This Martial Saint's Health Bar is Too Thick!-Chapter 251 - 28: The Outsider, Imperial Camp Army

Chapter 251: Chapter 28: The Outsider, Imperial Camp Army

Hongguang Year 45, March 3rd.

From around 9 o’clock last night, all the city gates of Datong Prefecture City were placed under martial law, prohibiting anyone from entering or leaving. The entire City Guard Army ascended the city walls, putting the whole city on high alert and preventing any opportunity to leave the city.

The last time Datong Prefecture City was under such a full-scale alert was eighteen years ago when the Western Alliance Army attacked.

This sudden action bewildered many.

However, this was just the beginning.

The Inspection General Bureau mobilized over a thousand Inspectors for a city-wide search!

Zhi Ge General Hospital deployed hundreds of Martial Artists, as well as martial masters and registered martial masters.

Both the Inspection General Office and the Righteous Law General Institute were also mobilized.

Such a display of force made even the most sluggish to realize—something big had happened!

In the early hours of 5 am, Jinsha District crime scene.

Already turned into a pile of ruins, the courtyard attracted quite a crowd, all significant figures from Datong Prefecture:

A Helmsman from Zhi Ge General Hospital, the Inspector General of the Inspection General Bureau, a Deputy Director of Supervision from the Inspection General Bureau, and Fu Lang, the Deputy Director of the Righteous Law General Institute, who had previously escorted Li Fei back to school.

These individuals were all watching an elder casting spells.

Dressed in a white robe, looking ethereal and full of wisdom, he held in his hand an Eight Diagrams Plate, with a needle on it, as he stood before the corpse of Zhang Zongyang, casting spells.

This elder was from the Righteous Law General Institute, named Qi Yiming, a Great Mage in the Possession Stage, specializing in search and tracking.

The Eight Diagrams Plate in his hands was his own crafted Magic Artifact.

Usually, Great Mages in the Possession Stage would choose to craft offensive and defensive Magic Artifacts unless they had spare capacity to consider other types of Magic Artifacts.

Qi Yiming, who naturally disliked conflict, had crafted his first Magic Artifact to be a tracking Luotian Plate.

This made him quite a rare commodity, occasionally being borrowed by the provincial government or even other provinces to assist in investigations.

When Zhang Zongyang was attacked, Qi Yiming was on business in the provincial city and had rushed back overnight.

After a busy period, Qi Yiming completed his spell casting.

“How is it?”

Jiang Jin stepped forward and asked in a deep voice.

With a grave expression, Qi Yiming slowly shook his head, “Too late, the other party also knows Magic and acted in advance to cut off the traces. If I had been able to come here within an hour of the incident for casting, I might have been able to trace something with the Luotian Plate, but now…”

This outcome did not surprise those present.

Whoever dared to assassinate a Sitting Official, a 13th-grade officer, and moreover a Helmsman from Zhi Ge General Hospital, certainly wouldn’t be foolish or incompetent, and would have anticipated Qi Yiming’s involvement.

“Qi lao, is there not even the slightest clue?”

A middle-aged man with narrow eyes, wielding a Longsword, spoke up.

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He was named Fu Lang, also a Helmsman from Zhi Ge General Hospital. He had the best relationship with Zhang Zongyang on normal days, so upon hearing of his death, Fu Lang immediately volunteered to come over.

“There is a small clue. Through the Luotian Plate, I sensed that the murderer left behind a Qi presence that was mixed with a very primitive and fierce aura, unlike that of humans, somewhat resembling that of Exotic Beasts,”

Qi Yiming explained.

“Exotic Beasts? Was it Yu Longqing’s doing?”

Fu Lang thought of the ‘Beast King’ who could command Exotic Beasts.

But he quickly dismissed this thought because if Yu Longqing had truly used Exotic Beasts to kill, the traces left at the scene would definitely not look like this. A single Exotic Beast is much harder to hide than a person.

The higher the grade of the Exotic Beast, the larger its size; a beast capable of killing a Martial Artist at the Tao Foundation Stage would be at least the size of a house—how could there be no trace left?

Only legendary Top Three Grades Exotic Beasts could possibly be small-sized.

But such high-level beasts, Yu Longqing definitely couldn’t acquire.

So, Fu Lang quickly ruled out the ‘Beast King’ as a suspect.

“The Qi resembles that of Exotic Beasts, but it doesn’t mean it’s necessarily a real beast. There is another class of people in this world with similar characteristics,”

said the Deputy Director of Supervision from the Inspection General Bureau with a somber voice.

Upon hearing this, everyone present seemed startled, and then they understood:

“Do you mean the assailants are from the Western Countries?”

The countries to the west are called Western Countries because they are separated from the Da Lan Dynasty by a vast ocean.

The Da Lan Dynasty used to think of itself as the Heavenly Dynasty, the center of the world, only later to discover that across the ocean lay another landmass, populated by tens of millions of people and with many different nations.

After discovering the countries of the Western Countries, the historians of the Da Lan Dynasty called their own land ‘Central Continent’ and referred to the land of the Western Countries as ‘Western Continent’.

Many Exotic Beasts thrive on the ‘Central Continent,’ allowing the people here to slowly develop Martial Arts and Magic.

However, on the ‘Western Continent,’ there are no Exotic Beasts, just exotic people.

These so-called exotic people are individuals with bloodlines differing from ordinary humans, with bloodlines mixed, for some unknown reason, with that of Exotic Beasts. As their bloodline powers Awaken, they also gain a portion of Extraordinary Ability.

Because of such reasons, across the ‘Western Continent,’ the ruling elite of various countries is comprised of families with exotic bloodlines; they consider themselves ‘Chosen Ones,’ born to stand above and enslave the ordinary.

When the Western Alliance Army invaded the Da Lan Dynasty, there were many exotic people among the invaders. They not only waged war against the Da Lan Dynasty with powerful firearms but also utilized their Extraordinary Power for support.

The strength of exotic people depends entirely on the potency of their bloodline. Although they can learn various skills, their bloodline directly limits an individual’s maximum strength, unlike Martial Artists who possess infinite potential.