Fei Hao snorted. "What? Pressure this big and we're not even allowed to complain? You want us to bottle everything up like balloons and then explode later?"
Li Shuaixi nodded seriously. "Yeah, venting a little is normal. I think it's perfectly reasonable."
"Fine, fine, fine. I'll go tell Chu Xuan then."
Seeing that Yehui was actually about to file a complaint, Hu Yong quickly blocked her path. "What, every little thing and you want to go tattling? That kid came in at the same time as us. You treating him like he's your backer now? Let me tell you—if we act like he's someone important, then he becomes someone important. If we don't take him seriously, he's nothing but a fart!"
In the corner, lying on an army cot, Yujin listened to the commotion, silently turned over, and faced the other way.
The fact that the newcomers were being spoiled into this kind of attitude… that was actually Chu Xuan's doing.
Recently, he had been deliberately acting weak in front of the newcomers, purposefully showing "flaws," all so they would underestimate him and naturally end up opposing the Central Continent team's veteran members.
For this, Chu Xuan had done plenty of things that Yujin didn't know about, subtly manipulating the newcomers and planting the idea that the "Terrifying Scenario" was easy.
Right now, that was the state of things between the two sides.
The newcomer team even believed that the veterans had only gained their superpowers because they got lucky and earned a few points from a horror movie.
If they returned to the Lord God Space, they might not be able to match Captain Yujin, but at least they could reach the level of Zhang Jie.
Others couldn't understand Chu Xuan's methods, but Yujin could.
In the original story, Li Shuaixi, the Great Emperor, was killed because of Chu Xuan.
This guy had a talent for testing human nature.
Right now, his setup was designed to eliminate four newcomers who didn't really qualify as his teammates.
Of course, if one newcomer died, the team battle reward points would decrease.
But Chu Xuan never lost out—whatever points were lost from one death, he would find a way to make up for elsewhere.
Yujin got up and stretched his shoulders, deciding not to dwell on these things anymore.
He stretched his arms and threw a powerful punch.
A dark teal-colored Haki of Armament attached to his arm.
He tried to slash his tail with it, and even without exerting much force, it left a faint white mark.
The enhancement in defense and strength from Armament Haki thrilled Lord God Yujin.
He realized that Armament Haki could even attach to his tail!
The tail, which was originally a dark red with a strange, eerie sheen, was instantly covered by a deep, mysterious dark teal.
The Haki tightly clung to the tail's surface, making it appear solid and powerful.
In the light, the Armament Haki shimmered with a faint metallic glow, as if it had been granted an indestructible armor.
The tail was already hard, but with the Haki applied, the tip's power far surpassed the destructive force of all of Yujin's previous ninjutsu.
Even the composite ninjutsu "Flame Wind Chaos Wave" couldn't match it.
"If the tail can do this…" Yujin's mind stirred.
The feathered wing, Kagune, emerged from his body, and he tensed it with force.
Sure enough, Wing Kagune also had Armament Haki attached!
However, when the Haki attached to Wing Kagune, the tail lost its Haki, and only two feathers on Wing Kagune were covered in Armament Haki.
"Still lacking training," he muttered.
He plucked one feather and tried to infuse chakra into it.
At first, the feather trembled slightly, as if resisting the foreign energy.
As Yujin continued to channel chakra into it, the feather seemed to awaken.
First, the surface's aura of Armament Haki shimmered with a subtle ripple.
Then, a strand of blue, lightning-nature chakra, like a living thread, spread along the patterns of the feather.
The blue lightning chakra intertwined with the dark teal Armament Haki, weaving a unique and mysterious hue that flickered with strange light across the feather.
The feather, already hard and powerful from the Armament Haki, now emitted a pulse that made the heart race.
Sparks of electricity danced along its surface, crackling softly, announcing the immense energy contained within.
Yujin stared at the scene before him, excitement lighting up his eyes.
Armored Lightning Feather?
He couldn't even begin to imagine how devastating this technique could be.
"Chakra-infused feathers with lightning chakra nature are called Lightning Feathers. So what should we call a technique that coats Lightning Feathers with Armament Haki?"
"Boys' anti-tank armor-piercing bullets?"
"That's a mouthful."
Lord God Yujin thought for a moment and finally decided to name the technique—Armored Lightning Feather!
The Lightning Feathers coated with Armament Haki only stayed enhanced in Yujin's hands for less than three seconds before returning to their normal state.
Feeling the sudden drop in his chakra reserves, Yujin calculated how much chakra he would need to use other techniques.
This small Armored Lightning Feather consumed as much chakra as two uses of Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet!
It seemed unassuming, but it required incredibly precise chakra compression to wrap the chakra around the feathers while preventing them from being damaged.
In terms of learning difficulty, this technique easily ranked an A+.
But its destructive power was equally astonishing.
If Flame Wind Chaos could deal sixty damage per second in a fan-shaped area for five seconds…
Then Armored Lightning Feather probably dealt at least a thousand damage to a single target.
Although he could currently only coat two feathers on his Kagune with Armament Haki for a short time, in the future, if he managed to coat twenty feathers…
It would be like firing an anti-tank sniper rifle with a shotgun muzzle—who could possibly withstand that?
After mentally testing the move, Yujin jumped out of the window and silently arrived at the first floor of the police station.
As soon as he stabilized himself, a sharp gaze pierced him!
Zhao Yingkong, crouched in a dark corner, held a dagger in hand, her eyes sharp and fixed in his direction.
When she realized it was Yujin, her gaze relaxed slightly.
"Don't be nervous," Yujin said, spreading his hands. "The other two Ghostface Killers still haven't appeared. Chu Xuan, reviewing the case files, has almost solved the town's murders over the past two hundred years."
"If they're not found yet, then there's only one possibility~"
Zhao Yingkong tilted her head. "The killer hasn't killed anyone yet?"
"Wow, you actually thought of that?" Yujin was genuinely surprised. "Are you running the Gene Lock?"
"Yes," Zhao Yingkong nodded, pulling back her hood to reveal her pale forehead. The beads of sweat on her brow indicated that she was actively in the process of using her Gene Lock.
In this state, humans could even enhance certain aspects of their thinking abilities.
If the level of a gene lock reached two or higher, it was even possible to simulate the brain circuits of certain individuals.
This was exactly what Zheng Zha did after losing Chu Xuan.
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