Saigon, the sky is clear and sunny, the horse-drawn carriages and ox-carts are bustling on the street, occasionally people look at a rich man sitting on a super car pulled by a horse, looking very ostentatious.
Speaking of spirit horses, they are a breed of horses that can use spiritual power. They are stronger, smarter, have a more beautiful shape, and brighter color than normal horses. Evolved spirit horses also grow a spiral horn in the middle of their foreheads, and at a higher level of evolution, they will grow a pair of beautiful wings. Similarly, there are also spirit elephants and spirit oxen that are very suitable for transporting large quantities of goods at high speed.
A horse-drawn carriage drove to Cho Lon area, turned into an alley and stopped.
Quang Lam got out of the car, wearing a cap to cover his hair that Duong had cut off this morning. He took out a 50,000 VND note from his pocket to pay for the ride, looked around, and then went into the alley.
Lam walked into a shabby old pawn shop. The owner was a tattooed middle-aged man named Thai, sitting behind the pawn shop counter.
“Hello Mr. Thai!”
“Ah! Young Master Lam, are you here to collect the rent for the shop owner?”
“No, I have something for you to do!” Lam said in a low voice.
“You mean…”
“Assassination.” Lam glanced around then leaned close to Thai and whispered.
Thai’s face became serious. He led Lam into a room, closed the door, and then asked: “Who is the target? What is their rank? Assassination location?”
“Vo Phi Duong, a level 6 Spiritualist, studying at the Goddess Academy.”
“Goddess Academy? That’s a bit difficult…” Thai rubbed his chin.
“Don’t worry, the strong teachers are all in a spiritual realm preparing for the academy competition, the only formidable one left is Principal Le.”
Thai still looked hesitant: “Principal Le is not worried. Even though it is just a Linh Si… the price is a bit high…”
“30 million!” Lam generously offered a price. This was quite a high price for assassinating a level 6 Spirit Warrior, but Lam was the son of a wealthy family in Saigon, and was also a genius of the Goddess Academy, so he was very spoiled by his parents and spent money like water.
“Okay! When will we act? What does that guy look like?” Thai nodded. With his level 6 Spirit Ta strength, killing a Spirit Soldier was as easy as turning his hand. He just needed to carefully sneak in and come out and 30 million would be in his hands.
“Tonight would be even better, here’s a picture of him, he’s in room 2016 but usually stays in a lab on the 4th floor of the main building and doesn’t come back until late at night.” Lam showed a picture of Duong, his clothes ragged, his body covered in blood, struggling to avoid Lam’s attacks. This was a picture taken by one of Lam’s Nine Dragons gang members using a low-grade Spirit Treasure that could record lifelike images.
“And here is the academy map.” Lam gave Thai another large roll of paper, pointing out to Thai the places he thought Duong often visited…
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After the fight with Lam, Duong was taken to the medical room by Sinh’s gang to be bandaged. Exhausted and bleeding, Duong slept until evening when he woke up. Nhat, My, Sinh, Chung, and Tran were waiting.
“Wake up!” Seeing Duong open his eyes, Sinh said.
“How are you feeling, Duong?” My asked kindly.
“It’s okay, I’m so tired so I’m just going to sleep. Is it late already?” Duong rubbed his eyes and sat up.
“You there! If you don’t cause trouble, you won’t be able to eat?” Nhu Nhat scolded.
Tran interrupted: “I think it’s cool, beat them all and become the boss!”
“The overlord was beaten until his whole body was covered in blood…” Nhu Nhat snorted lightly, suddenly remembered Bao Ngoc and looked at Duong and asked: “You locked Bao Ngoc in a ring, let her out so I can see!”
“I’m not worried about this, I’m only worried about Bao Ngoc, you… girl-lover who forgets his friends!” Duong smiled, rubbing his hand on the ring and teasing Nhat.
“You are the one who loves girls!”
“Huh?” Duong discovered that Bao Ngoc was not in the ring, so he touched his pocket and then his head, but Bao Ngoc was not there either.
“Where is it?” Duong wondered, he sat up and flipped the blanket and pillow, feeling all over his body but couldn’t find it.
“Did he lose it during the fight?” Duong thought to himself, sitting and recalling the last time he saw Bao Ngoc. That was early in the morning, when Duong put Bao Ngoc in his pocket and walked out of the lab. After that, because of the Goddess and the fight with Lam, he completely forgot about her.
“What’s wrong?” Seeing Duong sitting pensively, Sinh asked.
“Where did Bao Ngoc go?” Duong said, then jumped out of bed and ran to the main building. Sinh and the others also split up to look for her.
How hard would it be to find a child who didn’t even know how to speak if he got lost? Duong ran up to the lab and walked back the same path he had taken in the morning, looking around for the tiny child, constantly blaming himself.
Currently, the main building of the academy was quite deserted, because most of the teachers, including Nhu Mong, were in a spiritual realm to build an examination hall for the upcoming inter-academy competition, so Duong could only run and call out to Bao Ngoc, but there was no one to ask.
Running all over the building without finding anything, Duong ran to the practice area and saw Sinh. Sinh shook his head and said no and said: “Chung is asking around in the male dormitory, My is in the female dormitory, Nhat is in the cafeteria and entertainment area, and Tran is looking in the classrooms. You go to the library and try looking, I will go look in the classrooms to help Tran.”
“Yes!” Duong nodded and ran across the schoolyard towards the library, unaware that a dark shadow was silently watching him.
The library was lit but deserted. Duong pushed the door open and ran straight in, looking around. Suddenly, he felt a chill down his spine.
“Tran Van Thai, 44 years old, pawn shop owner and assassin, level 6 Spirit Assistant, dark elemental spirit power.”
Google spoke up, causing Duong’s chill to quickly turn into extreme fear. What Google said meant that there was an assassin somewhere behind him. Even though he didn’t know if he was the target or not, Duong didn’t dare stand still, so he immediately used his spirit power to run straight into the depths of the library.
“Humph! Run!” Thai was hiding behind, intending to secretly finish off Duong. A bit surprised that Duong suddenly ran away, he immediately ran after him.
Principal Le was also in the library at the moment, standing at a bookshelf learning about spirits, Bao Ngoc was holding a tiny glass bottle and sitting on her shoulder.
“Strange? I searched for a long time and couldn’t find any book that mentioned you. What kind of spirit are you?” Le used two fingers to lightly pinch Ngoc’s cheek, making her shake her head in frustration.
Le laughed happily, suddenly heard the sound of footsteps running towards her and immediately stepped out to find the source of the sound.
Duong was like a toddler trying to race with an athlete. Thai caught up with him in just a few steps.
“Die!” Thai laughed coldly, the short sword in his hand flashed and stabbed towards Duong’s head.
clang
The sword was about to stab Duong’s head when Le promptly jumped in and used an iron ruler to knock it away.
Duong heard the sound of metal colliding, stopped and turned around to see Le just standing up to block a knife for him, his face turned pale with fear.
Looking at the other party, a man dressed in black with a hood and a mask, Le said: “Which bold person dares to assassinate a student of the Goddess Academy!”
“He is an assassin, named Tran Van Thai, a level 6 dark element Spirit Assistant! Be careful!” Duong said. From Google, Duong knew that Le was a level 3 fire element Spirit Assistant, so he was afraid that she would not be Thai’s match.
Hearing Duong say that, Le was both on guard and shouted: “Run outside and call security, you hold him off!”
“Where are you going?” Thai coldly snorted, intending to pass Le and rush to kill Duong but was stopped by Le.
Indeed, Le was no match for Thai. Thai was 3 levels higher than her and had a lot of combat experience, so he continuously overwhelmed her and even took the opportunity to throw knives to block Duong’s path.
“Damn, what to do?” The first time being chased by gangsters made Duong panic, Google knowledge was useless to him at this time.
Right now, Duong only has 2 intermediate-level spiritual treasures: the baton and the water gun, in addition to 3 grenades. Intermediate-level spiritual treasures can be strengthened to deal with Spirit Captains and Spirit Assistants, but on the condition that one must use one’s own spiritual power to increase its power, but Duong has not reached the realm of Spiritual Power Release, so he cannot use spiritual power out of his body.
Cannot deal damage, but can distract.
Le was struggling to avoid the attack when suddenly there was the sound of a grenade rolling towards him. Then Duong shouted loudly and shot a white jet of water at Thai’s face: “Get back quickly!”
Thai was distracted by the fast-moving water jet, he tilted his head to avoid it, allowing Le to retreat and pull Duong away.
Boom!
The grenade exploded but did not cause any damage because Thai had defended his whole body. He rushed through the smoke to chase after Le who was dragging Duong running deeper inside.
The grenade exploded so loudly that many people outside heard it, including two of the city lord’s experts who were secretly following to protect Nhu Nhat in the dormitory.
“There was an explosion in the library. Come and see. I’m here to protect the princess!” One person said.
“Okay!” The other person nodded and drove off.
At this time, Le led Duong to the spiritual gate. Thai chased after him and saw Le using his spiritual power to draw on the mirror to unlock the gate. He coldly laughed. A black aura emitted from his right hand, and a circle with a strange pattern appeared on his palm: “Are you planning to escape to the spiritual gate?”
“He’s here!” Duong shouted in alarm. Le had just opened the gate and hadn’t had time to push Duong in when Thai from behind slapped his black hand straight into Le’s shoulder, sending her flying straight into the gate.
Boom!
Before Duong could turn around and chase Le, Thai’s hand came again. Duong could only use the secret technique Cuong to concentrate all his spiritual energy into his left arm, combined with the baton in his right hand, raised in front of his chest to strike back.
Boom!
The baton was shattered, and Duong was sent flying into the gate by the aftershock, hitting straight into the wall of the wooden house, spitting out a mouthful of blood. At this moment, Le had just gotten up and struggled to walk back, mentally locking the gate.
Thai did not expect Duong to be able to block his palm, so he rushed into the gate but was pushed back because Le had locked it. Similar to an ATM card, the spiritual gate not only required a certain amount of spiritual power to open but also required the correct code to be drawn.
“Damn it!” Thai angrily smashed the mirror with his palm, then kicked through the wall and ran away.
After locking the gate, Le came forward to help Duong sit down on the bed. Duong was breathing heavily. The palm strike from the level 6 Linh Ta was truly terrifying. If it weren’t for the intermediate Linh Bao combined with the secret technique Cuong blocking it, he would have been pierced through by that palm strike.
At this moment, the sound of cracking mirror was heard, the crack ran all over the mirror. Although it did not break, Duong could tell that the gate was damaged.
“Fuck!” Duong stared, his mouth full of blood made two sounds, the gate was broken, wasn’t he locked here forever?
“Don’t worry, someone will come and fix it soon.” Li reassured. This spiritual realm was only difficult to find and create a path to, and the gate was actually a type of space-based Immortal Treasure. If it was damaged, all one needed to do was invite an Alchemist Grandmaster to repair it and it would be restored in about a week.
Having said that, Le rubbed her aching back. After being hit by Thai’s palm, Le was completely unable to use her spiritual power anymore.
“Can you help me see what’s behind my back?” Le turned her back to Duong, unbuttoned her shirt and pulled it off her shoulder.
Duong looked at Le’s bare shoulders and his eyes widened with desire. Although she was 30 years old, Le was still very young. Her white, rosy skin on her slender shoulders looked very sexy. Her hair was tied up high on her slender neck, exuding a faint, elegant, and seductive scent.
“I told you to look, not to stare!” Seeing Duong was silent for a moment, Le said angrily.
Duong grinned and looked at Le’s back. He saw the imprint of a large hand on one side of her shoulder. In the palm of the hand was a black, winding circle that looked like it was drawn with a brush.
“Spiritual power seal, Dark spirit magic, the sealed person will not be able to use spiritual power, needs Light spirit power or spirit power stronger than the sealer’s spirit power to release it.” Google said.
“How is it?” Le asked.
“You were hit by a spirit sealing spell.”
“Oh, then I’ll wait outside and ask someone to disarm me. What did you do to make that guy chase and kill you?”
“It was the assassin hired by Quang Lam to kill me to take revenge this morning!” Duong said.
“How do you know?”
“That guy thought I was dead so he told me. Luckily I met you in the library or else I would have been dead.” Duong replied, he didn’t want to reveal that Google had just told him.
“Oh, that reminds me.” Le undid her hair bun, letting it fall down, revealing Bao Ngoc trapped inside.
“Bao Ngoc!” Duong was overjoyed.
“You know it?”
“It is my spirit!” Duong waved to Bao Ngoc. When she saw Duong, she immediately flew over and landed on his head, tightly holding a tiny glass bottle.
“I saw it this afternoon and thought it was unusually large so I brought it here to learn more about it, but I didn’t find any books mentioning it.”
“I don’t know what kind of egg it is either. My mother gave it to me.” Duong lied.
“Oh… Then you should use your energy to recover.”
“Yes!”
The human soul has the ability to create its own spiritual energy to restore it to its previous maximum spiritual energy level, but at a rather slow speed. Later, someone created a faster recovery method and included it as part of the cultivation method. Duong’s Thon Thien Dia also has this ability, so he does not need to absorb the spiritual energy of the spiritual realm to restore.