First-Year Internship—And You Went to Site 749 to Contain Monsters?!

Xiao Jingbai stood up from the ground.

He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva.

”But I never said you had to shoulder these things for me, did I?”

”My nature is soft, I was afraid to actively confess to Master, but I never said I couldn’t accept being punished after Master discovered it himself, right?”

Qin Jinghao was stunned upon hearing this.

He stood there frozen in place.

Even though he heard it with his own ears, he couldn’t believe Xiao Jingbai would actually say such words.

It was true Xiao Jingbai had never said it was a must.

But.

Every time Xiao Jingbai made a mistake, he would run to Qin Jinghao and ask him what to do.What the hell could he do?

They were the same age, Qin Jinghao hadn’t eaten a few more years of salt than him.

What solutions could he come up with?

Take the blame, then!

If he didn’t shoulder it and waited for Master to investigate, only trouble awaited.

Actively confessing meant lighter punishment.

Trying to hide it from Master was basically impossible.

What Master wanted was attitude.

In such a situation.

Would you refuse the lighter punishment of confessing and instead face Master’s thunderous fury after he discovered it himself?

Qin Jinghao only felt powerless. So all of this was just his own wishful thinking, his own doing.

So Xiao Jingbai had been suppressing his dissatisfaction with Qin Jinghao taking the dominant position all along.

Yet he didn’t remember all the good Qin Jinghao had done for him over the years.

Whether it was angry words or the truth.

Qin Jinghao was heartbroken.

Lu Ding watched this scene.

He silently shook his head.

”Ah...”

Human nature is like this.

People remember grudges, not kindness.

There’s even the situation where a small kindness breeds great enmity.

Although the two grew up on the mountain, their personalities were too different.

In terms of interacting with society.

Hot-tempered people generally aren’t changed much by society because they are impulsive, self-centered, and somewhat arrogant. Qin Jinghao was also a genius, outstanding, which led him to simply not listen to others.

I am the best, I won’t listen, I won’t listen, I’m the most awesome.

I was awesome on the mountain, I’m still awesome down here.

Only when he encountered someone who completely outclassed him in every aspect would he think, that person is more awesome.

In this regard, Qin Jinghao met Lu Ding, and the gap between Lu Ding and him was huge, so he regarded Lu Ding as his idol.

But soft-natured people are different. Their nature is already soft, not self-centered enough. They change according to others’ opinions and are also more easily influenced by external factors.

Of course, it was also bad luck.

Xiao Jingbai ended up in a place like the Fierce Pursuit Hall, a mixed bag of good and bad, and naturally awakened some of his own views.

In other words, he felt he had made it.

I wasn’t awesome on the mountain, but I’m awesome after coming down.

Unable to effectively refute, Qin Jinghao could only point at Xiao Jingbai, his emotions somewhat out of control, and curse: ”Your mother, Xiao Jingbai! Your mother! Your mother!!!!”

Xiao Jingbai wasn’t angry. In terms of emotional control, he was better than Qin Jinghao: ”Jinghao, you said my nature is soft, not firm, easily bullied, easily taken advantage of. Well, I’ve learned to change now.”

”You choose your 749, I choose my Fierce Pursuit Hall. The path ahead is long. What suits you may not necessarily suit me.”

Saying this, he slowly stepped aside, clearing the path behind him.

”Take the person and leave. From now on, you go your way, I’ll go mine. You walk your official path bathed in sunlight, I’ll walk my dark path through blood and storms.”

”Jingbai!! He killed Big Stupid Elephant! We can’t let him go!!!”

Jiang Ren shouted.

Big Stupid Elephant had followed him through life and death, loyal and devoted, his number one fighter.

He just wasn’t very smart.

But because of that, Jiang Ren trusted him deeply.

One could even say he treated him like a godson.

Now his godson had died at Qin Jinghao’s hands.

And Qin Jinghao was also going to take away the person he was determined to kill.

How could he swallow this anger?

”Qin Jinghao, you keep talking about the kindness of a meal, the grace of clothing. Isn’t the kindness of a meal still kindness? How can you treat me like this? Has your conscience been eaten by dogs!?”

Qin Jinghao, whose emotions were already somewhat out of control, upon hearing this.

Immediately turned his head and opened with a national curse: ”I fuck your mother! You treated me to one meal and you want me to sell my life for you? What kind of good deal is that in this world!”

”I joined 749, you ambushed and tried to kill a 749 investigator! The fact that I didn’t slap my palm on your head just now was me remembering your kindness!!!”

”Eating and clothing! I only ate your damn meal, I didn’t wear your clothes! At most, I’ll pay you back!!!”

Raising his hand, he condensed spiritual energy into a blade and plunged it into his own abdomen. Without the slightest hesitation, he sliced open his flesh. Blood flowed freely.

Qin Jinghao endured the intense pain, reached in, pulled out his intestines and guts, and hurled them at Jiang Ren: ”Here you go! Paying you back! Paying you back! Paying all of it back to you, damn it!!!”

This completely tore apart any pretense.

Qin Jinghao, with his abdomen emptied, looked a bit pale, but it wasn’t a big problem.

The Life-Hastening Palm didn’t just hasten life; it could also heal wounds. He swiped his hand over the wound on his belly, then pointed at his former good brother: ”Jingbai!!”

”I’ll ask you one last time! Will you join me in fighting for our future? Will you join me in becoming an investigator? Just nod, and I can go kneel and beg the Grand Guardian! I can let bygones be bygones!”

”I can pretend I never heard those words just now!”

”We can still be good brothers!”

”What’s mine is yours! I will definitely respect your opinions from now on!”

He couldn’t bear to part with Xiao Jingbai, the good brother he had grown up with since childhood.

Even though the dazzling world could cloud one’s eyes, and he had his own pursuits, Xiao Jingbai was still the last piece of pure land in his heart.

This was a bond, a friendship.

Facing Qin Jinghao’s questioning, Xiao Jingbai shook his head: ”Jinghao, from the moment we came down the mountain, we were destined for different paths.”

”You once told me that the Mountain Lord’s son eating rabbits was the natural law of the strong preying on the weak. Well, now it’s also the strong preying on the weak. I don’t believe the Fierce Pursuit Hall is doing evil. This is just the natural law, survival of the fittest.”

”Xiao Jingbai, you ungrateful wolf! Die!!!!!”

At this moment, Qin Jinghao went completely mad!

Since he had said all the good and the bad, and Xiao Jingbai still refused to turn back from his misguided path and abandon the darkness for the light.

Then he would only have Xiao Jingbai’s ashes to remember him by, and could only say sorry to their Master.

Qin Jinghao raised his hands and lunged forward to attack, his eyes wide with fury. His entire demeanor changed, becoming even more ferocious and brutal.

His opening move was a killing technique.

Both hands, two techniques, seamlessly integrated.

Left hand seizing strongly with the Pill-Grasping Hand, right hand plundering fiercely with the Life-Hastening Palm.

Xiao Jingbai, gathering spiritual energy in his hands, used the same techniques: left hand Pill-Grasping Hand, right hand Life-Hastening Palm.

Not retreating in the slightest.

The two directly began a true man-to-man, fist-to-flesh, palm-to-palm brawl.

Watching the palm shadows fly everywhere, force deflected cracking the ground, light bursting into the sky, scattering the overcast clouds above.

Back and forth they went, in less than a blink, thousands upon thousands of palms exchanged.

All they needed was the ”Muda Muda Muda Muda” sound effect.

Although this didn’t match Lu Ding’s agreement of three moves for a single person and ten moves for a group, this tangled, unclear grudge, and Qin Jinghao’s current attitude expressed through action, made Lu Ding willing to give him this chance to resolve it himself.

Watching these two fellow disciples restrain each other, unable to determine a winner for the moment.

Jiang Ren set his sights on Shen Qixue.

Kill this urgent target first, then join Jingbai in surrounding Qin Jinghao to take revenge for Big Stupid Elephant!!!

Once the thought arose, killing intent solidified.

Jiang Ren pulled out a large-ringed broadsword with a black blade, white body, and a Yazi beast-head pommel. With a clang, sparks flew.

Just look at this blade.

White body forged like snow, black blade condensed like night.

From tip to hilt, over four feet long. From blade edge to spine, wider than two handspans.

Yazi beast-head pommel, eight rings along the spine.

The first ring brings life, the second death, the third seizes the soul, the fourth seizes the spirit. The fifth and sixth rings cleave a person, the seventh and eighth rings startle ghosts and gods.

He was quite impressive, raising the blade overhead, shouting at Shen Qixue: ”Investigator Shen! Then let me, Jiang, be your opponent and send you to your death!!!”

Facing Jiang Ren’s powerful, heavy slash, Shen Qixue’s heart jumped in alarm.

Right now, she could barely stand.

Before this, she had exchanged a hard blow with Big Stupid Elephant. Before that, she had taken a palm strike from Xiao Jingbai. Before that, she had been beaten up by Lu Ding.

Who could be more miserable than her?

And now she had to face Jiang Ren, who was at his peak and a whole cultivation stage higher.

What to do?

Dodging was impossible. Rashly dodging would only create openings. She could only block. She couldn’t just stand there waiting to die either.

Just as she gathered spiritual energy to defend, before the blade even descended.

When the mountains seemed exhausted and the rivers dried up, when the path seemed to end with no way forward.

Whoosh! A human silhouette outlined in lines seemed to flash into existence, the colors not yet caught up, appearing one meter in front of her. The speed was so fast Shen Qixue didn’t react at all. Only by focusing her eyes could she see clearly.

Oh... it’s Lu Ding.

It’s Lu Ding!!!!

That figure that filled her with dread emitted a voice that made her cultivation heart tremble.

”Then let me, Lu, send you to your death.”

The words were similar, but he omitted the word ”opponent” because Jiang Ren wasn’t worthy.