The immortal is beside me

Chapter 30: Heaven Knows the Immortal's Power

Gusts of wind blew by, making the newspaper pages on the wall rustle, and the three eye-catching headlines "Why?" on them flipped up and down in the wind.

It fits my current mood very well.

The two people in the clock tower opened their eyes wide, staring at the newspaper page on the wall, reluctant to blink for fear of missing any details.

One minute, two minutes. In the blink of an eye, ten minutes passed and nothing happened.

There was no spiritual light, no array pattern, and even no spiritual flame that was common when talismans were activated. They stared at it until their eyes were sore, but the newspaper page did not change at all.

The wind whistled around them, extinguishing their burning anticipation. The commissioner next to them turned pale and blue, finally unable to contain himself.

"There's no movement here?"

Lu Zhenhai's expression was complicated. Having reached his position, he'd seen all sorts of people, so he wasn't likely to lose his composure like his subordinates. But the higher the expectations, the greater the disappointment. Witnessing this scene, he couldn't help but question Zhou Qing.

"Forget it, just consider it as giving him face."

He sighed, stood up, and said, "It may not be effective, but for someone like Jiuli to attach so much importance to him, his strength and status are real. We should appease him if we can. Even if we can't become friends, at least we can't become enemies."

The commissioner responded with a dark face and turned to go downstairs. The moment he turned around, a bright light pierced his eyes.

"Captain Lu, Captain Lu!"

Lu Zhenhai turned his head following the sound and saw his subordinate's face with a frozen expression. The face was twitching and the lips were trembling, as if the strength to speak had suddenly been taken away. After stammering for a long time, he finally uttered two words.

"Look at the sky!"

Lu Zhenhai looked upwards along his line of sight, and the moment he saw the scene in front of him clearly, his pupils trembled.

In just ten minutes, the clear blue sky was covered by red clouds, like the dawn glow.

But the light did not extend from the horizon. Instead, it was like ink dripping into water, spreading out with their position as the center, spreading across the sky above the entire city. At first glance, it looked as if a second sun had appeared in the clouds.

The rosy glow poured down, and the high-rise buildings on all sides seemed to be covered in a blurry filter, giving people an illusion of unreality at first glance.

Looking around, there were already many more pedestrians stopping on the sidewalk to look up, and many of them were taking pictures with their mobile phones.

Lu Zhenhai suddenly remembered something: "Did you bring the spiritual imaging device? Give it to me."

The subordinate on the side was still in a daze. It took Lu Zhenhai three times for him to wake up from his dream. He quickly took out a machine shaped like a telescope and handed it to him.

Lu Zhenhai placed it in front of his face, turned on the imaging button, and a bright green scanning screen appeared in front of him.

Under the scan, all the buildings in the city were simplified into black and white lines, and above those lines was a huge wave.

Yes, waves. Centered on the newspaper on the clock tower, a massive wave of spiritual energy surged forth, sweeping across the entire city. Its overwhelming power was enough to make one's scalp tingle even when captured in the image.

The entire city seemed to have become the surface of the water at this moment, and the newspaper was the huge rock that fell into it!

If a cultivator of a higher level were present, he would realize that all these changes did not involve any spiritual interference, and he could not even sense the breath of the spellcaster - this was not a spell at all, but an order given to this world, and the spirituality between heaven and earth all flowed because of the same will!
The fingers holding the instrument began to tremble. Lu Zhenhai didn't bother to wipe the sweat from his forehead, but just stared at the screen in front of him.

Wherever the huge waves passed, tiny spots of light were overflowing from all over the city, like countless flying peach petals. There might be tens of thousands of petals, densely covering the streets and alleys.

Each petal is composed of pure spiritual power, and each strand of spiritual power represents a Peach Blossom Spring imprint that was once implanted in the human soul. If things develop normally, these imprints will be enough to turn tens of thousands of people into puppets after a period of time, plunging the entire Liangzhou City into unprecedented chaos.

And now, under some irresistible oppression, they were like parasites squeezed out of the host's body under the scorching sun, floating in all directions in disorder. The rosy glow ignited them in the air, and the sky was full of burning petals.

In just a few breaths, all the petals dissipated, all the flames were extinguished, and the whole world returned to peace.

Lu Zhenhai slowly put down the imaging device. From the perspective of the naked eye, the city in front of him was still as calm as usual. The waves covering the city and the burning rain of flowers in the sky seemed to not exist at all. Only the clouds above his head were dyed by the rosy glow, forming a large piece of fiery clouds, quietly hanging above the city.

But he knew that he would never forget what he had just seen.

The phone in his pocket vibrated at this moment. He picked it up and saw that the number displayed on it was indeed from the Environmental Sanitation Bureau.

"Captain Lu, the Intelligence Department reports that news has just arrived from seven locations within the city. Violent spiritual reactions have been detected in multiple locations within the city, and it's suspected that high-level cultivators from Peach Blossom Spring have appeared."

The marks all over the city were wiped out in an instant, and the big fish hiding there could no longer sit still.

Just as the man said, if they couldn't find the enemy, they would let them come out on their own.

In this regard, he is still as simple and crude as the guest official from Jiuli a thousand years ago.

"Notify the command center to enter a state of emergency from now on. Use of the Beidou system and all spiritual power equipment is prohibited."

Lu Zhenhai wiped the sweat from his cheek with his hand, his tone regaining composure within a few seconds. "All point managers have their deployment authority open. The area within five kilometers of the incident is under their jurisdiction. All teams within that area are to go to support unconditionally. I will report the specific issues after I return to the command center."

"Understood. Also, a report just came from the media center about the unusual astronomical phenomena in Liangzhou. It's trending. Should we intervene?"

Lu Zhenhai pondered for a moment, then looked up at the fiery clouds above his head that were stained by the glow of the sunset.

"A single astronomical phenomenon shouldn't be enough to arouse public suspicion. There's no need to suppress it, but we need to continue to follow up to ensure that no forces with ulterior motives are taking advantage of this incident."

"Yes, it has been conveyed to the media center."

After hanging up the phone, Lu Zhenhai looked back at his side. The newspaper was still floating slowly in the same place. The changes in the world, the surge of spiritual power, and the powerful enemies in the city had no effect on this thin piece of paper.

Zhou Qing repeated this name in his mind over and over, engraving it and everything he had seen today firmly into his memory. Then he woke up his subordinates who were standing stupidly on the side and ran towards the convoy that had been waiting below.

(End of this chapter)