I've become the emperor of humanity, and only now is spiritual energy reviving?

The scene in the corridor was quite chaotic at one point.

An Sheng silently shielded her family and friends, including Gu Mingsu, in front of her.

Gu Mingsu was also dumbfounded: "What do you mean my older sister fell in love with my brother at first sight and even wants to get a VIP relationship with him?"

"That's a good summary, Mingsu."

Gu Yingning pulled out the Bentley key and waved it at An Sheng: "How about it, handsome young man? Just add me on WeChat, and this key is yours."

At this point, Lu Jin finally realized what was happening.

She strode forward, standing between An Sheng and Gu Yingning.

"Heh." She shrugged and said sarcastically, "My Xiao An isn't that kind of person who's greedy for money."

—No, are you using this to test cadres?

An Sheng stared at the constantly shaking Bentley key. He wasn't interested in the car, but he was indeed short of rice!

Who understands the pain of having only two digits in your account balance!

After a half-second of deep thought, An Sheng put her hand on Lu Jin's shoulder and said earnestly, "I think it's not too late to become this kind of person now."

Lu Jin: "?"

Gu Yingning looked at the two of them: "Girlfriend?"

An Sheng shook her head.

"So you were childhood sweethearts, no wonder you're so close."

Gu Yingning then showed a look of sudden realization.

She glanced at Lu Jin, who was full of hostility, put her car keys away, and shrugged: "Never mind, since she's Ming Su's friend, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future."

Gu Yingning hugged her younger brother tightly and waved to the two people behind her.

See you later.

—This will happen in a moment, indeed very soon.

Gu Yingning wanted to scout out the location before actually climbing the Aotai Line tomorrow, while An Sheng, who could only stomp on locusts in the Lostbelt, was itching to do the same.

So the two hit it off immediately in a hastily created four-person group chat.

In response, Lu Jin said, "If you take this opportunity to have sex with that woman, Xiao An, I'll just seduce you when we get back."

Faced with this crude and unreasonable threat, An Sheng naturally surrendered.

He could tell when Lu Jin was just joking around and when he was telling the truth.

In the deep darkness of the night, An Sheng walked out of the hotel.

Gu Yingning, who was already waiting at the door, waved to him.

"Let's go."

The woman, fully equipped and holding a trekking pole, smiled at him.

During their reconnaissance of the route for the next day, the two chatted casually about the school, Gu Mingsu, and Lu Jin, who was possessive of his food.

Two hours later, after not gaining much,

Arriving near Baitai Town, Gu Yingning took off her mask and winked at him: "An Sheng, it's so late, why don't you join me for a drink?"

"No, no."

An Sheng immediately shook his head, preparing to pull out his prepared excuse and escape.

But to his surprise, Gu Yingning went straight to the point and said, "Then let's see each other in the morning. I'll go have a drink by myself."

An Sheng was stunned when Gu Yingning turned and left.

Hey, Old Gu's sister is quite interesting.

"It's almost 2 a.m. already, but I don't feel sleepy at all."

An Sheng took out her phone and glanced at it before heading back to the hotel.

But before he had taken more than a few steps, he spotted a familiar figure lurking in the darkness not far away, carrying two large bags.

"Class monitor? Mu Qingyun?"

The figure paused abruptly, then slowly approached, revealing two large bags of snacks in its hands and a sharp, serious little face.

Mu Qingyun stared at him for a while before saying uncertainly, "You are... An Sheng?"

"Yes, it's me."

What are you doing here?

"Come climb the Aotai Line during your holiday, it's quite popular lately, isn't it?"

"Stop climbing."

Mu Qingyun hesitated for a moment, but still earnestly advised, "An Sheng, for the sake of our friendship, you should... no, it would be best if you took a taxi and left here right now."

After uttering this seemingly random remark, Mu Qingyun left.

An Sheng stared at Mu Qingyun's walking speed, which was much faster than that of an average high school girl, and fell into deep thought.

It's now certain that the class monitor is someone like a descendant of an ancient martial arts family.

So what does that mean?

The Aotai Line poses dangers beyond reason.

An Sheng excitedly licked her lips.

Danger is good, it's good to be in danger.

Judging from his behavior just now, Mu Qingyun is unlikely to be lying.

However, before doing so, we should inform Lao Gu and Lu Jin first, and it would be best to leave in advance to avoid being caught in the crossfire.

An Sheng tried to call the two of them.

However, no one answered the phone.

No matter how many times I dial, all I get is a busy signal.

Leaving aside Old Gu, An Sheng was certainly familiar with Lu Jin's habits.

—Her phone is never silenced, so no matter what time I call her, she will answer.

"Really? I was only out for a little while..."

An Sheng's expression gradually turned ugly.

He put down his phone, not daring to waste any more time, and immediately unleashed his true qi, rushing towards the hotel.

But it's too late.

When An Sheng ran wildly along the mountain path to the hotel, bypassed the parked car at the main entrance, and climbed up the protrusion on the outer edge of the wall to the third floor to look into the room,

The room was now completely empty.

Only Lu Jin's phone remained on the bed, its screen lit up, displaying more than a dozen missed calls.

An Sheng stared at the bread cart at the door and the men beside it with daggers and machetes at their waists, her eyes gradually turning cold.

Suddenly, a subtle and strange feeling of dizziness washed over me.

—The smell in this hotel is strange!

—And that strange flute music coming from downstairs is also wrong!

An Sheng suddenly bit the tip of her tongue.

He then circulated his true qi to envelop his entire body while silently reciting the incantation of the Imperial Heavenly Netherworld Divine Method, and immediately regained consciousness.

At the same time, he also understood why there was no commotion when so many people were kidnapped in the hotel, giving the two of them time to send him messages.

Because even he could get infected if he wasn't careful, let alone other ordinary people.

"Damn it, what are these guys planning to do with so many people... Aren't they afraid this place will become a counter-terrorism hotspot the next day?"

As An Sheng was pondering a solution, she heard footsteps coming from downstairs.

Then, the sound of the room key opening the door rang out.

It's across the hall.

He moved silently over and peered through the loosely drawn curtains to see what was inside—

The group of college student hikers, whom I had met once before, were lying unconscious on the ground, their eyes closed, showing no reaction to the sounds around them.

Two men walked in through the doorway.

One of them was unremarkable, just an honest and simple middle-aged man, while the other was a burly man whose face didn't resemble that of a Chinese person, but rather that of a Southeast Asian.

"Hurry up, Liu."

The burly man said indignantly.

"I know, I know."

The man surnamed Liu responded with a smile and placed his hand on the face of a female college student.

The next instant, black smoke pierced through the college student's seven orifices from his palm, and then gradually receded amidst a silent scream of pain.

The man surnamed Liu, with a ruddy complexion, patted his round belly: "Sure enough, no matter how many times I eat it, human souls and essence are still so delicious."

The female college student who was initially just unconscious had been transformed into a dried-up corpse with sunken eye sockets and wrinkled skin!

"Eating so deliciously, when will I ever get to eat like that...?"

The burly man, cursing and swearing, hoisted the two college students onto his back and said something.

"Liu, let's go."

But what he received in response was the sound of flesh and bones being twisted and broken, and suffocating cries for help drowned in blood.

"Heh...heh..."

The burly man dropped the two college students he was carrying and turned around abruptly.

The once energetic man surnamed Liu had bulging eyes, blood flowing from his seven orifices, and his neck was twisted into a spiral like a rag doll, making him look extremely creepy.

Click, click!

Amidst the sickening sound of bones shattering, the man surnamed Liu's mangled head was ripped off, along with several pale vertebrae, and rolled to the feet of the burly man.

The burly man swallowed hard, his eyes wide with disbelief.

—When did this guy even appear in the room?! How come I didn't notice him at all before?!

"Okay, very good."

An Sheng exhaled deeply, a smile of extreme rage appearing beneath her calm exterior: "You dare to lay a hand on my friend, and you even dare to kill someone right in front of me..."

"—You have already chosen your path to death."

Without a second thought, the burly man, driven by his instinctive fear, retreated while simultaneously drawing the dagger from his waist and swinging it forward.

Then, her wrist was grabbed by that fair, jade-like hand.

The next moment, the burly man's entire right hand, bone and all, was crushed into a palm-shaped mass of flesh along with the stainless steel at the hilt of the dagger.

"what……"

Before the burly man could scream, An Sheng stuffed the lump of flesh into his mouth.

"Ugh—Ugh—"

The excruciating pain, beyond the limits of human endurance, caused the burly man to collapse to the ground, large tears streaming down his face.

He struggled desperately, trying to call for help from his companions downstairs.

"Shh-"

An Sheng put her index finger to her lips, grabbed the man surnamed Liu's head, and shook it.

"Make another sound, and I'll twist your limbs and head off like a pretzel."

The burly man immediately bit down hard on the meat paste in his mouth, not daring to move even a little bit.

An Sheng nodded in satisfaction, pulled out the entire mass of minced meat using the tip of the dagger, and said to the burly man whose few remaining teeth were chattering in pain,

"Next, I'll ask you questions, and you'll answer them. Don't say a single unnecessary word, understand?"

The burly man immediately nodded.

An Sheng asked, "First of all, where did you take all these people from the hotel?"

"The natural gas transported to the Aotai Line..."

Before he could finish speaking, the burly man's face suddenly turned pale and he froze.

His mouth was wide open, his eyes were white, and he lay stiffly on the ground, as if his computer had crashed.

Wisps of black smoke billowed from his mouth and nose.

An Sheng frowned, checked his pulse with her hand, and found that there was no movement.

He died like that?

An Sheng immediately realized that this death was unusual and must be related to extraordinary techniques.

But the spiritual energy had only reappeared for less than three days...

he thinks.

This group of people, this mysterious and evil organization, is definitely no ordinary person.

At the same time, the sound of a bread truck starting up downstairs rang out—

"Lord Badura! Miao Lun, who went upstairs to move people, died from the backlash of a secret technique! Liu should be in trouble too!"

Inside the van, a short, sleazy-looking man in the passenger seat screamed loudly.

In the empty space where the back seats had been removed, Badura, whose physique was almost inhuman, coldly asked, "Including those in the vehicle, how many people are there as sacrifices?"

The lewd-looking man counted the people and exclaimed with delight, "A total of one hundred and twelve people, which meets the High Priest's requirements..."

"Then let's ignore the rest and just leave."

Badura's expression remained unchanged, as if he had not heard the news of his companion's death at all: "We must deliver this last batch of sacrifices quickly, lest something unforeseen happens."

"The time when the stars return to their positions will arrive in just a few hours. We have already voluntarily given up the town with the most offerings and significantly reduced the scale of the ritual."

Absolutely no mistakes can be made in the rest of the place.

"As long as the offerings are made and the ritual is completed, each member who contributed to it will be eligible to receive the baptism of the holy remains, shedding their mortal bodies and possessing the potential to achieve immortality."

"yes!"

The sleazy man and the driver responded enthusiastically in unison.

The driver pulled the handbrake and immediately floored the accelerator.

Without hesitation, he abandoned his remaining few panicked companions who hadn't yet boarded the vehicle and sped off into the deep darkness.

—But what they didn't expect was...

Even with the low rumble of the van's engine masking and interfering with the conversation between Badura and the two men inside the van, An Sheng, who was on the third floor of the hotel, could hear everything clearly.

It was only because there was a crack in the back window that wasn't completely closed.

"Offerings, rituals... I don't understand these things."

An Sheng used all her strength to tear the third-floor window and frame off together.

In the night breeze, he shot out from a height of nearly ten meters like a cannonball, and landed as lightly as a bird in the woods beside the main road.

An Sheng stared intently at the van that was almost gone, but whose headlights still peeked out from behind him. A sinister smile spread across his face in the darkness.

"But they don't value human life at all, and dare to harm my friend who is safe and sound."

"They actually dared to try and escape..."

Even the path to certain death is no longer sufficient.

No matter how evil your mysterious organization is, or how ancient and deep-rooted it may be.

—I will absolutely kill every single one of you without leaving a trace!

The surging Qi, like a flowing river, was activated, and the wind whistled past my ears.

An Sheng moved forward through the obstacle-filled forest at a speed even faster and more swift than a cheetah.

If we say that someone with a 0.9 physique would find it difficult to do this.

With his 1.4 physique and the enhancement from his true qi, even Bolt's top speed was no match for him.

Perhaps not on the highway, but on this kind of rugged dirt road, a car is definitely no match for his legs!

In just two or three breaths, the distance between An Sheng and the bread truck was rapidly reduced at a speed visible to the naked eye!

Once he had closed the distance to a relatively safe level, An Sheng slowed down to avoid getting too close and alerting the enemy.

In the thick, almost pitch-black night, a nearly silent shadow hung not too close, not too far, behind the bread cart.

And so, he followed them alone toward the headquarters of the All Souls Supreme Society.