Chapter 144: Establishing Authority.

Xiao Fen’s calculation took only an instant. The monster transformed from that Agent charged towards Xiao Fen.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Fen just raised his right hand and shouted in a low voice: “Hit.”

With a bang, from a distance of less than two zhang, the monster was suddenly knocked flying through the air. The huge explosion made the monster’s chest a bloody mess. Above that wound, a layer of bewitching flames kept jumping and burning.

“You dealt concussion damage to the Demon Seed, you dealt 40 points of damage to the Demon Seed.”

“Your Greek Fire has started burning on the Demon Seed. Over the next 15 seconds, it will deal 22 points of burning damage per second to the Demon Seed.”

“Your Greek Fire dealt 22 points of damage to the Demon Seed.”

Xiao Fen was slightly stunned. It seemed that this monster didn’t have enough resistance to fire, or perhaps fire was this monster’s nemesis. Therefore, the standard 12 points of damage from Greek Fire almost doubled on this monster.

The monster was knocked flying by Xiao Fen’s Qigong. It drew a large circle in the air and landed with a bang in front of the clerk’s desk. It struggled a few times and slowly climbed up, its eyes still staring dead at Xiao Fen, but the bloodlust had turned into panic.

It paced a few steps, and its body became extremely sluggish. At this moment, everyone in the room could see that in a short time, those bewitching flames had caused it significant damage.

Xiao Fen did not pursue the victory but just stood there smiling and watching. After less than 10 seconds, the Greek Fire on the monster became even more surging. In an instant, it swallowed the monster whole. The next moment, only a pile of ashes remained.

Seeing Xiao Fen effortlessly eliminate a monster, not to mention the Director and the Daoist, even Lycaon beside Xiao Fen was horrified.

Although he hadn’t fought personally, Lycaon knew that in this Trial World, the vast majority of monsters were above Level 3. Even if he fought these monsters, he absolutely wouldn’t win so easily. This youth named Palin beside him was able to obtain so many keys; it seemed it was by no means a fluke.

Thinking of this, Lycaon secretly rejoiced. It was indeed right that he didn’t risk snatching this Palin’s bag earlier. If that youth had struck him from behind like that just now, he would have been severely injured if not dead.

Although his spirit wasn’t high and his perception wasn’t strong, Lycaon’s experience was naturally something Xiao Fen couldn’t compare to. Just one look told him that Xiao Fen’s skill effect just now came entirely from the monster itself. In other words, no matter how high the monster’s defense was, the attack it received wouldn’t be weakened. Just like that flame, to reduce damage, one could only raise various resistances.

The problem was, resistance was something that for a Level 3 Lycaon, having it was only a bit better than not having it. If he really encountered a high-burst skill like Xiao Fen’s, which could also cause continuous damage through fire, the damage he received probably wouldn’t be much less.

The hall was silent because of Xiao Fen’s strength. After a while, the two dumbfounded clerks came back to their senses. They hurriedly stood up to tidy up the table that had been knocked crooked by the monster, then returned to their seats. They lowered their heads and just looked at the blank paper with not a word on it, chanting in their hearts that an Immortal was indeed an Immortal, truly extraordinary.

Xiao Fen turned his head to look at that Daoist who had a strong sense of nothingness and asked: “Why don’t we continue?”

The Daoist coughed twice, performed a salute, and said: “The Master is right, let us continue, let us continue.”

Pausing, the Daoist said in a low voice: “If it really is the Eternal Mother, regardless of which kind, speaking only of this situation, the Master’s previous judgment was not wrong. Under that copper statue, there is indeed a suppressed Blood Pool Hell. Those monsters are usually suppressed by this copper statue of the Eternal Mother and cannot come out. Later, they struggled to break out, but were eliminated by the Master, avoiding a catastrophe.”

Xiao Fen frowned and was about to ask when the Director behind the curtain asked in a shrill voice: “Has the matter of the Pan Residence been investigated?”

An Agent who had been waiting outside hurriedly walked in. After saluting, he said: “It has been investigated, Director. It is indeed correct. This Pan Residence was just established ten years ago. The First Lady of the Pan Family moved in, and afterwards, the Lady and the Censor became estranged. They hadn’t seen each other for a whole ten years. Usually, she only chanted scriptures and ate vegetarian food in the Buddha Hall, and forbade anyone to enter the Buddha Hall unauthorized. All food was placed outside the Buddha Hall and could not be sent in. So until today, we didn’t know what statue was actually enshrined in this Buddha Hall.”

The Director waited a bit and asked: “Daoist Master, what do you think?”

“If that is the case, there is only one explanation. The Lady of the Pan Family knew long ago that the location of her residence was wrong. She heard someone’s idea, so she enshrined an Eternal Mother in the Buddha Hall, thinking to fight evil with evil. She constantly chanted scriptures and worshipped, suppressing it there for ten years, preventing these filthy things from being released. However, in doing so, the Lady naturally had to be infected by these filthy things all day long, eventually getting poisoned and becoming what she is now.”

Xiao Fen also accepted this answer. However, he really couldn’t imagine that historically, the Eternal Mother worshipped by the White Lotus Sect wanted living beings to be plunged into misery, so why would she Seal Filth Creatures that could cause harm to the ground here?

That Daoist paused for a moment, then immediately gave the answer: “Speaking of things like Hell, true eminent monks would only try every means to dissipate them, not just suppress them like this. In the end, this Eternal Mother of the Pan Family is still just a plug.”

Xiao Fen was stunned, and immediately realized in his heart.

There were probably quite a few such plugs in the entire Capital City. If they were always plugged like this, and one day they were all pulled out at the same time, all the Filth Creatures that had been suppressed for so long would surge out together. What kind of terrible impact would that have on the entire surface world?

Even more terrifying was that if these plugs were never pulled out, these Filth Creatures underground in the Capital City would gather more and more. Eventually, like a magma pool under a volcano, it would be unable to contain anything and would explode with a bang. That would be the real great Disaster.

Thinking of this, Xiao Fen suddenly remembered a strange case in history. He suddenly turned his head to look at Lycaon and asked in a low voice in English: “What is the date today in the Gregorian calendar?”

Lycaon seemed a bit surprised that Xiao Fen didn’t know the specific time of this Trial World, but he still answered truthfully: “Today is May 3, 1626 AD.”

Xiao Fen’s heart skipped a beat, and he said in a low voice: “It is indeed this.”

Lycaon smiled and replied: “That’s right, it is this.”

The event the two were talking about was the famous Tianjin Explosion in Huaxia history.

On the morning of May 30, 1626, the sixth day of the fifth month in the sixth year of the Tianqi era, a strange explosion occurred at the Wanggongchang gunpowder factory in the southwest corner of the Capital City. Tens of thousands of people died in this explosion.