Chapter 139: The Last Step

Based on the sound.

Wu Xian reconstructed the whole picture of this fight in his mind.

The screaming of the malevolent entity was so pleasant.

Now there was nothing that could interfere with Wu Xian anymore. Wu Xian slowly lifted his leg, preparing to take the final twenty-sixth step.

"Great, big brother, that ghost was bitten to death!"

Wu Xian nodded, his tone somewhat ambiguous: "Yes, it was bitten to death."

The girl jumped and clapped excitedly, asking Wu Xian curiously: "This is the last step, right? What will happen after you finish walking?"

Wu Xian answered with a smile.

"I will open my eyes, leave the Huang Quan Road, and return to the world of the living."

The girl was silent for a little while, grabbing Wu Xian's clothes with resentment: "Can't you not return to the world of the living? I want you to stay."

Wu Xian shook his head.

"I hate this place. It's too dark, all dirty mud, can't take a bath or play games, so I must go back."

The girl's voice carried a sob: "Can't you endure it for me? I've been helping you. If it weren't for me, you wouldn't be able to walk to this step. Be with me, I will make you happy."

Wu Xian sighed softly.

It seems the final obstacle was this girl.

"For you... forget it, people should still love themselves."

The girl's voice suddenly became sinister: "What if I say, you must stay?"

Suddenly Wu Xian felt countless palms grabbing at him, and several heads sticking to him, rubbing around messily.

"Big brother!"

"Big brother!"

Male voice, female voice, old voice, young voice...

The voices of the Daoist, monk, underworld official, scholar, and the girl's grandfather, who had disappeared, appeared one after another, sticking to Wu Xian and calling "big brother."

Feeling the messy, creepy, weird touch on his body.

Wu Xian, who had his eyes closed, had a face of iron.

"Until just now, I thought you were a cute girl."

The girl giggled.

"This is the Huang Quan Road, after all. Ghosts come and go, where would there be an innocent little girl? But I like you, so I am willing to play an innocent little girl for you!"

"That monk, Daoist, scholar, and underworld official were simply too bad, always deceiving you, big brother, so I ate them, letting you have fewer liars around you. It's just that my appetite is relatively small, and I haven't been able to digest them completely yet."

"I did all this for you, and you still can't stay?"

Wu Xian's mouth twitched. He had thought that the four-person group of the scholar had been exposed and disappeared on their own. He didn't expect the reason they were quiet was that they were eaten by this little girl.

"Then why did you lie to me and say they didn't exist?"

The girl's voice became coy: "People want to maintain an image in front of you."

Wu Xian felt the several arms and five or six heads on his body and really couldn't imagine what kind of image this was.

"What about your grandfather?"

"That old guy?"

The girl thought about it.

"Ate him too. He was really too annoying, always persuading me to stay away from you, big brother. He had a smoky smell on him, which was much harder to eat than the monks and Daoists just now."

Up to this point.

The girl's true face was exposed. She was actually the biggest evil ghost on this Huang Quan Road.

The girl's voice became sharp and vicious again.

"Words have been said, I don't want you to leave. If you must take this last step, then I will eat you, let you become a part of me, so we can be together forever!"

Her threat was terrifying.

Several places on Wu Xian's body had the touch of being locked by teeth, and he could even distinguish that the one biting his neck was the girl's grandfather, because his teeth had a very heavy smoky smell. He felt a kind of premonition that as long as he landed his foot, he would die immediately.

*Slap. *

Wu Xian landed his foot without hesitation.

The girl was stunned. She didn't expect Wu Xian to be so decisive.

"Didn't I say, as long as you land the last step, I will eat you!"

Wu Xian raised his eyebrows: "Then I landed it, eat me."

The girl was silent.

"Not eating?"

Wu Xian laughed out loud.

"Actually, you can't eat me, right? After all... you are also fake."

He had already walked twenty-six steps. As long as he opened his eyes, he could immediately leave the Hundred-Year Platform and return to the Clothing Shop grave.

But Wu Xian didn't open his eyes, just waiting for a certain voice to appear. The owner of this voice had fooled him quite a bit, and Wu Xian was going to expose his tricks in front of him.

After a little while.

A familiar old yet young voice appeared: "How did you know the girl was also fake?"

Wu Xian laughed.

He was waiting for this question.

"Your tricks are very clever, even fooling me a few times."

"By using the transition when leaving the illusion, combined with the noisy sounds around, you made me feel that the Huang Quan Road might be real."

"Actively showing fake sounds, making me feel that everything outside the sound is real."

"Letting the four-person group of Daoist and monk deceive me for fun, and then revealing that they didn't exist, making me think that the girl's existence wasn't fake."

"Actively letting the girl help me escape the trap, creating a feeling that she was infatuated with me, making me think that her final horrific reversal was real..."

"But precisely because of these careful designs, I instead saw your weakness."

"Although I encountered all sorts of things after leaving the spiritual world, thinking about it carefully, to achieve these, you only needed to control my four senses: touch, smell, taste, and hearing, as well as making spikes grow on the ground and making the ground drop a small part."

"Hmm... your ability should only be these, because if you had a stronger ability, there's no reason not to use it on me."

While Wu Xian was explaining.

Mr. Master Lanke had been listening. Hearing the end, he finally couldn't help it: "I asked what my flaw was, not for you to comment on my design!"

Wu Xian smiled.

He knew that his words just now would make Mr. Master Lanke unhappy.

As the designer of a delicate plot, Mr. Master Lanke preferred to reveal the exquisite design himself, rather than having the person being calculated talk eloquently about revealing the truth.

So Wu Xian continued to poke his lungs.

"Flaws... there are too many, I can't count them. Let's just pick two."

"First, the girl said that my twenty-sixth step was the last step, but I didn't tell anyone I was going to walk twenty-six steps. The only one who could know how many steps I was going to walk was the Yin-Yang Hundred-Year Platform itself, which is you..."

"Another flaw is that after I released the Huang Quan Dragon Lice, she was still talking to me."

Mr. Master Lanke was stunned: "Is there anything wrong with this?"

"Of course there is. Huang Quan Dragon Lice will attack the enemy until they all die."

"But she wasn't your enemy to begin with."

A cruel smile appeared on Wu Xian's face: "The order I gave was that everything around me that can move, whether alive or dead, is an enemy!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 140 =====