I conquered the cultivation world with scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

Chapter 260 Department of Extraordinary Observations

[I only blinked, and Shangguan Ningxue was eliminated! What the heck?]

What a terrifying burst of power! The moment Jiang He unleashed her ultimate, four segments of her mana bar were instantly depleted, and they're only now slowly recovering.

I honestly never imagined that having multiple spiritual roots could lead to this. Jiang He's attack was swift and decisive; it's textbook-worthy.

Tsk tsk, I'm completely convinced. Although Shangguan Ningxue was nurtured by the resources of the Shangguan family, she herself is already a Nascent Soul cultivator. The difference between Foundation Establishment and Golden Core is like heaven and earth, not to mention the difference between Golden Core and Nascent Soul.

Haha, that's so cool! This wood-based spell is called "Slash," right? Does anyone know what the sword Jiang He is holding is called? I checked the stats in the backend, and they're so high! It looks like a high-grade spirit sword, and it's all black—it's so cool!

Jiang He's sword strike significantly reduced the number of trolls from the Black Ten Thousand Absolute Academy; a large influx of online trolls had left me completely speechless.

Haha, there are already posts in our academy analyzing Jiang He's spiritual root attributes.

It seems there's a thread dedicated to discussing this on the university forum. Killing someone of a higher level—it's true, all these years ago, the previous year's students did it too. Even when Pei Ci was still in the Golden Core stage, he did the same thing.

Pei Ci? That's a name from long ago. Pei Ci was recruited by the Lingyun Sect right after the academy competition, and then reached the Nascent Soul stage in just four years—truly heaven-defying. I haven't heard his name much lately.

:? I remember he was expelled from the Lingyun Sect for allegedly stealing a sect treasure. I still see his wanted poster on the StarNet, worth a whopping 500 million spirit stones.

: ! Five hundred million spirit stones! Holy crap, how much is that in star coins? I'm getting dizzy with money.

Five trillion star coins. The news I heard is that his spiritual root was dug out or something. They say the sect leader of the Spirit Cloud Sect took a fancy to Pei Ci's spiritual root or something. Wasn't he just a single spiritual root?

That's the version I heard too.

This is obviously fake. A sect leader wouldn't do something like this for a spiritual root; it would ruin his reputation.

: I've digressed. I'm more concerned about the casualties at Wanjue Academy this time. I saw that Ling Qing's side lost quite a few people.

Ling Qing suffered a huge loss. So many cultivators died. Huang Xi found the supply point so early, and then Ling Qing pulled this stunt. If I remember correctly, Ling Qing had two Nascent Soul cultivators on his side, right? Now one is dead, and then Captain Xie Xing is dead too? What? What the hell?

I saw a huge argument going on on the StarNet forum between Ling Qing and others. I don't know if it's Xie Xing's fault or Zhong Hengshan taking the blame. Huang Xi and Zhong Hengshan are really wronged; there's nothing they can do about their teammates being so impulsive.

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Shangguan Ningxue touched her heart with lingering fear, and only after confirming that she was still alive did her emotions calm down a little.

This time she underestimated her opponent, but she especially remembered that Jiang He had nine spiritual roots.

Shangguan Ningxue never believed that Jiang He's talent was so extraordinary; she preferred to believe that Jiang He had accumulated a great deal of resources.

Shangguan Ningxue logged out of her account in a depressed mood.

With this elimination, she couldn't gain an advantage in the Goddess selection through her performance in the academy competition. Thinking about the Goddess selection a month later, Shangguan Ningxue, like Xie Xing, blamed Jiang He for the mistake.

She kept looking up information about Jiang He, her gaze lingering for a long time on the information that Jiang He had returned from a garbage planet that didn't even have a name, only the number XI.

In Shangguan Ningxue's memory, planets like XI are usually the most affected by the nuclear age. There are very few normal plants on the planet, let alone various spiritual plants. Plants mutate due to the influence of the nuclear energy, as do animals.

On the garbage planet, not only are all kinds of resources polluted, but even the most ordinary drinking water has to be processed before it can be consumed. Spiritual energy comes from all things, but it is impossible for it to come from mutated plants and animals.

The spiritual energy on garbage planets is scarce, let alone schools for cultivators. One school for cultivators is about enough for a planet.

Shangguan Ningxue comes from a prominent family and instinctively looks down on cultivators from garbage planets, such as Jiang He, who was only at the Qi Refining stage after seventeen years and whose cultivation only began to gradually increase after returning to Sun Star.

Sun Star, Shangguan Ningxue grew up in Shenzhou and was quite familiar with its resource distribution. All kinds of resources were controlled by large families. She had been cultivating immortality for more than ten years and was only able to reach the Nascent Soul stage now thanks to the family's resources.

As for Jiang He, Jiang He has low talent and is useless even after returning to the Jiang family. He has only been in the family for about a year.

In just one year, Jiang He had gone from the Qi Refining stage to the Golden Core stage. Shangguan Ningxue didn't believe at all that Jiang He had achieved all of this on his own.

Shangguan Ningxue had heard from the elders in her family that the Wanling Empire had a supervisory agency that specifically investigated cultivators whose behavior was suspicious.

For example, three years ago, a disciple of a sect was suspected by his fellow disciples of possession because his words and actions were inconsistent. In the end, the cultivators of the monitoring organization took him away and he never returned to the sect.

It is said that these people with abnormal behavior have indeed been possessed. Usually, it is a soul from another world that takes over the body of these cultivators. Some souls from other worlds have the memories of the cultivators themselves and will not fail, but some cultivators are completely different people after being possessed, which makes them easy to be discovered by the Supervision Department.

Furthermore, these otherworldly souls usually have some magical artifacts to help them cultivate, and their cultivation level increases rapidly. As a result, it is easy for others to discover that they have been possessed.

As Shangguan Ningxue pondered, she thought of Pei Ci from the Lingyun Sect. According to her parents' conversation, Pei Ci had been tricked in this way. Although he escaped the surveillance organization, he had fallen from grace.

Within the supervisory organization, there is a department called the Department of Investigation, which, as the name suggests, is responsible for investigating dissidents.

Shangguan Ningxue's connection between Jiang He's rapid advancement and those who had been "possessed" was somewhat accurate.

Once these cultivators are suspected by the Department of Extraordinary Investigations and taken away for investigation, Jiang He will be subjected to all kinds of torture.

For example, if someone were to use their soul to read someone's memories, their brain would be damaged, leaving them either dead or crippled, rendering Jiang He useless!

Thinking of this, Shangguan Ningxue felt a surge of joy.

She immediately uploaded all of Jiang He's background information using her personal computer, and then contacted the senior she knew from the Ministry of Supervision.

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“Ruiyu, how many cases is this this month? When will these big families and royal families ever stop? Do they think our Department of Extraordinary Investigations will just take anyone in? I’m working at high intensity every day and staying up all night. My face is so sallow. Even the beauty pills I bought from Danxiu at a high price are no use.”

"There have been about three hundred cases. Seeing that the Lingyun Sect's sect leader successfully plotted against Pei Ci, those families all followed suit. It's really exhausting. However, today's case is a bit special."

"Sigh, actually we don't have any evidence to prove that Pei Ci is a soul from another world. It's just that he ran away on his own. The higher-ups put pressure on him, so Pei Ci was really unlucky. There's nothing we can do about it."

Oh, right, what's so special about it?

"Jiang He, age: seventeen, eight spiritual roots, no, it should be nine spiritual roots."

"Nine spiritual roots? My god, ultimate chaotic spiritual roots! That's truly special."

“There are other special things, such as cultivation level.”