Chapter 153: Feather

Hearing this, the minor demon nodded repeatedly and flattered, "As expected of Lord Li! But sir, what on earth do you suppose that thing is? To think a man could just fall out of the sky."

Li Guangxu kept his gaze locked tightly on the man. "Observe the situation first. Do not act rashly."

The location of the detective agency was not particularly bustling, and very few people lived on this street.

Right now, there were even fewer. Hearing that a meteorite had fallen nearby, people had all run off out of curiosity to see it.

Consequently, the entire street was sparsely populated.

The man's name was Sabada.

With a cold expression in his eyes, he walked slowly onto the street. By this time, he had already put on a set of clothes.

He had simply walked into a shop along the way and seized them by force.

"This is the place." Sabada’s gaze turned toward the window of the detective agency, a chilling glint flashing in his eyes.

At the same time.

Clutching her property deed while fast asleep on the bed, Tang Xiaoyu suddenly began to emit faint ripples of white light.

And this white light grew increasingly intense.

She herself remained completely unaware of the strange phenomenon occurring on her body.

The screech of slamming brakes pierced the air.

The vehicles carrying Hu Xiong, Li Changqing, Bai Chuan, and the others had arrived!

"What is that man doing?" Li Changqing frowned, looking at the man standing downstairs with a sense of bewilderment.

Yet, a dense, potent wave of evil aura was emanating from this man.

Bai Chuan sniffed the air, frowning slightly. With a solemn expression, he whispered to Hu Xiong and Li Changqing beside him, "Strange, it's the scent of an evil god. But... this is a living evil god..."

In ancient legends, all the subterranean evil gods had been defeated by angels and suppressed beneath the earth for eternity.

Their physical bodies had already perished, leaving them to exist solely in the form of wandering souls.

Yet here before them was a living evil god.

Bai Chuan's expression turned exceptionally grave.

Sabada slowly turned his gaze toward Bai Chuan, Hu Xiong, and the others.

The two sides locked into a standoff.

Hidden in the shadows, Li Guangxu and his pack of demons began to frown.

"Damn it, it's people from the Thirty-Sixth Bureau." Li Guangxu furrowed his brows deeply.

The minor demon beside him whispered, "Lord Li, if the Evil Star gets snatched away by the Thirty-Sixth Bureau, we'll be in big trouble!"

"No kidding! Do I need you to tell me?" Li Guangxu glared at him. He had waited far too long for the Evil Star.

No one knew what the Evil Star actually was. The living immortal's prophecy had merely stated two words: the Evil Star's descent is imminent.

There had been numerous speculations.

For instance, some guessed it might be an evil divine artifact.

Others suspected various alternatives.

Yet no one could have imagined that a man would literally fall from the sky.

Li Guangxu thought to himself, Even if it's a man, I'm taking him for myself!

At that moment, channeling his demonic energy, Li Guangxu shouted loudly, "Stop hiding, all of you fucking cowards! If you keep hiding, the Evil Star is going to be taken by the Thirty-Sixth Bureau! Come on out!"

With that, he and his minor demons retreated deeper into concealment.

Hearing Li Guangxu's words, Li Changqing, Bai Chuan, and Hu Xiong were momentarily stunned. Could this man standing before them really be the Evil Star?

In an instant, over twenty fiends and demons emerged from various corners of the street.

Some appeared on rooftops, others in dark alleys, and some from abandoned houses.

These demons fixed burning, eager gazes upon Sabada.

"If you want the Evil Star, come and get it yourselves!" Li Changqing shouted loudly, then pulled the other two back as he slowly retreated.

Sabada did not understand the meaning of their words.

Suddenly, however, a two-meter-tall fiend materialized slowly.

It was a monster composed of a mass of rotting flesh, exuding a foul stench from its entire body.

"What a magnificent body!" This fiend stared at Sabada with glowing eyes, marveling at his well-proportioned physique and robust muscles.

All it needed to do was possess this body.

With that thought, it lunged directly toward Sabada.

Sabada frowned slightly as a black spear materialized in his hand, thrusting it straight at the fiend.

Yet the decaying corpse shattered mid-air the moment it made contact, instantly morphing into a sticky mass that adhered to Sabada's skin.

"Ha-ha! This body is mine now!"

The fiend's voice rang out in unrestrained, triumphant laughter.

It had already attempted to invade the interior of this body.

Immediately afterward, however, terror gripped it.

The internal structure of this body...

Filled it with dread. This was not a human body at all; it was merely a human exterior draped over something else entirely...

"Save me, save me..."

From deep within Sabada's body, a massive suction force erupted.

And completely swallowed it whole.

"Attack! If you don't attack now, that bastard's going to reap the benefits!" Li Guangxu shouted from the distance, "What are you hesitating for?"

Finally, one demon after another rushed forward in succession.

Sabada's spear cut them down one by one.

In the distance, Bai Chuan, Hu Xiong, and Li Changqing watched with deeply furrowed brows.

"His strength should be somewhere between Grade A and Grade S, though he hasn't reached the level of a liberated immortal yet," Bai Chuan murmured in a low voice.

Even so, he remained a formidable enemy not to be underestimated.

"Not yet a liberated immortal?" Hu Xiong breathed a slight sigh of relief. "If that's the case, once the high-level operatives from the Investigation Bureau arrive, they should be able to handle and execute him."

"We just need to buy enough time."

"Mmm."

Sabada grew intensely irritated by the relentless attacks from these demons.

The demons from over twenty factions were slaughtered one by one.

Observing this from afar, Li Guangxu thought to himself that it was a blessing he and his men hadn't rushed in...

"Aargh!" Sabada let out a fierce roar. After slaying so many demons, his patience was completely exhausted!

His target was not this rabble, but the person upstairs!

With an angry bellow, Sabada leaped into the air, charging directly toward the window of the detective agency.

"Xiaoyu!" Seeing this, Li Changqing could no longer hold back. The Changhong Sword materialized in his hand in a flash, and he lunged toward Sabada to intercept him.

"Charge!"

Hu Xiong and Bai Chuan followed closely behind.

Mid-air, Sabada sensed the threat posed by the three men and frowned slightly. By this time, Li Changqing had already closed in on him.

Sabada swept his spear toward Li Changqing.

Li Changqing raised his sword to block, but the immense force rebounded him back down to the ground.

Bang...

Li Changqing crashed heavily onto the pavement.

Nevertheless, this interception successfully thwarted Sabada's attempt to break into the detective agency.

Bai Chuan and Hu Xiong had also arrived in the nick of time.

"Attack!"

Li Changqing scrambled back to his feet, and the trio swiftly surrounded and assaulted Sabada.

Sabada's combat prowess was extraordinarily formidable, surging with malevolent energy.

He was already on the verge of reaching the realm of a liberated immortal.

Even with the three of them joining forces in an encirclement, they could barely manage to entangle him, and even so, they found themselves constantly hanging by a thread.

If not for his physical reflexes far surpassing anything he had experienced in the past, Li Changqing estimated he would have likely perished at Sabada's hands within a few exchanges.

As the evil aura within Sabada continued to vent outward,

Inside, Tang Xiaoyu was still cradling her property deed, deep in slumber.

However, the white light emanating from her body began to condense into individual feathers. As Sabada's evil aura raged downstairs,

The feathers multiplied rapidly.

The ghostly aura on Tang Xiaoyu's body vanished completely, replaced entirely by a sacred, divine presence.

Unaware of any of this, she slowly drifted upward into mid-air. Feathers gathered behind her back, weaving together to form a pair of pristine white wings.

A formidable set of battle armor materialized over her body...