# 786
Chapter 787: Goodbye, "Spirit Medium"
They actually stole the Straight Blade and Coat of Arms?
Cheng Dui fell into deep bewilderment.
Was this the behavior of a proper Night Watch?
"Right." Fang Zuo seemed to remember something and turned to look at Cheng Dui, his expression carrying a hint of relief. "What about Lu Qiu..."
Hearing this name, Cheng Dui fell silent. After a moment, he slowly spoke: "Night Watch's Lu Qiu, overexerted his life force and fell in battle at the Dragon-Slaying Pass."
Fang Zuo's figure trembled almost imperceptibly, and a deep sorrow surfaced in his eyes.
"I understand..."
"He was a hero." Cheng Dui patted Fang Zuo's shoulder. "He bought time for this war fort with his life. Soon, our reinforcements will arrive..."
...
The beast tide.
Under the pitch-black night sky, a massive dragon was locked in battle with three Klein-realm Mysteries. The four figures shattered the darkened heavens in their clash. On the other side, white-haired Lin Qiye gripped the White Slash and faced off against the winged white tiger in the distance.
"High-level Magic, [Earth Spirit Rope]."
A black magic circle suddenly illuminated around Lin Qiye. At the same time, around the white tiger flying in the distant sky, twelve identical black magic circles formed an enclosed geometric space, trapping the creature completely.
As the twelve black magic circles activated, dense cables poured out from each one, like诡异 strands of hair rapidly wrapping around the white tiger's body. If one drew closer, they could clearly see intricate mysterious glyphs carved across the surface of these cables.
These cables seemed to breathe, their surface glyphs flickering with a certain rhythm. The moment they wound around the white tiger's body, they began封锁ing the white tiger's spiritual power at a startling speed.
"ROAR——!"
Sensing the strangeness of these cables, the white tiger let out an angry roar. Its thunder wings扇动 violently, dense lightning surging across its body, and the fine cables already wrapped around it shattered one after another.
With Lin Qiye's current strength, it was still unrealistic to try to困死 a Klein-realm Mystery through magic alone.
Of course, this wasn't Lin Qiye's original objective either.
Just as the white tiger broke free from the Earth Spirit Rope, a figure stepped out from the emptiness above its head once more, a snow-white blade directly cutting toward the white tiger's wings. However, relying on its terrifying beast instincts, the white tiger侧身闪开 at an unbelievable speed, its wings flaring to retreat backward.
Lin Qiye didn't stop there. He gently waved the blade in his hand, and a white flash flickered through the snow-white long blade's body.
A massive white bear transformed into a blurred afterimage, shooting out from the White Slash like a round cannonball piercing through void, directly flashing to the white tiger's front!
The Spirit of the White Slash, Void White Bear.
This suddenly appearing giant bear caused the white tiger to freeze. There was absolutely no aura fluctuation from this creature— it wasn't even truly a living being. The white tiger's beast instincts, however effective, couldn't help it evade an attack from the Void White Bear.
In mid-air, the Void White Bear roared, its massive body wrapping around the white tiger from behind!
The next moment, flickering blade light flooded from the space like a tide.
Lin Qiye, a hundred meters away, slashed rapidly. Blade light wove before him into an inescapable net, cutting through space to strike the white tiger locked in the giant white bear's grip. Gory wounds were carved across its body.
Blood trickled from the wounds, and the white tiger howled in pain, its eyes turning even more scarlet with fury!
It let out a thunderous roar, the surrounding thunder erupting and directly sending the Void White Bear behind it flying. Its eyes locked onto Lin Qiye in the distance, filled with murderous rage!
SZZR—!
It transformed into lightning, rushing toward Lin Qiye at high speed.
Just then, Lin Qiye seemed to sense something and looked up at the漆黑的 night sky above.
There was...
In the night sky, seven thick silver pillars tore through the clouds, wrapped in silver-white lightning arcs. They instantly shattered the darkness, carrying terrifying kinetic force as they plummeted like meteors toward Lin Qiye!
In Lin Qiye's perception, he could clearly see—standing on each silver pillar was a figure cloaked in black.
Great Xia Night Watch, Special Squad 002, [Spirit Medium].
From the seven figures riding the thunder pillars, one black-cloaked figure lowered their gaze to the white tiger below in the night sky, extended a single finger, and pointed at it from afar.
The white tiger's body locked in place as if poured with molten iron.
Immediately after, another among the seven figures acted. Their hand gripped the Straight Blade at their waist and instantly drew it!
No one saw how the blade was drawn, how it swung, or how it struck... They only saw that figure draw the blade, sheathe it, and in the next instant, the white tiger that had been turned into a statue was cleaved from the heavens to the ground by an earth-shattering blade wave.
Into the raging beast tide, the white tiger's body crashed heavily, embedding deep into the frozen sea ice.
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!
Seven thunder pillars descended like Thor's hammers from the heavens, following the white tiger's fall and crashing onto the thick ice layer. The heavy pillars shattered much of the frost, and massive amounts of seawater sprayed from the gaps in the ice.
Snow-white waves fell like scattered rain. Silver lightning arcs crackled between the seven thunder pillars. The wind brushed past the seven black cloaks, their wide hoods concealing the seven figures' faces, hiding them completely in shadow.
When Lin Qiye saw these seven people appear, he instantly guessed their identity. After all, the thunder pillars were far too distinctive, and back during his time at the Purification Chamber, he had encountered the Spirit Medium squad. Wu "Old Dog" had once been among their ranks.
After a moment's hesitation, Lin Qiye burst forth with a magical aura, flashing instantly to the side of the Spirit Medium squad.
"[Night Watch] Squad Leader Lin Qiye, grateful to the Spirit Medium squad for your assistance." Lin Qiye's voice echoed through the air.
From among the seven figures cloaked in black, one person slightly raised their head, revealing half their face beneath the hood, and smiled faintly at Lin Qiye.
He was the captain of the Spirit Medium squad, renowned as the strongest below Human Apex... Bu Li.
"Captain Lin is too kind. We should be thanking your squad for holding the beast tide alone for so long, buying Great Xia enough time." Bu Li raised his head, gazing at the distant sky, and spoke calmly:
"Now, it's our turn..."