This power was far too bizarre.
So bizarre that it instantly made all of Yin Yang's previous preparations look like a complete joke.
He had endured so much pain just to find the perfect opportunity to eliminate the duck-voiced man, yet his success had been so easily overturned.
Only a Sequence 3 could possibly achieve such a feat.
And right now, there was indeed a Sequence 3 in the sky.
The Chief of the Great Wei Security Headquarters, Huang Quan!
Yin Yang clenched his fists tightly, a profound sense of powerlessness washing over him.
The gap was too vast—simply too vast.
The difference between a Sequence 6 and a Sequence 3 could no longer be described as a mere chasm.
Any schemes or plots were nothing but a joke before such power.
In the sky, Huang Quan withdrew his gaze.
The ability he had just used was the core ability of the Sequence 3 of the Ward Guard pathway, the Grand Minister of Justice.
Overturn the Verdict!
He could use 【Overturn the Verdict】 on any case related to himself that had not been fully resolved, even turning it into a 【miscarriage of justice】!
He could turn the original deceased into the murderer, the victim into a suspect, and so on.
And what he had just done was negate the "murder" committed by the two Sequence 4s of the Shadow Lotus Church, causing their attempt to fail.
Since the murder had failed, the duck-voiced man naturally wouldn't die.
Since he didn't die, his phantom naturally remained intact.
With the phantom present, it could block the rain of blood, preventing it from washing away the Wannian Platform's incantations and stopping it from breaking free.
This was the power of a Sequence 3 of the Ward Guard pathway.
However, the more he used his authority to alter reality, the more taxing it became.
Currently, there was still an evil god waiting for him to deal with. Otherwise, he could have directly turned the deceased into those two from the Shadow Lotus Church, and made the duck-voiced man the murderer!
Seeing that the Wannian Platform was safe, he finally turned his attention to the evil god before him.
“Ugly thing!”
...
Although the two Sequence 4s of the Shadow Lotus Church and the elder in the suit felt incredibly frustrated, there was absolutely nothing they could do.
After all, their powers were not on the same level at all; they could not affect the other party in the slightest.
This was the sheer power of a Sequence 3.
Great Qi had not hesitated to wage a national war just to cultivate a powerhouse of this caliber, a Sequence 3.
The duck-voiced elder felt a sudden throb of dread. For some reason, he felt as if he had just brushed past extreme danger—the kind that was a matter of life and death.
“We can't hold them off much longer!”
The burly man from the Idealist Society roared. Using the mechanical evil god to single-handedly hold off the other Sequence 4s summoned by the duck-voiced man was proving to be too much for him.
Boom!
The mechanical evil god was blasted into a pile of scattered parts. Trying to break into the Wannian Platform to kill Qin Qian with just a few Sequence 4s was, in the end, underestimating Great Wei.
But the very instant they rushed in, the Wannian Platform began to frantically absorb energy!
Divinity, spirituality, and even life force were being rapidly drained.
The expressions of the duck-voiced man and the other Sequence 4s changed in unison.
Because this time, the Wannian Platform's energy absorption actually drained their energy as well.
The first to suffer were the ordinary people and low-Sequence transcendents inside the Wannian Platform.
They were drained almost instantly; the ordinary people died on the spot, their life energy completely sucked dry.
The low-Sequence transcendents collapsed to the ground, paralyzed, as they felt their life force slipping away bit by bit.
Inside the Wannian Platform, they stood absolutely no chance of resisting.
Even Qin Qian felt his body growing weaker. Fortunately, at the critical moment, a giant hand of divinity reached in from the outside.
Qin Qian didn't resist at all, knowing it belonged to the elder with tucked sleeves.
Sure enough, the next moment, he was pulled to the side of the elder with tucked sleeves.
The elder with tucked sleeves placed a white stone directly into Qin Qian's hand, causing the suction force on him to vanish instantly.
Qin Qian recognized it; this was the sealed object, the 【Warding Stone】!
Its ability was extremely simple: isolate negative status effects!
Whether it was curses, injuries, illnesses, or anything else, they would be isolated and prevented from progressing further.
But its drawback was also very obvious: while holding this stone, one would feel as though some of their own limbs were also a “negative status.”
For instance, if the elder with tucked sleeves used this sealed object for too long, he would begin to feel that his entire body—except for his hands—was a negative status, and would then start self-mutilating.
“Be careful, Your Majesty! Let's leave this place first!”
The elder with tucked sleeves shielded Qin Qian as they made their way out. Qin Qian's face was incredibly grim, but in the end, he didn't refuse.
What was pride compared to one's life? Still, before leaving, he couldn't help but look back.
The body of 'Qin Ye' was still being nurtured, but now, it seemed it could not be saved.
...
Central City.
The Wan family estate.
Wan Tianqing was calmly sipping his tea, while Su Baadao sat opposite him, desperately suppressing his emotions.
After an unknown amount of time had passed in this manner, Su Baadao finally couldn't help but ask.
“Teacher, do you know what Mr. Xia is doing?”
Wan Tianqing shook his head.
“I don't know, and I'm not interested.”
“Then, Teacher, now that Central City has descended into such chaos, are you still not going to take action?”
Upon hearing this, Wan Tianqing smiled faintly, a nostalgic look appearing on his face.
“Young people will be young, after all. Don't you agree, Mr. Gong?”
“Indeed.”
The voice sounded as if it were right next to Su Baadao's ear, nearly triggering his fight-or-flight response.
He whipped his head around to see an elder dressed in a black suit walking over. Seeing Su Baadao's reaction, the elder gave him a small smile before walking over to Wan Tianqing, pouring himself a cup of tea without the slightest hesitation.
“They say youth is a blessing for a reason. When I was young, I was just as hot-blooded as he is!”
Wan Tianqing smiled.
“Did you come to Central City just to hand over that Sequence 4 corrupted by the evil god to Huang Quan?”
“No, I came to observe the Wannian Platform.”
At this point, he downed his tea in one gulp, then asked with quite a bit of curiosity,
“Mr. Wan, what exactly is that Wannian Platform? How can it live for so long? Is it some kind of transcendent creature?”
Wan Tianqing shook his head.
“I don't know the specifics either. All I know is that it's alive, and it has always protected the Qin family.”
“That is also why the Qin family has always lived inside the Wannian Platform.”
With that, he poured another cup of tea for Mr. Gong.
“As a grand Elder of the True Knowledge Society, aren't you going to stir up some trouble given such a perfect opportunity?”
Mr. Gong shrugged.
“I'd have to be absolutely insane to cause trouble right in front of you.”
He spoke these words with complete ease, without a shred of the “pride” typically held by a powerhouse of the same Sequence.
In contrast, Su Baadao stared deeply at him upon learning that he was an elder of the True Knowledge Society.
Mr. Gong didn't mind. He even smiled at Su Baadao, flashing a row of neat white teeth. After downing his tea once more, he spoke.
“Huang Quan mobilized his authority just now, didn't he?”
“Yes.”
“What kind of 'miscarriage of justice' did he pull off this time?”
“How should I know?”
As Wan Tianqing spoke, he reached out to refill Mr. Gong's cup once more.
Mr. Gong hastily blocked the cup with his hand.
“That's enough. Do you really take me for a water buffalo?”
After stopping Wan Tianqing from pouring, he smiled.
“From what I know, a Sequence 3 from Great Qi has arrived, and they're here to challenge you...”
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