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

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But now, every single person looking at her had only hatred in their eyes.

Cult follower, demonic heretic, scourge of New City, murderer of investigators, murderer of a 749 Bureau Chief—any one of these charges alone was enough to sentence her to death over ten times.

Lu Ding's finger ignited a flame.

[Purple Tenuity Heavenly Fire] radiated terrifying heat.

Seeing this, Yu Liuli's body couldn't help but tremble.

She forced the words out: "I... I'll be waiting for you down there..."

Lu Ding didn't respond to her. He simply flicked the flame toward Yu Liuli. The next moment.

The fire exploded.

Boom!!!!!!!

"Ah!!!!!!!!"

Watching the dark, purplish-black [Purple Tenuity Heavenly Fire] incinerate Yu Liuli's sins, she struggled, screamed, and finally lost all power to resist—alongside her deadbeat brother.

Piles here, piles there—all turned to ash.

What Lu Ding could do, he had already done.

The remaining procedures, compensation, and such had long been recorded. They only awaited the families to make their final farewells before everything would be arranged.

Before leaving.

Lu Ding spoke: "Old Qian, I've burned them down to you. You'd better discipline them well. Ideally, beat them three times a day—if you can't kill 'em, beat 'em to death."

With that, Lu Ding turned and walked away.

Now the western region was pacified.

The last member of Wuwang, Yu Liuli, had also died by his hand.

This meant.

The western region could now enter a phase of rapid development!

Back at White Ridge 749.

Everything proceeded according to plan. Construction began in various regions.

As for Lu Ding himself, he went deep into the prison.

There were still two monsters here he hadn't contained yet.

One was Disheveled Hair, the other Mourning Guest.

Deep in the darkness, two monsters cautiously curled up in a corner.

Then they heard footsteps approaching from outside.

The two monsters, in this unfamiliar environment, were somewhat stressed.

They trembled, their eyes fixed unblinkingly on the darkness beyond the cell.

Thud... thud...

The atmosphere instantly grew tense.

The roles of reality were swapped.

Ordinarily, humans should fear demons and monsters, growing anxious at sounds from the darkness.

But here.

It became the opposite.

The demons feared humans. They, against all reason, feared the footsteps approaching from the darkness.

Suddenly.

The footsteps stopped.

Lu Ding's face appeared without warning in front of the cell.

It startled the two monsters, who immediately let out sharp shrieks.

The cell door swung open.

Lu Ding raised his hand.

A suction force emerged.

The two monsters curled up in the corner were instantly pulled beneath his grip.

He mobilized his Spiritual Energy, the Sin Dragon driving it through his meridians like a surging tide. Cracking sounds rang out.

The monsters in Lu Ding's hands were instantly compressed into a ball, like a rubber ball. He squeezed again.

Boom!!!!

The two monsters exploded.

Lu Ding exhaled black smoke, his hair flying.

His Golden Finger sent feedback.

[Monster contained: Disheveled Hair]

[Containment reward: Disheveled Hair Timing Moon Pillar]

[Disheveled Hair Timing Moon Pillar: Middle pillar loses soul, livestock restless, descendants uneasy]

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[Monster contained: Mourning Guest]

[Containment reward: Mourning Guest Timing Day Pillar]

[Mourning Guest Timing Day Pillar: Middle pillar scatters spirit, body dies and dao fades]

Year, month, day, hour—corresponding respectively to Misfortune, Disheveled Hair, Mourning Guest, and Mourning Cloth—four monsters.

Among them, Misfortune and Mourning Guest formed a pair: Mourning and Condolence!

This also echoed the effects of [Misfortune Timing Year Pillar] and [Mourning Guest Timing Day Pillar], a seamless connection.

[Misfortune Timing Year Pillar]: Middle pillar severs kin, afflicting descendants. [Mourning Guest Timing Day Pillar]: Middle pillar scatters spirit, bringing disaster upon oneself.

Translated to plain terms—in ancient times with backward productivity, when the family's pillar man died, it meant calamity for the entire household. A widow with orphans would be bullied to death.

Survival was nearly impossible.

Take an example: A man from a certain family dies. The villagers, out-of-towners, and relatives come to offer condolences. They size up the widow and orphans, appraise the house and land. After the seventh-day rites, they divide the property.

This was the Mourning and Condolence formed by Misfortune and Mourning Guest.

As for Disheveled Hair and Mourning Cloth.

Think of it as wearing mourning garments with disheveled hair, unkempt appearance.

Combined with the effects of [Disheveled Hair Timing Moon Pillar] and [Mourning Cloth Timing Hour Pillar]:

[Disheveled Hair Timing Moon Pillar]: Middle pillar loses soul, livestock restless, descendants uneasy. The family suffers calamity, life's fortunes rise and fall. One is inevitably disheveled and unkempt, wretched beyond measure.

Of course, this refers to ancient times, when people wore long hair. When disaster struck the household, there was no time to groom, reflecting their destitution—hence disheveled hair.

As for [Mourning Cloth Timing Hour Pillar]: Middle pillar severs time. Wear mourning clothes, bear funeral cloth. When the King of Hell decrees death at the third watch, who dares keep you alive till the fifth?

Mourning Cloth Timing Hour Pillar—experience the agony.

As a child, you grieve for your father and mother. Or the elderly send off the young—the grief is unbearable, so naturally you wear mourning clothes and funeral garments.

Everything had its logic.

Now the four pillars were gathered.

On the Golden Finger, the characters merged.

And then.

[Misfortune Timing Year Pillar], in position!

[Disheveled Hair Timing Moon Pillar], in position!

[Mourning Guest Timing Day Pillar], in position!

[Mourning Cloth Timing Hour Pillar], in position!

Four directions, four pillars—year, month, day, hour. Earth, fire, water, wind. The Four Great Elements all empty.

As new characters appeared.

Behind Lu Ding's head, a disk slowly manifested, resembling a great halo.

But unlike a great halo that emitted warm, bright white light.

The thing behind Lu Ding's head.

Emitted a cold, deathly glow—a dark, black light representing darkness and despair.

[Four Fundamental Evil Aspects]

[Four Fundamental Evil Aspects: Earth, fire, water, wind. Year, month, day, hour. Year—Earth's solid nature holds all things, preventing them from falling. Month—Water's moist nature gathers all things, preventing them from scattering. Day—Fire's warm nature ripens all things, preventing them from decaying. Hour—Wind's flowing nature gives birth to all things, regulating and circulating.]

It sounded complicated.

But in Lu Ding's enlightened understanding, it boiled down to four words.

Invulnerable Vajra Body!!!

His not-quite-weakness weakness had finally been filled.

Lu Ding's physical body had always been based on terrifying regeneration.

But actual defense, compared to his regeneration, wasn't quite as monstrous.

In other words—he wasn't hard enough.

Now, with the appearance of the Four Fundamental Evil Aspects, year, month, day, hour, the Invulnerable Vajra Body, and earth, fire, water, wind, the Four Great Elements all empty.

Combined with his terrifying regeneration.

Lu Ding was now both hard and fast in recovery.

His stats had reached extreme levels.

And the things brought by the [Four Fundamental Evil Aspects] were not limited to this.

In other words, what countless people dreamed of—immortality—was now easily within Lu Ding's grasp. Taoism has the Five Elements, Buddhism has the Four Great Elements. In Buddhist doctrine, the Four Great Elements compose everything in the world.

The meaning of "Four Great Elements All Empty" is that all external things in the world are illusions; only the self is eternal.

Thus, the [Four Fundamental Evil Aspects] provided Lu Ding with true immortality. Mountains crumble, seas dry up, stars shift—while he remains invulnerable, ageless.

But there was still the most basic problem.

Lu Ding was only around twenty damn years old.

Immortality... for him, it was hard to judge.

But having it was better than not.