# 829
Chapter 829: What Gives You the Right
This time, despite the dark red wings blocking some of the damage, the close-range explosion still hindered Lu Baoyou's mobility.
He stumbled up from the ground, and before he could steady himself, Lin Qiye kicked him in the chest, sending him flying another dozen meters.
Lu Baoyou spat out a mouthful of blood and fell flat on his back.
Lin Qiye walked up to him, calmly grabbed his collar, and lifted him into the air.
"What gives you the right to be here?" Lin Qiye said calmly.
"What?" Lu Baoyou, dangling in his grasp with blood trickling from the corner of his mouth, frowned.
"I said, what gives you the right to be here?"
Lin Qiye repeated himself.
"You becoming Lucifer's agent is indeed impressive." Lin Qiye stared into those crimson eyes, continuing, "But it seems you've forgotten your identity, forgotten where you are…"
Lin Qiye's right fist clenched and slammed heavily into Lu Baoyou's face, driving him into the earth.
"This is Great Xia! You are a Great Xia person! And a recruit about to become part of the Night Watch!" Through the billowing dust, Lin Qiye's furious golden eyes blazed like a pair of furnaces.
"Did you think you could grow up safely, walk freely outside, stand here brashly and arrogantly declaring you would kill a Night Watch member—why do you think that was possible?!
Because you were lucky? Because the world was just supposed to be this way?
Bullshit!
It's because countless Night Watch members have been carrying the weight for you!
Without those Night Watch members who sacrificed their families, their freedom, their futures, even their lives to protect Great Xia, your best outcome right now would be living as subhuman livestock raised by the outer gods!
Everything you have now was traded for by countless Night Watch members with their lives!"
BOOM—!!
Lin Qiye pulled the榴弹炮's trigger again on Lu Baoyou in the pit. The buzzing explosion completely shattered the dark red wing illusions behind Lu Baoyou.
Debris flew, thick smoke billowed.
Lin Qiye walked to where Lu Baoyou lay in the deep crater, stepped on his chest, bent down, stared into Lu Baoyou's eyes, and roared:
"Why does someone like you have the right to stand here, using the blade in your hand, pointing at the Night Watch?!
Because Lucifer gave you power?
Look into my eyes! Tell me!
Are you…
A fallen angel's agent, or are you Lu Baoyou, son of Night Watch member Lu Qiu?"
Lin Qiye's voice echoed beneath the night sky. The surrounding recruits fell into dead silence. In the pit, Lu Baoyou stared blankly at those furnace-like golden eyes, his entire body as motionless as a stone sculpture.
In the silence, Lin Qiye abruptly pulled the Straight Blade from the ground, raised it high…
And stabbed it into the earth beside Lu Baoyou's ear.
Lu Baoyou was terrified.
He was a fallen angel's agent, but in the end, he was just a sixteen or seventeen-year-old child.
He possessed power, but to this day, he had never lost so completely, never been pinned to the ground and beaten while grabbing his collar!
Even though Lucifer's power constantly filled his mind, making him violent, ruthless, and arrogant, at this moment, he felt unprecedented fear…
In the firelight, Lin Qiye's blazing golden eyes had seared themselves deep into his soul.
Was he a fallen angel's agent, or Night Watch member Lu Qiu's son?
Lu Baoyou's thoughts froze.
Regarding Lu Qiu, regarding his father, Lu Baoyou didn't actually know him that well.
This man who came back once every few years and stayed less than two days each time—for Lu Baoyou, he was probably less familiar than the breakfast vendor across the street. If he hadn't accidentally seen that file related to the Night Watch, he might never have entered the Night Watch's doors in his entire life.
He didn't understand Lu Qiu, didn't understand the Night Watch—none of it meant anything to him. As a child raised in a single-parent family, perhaps even he wasn't aware that deep in his heart, he was pursuing nothing but a different kind of recognition.
He came here just wanting to join the Night Watch, then stand before that man as an equal, and coldly say to him:
"Is being a Night Watch member that hard?"
Yet he didn't know that the person he was searching for was no longer there… and the recognition he wanted would never be obtained.
Lin Qiye took a deep breath, slowly stood up, the golden light in his eyes receding like an ebbing tide, and said calmly:
"You don't need to answer me now. For your father's sake, I won't kill you this time. Get out of this training camp and go home. When you find your answer… come find me again."
Lin Qiye beckoned with his hand, and the two Straight Blades flew into his grasp. He turned to look in the direction where An Qingyu and the others were locked in battle.
At the same time.
Three members of the Church of the Ancient Gods were locked in combat with An Qingyu, Jiang Er, and Shen Qingzhu.
At the same cultivation level, empowered by God's Ruins, the three Church of the Ancient Gods members' combat prowess far exceeded that of ordinary Forbidden Ruins wielders. Even with the three of them fighting together, An Qingyu and the others could only achieve a stalemate.
But the Church of the Ancient Gods members had already begun to realize things were going badly.
Their identities were exposed, and they were trapped here by these three members of Night Watch Squad. If they kept stalling like this, they would be surrounded by other Night Watch members and instructors—no chance of victory then.
The most critical issue was that Master Qianmo still hadn't appeared!
Master Qianmo had always been the pillar of support in the hearts of the three Church of the Ancient Gods members. They firmly believed that as long as Master Qianmo made a move, the current predicament could be easily resolved… after all, among ordinary members, the three most ancient evil gods of the Church of the Ancient Gods held very high status.
But at this critical juncture, why hadn't Master Qianmo appeared?
Had Master Qianmo abandoned them? Or… had something happened to Master Qianmo as well?
"What should we do now?" The female recruit dodged An Qingyu's frost vines while frowning at the gaunt recruit, "If we keep stalling like this, we're dead for sure!"
"I know." The gaunt recruit took a deep breath and pulled an antique-looking ring from his chest, gripping it in his palm, "The【Breaker's Ring】—if I crush it, the wearer gains the power to break a certain order or rule…
As long as I crush it, I can break through the rules under this Town Suppression Stele's suppression and directly return to my original cultivation level."
"But will that really help? Once you return to 'Unmeasured,' the instructors will lift the Town Suppression Stele's cultivation suppression, returning everyone to their original levels. We'll still be surrounded." The young recruit spoke with some concern.