Bai Pu took a deep breath.

The Black Tortoise Oath Curse Seal was finally in hand.

The Bloody Artifact: Combat Shackles were actually quite useful.

Bai Pu's bloody artifact was combat supplies he received as a military special service officer.

Due to the existence of the Spirit Realm, battles among the Awakened often easily result in determining victory or defeat, yet deciding life or death is difficult. Especially when capturing Awakened criminals, it becomes even harder.

In the real world, some Awakened criminals, when the wind is tight, would prepare a Spirit Realm Ticket in their Storage Space and then go out boldly.

If surrounded by an official Awakened unit, they could use the Spirit Realm Ticket to teleport to the Spirit Realm, protected by the Spirit Realm Will during the teleportation process and unable to be interfered with by external forces.

Needless to say, in the Spirit Realm, some well-to-do Awakened would prepare a forced escape artifact, preferably one that takes effect instantly!

To counter this, the military specifically provides bloody artifacts to special service officers to combat Awakened crime.

Special service officers using bloody artifacts must adhere to one principle:

They can only be used on Awakened criminals.

Bai Pu did not violate this. Even though the Spirit Realm can't connect to the official wanted criminal database, Bai Pu had browsed the information and had an impression of many Awakened criminals.

From the first meeting, Bai Pu had recognized the Awakened criminal known as Glow.

Glow, real name Tao Zaixing, C-level Awakened criminal.

Originally a Light Priest, his professional skill was called Divine Prism, which required purifying innocent souls to store energy.

However, the real world is a lawful society, especially stable in Huaxia, where there aren't enough innocent souls for him to purify.

Glow was inherently cold and selfish, and his thoughts were simple: if there aren't enough souls, I'll create them myself.

With the power of an Awakened, Glow slaughtered innocent ordinary people, naturally invincible. He gradually found that the more tragically humans died, the more energy was provided after purification! So he also became addicted to the thrill of torture and killing.

Thus, the Light Priest fell and became a Dark High Priest, and the Divine Prism turned into a Dark Prism.

However, Bai Pu, as a C-level special service officer, was only issued a single Combat Shackles.

It's impossible to use the Combat Shackles continuously in a short period, and at the same time, the Special Service Bureau wants to avoid bloody artifacts being misused by special service officers.

Bai Pu needed to return to reality and explain the usage of the bloody artifact to the Special Service Group leader in order to receive a new Combat Shackles.

Speaking of which, Bai Pu hadn't been to the Special Service Bureau and didn't know any of his colleagues in the Special Service Group. It was Li Ling who helped him fetch this Combat Shackles.

[In a state of self-defense counterattack, you killed an Awakened. Your Bloody Value will not increase, current Bloody Value: 0]

The so-called self-defense counterattack was a bit of a setup because Glow first attacked Bai Pu's slave, the Hundred-eyed Demon. In the Spirit Realm Will's judgment, attacking Bai Pu's slave was deemed a declaration of war against Bai Pu, granting Bai Pu the right to self-defense counterattack!

[The related deceased's Bloody Value is 11 points.]

[Based on this deceased's Bloody Value, you can exclude two of the following three items:]

[A: The deceased's Spiritual Points.]

[B: The deceased's worn Equipment.]

[C: Items in the deceased's Storage Space.]

After Glow died, the dropped Bloody Treasure Chest was also opened by Bai Pu, who thought it over and excluded items A and B.

The amount of Spiritual Points Glow had was unknown, and Bai Pu didn't want to gamble.

As for the worn equipment, it likely leaned towards equipment for those with Spiritual Talents, which didn't align with Bai Pu's path.

And choosing items from the Storage Space was an opportunity to gamble for legacy items from the Heart Demon World left by advanced Awakened from the Superstar Alliance!

Glow was able to get along well with Dongbo Cheng because he "retrieved" a token of the Dongbo Clan—something Dongbo Cheng told Bai Pu during the two days they lived together.

According to Bai Pu's reasoning, establishing relations with a difficult native should start small, giving low-valued gifts first, gradually getting familiar, then performing many trivial tasks, steadily cultivating goodwill over time.

When trivial tasks no longer increase goodwill, throw out the big news, and then greatly enhance goodwill based on the previous groundwork! Therefore, Bai Pu thinks Ghost Light must have one or two items that can significantly boost native goodwill.

There are only 14 Bloody Cards left, excluding equipment and Spiritual Points options.

The key is that Ghost Light's Bloody Value is as high as 11 points, allowing for the exclusion of (11) low-valued cards!

After Bai Pu excludes them again, only three cards are left, representing the three highest-value items in Ghost Light's Storage Space.

Bai Pu casually points out, and as the card flips over, it's an illustration of a sword scabbard.

[You've obtained a special item: Mysterious Wooden Sword Scabbard. Please find relevant natives in the Heart Demon: Oath World to understand the origin of this scabbard.]

"The strongest native I have the best relationship with now is Dongbo Cheng. He's a swordsman, professionally acquainted with this scabbard. More crucially, since Ghost Light came aiming to strategize with Dongbo Cheng, the target for preparing this scabbard should also be him!"

Bai Pu put away the sword scabbard and stood up.

Until now, Bai Pu has resolved three Awakened from the Superstar Alliance.

Ghost Light died, Cangying used a forced exit item to escape, and a "Phantom" sent to monitor them succumbed to Bai Pu's death threats, sold out the Superstar Alliance's intelligence, and also fled back to reality.

Currently, the Awakened squad arranged by the Superstar Alliance in the Guardian Camp is completely wiped out.

There's only one lone Awakened left in the Demon Camp — "Owl."

Owl is far more ruthless than Ghost Light, an officially bounty-listed C+-level wanted criminal—at the low-level Awakened tier, a C+ criminal is already at the top.

If it were an ordinary person, they wouldn't be able to survive in the Demon Camp.

However, though Owl is vicious, due to camp affiliations, he can only confront Bai Pu head-on, unlike Ghost Light Squad who could stab within the Guardian Camp.

Bai Pu stood up.

"There are two options next."

Bai Pu whispered softly, sorting his thoughts, "The first option is to go to Red Vine Hill to rescue Dongbo Cheng. This native strongman is very important, and both my [Mysterious Wooden Sword Scabbard] and [Celestial Dragon Fragment] require his goodwill to be cultivated to a high level to ensure they're understood."

"The second option is to take advantage of the Demon General's all-out attack intended to ambush Dongbo Cheng, and raid the Demon General Ghost Leather's nest! There should be plenty of perks to be gained."

The reason for choosing the Demon General Ghost Leather's nest over other Demon Generals is that this vast Black Swamp area is his turf.

Other Demon Generals were invited by Ghost Leather specifically to ambush the strong ones in the Guardian Camp!

With Ghost Leather fighting on his home turf, it's sure that his nest is emptied, whereas other Demon Generals' nests might still have plenty of Leader-level demons guarding them, better defended than Ghost Leather's nest.

Of course, the Hundred-eyed Demon slave Bai Pu controls is considered a subordinate of Ghost Leather; thus, it's quite familiar with the routes and locations of Ghost Leather's nest, providing an advantage in terrain.

Each option has its benefits, and Bai Pu definitely must choose one because his [Demon Lord's Skull] requires consuming a lot of demon-related items to increase Demon Power Value.

Bai Pu quickly decided: I want it all!

"These two options seem to be mutually exclusive, but in reality, they can be balanced. An attack on Ghost Leather's nest may serve as a surround-Wei-to-rescue-Zhao tactic!"

With the Hundred-eyed Demon's guidance, Bai Pu covertly advanced. Sitting atop the Demon Spider Lady, he carved out the [Flesh and Blood Spell] once more.

After the Professional Skill [Flesh Armor] reached Level 4, Bai Pu's understanding of the Flesh and Blood Spell deepened, reducing the time needed for carving by half and significantly lowering consumption. Now, only 30% Blood Fighting Qi and 3 Spiritual Power points are needed to complete the carving.

Along the way, Bai Pu avoids disturbing demons whenever possible, using the Spiritual Power connection between himself and the Hundred-eyed Demon to cover the two demons and himself, forming a Spiritual Shield to stealthily advance.

When he encounters unavoidable roaming demons, Bai Pu decisively fights, three against one, quickly pinning the opponent down, leaving no chance for escape.

Thankfully, Demon General Ghost Leather's direct-line subordinates have gone to Red Vine Hill to join the battle, so Bai Pu only meets lesser skilled stragglers along the way.

Thus, uneventfully, Bai Pu reached Demon General Ghost Leather's nest — Yellow Pool.

Yellow Pool is a water body rippling with yellow waves, and the surrounding aquatic plants are withered.

Considering the presence of Demon Qi, the environment of the Black Swamp is harsh, yet the aquatic plants have adapted and become extremely resilient!

However, around this Yellow Pool, the aquatic plants could not survive.

Clearly, this Yellow Pool is not as harmless as it appears but contains a strong corrosive nature!

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