Chapter 110: The 110th day after retiring from the circle, all hopes are dashed, and the defense will definitely be broken...
As the golden statue opened its eyes, waves of wind suddenly swirled within the tightly sealed space. Like sharp blades, they scraped across the young Taoist's face and body, leaving wounds deep enough to see the bone. Thick blood gushed from the protruding flesh, but as the drops flowed down his cheeks and onto the ground, they were swept away by the breath.
This scene made Li Shu's expression even more excited and crazy.
He knew it, he knew it!
The other branch heads of Jiuyou Tongshenhui are all useless. Only he can share the worries of the adults!
His trembling fingers slowly stretched out, and the increasingly dense aura around him had begun to turn from transparent to black. When he put his hand into it, he could not see any outline at all. There was only a faint tingling sensation spreading from the back of his hand and the palm of his hand to the nerves in his brain.
The smile on his face widened, and he almost couldn't wait to share the good news with others.
However, the moment he lowered his arms and tried to turn, he felt a resistance from an unknown source, a strange sluggishness coursing through every part of his body. His mind commanded his legs to lift and head toward the door, but in reality, a full thirty seconds passed before his toes finally lifted into the air, remaining above the ground for only a moment or two.
It's like a slow-motion movie.
how so?
The ecstasy on his face turned into disbelief and shock at this moment, and a few traces of worry and uneasiness emerged in his heart.
It was at this moment that he suddenly felt pain on his face.
Unable to raise his hand to touch his cheek, he had no way of knowing what was happening on his face. Li Shu could only turn his head with difficulty to see his own face through the tightly closed window. It was this sight that made his bones shiver and his hair stand on end.
On the glass window, the aura that had turned thick and black was like a pair of hands, frantically tearing and ripping open the bloody wounds on his face. A crackling sound was heard, and the wounds were forced open little by little. More blood sank into the thick and black aura and was completely swallowed by it.
What's the meaning?
The gods...want to eat him?
This horrible guess made Li Shu's face change instantly. He suddenly widened his eyes, and his constricted pupils silently told of his fear. He began to struggle frantically, but his sluggish body was always holding him back. He gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and his body suddenly fell to the ground. At the same time, the figure of an evil ghost emerged from it.
Not daring to delay, Li Shu immediately turned around and ran.
However, a whistling sound like a strong wind chased after him and surrounded Li Shu in an instant.
A chill welled up in Li Shu's pupils. He gritted his teeth and stared at the statue behind the thick black aura. Even through the black fog, he could almost see the statue's scarlet eyes. He questioned word by word, "I created you, and you actually want to kill me?"
The golden statue did not speak.
Its cold and hard golden shell looked like armor and a mask, but at this moment, the corners of the mask's lips raised strangely.
Then, the aura surrounding Li Shu grew stronger and heavier. Trapped within it, Li Shu clearly felt a more terrifying and oppressive threat.
This was the response from the 'God' to him.
Li Shu's expression turned completely cold.
He frowned, feeling betrayed and filled with disgust and anger. But at this moment, the more important thing was how he could escape from the other party's hands.
As the creator of the 'divine spirit', he was well aware of the immense power of the 'divine spirit' before him. With a single thought, its aura could silently spread, diffuse, and invade the entirety of Danlin City. Within two minutes, everyone living in Danlin City would feel their bodies sore, their temperatures rising, and blood oozing from all seven orifices.
Its breath is like a plague. If it wants, the whole city will become purgatory.
This is the evil spirit that is bred by the flesh, blood, souls and resentment of thousands of people!
Even if he was once the executioner of the underworld, he was powerless to fight against such an evil spirit.
But he didn't want to become food for the evil spirit, so he could only grit his teeth and fight for hope.
A ghostly aura of his own gradually gathered around him, but Li Shu's black mist seemed noticeably thinner than that of the evil spirit. He took a deep breath, and the black mist transformed into sharp blades, piercing through the aura that trapped him and heading towards the golden statue. However, the blades sank into the thick black mist, making no sound, leaving only a terrifying silence.
Li Shu gritted his teeth.
Damn it.
The rage gushing from his heart made his face look extremely distorted. He clenched his fists tightly, his nails digging into his palms. The pain calmed him down. But the next moment, the aura surging through him like waves made him panic again.
The corners of the golden statue's mouth curved ever wider. Seconds later, the eerie auras, like snakes, screamed and rushed towards Li Shu. Seeing this, Li Shu's body reacted faster than his brain, turning abruptly toward the window. But the next second, as if he had hit something, his body was violently flung back to its original position with a whoosh. Intense pain spread throughout his limbs. A layer of cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and he trembled violently, unable to even control himself and stand.
The golden statue saw this scene through the black aura, and let out an ambiguous laugh from its throat. Its breath became heavier and instantly enveloped Li Shu.
In an instant, screams resounded throughout the space.
In the villa area, the sleeping people woke up one after another, opened their eyes, stood up and opened the windows, but all they saw was the usual silence. With their sleepy bodies full, they scratched their heads. Although they felt strange in their hearts, sleepiness finally overcame them, and they slowly returned to bed and closed their eyes.
A few short seconds may seem insignificant to others, but to Li Shu, it feels like a long lifetime.
When he was wrapped and devoured by the evil spirit's breath, the unprecedented pain made his head become fuzzy. By the time the evil spirit's breath had devoured his legs and gradually reached his waist and abdomen, he was already numb from the pain. The expression on his pale face also changed from pain to numbness and dullness. However, the thoughts in his head became much clearer for a moment.
He suddenly recalled the power and future that the adult promised him when he followed him.
And now, all this has become a joke, a joke!
boom!
The breath of the evil spirit penetrated into his head, and with a click, Li Shu opened his eyes wide and opened his mouth as he was swallowed by the evil spirit.
The floating aura gradually calmed, gathering within a few seconds and converging into a shadow. The golden statue's crimson eyes stared at the shadow, then closed. When it opened again, the statue had returned to its cold, lifeless appearance, while the shadow stood like a real human. When it raised its head, a face remarkably similar to Li Shu's appeared on the glass window.
He walked to the door, pushed it open with his fingers, and saw three figures standing uneasily in the corridor. They were wearing Taoist robes and their ages varied greatly, but their expressions were very similar, all with tightly furrowed brows, obviously having heard the screams in the room just now.
The slightly older Taoist priest in the lead saw him appear, and the worry on his face instantly disappeared, turning into surprise: "Sir, are you okay?"
The evil spirit tilted its head.
He raised his hand, and resentment emanated from his fingertips, carried by the wind from the window and drifting toward the three Taoists. They didn't understand his actions, but they weren't on guard. Li Shu wasn't particularly close to his subordinates, but he was certainly not bad. Furthermore, Li Shu had been constantly boasting about the imminent formation of the spirit, his face filled with excitement, unable to conceal it. They, too, had received some unprecedented treasures.
At this moment, when the wind blew past their noses, the three Taoists didn't feel anything was wrong at all.
The youngest Taoist suddenly felt his nose burning. He subconsciously raised his hand to wipe it, only to see a thick layer of blood covering his fingers. Then, before he could even begin to panic, he felt his ears begin to buzz. All other sounds around him vanished completely, his vision blurred, and his body grew heavy.
When he heard the sound again, he felt his body begin to spin, and then fell to the ground with a bang.
Falling to the ground, his blurred vision began to be occupied by a scarlet color. Until his consciousness and vitality gradually faded away, he didn't understand what was happening to him.
The same was true for the other two.
When they saw blood suddenly gushing out of their companions' seven orifices, they were in a panic and were about to shout for help, but they never expected that misfortune would befall them in the next second.
The eyes were wide open, and the confusion revealed in them did not fade until death.
When the evil spirit saw this scene, he took a deep breath, and the aura emanating from his body tightly wrapped the three Taoists. In an instant, the bodies disappeared, the souls disappeared, and nothing was left.
The evil spirit opened his arms in enjoyment, closed his eyes and opened them again. The aura condensed on his body exploded like a bomb, spreading silently but rapidly around with the villa at his feet as the center.
It won’t be long before the villa area, the nearby streets, and the entire Danlin City will become a Feng Shui treasure land that nourishes him and helps him become stronger!
The evil spirit's eyes were filled with excitement, and he couldn't wait to see the city turned into a purgatory created by him.
Bang.
Bang bang bang.
The spreading aura suddenly made a strange thumping sound, then at some point bounced back into the villa, striking the evil spirit's face. His smile faded slightly, and he tilted his head to look around. The aura within the villa grew increasingly dense. The blocked aura clung to the walls, doors, and windows, trying to escape through the cracks, but those gaps seemed to be blocked by something, completely forcing it back.
What is going on?
Doubts arose in his mind, and the evil spirit walked to the window, put his fingers on the glass and pushed hard. The window, which should have been fragile, was like the strongest city wall and did not shake at all.
The evil spirit's expression gradually became solemn.
He growled, his voice hoarse, "Who?"
With a creaking sound, the tightly closed door of the villa was slowly pushed open from the outside, revealing a tall, slender figure outlined against the dim light of the moon and street lamps. A gap opened up to the outside world, and the troubled evil spirits, as if seizing the opportunity, attempted to escape at high speed. However, upon reaching the door, they were still repelled, ultimately continuing to spread and flow around in dismay.
At the same time, the figure approached the villa step by step, and its outline became clearer and clearer.
A handsome male face gradually appeared in the pupils of the evil spirit. When the narrow and deep eyes slowly raised up, the two people's eyes met. With just the simplest confrontation, the aura wrapped in the evil spirit exploded without warning, and the uneasy emotion instantly filled the entire chest.
"Who are you?"
A simple word was uttered from the throat, and before Duan Sui could respond, the evil spirit that filled the entire room began to attack Duan Sui with a crazy roar. With a loud bang, a strong stench and darkness came towards him, trying to send itself into Duan Sui's nasal cavity and head in the simplest and most direct way, replicating the way the three Taoists died.
But after five seconds, it realized it was a futile effort.
It wasn't that the auras were being blocked; on the contrary, once they realized they could reach the man, they recklessly surrounded him, wrapping him tightly. Yet, one second passed, five seconds passed, ten seconds passed, and the symptoms that should have indicated near-death never appeared on the man's body.
Duan Sui lowered his eyes and looked at these evil spirits that seemed to have self-awareness, and raised his finger slightly.
There was a loud bang.
A heavy door surrounded by thick black fog appeared in the narrow living room of the villa. The moment the door opened, a strong and strange suction force came out from the gap in the door. At the same time, dark hands belonging to evil spirits with extremely sharp nails stretched out from it, clinging to the door with difficulty and screaming hoarsely.
The evil spirit caught a glimpse of this scene, and his uneasy premonition deepened.
But before he could react, he felt the surging aura around him being forcibly swept into the crack of the door without any resistance. His aura suddenly roared even louder, the sharp sound piercing the evil spirit's head. His eyes began to slowly return to their scarlet state, and he quickly retracted and gathered his aura. The two sides used aura as a rope in a tug-of-war, but this rope was obviously not as strong as expected. With a puffing sound, the aura was torn in two. One half was swallowed by the door, and the other half, sensing danger, quickly fled in the direction of the evil spirit.
Just as the evil spirit raised its hand to touch the breath, a hand stretched out from behind the door and caught up unexpectedly.
The five fingers, which were exaggeratedly long, opened and closed.
The breath was instantly grabbed by the evil ghost's palm and suddenly pressed into the back of the door.
This scene sent the evil spirit into a frenzy, its crimson eyes blazing with intense rage. He stretched out his arms, and dark auras emanated from him once again, transforming into sharp blades that stabbed at Duan Sui and the black gate. At the same moment, his figure exploded like fireworks, blending into the surrounding atmosphere.
Boom, boom boom!
Part of the energy hit the gate, causing the black gate to shake slightly due to the impact.
Part of the breath pierced Duan Sui's neck and heart, and formed a strangling posture the moment it touched Duan Sui, tightly wrapping around Duan Sui's limbs and covering his mouth and nose.
With a puff.
The sharp blade pierced his chest.
When the evil spirit saw that his attack hit the target, surprise appeared in his eyes. However, this surprise was too short-lived. After the sharp blade pierced his chest, Duan Sui's body, which was strangled by his breath, suddenly turned into a black mist, floated out from his palm, and floated behind him.
The tall man's body was silently outlined. Duan Sui lightly tapped with his long white fingers, and the breath that had previously tried to strangle him exploded again with a bang. Immediately afterwards, a darker black mist emerged from all around, forming a cage that trapped the scattered breath and sent it behind the door.
The evil spirits that were currently battling the gate were startled upon seeing this. Without hesitation, they turned and flew towards the cage, ramming it with all their might. The cage swung back and forth in a wide arc from the frantic impact, but it couldn't break a hole. Furthermore, the distance between the cage and the black gate was rapidly closing. As it was about to be sent through the gate, the scattered aura within the cage gathered again, ramming against it with a desperate thud.
The force and sound of the collisions grew louder each time, but the cage was so solid that not even a crack appeared.
Pop.
A hand reached out from behind the door, grabbed the cage, and began to pull it back.
Seeing this, the evil spirit outside immediately shifted its attack. But the other party was incredibly agile, scuttling through the door with the cage. The evil spirit inside struggled and screamed, while the other spirit outside, determined to chase it through the door, only to find its screams became even sharper and more terrifying. The evil spirit outside suddenly stopped, quickly turned around, and began banging against the glass in the villa's lobby.
He wants to escape.
Bang, bang, bang.
The solid glass window suddenly began to shake after being hit dozens of times. The evil spirit's aura surged with excitement in a human-like manner. After another strong hit, the entire glass shattered, and he took the opportunity to get out of the villa.
During this time, he turned his head to look at the young man standing at the door. When he saw the other party slowly curl up the corners of his lips and reveal an ambiguous smile on his face, he suddenly felt an uneasy premonition in his heart.
"Oh, how come there is a fish that slipped through the net."
A clear and pleasant female voice came from the left, and the evil spirit immediately turned its head and cast its gaze towards the source of the sound.
Under the dim light, Sang Qiqi half-crouched on a tree, her arms folded leisurely as she looked over. Her beautiful, bright almond-shaped eyes held a hint of curiosity and inquiry. After a few seconds of staring at each other, she slowly raised her eyebrows and asked, "Are you the fully formed evil spirit?"
Duan Sui stepped from the doorway to the back of the evil spirit and said calmly, "To be precise, it's only halfway through its formation."
The evil spirit's rage surged upon hearing Duan Sui's voice, and then his mocking "half," if it weren't for this man, his curse would have spread throughout the city. In less than ten minutes, he would have absorbed even more of humanity's flesh, blood, souls, and resentment, and his abilities would have soared to new heights.
And his curse will spread across the country with Danlin City as the center.
He will become the most powerful evil spirit in the world!
It is not like now, where it has only eaten four people since its formation, and half of its body has been torn off. Now it is running away in a panic just to preserve the remaining half of its breath.
Resentment caused his figure to be stained with thick black mist again. He gritted his teeth and immediately rushed towards Sang Qiqi.
He couldn't handle that man, so could he handle this woman?!
Bang!
Sang Qiqi grabbed the evil spirit that was rushing towards her face, raised her arm and swung it down. The evil spirit felt as if a huge rock weighing tens of millions of pounds was tied to its body. It had no ability to struggle and was thrown straight to the ground.
But this is not the end, it is the beginning.
Sang Qiqi grabbed a part of the evil spirit's body, threw it to the ground with a bang, then picked it up and threw it again.
The evil spirit felt dizzy and his whole body ached after the fall.
When Sang Qiqi mentioned it again, the evil spirit was like a deflated fish, hanging upside down and waiting to die.
"It doesn't seem as powerful as I imagined." Sang Qiqi muttered to herself, then picked up the half of the evil spirit and threw it behind Duan Sui's door.
With a click, the door closed.
She clapped her hands and turned to look at Duan Sui, who was leaning against a tree trunk as he answered her previous question: "The evil spirit's combat capability is indeed average."
"But he's very capable of getting into trouble?"
"Almost." Duan Sui raised his finger, closed the dark door, and walked to Sang Qiqi's side. "You learned the news in time, and I arrived just in time too. I successfully stopped him when he tried to attack outsiders. Otherwise, what awaited us would have been hundreds of thousands of ordinary people who could not be saved. They would have faced despair and died. If their souls could not return to the underworld after death, they would have been absorbed by the evil spirits and become stronger."
"after--"
The man's narrow eyes narrowed slightly. He said, "This evil spirit will once again become the nourishment for the master behind the Nine Nether Gods Society to grow stronger."
Sang Qiqi was stunned. "The guy behind the Jiuyou Tongshen Society wants to eat this evil spirit? He's just playing the big fish eating the small fish game."
Duan Sui chuckled: "For us ghosts, isn't this the most direct and useful way to practice?"
Sang Qiqi thought so too.
She ate a lot too.
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It was almost dawn when Sang Qiqi and Duan Sui returned to the funeral home after all their hard work. She clutched her stomach and went to see Duan Sui. He glanced at the time and said with a smile, "Come on, I'll take you to eat something delicious."
The two went to have hotpot.
After eating, Sang Qiqi felt relaxed all over, and when she returned to the funeral service, she even had the energy to conduct the interrogation.
It's a pity that Pingyangzi's mouth is too hard. Even if Sang Qiqi uses all her skills, she can't pry his mouth open, which makes her feel very frustrated.
It would damage her reputation as the number one professional ghost torturer in the underworld.
But everyone except Pingyangzi was very cooperative, especially Gong Xiang, who had been driven mad by the evil curse of the blossoming flower. As soon as Sang Qiqi opened her mouth to ask, he couldn't wait to tell her everything he knew about the Jiuyou Tongshen Society. Then, when he felt the branches coming out of his throat, Gong Xiang became even more panicked. His fingers frantically tugged at Sang Qiqi's calf, anxiously urging her, "You said you would break the curse for me."
Sang Qiqi really kept her word this time, but after raising her hand to remove the evil curse from Hua Kai, she also cast another evil curse on Gong Xiang.
Gong Xiang, realizing that he had been tricked, immediately started cursing.
Sang Qiqi made a face at him, then happily ran towards Duan Sui, recounting the interrogation. "So it seems the guy behind the Nine Nether Gods Society is hiding very well. No one except Pingyangzi has ever seen his true face... I wonder what his expression will be when he emerges from his retreat to find himself completely alone."
Duan Sui imagined the scene and smiled softly.
If hope is dashed, defense will surely be broken.
He said, “It’s going to be fun.”
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