Chapter 0: A Bet
“I am Wei Kuilang of the Black Ebony Association. I will ask you one more time, who exactly are you?”
Wei Kuilang, the Black Tower Giant, felt the howling, tangible, and fierce killing intent. In that instant, he completely retracted his previous mockery, his eyes filled with heavy astonishment and suspicion.
Such solidified, ferocious, and malevolent energy, as if thousands of soldiers were charging with sabers, had actually affected the emotions of a genuine Dharma Aspect True Person like himself. It was impossible for an ordinary cultivator of the Li Jiu Realm to achieve this.
In the end, this kind of might could be indirectly understood as the Heavenly Dao’s recognition of a cultivator’s life level, allowing their inherent anger and hatred to ripple outwards, and could even be used as an attack method. However, one had to at least be a Dharma Aspect True Person to reach this level!
However, Qin Gou did not respond to Wei Kuilang again. Instead, he urged Li Yuanzhen beside him to obediently take the Grand Unity Tribulation Crossing Pill with his gaze.
“Li Yuanzhen.”
“I’m here.”
“I want to make a bet with you.”
Qin Gou pointed at Wei Kuilang, a sinister smile on his face, “I bet this kid’s head has no brains. If it does, I will make him see his own brains. If I win, the little gambler has to kiss me.”
“And if I win?”
“You can do anything you want with me!” As he spoke, Qin Gou took a step forward.
“Presumptuous!” Wei Kuilang, completely ignored, roared with icy eyes. Suddenly, Qin Gou disappeared from his sight.
Qin Gou used his Freedom Intent to transform his body into a size of one inch. With astonishing speed that left no trace, he attacked. Before Wei Kuilang could react, a fist, as vast as a mountain range and covered in silver dragon scales with white scales, smashed him into the ground as if crushing him with immense force.
“BOOM!”
The earth shattered, and shockwaves surged into the sky.
When Qin Gou enlarged himself using his Freedom Intent, his movements would become slow despite the astonishing power of his techniques. Therefore, this strike was timed with his distance, pre-judged, and the arm’s position, which had just expanded to its giant size in an instant, perfectly hit Wei Kuilang.
Li Xiaogou’s eyes were fixed on Qin Gou’s back. Seeing such a powerful move, she couldn’t help but smile brilliantly, both surprised and delighted.
“Bastard!”
A roar was heard, and with flying rocks, Wei Kuilang burst out of the earth. His long hair was disheveled, and he was covered in dust and grime.
It was already unbearable to be delayed by Li Yuanzhen using a divine weapon for so long, but now to be made so disheveled by a mysterious person of unclear identity who seemed to be a cultivator of the Li Jiu Realm was a complete disgrace!
However, that blow also made Wei Kuilang clearly realize that Qin Gou was far from reaching the Dharma Aspect realm.
“I will crush you alive!”
Behind Wei Kuilang, a beastly figure hundreds of feet tall with strange black fur and a wolf’s head appeared. Its crimson beast pupils continuously dripped with sinister blood, and its claws, which could easily tear through the thick earth, roared down towards Qin Gou’s location.
But it was met with a ferocious sweep from a pitch-black fiend feather phoenix tail that appeared from nowhere, twisting away to another spot. The immense wolf-head Dharma Image couldn’t help but tremble.
Wei Kuilang looked up and saw a divine maiden Dharma Image, clad in black gauze, towering into the heavens. Several strange, slender fiend feather plumes, like black flood dragons, danced behind her. This female Dharma Image, with remarkable humanity, reached up to stroke her lustrous long hair. Her azure eyes, looking towards him, held a hint of disdain, like a child waking up with a bad temper, which was utterly baffling.
“May I ask which fellow daoist this is?”
Wei Kuilang asked with his voice amplified by spiritual power, his expression filled with doubt: “Which divine being are you? You’ve already summoned a Dharma Image, so why are you hiding your head and showing your tail?”
“Such an exquisite and lovely treasure naturally belongs to my family.”
As Qin Gou spoke, Xie Yu coldly glared at Wei Kuilang, her pouting pretty face instantly blooming into a delicate flower.
“You were indeed hiding your strength!” Wei Kuilang’s murderous gaze suddenly locked onto Qin Gou.
“Hiding my strength? Who stipulated that a cultivator of the Li Jiu Realm cannot possess a Dharma Image?” Qin Gou smiled indifferently and pointed at the wolf-headed Dharma Image.
Xie Yu understood tacitly. Her fair and tender small hand made a virtual grasp, and the wolf-headed Dharma Image was instantly and forcefully pulled before Xie Yu by an immensely powerful invisible force. Caught off guard, it was severely chopped by Xie Yu’s several phoenix tails, trembling all over.
“No one stipulated it, because it’s fundamentally impossible, damn it!” Wei Kuilang roared hysterically and quickly activated his wolf-headed Dharma Image to counterattack.
However, Qin Gou himself had already appeared by his side in an instant.
Wei Kuilang exclaimed in disbelief: “Could it be a talent for multitasking? While controlling your Dharma Image to perform such exquisite spirit arts, you actually dare to come and trouble me with your true body?!”
Hearing this, Xie Yu’s dark eyebrows furrowed slightly. She couldn’t help but say, “Ignorant.”
Wei Kuilang’s pupils contracted, and he exclaimed even more shocked: “Speaking human words… a rare growing Dharma Image in the world! But how could its power be comparable to my Kui Mu Wolf Star?!”
“Don’t send me off.”
At this moment, Qin Gou, who had already rushed forward, simply uttered two words. He held a wire puppet tightly in his hand and activated it with all his might.
A nearly transparent thread accurately pierced into Wei Kuilang’s body. Although there was no pain, all his movements froze.
With limited time, after the Fatal Relic wire puppet successfully restrained Wei Kuilang, Qin Gou did not hesitate. He raised his hand and pointed at his own temple, concentrating all his spiritual power to one point without reservation. It transformed into a dazzling silver shuttle that fiercely pierced into himself!
“Pfft.”
Wei Kuilang, mirroring Qin Gou’s action, also pierced his own head with a finger, spewing out a mouthful of blood and immediately falling to his knees. He glanced at Qin Gou, who had collapsed beside him, his heart filled with indelible fear and regret even unto death.
Where on earth did this madman come from? How could such a strange method of killing enemies exist in this world?
With countless questions, Wei Kuilang fell headlong, red and white matter flowing everywhere. The gigantic wolf-headed Dharma Image, before it could unleash its true power, could only let out a mournful roar before shattering like a mirror.
The Xie Yu Dharma Image, however, showed no abnormality despite the ‘death’ of ‘Qin Gou’. Instead, it first looked around, then suddenly reached out gently towards a certain direction, retrieving the true Qin Gou’s body, which had escaped using the “Celestial Master’s Soul.” It then transformed into an azure light and re-entered Qin Gou’s chest.
The substitute Celestial Master’s Soul naturally dispersed into specks of starlight after Qin Gou arrived.
“How about it? I didn’t lie, did I? Now, it’s time for the Evil Slaying Saintess to pay her gambling debt. Aren’t you going to quickly give me a kiss?” Qin Gou walked up to Li Yuanzhen, whose eyes were sweet, with a gentle smile and teased her. However, his expression suddenly changed.
An extremely strange calling arose in Qin Gou’s heart.
The ‘costly commission’ from the Fatal Relic ‘wire puppet’ was instantly fulfilled. Qin Gou, with his hands moving uncontrollably, stripped himself bare in the blink of an eye, arms crossed, standing tall.
“You… want me to kiss which part? One kiss? A million kisses!?”
The little gambler, who was about to offer her kiss, was instantly dumbfounded. As expected of the Demon Master A’Qin, this gambling debt was not that simple.
