Chapter 366

He Lingchuan lifted his leg and kicked the table toward the fierce tigers, lifted his left hand, and fired a sleeve arrow.

The target of the sleeve arrow was not the fierce tigers, but Gan Sanye Gan. Having suffered for half the night in that broken mirror, how could He Lingchuan allow the culprit to escape?

Who would have thought that Gan Sanye Gan would suddenly turn around and shine the mirror at him.

Seeing the reflection on the mirror surface, He Lingchuan dodged without thinking.

What if he was caught in the mirror world again? He probably wouldn't find a second bird that could fly.

However, he wasn't snatched into the mirror, but after the fired sleeve arrow hit the mirror surface, it actually bounced back along the original path.

It was thanks to his timely dodging that this arrow didn't shoot back at its owner, but nailed itself onto the pouncing fierce tiger.

Coincidentally, it hit the eye.

The fierce tiger didn't diminish its momentum and knocked Gan Sanye Gan down in one go.

He Lingchuan slashed with his blade at the side, beheading the fierce tiger.

At this time, Wu Jingsong and the other also quickly climbed up and grappled with the other fierce tiger.

A headless tiger corpse was lying on Gan Sanye Gan, and the weight of more than three hundred jin pressed him so he couldn't move. He Lingchuan didn't talk nonsense with Gan Sanye Gan either, grabbed his wrists, and twisted them gently; only a neat "crack" sound was heard twice, and his wrists were broken.

Gan Sanye Gan couldn't help but scream in agony.

He Lingchuan reached out and dragged him out from under the tiger corpse, and said to Wu Jingsong and the other: "Move aside."

The two followed his instructions.

Just as the second fierce tiger pounced, He Lingchuan grabbed Gan Sanye Gan and blocked in front, bringing his face toward the fierce tiger's claws and teeth, which were more than an inch long.

Gan Sanye Gan screamed: "Stop!"

Before the sharp teeth could bite down, the fierce tiger closed its mouth in a second, finally not letting him become a faceless man.

Using the captive in his hand, He Lingchuan forced the fierce tiger back to the corner of the wall, killed it with one blade, and then kicked Gan Sanye Gan's lower leg.

Amidst the long screams, Gan Sanye Gan's lower leg broke, twisting into a strange angle, and ghastly white bones could be seen where the skin split.

He Lingchuan hated him for causing trouble, so he crippled this guy's hands and feet to see what other tricks he could play.

Wu Jingsong straightened the chair, and He Lingchuan pinched Gan Sanye Gan's neck and pressed him to sit on the chair.

Gan Sanye Gan had already passed out from the pain. Wu Jingsong started by giving him a few slaps, and his face was swollen, but he couldn't wake him up.

Xu Dongdong immediately said: "I'll go fetch water."

He went to the inner room to find a bucket, went to the side of Mo Chouhu to fetch a bucket of cold water, and came back to splash it on Gan Sanye Gan's head.

Gan Sanye Gan then slowly woke up, looking at He Lingchuan's expression as if seeing an evil ghost, crying with snot and tears: "Spare me, it was the shamaness who harmed you, I'm innocent."

"Wasn't it you who added the light pillar to mark us?" And it was bolded! "Wasn't it you who summoned thunder to strike us?"

He Lingchuan asked him a question and gave him a slap.

"It wasn't me, it wasn't me, it has nothing to do with me!"

"Nothing to do with you?" He Lingchuan bared his teeth and smiled, "What are you pretending for? You already signed a contract with the shamaness. I'm just curious, are you a human or a monster after signing the contract?"

Can humans turn into monsters? He read few books and hadn't heard of such examples yet.

Although the eyeball spider witnessed Gan Sanye Gan's contract-signing process, the words on the contract were as small as aphids and couldn't be seen clearly at all.

Most importantly, He Lingchuan could see the evil ghost possessing the fierce tiger, but didn't see anything abnormal about Gan Sanye Gan.

But was he still a normal person? Gan Sanye Gan hurriedly said: "Of course I'm a human."

"You took over from the shamaness, what should I call you, a charlatan?"

Gan Sanye Gan cried: "Young Master He, it was I who had eyes but didn't see, please don't hold it against me."

"What is the content of the contract?"

"The shamaness's lifespan was exhausted, she chose me as her successor, let me inherit her supernatural powers, so she could die in peace."

"Passing on power before death, is there such a good thing?" He Lingchuan wondered, "What does she want from you, your clear bones or your bullying of the neighborhood?"

Gan Sanye Gan cried with a sad face: "I, I don't know either, she was the one who chose me!"

"Then are you Gan Sanye Gan, or the shamaness?"

"I am still me, the shamaness is already dead!"

He Lingchuan searched him from head to toe twice, and besides some gold and silver valuables, there was actually a light pink mandarin duck bellyband... However, he didn't find what he wanted, so he asked him: "Where is that mirror?"

The mirror was still there when Gan Sanye Gan was pressed by the tiger corpse, but later the mirror disappeared.

"It's at the Baijiao Shrine down the mountain." Gan Sanye Gan swallowed his saliva, "What you saw earlier were all mirror images, the real mirror body is enshrined in the Baijiao Shrine!"

Mirror images? He Lingchuan thought of when he first saw the shamaness; the mirror she placed on the table could also release henchmen, namely Wu Jingsong and the others. He created a clone to smash that mirror, but it turned out to be a distraction, and he still mistakenly entered the mirror world later.

So, the mirror image explanation seemed reasonable.

Xu Dongdong interjected: "Mirror images can take people inside?"

"No, no, the one that took you inside was the treasure mirror body, it's just that the exit opened here!" Gan Sanye Gan cried, "Don't kill me, I'll take you to get it!"

Seeing that this kid had no other abilities, the shamaness's skills were probably all in the mirror. The three looked at each other and nodded, so Wu Jingsong took him out of the bamboo house and put him on horseback.

He Lingchuan rummaged through the house a few times before walking out. Just as he was about to mount his horse, the divine bone necklace suddenly became hot.

His movements paused.

The divine bone reacting at this time meant...

"Brother He?" Wu Jingsong waited for him.

"Let's go." He Lingchuan mounted his horse, and the three of them carried Gan Sanye Gan and galloped toward the Baijiao Shrine at the foot of the mountain.

But after running more than ten yards, he stopped and said: "You go ahead first, I'll go into the woods to relieve myself and then come."

When nature calls, one cannot hold it. Wu Jingsong nodded and spurred his horse to continue forward.

They walked on the mountain road, and after a while, they heard the sound of hooves above, but it was a bit far away, unhurried, clearly He Lingchuan following but not at a fast speed.

Wu Jingsong and the other didn't wait for him either and hurried forward.

Their mission to Wu Ze County this time was to retrieve the soul lost by Young Master Sha, which should be in the mirror; there was no time to dawdle.

After hurrying for more than two quarters of an hour, a small shrine indeed appeared on the side of the road ahead, with its gate wide open, without a bit of light, looking somewhat dilapidated in the night.

"Is this the Baijiao Shrine?" Wu Jingsong felt something was wrong; would such a treasure be hidden randomly in a dilapidated shrine in the wilderness? Gan Sanye Gan said decisively: "It's inside!"

But before the three reached the front of the temple, Wu Jingsong suddenly felt something was wrong: Gan Sanye Gan's body suddenly went limp.

He looked down and saw that Gan Sanye Gan had shriveled up, just like sand leaking out of a sandbag, leaving only the bag skin.

He squeezed hard again, and Gan Sanye Gan turned into ash, disappearing into the air with a puff.

Terrible, it was a trap.

The two looked at each other, feeling no anger but quickly turning their horses' heads, galloping back toward Mo Chouhu.

After the four left, the shores of Mo Chouhu returned to tranquility.

The light rain had just stopped, and the sound of frogs and insects reoccupied this place.

After another half-cup of tea time, a faint light suddenly flashed in the water weeds under the stilted building.

Plop, someone emerged from the water—

It was Gan Sanye Gan! He even looked left and right, confirmed no one was there, and then fished a mirror out of the water weeds, holding it tightly in his arms.

Then he whistled.

There was a rustle in the bushes not far away, and a large deer ran out, also possessed by an evil ghost.

As long as he escaped far away, he would be safe.

Gan Sanye Gan quickly went ashore and was just about to climb onto the deer's back when he heard someone say from the side: "Sure enough, there's a ghost."

This shock was no small matter.

Then Gan Sanye Gan was grabbed by the neck again. Borrowing the faint light reflected by the lake, he saw He Lingchuan's face.

"How did you..." The lakeside was empty, where could this person have hidden earlier?

He Lingchuan smiled at him, as if to speak, then suddenly threw him upward, swung his blade, and split him in two! This was completely without warning; Gan Sanye Gan didn't even react before he fell to the ground and turned to ash.

A bronze mirror fell from his arms, looking like it was about to fall into the lake.

He Lingchuan had a snake skin in his hand, directly covered the mirror, and grabbed it in his hand.

The deer turned and ran away, and He Lingchuan didn't chase it. Only then did he let out a long sigh of relief.

Earlier, he used the excuse of relieving himself to hide in the woods, created a clone, and rode the horse to continue forward, passing the corner. He himself put on the snake skin of Lord Boshan and quietly sneaked to the side of the bamboo building, waiting quietly.

This snake skin could perfectly blend with the surrounding scenery, and he used the "Stubborn" supernatural power; the trick that could deceive Zhu Xiuer before could also deceive the things lurking here now.

If there really was something here.

Originally, he had suspicions, and with the prompt from the divine bone necklace, He Lingchuan could basically confirm that the target he was looking for should still be nearby and hadn't gone far.

So the mouth of that kid Gan Sanye Gan was a lying ghost!

Sure enough, He Lingchuan's waiting for the rabbit was effective.

Everything he saw with his own eyes just now proved once again that the one controlling everything in the dark wasn't Gan Sanye Gan, or even some shamaness, but this mirror!

The mirror holder was just its distraction. "Want to trick us twice, huh?"

The mirror actually talked back: "You humans are stupid and greedy, who can you blame?"

He Lingchuan thought for a moment, turned the mirror face outward, aimed the mirror back at himself, then tore off the snake skin, grabbed the Fusheng blade, and stabbed it.

Stabbing from the back of the mirror toward the mirror surface.

He remembered that the mirror surface had the ability to reflect attacks, so let's be insidious and go around the back.

This bronze mirror was unusually hard; the Fusheng blade stabbed three or four times, but it didn't break.

The bronze mirror let out a mocking laugh, it was Gan Sanye Gan's: "Stupid, you want to deal with my main body with a broken blade?"

He Lingchuan wasn't in a hurry either, burying his head and stabbing hard. This precious blade had the "Army-Breaking" characteristic; although the probability of it appearing was small, but... anyway, he wasn't in a hurry.

Stabbing it a dozen or dozens of times more, it would eventually break the defense.

While he was stabbing, the mirror was making sarcastic remarks: "Mirror-Grandpa I am the treasure of the ancient immortal sect, you humble mortals, you stinky bugs who don't wash, you really don't know how high the sky is and how thick the earth is... Ouch!"

Accompanied by a crisp "crack" sound, the Fusheng blade pierced through the mirror, entering from the back and exiting from the front.

It cracked, it was about to crack! The mirror let out a loud scream: "Stop, stop, stop! Stop, hurry up and stop! You win, I admit defeat!"

(End of chapter)