Chapter 1 Clouds Move

Clouds move.

But the black clouds in the sky clearly didn't.

They were like decorations fixed above Jiangyun Temple, constantly flashing with lightning, shrouding the sky.

Such an abnormal phenomenon, coupled with the large-scale injury incidents, should have made Jiangyun Temple the headline news on major media outlets, known to the world.

But now, everything was calm.

All because Qiu Dugu used his authority to block the information.

"The people of Jiangyun Temple are all dead. What will you do next?"

Fang Yue couldn't help but ask, watching Qiu Dugu's hair wrapped around him, forming a spherical shape.

"This place will be sealed off, publicly announced as under renovation. Those who died will be covered up with excuses, and those who can be said to have died accidentally will be said to have died accidentally. In short, it will be downplayed to avoid suspicion."

Fang Yue, who had become round and fluffy like a ball, raised his eyebrows. "Aren't you deceiving others and delaying the matter? What if it breaks out one day?"

"...That's not a problem I need to care about, nor is it a problem you need to care about. I only care about how many people I can save and how much I can do for this world."

Fang Yue shrugged. He saw a kind of military-like limitation in Qiu Dugu.

He might be a good executor, but he would never be a good leader.

But what did that have to do with a small person like Fang Yue?

If the sky falls, there are tall people to hold it up. Fang Yue really didn't want to provoke a behemoth like the [United Hands Society] that possessed a large number of bizarre objects.

If the problem could be solved from the rules through Qiu Dugu, then everything would become very beautiful, and he could return to a peaceful life.

As the two were talking, Bai Xiaoya walked over carrying her nine bone spears.

She looked at Fang Yue and said directly, "I want to go too."

"Miss?! Think twice!!" A Ming exclaimed immediately.

Fang Yue frowned and shook his head slightly. "Stay here and wait for me to come back."

Since that incident, this woman had shown a tendency towards self-destruction, rushing towards any danger.

Seeing that Bai Xiaoya seemed to want to say something, Fang Yue spoke first, "If you die, Sister Yuan will be sad, and I will be in a lot of trouble. So stay down there obediently. If something happens and I fall, I'll be counting on you to catch me and save my life."

Hearing this, Bai Xiaoya didn't say anything more.

But she took saving Fang Yue's life to heart and began searching the temple for something to soften the landing, which made Fang Yue a little dumbfounded.

"You've saved me so many times, I'll repay you," Bai Xiaoya said seriously.

Fang Yue didn't care about her as long as she didn't follow him up.

Being struck by that lightning would be fatal to ordinary people.

Qiu Dugu's ancient costume was a bizarre object, and his hair was a bizarre object.

With double insurance, he still spat out a mouthful of blood and fell.

If it were Bai Xiaoya, she would probably die on the spot.

As for Fang Yue, he was waiting until night to go up and find out, with the blessing of [Breath of the Night], otherwise, even with the protection of Qiu Dugu's hair, he wouldn't go up.

After fully arming himself, Fang Yue instructed Bai Xiaoya and A Ming a few more times. Then, Fang Yue and Qiu Dugu rode the 'hair tree's' 'automatic elevator' all the way up and quickly disappeared.

Boom.

Before long, thunder rumbled in the black clouds.

Lightning filled the entire black cloud, traveling and surging within, illuminating Jiangyun Temple below.

It was at this moment that a cloud of smoke drifted from afar, drifting towards Jiangyun Temple.

After the smoke reached Jiangyun Temple, it quickly condensed into a human form, gradually changing from illusion to reality.

When all of this was completed, a man smoking a cigarette had appeared at the entrance of Jiangyun Temple.

Others usually called him Yan Nan (Smoke Man), or called him...Ma Shaoku.

Ma Shaoku glanced at the black clouds flashing with lightning above his head and frowned slightly.

Then he stepped into Jiangyun Temple.

Soon, he saw a giant tree of hair, similar to a tower to the sky. It was clearly the work of his old partner.

Walking towards the hair tree, he saw two people guarding it from afar.

"Ordinary people?"

Stunned for a moment, Ma Shaoku immediately realized that those two people were nothing special; they were just ordinary people.

"Survivors of the Jiangyun Temple incident?"

Although Ma Shaoku didn't see any corpses along the way, the bloodstains on the road were very obvious. Clearly, many people had died, many, many people.

In such a large-scale wave of death, only two people survived. This mortality rate was ridiculously abnormal.

It also showed one thing: the source of this surge in the [Bizarre Level Line] was probably...very dangerous!

Ma Shaoku, who was originally prepared to immediately follow the hair tree up to find his old partner, didn't rush into action. Instead, he prepared to first understand the situation from these two survivors.

However, as he walked towards the two people, halfway there, he suddenly looked up.

Boom!

In the high sky, black clouds flashed with lightning, and a bolt of lightning suddenly struck down, hitting the ground not far from him.

A hole immediately appeared in the ground, emitting black smoke.

This scene scared Ma Shaoku so much that he almost directly entered his smoke form. Fortunately, after just that one strike, the black clouds calmed down a little.

Continuing forward, his arrival finally attracted the attention of Bai Xiaoya and A Ming.

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"Who are you?" A Ming asked nervously.

"Qiu Dugu said that this place has been sealed off by his authority, and no one can enter or leave. The only one who is qualified to enter is his partner, Ma Shaoku! Am I right?" Bai Xiaoya stood up coldly.

Ma Shaoku was slightly surprised.

"Qiu Dugu even told you this kind of thing? That's rare. He rarely leaves loose ends when he does things."

Ma Shaoku had already arrived at the base of the hair tree at this time.

After examining the hair tree and touching the material, confirming that it was indeed a product of his old partner's hair bizarre object, Ma Shaoku calmed down and looked at Bai Xiaoya.

"He's already gone up? What's the situation up there?"

Bai Xiaoya looked at him calmly. "The black clouds flash with powerful lightning every major cycle. Usually, it's just small lightning, not painful or itchy. Qiu Dugu went up to explore after confirming the end of a major cycle. It was about ten minutes ago. A major cycle takes two hours."

Major cycle, 2 hours.

Qiu Dugu has only been up for ten minutes...

Ma Shaoku was thoughtful, and then he looked at A Ming next to him.

He asked the same question, asking from different angles, and the answers were consistent.

Ma Shaoku was relieved. The remaining tasks were testing the strength of the lightning during the minor cycles and investigating the details of the Jiangyun Temple incident.

However, according to this girl, Qiu Dugu could directly ignore the lightning and went up without even making hair armor, relying only on the defensive ability of his ancient costume bizarre object, indicating that the power of the lightning during the minor cycles was not worth mentioning.