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

It was also the classic trope that triggers after a hero-saves-the-beauty scenario.

Heaven’s thunder ignites earthly fire.

On the other side.

The group that had followed the clues Ye Jun left behind ran into trouble.

Not that they encountered some clichéd old enemy, or a demonic ambush, or even someone killing for treasure.

Instead, they ran into Lu Ding chasing and slaughtering a whole pack of demons.

What a coincidence!

At that moment, She Shilan and her group were in the valley ahead, when rumbling explosions echoed from the distance, sweeping toward them the whole way.

Packs of demons scrambled in blind panic, dying as they fled.

Behind them, Lu Ding rode black clouds, chasing and killing as he went!!!

Originally, this pack of demons from the Salvation Alliance had numbered over a hundred, but he had chased and slaughtered them down to just seven or eight.

They were now trapped in this valley.

Lu Ding arrived riding his cloud: ”Run, keep running?”

”Why the hell aren’t you running anymore!?”

Among the remaining demons, there were also humans who had thrown in their lot with the Salvation Alliance.

He looked at She Shilan’s group on the other side, lunged toward them, and cried: ”Young Master Mo, Miss She, Miss Mei, save me, save me, Lu Ding has gone mad, he’s insane, he wants to kill us, he killed so many people, so many!!!!!”

”I beg you, save me, save me please.”

She Shilan’s gaze toward Lu Ding was extremely complicated.

Lu Ding saw her too.

But he paid her no mind. This person, though she shouted about eliminating demons and upholding the Dao, lacked resolve. There was no use getting tangled up with her.

He directly used [Star-Plucking Moon-Grasping Hand], about to drag that tattletale over!!

Just as that figure flew backward through the air.

Someone acted, grabbing and holding him fast.

Struggling against the suction force of Lu Ding’s [Star-Plucking Moon-Grasping Hand]!

”Lu Ding, is it? A man shouldn’t go too far. You killing demons is fine, but killing people, isn’t that a bit wrong? If you can’t give me a reason today, then this man, I’m protecting him.”

The speaker was a youth holding a serrated longsword, its blade carved with blood grooves that looked like venomous snakes slithering along it, dressed in eye-catching red embroidered robes.

Lu Ding looked at him: ”Is that so?”

It had been a long time since anyone dared speak to him like that.

With a boom!

Lu Ding used [Celestial Shift] and went straight over.

One palm pressed down: ”I really gave you too much face!!!!”

Mo Chen flicked his sword up: ”Well come!!!”

Yin and yang energies churned in chaos, yin energy at its peak, bursting with ten million sword lights, sword qi piercing the heavens. A single upwards flick and cut, dividing into countless sword lights, but in truth, beneath this one strike was the power of thousands of upward sword slashes!!!

It was one of Mo Chen’s most insidious trump cards.

Facing a strongman like Lu Ding, who had previously displayed his strength outside the Thunder Roar Hall, Mo Chen couldn’t possibly not bring out his signature skill.

This was his killing move.

[Sword Urgency: Three Thousand]

Concealed within one move, dividing into three thousand sword lights, three thousand merging back into one, a single sword carrying the power of three thousand swords!

Seemingly ordinary, in reality, it cuts through everything without fail!!!

Lu Ding had previously fought Ye Jun, so he had to teach Lu Ding a lesson!!!

Though Mo Chen knew he could never be Lu Ding’s match, this sudden [Sword Urgency: Three Thousand] would absolutely be enough to sever an arm, and would count as venting some frustration on Ye Jun’s behalf.

But the imagination was beautiful.

Reality was cruel!!!

His so-called killing move, his painstakingly cultivated trump card!!

Before Lu Ding’s [White Snake Shakes Scales] and [Four Fundamental Evil Aspects・Invulnerable Vajra Body], was completely nothing but a French-accented ’child’s play.’

That longsword, which was essentially an artifact, collided with a body of flesh and blood.

It should have been an egg smashing against a rock, with the egg breaking as the result.

Instead, Lu Ding’s physical body was terrifying. His palm shattered the sword light, bent and broke the longsword, and one palm landed, solid and true, right on Mo Chen’s chest.

BANG!!!!

Mo Chen’s body didn’t move from its spot, but blood mist exploded from his back, bursting open a ferocious gaping hole, all his internal organs emptied, smashed to powder. The palm force that pierced through his body flattened the sky as it went forward, cracked the earth as it swept sideways, forcibly carving out a continuous straight canyon from the deep valley’s sinkhole!

Pfft.......

Mo Chen spat blood, his eyes filled with unacceptable shock: ”You... your physical body... how could it...”

The words ’be this strong’ hadn’t left his mouth.

Mo Chen collapsed with a crash, not even leaving behind complete last words.

Dead beyond any doubt.

One palm, life extinguished.

Lu Ding looked at him: ”I am the strong, and I originally had no desire to be your enemy. As the weak, you show not the slightest respect for the strong. I allowed you to question me. I allowed you to demand a reason from me. I respect your standing up for justice. But I do not accept your ill-mannered questioning.”

Lu Ding was not an unreasonable person.

He could have answered a word or two.

But if you were like this Mo Chen, coming at them the moment you met with a ’Lu Ding, is it?’

Then the clueless weak who rashly provokes the strong only deserves to die!

No one has the obligation to tolerate anyone else.

”Mo Chen!!!!!”

Someone shouted, someone wanted to fight.

She Shilan once again stood in front of them.

”Stop!!!!”

She couldn’t bear to watch these companions throw their lives away against Lu Ding.

But this action.

Only made the others erupt with both old grudges and new hatred combined.

”She Shilan, just what are you trying to do!!?”

”Earlier when he was beating Brother Ye, you held us back, and now he’s killed Mo Chen, and you’re still holding us back!!!?”

”Move aside, let us avenge Mo Chen!”

She Shilan only felt wronged, but she still steadied herself and explained: ”You can’t beat him.”

Having said that, she turned around again: ”Immortal Master, Grand Duke Lu, please forgive my friends’ offense, don’t lower yourself to argue with them.”

”She Shilan, you spineless coward, don’t beg him!”

”How did I only see it today, that you’re this kind of person who clings to life and fears death? If you can’t beat him, does that mean you don’t fight? If you can’t beat him, does that mean you don’t take revenge?”

”You fear him, but we don’t, at worst we die!!”

”Move aside, we don’t need you to plead for us!!!”

Lu Ding listened, then looked at She Shilan: ”Look at yourself, look at them. Do you know why you face this situation today, why I don’t want to deal with you, and why they don’t want to deal with you either?”

Without waiting for her to form her own answer, Lu Ding answered his own question: ”Because you’re not firm enough.”

”You’re all tangled up.”

”You’re not firmly enough choosing to fight the demons, nor firmly enough standing on your friends’ side, and even less firmly enough standing on the side of reason.”

”If you were firm enough, you wouldn’t have said those words back in Niuxin Village. If you were firm, you wouldn’t have held them back. If you were firm, you wouldn’t be pleading on their behalf. Kind words are hard to persuade a damned ghost.”

Lu Ding’s gaze shifted to the others: ”Who the hell are you calling for? Every one of you shouting so loud, yelling so fierce, then go on, come at me!!!”

Every single one of them just shouted.

And told She Shilan to move aside.

Couldn’t they just go around her? Come up and fight Lu Ding directly?

After all was said and done, it was still bullying the soft and fearing the hard.

”You don’t dare come up? I do!!!!”