Otherworldly Affairs Office

With a heart full of unwillingness and anger, Li Songtao looked at the little girl squatting by the pond, casually playing with the dead fish in the ice, with a fearful gaze. Who is she! To be able to forcibly absorb my magical treasures again and again!

He finally understood the Sect Leader's earnest advice. He admitted that he underestimated the people of this world, but he was unwilling! If it were only the three individuals present who controlled him, he might have been defeated, but he definitely wouldn't be as embarrassed and helpless as he was now.

Even after the initial confrontation, despite being outmatched, he could completely rely on his Cultivation Technique and magical treasures to withdraw freely, rather than being oppressed and humiliated here by a junior!

This is all because of that little girl who looks like she's only in her teenage years, with twin pigtails!

Under Pei Yan's near-mad sweep, the dark purple mist around Li Songtao rapidly dissipated. Amid continuous vibrations and his own struggles, his cloak slipped off, slowly revealing his true appearance.

Pei Yan's gaze caught the face beneath the mist. Judging the age by appearance, the person didn't seem very old, only thirty-something. By the standards of the real world, the face could be considered delicate. But Pei Yan dared to bet that no girl in this world would like him because this delicate face was split in half from the tip of the nose, one side dark as ink, the other fair as snow.

Perhaps it was his exposed appearance that made him increasingly angry; the black side showed no change, but the white side was flushing red.

"Your power is about to run out, do you want to exit attack mode?" At this moment, the system's voice appeared in Pei Yan's mind.

Looking at the sparse purple mist surrounding his opponent, Pei Yan gritted his teeth and asked, "Isn't there any other way to continue supporting my attack?"

"Yes, you can temporarily convert your essence into electricity, but afterward, you will need to rest for at least two days to return to normal. During this period, you will lose the function of your protective essence. Do you want to proceed with the conversion?"

"Convert!

Before the words fell, the bullets showered out again after a brief pause; waves of endless blue-origin bullets formed blue lines in the air, shooting into the black-robed man's body.

Each bullet successfully absorbed a bit of the Spiritual Qi from the enemy's body. Under Pei Yan's persistent attack and the opponent being unable to replenish Spiritual Power due to the joint suppression by the three Investigation Bureau elites, the protective array around the black-robed man was finally shattered!

"Xia Yu!" Pei Yan put away the gun barrel, staggered two steps, knelt on one knee, and shouted loudly. The excessive consumption of origin made it difficult for him to maintain full output of the metallic storm, reverting to normal status.

"I'm here! Light as a feather!" Xia Yu, at another corner of the pond, wielded double hammers, leaped into the air, heading towards the black-robed man suspended mid-air.

"How dare you!" Li Songtao watched as this ant he could easily crush with one finger wielded hammers toward him, raging with fury.

"I dare, old man! Heavy as Mount Tai!" The headset automatically translated the opponent's words. Xia Yu, with a sonorous and powerful voice utilizing the Daoist Plane abilities, responded forcefully. In the next moment, the two hammers slammed onto Li Songtao's chest without hesitation!

Without Spiritual Power to sustain and subjected to such immense force, Li Songtao fell from mid-air, descending before he'd hit the bottom; a silver-white figure rushed swiftly from the other side.

It's that damn metal kid! I should have killed him right away!!

Unfortunately, there's no regret medicine in this world, and Pei Yan wouldn't miss the chance to beat a drowning dog. With iron fists retracted into both arms, pressurizing non-stop, he blasted them into Li Songtao's face at the moment of contact.

The impact caused Li Songtao's descending form to fly horizontally; then Xia Yu came down from the sky—the combined weight of her body, hammers, and her abilities like a plummeting weight—smashing into Li Songtao's waist, both figures flashed past Pei Yan's eyes before, with a loud crash, creating a deep pit in the already scarce icy pond!

"Yes, just like that, hit him hard! Smash him to death!" Wang Wenze, disregarding the blood flowing from his left leg, hugged the slowly awakening Liang Qian, leaned against the pile of ice, loudly cheering for his teammates.

Outside the venue, Gu Shenghui, leading the trio in suppressing Li Songtao, did not relax for a moment. Inside the pond, Pei Yan and Xia Yu, like two blacksmiths wielding fists and hammers, desperately bombarded the enemy.

"Damn it, what level is this guy! His defense array is broken; why is he still so resistant to beating!" Pei Yan punched the black-robed man, panting, bewildered at his venomous gaze.

Xia Yu propped up the hammer, also out of breath, responded, "His realm is much higher than ours; even without the Defense Array, his physical toughness is not to be underestimated."

Li Songtao lay in the icy pit, contemptuously watching the two shameless scoundrels speak words he couldn't understand. If he hadn't been suppressed by the sudden appearance of four people by the pond, he wouldn't have tolerated their rampant behavior!

"You will pay for today's actions. Once I'm free, I assure you, I'll make you wish you were dead, regret being alive!" Li Songtao let out a curse from the depths of his grievance, vowing that once free, he'd make these two—no, everyone present—regret!

"What's he babbling about?" Pei Yan stared at the black-robed man on the ground, puzzled.

"Where's your pronunciation translator?"

"It fell when I was first knocked down, Zhao Yuanhu moved me and it fell somewhere, not sure where?"

"He called you an idiot!"

"Nonsense, he just said a lot of things, there's cultivation and they still curse? And why only curse me, if cursing it's also the two of us together!"

"You still think cultivators are decent people!"

"Indeed!" said Pei Yan, assessing the black-robed man's body, realizing that although there was no anomaly, the previous blows to his face seemed to have left some marks.

"I think his clothes aren't ordinary; they blocked our attacks. Next we'll hit his face!" Pei Yan said, directly straddling the black-robed man and raised his fist to hit.

"You scoundrel, you dare!" Li Songtao roared with bloodshot eyes.

"What did he say?"

"He said hit him once and see!" Xia Yu spoke, placing a hand on Pei Yan's shoulder, applying her powers over him.

"Oh, damn! So arrogant until now! Well, I'll satisfy your weird little request!" Pei Yan said, removing the mask, spitting into his mechanical hand, rubbed it vigorously, and then his iron fists rained down onto Li Songtao's face.