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

One palm strike down.

Su Yun was directly beaten into a dead fish pose, his belly facing up as he flipped over.

Lu Ding raised his hand.

He pulled Su Yun, whose entire skeleton was shattered, out of the water.

Then he followed up with a [Way of the Jinche] to shred Nishang into pieces in the icy lake water.

With one hand gripping Su Yun, he swept his peripheral gaze toward Yuwen Longyuan.

”Though I don’t know if you ever thought about letting her go, I advise you, don’t try any tricks right under my nose.”

”If you can’t do it, I’ll help you.”

”But I don’t want your hesitation and stupidity to lead to someone coming after me for revenge years later!”Yuwen Longyuan sighed and nodded, ”Got it.”

Lu Ding turned his gaze back to Su Yun.

”I’ll give you one last chance for a final message. I’ll bring it to your parents along with your ashes. But only if you say it properly; otherwise, I’ll change it.”

Bad reviews, Lu Ding would delete them himself.

Su Yun could barely speak. He knew he was beyond saving now.

When he saw Lu Ding’s arrogant face and the sight of him killing Nishang right before his eyes,

his hatred couldn’t be suppressed, drowning out his longing for his parents.

”Lu... Ding...”

Before he could finish his words,

Lu Ding raised his hand, grabbed Su Yun by the neck, and slammed him hard onto the solid stone floor of Qingfeng Pavilion.

”I told you to leave a final message for your parents, so why the hell are you calling my name!?”

SLAP!!!!!!

Su Yun’s body shattered like a ceramic doll, splattering everywhere!!!

The immense force caused the entire Qingfeng Pavilion to collapse with a roar!

Lu Ding said he’d give him one sentence for a final message.

Since Su Yun didn’t know his place,

Lu Ding wouldn’t break his word.

If he had started with anything else, Lu Ding would have listened.

But he insisted on starting by saying Lu Ding’s name.

So that was that.

Lu Ding would make something up himself.

He was very considerate, after all.

He guaranteed Su Yun’s parents would hear it and start a new life. Though the pain of losing their son would linger, at least life wouldn’t be hopeless or endless.

Life had to go on.

With the current medical standards in Great Han, the old couple having another child shouldn’t be a problem, either.

Thinking of that,

Lu Ding used [Qi of the Ticket Wind] to gather Su Yun’s body fragments,

then burned them to ash with [True Samadhi Fire], and packed them into a ceramic urn.

From start to finish, he kept a close watch on everything around him, including Su Yun’s corpse.

But in the end, nothing unusual happened.

Lu Ding had even wondered if, by killing Su Yun, his Golden Finger, or the source of his power, might become ownerless, and he could pick it up as a bonus.

He was thinking too well.

How could every good thing fall into his lap?

At that moment.

Bai Hemen beside him let out an ”Eh.”

Lu Ding looked at him, ”What’s wrong?”

Bai Hemen’s eyes darted, glancing at Yuwen Longyuan beside him.

”Nothing.”

Then he thought to himself, ”Go on.”

At that moment,

a voice rang out in Bai Hemen’s mind.

[Good, don’t tell him. Once you reveal my existence to him, I might be forcibly taken from you. Someone as righteous and vengeful as him might even monitor and control you.]

Bai Hemen, who had been standing, sat down on a wooden chair.

[So, if I don’t tell Lu Ding, you won’t leave me?]

[Of course. I’m now symbiotic with you. We live and die together. Unless forcefully stripped by external forces, I cannot leave you.]

Bai Hemen thought for a moment, and an inexplicable smile crept onto his face.

[So what exactly are you? How did you end up on me?]

The voice replied, [Me?]

It snorted coldly, saying, [I am the God of Two Poles, who controls life and death.]

[Before this, I was symbiotic with that useless Su Yun, letting him use my Yang Pole’s power of life. But he never grasped the technique, a complete fool. Only at the brink of death did he barely understand the method of life power, allowing me to awaken. But how could I, newly awakened, help him deal with that brute named Lu Ding?]

[It’s all his own stupidity!]

[He had so much time, yet only developed one-thousandth or even one-ten-thousandth of my power.]

[But you’re different. Your talent is rare, and as half-human, half-corpse, you’re perfectly suited to my power of life and death. Cooperate with me, become symbiotic with me, and I’ll elevate your growth to a height you can’t even imagine.]

[This is our secret. As long as you keep it quiet and develop steadily, one day, the world will go mad for you.]

Bai Hemen listened,

neither making a sound nor replying.

No one knew what his simple mind was thinking.

Even as the voice in his mind grew excited,

Bai Hemen remained completely still.

The voice couldn’t help itself.

[Don’t you have any thoughts?]

Bai Hemen: [Quiet, I’m thinking.]

God of Two Poles: ........

As for Bai Hemen’s calmness, Lu Ding had no suspicion or thought anything was off.

After all, Bai Hemen had always been like this.

Quiet and obedient.

After collecting the last of the ashes,

Lu Ding held the urn and looked at Yuwen Longyuan, ”Are you heading back now, or do you want to stay here for a bit?”

Yuwen Longyuan glanced at the lake.

”You two go ahead. I want to collect her body.”

Lu Ding shook his head and chuckled, ”Didn’t expect you to be so sentimental. Fine, I won’t take you then. Head back on your own.”

He called out, ”Xiao Bai.”

Bai Hemen immediately stood up, ”Yeah!”

Lu Ding said, ”Let’s go.”

Taking Xiao Bai with him, he used [Celestial Shift] and vanished from the spot.

Yuwen Longyuan watched the two leave, then slowly walked to the lakeside. He raised his hand to gather Nishang’s fragmented remains.

Piece by piece, he assembled them until they formed a human shape.

Yuwen Longyuan said, ”In the Jianghu, one has no choice.”

”If only our interests hadn’t clashed, our stances different, maybe we could have been friends. And I would have always been your Brother Yuwen.”

If not for this situation,

perhaps Yuwen Longyuan wouldn’t have thought about past lives, let alone revenge.

Because he could understand the Empress of Baoji’s basic principles of governance.

The nation could not be shaken.

But now, nothing mattered anymore.

After burying Nishang’s body by the shores of Cai Lian Lake, Yuwen Longyuan leisurely wandered through Cai Lian Lake and Qingfeng Commandery.

Once upon a time, this was the fief the Empress of Baoji had promised him.

Unfortunately now, everything had changed.

Meanwhile,

on the other side.

Lu Ding, who had left with Bai Hemen, didn’t return to the new city but came to Yunhai 1503 in the Third Circle.

Bai Hemen looked at the unfamiliar surroundings and Lu Ding’s strangely familiar layout of the house, then asked, ”What place is this?”

Lu Ding opened the fridge.

Sure enough, it was packed full of national liquor and happy water.

He pulled out a cold one and tossed it to Bai Hemen.

”My old home in the Third Circle.”

”After we deliver Su Yun’s ashes to his parents, we’ll head back.”

Bai Hemen popped open the tab, took a gulp of cola, and without any preamble, said, ”Just now, I was going to say that thing inside Su Yun has moved onto me.”