Suddenly, as if in a trance, the aura surrounding the Azure Figurine spread out like light and shadow, vanishing in an instant.
The Azure Figurine had transformed into the Blue Figure!
At the same time, an aura burst forth from Zhang Yang, as if a wind had come, blowing up his long hair and revealing a blade-shaped scar on his forehead, which had also turned blue.
In his extreme sorrow, Zhang Yang fused with the blue level of the Strange Soul. The sudden surge of spiritual power even contained a hint of compassion.
Previously, Zhang Yang knew that fusing with higher levels required the assistance of materials from the four elements: earth, wood, fire, and water. However, he did not expect that this boundless compassion would be the greatest water element, allowing him to fuse with the blue level shortly after merging with the cyan level.
The remaining final layer, the Purple Level, required the fusion of metal elements. Zhang Yang had no time to consider this; he was overwhelmed with grief.
"Bang!" The door was kicked open, and Shen Zhiyu along with several fully armed police officers rushed in!
"Too late!" Shen Zhiyu thought to himself. After learning from Chu Ruoxi that Zhang Yang was seeking revenge, he quickly tried to contact him. However, Zhang Yang had split his phone, battery, and SIM card into three parts, making it impossible to locate him. He could only first ascertain Xiao Hansheng's whereabouts. By the time he brought people back, he stumbled upon this scene.
"These two are still breathing! Quick, call for an ambulance!" A police officer checked Xiao Hansheng's and Tie Chenggang's pulses and immediately shouted.
Zhang Yang blankly held Yang Shuman and gently placed her on the bed in the bedroom.
"Mom, from now on, I have no relatives left in this world," Zhang Yang said softly.
"Mom?" Shen Zhiyu was taken aback and thought to himself, "What a mess!"
"Zhang Yang, let me help you arrange your mother's funeral. Then you need to give a statement about what happened here and in Yanjing," Shen Zhiyu gently advised.
"Alright, it should be." Zhang Yang's expression was blank as he stared at Yang Shuman. Years of confusion and resentment turned into endless regret at the moment she left.
He notified the funeral home, arranged the remains, purchased burial clothes, sent them for cremation, and buried them in a grave. Shen Zhiyu stayed by his side, not asking too many questions. He only knew that Zhang Yang's mother remarried when he was very young, but he did not know that the man she married was Xiao Hansheng.
During the statement-taking process, Zhang Yang recounted everything in detail.
"Your situation is not too bad; fortunately, it mostly falls under justifiable defense and emergency avoidance. Xiao Hansheng and Tie Chenggang have both been rescued, so you won't bear criminal responsibility. However, you are still an intern at Heavenly Mechanism Group, and some of your actions violated regulations. But since you also uncovered a kidnapping case, I will talk to Mr. Luo to see if we can offset your merits against your faults and avoid punishment," Shen Zhiyu said as he accompanied Zhang Yang out of the police station.
"No need; just fire me," Zhang Yang suddenly said at the police station entrance. In an instant, he vanished from sight. With the blue level of Strange Soul integrated into him, Zhang Yang's spiritual power had reached a new level. His movement was like a ghost; Shen Zhiyu didn't even have time to call out before he lost sight of which direction Zhang Yang had gone.
Ten minutes later, far away in Yanjing, Time Rush's phone rang. It was an unfamiliar number from Shanzhou.
"Godmother, it's me."
"Zhang Yang? Where are you?"
"I'm in Shanzhou, in a phone booth. I just wanted to ask you if there's any hope for Weiwei to wake up."
"To be honest, I don't know. However, clinically speaking, the chance of waking up is less than 0.1%. Do you want to see her?"
"Her parents won't let me see her; I've already left all the money I had on my card."
"Beep beep beep..."
"Zhang Yang? Zhang Yang?" During the second inquiry of Time Rush, the call had already been disconnected.
After a while, Chu Ruoxi's phone rang, and the same number appeared.
"Ruo Xi, I want to be alone for a while. I've thrown away my phone, so please don't contact me. Also, please let Chen Xiangyu and the others know."
Before Chu Ruoxi could respond, there was another busy signal on the line.
Then, Han Shenghui's phone in Haizhou rang again. "Han Brother, I want to be alone for a while. I've thrown away my phone, so please don't contact me. Also, please tell Fatty and Azheng about this."
Han Shenghui thought to himself, what happened to Zhang Yang? Before he could ponder further, the line went dead with a busy tone.
In the following days, everyone who received a call noticed one thing: they truly could not reach Zhang Yang anymore!
The calls wouldn't go through, no one was at school, and the Heavenly Mechanism Group couldn't find him either. Both Haizhou and Shanzhou had people searching for him, but still couldn't locate him.
It could be understood that Zhang Yang had gone missing.
Not to mention ordinary people; even the Heavenly Mechanism Group couldn't find him. Having studied counter-surveillance and wilderness survival at the Blade Training Camp, someone like him would indeed be hard to track down if he wanted to hide.
Toothless and Yu Qingwei were also looking for Zhang Yang. Yes, both of them were searching.
The fact that they were both searching meant they were looking together and pooling their efforts. However, they too had not found him.
In a suite of a star-rated hotel in Yanjing, two people were conversing on the sofa in the outer room.
"I accidentally discovered such a person who fell off a cliff and survived. I intended to use the spiritual power within him to cultivate the Heavenly Dry Technique part of the Jiazi Rainbow Shadow for my own use. After putting so much effort into this plan, I never expected he would go missing," Toothless said, covering his chest and lightly coughing. "At that time, outside the villa, although I used Blood Escape, if you hadn't called out in time, I might not have made it."
"Master, you took too much risk to cultivate the Jiazi Rainbow Shadow!" Yu Qingwei gently stroked her shoulder. "The sniper arranged by Xiao Hansheng was terribly inaccurate. Wasn't it supposed to just graze the skin? In the end, it almost pierced my shoulder!"
"This is my lifelong aspiration and also the wish of your ancestor, Dragon of the Morning Star. Sigh, if only he had been willing to take me as his master, we wouldn't have encountered so many complications!" Toothless lamented.
"I had set up a formation at the hotel entrance to lure him inside. It started off well, and I even became friends with him. Sigh, Master, can you calculate where he has gone?" Yu Qingwei continued to ask.
"I only know it's in the southwest direction, but this area is too vast. In a sea of people, if he becomes disheartened and goes into hiding, I'm afraid we'll lose all traces forever," Toothless shook his head. "I wasted the Jiazi Rainbow Shadow for him to cultivate!"
"The key point is that we were trapped in the Shrink the Earth to an Inch technique at that time. I didn't expect he could break free; otherwise, according to our original plan, we probably wouldn't have needed to kidnap his girlfriend," Yu Qingwei also shook her head.
"Variables can exist at any time; it's just that fate was unkind and there were too many variables. Later, taking advantage of Xiao Hansheng's idea, we went along with the plan and ultimately made Xiao Hansheng the scapegoat. It wasn't bad, but what a pity," Toothless said. "Now we can only keep an ear out for news about him; it's not entirely hopeless."
Yu Qingwei nodded.
It turned out that Toothless, as the leader of Zichen Temple, had only taken one disciple—Yu Qingwei—because her ancestor was Azure Dragon Soars, who had a connection with Toothless. Regarding the Jiazi Rainbow Shadow, Toothless did not mention it while contacting Rooster of Iron Feathers in the southwest but did inform Yu Qingwei. This was due to the extraordinary friendship between Toothless Mouse and Azure Dragon Soars back in the day.
After years of cultivation, Toothless realized his spiritual power was insufficient and could only master Earthly Branch Techniques. Calculating with his fingers revealed he had no more than ten years of life left, often sighing to himself.
By chance encountering Zhang Yang and witnessing his spiritual power—along with surviving a fall from a cliff—Toothless was overjoyed and arranged for Yu Qingwei to set up this scheme.
Through meeting Zhang Yang in Haizhou, Yu Qingwei ultimately aimed to borrow Zhang Yang's spiritual power to practice the Heavenly Dry Technique from Jiazi Rainbow Shadow. To ascertain Zhang Yang's whereabouts, Yu Qingwei preemptively secured a hotel in Haizhou and set up a formation at the entrance to attract Zhang Yang inside, which naturally led to a conflict.
According to the plan, Yu Qingwei and Zhang Yang became friends. The next step involved everything that happened in Zichen Temple.
Initially, as per the original plan, the two were trapped in the Spatial Compression Technique. When Zhang Yang found himself at a loss, Yu Qingwei discovered Jiazi Rainbow Shadow in Zichen Temple and used the Earthly Branch Techniques within it to break the Shrink the Earth to an Inch formation, thereby encouraging Zhang Yang to practice the Heavenly Dry Technique from Jiazi Rainbow Shadow for eventual use.
However, unexpectedly, when Zhang Yang lit an incense stick, he managed to merge and break through the blue level of Strange Soul, directly using his spiritual power to break the Shrink the Earth to an Inch formation. At that moment, Yu Qingwei, sitting on a cushion in the main hall, was not anxious because he was waiting for Zhang Yang to be at a loss; this resulted in an unforeseen variable.
After this variable, Toothless adjusted the plan to let Zhang Yang see his "unconscious" self and took the opportunity to steal Jiazi Rainbow Shadow. At that time on the beach, Toothless appeared unconscious but was actually prepared, secretly holding an escape talisman in his palm. If Zhang Yang intended to kill him, he could escape in a very short time.
In the end, Zhang Yang did not kill him but instead notified Yu Qingwei. Yu Qingwei successfully persuaded Zhang Yang to begin practicing the Heavenly Dry Technique from Jiazi Rainbow Shadow. Meanwhile, Toothless felt that Zhang Yang might be slow in his practice due to lack of motivation and was quite worried. Just then, Xiao Hansheng found Toothless again and attempted to kidnap Ding Weiwei and eliminate Zhang Yang.
Toothless certainly did not want to kill Zhang Yang but thought of using this situation to motivate Zhang Yang for revenge and intensify his practice of the Heavenly Dry Technique. The possession of Zong Yaoshi was also Toothless's doing; he acted this way to keep some leverage. If Xiao Hansheng ultimately failed to eliminate Zhang Yang, Toothless could still use dealing with Zong Yaoshi as an excuse. At the same time, he forced Zong Lingxu to call Zhang Yang to disturb his state of mind and make it harder to spot flaws in this scheme.
However, another variable arose; Toothless did not expect Ding Weiwei would be shot and ultimately become a vegetable. Even more unexpectedly, when Zhang Yang returned to Haizhou for revenge, he encountered his biological mother Yang Shuman, who was mistakenly killed by Xiao Hansheng. This series of events completely disrupted Toothless's original plan.
To make matters worse, Zhang Yang became utterly disheartened and went missing.
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