Biochemical Martial Arts: Supreme Heavenly Venerate

As Xue Lingxue descended the stairs, she felt a special frequency of electromagnetic waves sweep across the nearby area.

Her heart gave a slight start, and she instinctively took a step back.

"This person has a strong electromagnetic field and soundwave detection ability, and can become optically invisible!"

With the help of her exoskeleton armor, Xue Lingxue carefully concealed her own qi and magnetic field, while she released three tiny drones, the size of fingernails, from her arm into the fourth-floor corridor.

Before long, she saw the images from the corridor ahead through the imaging system inside her helmet.

The opponent was cautious, using optical invisibility even during combat. It was only through AI image reconstruction that Xue Lingxue saw a man in a long coat, tall and slender, engaging in wanton slaughter in the corridor.

The man moved through the corridor, fighting the members of the Blood Lizard Gang who had been alarmed by the gunshots and had come one after another. His figure was swift like a leopard, ferocious like a tiger, his long blade enveloped in crimson fire and thunder, his momentum utterly fierce.

He killed with effortless ease, singing a nursery rhyme as he did so: "Digging in the great forest, planting huge seeds, blossoming huge flowers."

Xue Lingxue's gaze became puzzled; she felt this person's figure was somewhat familiar, as if she had seen him before.

Not just the figure, but even the sword technique he used was extremely familiar to Xue Lingxue, so familiar it made her heart tremble. However, the song he hummed was strange to Xue Lingxue; it was clearly a nursery rhyme, yet it was a melody she had never heard before.

When Xue Lingxue searched for the lyrics on the internet, she only found a few links, and upon opening them, discovered the web pages were defunct, remnants of an age unknown.

Xue Lingxue frowned tightly, lost in thought.

After a moment, her eyes suddenly widened.

——It's the Purple Glow Thunder Blade! Father's Purple Glow Thunder Blade!

The Purple Glow Thunder Blade wielded by this person was identical to her father's, as if it had been cast from the same mold!

Just as Xue Lingxue found it unbelievable and began to closely observe the coat-clad man's blade work, Lin Rui had already cleared the entire floor.

He moved to the other side of the corridor, to the fire exit stairs leading to the third floor.

The elevators in this nightclub had been sabotaged by him and were inoperable, so all he had to do was to keep killing his way down floor by floor.

"But there are quite a number of people below—"

Lin Rui sensed that in the stairway below, as well as in the corridors to the left and right, several dozen people were hiding.

The Blood Lizard Gang members who had been in a meeting on the second floor had nearly all gathered here.

Lin Rui was slightly surprised. Why weren't these Blood Lizard Gang members trying to escape? Why insist on standing their ground there? Was there a reason?

These people were close to the nightclub's main door, they could preserve their lives just by running out.

Could it be out of self-confidence? Did they believe that in their partially anesthetized state, they still had the capability to withstand his attack?

Or was it due to their gang rule, something about loyalty and valor, shared glory and shame, solidarity and mutual assistance, the courage to act and to accept responsibility?

Of course, they could just be insane, afflicted with Combat Gear Syndrome, or their brains rotted by drugs.

Lin Rui couldn't be bothered to ponder further; he decisively selected a skill from Xue Bogao's replicable abilities list – expert-level grenade combat.

Alert: Replicating "Grenade Combat (Expert)" requires 200 Soul Power points.

Lin Rui then took out six electromagnetic grenades from his coat, pulled the pins using electromagnetic force, and tossed them down below.

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Lin Rui didn't know why these people were carrying such deadly grenades or how they had managed to avoid detection by the police, but they were exactly what he needed, ready to be used as a breaching tactic.

Now, as expected, they came in handy.

Xue Bogao's grenade combat skills were sharp; the grenades bounced off the corners of the stairs and the third-floor walls, precisely landing in the spots Lin Rui had targeted under his electromagnetic control.

Immediately, a thunderous blast resounded in the third-floor stairwell and the corridors to the left and right.

A tremendous thunderstorm swept through the confined space, shredding everything nearby and creating intense flashes that blinded anyone who saw them.

The Blood Lizard Gang members blocking the stairwell were mostly killed or wounded in an instant, those who survived were either critically injured or temporarily blinded.

Lin Rui decisively leaped down from the stairwell.

He first dispatched two of the most dangerous targets with quick shots from his pistol, then wielded his long blade, creating a whirlwind of brutality at the stairwell entrance.

Alert: By killing a second-stage demonic Martial Cultivator, you have acquired 265 Soul Power points.

Alert: By killing a third-stage demonic Martial Cultivator, you have acquired 328 Soul Power points.

Alert: By killing a third-stage demonic Martial Cultivator, you have acquired 353 Soul Power points.

As Lin Rui's blade swept down, prompts from the Spirit Ring started appearing in his mind one after another, quickly accumulating his Soul Power points.

It took Lin Rui just over a minute to slaughter everyone at the stairwell entrance.

The Blood Lizard Gang members, who had ingested massive amounts of anesthetics, retained less than a tenth of their combat strength. Even a captain-level enhanced soldier was unable to withstand even one of Lin Rui's strikes.

The might of the Grandmaster-level Purple Glow Thunder Blade was incredibly powerful. With Lin Rui's current physical condition, he could only unleash one-tenth of the blade technique's divine might; but even that was more than the captain-tier enhanced soldiers could bear—soldiers who had forced prosthetic implant syndrome upon themselves in exchange for synthetic serum implants.

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At that moment, Lin Rui's mind stirred, and he arrived in front of a presidential suite.

He sensed the situation inside the room and, without hesitation, used the Red Thunder Palm's lock-picking technique to unlock the keypad lock from several meters away.

Lin Rui then held his blade, forcefully swung open the suite's door.

In that instant, seven ferocious streams of metal bullets were fired simultaneously toward the doorway.

Lin Rui swiftly deflected the bullets with his blade, then, springing up like a coiled panther, leapt onto the ceiling, firing his pistol in controlled bursts to take down three men in the blink of an eye.

His figure darted forward amidst the electromagnetic entanglement, his long blade causing blood mist to rise as he cleaved two men in half and decapitated another in the span of a single blink.

"Blood Dagger Aiken!"

Lin Rui recognized the last person—it was the Blood Lizard Gang officer he had met yesterday at the police station.

This was a highly skilled captain-level enhanced soldier.

Despite being heavily under the influence of anesthetics, the man's sharpshooting still resulted in three bullets hitting Lin Rui.

Had it not been for the fourth-tier half-body armor Lin Rui wore, he would now have three gaping bullet wounds on his body.

"Digging in a particularly large garden, planting particularly large seeds to blossom into particularly large flowers—"

Lin Rui's pupils dilated, his face flushed with excitement as he lunged forward, blade in hand.

Sparks flew in front of him as he used his blade to slice through the incoming bullets.

A moment later, Lin Rui's blade sent Blood Dagger Aiken's arm flying and kicked the man 7 meters away into a wall.

He continued to fire, hitting Blood Dagger Aiken in the arms and legs until he was certain that the man no longer posed a threat, and then glanced left and right.

He saw inside the suite a female corpse in her twenties, of Caucasian descent, with a beautiful appearance but eyes wide open, filled with unwillingness.

That was Tiana Higgins!

Lin Rui had seen her photo online; she was his secondary target for this mission.

Today, Lin Rui's main goal was to gain experience, no, Soul Power points.

He also intended to take advantage of the chaos in Fallen Street to eliminate this threat to Lin Xi's life.

As long as he tidied up loose ends and used the capabilities of Grandmaster Xue to stage the scene as a gang conflict or vendetta, his sister would be safe.

However, it seemed Tiana had been killed before his arrival.

Lin Rui also noticed about twenty briefcases placed in a corner of the suite.

Lin Rui walked over and used his sword to slice open a briefcase, looked inside, and his eyes flashed with understanding.

"So that's how it is!"

No wonder those people had been so desperate to defend this area.

All these briefcases were filled with drugs, likely moved here by the Blood Lizard Gang not long ago.

The gang's logic was that since this nightclub had already been searched by the police, it was temporarily safe, unaware that someone as audacious as him would burst in.

Lin Rui then approached Blood Dagger Aiken and pulled a syringe from his trench coat pocket. He injected a homemade truth serum into Blood Dagger Aiken's neck.

Lin Rui watched the time and, after about 30 seconds, asked coldly, "Who exactly killed Xue Bogao?"

Xue Lingxue was standing at the corner of the wall 50 meters away, observing the situation through a miniature drone.

When she heard that sentence, her delicate body trembled.

Why was this person asking who killed her father?