Star Sky Professional
Chapter 583 - 481: Resolution (Thanks to Alliance Hierarch Jianshangen for the reward)

Chapter 583: Chapter 481: Resolution (Thanks to Alliance Hierarch Jianshangen for the reward)

Rustle!

After half an hour.

A group of servants were cleaning up the messy living room downstairs.

In the study room upstairs.

Shi Lei was flipping through account books, books, and a few secret transmissions with blood-red covers.

"’Blood Darkness Ceremony,’ ’Unclean Secret Spell,’ ’Chalati Poems’..."

"Is this my family’s mysticism inheritance? Weak... too weak."

Two white streams of air puffed out from his nostrils, startling the butler Wu, Shi’s father, and Shi Ding alongside him.

Cultivating secret martial arts can change a person’s disposition.

Although he had ’Mechanized Mind,’ it was merely an auxiliary combat secret technique, impossible to activate all the time.

Shi Lei glanced at the butler Wu and noticed that his injuries had healed considerably.

At this moment, while consuming some strange secret medicines, the burns were quickly recovering, peeling off dead skin and revealing fresh new skin.

"The Blood Path is extraordinary... other than notable recovery, everything else is bullshit, nothing compared to my Martial Arts! From now on, I will oversee all the family’s mystic affairs."

Shi Ding was a bit displeased, looking at Shi Lei, but dared not refute.

The butler Wu wanted to speak but held back, also dared not ask.

"What? You want to learn my secret martial arts? I can teach you..."

Shi Lei smiled: "As long as you join my esoteric sect and abide by my precepts... you can obtain Extraordinary Power. Of course, I don’t have the qualification to grant initiations yet, but I will soon."

"Young master!"

The butler Wu’s eyes shone, immediately bowing.

Shi’s father turned his head away, knowing that the family’s strongest force had defected.

These transcendents always had an extraordinary fascination and fervor for mysteries.

And somehow, Shi Lei suddenly became incredibly strong.

"Not only butler Wu, but if you also want to learn, you can join as beginners, and I will teach you all."

Shi Lei smiled.

He did not mind the spreading of secret martial arts, rather wished for its dissemination—as long as they were initiated by him.

"Now... our Shi Family is advancing rapidly, and the chance to control the whole of Black Ring City and even the Wymingham region has come..."

"Find Silver Ring! This is your task from me. If you want to join the esoteric sect, you must make offerings and show devotion... You must put your life on the line for this! Understand?"

Swept by Shi Lei’s gaze, the three of them, including butler Wu, immediately lowered their heads...

...

The entire Shi Family began to move, with a network of connections unimaginable to outsiders.

Not to mention, the ’Mechanical Ring’ led by Silver Ring was just a small association rising with a few secret transmissions, with only Silver Ring as the actual transcendent.

In this world, due to the ’enlighteners’ needing to spread their influence in the present world, they often copied, transcribed, and disseminated low-rank secret transmissions...

As a result, the mystery never faded away, and occasionally, a few small associations would emerge, continuously banned but never disappearing.

Obviously, Silver Ring was one of them.

Half a day later.

Late night.

"Silver Ring, real name ’Saville Yech’... Originally a drifter who came to Black Ring City for work, worked as a mechanical worker in ’Sampson Factory’ for three years, then suddenly resigned... Just a few months later, his colleagues who didn’t get along with him and the superiors who deducted his wages met with misfortune one after the other... Then, Sampson Factory went bankrupt, and Saville took it over for a nearly free price... Now he is considered a small factory owner in Black Ring City."

Shi Lei read the report, nodding: "Using his factory as the headquarters to organize mystic gatherings? Just in time for me to set out now and wipe him out completely..."

"Young master..." The butler Wu hesitated: "As far as I know, although Saville’s mystical attainments are not up to much, he secretly controls the ’Blood Axe Gang,’ having recruited several desperados... He might even have gotten a batch of firearms and formed a factory protection team..."

Indeed, in low-rank mystic battles, a gun was more useful than anything.

"So, there’s a group of gunmen?"

Shi Lei walked out the door and got into his limousine: "Old Wu... if it were you, what would you do?"

The butler Wu got into the car, thought for a while, and answered: "Using talisman concealment, attempt assassination, simplest method. Otherwise, poison—continually spiking ’Blood Poison’ in the factory’s food, triggering it all at once when we attack..."

"As expected, mystics don’t excel in direct confrontations..."

Shi Lei said: "But I’m different, I’m a ...fighter!"

...

Late night.

Sampson Factory.

As a small factory working for various companies, providing all sorts of parts, it had extremely strict security.

Because Silver Ring Saville held many association activities in the factory.

Given the factory’s conditions, occupational diseases were almost unavoidable, and using child labor meant most children wouldn’t survive more than three years!

Using a few for cruel and bloody rituals was more than enough, and difficult to detect.

The factory protection team captain, recognized as the head thug by the factory boss, ’Hyena’ Duke, was smoking.

As the cigarette butt glimmered in the night, his mood was far from calm: ’Monage is actually dead... killed by his own student?’

’The leader senses danger, and the frequency of sacrifices has visibly increased, to make talismans and odd items, enhancing power?’

While pondering, he saw a figure suddenly emerge from the darkness ahead.

"Who’s there?"

Duke instantly placed his hand on his gun holster.

As the protection team captain, the boss’s top enforcer, he was the king of this factory district, often beating workers, even harassing female workers, with no one daring to resist.

Encountering a situation during a night patrol, his principle was—shoot first, ask questions later.

Bang!

Seeing the figure keep moving forward, Duke shot without hesitation.

Whoosh!

The figure blurred, and he felt a wave of scorching steam hit his face, letting out a scream.

Then, he heard the sound of his arm bone shattering.

"Who?"

"Captain Duke... bad, a monster!"

"Quick, get the steam rifles!"

As Duke fell, other team members swiftly moved.

Had it been ordinary protection teams or bodyguards, facing a sudden strong enemy, retreat would be the norm.

But this protection team were all brainwashed followers by Silver Ring, behaving differently.

Some even brought out heavy rifles, a contraband Saville obtained with great effort.

Once discovered by the sheriff, it would be a huge hassle.

But seeing companions fall one by one in the night, they no longer cared.

Bang!

A steam rifle fired, but missed the shadow.

"With my current steel physique, I can’t withstand steam rifle bullets... but I just need to be faster than you pulling the trigger."

Shi Lei’s eyes were cold, his movements calculated like a machine, yet with a flair of the "ultimate person moving like mechanics."

Bang!

The steam rifle fired again, then came the frantic reload.

Unfortunately, this gunman wouldn’t get the third shot.

In a blur, Shi Lei closed in within mere meters, muscles bulging like turbocharged pistons.

Whoosh!

His knuckles opened, releasing steam, striking the gunman a few meters away, causing a scream and a fall.

"Reading martial arts novels always mentioned projecting True Qi... Now I get it, True Qi is not true qi, but steam!"

"Steam! That’s invincible!"

Shi Lei’s skin turned black and green as he charged into the factory building.

Inside, a group of black-robed figures gathered, seemingly startled by the gunfire outside.

"Mechanical Ring? Where’s Saville?"

Then, they saw a small, green-black giant breaking through the wall, pores opening and closing like steam engine valves, releasing astonishing steam.

"Die!"

Saville, slim with sunken eyes, felt the terror of the enemy.

Unconcerned, he plunged his right hand into a blood-soaked altar, pulling out a mechanical arm, akin to interstellar era external armor skeletons.

This ’Mechanical Hand’ holy relic was acquired from an Ether Plane deep-sea mechanical secret place with countless sacrifices, granting him immense combat power.

Of course, it had to be returned after use.

All those sacrifices merely earned a single usage right.

"Attack!"

Other black-robes scattered, some tossing a few talismans at Shi Lei.

Colorful talisman lights flashed, bringing various negative effects on Shi Lei.

Such formation would make even a second-rank ’Deep One’ fall in regret.

Even third-rank ’enlighteners’ must show caution.

Unless they specialized in physique enhancement, they wouldn’t be so reckless.

But to Shi Lei... soul shocks, curses? Mechanized Mind handled them all.

Hidden weapons, flying knives, revolver bullets—they couldn’t breach his defense.

Eyes focused, he locked on Saville, turbocharged muscles boosting ’steam’ within, a Big Swing Fist crashing forth.

This was the—Turbocharged Style!

Bang!

The green-black fist collided with the mechanical arm, almost evenly matched in mid-air?

"No!"

Saville’s face showed shock and anger, feeling immense pain at the shoulder connecting to the mechanical arm.

Then... high-temperature steam arrows struck his face!

"Weakling!"

Shi Lei grabbed Saville’s face, lifting him: "With skills like yours, you dare trouble my master?"

"Your master... who is..." Saville’s mutilated face squeezed out words from between exposed teeth.

"My master is naturally the lord of the esoteric sect..."

A grim smile appeared on Shi Lei’s lips, his hand tightening.

Bang!

A headless body fell, remaining ’Mechanical Ring’ members losing faith, plunged into madness and stupor...

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