Chapter 622: Sealing

Chen Jiajun sneered and said, "That's right, it is precisely because the tomb was destroyed and the object that pacified Chu Renmei fell from her corpse that your situation occurred!"

"The object that pacified Chu Renmei?" Xiaoming grasped the key to the matter.

Chen Jiajun nodded: "Back then, Chu Renmei's Evil Qi was monstrous. After killing sixty-six people in Huangshan Village, she originally wanted to continue her killing spree, but someone saved the other residents and let them escape!"

"Is it that Li Qiang? The child Chu Renmei adopted?" Mr. Mao asked with a look of surprise.

Chen Jiajun looked at this Mr. Mao with some surprise, nodded, and said: "Your reaction is quite fast; that's right, it is that Li Qiang. Back then, Chu Renmei gave Li Qiang a Peace Bracelet and promised Li Qiang one condition."

"Li Qiang could not bear to see innocent people slaughtered by Chu Renmei, so he used the Peace Bracelet to negotiate a condition with her: from then on, she would no longer kill the innocent."

Chen Jiajun glanced at the pool that had been dug out and said indifferently: "I suspect that when the workers dug open Chu Renmei's tomb, her corpse fell into the pool water, and the Peace Bracelet on her hand likely fell off at that moment too!"

"So I need one of you to go down, retrieve the Peace Bracelet from the pool water, and hand it to me."

Hearing Chen Jiajun's words, both of them hesitated.

After all, they still had lingering fears regarding how terrifying Chu Renmei was.

However, for the sake of his girlfriend, Xiaoming steeled himself and stated directly: "Fine, Mr. Chen, I will go down!"

Chen Jiajun nodded and said: "Come up immediately after finding the Peace Bracelet. Do not do anything unnecessary, otherwise, even I cannot save you!"

Xiaoming nodded, then took off his clothes and plunged headfirst into the pool water.

Mr. Mao said to Chen Jiajun with some worry: "Mr. Chen, won't something go wrong?"

Chen Jiajun said indifferently: "How would I know!"

"Ah?" Mr. Mao was instantly enraged: "Then why did you let Xiaoming go down?"

Chen Jiajun spread his hands and said: "You want to save people, if you don't go down, who will? You don't think that to resolve this kind of matter, you don't need to bear any karma, do you?"

Hearing this, Mr. Mao was instantly rendered speechless.

He could only stare at the pool with a nervous expression, waiting for Xiaoming to come up.

And just at this moment, Mr. Mao suddenly saw a clump of black hair floating on the water's surface.

Immediately after, he saw a woman with disheveled hair, wearing a blue opera robe, slowly floating up from under the water.

Seeing this, Mr. Mao was instantly startled: "Mr... Mr. Chen! Chu Renmei!"

Chen Jiajun said indifferently: "I see her, but don't worry, she cannot directly harm people!"

Chen Jiajun saw at a glance that the "Chu Renmei" before them was merely a thing formed from a clump of Evil Qi, which had no lethality to them at all, while her true body, in all likelihood, was in another space, just as Chen Jiajun had guessed.

Sure enough, when Mr. Mao looked again, he discovered that Chu Renmei had already disappeared.

Xiaoming emerged from the water with a look of pleasant surprise, holding up a faded bracelet, and smiled: "Mr. Chen, Teacher Mao, look, I found it!"

Mr. Mao said anxiously: "Come up quickly, hurry!"

Chen Jiajun could wait no longer; he leaped forward and pulled Xiaoming out of the water with one hand.

Then, he stepped on the trunk of a tree on the opposite bank to gain leverage before returning to the shore.

Chen Jiajun being so anxious was naturally not to show off his movement techniques in front of the two.

It was because he knew that as long as one drank the water in this pool, they would be struck by Chu Renmei's curse.

The reason he tricked Xiaoming into jumping down was so that he could obtain the Peace Bracelet without getting these curses on himself.

And stepping in to save Xiaoming was also because he feared that Chu Renmei would control Xiaoming at the first opportunity to sink him to the bottom of the pool.

Fortunately, the Peace Bracelet was now in hand.

Xiaoming looked at Chen Jiajun with a look of worship and said: "Mr. Chen, you are so amazing!"

Chen Jiajun said indifferently: "Just a small trick. You two move back a bit, I am going to resolve this matter!"

Hearing Chen Jiajun's words, the two followed his lead and immediately retreated a few steps.

Holding the bracelet, Chen Jiajun could feel a power that could soothe the human heart.

Moreover, according to the plot, one could know that this thing was equivalent to a key, a key that could enter the different space where Chu Renmei's corpse was located.

So Chen Jiajun took a deep breath, held the bracelet, and jumped directly into the pool.

As soon as Chen Jiajun touched the water surface, he felt a powerful attractive force constantly pulling at him.

Chen Jiajun did not resist, letting this attractive force pull him down into the pool.

By the time Chen Jiajun's body was completely submerged in the pool, that bone-chilling cold feeling struck him once again.

Then, Chen Jiajun discovered that he had arrived at a mass grave.

All around were graves, with the names of the tomb owners and their birth dates and times carved upon them.

Chen Jiajun glanced at them casually; the death dates of these tomb owners were mostly over a hundred years ago.

"Disturbing time and space, this is truly interesting!" Chen Jiajun chuckled softly; he had indeed guessed correctly.

Afterwards, Chen Jiajun walked a few steps and saw a bizarre scene.

It was a dug-up grave, and lying beside the grave was a corpse.

The corpse's face could not be seen, covered by a straw mat, with a pair of pale, stiff hands raised high in a grasping posture.

And on the tombstone, Chu Renmei's name was clearly written.

"Tsk tsk, this is indeed your Ghost Domain!" Chen Jiajun sneered, looking at the bizarre scene before him.

However, Chen Jiajun did not pay it any mind, but instead began to call upon the system on his own.

This time, the system indeed reacted, which made Chen Jiajun overjoyed.

The first thing Chen Jiajun did was to take out all the equipment on his person from the system.

With the ability to protect himself, Chen Jiajun finally let out a long sigh of relief and attempted to contact his subordinates.

In another timeline's Hong Kong, the Guojun Group building.

Inside Chen Jiajun's office.

Lao Yu and Lao E had already fully taken over Chen Jiajun's position and began to conduct a screening of the group.

Simply put, it meant calling the high-ranking officials within the group to the office one by one, and then having Lao Yu ask them a few questions.

They didn't know until they checked, but once they did, it really gave Lao Yu and Lao E a fright.

The number of spies inside Guojun Group could be said to be countless, with people from every faction.

There were even people from the CIA and MI6 who had infiltrated.

However, logically speaking, given their boss's personality, these people should have been cleared out long ago; why were they still here? "What should we do? Should we kill them?" Lao Yu was a bit indecisive, fearing he might disrupt some plan of Chen Jiajun's.

One had to know that the thoughts of their boss were not something an ordinary person could guess.

After a moment of silence, Lao Yu said: "No rush. Since these people haven't made any rash moves, don't clear them out. It's better to wait until the boss returns and report it then! News has also come from Sila's side; those planning to cause trouble are just assistants under Wei Li and Su Xingbai. They themselves don't have any ulterior motives!"

"It's just that the most troublesome thing is the matter with the Lu family! And the boss just happens to be away at a time like this."

"Should we tell Sister-in-law Lu Yongyu?" Lao E said, frowning.

Lao Yu sighed and said: "I am also considering that point!"

Just as the two were talking, they were both suddenly shaken, and then expressions of wild joy appeared on their faces.

Because Chen Jiajun's voice had come to their ears! "Boss, where are you right now?" Lao Yu immediately asked aloud.

Chen Jiajun said helplessly: "It's hard to say, it seems I've been swept into another space-time!"

"Another space-time?" Lao Yu was somewhat surprised: "How did that happen?"

Chen Jiajun shook his head: "I don't know either, and this is only a temporary communication; I estimate that once I leave this place, I won't be able to contact you anymore! But I have already found a way to return, and I will be back in a while! Has anything happened in Hong Kong?"

Lao Yu could only bite the bullet and say: "Just some minor problems, we can solve them very quickly. But... there is a matter concerning the Lu family!"

"How so? Are the Lu family brothers getting restless?" Chen Jiajun guessed what it was instantly.

Lao Yu nodded and said: "We don't know what to do!"

These Lu family brothers, including Lu Jinqiang, were no pushovers.

Moreover, they were all greedy by nature; with Chen Jiajun suppressing them, they naturally didn't dare to harbor any wild thoughts.

But now, rumors were flying everywhere outside, saying that Chen Jiajun had gone missing. Coupled with the agitation of certain interested factions, the few guys began to stir.

Chen Jiajun was silent for a moment, then said to Lao Yu: "What have they done?"

"They intend to split up Lu Guo Group; the Information Organization sent word that someone should be inciting them from behind!" Lao Yu replied. Today's Lu Guo Group had long since become one of the top real estate developers in Hong Kong.

It was no longer the family business it was when Lu Hantao was in charge. Although the members of the Lu family all held shares, they generally did not participate in management.

Now that they had jumped out, saying no one was pushing them was simply bullshit.

Chen Jiajun said coldly: "Tell Lu Yongyu about this matter, and have her try her best to stall for time until I return!"

"Yes, I understand!" Lao Yu nodded: "But boss, there are many spies inside Guojun Group, do we need to..."

"If they haven't made any rash moves, just keep them and monitor them for now!" Chen Jiajun said in a chilling tone: "If they dare to make any rash moves... kill them!"

"Understood!"

Chen Jiajun glanced at Chu Renmei, who had already climbed up from the ground, and then said to Lao Yu: "Alright, if there's nothing else, I have things to deal with on my end!"

"Alright, boss!" Lao Yu and Lao E exchanged a glance and breathed a sigh of relief.

After Chen Jiajun cut off the communication, he dealt seriously with the Chu Renmei before him.

Chu Renmei's current state was terrifying; even though Chen Jiajun had released the effect of the 【Sunfire Aegis】, he still hadn't been able to block that bone-chilling cold.

Clearly, Chu Renmei's state was even more formidable than he had imagined.

Seeing Chen Jiajun's hostile stance, Chu Renmei suddenly moved.

Her speed was not fast, and her limbs were somewhat stiff, but she vanished from Chen Jiajun's field of vision in a "glitching" state.

Greatly alarmed, Chen Jiajun immediately drew the 【Statikk Shiv】 in his hand and swung it around toward his back.

The blade, carrying magical lightning, had power far greater than the 【Sunfire Aegis】.

But Chu Renmei used that "glitching" state again and disappeared from behind Chen Jiajun.

Then she appeared very abruptly in front of him.

The two were almost face-to-face, pressed against each other.

At this moment, Chu Renmei's eyes were gone, looking instead like two black holes.

Chen Jiajun felt like he was about to be sucked in just by taking one look.

But at this very moment, the 【Ascension Talisman】 in his hand emitted a flash of golden light.

Chu Renmei was directly shaken away by the light, letting out a terrifying ghostly wail.

"Damn it, almost capsized in the gutter!" Chen Jiajun couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat on his back; the power of a childhood shadow was truly not to be underestimated.

During that series of continuous movements just now, Chen Jiajun had almost no chance to fight back.

If it weren't for having enough Artifacts on his person, he definitely would have been caught by Chu Renmei.

However, this also made Chen Jiajun somewhat annoyed; having had smooth sailing for so many years, he had never suffered such a big loss.

He immediately grabbed the blade and swung it, striking toward Chu Renmei once again.

This time, Chu Renmei's "glitching" bizarre movement method didn't take effect again; the Electric Blade struck her blue opera robe fiercely, burning a piece of it instantly! This seemed to have angered Chu Renmei, and she directly stretched out her pale hands.

Then her hands suddenly elongated, grabbing directly toward Chen Jiajun's neck.

Although this method was bizarre, Chen Jiajun had long been prepared.

He gave a slight shake, and the Electric Blade in his hand surged wildly.

For a fierce ghost like Chu Renmei, filled with Evil Qi, it must be extremely difficult to kill her.

Chen Jiajun estimated that only a mage in Lin Fengqiao's prime would possibly be able to deal with Chu Renmei.

As for him? Without the right methods, even if he beat Chu Renmei apart, she would likely continue to regenerate.

After all, Chen Jiajun couldn't even break Chu Renmei's Ghost Domain, let alone deal with this kind of anomaly directly.

Therefore, what he had to do was put that Peace Bracelet on Chu Renmei and seal her away.

Chu Renmei's hands tightly gripped Chen Jiajun's neck, and the cold, sinister aura instantly invaded Chen Jiajun's body.

This level of ghost energy cannot even be resisted by the Sunfire Aegis on his body.

However, the Electric Blade in Chen Jiajun's hand also held Chu Renmei in check, not allowing her to escape easily.

The two sides falling into this current situation was exactly what Chen Jiajun wanted.

He immediately took out the Peace Bracelet that Xiaoming had fished out from the water pool earlier from his pocket, then fastened it onto Chu Renmei's hand.

After the bracelet was fastened onto Chu Renmei's hand, Chu Renmei acted as if she had crashed.

The bone-chilling ghost energy was also entirely retracted back into her body.

Chen Jiajun was also able to break free, coughing twice.

The ghost energy invasion just now made him feel extremely uncomfortable, so he immediately took out two medicine bottles and gulped down two mouthfuls fiercely.

But to Chen Jiajun's surprise, the Life Potion actually had no effect on this kind of ghost energy invasion.

He could only take out a Senzu Bean and eat it, and his condition improved quite a bit instantly.

Looking at Chu Renmei again, this thing had already laid back down beside the graveyard, covering her whole body with a straw mat, and those pale hands were also lowered; it looked like the Peace Bracelet had taken effect.

Chen Jiajun let out a long sigh of relief, then began searching for a way out.

Subsequently, he was surprised to discover that the Ghost Domain created by Chu Renmei was rapidly collapsing.

And Chen Jiajun's connection with the system also became unstable.

Chen Jiajun hurriedly got a few life-saving items from the system, then immediately ran toward the edge.

After escaping Chu Renmei's Ghost Domain, Chen Jiajun discovered that he was at the bottom of the pool.

He immediately spread his arms and swam toward the water surface.

A moment later, he finally saw the clear sky, as well as the terrified Xiaoming and Mr. Mao on the shore.

After being dragged onto the shore by the two, Chen Jiajun also felt as if he had lost all his strength.

"Mr. Chen, how are you?" Xiaoming asked hurriedly.

Chen Jiajun waved his hand and said, "I'm fine, just exhausted!"

After resting for a while, Chen Jiajun sat up from the ground.

Xiaoming hesitated for a long time before saying to Chen Jiajun, "Mr. Chen, that Chu Renmei..."

"I have already sealed Chu Renmei with the Peace Bracelet!" Chen Jiajun sighed and said, "As long as that bracelet does not leave her corpse, you will be fine!"

"Ah? You... you didn't transcend Chu Renmei?" Xiaoming said with some surprise.

Chen Jiajun said irritably, "What kind of beautiful dream are you having? I don't have the ability to destroy a vengeful ghost of this level; you should be happy enough that I was able to seal her!"

Hearing Chen Jiajun's words, the two felt a bit embarrassed.

After all, when Chen Jiajun had just gone down and come back up, it was as if he had lost half his life.

He was still pale now, and there were two claw marks left on his neck!

Chen Jiajun himself did not know whether Chu Renmei's curse had been resolved, but in the end, that was none of his business.

From beginning to end, he never thought about helping this group of young people who were courting death; calling the two of them over was just to verify his own conjecture.

Now that Chen Jiajun had confirmed the things he conjectured, then the subsequent matters had nothing to do with him.

After all, to this world, he was just a passerby.

Being able to temporarily seal Chu Renmei to prevent her from coming out to harm people was already doing right by everyone.

Chen Jiajun looked at his soaked body and said to the two very straightforwardly, "Alright, now that the things I should do are done, let's part ways here!"

After speaking, Chen Jiajun turned around and intended to leave.

But at this moment, Mr. Mao stopped Chen Jiajun, "Mr. Chen, I have something I want to ask you!"

"Speak!" Chen Jiajun was already showing some impatience.

Mr. Mao was also someone who knew how to read the room, so he did not beat around the bush and said directly to Chen Jiajun, "Mr. Chen, do you take apprentices?"

Chen Jiajun looked at Mr. Mao with a smile that was not quite a smile and said, "You want to learn my methods?"

Mr. Mao nodded and said, "Please consider it, I am very sincere!"

Chen Jiajun shook his head and said, "My skills, you have no way to learn!"

Chen Jiajun relied on a set of Artifacts; he did not know the real methods himself.

However, there were quite a few people in this world with real skills, such as the Divine Strike, Descending Head masters, Nanyang Evil Arts practitioners, and so on that he had encountered before. (End of chapter)