First-Year Internship—And You Went to Site 749 to Contain Monsters?!
Chapter 161: Threaten a 749 Investigator? I Won’t Kill You—I’ll Praise You

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Shui Lao’s face didn’t look too good.

Reading the room was one thing.

But Yu Chen was someone he’d watched grow up—his young master, and a junior too.

If Yu Chen got sent to the 749 for two months of retraining over something like this,

it’d be a huge embarrassment.

Shui Lao knew Yu Chen was just lying low, keeping his strength hidden.

Still, when the master is humiliated, the servant dies.

The 749’s Investigator Conduct Regulations—sure, those were the rules.

But this matter? Could be big, could be small. Definitely not worth two months of retraining.

The man in front of him was Lu Ding, and Shui Lao had heard of the name—Corpse-Shattering Taishui.

It was exactly because of this that he hadn’t lost his temper.

Instead, he forced down the fire in his chest, tried to ease his tone and said: “Can we talk this out, Lord Lu Taishui?”

“Talk?”

Lu Ding’s smile faded: “Have I been too polite with you? The Investigator Conduct Regulations—those can be negotiated!!?”

“Executing a mission as an Investigator—it’s okay to secretly film that!!?”

“And who is he? Local 749 operations—he has to know? And now you’re here to take someone? What, is 749 working for him now?”

Shui Lao’s face darkened.

Tact was one thing, but a bottom line was a bottom line.

This wasn’t about reading the room anymore.

This was about principles.

“If you really want to make this ugly, Lord Lu Taishui, I don’t think you’d want your Yunmeng visit to go sideways either, right?”

Lu Ding laughed.

Pointed to his law enforcement recorder.

“Old man, threatening a 749 investigator, challenging cultivator law—don’t move. Move, and it’s resisting arrest.”

As he spoke, black-red particles swirled into Lu Ding’s left eye, forming a black-red energy orb, radiating a bizarre and terrifying aura.

That’s right—Lu Ding was doing it on purpose.

He wanted the old man to feel how terrifying this strike was. If he moved—resisting arrest. The consequences? Lu Ding would deal with it however he pleased.

If he didn’t move—he’d be injured, and still end up in the 749 prison.

Put simply, Lu Ding was forcing his hand.

Otherwise, he’d have already struck with zero warning.

Sure enough, as he felt the horrifying pressure—

Shui Lao’s face turned grim.

Don’t move? Like hl he could stay still.

Lu Ding struck, and Shui Lao dodged. The dark red energy orb smashed the ground a thousand meters behind him.

BOOM!!!

Shockwaves roared, blasting up a cloud of dust.

Shui Lao’s heart sank—he turned to flee.

This wasn’t a fight worth taking. Lu Ding was way too aggressive—the situation wasn’t in his favor.

As long as he got back to Yunmeng, everything could be handled, spun, managed.

But if he stayed here, his fate—was anyone’s guess.

Yet just as he turned—

The owner of those black-red eyes, face marked with eerie red patterns,

twisted forward, fist drawn back.

A grotesque Sin Dragon phantom curled around him, eyes swirling madly, sending chills through his bones.

“I told you not to move!!!”

He punched.

Dust exploded, shockwave ripples blew everything clear.

Shui Lao instinctively channeled blue spiritual qi into his hands, guarding his chest.

BANG!!!!

The punch landed solidly.

An unbelievable force—hundreds of thousands of pounds—slammed into his arms.

Bones cracked and shattered audibly.

Shui Lao felt like he’d just been hit by a speeding train.

His entire body went flying.

BANG BANG BANG.......

Crash after crash echoed as his body tumbled across hundreds of meters,

each impact kicking up clouds of dust—one after another—

a dozen in total.

That was Shui Lao getting smashed by Lu Ding’s monstrous strength,

slamming into the ground and remnants of the funeral home, each crash leaving a cloud behind.

“Cough.....”

With a choking cough,

Shui Lao finally stabilized himself—his landing carved out brake marks dozens of meters long.

The earth churned half a meter deep.

He looked at his hands—twisted beyond recognition.

Blood dripped from the corner of his mouth.

Shocked in his heart: What terrifying raw strength!!

Suddenly, danger surged in his chest.

In the next instant, a dark red beam of light streaked toward him.

Shui Lao quickly dodged. The beam exploded beside him, blasting him into a roll—

his chest charred black, half his face scorched.

No time to hesitate.

He mobilized spiritual qi—his hands returned to a normal shape, but the injuries remained.

Shui Lao formed a hand seal with his pinky’s three joints, slamming it into the ground.

In an instant, water surged. The ground turned into a swampy pool, and from it,

monstrous water beasts burst forth.

Hundreds of them, all sizes, all terrifying.

As the waves rippled, they charged at Lu Ding.

Meanwhile, Shui Lao dragged his battered body and fled.

Can’t win—not even close!!!

Lu Ding flew forward, crashing into the horde of water beasts.

Slashes burst out wildly from around him,

shredding and annihilating the monsters in his path.

Wind roared behind him.

Shui Lao formed another seal. The world froze.

Raindrops fell.

Once they hit the water, ripples would spread—

and he could unleash one of his killing arts:

Three-Thousand Wave Flaying Art.

But before the raindrops landed—

a whip kick tore through the air.

A single kick.

PAH!!!

The raindrop shattered in mid-air.

Shui Lao’s face twisted in horror—he turned to look: “How did you get into the spell domain!!?”

Lu Ding answered with silence.

Spell domain?

Between heaven and earth—Lu Ding was at one with nature. All domains existed within heaven and earth.

As long as the caster was weaker, their domain—was a joke.

“Shui Shi.”

Lu Ding called out. The old man had introduced himself earlier—now it came in handy.

As the name left Lu Ding’s mouth, Name-Calling Soul Drop silently activated.

Shui Lao’s three souls and seven spirits trembled—his mind dazed.

Lu Ding closed in.

He slapped downward—dragged Shui Shi along the ground for dozens of meters,

leaving behind a deep, bloody trench.

The dark red orb reformed in Lu Ding’s eyes.

“You dare kill me!?”

BOOM!!!

Shui Shi was obliterated in Lu Ding’s hand.

As always—Lu Ding only spoke after the fight, standing atop the corpse.

This time was no different.

“Threatening a 749 investigator, and resisting arrest—if I don’t kill you, I should give you a f*ing medal.”

Had the man not threatened him, Lu Ding wouldn’t have been so decisive.

But the guy basically said:

If you dare make Yu Chen go to retraining, watch your back in Yunmeng.

He said that out loud.

And he was Divine Palace Realm.

If Lu Ding didn’t kill him now, what—leave him to stir up trouble later?

Ren Tong watched as Lu Ding beat down a Divine Palace cultivator the entire time—

his heart had long gone numb.

He even had a strange feeling.

Maybe this was how it should be.

Lu Ding clapped the dirt and blood off his hands.

Turned and said: “Director Ren, trouble you to clean up the scene.”

“Leaving already?” Ren Tong snapped out of it.

“Yeah, before more trouble shows up.”

That—fit Lu Ding’s style perfectly.

Ren Tong muttered to himself, then added: “Then please be careful. As far as I know, Yu Chen isn’t very favored in the Yu family. Shui Shi was the only Divine Palace cultivator by his side.”

“Now that Shui Shi’s dead, I doubt the Yu family will make a fuss—but whether Yu Chen will, that’s another story......”

“He can do whatever the h**l he wants. If random people can threaten 749 investigators, I may as well quit the job.”

Lu Ding wasn’t about to swallow that kind of humiliation.