Chapter 143: Chapter 104: Lin Zhuo’s Emperor’s Tool
Furthermore, Curse Element Bizarres were considered superior to those of the Flesh and Blood and Bone Elements.
This was why Shi Mi had never been given significant responsibilities by the organization during her time in the Purifying Moon Sect.
Despite applying numerous times over a dozen years, she had never managed to become a Moon Judge.
She was merely a Shadow Purifier, controlled by the Moon Judges.
In truth, Shi Mi’s Bone Element Bizarre, the Centipede Bone Tomb Princess, had immense potential. According to the Xin Xia Alliance’s official standards for evaluating Bizarre potential, it could be rated as A+ Level.
Shi Mi had never felt a strong sense of belonging within the Purifying Moon Sect.
This led her to secretly move against the three other Shadow Purifiers accompanying her on a mission to escort a Rule Deceit Embryo.
She had used drugs to drastically reduce the combat capabilities of the other three.
After severely injuring one of them, she fled the Purifying Moon Sect with the Rule Deceit Embryo.
Shi Mi knew full well that by taking the Rule Deceit Embryo, the other three Shadow Purifiers would be punished for failing in their escort duty.
They might even be thrown into the Moon Sacrifice Cave for public execution upon their return to the Purifying Moon Sect.
But Shi Mi couldn’t be bothered to care. Her only miscalculation was that Qin Ruyue would arrive so quickly.
So quickly, in fact, that the Centipede Bone Tomb Princess didn’t have enough time to finish devouring and digesting the Rule Deceit Embryo she had worked so hard to obtain.
Otherwise, Qin Ruyue and her Deceit Element Bizarre, the Night-Cutting Spider, would not necessarily have been a match for a Centipede Bone Tomb Princess that had grasped the Power of Rules.
In truth, Shi Mi had always kept a secret: she had been hiding her Talent as a Guardian Beast Master.
’With my Guardian Beast Master Talent,’ Shi Mi considered, ’it’s not impossible for me to escape Starlight City after killing Qin Ruyue.’
’I just need to create a situation that makes the powerful experts in Starlight City hesitate to act.’
Watching the growing number of black crystal spiders that were rushing toward her and beginning to reassemble nearby, she saw that the half-meter-tall spiders they formed were already exhibiting power unique to Mythical Tier Bizarres.
Shi Mi gave a cold command.
"Centipede Bone Tomb Princess, awaken the Ji Bone Clones. We’ll leave the Desolate Centipede Prison Gate here."
"Ignore everything else. Use what the Ji Bone Clones scout out and head directly for the Central District."
As Shi Mi issued her command, a disturbing energy flared in over a dozen locations in the Lower City District and seven or eight in the Upper City District.
In each of these places, a Bone Bracelet, lustrous as jade, began to emit a terrifying, frosty aura.
More than half of these twenty-odd Bone Bracelets were currently being worn by women.
These women lived in different districts, each with their own life path.
But in that instant, the Bone Bracelets transformed into White Bone Centipedes that devoured their bones, leaving behind nothing but piles of shredded flesh scattered on the ground.
The centipedes that had once been bracelets rapidly consumed the bones of any living creatures nearby.
They finally coalesced into two-meter-tall female figures composed entirely of bone, each with a long Centipede Tail.
These Ji Bone Clones, pieced together from skeletons, were draped with the flayed faces and large patches of skin ripped from their victims during the bone-harvesting.
The chaos instantly radiated outward from Liu Nan Lane to every corner of Starlight City. This was the backup plan Shi Mi had prepared long ago.
When she first arrived in Starlight City, she had sold these dozens of valuable-looking Bone Bracelets, crafted by her Centipede Bone Tomb Princess, to seven or eight bustling shops.
Once activated, the Bone Bracelets would rapidly transform into Ji Bone Clones by devouring and absorbing bones.
Shi Mi stared coldly at the black crystal spiders gathering and merging before her, and she spoke with a crazed look in her eyes.
"Qin Ruyue, you’ve pushed me too far! I’ll take you down with me!"
"If I can’t have this Rule Deceit Embryo, you won’t be taking it back to complete your mission either."
After spitting out her threat, Shi Mi merged in an exceedingly bizarre manner into the body of the three-meter-tall Centipede Bone Tomb Princess beside her.
The bones on the Centipede Bone Tomb Princess’s tail moved like a centipede’s legs, wriggling back and forth at extreme speed.
This propelled Shi Mi, now one with her Bizarre, rapidly toward the Upper City District.
By now, the commotion had spurred the Ghost Suppression Bureau into action.
"Zhuo, those two Mythical Tier Bizarres are hiding somewhere in Starlight City. We can’t pinpoint their location."
"Losses like these were unavoidable."
"Now that they’ve revealed themselves, we can finally move to eliminate them, whatever their motives may be."
"The vast majority of those black crystal spiders are converging on the Lower City District, but a good number still remain scattered throughout the Upper City District."
"If those spiders suddenly run rampant in the Upper City District, the consequences will be immense."
"I’ll leave this city full of black crystal spiders for you to deal with in a moment."
After learning that foreign Mythical Tier Bizarres had infiltrated Starlight City, Lin Zhuo and Wen Tao had already begun making arrangements.
They had fifty of the Ghost Suppression Bureau’s secret squads hide in various locations throughout the Central District and the Upper City District.
However, due to limited manpower, the Ghost Suppression Bureau could only protect the Central and Upper City Districts to the best of their ability.
At most, they could only send sixteen secret squads to the Lower City District for support.
The Starlight Army couldn’t be redeployed to patrol the Lower City District. The army’s presence there would inevitably cause a panic among the residents.
It would also alert the foreign Mythical Tier Bizarres, tipping them off!
It was precisely because she was aware of their manpower shortage and the difficulty of monitoring the Lower City District that Lin Zhuo had been tempted when she learned the Evil Blood Sect had proactively contacted the Ghost Suppression Bureau, offering to act as a proxy to help them manage it.
Otherwise, Lin Zhuo would never have been willing to trust such an unregulated organization.
Lin Zhuo stared toward the Lower City District, her eyes filled with indignation.
"Ah Tao, if Xiaoyi hadn’t discovered that Mythical Tier Bizarres had infiltrated Starlight City ahead of time, and if I hadn’t had the Ghost Suppression Bureau prepare in advance, the losses would have been even greater."
"You said you were going to ask Elder Cui to activate the first barrier of the Blood Bone Great Wall. Did he agree?"
Hearing this, Wen Tao placed the middle finger of his left hand to his lips and whistled a low, melodious tune as he replied.
"Elder Cui has already agreed. It’s time for us to move, too."
With that, Wen Tao leaped directly from a window of the Star Frost Tower, landing steadily on a dragon-shaped current of inky-blue water that was over three hundred meters long.
The inky-blue water dragon flew toward the Upper City District.
The sky, where the moon and countless stars had just been visible, was suddenly obscured by thick, dark clouds.
These clouds firmly enveloped the Central District and began to spread continuously toward the Upper and Lower City Districts.
Lin Zhuo activated her Soul Base, summoning the Three-legged Red Crow.
Standing on the back of the Three-legged Red Crow, Lin Zhuo soon spotted a black crystal spider crouched on top of a building in the Upper City District.
Lin Zhuo didn’t have her Order Beast engage directly. Instead, she raised a hand and pointed into the empty air before her.
Crimson Red, cloud-like flames suddenly erupted from her body, and a splendid, crimson-orange, tree-shaped totem on her right leg glowed brightly in the night sky.
Five claw-like spikes, each about thirty centimeters long, materialized over Lin Zhuo’s slender fingers.
It made her right hand look as if it were wearing a gauntlet of claws.
If Zhong Yi had been there to see it, he would have recognized the claw gauntlet on Lin Zhuo’s hand at a single glance.
It was an Emperor’s Tool, jointly nurtured by a Guardian Beast Master and their Order Beast after it reached the Mythical Tier.
An Order Beast can wield Rule Authority. After a Guardian Beast Master obtains an Emperor’s Tool jointly nurtured with their Order Beast, they can use the Emperor’s Tool to channel that Rule Authority, activating a secondary function that strengthens its existing power.
Using the Emperor’s Tool to command the Rule Authority and issue an Imperial Decree!
"Sangyan Annihilation Claw! Imperial Decree: Law Vein Burning."
The moment Lin Zhuo issued the Imperial Decree for Law Vein Burning through her Emperor’s Tool, the Sangyan Annihilation Claw, a flame as thin and ethereal as mist descended upon the black crystal spider, which was no bigger than a soybean.
In the very next instant, hundreds of thousands of points of light flared up across Starlight City, bright enough to tear the night asunder.
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