[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-invincible-female-ghost-is-a-bit-of-a-hopele":3,"chapter-the-invincible-female-ghost-is-a-bit-of-a-hopele-the-invincible-female-ghost-is-a-bit-of-a-hopele-chapter-190":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Invincible Female Ghost Is A Bit Of A Hopeless Romantic",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1706378,2180,"Chapter 190: Their Target... Is Qingwan!!","the-invincible-female-ghost-is-a-bit-of-a-hopele-chapter-190",190,"\u003Cp>Three words, uttered with indifferent calm, carried no emotion, yet felt like an ice-cold key.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It suddenly pierced into the core of this forbidden land, sealed by layers of restrictions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan closed his eyes and sank his entire spirit inward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He dove into that faint yet tenacious strange connection that had become abruptly clear when the jade pendant shattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Normally, at the moment the pendant broke, Lu Yuan could clearly sense Gu Qingwan’s presence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That cold, majestic, and utterly dominating will would cross the void like a tide and arrive in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right after that came the signature black-red mist laced with destruction and ill omen, surging into being and quickly coalescing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then... she would walk out from that mist, like a sovereign entering her domain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The whole process was as fast as lightning; from crushing the pendant to Gu Qingwan’s appearance never took more than ten breaths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it was different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan’s spirit extended along the connection, only to feel as if it had slammed into one thick, heavy, viscous, impenetrable barrier after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sensation was like sinking to the deepest ocean floor, surrounded by boundless, icy, crushing seawater.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Resistance enormous, light dim, every inch forward painfully hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The connection had not been severed; Gu Qingwan’s will was still clear and perceptible, even clearer than any time before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan could “feel” her. He could “feel” that familiar power responding to the summons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was crossing boundless void, slowly heading toward the coordinates where he stood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the process of “coming” was—abnormally sluggish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was as if countless invisible tiny hands were desperately pulling, blocking, and delaying her arrival.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly Lu Yuan snapped his eyes open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What met his gaze was a white-red fog spreading like a sky-blocking curtain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within it was that unfamiliar yet reassuring red figure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was... punctuated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Specks of light, extremely thin, extremely faint, as if they could go out at any second—white-red pinpricks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those light specks did not appear from nowhere; they seeped out like beads of blood oozing from leather pierced with countless tiny holes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They painfully squeezed out from the voids of the cave, from cracks in the rock face, from microdust in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some even bled through the gray “spirit-locking” fog itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little by little they were “extruded.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They appeared very slowly, as if each filament that seeped forth cost minuscule but significant effort,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>quietly pushing back against the faint sealing restriction that draped the entire cave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The seeping specks did not, as before, rapidly gather and swell into a surging sea of mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead they hung motionless in the air, flickering faintly, their glow so weak it might be swallowed by the cave’s gloom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Occasionally two specks drifted close together and would attempt to fuse, but the process was agonizingly slow,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>stumbling and halting like two repelling drops of oil.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would take many times longer than usual to barely merge into a slightly larger, still insignificant blot of light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Coalescing... was excruciatingly difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan stared at the scene before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was completely beyond his expectations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his experience—indeed, in countless past occurrences—Gu Qingwan’s arrival was unstoppable and instantaneous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The jade pendant was both beacon and gateway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once smashed, no matter where he was or what he faced, she would appear in the shortest time and sweep everything away with absolute force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So why was this sluggish, seemingly jammed aggregation happening now?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was it because of this “Spirit-Locking Forbidden Land”?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan immediately recognized the key.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This cave, this ultimate refuge the Liu Family and Hu Huxu relied on as their final barrier—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the spirit-locking ability at its core was not merely about sealing Daoist zhenran!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What it blocked seemed to be a deeper set of “rules” related to space and energy transmission.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pendant shattered and opened the channel, marking the coordinates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But for Gu Qingwan’s power to truly descend into this realm, cross the void, and materialize, it still had to obey certain fundamental rules.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had to “pass through” this spatial barrier!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the Spirit-Locking Forbidden Land was like an extremely resilient filter that inherently created “delay” and “attenuation” effects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It tightly blanketed this space!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t only preventing internal forces, like Lu Yuan’s zhenran, from interacting with the outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was frantically obstructing, interfering with, and weakening any force trying to be “squeezed” in from the outside!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qingwan’s power level was too high—so high that this Forbidden Land couldn’t fully block it, couldn’t truly “seal” the channel that had been forced open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, the black-red mist still seeped through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that seepage was greatly delayed, dispersed, and weakened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was like a raging river suddenly being diverted into a labyrinth of billions of ultra-fine capillary tubes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The water continued to flow and press onward, but its speed slowed to a crawl.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The current dispersed into innumerable nearly imperceptible trickles, its force massively dissipated while traversing the maze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So this was why the scene unfolded as it did!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Specks leaked out slowly, aggregation was agonizing. The oppressive presence still sent chills through the chest,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but it was nowhere near the instant, all-consuming might that once filled heaven and earth and bent all things to its will.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan’s heart sank slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had not expected the Spirit-Locking Forbidden Land to have such a profound effect on Gu Qingwan’s descent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This completely disrupted his plan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally, he had supposed that crushing the pendant would summon Gu Qingwan to appear instantly with absolute power!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rescue the old man, crush the Liu Family and Hu Huxu’s conspiracy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simple, brutal, effective.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Judging from this slow coalescence, how long until Gu Qingwan fully manifested?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tens of breaths?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hundreds?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Longer?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And during that time, countless things could happen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hu Huxu was nearby, eyes like a tiger stalking its prey; who knew if he might act desperately and do something insane?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Deep in the cave, the old man still endured soul-refining torment; any delay increased danger a little more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to mention the Liu Family’s core forces likely lay below, ready to be roused by any disturbance and swarm out...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time suddenly became immensely precious and terribly lethal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan watched those slowly increasing, painfully merging black-red specks, his mind racing through calculations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, a light laugh came from beside him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or rather,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a sneer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hu Huxu’s unmasked mockery cut especially harsh in the dead-calm cave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan whirled his head toward the man wearing that grotesque smile; alarm bells rang in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hu Huxu seemed pleased with Lu Yuan’s stunned reaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stood at ease, even smoothing his dust- and blood-stained ragged clothes,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>posture as casual as if he were in his own courtyard. He lifted his chin and looked at Lu Yuan,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a predatory, calculating smile on his face that betrayed how he had lured his prey deep into the trap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Weren’t you just asking why I led you here?” Hu Huxu drawled, each syllable like a poisoned needle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Materials are part of the reason.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But actually, that isn’t the most important reason.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan felt his heart drop to his stomach. A cold dread shot up his spine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stared at Hu Huxu without speaking, but his tense body and abruptly contracted pupils already revealed the storm raging inside him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hu Huxu’s smile grew thicker, crueller.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He licked his slightly cracked lips, eyes flashing with an almost fanatical glee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And this second reason—the most important reason...” he prolonged, his gaze slowly sweeping over the feebly coalescing black-red specks,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>as if admiring a masterpiece nearing completion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is to make you, right here, summon that female vengeful ghost... to this place!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan was struck like by lightning; his mind thundered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qingwan!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their target... was Gu Qingwan?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They knew Qingwan existed?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hu Huxu watched Lu Yuan’s face go ashen as if savoring the climax of a grand drama.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He involuntarily threw back his head and let out a short, hoarse cackle like a night-owl’s cry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Haha... did you not expect that, Daoist Lu?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Did you really think we didn’t know of her existence just because you hid her?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hu Huxu’s laughter bristled with scorn and contempt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Have you forgotten what our Hu Family of Continuing the Lamp relies on to stand in the borderlands?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who do we interact with?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He strode forward and pointed at the slowly seeping black-red specks around them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His voice shot up, threaded with near-mad excitement:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This land, this borderland’s mountains and rivers, every strand of earth-vein yin energy, every wandering ancient god-fragment are our eyes and ears!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do you think Gu Qingwan’s every crossing of the void and descent into this realm—her terrifying pressure, that aura that supersedes rules—could be hidden from anyone?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hidden from those ancient gods who are linked by blood to our Hu family and constantly watch over this territory for any anomaly?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan’s heart hammered; suddenly everything clicked into place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why Hu Huxu, and behind him the Liu Family and even the Ten Families, knew so much about Gu Qingwan!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Hu Family of Continuing the Lamp served, communicated with, and could even be said to “monitor” those ancient, chaotic existences tied to this land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An existence like Gu Qingwan—completely beyond reason and with power levels that defied comprehension—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>each time she descended, it was like tossing a stone into a still lake for the land itself and for those “gods” bound to it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ripples were obvious to anyone paying attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Once might surprise them, twice will warn them....”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hu Huxu’s voice returned to that bone-chilling calm, though the fanatic gleam in his eyes never dimmed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Whenever that terrifying presence descends tied to a young Daoist Celestial Master named Lu Yuan, do you think we would simply sit by?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stared at Lu Yuan and enunciated each word:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A super-existence that towers above every god in the borderlands, tears open the void with ease, disregards most rules, and possesses an unprecedented force.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What does that mean for us Ten Families, for the gods we serve, for the balance we have maintained for centuries?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A threat!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“She is too powerful, so incomprehensible it’s like you becoming a Celestial Master at nine years old—unimaginable.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“In any other place, if you lured her there, even the Commanding Ghosts Liu Family’s supreme malevolent deity all unleashed would likely cost you dearly.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That would not be worth it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hu Huxu spread his arms again, as if embracing the whole cave and this Spirit-Locking Forbidden Land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Now do you know what this place truly is?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This place, this Spirit-Locking Forbidden Land—did you think its purpose was merely to lock Daoist zhenran and trap you and Li Xiuye, Daoist priests like you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A cunning, merciless intelligence sparkled in his eyes—the sort that calculates every escape route of prey to absolute death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“From the time our ancestors of the Liu Family discovered and perfected this array in ancient times, its deepest, core aim!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Was never to deal with the Dao!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He paused and inhaled deeply, as though savoring an earth-shattering secret.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Its core—its ultimate goal—is to... lock gods!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lock gods!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two words struck Lu Yuan like thunder exploding in his ears!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“To sever inside from outside, to delay energy, to attenuate rules, to stabilize space...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You think those features exist only to counter Daoist methods that draw on the world’s spiritual qi?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hu Huxu’s voice took on an almost incantatory tone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No. It’s to oppose higher-tier forces involving godhood and the very sources of rules!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“To create... a prison in which gods cannot easily wield power, and may even be weakened or trapped!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hu Huxu pointed to the slowly coalescing black-red specks, his face bare of restraint as greed and triumph shone through:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“See it? See it?! The effect is even better than we predicted! Even more perfect!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Everything happening now has occurred exactly as we foresaw—completely following our design!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“She’s coming!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“She really has responded to your summons!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And at the same time, her descent speed has been hugely retarded!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Her power’s coalescence is severely weakened!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“In this Spirit-Locking Forbidden Land, she cannot, as she does outside, instantly unleash world-shattering might!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And here...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hu Huxu’s voice suddenly grew piercing and frenzied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Not only do we have the Spirit-Locking Forbidden Land!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Below us lies the Nine Nether God-Refining Array refined by the Liu Family over countless generations!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And at least three already-prepared, peak-state... super malevolent deities!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Waiting for her!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan felt as if he had been thrown into an ice pit; his blood nearly froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He understood now—fully understood!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the very beginning, from the moment he stepped into this scheme—or perhaps even earlier—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qingwan, having descended many times because of him, had been used as bait!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A deadly, concealed lure designed to hook the great fish that was Gu Qingwan!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their target...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>was Qingwan!!\u003C\u002Fp>",2132,"2026-06-06T14:45:54.833Z",1,"novelbin.me","432c19a2729c020ee4c4a0326ea6ec15bcc7ec3e90efdb9738d705aa2effbaa2","the-invincible-female-ghost-is-a-bit-of-a-hopele-chapter-191","the-invincible-female-ghost-is-a-bit-of-a-hopele-chapter-189",241,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-invincible-female-ghost-is-a-bit-of-a-hopele-cover.jpg"]