Chapter 160: Knocking on the Door to Pick a Fight

"Law power +10."

There were no evolution points, only this so-called law power. Lin Qiu opened his attribute panel, but he could not see any newly added law power; it was as if this act of devouring was just a simple devouring and nothing more.

"System, aren't you going to come out and explain this?"

Seeing this, Lin Qiu had no choice but to question the system once again.

The Shackles of Heaven and Earth—just the name sounded like something that should yield a large number of evolution points. He certainly couldn't let this opportunity go to waste and let the system consume it for nothing.

"The host's current cultivation level is insufficient to touch the realm of laws, so the law panel has not been unlocked yet. As for the law power, it is temporarily stored."

The system's explanation arrived promptly. From the system's words, Lin Qiu roughly guessed something.

The realm of laws...

Could it be a realm above the tenth tier?

"System, is anything above the tenth tier the realm of laws?"

To confirm his guess, Lin Qiu questioned the system again. If the system remained silent, it would mean that anything above the tenth tier was definitely related to laws.

"..."

"Yes, anything above the tenth tier is the realm of laws."

Only then did the system realize that it had been tricked by Lin Qiu, and it had no choice but to tell the truth, while symbolically deducting a portion of evolution points.

After getting his answer, Lin Qiu curled his lips, evidently somewhat dissatisfied with the system's stinginess.

However, figuring out the realm above the tenth tier could also be considered a good thing for him.

As could be seen from the Shackles of Heaven and Earth just now, the current Earth did not yet allow tenth-tier powerhouses to move around freely, so he didn't need to worry about powerhouses in the realm of laws for the time being.

As long as Lin Qiu did not enter secret realms, the probability of encountering a powerhouse of the law realm was virtually zero, since secret realms were places beyond the reach of the Earth's will.

The person he had encountered in the secret realm before was most likely a powerhouse of the law realm; otherwise, how could he have brought such a suffocating sense of oppression to Lin Qiu?

"Is this... the strength of the eighth tier?"

Just as Lin Qiu was pondering these matters, Wang Mengmeng had also finished digesting the power, officially stepping into the eighth-tier realm, while Heizhe had undergone a drastic transformation, its entire body covered in a suit of armor, radiating an astonishing aura.

"You two try fusing and see if you can reach the tenth tier."

An idea struck Lin Qiu, and he immediately instructed Wang Mengmeng and Heizhe to fuse, to see if they could once again trigger the descent of the Shackles of Heaven and Earth. If they could, he wouldn't mind pulling a bit of wool from the Earth.

"Alright."

Wang Mengmeng summoned Heizhe, allowing it to merge with her body.

The aura around her rose sharply once again: eighth-tier peak, early ninth-tier, peak ninth-tier, mid-tenth-tier. Her cultivation level only stopped climbing when it reached the mid-tenth-tier.

However, the Shackles of Heaven and Earth did not appear this time, which dashed Lin Qiu's plan to fleece the Earth.

"Never mind, undo the fusion. Adapt to the power in your bodies a bit more, and then we're going to settle the score."

Seeing that there was no wool to be plucked, Lin Qiu couldn't help feeling a tinge of helplessness. It seemed the Earth's will was quite smart after all, not giving any opportunity to take advantage.

"Mm."

After unfusing, Wang Mengmeng and Heizhe each began to adapt to the power within their respective bodies.

Meanwhile, at the Investigation Bureau, inside Jiang Feng's office.

He received the news that the first team members had been wiped out. Jiang Feng's first reaction was sheer disbelief, because in his view, there were only Wang Mengmeng and Heizhe at the villa; how could they possibly manage to wipe out an entire team?

"Did you check the scene with the satellites? How could something like this happen?"

Jiang Feng questioned his subordinate, who handed over a photograph—an image captured by a satellite showing Lin Qiu floating in mid-air with his Sea Dragon Claw condensed.

Upon seeing Lin Qiu, Jiang Feng gnashed his teeth and said, "It's Lin Qiu again!"

To him, Lin Qiu had ruined his plans countless times and ruined his reputation in the Primordial Realm, mostly because of that incident at Zhongnan Mountain.

Originally, the Primordial Realm wanted to use the dragon veins to accelerate the breaking of the seal, but that plan had failed.

And now, the plan had been ruined by Lin Qiu once again. How could he not be angry?

"Mobilize the personnel and get ready to move out. Bring the quantum weapons. This time, we must wipe them all out completely; not a single person must be allowed to escape."

However, regarding this incident, Jiang Feng felt it was an opportunity for himself, because the Investigation Bureau had successfully developed the latest type of quantum weapons, which cultivators below the eighth tier had no way of resisting.

This was why Jiang Feng chose to take the initiative; he felt that if he missed this opportunity, it would be hard to run into Lin Qiu again.

He had also heard rumors about Lin Qiu's background.

As an emissary from the ocean, the state had actually been paying attention to Lin Qiu's movements, but they simply hadn't been able to locate him precisely, mainly because the creatures on land had already begun to show trends of evolution, leaving them with no spare energy to investigate the situation in the oceans.

"This is bad, this is bad."

Just as Jiang Feng finished assembling his men and was about to set off, one of the Investigation Bureau members ran in in a panic. Seeing this, Jiang Feng frowned immediately.

"What is it? Making such a fuss over nothing."

"Lin Qiu brought people and stormed our doorstep!"

The Investigation Bureau member spoke while still panting heavily. At the same time, a series of explosions could be heard coming from the entrance, clearly indicating that someone was attacking the bureau's protective barrier.

Hearing this news, Jiang Feng did not hesitate at all and immediately led his subordinates outside.

Outside the Investigation Bureau, Lin Qiu, along with Wang Mengmeng and Heizhe, were continuously bombarding the bureau's protective barrier, which was already on the verge of collapsing.

"You finally deigned to come out. I thought you were going to hide like a turtle in its shell."

Seeing Jiang Feng appear, Lin Qiu's tone carried a hint of mockery.

"You had a path to heaven, but you refused to walk it; there was no door to hell, yet you barged right in. Today, all of you are going to die here."

Jiang Feng's face was filled with smug triumph, seemingly believing that with the quantum weapons in his hands, he had enough to keep Lin Qiu, Wang Mengmeng, and the others trapped here forever.

"I'll leave him to you to deal with. I'll handle the rest."

Faced with Jiang Feng's ignorance, Lin Qiu merely smiled and signaled Wang Mengmeng to step forward and slay Jiang Feng to avenge the pursuit they had suffered. At that very moment, Lin Qiu's communicator rang.

The person calling was Xu Bancheng.

"Are you attacking the Investigation Bureau? Have you lost your mind? Could it be that you really want to go to war with the country?"

As soon as Lin Qiu answered Xu Bancheng's call, Xu Bancheng's voice came through the communicator, clearly having learned that Lin Qiu and Wang Mengmeng had stormed the Investigation Bureau.