Chapter 31 The Big Shot Bull Warrior, A Big Shot Unknown to the World…

Chapter 31: The Legendary Bull Warrior, a Hidden Master

Not only was A-Yuan impatient, Yu Xing was equally so.

She took two steps forward, pulling out the small box Jiang Hui had given her specifically for containing pollutants. Opening it, she carefully placed the contaminant inside before closing the lid.

As the ethereal purple glow faded from her sight, Yu Xing finally turned to Wang Kunyu, who was still sprawled on the ground. "You don't mind if I take this, do you?" she asked.

How could Wang Kunyu possibly object?

Struggling to rise while wiping blood from his face, he hastily replied, "No objections, none at all! You were the one who dealt with the pollutant. You even saved me..."

Yu Xing felt a wave of relief. She was never good at turning down men who adored her, and Wang Kunyu's understanding attitude pleased her immensely.

Indeed, thoughtful men were truly more endearing.

"Get up," Yu Xing instructed Wang Kunyu. "I need to leave. I've spent far too much time here today."

Her remark stemmed from the fear of missing the church's curfew, but Wang Kunyu interpreted it differently.

Did the Bull Warrior feel that the barbershop's pollution source wasn't worth her time? Well, she was a Level 4 Divine Favored, after all. It was only natural for such a powerful individual to think that way.

In a hurry to return to the church, Yu Xing didn't wait for Wang Kunyu. She turned and walked out. Glancing at the time as she left, she realized she was truly running late.

Taking the bus was out of the question; it would definitely be too slow. A taxi might work, but taxis were hard to come by in District D at night. After some thought, she realized there was only one way to guarantee she wouldn't be late: riding her flying broomstick back to the church.

So, as she stepped out the door, before Wang Kunyu could catch up, she pulled the flying broomstick from her storage ring.

The broomstick looked utterly unremarkable, possessing a retro feel that seemed decades behind Federation technology. Yu Xing carried the broomstick forward as Wang Kunyu, leaning on the wall, struggled to follow. "Bull Warrior... wait for me! Let's exchange contact info..."

Wang Kunyu anxiously called out to the Bull Warrior, then noticed she had stopped. His heart leaped—she was waiting for him!

So, leaning on the wall, he ignored his trembling legs and hurried to catch up, only to realize she wasn't waiting for him, but because someone else had arrived.

Reaching the Bull Warrior's side, Wang Kunyu saw five people standing at the entrance.

All five stared at the Bull Warrior with unreadable expressions. One of them, Wang Kunyu recognized instantly. "Li Sen? What are you doing here?"

Li Sen was even more surprised to see Wang Kunyu, looking both shocked and exasperated. "Old Wang... I thought you were dead."

Then, eyeing Yu Xing warily, he asked, "This person... is she with you? Not... a pollutant?"

Just moments ago, as they debated whether to rush in and see what was causing the thunderous noise, the thunder stopped, followed by footsteps. Then, out walked a woman wearing a Bull Warrior mask and a hideously ugly red trench coat, carrying a broomstick.

Her bizarre appearance, so unlike Li Sen's description of Wang Kunyu, made them all suspect she might be a pollutant.

"She's human," Bai Qinghe stated, his expression serious. "And the pollutant's aura has vanished."

"She saved me!" Wang Kunyu exclaimed, pointing at Yu Xing. "Thanks to this Bull... ma'am, otherwise I'd surely be dead."

Yu Xing froze, utterly unprepared to encounter Bai Qinghe and his team here.

When she first saw them, Yu Xing panicked, thinking they had come for her. *Has Federation technology advanced so much? I snuck back to District D, dressed like this, and they still found me?*

Fortunately, based on their subsequent conversation, Yu Xing realized they were likely looking for Wang Kunyu, and she breathed a huge sigh of relief.

*Ma'am?* Li Sen looked at the strange figure, wondering why Wang Kunyu was so obsequious towards her.

He and Wang Kunyu had been friends since childhood, and he knew Wang Kunyu was a proud man. It was rare for him to even be civil to others, let alone display such fawning behavior. Could this eccentric person truly be that powerful?

"So, you saved my good brother?" Li Sen suddenly smiled, extending his hand to Yu Xing, testing the waters. "Thank you so much. I'm Li Sen, a member of the Seven-City Divine Favored Squad. May I ask your name?"

Yu Xing remained motionless, silently staring at Li Sen. How could she shake his hand? That would expose her. And revealing her name would defeat the entire purpose of her disguise.

Not only that, she didn't even dare to speak, fearing they would recognize her voice.

*Damn it, time is running out! I can't be stuck here any longer!*

Yu Xing was as frantic as an ant on a hot pan, but she couldn't show it on her face. She could only stare silently at Li Sen.

Li Sen's outstretched hand hung awkwardly. Under her cold gaze, he felt utterly uncomfortable. *What's wrong with this person? Does she not even respect the Divine Favored Squad?*

Thus, both sides stood in a standoff, making Wang Kunyu secretly anxious.

On one side was his good brother; on the other, the powerful figure who had just saved his life. He felt Li Sen was incredibly tactless—couldn't he see that the powerful one didn't want to shake hands?

If not for her current exhaustion, she would surely have taught tactless Li Sen a harsh lesson.

To prevent his good brother from unknowingly offending a Level 4 powerhouse, Wang Kunyu quickly grabbed Li Sen's hand and turned to Yu Xing. "He's my good brother, the friend from the Divine Favored Squad I mentioned to you. Please don't take his behavior to heart."

Yu Xing finally couldn't take it anymore. She cleared her throat, forcing her voice into an uncharacteristic strained pitch. "I need to go. I have soup simmering on the stove at home."

Everyone: "..." *Why is her voice so strange?*

Wang Kunyu: "..." *What happened to the powerful one's throat?*

*What did that mean?*

Just as everyone was trying to figure out what the Bull Warrior meant, Yu Xing took two steps forward. Wang Kunyu suddenly remembered that this powerful figure might be a germaphobe and disliked physical contact, so he quickly pulled Li Sen, who was blocking the way, aside.

Yu Xing saw this and thought Wang Kunyu was truly considerate. If she hadn't already had Xuan and Ya, she might have been tempted to accept Wang Kunyu's affection.

She resisted the urge to look at Wang Kunyu, walked past the group, and exited the barbershop.

The abandoned neighborhood at night was even more desolate. Without the pollutant, Sister Xiu's Barbershop reverted to its original dilapidated state.

Yu Xing looked up. The silver moon and purple moon shone brightly overhead, and the gentle evening breeze caressed her, instantly easing her somewhat agitated mood.

*Good,* she told herself. *Today is a promising start, a sign that things will only get better for me in this world.*

With that thought, she set down the broomstick and straddled it.

Under the bewildered gazes of the onlookers, she softly chanted, "I want to fly higher."

As she finished, the seemingly ordinary broomstick suddenly lifted off, carrying Yu Xing swiftly into the sky. After three wide circles in the air, it shot towards District B at an incredible speed.

It all happened so fast—from Yu Xing's takeoff to her disappearance from their sight, it took less than five seconds. Bai Qinghe and the others standing at the barbershop entrance only had time to widen their eyes in shock.

Thirty seconds after the broomstick completely vanished, Su Wenmo finally leaped up. "Holy crap! What just happened?!"

"The broomstick... flew?" the man in the leather jacket said incredulously.

"No, the person flew..." Li Sen corrected.

"Impossible..." Bai Qinghe murmured. "Neither a person nor a broomstick can fly."

After a pause, he mused, "Could it be a newly invented broom-shaped flying device?"

"I've never heard of such a flying device..." Li Sen's lips trembled. "And it's so small yet can carry a person—what's the principle behind it? What kind of energy does it use?"

The group fell into a stunned silence. Three minutes later, Bai Qinghe turned his piercing gaze to Wang Kunyu, firing off questions like a machine gun: "Who is she? How do you know her? Why can she fly? What's your relationship?"

Wang Kunyu: "..."

Wang Kunyu was utterly bewildered, thinking, *How would I know? I just met her too. I was going to add her as a friend, but you guys ruined everything.*

"Heh." At this thought, Wang Kunyu felt a sudden wave of weakness. His psychic energy was severely overdrawn, and thin trickles of blood oozed from his eyes and nostrils. He rolled his eyes and said, "Quick... take me to the hospital..."

With that, his body went limp, and he collapsed into Li Sen's arms.

The broomstick flew rapidly from District D to District B. Due to its extreme speed and the fact that people in this world rarely looked up at the night sky, very few saw Yu Xing flying.

Only a few drunkards, in their hazy state, happened to glance up and saw a figure on a broomstick flying past beneath the twin moons, her red trench coat billowing and flapping in the wind.

"Did I just see an alien?" the drunkard muttered to himself, quickly rubbing his eyes. When he opened them again, the flying figure had vanished.

"Of course," the drunkard chuckled in relief. "It must have been the alcohol causing hallucinations."

The broomstick was even faster than Yu Xing had anticipated, significantly shortening her travel time to District B. Yu Xing, of course, didn't dare land directly at the church entrance. She landed in the Old Era Park behind the church.

This park looked somewhat eerie even during the day, but at night, it was like a scene from a horror movie. This was good for Yu Xing, as there was no one else around.

She landed in the park, stowing the broomstick into her storage ring. Then, she crouched in a corner, opened the Transmigrator Exchange Forum, and contacted A-Yuan from the Cultivation World.

[Wasteland World Charmer: A-Yuan, A-Yuan, are you there?]

The reply was almost instantaneous.

[Cultivation World A-Yuan: I'm here, I've been waiting for you.]

[Wasteland World Charmer: I'm short on time, so I'll be brief. Besides the elixirs I mentioned before, I also need something to make my hair grow quickly. I can't go back bald.]

Without further delay, she initiated the trade. As the trade channel appeared, she tossed the box containing the pollutant into the channel.

After a short wait, several crystal-clear, exquisitely carved small vials, like jade, floated out of the channel. Yu Xing quickly caught them.

At the same time, a private message popped up in the forum.

[Cultivation World A-Yuan: The green vial contains hair-growth elixirs, the purple one is for healing...]

Without time to read carefully, Yu Xing quickly stored the other vials in her storage ring, then opened the green vial and poured out a round, dark pill.

The pill rolled into Yu Xing's palm, emitting an exotic fragrance.

Just smelling it invigorated Yu Xing. *This is truly good stuff.* Yu Xing quickly popped the pill into her mouth, eagerly awaiting her hair's rapid growth.

One minute later, Yu Xing leaned against a cypress tree, speechless and on the verge of tears. Staring at the hair that had already reached her ankles and was still growing, Yu Xing thought, *What kind of situation is this? Such an effective result is too unnatural!*

When Wang Kunyu awoke, all his physical injuries had been repaired, but his head still throbbed with a needle-like pain. He knew this was due to severe psychic energy overexertion. Physical injuries were easy to heal, but mental exhaustion was not so easily remedied.

Now, looking back, he couldn't help but feel a chill of fear. Taking Jiang Hui's mission had been too impulsive. If not for the sheer luck of encountering the Bull Warrior, he might truly have died.

As his thoughts gradually cleared, Wang Kunyu finally understood his surroundings. He was lying in a treatment pod, and outside stood five people, all staring at him intently.

Wang Kunyu immediately broke into a sweat.

Seeing he was awake, Li Sen opened the treatment pod, and the five crowded around, looking down at him.

Bai Qinghe asked, "Can you speak?"

"Of course he can," Li Sen answered for Wang Kunyu. "His mouth isn't injured."

Wang Kunyu knew what they wanted to ask, and he felt helpless. Lying motionless, he said with a bitter smile, "If I told you I just met her too, would you believe me?"

During Wang Kunyu's treatment, Bai Qinghe had specifically investigated and found that no company in the entire Federation had ever produced broom-shaped flying devices, nor had the government.

As for a person being able to fly, Bai Qinghe wasn't particularly shocked. He knew that some Divine Favored individuals possessed divine skills that allowed flight, such as the Favored of the Wind God.

However, the Bull Warrior didn't resemble a Favored of the Wind God. Moreover, when they returned to Sister Xiu's Barbershop, they found evidence that the pollutant had been eliminated by lightning. Since Wang Kunyu was the Favored of the God of Fire, he couldn't have used lightning. Therefore, it could only have been the Bull Warrior.

But the Favored of the God of Thunder and Lightning couldn't fly, so the question returned to the beginning: how did the Bull Warrior fly?

"You little rascal," Li Sen said, seeing Wang Kunyu lying in the treatment pod, wanting to lose his temper. With a dark expression, he snapped, "You better be honest with me and tell us everything you know!"

Wang Kunyu hesitated for a moment. He didn't want to betray his savior. But he quickly stopped hesitating, because he didn't know any of the Bull Warrior's secrets anyway, so there was nothing to betray.

Wang Kunyu honestly recounted everything from the beginning. When he mentioned the Bull Warrior unleashing over twenty lightning bolts in succession, everyone's expressions changed.

"You're not exaggerating, are you?" Su Wenmo disbelieved. "She wasted that much psychic energy before the pollutant even appeared? Wasn't she afraid of running out?"

Su Wenmo's question was everyone's question. The first lesson any Divine Favored learned in the church was to conserve psychic energy. Psychic energy was a Divine Favored's life. For a Divine Favored, the moment psychic energy ran out often meant death.

"That's what I thought at the time too," Wang Kunyu said, still excited recalling the scene. "But I quickly realized I was wrong. After we left the kitchen, we first entered the first room..."

Everyone then listened quietly until they heard Wang Kunyu say that even his full-powered attack, which drained all his psychic energy, failed to burn the hair monster to death. At that point, Bai Qinghe's expression changed.

"That pollutant had such high intelligence?" Bai Qinghe's expression was serious. To avoid being burned, it had soaked itself in water first.

"That's nothing," Wang Kunyu said with a bitter smile. "Keep listening."

Then he spoke of the Bull Warrior's incredibly brilliant lightning bolt that filled the entire room to kill the hair monster. Wang Kunyu was so excited in the treatment pod that he almost jumped out. He grabbed Bai Qinghe's wrist, who was closest to him, and said excitedly, "She's at least a Level 4 Divine Favored, maybe even higher. She's too strong... I've never seen anyone so powerful..."

Bai Qinghe struggled a bit, pulled his wrist from Wang Kunyu's hand, then exchanged glances with his teammates.

Based on Wang Kunyu's description, if Wang Kunyu wasn't lying, then that Bull Warrior might truly be a Level 4 Divine Favored, or even higher.

"A Favored of the God of Thunder and Lightning," Bai Qinghe murmured, frowning slightly. "Level 4 or above, female, bald... Why don't I remember anyone like that in the Alliance?"

Divine Favored individuals of Level 4 and above were definitely officially registered in the Alliance with names and records. How could someone they completely didn't know suddenly appear?

Su Wenmo immediately searched for information on her terminal. As she searched, she said, "There are many Favored of the God of Thunder and Lightning, but those of Level 4 or above can be counted on one hand. Among them, only one is female, and that's the current commander of City 2."

At this point, Su Wenmo paused and projected a video from her terminal.

The video showed a short-haired, middle-aged woman with a cold expression, giving a speech.

"This was an 8 PM livestream," Su Wenmo said. "So that Bull Warrior absolutely cannot be this commander."

Bai Qinghe's brows furrowed into a knot.

The others also frowned in thought, and the room fell into a tense silence.

Three minutes later, Wang Kunyu couldn't take it anymore. He said helplessly, "Why are you all acting like she's a formidable enemy? The Bull Warrior is a Divine Favored. No matter what, she can't be a spy sent by an evil god. Do you really need to be this worried?"

Speaking of this, Wang Kunyu regretfully pounded the treatment pod. "If you hadn't suddenly appeared, I would have already added the Bull Warrior as a friend! You made me lose the chance to be friends with a Level 4 powerhouse!"

Bai Qinghe turned around and walked to the corner of the room with a blank expression.

His teammates followed behind, then Bai Qinghe whispered, "There are many suspicious points about this Bull Warrior. She's of such a high level yet isn't in the Federation's database."

"It's actually quite common for wild Divine Favored individuals not to be in the database," Su Wenmo said.

"But it's very abnormal for someone of such a high level not to be," Bai Qinghe countered.

Su Wenmo stopped talking because Bai Qinghe was stating a fact.

"The Favored of the God of Thunder and Lightning cannot fly," Bai Qinghe said. "That broom-shaped flying device is also very strange."

"But we can start our investigation from this angle. Manufacturing such a flying device isn't something ordinary technology can achieve," Bai Qinghe said. "We can start by investigating companies that manufacture flying devices..."

"But Captain," the man in the leather jacket suddenly said with a strange expression, "I remember there's always been a saying among the Divine Favored: it's rumored that the highest-level Divine Favored individuals already possess divine characteristics. If this is true, then it's possible for the Favored of the God of Thunder and Lightning to fly..."

This speculation made everyone gasp. Su Wenmo, with an unconsciously trembling voice, asked, "You think that Bull Warrior is already the highest-level Divine Favored?"

The five looked at each other, none daring to speak.

After a long while, Bai Qinghe shook his head and said, "No."

"What?" The others looked at him.

"The Bull Warrior should not be the highest level," Bai Qinghe said, recalling a memory. "I once saw the highest-level Divine Favored from a distance in City One. They... had a certain... unnatural feeling about them, but the Bull Warrior didn't give me that feeling."

...

"Ah-choo!" Yu Xing cut her hair short, then frantically dashed towards the church.

Sprinting to the steps below the church square, she encountered a group of people also running frantically. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be Zhao Lan and others returning from a gathering.

Zhao Lan and her group were surprised to see Yu Xing. "You went out too?"

"Yeah, just went home for a bit," Yu Xing replied while still running. "Why are you guys out this late too?"

At this, Zhao Lan and the others clearly looked embarrassed. Fei Mingming laughed awkwardly, "Hehehe... it's normal for classmates to get excited during their first gathering. It's perfectly reasonable to get carried away and forget the time, right?"

Yu Xing: "Hehe... So very reasonable."

The group sprinted to the church entrance, Yu Xing panting, feeling her heart about to leap from her throat.

Standing at the church entrance was a white-robed monk with a dark expression, coldly observing the late-returning students.

The previously excited Zhao Lan and the others immediately wilted upon seeing the monk, each lowering their heads and shuffling past him in shame. The monk remained silent throughout.

Just as Yu Xing, blending into the crowd, began to relax, as she passed the monk, she heard him coldly snort, "In such terrible physical condition, yet still out carousing. Aren't you afraid of having a heart attack and dying outside?"

Yu Xing: "..." *He's not talking about me, right? It must not be me.*

The day could be described as thrilling yet safe, and very fulfilling. Everyone returned to the dormitory area together. Yu Xing bid goodnight to everyone, then pushed open the door and entered her own dorm.

As soon as she entered, she was startled by the figure leaning by the window. Upon closer inspection, it was Miao Yuanjin, still awake.

"Not asleep yet?" Yu Xing casually greeted, feeling it would be too awkward to say nothing.

But then Miao Yuanjin said in a sarcastic tone, "Out playing with people from other dorms until so late, and still have the energy to care whether I'm sleeping late or not?"

Yu Xing choked, feeling a strange atmosphere fill the air.

She didn't dare to speak, lowering her head and heading to her side of the room, preparing to wash up and sleep.

"Hmph." Another cold snort came from behind. "You're ignoring me now! But you'll soon come begging to me."

Her father had already told her that Gu Ya had been taught a lesson.