My profession is too unique.

Chapter 166 Who Holds a Grudge More and Gets Struck by Lightning

"A decision?" Su Chen was taken aback, a hint of suspicion in his eyes. "What decision?"

"It's nothing, let's see if you're approved first." Xia Hanshi shook his head, not explaining much.

Seeing that Lao Xia was unwilling to talk, Su Chen knew that asking would be useless. He noticed that there were many scars on Xia Hanshi's exposed, withered skin.

"I was accidentally injured by a few followers of the evil god." Xia Hanshi said it casually, but Su Chen understood that a situation that could injure even the chief judge must be extremely dangerous.

"Then you'd better take a good rest this time," Su Chen said, seizing the opportunity. With Lao Xia away, he always felt insecure and had to be careful in many things.

Xia Hanshi glanced at him. "I'm not planning to go out anytime soon after I come back. I'll be guarding the court for a while."

"Governing a town?" Su Chen was slightly taken aback, feeling that this word was unusual.

Xia Hanshi did not hide anything: "The followers of the Faceless Ghost have gathered on a large scale and are preparing to launch an attack on Ying Feng."

Su Chen's brow twitched, and he subconsciously asked, "The Holy Banquet?"

"Chong Jingtian and the others even told you this?" Xia Hanshi sneered. "They certainly know how to put pressure on others."

"Not a sacred banquet?" Su Chen breathed a sigh of relief when he realized that Xia Hanshi's attitude was not impatient and that he even had time to scold Lao Chong.

“Not bad…” Xia Hanshi was satisfied with Su Chen’s keen insight and nodded, saying, “This attack by the Faceless Ghost Cultists was not part of the Holy Feast; it was a solo attack.”

"However, we are also quite puzzled." Xia Hanshi said, looking rather puzzled. "Instead of preparing for the holy banquet, they attacked Yingfeng."

"If this attack weakens their power and prevents them from performing the ritual belonging to the Faceless Demon, then the ownership of Crimson Thunder Star will have nothing to do with the Faceless Demon."

Su Chen lowered his head and pondered, but suddenly remembered that faceless ghost god. The other party created Meng Qi's body to infiltrate in order to obtain the stone slab that carried the spiritual essence of the Great Venerable.

However, he was defeated and returned home. Could the purpose of this attack on Ying Feng be the stone slab? Since he failed to obtain it by ambushes, he wanted to take it by force.

"You have an idea?" Xia Hanshi asked, a glint of light flashing in his eyes.

"No," Su Chen shook his head honestly, "I was just thinking about Meng Qi."

"Meng Qi?" Xia Hanshi frowned, then remembered, "The core seed that Teng Liang killed, the Faceless Ghost's methods..."

Su Chen muttered, "If Meng Qi hadn't died, once he advanced to the fourth rank, the chief would probably have taken him to see the stone slab. I wonder if the contents inside would be recognized."

"Stone slab?" Xia Hanshi frowned, vaguely guessing what was going on.

Su Chen stopped short of asking, then asked with considerable concern, "Can Ying Feng... withstand this attack?"

Xia Hanshi glanced at him, his expression turning serious. "The reason those followers of the Strange God wanted to start the Holy Feast is because they couldn't do anything to us."

"They are hidden in the vast land shrouded in fog, making them difficult to find, but for them to launch a frontal attack would be as difficult as climbing to the sky."

"This time, there may be some changes, but the outcome will not change."

Xia Hanshi spoke with great certainty.

That's true... If you have the strength to break through Yingfeng, why would you need to sneak around and lie in wait?
The cities where the followers of the evil god chose to offer blood sacrifices were all peripheral cities under Ying Feng's rule, clearly in order to avoid Ying Feng's sharp edge.

Thinking of this, Su Chen felt much more relaxed. He had been thinking that Yingfeng and the other four cities were already in a desperate struggle, trying to survive on the brink of death.

But now that I think about it, those believers in the evil god who launched the holy feast were actually out of options.

They've probably reached their limit in terms of the number of believers they can expand to. Next, they can only try to reach into the cities, but all four cities are heavily guarded, so they can only try to start a holy feast.

If the holy feast is prevented, it will also be severely weakened, or even completely depleted.

"There's one more thing," Xia Hanshi suddenly asked, "When Teng Liang first killed Meng Qi, was anyone involved in the trial hall of the Judgment Bureau?"

Old Xia still remembers this. Su Chen's heart skipped a beat as he looked at Old Xia's cold eyes.

"I don't remember much about what happened that day, and I arrived quite late. Minglin told me it was like this..." Su Chen tried hard to recall and recount.

As he listened, Xia Hanshi's cold gaze gradually turned strange. He knew the final outcome and the Black Tuo believers who had suddenly appeared, but he just wanted to know if anyone among them had taken the opportunity to cause trouble.

But what Su Chen said was too detailed, down to the changes in everyone's expression, down to Xue Fei's sinister eyes.

"You remember it so clearly?" Xia Hanshi finally couldn't help but ask.

"Huh?" Su Chen looked blankly, then thought for a moment and said, "Really? Maybe my memory of scenes is better."

This kid holds grudges even more than I do, Xia Hanshi nodded to himself.

Holding grudges is good; it gives you more motivation to seek revenge.

"Xue Fei, a good-for-nothing who follows Wei Yinshuo around bowing and scraping..." Xia Hanshi said quietly.

Su Chen hesitated: "This... killing him for no reason, isn't that a bit inappropriate? After all, he's the head of the court, and right now we need manpower..."

Xia Hanshi's eyelids twitched, and he gave Su Chen a deep look, finding him even more ruthless than Xia Hanshi himself.

"You're right," Xia Hanshi said expressionlessly.

"Well, this is just one person's opinion, you don't need to take it too seriously," Su Chen explained.

"Alright, I know what I'm doing." Xia Hanshi waved his hand and then asked, "Has anyone bullied you lately?"

"It wasn't exactly bullying, just some disputes," Su Chen said helplessly. "Wei Yufan doesn't seem to like me very much."

“Him… Zhu Yutie’s student, he’s a bit of a problem.” Xia Hanshi frowned. “Let’s see when Lao Chong leaves. It’s not easy to handle him while he’s here.”

"You decide," Su Chen said without further ado.

Xia Hanshi told him to focus on his training and not to worry about anything else before leaving.

"Old Xia's back, I feel much better," Su Chen muttered as he walked into the gravity chamber to work on the final bit of progress for the Azure Thunder Master.

Meanwhile, even the most ordinary residents of Yingfeng noticed that the atmosphere was unusual.

All of Yingfeng's organizations announced that the assessment would be postponed. Not only that, the court also announced a postponement. Many people noticed that Yingfeng's giant war machines and aircraft were rumbling out of the arsenal. Every judge, inspector, city patrolman, and explorer who saw them had a grim expression on their face.

Everything about it foreshadowed an impending storm.

……

A few days later, in the gravity chamber, Su Chen's skin crackled incessantly, fine arcs of electricity danced in his hair, and a faint smell of burning emanated from the room.

[The Swift Shadow Body Forging Technique has been upgraded to Master level, granting the ability -- Swiftness: Slightly increases speed.]

Su Chen breathed a sigh of relief and glanced at the panel. The development progress of the Azure Thunder Master had reached 95%, with only the final push left.

"However, there is still one last requirement for employment that has not been met."

Su Chen reached into his storage space and took out his bracelet. After connecting to the network, he received a notification from the Career Analysis Department that the thunderstorm environment was ready and he could enter at any time.

“Perfect timing…” Su Chen got up, tidied up briefly, and headed to the coordinates provided by the Career Analysis Department.

It is not in Yingfeng City, but outside the city.

To be on the safe side, he invited Teng Liang to join him. They boarded a small aircraft, completed the formalities, and left the city.

"This seems to be the first time I've left the city since I entered Yingfeng."

Su Chen looked down at the thick city walls below, the giant defensive spirit ring surrounding Ying Feng seemed to be right in front of him, and the city walls below were rushing past.

"Xue Fei has been sent to the front by the teacher," Teng Liang, who was sitting to the side, suddenly said, his voice still deep. "He's leading a small team to investigate the Faceless Ghost followers up close."

Su Chen raised an eyebrow. Old Xia was making the most of his resources by getting close to the Faceless Ghost Army. There were probably even a High Priest or a Faceless God Child among them, and the danger was self-evident.

"Is he willing?"

Teng Liang shook his head and said calmly, "He has to be willing, whether he wants to or not. Someone has to go. Why can't he go?"

“That’s true.” Su Chen nodded. Since Wei Yinshuo’s death, Xue Fei had kept a low profile, but Old Xia was really holding a grudge.

Teng Liang didn't say much, and the two chatted casually until they arrived at the coordinates.

This is a valley where a large expanse of dark thunderclouds can be seen from afar. Thick lightning bolts writhe wildly in the sea of ​​clouds, their roars echoing through the valley.

The torrential rain was like a river bursting its banks, and the dense rain curtain twisted into a continuous rain screen in the gale.

The aircraft was parked to one side, where the people from the professional analysis department were already waiting. According to them, this thunderstorm area was created by two fourth-tier professionals over three days.

"The strength should be sufficient to meet the requirements of the Calamity Walker..." the person in charge shouted loudly amidst the howling wind. This was the reference information that Su Chen had given them.

"Thank you." Su Chen nodded and walked straight inside.

"Director Teng..." The two fourth-tier professionals who had created the thunderstorm area finally approached. Looking at Su Chen's retreating figure, they exchanged bewildered glances, then looked at Teng Liang and couldn't help but ask:

"Isn't Your Excellency Su Chen going to take any defensive measures?"

Teng Liang frowned slightly. Su Chen hadn't mentioned it, so it probably wasn't necessary.

Seeing that he didn't respond, the two had no choice but to wait aside.

As soon as he entered the thunderstorm area, Su Chen's brow twitched wildly, surrounded by extremely dense and restless lightning elements.

"I'm going to be struck by lightning..." Su Chen tentatively wrapped himself in the lightning element he controlled.

Almost instantly, a bolt of lightning struck him from the sky.

Rumble!
He was engulfed in a blue-white thunderstorm, with countless arcs of electricity coiling around his limbs and bones like mad vines.

The immense kinetic energy from the lightning strike slammed him heavily to the ground, leaving his skin covered in dense, grid-like patterns, pulsating with overloaded current.

"Tough it out?"

Don't you need to take precautions when struck by lightning? A Calamity Walker should be able to use defensive measures to weaken the power of a lightning strike.

In the distance, two fourth-tier professionals noticed this and their hearts skipped a beat. They wondered if it was a Calamity Walker.
Although this area was created by the two of them together, it also benefited from a thunderstorm cloud, and they knew exactly how powerful it was.

He couldn't help but worry, because Judge Xia had just returned and had already dealt with Xue Fei.

If something were to happen to his precious student, the two of them would probably be blamed.

Thinking of this, the two could only pray silently.

"Damn..." Su Chen groaned, this time it was really fierce.

However, although the clothes were torn to shreds, the body was not seriously injured.

"This seemingly simple requirement is terrifying. An ordinary third-tier professional might not have a hard time withstanding one or two hits, but to do it for three consecutive days without any defensive measures would be enough to turn someone into a charred corpse." Su Chen couldn't help but gasp.

Immediately, the Indestructible Armor of Thunder activated, attaching itself to the purple-gold scale armor hidden on the skin, and the pressure on the body immediately disappeared.

A continuous stream of lightning struck, some of which was absorbed by the Undying Armor, while the rest did not cause him any harm.

"I'll be struck by lightning here for a whole day." Su Chen opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of lightning spray. Although it could no longer harm him, the feeling of being struck by lightning was still quite awkward.

Time ticked by, and two fourth-tier professionals stood aside, maintaining the intensity of the thunderstorm area.

Twenty-four hours passed quickly, and Su Chen immediately emerged from it, completely naked, but he didn't care.

"Is there enough time?" Teng Liang was quite surprised.

"Almost." Su Chen took the clothes from the person in charge and put them on.

Goodness, he really took it all without a scratch. The two fourth-tier professionals next to him clicked their tongues in amazement. He only took a hit from the ground, so he really wasn't a Calamity Walker.

"Let's go then." Teng Liang didn't ask any more questions and left with Su Chen. The people in the analysis department began to clean up the mess and dismantle the thunderstorm area.

(End of this chapter)