Chapter 52: Winning is King
Gu Qianyang’s face, already contorted and terrifying, became even more ferocious as he looked at the large black mark smeared across the birth date in his hand.
He took off his hat and said to the Black Book, “She is destined to not escape…”
As he spoke, black liquid gushed from his mouth, dripping down his chin and forming strange traces on the floor. A twisted smile played on his face, his lips splitting almost to his ears, revealing bone-white teeth.
Seeing this horrifying face, Liu Qian, lying on the ground, tried to struggle, but her body felt as if it were nailed down, unable to move no matter how much she tried.
“But who exactly are you… Wait a moment?”
At this point, Gu Qianyang suddenly laughed.
“Hahaha! The Ten Kings of the Underworld, reduced to a mere broken book? How laughable!”
Gu Qianyang was undoubtedly a top-tier ghost exorcist. With his strength, he did not take the Black Book in its current state seriously.
Perhaps having laughed enough, Gu Qianyang continued, “King of Rebirth, you must have noticed it too, right? Although their soul strengths are different, Liu Qian and Qin Liu’s karmic power is extremely similar! This means that her body can also create powerful monsters like Qin Liu!”
As Gu Qianyang said, the Black Book had noticed the similarity between Liu Qian and Qin Liu upon seeing her, which was why it followed Liu Qian back here.
Who would have thought it would encounter this persistent old man, Gu Qianyang.
However, given Liu Qian’s soul strength, achieving Qin Liu’s level of power was basically impossible.
Qin Liu’s soul was exceptionally strange, and it was this strangeness that prevented the Black Book from seeing through her fate.
To put it exaggeratedly, that part of her soul had jumped beyond the three realms and was not within the five elements.
Therefore, it was absolutely impossible to create a second Qin Liu using Liu Qian.
“Gu Qianyang, I advise you to be sensible and stop indulging in these pointless fantasies. There is no second Qin Liu in this world.”
“So you want to stop me?”
Gu Qianyang sneered and took out a black talisman from his sleeve.
“With your current state, can you stop me?”
He stuck the talisman with strange patterns onto the peachwood sword, and instantly, the sword emitted a chilling, faint blue radiance.
The deterrent power of this talisman was indeed terrifying. The Black Book, being just a book, could not contend with Gu Qianyang.
Yet, even so, the Black Book showed no panic and said as if it had planned it, “I indeed cannot stop you…”
Before Gu Qianyang could feel pleased, the Black Book took a deep breath and then let out a voice comparable to an air raid siren.
“In broad daylight, someone is trying to abduct a virtuous girl!!!”
As this voice rang out, the lights of Youdu began to light up gradually, as if wondering what had happened.
The patrolling Ghost Messengers heard the voice, paused for a moment, and then quickly gathered in this direction.
Because Ox-Head had mobilized these little ghosts earlier, they were already not far from this place.
In less than thirty seconds, urgent footsteps could be heard from outside.
The Underworld Fire held by the little ghosts illuminated a hundred-meter radius brightly.
Besides these little ghosts, heavy footsteps could also be heard from outside.
Upon hearing these sounds, Gu Qianyang’s entire face darkened. He pointed at the Black Book and said indignantly, “The dignified King of Rebirth, the dignified King of Rebirth… I, this old man, have never seen such a shameless person!”
Gu Qianyang was so angry that he could barely speak coherently. He thought Gu Qianyang would engage in a one-on-one, truly manly battle, but this guy had no bottom line, calling for reinforcements before even fighting!
In response, the Black Book retorted, “All warfare is based on deception.”
Perhaps it was once a righteous person, but after associating with Liu Haoyu for so long?
Righteousness?
It had long been fed up with these formalities. Winning is King.
“Boom!”
The door of the room was forcibly kicked open, and two three-meter-tall monsters and a group of little ghosts rushed into the room, surrounding Gu Qianyang.
Looking at the enemies from all sides, especially Ox-Head holding a trident and chain, and Horse-Face carrying a scythe-hooked spear, Gu Qianyang’s expression was quite grim.
These Ghost Messengers could revive, but his magic power decreased with every use. Therefore, he knew that even if he won this battle, he would have no chance of turning the tables.
Even so, he maintained a cold, ferocious smile.
“Do you little ghosts think you can stop me? And don’t forget, I have a hostage…”
Saying this, Gu Qianyang reached out to grab Liu Qian’s hair, but as he grabbed her, he suddenly felt something was wrong.
This person… was too light.
Gu Qianyang suddenly came to his senses. He looked at the “Liu Qian” in his hand and found that it was just a lifelike paper figure!
He immediately looked behind the Black Book, and as expected, Liu Qian was hiding behind the desk, peeking at him.
Did this Black Book transfer her away when he was enraged just now?
“Go! Capture him!”
As Ox-Head and Horse-Face gave the order, everyone acted quickly, trying to apprehend Gu Qianyang on the spot.
However, this old man’s strength was indeed something.
When all the Ghost Messengers formed a formation, Gu Qianyang took a deep breath, and as a result, thick black blood constantly oozed from his monstrously contorted face.
“With you lot! You still want to capture me?!”
With a roar from Gu Qianyang, his body rapidly shriveled, and before the formation could be activated, he turned into a pile of ashes, leaving only his tattered Taoist robe on the ground.
Ox-Head and Horse-Face picked up the Taoist robe from the ground and cursed, “He got away.”
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After an unknown amount of time, in the King Yama’s hall.
Qin Liu woke up from her bed.
She looked around blankly and found that she had not returned home.
Instead, she was still in this dim and cold underworld.
She pondered for a long time, seemingly a bit clearer about what had happened.
She vaguely remembered coming to the underworld and then… then meeting a judge named Cui Jue?
He seemed to have told her that he would help her find Liu Haoyu.
Then, she just waited and inexplicably fell asleep…
Could this be considered sleeping in a dream?
Qin Liu muttered to herself. She sat up from the bed.
Looking around the ancient and solemn room.
There was also a mirror in the room. When Qin Liu looked at it, she was surprised to find…
Her gaze was clear and bright, as if she had returned to normal.
