air would suddenly change direction. It was too late for Siffin to dodge. The flying saber hit its target. The Evading Slash followed the direction of the flying saber and chased after it.
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