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

Holy crap.

Lu Ding didn’t even dare to imagine just how powerful this thing was.

But with great power comes great consumption.

If it weren’t for the fact that he had laid a solid foundation during his Linghai realm, and then kept snowballing his strength from there...

With all these secret arts on him, piled up one after another...

Even if they drained Lu Ding dry, he wouldn’t be able to use them.

All of them are high-power, high-consumption techniques.

But as for being the Son of Heaven or whatever, Lu Ding didn’t have such thoughts.

It’s the modern era now, and he’s not that unlucky kid Zhang Wei, thinking that just because he picked up a jade seal, he’s the Son of Heaven.

That’s just nonsense.Just use the power.

Now, there was only the last one left.

[Contained Monster: Tian Gou (Branch Lineage)]

[Containment Reward: Tian Gou Eats the Moon]

[Tian Gou Eats the Moon: Twelve Zodiac Arts Method - Dog. The Heavenly Dog devours the moon, all sounds fall silent, demons and monsters run rampant, mountains and rivers are overturned.]

The final Dog method left Lu Ding speechless.

Tuluo was one thing.

The diluted-bloodline Zi Fire Monkey, the branch lineage Tian Gou.

What the hell are they trying to do!

What the hell are they even trying to do!

These monsters, each one he killed made his heart tremble with fear. None of them were easy to deal with. Why were all these extraordinary, chaotic things crawling into Wuwang?

He recalled the earlier scene, carefully searching for the target that might be the branch lineage Tian Gou.

Finally.

The image in Lu Ding’s mind froze on that grinning young man he had enlarged and then slapped with a palm.

”Hmm... it should be him.”

When he killed that guy earlier.

Lu Ding had felt he was a bit tough to handle.

Pretty hard, a tough nut.

Now looking back.

No wonder he was hard.

So his origins were extraordinary.

For a moment, he didn’t know what to say.

One Rat, one Dog.

One the head, one the tail.

Both gave him quite a surprise because they were powerful, but both were also rather... grim.

The Rat exploded and gave him the Sinful Yan-level [Immortal-Disgusting Heart-Gnawing].

The Dog exploded and gave him [Tian Gou Eats the Moon].

Lu Ding understood the power of this thing in his heart.

How to put it...

Big, very big!

Not just powerful, but also wide in range.

Apart from being a bit grim, it was perfect.

Using it would be like the Dark Turmoil from those damn novels.

[Tian Gou Eats the Moon] - a wave of darkness rolls over, everyone dies. Doesn’t matter who or what you are, all are devoured, crushed, and pulverized by the darkness—soul and body—leaving behind only a flat, empty expanse of nothingness.

Not a single thing left for you.

And this thing, compared to the Twelve Zodiac Arts Dragon method’s [Black Devours Sun], has a bit of a connection.

One is the sun, one is the moon.

The power of [Black Devours Sun] comes brightly, with sound, with commotion.

The power of [Tian Gou Eats the Moon] comes stealthily, darkness descends, directly rolls over, covers everything.

It’s purely a case of the dog that bites doesn’t bark.

Regarding this thing.

Lu Ding’s deepest impression came from the [Records of the Grand Historian].

It was also one of the few things he remembered from the [Records of the Grand Historian].

After all, after reading too many unofficial histories, one still has to look at the authentic version.

But after reading the authentic version, he realized the unofficial histories were still more interesting. The Records were written too properly, nothing interesting at all.

[Tian Gou, shaped like a great shooting star, makes a sound. Where it stops on the ground, resembles a dog.]

That’s it.

How the hell is this interesting?

Interest plays a huge role in learning. You need interest to get into it, to read it.

Looking at this stuff, Lu Ding truly had zero interest.

Now, the Twelve Zodiac Arts Method was finally complete.

It somewhat satisfied Lu Ding’s collector’s itch, but not completely.

”The Thirty-Six Heavenly Methods, the Nine Dragons Agarwood Chariot, they’re not fully collected yet...”

He thought to himself.

If none were complete, Lu Ding could still endure.

But now, looking at the Twelve Zodiac Arts Method, after collecting them all, each one is useful, each one is quite powerful. He was truly getting excited about the Thirty-Six Heavenly Methods and the Nine Dragons Agarwood Chariot.

Itchy...

”Opening a team fight really yields more rewards. The last time I opened a team fight was in Yunhai.”

Back then, Lu Ding, just like now, harvested a lot of skills.

If possible, he’d want to open team fights every day.

But that’s impossible.

Forget it.

Lu Ding looked at the last skill, the one dropped by Gao Qiuli.

[Contained Monster: Slim-Waist Lady]

[Containment Reward: Stinger]

[Stinger: Weakness detection, one-hit kill]

Long descriptions don’t necessarily mean weak, but short descriptions definitely mean awesome.

This was the pattern Lu Ding had grasped after unlocking his Golden Finger for so long.

This Stinger was the same principle.

Although by the name, it sounds like sticking your butt out and poking someone.

But that’s not actually the case.

This belongs to a passive god-tier skill.

It can detect others’ weaknesses, find loopholes, then strike directly at the loophole for a one-hit kill.

Gotta say, this skill fits Lu Ding’s personality perfectly—no beating around the bush, no flashy nonsense.

One move solves the problem, simple and brutal, clean and efficient.

Although he had the ability to rely on brute force, combining brute force with attacking a cripple’s good leg... the effect is far from simply one plus one.

Satisfied.

His gaze fell on the Golden Finger.

Lu Ding was somewhat puzzled: ”Slim-Waist Lady...”

He only knew of the Slim-Waist Gentleman.

The [Miscellaneous Records of Chengzhai] mentioned it.

[In Taoyuan, there was a woman named Wu Cunzhi. She often dreamed at night of being with a scholar. Asking his name, he said: ’I am the Slim-Waist Gentleman.’ The woman thought it was Xiwen Zhaolue entering her dream. Over time, it felt real. One day during a nap, the man suddenly appeared, entered the woman’s bed curtain, coupled and then left. Exiting the door, he gradually shrank, turning into a bee, flying into the flower bushes... She became the richest in the village. Cunzhi was famous for her small feet. This happened during the Tianbao era.]

Don’t ask why Lu Ding remembered it so vividly.

He read the uncensored original version, which included details expanded by later people.

Truly, he skimmed through the Records of the Grand Historian, but studied this kind of stuff word by word.

Simply put, the general meaning is:

In this place called Taoyuan, there was a girl named Cunzhi. Who knows how that name was chosen, sounds terrible, but she was gorgeous!!!

Fair skin, beautiful appearance, long legs, drop-dead gorgeous, and also a rich lady, loaded.

She was basically the local Brahmin princess.

With such conditions, her standards were naturally high. Looking at the local yellow-haired brats from the east and the idlers from the west in the county town, she found them all unsatisfactory.

The more she looked, the more annoyed she got, absolutely unwilling to settle.

But her family kept pressuring her.

At first, she wasn’t in a hurry, but later she had to be. Age kept increasing day by day.

But to let her be cheapened by these things, she’d rather seal herself shut with 502 glue.

But having none wasn’t an option either.

Later, Cunzhi went to the temple to pray to the gods and Buddhas, saying she was very strong-willed, unwilling to accept the ugly melons and cracked dates arranged by her family, begging the gods and Buddhas to give her an ideal husband.

After reciting her requirements, she had just bowed her head when a big yellow hornet arrived—not driving a car, but flying—and landed on her, thus forming a contract.

After returning.

That very night, her ’strong’ came.

That guy, don’t even mention how good-looking he was, prettier than her.

The only slight imperfection was his waist was thin, thinner than hers.

Cunzhi touched it and exclaimed in surprise: ’Ah, why is it so thin? Thin is fine, but you’re also so good-looking. Would you be weak?’

The man replied: ’Don’t look at me being thin, there’s muscle growing inside the bones. It feels thin when you touch it, but it’s packed with strength inside.’

That guy, all night long it was just banging and clanging, middle part omitted... anyway, later Cunzhi was convinced.

But it wasn’t a long-term solution for him to always come at night.

The Slim-Waist Gentleman told her, then wait for me tomorrow in the rapeseed flower field.

Cunzhi thought this guy wasn’t learning proper things, that the bed at home couldn’t contain him anymore.

But when she went later, she realized it wasn’t what she thought. She even felt a bit disappointed. The Slim-Waist Gentleman, right there in the rapeseed flower field, revealed his true identity to Cunzhi.

Turns out he was a bee spirit. He also couldn’t marry Cunzhi.

Cunzhi didn’t care.

For the Slim-Waist Gentleman, she could defy her parents. Later, after Cunzhi lost the financial support from her parents, the Slim-Waist Gentleman had her raise bees. That stuff, the honey produced was absolutely amazing.

People who ate it all said it tasted great and could even beautify the skin.

Cunzhi would always just smile, blush a little, and not say anything.

As for why, those who understand, understand. The honey produced by the Slim-Waist Gentleman was.........

Thinking of this, Lu Ding’s brows furrowed slightly: ”Eww.......”