After all, no matter how strong his Martial Arts Cultivation was, or how great the potential of his Awakening Ability, it could not erase the gap of eight realms between him and Master Fenda.
But now, after "Enhance*5," his strength was much greater than that of Master Fenda. So now was the perfect time to use it.
With a casual wave, Fang Ze conjured a chair to sit down and beckoned Master Fenda to come before him.
Then Fang Ze asked, "Well? Are you convinced now?"
Master Fenda, whose limbs had been severed, looked up at Fang Ze with eyes filled with terror and disbelief, "Who... who exactly are you?"
"Why do you possess such strength?"
Fang Ze slapped him across the face, "I am the one asking the questions!"
"Since when is it your turn to question me!"
Seeing this, Master Fenda immediately turned his head away and remained silent.
Fang Ze tapped his forehead, feeling that he really considered others too much.
He blamed himself for trying to spare Master Fenda some physical pain, deliberately attacking his state of mind, just showing off here.
But it seemed, inevitably, torture was still necessary...
Thinking this, Fang Ze stood up and then said to his own shadow, "I leave it to you."
As he spoke, a handsome Shadow Warrior slowly emerged from Fang Ze's shadow.
It was none other than Jun, who had followed Bai Zhi and returned to Fang Ze's side.
With a sinister smile, he approached Master Fenda to begin the torture....
Previously, Fang Ze had intentionally demonstrated his mind-reading ability to Master Fenda; he had purposefully allowed him to run, but made escape impossible; he had mocked him, deliberately defeating Master Fenda with a single move not just to show off or to satisfy his own "sadistic" cat-and-mouse mentality.
Everything was actually for his purpose tonight.
After "borrowing" Bai Zhi's "Enhance*5," Fang Ze gained five abilities: Verbal Contract, Unfair Trade, Currency Exploitation, Compulsory Taxation, Personal Deprivation.
Among these, what Fang Ze remembered most deeply were the first stage of Fusion "Verbal Contract" and the fifth stage of Fusion "Personal Deprivation."
Once you activate this ability, any verbal agreement you make with anyone will have a strong effect.
If the other party's strength is lower than yours, then they will certainly not be able to break this contract. The moment they violate it, they will be punished with the destruction of both their divine soul and body.
If the other party's strength is higher than yours, they might break the contract, but once they do, they will receive a punishment equivalent to your strength....
"Personal Deprivation"
When you utterly defeat a borrower's spirit, or when a borrower is unable to repay what you have lent them, you will acquire the ability to deprive them of everything.
Using this ability, the other party's life, freedom, rights, everything they own, will all be under your control.
Their soul and body will be entirely in your hands.
They will be unable to disobey your commands or do anything to harm you.
You can order them to do anything, and freely command everything they own: including abilities, items, family, life, and so on....
This effect binds the soul and cannot be restricted by Law Prohibition.
These two abilities, the former is a power Fang Ze could acquire at the next stage.
The latter, however, was key to Fang Ze breaking this situation...
This was also why Fang Ze had intentionally crushed Master Fenda a little bit at a time: he just wanted to shatter Master Fenda's spirit and then directly apply the "Personal Deprivation" ability on him!
Perhaps Fang Ze's methods really had some effect, or maybe it was just that Master Fenda had a weak character.
Regardless, five minutes later, Jun dragged what looked like the lifeless body of Master Fenda back in front of Fang Ze.
Looking at the collapsed state of Master Fenda, Fang Ze directly activated the "Personal Deprivation" ability.
Fang Ze grabbed Master Fenda's head, his body emitting a burst of scarlet light.
The crimson light seeped into Master Fenda's entire body.
Master Fenda trembled as he absorbed that power, his body twitching unconsciously.
After a moment, the ability ended.
Fang Ze removed the "corpse-driving talisman paper" from the back of Master Fenda's head and threw him to the ground.
Then he looked at Master Fenda and commanded, "Reconstitute your body."
Lying on the ground, Master Fenda indeed showed a marked change in his demeanor. He respectfully said to Fang Ze, "Yes, my lord."
Then his body suddenly exploded, turning into specks of spiritual light. After a moment, the lights recombined, restoring Master Fenda to his original form.
This was the great aspect of Spirit Ascension: having no physical body, the body was completely composed of the Power of Laws. Thus, no matter how severe the damage, it required only some of the Power of Laws and time to reconstitute the body.
After reconstituting his body, Master Fenda bowed, standing in front of Fang Ze like a servant of many years.
Fang Ze looked at him, then said, "Do you know why I didn't kill you?"
Master Fenda shook his head, "My lord, I do not know."
Fang Ze said, "Because... I need you to play a role in a play with me."
"A play?" Master Fenda looked at Fang Ze, puzzled.
The reason Fang Ze had gone through such trouble, striking at Master Fenda's core, capturing him alive, and stripping him of his personhood, was all for this purpose.
Indeed, when Master Fenda "invaded" him, Fang Ze had known that the challenge tonight was not about defeating or killing Master Fenda.
Because defeating Master Fenda, apart from proving to the Inspector that his strength was not as simple as it seemed, thus deepening the Inspector's suspicions, served no other purpose.
Therefore, what Fang Ze needed was not to defeat or kill Master Fenda, but a means to deceive or control him!
Fortunately, after the ["Enhance*5"], he had obtained the "Personal Deprivation" ability.
With the "Personal Deprivation" ability, Fang Ze would control Master Fenda in the Late-Night Investigation Room and then both would concoct a fake truth for Master Fenda to tell to the Inspector afterward.
And the next day, in front of the Inspector and his deputy, he would "use" lie detection ability on Fang Ze.
"Prove" that this false story is true.
Make the Inspector believe that Fang Ze, although slightly concealing some facts, indeed had nothing to do with the killing of a Yang Transformation-stage practitioner.
Only this way, could the critical situation be resolved!
Hence, seeing Master Fenda's bewildered expression and having already planned everything, Fang Ze slowly began to outline the arrangements for Master Fenda once he was outside...
Meanwhile, at the same time.
In the real world, on the Sky Mother Ship.
Next to Fang Ze's room, an old man slowly pushed open the door and entered.
Inside the room, the deputy sat in front of a monitor, watching the surveillance footage inside Fang Ze's room.
In the footage, Fang Ze still lay quietly on his bed, deeply asleep, showing no reaction.
And Master Fenda, due to being at the Spirit Ascension stage and his spiritual light having disappeared, was nowhere to be seen.
The old man, hands behind his back and eyes grim, glanced at the footage and then said expressionlessly to the deputy, "Has Master Fenda entered the dream?"
The deputy nodded, then said with a smile, "Yes, he has been in for over two hours now and hasn't come out yet."
"According to what Master Fenda said earlier, with such a long time, the feeling is that there will be significant gains."
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