Chapter 141: Overwhelming

*Pfft—!*

The sharp steel sword instantly pierced through Xi Renjie’s shoulder, blood staining his clothes. But at this moment, he couldn’t care about the pain, looking at Chen Ling in shock.

“It’s you?!! That red-clad person is you?!”

Xi Renjie was all too familiar with this strange trick. Back in front of that warehouse, the red-clad person had used this very skill to play them all in the palm of his hand.

“You’re from the Twilight Society?!”

In a flash, Xi Renjie connected everything. When the red-clad person appeared, Chen Ling happened to say he was tired and went to rest, then he lured away all the Shadow Centipedes, devoured the Calamity, entered the Gray Realm, and saved Han Meng along the way...

Although Chen Ling’s appearance now was different from that of the red-clad person, combining those details, he could basically confirm Chen Ling’s identity.

“It seems Aurora City really didn’t tell you the details.”

Chen Ling said faintly, delivering a heavy whip kick to Xi Renjie’s chest, sending him flying backward. After soaring for over ten meters, he crashed into the surface of the broken carriage, leaving a deep crater.

Xi Renjie had covered half his body with [Iron Garment], but his internal organs were still injured. He coughed up several mouthfuls of blood, his vision darkening.

The injury to one shoulder had rendered one arm useless. The other hand held the control lever, which basically had no blade, so [Sharp Thread] couldn’t be activated, and he could only discard it in the snow.

Xi Renjie watched the figure approaching rapidly with the steel sword in hand. His fingertips brushed the lining at his waist, and four or five blades fell between his fingers.

“Dancing Silk Strings.”

Xi Renjie pinched the blades with one hand, his nimble fingers making them dance rapidly at his fingertips. Black threads shot out from his fingertips like imperceptible snakes, tracking Chen Ling through the snow!

These black threads were too thin, making them impossible to distinguish in the snowy night. The sharp murderous intent was hidden in invisible blind spots, already surrounding Chen Ling.

Chen Ling narrowed his eyes, and a faint light shone in their depths. The terrifying observational ability brought by [Secret Pupil] allowed him to clearly distinguish these black threads. His figure flickered among them like a dancing butterfly. The threads swept past his cheeks, but not a single one could hurt him in the slightest.

“...How is this possible?” Xi Renjie controlled the black threads while looking at the rapidly approaching figure in disbelief.

“The skills of the [Sky Wolf] path are indeed fierce.” Chen Ling took a few copper coins from his pocket and said calmly.

“Unfortunately, you met the wrong opponent.”

*Ding—!*

He flicked his fingers, and all the copper coins in his hand flew into the sky. The next moment, those copper coins turned into blades glinting with cold light.

Xi Renjie’s pupils shrank. He immediately looked down and found that the blades at his fingertips had been replaced by smooth, round copper coins... Without a blade, his skill had nowhere to be unleashed, and the black threads that could cut through everything vanished abruptly.

Just as he looked up, the steel sword glinting with cold light swept through the air like a meteor. The terrifying force carried his body backward, pinning him to the carriage!

A gust of wind swept across Xi Renjie’s face, and Chen Ling’s calm face appeared once more.

Xi Renjie stared at Chen Ling with wide eyes, but he no longer had the ability to strike. His face was filled with despondency. He hadn’t expected the gap in strength between him and Chen Ling to be so vast... The opponent had used only two tricks to break his strongest move.

In just a few dozen seconds, the outcome of the battle between the two District 3 Enforcement Officers was decided.

Chen Ling stood in front of him and said slowly:

“Officer Xi, on the message you received, what... did Aurora City tell you?”

After Xi Renjie drugged him, he had used the word “heretic.” Chen Ling knew he had been exposed, but how exactly he had been exposed had always been a knot in his heart. He felt that everything he had done so far had been almost seamless.

“Cough, cough, cough...” Xi Renjie’s shoulder blade was pinned to the train’s metal skin by the steel sword. His features were twisted in agony. After taking a few deep breaths, he said hoarsely:

“I don’t know... they didn’t say anything... they just told me you were a heretic and that I had to use whatever means necessary to erase you...”

Chen Ling frowned slightly. He instinctively felt something was wrong, but he couldn’t put his finger on what.

Just as he was deep in thought, Xi Renjie’s voice sounded again.

“Chen Ling, I don’t understand...”

Xi Renjie raised his pale face and looked into his eyes. “You’re from the Twilight Society, why did you infiltrate District 3? And why did you save me and Brother Meng? What is your purpose?”

Chen Ling didn’t answer, only driving the steel sword deeper into the metal skin, then slowly releasing the hilt.

“You don’t need to know... For now, just stay here and watch how I kill people.”

The next moment, his figure vanished into the dark night.

During the time Chen Ling was overwhelming Xi Renjie, more than a dozen enforcers had fled in all directions, their figures disappearing into the darkness and thick fog. But for Chen Ling, this distance of a few hundred meters meant nothing.

A blood shadow swept across the earth at an astonishing speed, like a predator in the night. Wherever he went, those fleeing figures collapsed to the ground like rotten mud.

Meanwhile.

Three figures were fleeing frantically along the tracks.

Zuo Tong looked back. In the thick fog, he could basically no longer see where Chen Ling had gone. Perhaps he had gone in the opposite direction to hunt down other enforcers. He finally breathed a slight sigh of relief.

“Should... should be safe now?”

He stopped on the tracks, hands on his knees, gasping for air.

“Keep running if you don’t want to die!” Brother Jing cursed in a low voice. “Chen Ling is an Enforcement Officer of the [Asura] path! With his speed, catching up to us is child’s play. Didn’t you see Xi Renjie pinned to the train?”

“That’s impossible... Chen Ling is just a newcomer who just stepped onto the Divine Path. How could he defeat Officer Xi?” another enforcer asked, puzzled.

“Who the hell knows?! Even if the [Asura] path is strong, it shouldn’t be this strong?”

“Yeah, I didn’t see Officer Xi put up much of a fight...”

“Xi Renjie is a piece of trash. To think he’s a Tier 2 Enforcement Officer! Other than scaring us, he’s useless!”

“Now the train is broken in two... how are we supposed to get to Aurora City?”

“Save our lives first!”

The three ran wildly. Amidst the churning fog, directly ahead on the tracks, a figure was also running wildly in the opposite direction...