The dark tower was completely illuminated by white lanterns, and the girl with the flower umbrella standing in front of the giant cherry blossom tree smiled as she looked at the somewhat wary Yin Zhu.
"Or rather... should I call you human?"
If Yin Zhu were a cat demon, she would have already bristled with anger by now, but unfortunately, she is just a useless human, so she just stood there blankly watching Hua Ji.
"What? You think you can get away with pretending to be confused?"
Hua Ji smiled and took a step forward. Beneath her feet, the gnarled tree roots and branches twisted and turned, and bright red flowers slowly bloomed. The air seemed to carry a dangerous aura.
Yin Zhu finally came to her senses: "You've read that 'New Rules of the Ghost Realm'?"
"Hmm, guess?"
Although Hua Ji said those words, her attitude was clear: she had not only read the rules, but she was also there to cause trouble for Yin Zhu.
Since you've already seen it, that's good.
Yin Zhu pinched her chin and asked softly, "Then you should know what the ninth rule is, right? [Do not communicate with humans in any way.]"
"Heh." Hua Ji chuckled lightly, her expression somewhat disdainful. "So? How do you plan to punish me for breaking the rules?"
She wasn't worried about breaking the rules.
The rules set by the demons of the underworld are fundamentally different from the unspeakable rules. Demons possess magical power, which they inject into the rules to create an effect similar to the power of the unspeakable rules. Demons who violate the rules will be "punished" by the magical power of the great demons, making the lesser demons tremble with fear.
However, humans do not possess magical powers.
If Yin Zhu were just a native human, then he would indeed be helpless against Hua Ji. Her "New Rules of the Ghost Realm" would be nothing more than a decoration, purely a psychological warfare tactic.
“You’re right. Humans don’t have magic powers, so they can’t punish you just because you broke the rules.”
Yin Zhu straightened her back, showing no sign of worry: "However, the fact that you weren't punished for talking to me after reading the rules means that in your heart, I am also a member of the monsters, so naturally I don't [communicate with humans]."
"You're talking nonsense!"
Hana's face turned bright red with anger, and the light pink in her eyes swirled into a deeper, darker pink: "Do you think I'm as easily fooled as those stupid monsters?"
Yin Zhu's eyes darted around, and she quickly pointed to the red flowers on the ground, saying:
"Since you think the 'New Rules of the Ghost Realm' are fake, why don't you try touching a spider lily? You're a flower princess, you can control flowers, surely you wouldn't be afraid to touch the flowers growing around you, would you?"
Before she finished speaking, Hua Ji's face darkened for a second, but even though she quickly recovered, Yin Zhu noticed it.
She really didn't dare.
When a great demon releases its magic, the death energy it generates nourishes the spider lilies, causing these ubiquitous spider lilies to sprout and grow in the ghost realm.
These flowers should have been under the control of the Flower Princess.
However, they are not responding to her magic now; they are just gleefully tearing at the deathly aura in the air and growing stronger.
Hua Ji clearly underestimated Yin Zhu. She was not an ordinary human who could be easily manipulated by the natives, but a chosen one with golden talent. After venturing through so many dungeons, the power of rules she had accumulated was no longer as simple as before.
Every chosen one who leaves the instance alive is imbued with the unspeakable power of the rules.
Even though it wasn't obvious at first, now that we've reached the fourth instance, Yin Zhu has obtained the closest golden talent to the Unspeakable. She has truly experienced this mysterious and wondrous power, and has also felt more deeply that she is like an ant to the Unspeakable.
Once they get tired of playing with something they can't openly talk about, they can crush everyone on Earth at any time.
They possess power.
Therefore, they have no need to reason with the ants.
Just like now, Yin Zhu wasn't going to reason with Hua Ji too much. As long as she dared to throw it, Yin Zhu would take advantage of all the ghosts' fear of the other shore flower and use the power of the rules to poison her directly.
As for whether this can be done, how will we know if we don't try?
Without a doubt, Hua Ji dared not gamble with Yin Zhu on this mindset. As a flower spirit, she was more able than anyone else to perceive the changes in the other shore flower, the eerie feeling it brought to all living beings.
Just like the unspeakable descent of the spirit orb back then.
This chilling feeling of power spiraling out of control instantly swept over Hua Ji's entire body, causing her to explode into countless petals in an instant, only to barely coalesce again. With a complex expression, she stared intently at the relaxed Yin Zhu: "Are you an Onmyoji?"
"Huh? What nonsense are you talking about? Are you crazy?" Yin Zhu didn't know what she was thinking, but she roughly guessed that it must be related to the history of the Spirit Orb.
To be precise, it is the unspeakable history of the arrival of the Spirit Orb.
Unlike Vena City, the World of a Hundred Demons doesn't have a dedicated library to explain its origins and history. There's no technology here, and apart from the demons, almost everything is still. Only the occasional human who falls in can act as a catfish thrown into a sardine school, bringing some new life to this stagnant pool.
Yin Zhu didn't specifically search for related content, but the casual conversations between the cat demons and other ghosts were enough to fill in most of the information.
Don't forget, she's a literature major, with reading comprehension skills so strong that she can discern meanings that even the author herself didn't anticipate. Even if the author says that the curtains are blue, Yin Zhu can still interpret them profoundly from the perspectives of psychological description, atmosphere description, and using objects to express ideas.
Therefore, at this moment, Yin Zhu had already guessed most of Hua Ji's inner thoughts.
The unspeakable descent of the spirit orb usually involves capturing people and sending them through a series of strange and uncanny challenges. However, this world contains a very special group—gods and demons.
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