Mirror space.
Liu Qian and his two companions were surrounded by a group of contracted ghosts, their eyes filled with fear.
They guessed that Xia Tianqiong had made many strange contracts, but they didn't expect this many.
The three of them stood back to back, terrified, and dared not make any sudden movements.
The Infant Tree Ghost squeezed its way in with great effort, its voice brimming with excitement, "These three are edible, right? Don't try to take them from me!"
"What's the rush? The master said to spare them for now and ask them questions later."
The delivery guy pulled it aside, saying, "You have no fighting ability at all. Don't get so close. If a fight breaks out, you might get hurt."
"Don't pull me, if I get too far away, I won't be able to grab any human flesh."
The Infant Tree Demon seems to have an obsession with eating human flesh.
Xia Tianqiong did not enter the mirror space. Instead, he stood at the warehouse entrance, watching several enormous gold ingots absorb the Netherworld power in the air.
Both are fierce and cunning, and both possess a ghostly domain. Last time, the cat demon ghost directly brought him millions of ghost gold, worth billions of ghost banknotes.
There probably won't be any less this time either!
After waiting for a while, I found that there were far fewer than last time.
A rough estimate is around 100,000 taels.
Xia Tianqiong pondered for a moment. In the cat demon incident, 60,000 to 70,000 people died and were all transformed into Netherworld Power. Moreover, that ghost realm might be a real spatial fragment, which eventually self-destructed and became Netherworld Power.
The Snowman's Ghost Realm is an illusion, and no one dies inside, so it's understandable that it has relatively little Netherworld power.
He put all the gold ingots into the mirror space, and then went in himself.
Upon seeing so much ghost gold, the demons stopped surrounding the three people and instead gathered around the huge gold ingots, stroking them with obvious greed.
"Get out of the way, get out of the way! What are you all doing? How dare you touch the master's things?"
The delivery ghost shouted loudly, which finally brought the ghosts to their senses, and they all looked at Xia Tianqiong with pleading eyes.
Xia Tianqiong pretended not to see it, "How's Hua Gui doing? Has he given up?"
"I give up, it agrees to sign the human-master contract."
Xiao Ba spoke first, afraid that the takeout delivery would steal its credit.
The deliveryman added, "Everyone contributed this time, but Ms. Song deserves the most credit; her solution played a crucial role."
"Very good, you did a good job. This time, I'll reward you with two thousand taels. Song Shiqiao will take five hundred, and the rest you can split equally."
"Thank you, Master."
"Thank you, sir."
"Thank you, boss."
The demons all thanked them in unison, each using a different form of address.
Hua Gui, his face full of resentment, said nothing and obediently signed the Human Lord Contract with Xia Tianqiong.
Liu Qian and the other two watched all this silently, feeling a strange sensation that was hard to describe.
After Xia Tianqiong finished dealing with the painting ghost, she turned to look at the three of them, and her expression immediately turned cold.
“Mr. Xia, there’s been a misunderstanding. We just want the Fenggui Chessboard back; we didn’t mean to do anything to you.”
Liu Qian tried to explain, but Xia Tianqiong was too lazy to listen.
With a single wave of his hand, he cut Guo Zhan in half at the waist.
"You...you..."
Guo Zhan's eyes widened; he never expected that the man would kill someone without saying a word.
He was truly dead this time, not a paper doll or a substitute. His internal organs and blood were scattered all over the ground, and he quickly lost his breath.
A wisp of light drifted out from the corpse, landed on the ground, and turned into a paper figure the size of a palm, with red runes drawn on it.
This is the strangeness of Guo Zhan's contract, known as the Taoist Talisman Paper Man Ghost.
Guo Zhan died, and it was severely injured by the backlash of the contract's power.
"Don't kill me, I'm willing to make a contract with you."
The paper talisman figure's voice was hoarse and unpleasant, like the creaking sound of a rusty iron door.
Xia Tianqiong smiled. "I only accept contracts with the Human Lord. Will you sign it?"
The paper doll immediately refused, "That's impossible. I will never be a human's servant."
Xia Tianqiong seemed to have known this all along, so she didn't pay any attention and waved to the ghosts beside her, "It's up to you."
The demons were overjoyed and instantly surrounded the paper figure demon, beginning a new round of attacks.
Xia Tianqiong looked at Liu Qian and his son, both of whom had changed their expressions drastically and looked flustered.
Liu Yunzhi's legs trembled, and he hid behind Liu Qian.
Liu Qian was quite assertive. "Mr. Xia, we are the Liu family, an ancient family with a history of thousands of years. You cannot kill us, otherwise my Liu family will spare no effort to get rid of you."
"As long as you spare my son and me, my Liu family will provide compensation—money, beautiful women, real estate, companies—whatever you want, we can discuss it."
He was genuinely afraid. As an important member of the Liu family in the present day, it would be such a waste to die at the hands of such an unknown nobody.
Xia Tianqiong, with a cold expression, looked at the two of them with great interest.
“I’m not interested in any of what you’ve said. If you two want to live, you can tell me about your Liu family: how many strange things and artifacts there are, and who the important figures are. Tell me all that in detail, and you can be spared.”
Liu Qian's eyes widened suddenly. "You actually intend to plot against my Liu family?"
"Since we've become mortal enemies, we should naturally learn more about each other; you never know when it might come in handy."
"How arrogant! How could a mere folk ghost hunter like you possibly shake the foundation of my Liu family? Don't think you're so great just because you killed one ferocious ghost. My Liu family still has fierce ghosts to deal with! I don't believe you can even handle fierce ghosts!"
"Is your Liu family really that powerful? I don't believe it. What's with the name Li Gui from your Liu family?"
“My wicked servant is called the Red-Clad Courtesan, and she is…”
At this point, Liu Qian suddenly stopped, "You're trying to trick me!"
"Go ahead and say it. You'll have to say it sooner or later, so you'll avoid getting a beating."
"It seems you really have no intention of letting my father and me go, nor do you intend to let my Liu family go."
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