29: Chapter 29 Logic Genius Su Qing: You've fallen for it too?

Above the quarry, golden light flared intensely.

Eight Rank A Peak Arbiters gave Night Owl no chance to explain.

Eight brilliant golden pillars of light shot into the sky, weaving directly into a massive net that descended upon Night Owl at the bottom of the pit.

Night Owl was burning with rage.

As a dignified Rank S Monster Hunter, when had he ever endured such indiscriminate bullying?

Violent Black Flame erupted from his body, colliding head-on with the golden light net in the sky.

Two high-level spiritual energies clashed fiercely, and a deafening roar echoed through the valley.

Gale winds kicked up a sky full of gravel.

"You bunch of mad dogs!"

Night Owl gritted his teeth, his hands thrusting upward violently.

The Black Flame transformed into a massive pillar of fire, forcibly holding up the combined pressure of the eight Elders.

"I just went for a stroll last night, how did that affect high school students' studies!"

The Grand Elder hovered in mid-air, hands constantly forming seals, his eyes cold and sharp.

"Stubborn! You committed such a grave error, yet you still dare to quibble here! Today, I will surely break every bone in your body!"

At the bottom of the pit, in the mud, Su Qing decisively closed her eyes and held her breath.

In such a chaotic battle, if she dared to move, she might become a target for others.

Playing dead was the best choice.

Night Owl, fighting eight alone, was originally barely holding the upper hand.

Just then.

A crack suddenly tore open in the sky.

Saintess Lin Xinglan, dressed in a starry gauze dress, stepped out from the Void Realm.

A layer of frost covered her beautiful face. Her gaze locked onto Night Owl at the bottom of the pit, and with a wave of her hand, she pointed a finger.

A pure, golden starlight beam broke the sound barrier, directly piercing Night Owl's Black Flame defense, and slammed fiercely into Night Owl's lower back.

Night Owl groaned.

His body fell forward uncontrollably, and he knelt heavily on the gravel on one knee.

This woman's strength was too terrifying!

Seeing this, the eight Elders immediately urged the light net to shrink.

Night Owl's Black Flame was compressed layer by layer; the defeat was inevitable.

The excruciating pain from his waist made him break out in a cold sweat; if things went poorly today, he might really be finished here.

"This noble one, stop."

A calm, clear voice came from above.

The killing intent surging around Saintess Lin Xinglan vanished completely in an instant.

She turned her head to look at Su Yun, who was standing on the spiritual energy platform; the frost in her eyes melted into gentleness.

"What is it?"

Su Yun looked at his father, who was struggling below, and sighed inwardly.

If they kept fighting, the house would really be turned upside down tonight.

"It's really not necessary."

Su Yun's tone was casual, his expression serious.

"Disturbing the peace is indeed wrong. But as a high school student in Linhai City, I have decided to forgive him on behalf of all the high school students in the city."

The air fell silent.

The eight Elders maintained their casting postures, their expressions freezing instantly.

Forgiven on behalf of all high school students in the city?

What kind of absurd reason was this!

But they dared not refute him.

Su Yun reached out and pointed at Su Qing, who was motionless at the bottom of the pit.

"As for this Dark Blade, she actually didn't intend to hurt me; she just took me flying in the sky for two laps and let me experience a high-altitude drop. Come to think of it, I should thank her!"

Saintess Lin Xinglan looked at Su Yun.

She did not find this reason absurd; instead, she felt more and more that this Saint was truly broad-minded, kind, and benevolent.

"Since you have spoken personally."

Saintess Lin Xinglan nodded slightly, her voice spreading across the entire field, "Then today, I shall spare their lives. Withdraw the Formation."

The eight Elders immediately dispersed their spiritual energy.

The golden light dissipated.

Saintess Lin Xinglan took out a golden talisman engraved with a star pattern and placed it into Su Yun's hand.

"This is my token. If you encounter any trouble in the future, send me a message, and I will arrive immediately."

Su Yun put the gold token into his pocket. "Many thanks, noble one."

Saintess Lin Xinglan turned around and looked down at the two people at the bottom of the pit from on high.

"You are lucky today that someone pleaded for you."

Saintess Lin Xinglan's voice was as cold as frost. "If there is a next time, the Sanctuary will surely destroy you."

As the words fell.

Saintess Lin Xinglan took Su Yun and stepped into the Void Realm Formation.

With a flash of golden light, the two of them, along with the eight Elders, completely disappeared into the horizon.

The quarry returned to dead silence.

Old Su heard a groan beside his ear.

Su Qing struggled to lift half her body from the mud, a large lump on her head, her bones feeling as if they were falling apart.

It took her a great deal of effort to turn her head and squeeze out a sentence.

"...You damn well are still stepping on me."

Night Owl looked down at her, not moving.

"I know."

"..."

Su Qing took a deep breath, an irrepressible grievance mixed into her tone.

"Fine, you know. Then what was the meaning of that slap just now? I begged you to come and help, and you turned around and slapped me into the pit... Do you know how much that hurt? Do you know how much psychological trauma that slap caused a beautiful young girl?"

Night Owl was silent for a moment.

The force under his feet did indeed loosen slightly.

"...You deserved it."

Night Owl's tone was stiff; he turned his head back to continue staring at the Elders outside the pit. "Attacking ordinary civilians, you brought this on yourself."

"Ordinary civilians?"

Su Qing gritted her teeth, her face full of grievance. "He ruined my reputation, and I brought it on myself? Wait, you know that Su Yun? What is your relationship with him?"

Night Owl's back stiffened slightly.

"No relation."

He paused for a beat, his tone even stiffer. "I just can't stand people bullying defenseless student civilians."

Su Qing lay in the mud, looking at him sideways.

Dead fish eyes.

"...Are you sure?"

Her tone was meaningful.

"Night Owl, I know who you are; you never meddle in other people's business. The speed and force of that slap of yours didn't look like some righteous act at all; it looked more like you were avenging your father's murder!"

Old Su: "..."

Su Qing paused, suddenly as if she had thought of something, her eyes freezing suddenly.

The thread of suspicion in her brain, which was originally just a small line, suddenly pulled tight into a taut steel wire at this moment.

"Wait." Su Qing's voice lowered, revealing a strange caution. "Night Owl, this is only the second time you've seen Su Yun, right?"

"...Nonsense, he scolded me yesterday too!"

"Then you were just passing by, happened to hear his name, and you, who should have been standing in solidarity with me, suddenly slapped me into the pit?"

The air at the bottom of the pit was silent for a full three seconds.

Night Owl did not answer.

This silence, for Su Qing, was more deafening than any answer.

She was stunned on the spot.

"..."

She stared at the back of Night Owl's hood, the corners of her mouth slowly cracking into a line.

"Holy crap." Su Qing's voice seeped with a trace of incredulous trembling. "Night Owl, you've been affected too?"

"Talking nonsense." Night Owl snorted, his voice a bit hard. "Affected by what."

"You've been hit by Su Yun's charm technique!"

"What charm technique? What a mess!"

"Don't quibble!"

Su Qing suddenly pushed up, brushing Night Owl's foot off her back, and forcibly sat up, her tone having changed from suspicion to certainty.

"You don't know him at all, but as soon as you heard his name, you exploded and hit me. You tell me, is this normal?!"

Night Owl didn't speak.

Well... it really wasn't normal!

But if it was my son, it would be very normal...

Su Qing gathered her strength and poured out the whole theory she had thought of in the Library, low and fast.

"I saw that Young Miss of the Chu family in the city center today, she would rather use her own body to block a blade for him! That woman is from the Chu family's collateral line; no matter how warm-hearted she is, she wouldn't have her brain burned to that extent!"

"Then those lunatics in the Sanctuary, I don't know where they floated in from either; for him, a high school student with zero spiritual energy, they dispatched a full twelve Rank A's!"

"And now you —"

Su Qing raised her hand, pointing at Night Owl's hood, her tone becoming extremely heavy.

"A person who is too lazy to even meddle in other people's business, just because you happened to hear his name, you directly slapped a companion who helped you fight the Strange Tales into the pit!"

"Night Owl, don't you think all of this is too abnormal?!"

The wind at the bottom of the pit stopped.

Night Owl was silent, not refuting.

This in itself was an attitude.

Su Qing took a deep breath, her voice lowered to the minimum, every word like a knife.

"I can be 100% sure now that Su Yun has awakened some extremely rare passive charm-type ability. Indiscriminate, ignoring Rank, spreading around the clock. As long as someone has had contact with him or heard his name, it will passively trigger a favorability threshold, forcing people around him to develop a protective tendency toward him."

"This kind of thing cannot be found in the normal spiritual energy system. It is something completely outside the rules... a Strange Tales-type ability."

After listening to this theory, Night Owl was silent for a long time.

He looked at Dark Blade with pity.

"Where did you come up with this theory?"

"I deduced it from that slap of yours."

Su Qing said decisively.

Old Su: "..."

He turned his face away, silent for a full five seconds.

"...Fine."

He finally squeezed out this one word, his tone unclear whether it was approval or something else. "Even if what you say has some truth to it."

"So you really were affected?!"

Su Qing's eyes lit up instantly, feeling that she had approached the truth.

"I said even if."

"But you didn't deny it!"

"..."

Night Owl stopped speaking, only staring sympathetically at the little girl beside his feet.

Sigh!

It was all his own fault for slapping the girl silly.

He didn't even know whose daughter she was.

What should he do now?

...

In the center of Linhai City, in a quiet corner of a park.

The Void Realm rippled. Saintess Lin Xinglan and Su Yun landed steadily.

In the shadows nearby, Arbiter Lei Zhen and Arbiter Qin Feng stepped out quickly.

The two knelt on one knee, heads lowered, cold sweat soaking their backs.

"Subordinates failed to protect you, letting Your Highness be alarmed; please punish us, noble one!"

Arbiter Lei Zhen said in a deep voice.

Saintess Lin Xinglan stood with her hands behind her back, not getting angry. "You did the right thing. Facing an emergency, you did not blindly throw your lives away, but instead sought reinforcements in time to preserve this student; this counts as a merit."

Arbiter Lei Zhen and Arbiter Qin Feng looked up in disbelief.

"From today on, you will continue to stay in Linhai City and serve as the exclusive bodyguards for this student."

Saintess Lin Xinglan's tone was flat but allowed no disobedience.

"If there are any more slip-ups, you do not need to come back to see me."

"As you command!" the two replied in unison.

Su Yun wanted to say something.

But he was blocked by Saintess Lin Xinglan's soft gaze.

"You have been alarmed today, go back and rest well; if you have anything, come find me at any time."

Golden light flashed again, and Saintess Lin Xinglan disappeared from the spot.

Only Su Yun and the two Rank A bodyguards remained in the corner of the park.

Su Yun took out his phone to check the time.

He was speechless.

Big sister!

If you do this, someone who doesn't know the situation would think you like me!

"This student, we will see you home."

Arbiter Lei Zhen stood up and stood respectfully to the side and behind.

"No need."

Su Yun put his phone in his pocket and turned to walk toward the street.

"The two noble ones are tired today too; find a place to rest yourselves. I want to be alone for a while."

Arbiter Qin Feng looked troubled.

"Student... this is against the rules; the noble one's order is to stay close..."

Su Yun stopped his steps and turned his head.

His deep, pitch-black eyes swept across their faces.

An invisible, weird pressure far beyond the current dimension flashed through the air.

Arbiter Lei Zhen and Arbiter Qin Feng's hearts shrank violently, and their brains experienced a momentary blankness.

"Is my request hard to understand?"

Su Yun's tone was calm.

The two felt their throats go dry; the momentary heart palpitations made them unable to summon the courage to refute.

"Subordinates understand. We will wait for orders in the shadows."

Arbiter Lei Zhen lowered his head.

Su Yun withdrew his gaze, hands in the pockets of his hoodie, and walked alone into the bustling street.