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

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Shouts and the clash of battle surged across the ridges and valleys.

Song Wuji, recovered, led a host of Demon King lieutenants and charged out of the grand hall.

Where his gaze landed.

749’s investigators spread like an unrestrained wildfire, engulfing the mountains and plains.

Above the sky.

That figure held aloft an ancient immortal island, emitting endless ferocious might!!!

He unleashed a suppressive force.

The resplendent immortal island, the terrible ferocity.

Lu Ding alone controlled the battlefield, one man holding the pass against ten thousand!

Song Wuji ground his teeth, “Lu Ding, you have gone too far!!”

He shot skyward, flames flaring!!

In an instant the sky changed.

Song Wuji’s voice rang out: “Great Scarlet Mars, Flowing Fire of Heaven!!”

With spiritual energy unfurling, spell fluctuations followed.

A colossal burning fire planet appeared in the sky, bringing terrifying heat, flowing outward like an inverted river of magma, sweeping toward Lu Ding.

Song Wuji shouted, “Why, why!!!?”

“Why did I deliberately avoid your sharp edge, and yet you still pursue to kill!!”

“Do you really think I fear you just because of your God Ascension cultivation!!!”

“Without backing from 749, what are you even worth!!!”

He had already intended to leave; why—why couldn’t Lu Ding have come a little later?

Then Song Wuji could have hardened his heart, abandoned those former brothers who refused to flee with him, leaving them here.

But now Lu Ding had arrived.

Song Wuji could no longer bear to heartlessly flee alone and leave them to face this person’s savagery.

Lu Ding’s scholar-warrior sleeve supported the Golden Ao Island.

With a flick of the sleeve, Human King’s Loose Hands was unleashed.

Black smoke billowed, spiritual qi condensed, red-threaded spiral patterns formed, and he struck the star with bare hands!!!!

A palm pushed flat, forcing the Mars of Burning Fire to retreat!!!

Magma like blood rained down, igniting the hills and fields.

“A monster is a monster. With the battle upon us you still ask me why? You dare!?”

Song Wuji grinned savagely, “The Sin of Arrogance in New City, you truly are arrogant!!!!”

“You forced me to this; fine, I’ll kill you, desert the Great Han!!!!”

He raised his arm, spun it, manipulating the massive Mars of Fire, sweeping it across. The terrifying heat melted mountains and steamed rivers dry.

Wherever it passed, fire ravaged a thousand miles, the land reddened and continuous, space shattered, creaking sounds everywhere.

Lu Ding tossed the Golden Ao Island from his hand, took from his bosom a long-prepared rare natural treasure, the God-Sealed Earth Mother, and shoved it into his mouth.

In an instant.

Pure medicinal energy coursed through Lu Ding’s entire body.

His palms rose, then pushed horizontally.

He met Song Wuji head-on as the God Ascension, Fifth Restriction Mars slammed across.

Boom!!!!!

Terrifying force, blistering heat.

Lu Ding moved through the air and plowed forward, and both his scholar-warrior sleeves instantly shattered.

Beneath them flesh was exposed, and streaks of golden rune light flashed across the skin. Invulnerable Vajra Body!!!

Song Wuji struck again.

Flames ignited his legs; with a savage kick he struck the Mars of Burning Fire, applying force to push the planet and drive at Lu Ding who blocked with the star: “Corpse-Shattering Taishui, Sin of Arrogance, this is all you are!!!”

“God Ascension, Ninth Restriction cultivation—what are you raging about!?”

“What pride!!!?”

“What I fear is 749, not you, Lu Ding!!!”

He spoke, and at this moment Song Wuji held the advantage, hammering the Mars with fists again and again, waves of scorching fire poison and brutal force pounding into Lu Ding’s body.

While it continually refined the medicinal effect for him, it also helped thrust him toward the pivotal breakthrough from God Ascension to Spirit Refinement.

Song Wuji was strong, no doubt, but Lu Ding was not made of clay—he could resist and had means to resist.

He needed to use Song Wuji’s power to break through!!!

After bearing the brunt of the burning star, Lu Ding’s smile turned vicious, black smoke curling at the corner of his mouth: “Did you skip a meal!?”

With Mountain-Shaking Earth-Quaking bolstering his strength.

Both palms pushed with full force, and while he shoved the star back, the three Dinghai Pearls that circled his body sprang free and flew across the battlefield, weaving through combat, tearing open the encirclement around Bai Hemen and breaking the death trap surrounding Huangfu Lingyun, rescuing investigators from the sea of fire.

Song Wuji looked on.

You, who under my hand are merely capable of resisting and have no sign of counterattack, dare to save people right under my nose!!?

Do you take me for nothing!!?

Now a killing intent rose in him.

Boom!!!!!

Flames exploded at Song Wuji’s hands, compacting inch by inch. Crimson fire shifted blue, then white, until it no longer flared and clung to his palms. The heat it carried melted space around his arms instantly.

The next second.

The Mars of Burning Fire between him and Lu Ding—Song Wuji lunged across the star. Where he had been on one side he abruptly reappeared before Lu Ding on the other.

A palm struck: “As you wish!!!!”

Bang!!!!

A palm printed heavily on Lu Ding’s chest, detonating waves of flame radiating for miles.

Even Lu Ding’s Invulnerable Vajra Body showed a hint of collapse in his chest.

But that single strike—

It worked!!!!

Lu Ding flew back, crashed through a mountain peak, and the fire poison and blazing heat filling his body melted mountains in an instant—one peak, two peaks, three......

Boom boom boom boom.......boom!!!!!

Finally he slammed into the depths of a great mountain.

Sizzling sounds never ceased.

It was the sound of intense heat melting rock.

At this moment.

The fierce fighting on the battlefield below fell silent.

All eyes turned to the mountain mass where Lu Ding lay buried and obscured by rubble, the true situation unknown.

A lesser demon prematurely popped champagne and shouted with excitement, “Hahahaha we won, we won!!!!”

“The Great King has shattered the Corpse-Shattering Taishui’s undefeated myth!!!!”

Those words tightened the hearts of 749’s investigators.

They did not believe Lu Ding could be defeated.

Even if Taishui was merely God Ascension Ninth Restriction while the enemy was God Ascension Fifth Restriction, they still would not believe!

Lu Ding had always presented as invincible!!!

His name, his very presence, were an oppressive, ruling force in the mortal world!

Defeat!

Impossible.

That did not exist in Lu Ding’s dictionary, nor in the investigators’ understanding of him.

Song Wuji turned, posture full of presence, the burning fire planet at his back, as if he were the earthly God of Fire commanding all flames!!!

“Lackeys of the Great Han, now it’s your turn.”

Song Wuji spread his arms; flames exploded, burning the air as if he had unfurled a pair of sky-covering fiery wings.

Just as he was about to strike at the investigators below.

Lu Ding’s voice came from within the rubble.

“Hah.....~~~~~”

A long breath exhaled, full of relief.

Then came the crackling sounds, as though every bone in his body snapped crisp.

Then.

Boom!!!!!

A great momentum burst forth, shattering and blasting apart the stones pressing down on him.

He emerged from that mountain pit, still oozing flowing magma.

In an instant, all gazes—like the spotlights of a battlefield—fell on Lu Ding.

They watched him slowly rise from the pit, a mess of rags and dirt.

Lu Ding stood.

He brushed the broken hair from his brow, revealing his forehead.

He took slow steps forward and tore the tattered scholar-warrior sleeves from his body.

With every step he took, his momentum and realm swelled inch by inch.

Until, Boom!!!!!!!

The entire mountain was smashed into rubble by the force of his breakthrough!!!