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

In no time at all, a massive mast was erected, and the great banner unfurled beneath it.

It projected images into the air, playing on a loop the very words Yu Zhen had spoken.

In an instant, the imposing presence and posture of the [Six-Dragon Incense Palanquin] were fully revealed.

Fu Xinghe knew his own capabilities. Compared to any one of the eight hundred investigators, he would come up short.

He was fine with handling battlefield data preparation, but for everything else, he understood his own limits and knew not to cause trouble.

So, Fu Xinghe called out to the accompanying eight hundred investigators, ”I need a few of the good ones.”

As soon as the words left his mouth,

a bald, burly man at the Five Restrictions Middle Stage immediately stepped forward, his voice rumbling, ”I’ll do it!!”

He unleashed his aura, his blood and qi boiling, extraordinary phenomena swirling around him. A colossal golden elephant, trampling mountains and rivers, stood tall between heaven and earth.The burly man stepped up and stood beneath the mast. ”As long as I stand, the banner stands! If the banner falls, I die!!”

As he spoke,

several more figures slowly ascended the platform, each manifesting their own Anomalous Phenomenon: a single-horned beetle that could casually uproot mountains, a blood-faced ape wielding a mountain as a club, a black-armored giant crocodile slowly emerging from the depths of an abyssal sea, an earthen-shelled violent bear tearing through a mountain to appear, and a scale-reversed giant python coiled around a towering ancient tree.

These investigators, displaying their Anomalous Phenomena, leaking their auras, and unleashing their cultivation bases, were without exception all at the Fifth Restriction level, and each exuded a brutal, violent aura.

Lu Ding’s terrifying feat of fighting one against eleven during the Tianshun Prefecture battle had long since conquered everyone present.

Therefore,

when Fu Xinghe shouted those words now,

those who stepped forward were all top-notch experts, every single one of them.

The other investigators watched with envy in their hearts.

Everyone understood Fu Xinghe’s meaning.

No one was a fool.

Once they entered Clear Bright Lake, this banner with its rolling playback would inevitably provoke rage and humiliation from certain individuals.

The banner protectors didn’t necessarily need to be all-rounders, but they absolutely had to be violent enough. They might not be the best fighters, but they had to be the most resilient.

It was akin to the banner-protecting battalions of ancient times. If the great banner fell, the entire battalion would be executed, no questions asked.

Although Great Han didn’t practice such things,

you could only eat as much as your bowl could hold.

If the banner fell, even if Lu Ding didn’t punish them, they themselves might feel too ashamed to show their faces.

Lu Ding glanced over, silently committing the few men to memory.

But he did not ask for their names.

That could wait until after the Clear Bright Lake trip was over.

You could only tell a donkey from a horse by taking them for a walk.

As the great banner fluttered and the images played, the [Six-Dragon Incense Palanquin] flew straight towards Clear Bright Lake, without the slightest attempt at concealment. It wantonly displayed the extraordinary phenomena it stirred up, crossing the sky, as if afraid that these people at Clear Bright Lake didn’t know Lu Ding had arrived.

When they felt the imposing aura of the [Six-Dragon Incense Palanquin] and looked up at the sky,

the words ’It’s Lu Ding!!’ on their lips

were cut off before they could be spoken.

The rolling playback instantly interrupted the fury these people had kindled over Yu Zhen’s death.

One by one, they halted in their tracks, their eyes filled with utter disbelief.

”Impossible! Absolutely impossible! How could Master Yu be such a person? It must be you, Lu Ding! It must be your trickery!!!!!”

”Master Yu absolutely could not be such a two-faced hypocrite! Lu Ding, your methods are vile! You killed Master Yu, and now you slander and smear him! Stop playing that!!”

The enraged crowd, even before Lu Ding’s [Six-Dragon Incense Palanquin] entered the main city of Clear Bright Lake, saw some people charge into the sky, intending to break the flagpole and stop the continued playback of the images.

Seated upon the dragon-tail coiled chair, Lu Ding

lowered his gaze to sweep over the cultivators charging up from below.

Their pitifully low realms and fragile strength didn’t spark the slightest interest in him to take action himself.

He merely raised a hand and beckoned forward casually.

Immediately, accompanying investigators flew out, launching annihilating strikes against the oncoming cultivators who intended to maliciously assault them.

The battle... had begun.

Soldiers against soldiers, generals against generals.

The elites of Great Han, the powerhouses of the 749 Bureau, shattered the long spears of those roaring with unwillingness, broke the long swords unleashing sword energy, and slaughtered the arrogant fools who didn’t know their own limits.

Even without Lu Ding taking action,

the eight hundred accompanying investigators displayed absolute, overwhelming force.

The journey to Great Jing could have been Lu Ding’s solo performance.

But since these eight hundred people had come with him, they certainly deserved their chance to shine.

As time passed, the overwhelming force did not weaken. Instead, it allowed the people of Clear Bright Lake to clearly see the dominating power and unyielding strength of the 749 Bureau investigators.

The butcher’s blade did not descend upon those below; the dragon palanquin did not touch the ground.

Anyone who dared to ascend to the sky and block the path of the dragon palanquin would inevitably die beneath a flurry of blades.

Lu Ding was not one to indiscriminately slaughter the innocent. So, he would not touch the common people. But whoever dared to ascend and block his path...

Then die!!!!

Watching one ’righteous warrior’ after another die in the sky,

finally,

a God Ascension expert could no longer restrain himself.

Literary energy spilled forth, techniques moving with his voice.

”Lu Ding, the road ahead is forbidden. Turn back the way you came.”

The man hovered in the air, wantonly unleashing literary energy in an attempt to block the dragon palanquin’s advance. Unfortunately, his level was still too low.

The advancing dragon palanquin remained completely unaffected.

The spreading literary energy shattered inch by inch.

Lu Ding sat in his chair, looking at the man ahead. ”Not going to make a move?”

That God Ascension Confucian Cultivator looked with complex emotions at the images projected on the flagpole, his thoughts in turmoil for a moment.

He should have taken action.

But he wasn’t stupid.

Given Lu Ding’s character and demeanor, he would disdain forging such things or employing such lowly tactics.

Therefore, the credibility of these images was unusually high.

But his stance was here. Under the gaze of so many people, even if it were true, the man could not believe it, nor could he simply let Lu Ding swagger past so brazenly.

He could only resist!

As for Yu Zhen’s matter, after blocking Lu Ding, he would naturally return to confront Master Lu.

Sometimes, the conviction of one’s stance had nothing to do with truth, falsehood, right, or wrong.

Looking at the silent Confucian Cultivator, everything was understood without words. Lu Ding shook his head. ”You’re not stupid. You’re just foolish. And you overestimate your strength, thinking you can oppose me.”

Remaining seated, not rising,

he casually waved a hand.

[Qi of the Ticket Wind] surged, stirring a sky full of blossoming flowers in dazzling colors. As the petals flew, they intertwined and converged, layer upon layer of killing intent, with a rumbling, imposing force concealing sharp, lethal edges, charging forward horizontally.

When minds don’t meet, half a sentence is too many.

There was nothing more to say.

Since he had already seen the essence of the matter clearly, and still wouldn’t leave, then die!

The Confucian Cultivator gathered his power, literary energy like a vast sea. The character ’Block’ blotted out the sky, radiating brilliant divine light, attempting to withstand the petal assault. The residual force of the impact erupted.

BOOM!!!!!

Petals came like rain, exploding in the air.

Among them, the Slash Attack hidden within the [Way of the Jinche] manifested its characteristic of severing anything, cutting forward.

The character ’Block’ split apart.

The Confucian Cultivator dodged.

In response, he formed the characters ’Suppress’ and ’Kill’. Churning Righteous Aura poured forth, unleashing a crushing, suppressing force and a murderous, solemnly killing intent. The world turned pale, and all sound ceased.

Lu Ding reached forward, his palm transforming into a claw, gripping the empty void. He mobilized Spiritual Energy. Darkness spread, and [Tian Gou Eats the Moon], one of the Twelve Zodiac Arts Methods, swept over, greedily devouring every trace of life force within the darkness.

The Righteous Aura dissolved into the darkness, like clay oxen entering the sea, unable to stir up even the slightest ripple.