Chapter 174: The Chief Risk Control Officer’s “Logical Loopholes”

Lightning and sword intent descended like two divine punishments from the Ninth Heavens, tearing apart the factory’s deathly silence.

“Protect the President!”

Zhang Daniu roared, his burly body like an iron tower as he instantly blocked Chu Feng’s front.

His entire body’s muscles bulged, and over his bronzed skin surged a thick, earthy-yellow glow—it was precisely the entry-level technique of the ancient Overlord Body Sect!

Feng Zhiruo and Zhao Wuji reacted just as swiftly. One on the left and one on the right, they each activated their magical treasures, preparing to meet the enemy.

However, that icy sword intent seemed to ignore their very existence.

It carried no earth-shaking might, no dazzling and flamboyant radiance.

It was merely a line.

A line of absolute straightness, absolute precision, as if it had been drawn with a ruler.

“Chi—”

A soft sound rang out.

The protective qi in front of Zhang Daniu—enough to withstand a full-force strike from a late-stage Golden Core cultivator—split open silently, like butter cut by a hot knife, leaving behind a perfectly neat incision.

The azure treasure mirror Feng Zhiruo had activated instantly filled with spiderweb-like cracks across its surface.

The few high-grade talismans Zhao Wuji had just taken out were sliced cleanly into two neat halves in midair before he even had time to activate them.

That sword intent, in a completely unreasonable manner, pierced through all defenses, precisely and calmly pointing at its sole target—Chu Feng, who was receiving a massive stream of information and was at his weakest defensive state!

“Not good!”

Murong Xue’s pretty face turned deathly pale. She saw clearly that this strike was not meant to destroy Chu Feng’s physical body, but to sever the divine sense connection between Chu Feng and that Engineer’s soul!

It intended to interrupt this “asset handover”!

At the critical moment, Murong Xue clenched her silver teeth as a soft, moon-white radiance suddenly lit up around her.

A light shield formed of countless profound runes appeared out of thin air before Chu Feng.

“Heavenheart Flawless Shield!”

This was one of Heavenheart Holy Land’s highest-tier defensive divine abilities, reputed to purify all techniques and sever all causality.

“Ding!”

A crisp sound rang out, like jade beads striking a plate.

That merciless sword intent touched the light shield.

There was no explosion, no shockwave.

Instead, the tip of the sword intent began, at a speed visible to the naked eye, to rapidly parse the rune structure of the shield.

One rune, two runes, three runes…

Before it, the shield’s structure was like a piece of open-source code, being read, analyzed, and cracked layer by layer!

“This… how is this possible?!”

Murong Xue’s eyes were filled with disbelief.

The defensive logic of the Heavenheart Flawless Shield was built upon “purification” and “isolation.” Why was the opponent’s attack able to bypass the defensive logic directly and begin cracking the underlying code?!

From the breach in the dome, two figures slowly descended.

One of them was Lei Qianjue, his face deathly pale and his eyes filled with venomous resentment.

Lightning crackled around his body like a mad beast as he stared fixedly at Chu Feng, wishing he could devour his flesh and strip his skin.

As for the other…

White robes like snow, spotless and immaculate.

It was Murong Tian.

He held an ancient-looking longsword in his hand. His face bore neither sorrow nor joy, and those eyes of his were colder than the ten-thousand-year black ice of the Gui Xu Rift.

He looked at Murong Xue struggling below and spoke slowly, his voice devoid of even the slightest emotional fluctuation.

“Junior Sister.”

“Your ‘Heavenheart Flawless Shield’ has three ‘logical loopholes.’”

“First, the energy node distribution is uneven, resulting in a zero-point-zero-one-second spiritual power delay between Rune No. 17 and Rune No. 32.”

“Second, the nesting levels of the defensive matrix are too deep. When facing ‘single-point high-frequency penetration’-type attacks, it produces ‘redundant computational power,’ slowing the overall response speed.”

“Third…”

Murong Tian’s gaze fell upon Murong Xue’s face, which appeared especially captivating due to shock, yet his tone remained flat.

“…your Dao heart contains an unnecessary ‘impurity’ called ‘emotion.’”

“This causes your spiritual power output to have a three-point-one-four percent ‘emotional fluctuation,’ preventing it from achieving absolute stability.”

“Therefore, your defense is utterly vulnerable.”

The instant his words fell.

“Crack!”

The Heavenheart Flawless Shield before Murong Xue shattered on the spot!

Turning into countless points of light scattered through the air.

That sword intent, its momentum undiminished, continued stabbing toward Chu Feng’s brow!

“Puff!”

Murong Xue was struck as if by a heavy blow, coughing up a mouthful of blood as her body toppled backward.

In her eyes, there was no pain—only bewilderment and desolation.

Logical loopholes?

Redundant computational power?

Emotional impurities?

Was this still that senior brother who had once been gentle as jade, who would worry whenever she was injured?

No, it was not.

What stood before her was merely a cold, inhuman… monster wearing her senior brother’s skin!

“Hahahaha! Brother Murong, truly mighty!”

Seeing this, Lei Qianjue burst into hearty, unrestrained laughter.

“First cripple this brat’s inheritance, then we’ll slowly deal with him!”

Just as that sword intent was about to succeed!

Suddenly!

A hand—a perfectly ordinary hand—reached out from the side and grabbed that indestructible sword intent.

It was Chu Feng!

At some unknown moment, he had already opened his eyes.

Within his pupils, on one side, lay the cold ruthlessness and cunning of a financial tycoon;

On the other, were reflected the turning of billions of gears and the roaring of steam!

Two utterly different lights of civilization converged, collided, and finally merged into one within his eyes!

“Zzzla—”

That sword intent formed from pure laws struggled frantically in Chu Feng’s grasp like a venomous snake seized by its vital point, twisting and thrashing wildly, yet unable to advance even an inch.

“Logical loopholes?”

The corner of Chu Feng’s mouth curled into a cold, mocking arc.

He raised his head, meeting Murong Tian’s emotionless gaze, and spoke word by word.

“In my view, someone like you who cultivates his brain into a ‘CPU’…”

“…is the biggest ‘loophole’ of all!”

Before his words had even finished, Chu Feng’s five fingers suddenly tightened!

“Bang!”

That terrifying sword intent which had left everyone helpless was actually… crushed barehanded by him!

The entire scene fell into deathly silence.

Lei Qianjue’s laughter came to an abrupt halt, the expression on his face as though he had seen a ghost.

Even Murong Tian’s eternally unchanged iceberg-like expression finally showed a trace of barely perceptible movement.

He could feel that in that fleeting instant just now, what erupted from Chu Feng was neither spiritual power nor divine sense, but a completely unfamiliar, brand-new rule filled with “order” and “power”!

Chu Feng did not look at him again. Instead, he turned around and supported the unsteady Murong Xue.

He looked at her pale face and the blood at the corner of her lips, his brows tightly furrowed.

He took out a “Dao-Inquiry Pill · Supreme Edition” from his storage ring and, without a word, stuffed it into her mouth. Then, in a domineering tone that brooked no refusal and carried a hint of anger, he said:

“Chief Risk Control Officer!”

“Your duty is to assess ‘risk,’ not to let yourself become ‘loss’!”

“If the group’s core assets were to ‘depreciate’ just like that, could you bear that responsibility?!”

“Now, immediately retreat to the rear and carry out ‘self-repair’!”

“Leave this place to me.”

Murong Xue was stunned by his shouting. Feeling the warm current spreading from the pill and that utterly unreasonable concern, her Dao heart—nearly frozen solid by her senior brother—suddenly, once again beyond her control, skipped a beat.

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