Chapter 31: 31 The Next Unlucky One Targeted by That Skinning Ghost

31 The next unlucky one targeted by that skinning ghost

The difference between a skinning ghost and a skin-painting ghost is that one has artistic cells and the other doesn't.

The one without artistic cells is the skinning ghost.

Because it can't draw, it can only go and peel ready-made skins.

However, only Tushan Jiu understands it this way.

So when she asked, "Is that the kind of skinning ghost without artistic cells?", Lin Xiu'er and Liu Li completely didn't get her point.

"Pfft, hahaha." Lin Xiu'er and Liu Li laughed so hard they couldn't straighten their waists.

Really couldn't hold back, Lin Xiu'er reached out and pinched Tushan Jiu's cheek: "Tushan Jiu, you're really dead serious in telling me a joke, skinning ghosts peel human skin because they can't draw, hahaha, how can you be so cute!"

Tushan Jiu pursed her lips, firm in her belief that her understanding was correct.

She pulled out a nail clipper from her pocket: "The clipper, I've bought it on credit—do you want the position or the ready-made one?"

Liu Li was buying a blade on credit for the first time, inexperienced, and asked: "What's the difference between the two?"

No need for Tushan Jiu to explain; Lin Xiu'er directly gave the popular science: "Of course the compensation is different—it's like you bought something, one requires you to pick it up yourself, the other provides delivery to your door, and the delivery one definitely costs more—don't you even understand this simple principle?"

Liu Li scratched his head shyly, looking at Tushan Jiu, and said: "Can we still do it like that?"

Tushan Jiu nodded: "Before we couldn't, but later customers had this demand, we definitely have to meet it, after all, buying blades on credit is also a kind of business."

Rules are dead, but people are alive.

Why not do it if you can make more money? Not making money when you have the chance—isn't that just being thick-headed?

But changing the rules like this was mainly formally implemented in Tushan Jiu's generation.

Because aside from her, the other clansmen really aren't that good at techniques and martial combat.

Liu Li nodded to show he understood, but he felt a bit awkward.

When they came up, they also didn't tell him there were two options: self-pickup and delivery.

So which should he choose?

Mainly because he didn't know how the compensation for buying blades on credit was calculated.

How to calculate it? How else could it be calculated?

Of course it's whatever Tushan Jiu says.

She also saw Liu Li's embarrassment, so she directly gave two numbers: "Self-pickup: ten sticks of thirty-year ghost power lollipops; delivery: thirty sticks of fifty-year ghost power lollipops."

Tushan Jiu lifted her gaze at him and said leisurely: "You six people together don't you happen to have thirty fifty-year ghost power stored in your hands? Since you don't want to keep getting scolded, you definitely have to pay a price."

Hearing her say that, Liu Li's eyes widened instantly and he sucked in a breath of cold air.

She had figured out all their group's secrets, and he didn't see her using any divination tools.

No wonder she's the most formidable person in the metaphysical world to provoke—this blade-buyer's divination ability is truly terrifying!

Liu Li gritted his teeth: "Fine, I'll buy it on credit, with delivery to the door!"

Anyway, before coming up, his colleagues had said, "Spare no expense, because we don't want to keep being nagged by Qian Hu—it feels like our heads are about to explode!"

"The deal is tentatively settled—just prepare the compensation and wait for my delivery tomorrow." Tushan Jiu took another sip of milk tea, her eyes slightly curving.

"Tomorrow, tomorrow? That fast?" Liu Li was stunned, his speech becoming incoherent.

You have to know that skinning ghost is extremely cunning, changes its skin casing at a high frequency, and moreover, anything with even slightly heavier yin energy she can possess and then escape.

Otherwise they wouldn't be this troubled.

It's been a full two months, and they still haven't caught it.

As a result, she told him she could deliver to the door tomorrow.

Well... okay, those who buy blades on credit always keep their word—once said, it's hard to take back.

He still hurried off to tell everyone the result.

Let everyone hurry to convert the ghost power in their hands into lollipops.

Just thinking about it made him want to howl to the heavens—won't their ghost power conversion be slower than others catching ghosts?

If this gets out, they'll lose face big time!

Liu Li gathered his thoughts and hurried out of the office.

He left, and Tushan Jiu didn't linger either.

Today she also took on a job, which was also unexpected.

She can't calculate her own fate, so she always carries a nail clipper with her.

That thing is small and exquisite, making it convenient to carry.

Most importantly, it won't get checked wherever she goes.

The entrance and exit of the office building are not the same place; the exit leads to a deserted alley.

In other words, both entrance and exit are one-way passages.

This is quite different from Yun Shi.

Tushan Jiu looked at the wall behind her, raised her eyebrows, and said, "Big cities really are different."

Not far away, on the walltop, a black stray cat's tail was puffed up, its eyes showing a hint of fear.

It's been here all along—how did this person appear out of nowhere?

Tushan Jiu tilted her head, grinned at the black cat, then placed her index finger on her lips to make a shushing gesture.

The frightened black cat darted away with a swipe, as if a mouse were chasing it from behind.

It's been a while since she's had skin, and Tushan Jiu finds it quite interesting.

She stepped out of the alley, glanced at her phone's time—there was still over an hour until mealtime.

She closed her eyes facing the direction of the sun.

At the same time, a huge Taiji Bagua diagram suddenly appeared beneath her feet.

At the moment she closed her eyes, the Bagua diagram began to spin.

Ordinary people cannot see this Bagua formation, but if any arcane master were here, they would be stunned speechless by this sight.

And just then, the 'lucky one' who had been stunned appeared.

It was Liu Li.

He forgot to ask whether the lollipop Tushan Jiu wanted had any special requirements, like how sweet it should be.

He went to Lin Xiu'er's office; Lin Xiu'er said she had just left, and then he chased after her.

As a result, he stumbled upon this scene.

He was utterly smitten.

Question: What is the highest realm of cultivation in the metaphysical world?

Answer: Naturally, it is to fully integrate and master the arcane arts!

That is something many people spend decades cultivating, even until death, and still may not achieve!

But arcane arts and divination are not the same thing.

It's been ages since anyone heard of a divination master who could materialize divination!

According to his knowledge, the last person who could do this was a hundred years ago—the blind sect's sect leader who lived to 108 and succeeded just before death.

How old is she? Nineteen! She's three years younger than him!

Moreover, he passed the exam to become an Underworld Civil Servant at just twenty-two, which is also a little pride of the whole observation.

But looking at it now, he's truly useless......

His heart was broken from the blow, but the passage is one‑way; once he reached out he couldn't pull back, so he had to grit his teeth and wait for Tushan Jiu to finish divining this hexagram.

Not long after, the Yin‑Yang Bagua diagram beneath Tushan Jiu's feet stopped spinning.

She slowly opened her eyes, and a glint of gold flashed across the depths of her gaze.

When Liu Li appeared, she knew it right away, but seeing that he had nothing urgent, she told him to wait until she finished the calculation.

But this calculation really made her feel it was a remarkable coincidence.

The next unfortunate soul targeted by that skin‑peeling ghost was someone she had just met that day.