Chapter 58: Gu Qingwan Seems a Bit Angry

On the wasteland hill, deathly silence.

Not that all sounds had ceased, but all sounds were forcibly suppressed by an older, heavier sense of presence, sinking into the abyss.

The sky was being slowly stained by an unquestionable force.

The moonlight remained, but could no longer illuminate the night's true color.

Dark red spread from the sky's edges, like aged bloodstains bleeding across rice paper, stubbornly devouring every inch of darkness.

The air thick as mercury.

Each breath carried an ice-cold, slippery texture, drilling into the lungs, bringing suffocating heaviness.

That super malevolent ghost was the first to react.

Those pitch-black eye sockets locked on Lu Yuan suddenly lifted, staring fixedly at the deepest part of the sky's blood color.

"This lowly one pays respects to the Great Immortal!!"

"This lowly one pays respects to the Great Immortal!!"

"This lowly one pays respects to the Great Immortal!!"

Yellow Weasel went mad, its head banging on the ground with loud thuds.

Each kowtow accompanied by heart-rending shouts, devout as if worshipping the creator deity then she appeared.

Without earth-shattering momentum, without space-distorting phenomena.

That figure just "walked" out from the thick, indissoluble dark red background.

Natural yet incomparably abrupt.

She quietly "stood" in the air, looking down upon this desperate ground.

"Wahhhhh, Great Immortal!!"

"You finally came!!"

"Save us!!"

Yellow Braised Chicken completely changed character, beginning to cry and wail, emitting extremely aggrieved chicken calls while frantically kowtowing.

Gu Qingwan's crimson pupils slightly moved, falling on Yellow Braised Chicken at the side.

That face still showed no expression, indifferent as if all things in the world were dust.

Her gaze swept over Yellow Braised Chicken, swept over the shocked Xu Erxiao and Wang Cheng'an.

Swept over the Life-Severing Wang Family couple facing a great enemy, finally landing on that super malevolent ghost.

Seeing Gu Qingwan ignore it, Yellow Braised Chicken panicked, whooshing to Lu Yuan's side.

"Here! Here!"

"Great Immortal!"

"Lu Yuan is here!!"

It jumped high, using its claws to point at Lu Yuan, frantically attracting attention.

Following Yellow Braised Chicken's jumping and calling, Gu Qingwan turned to see Lu Yuan.

"Great Immortal!!"

"Look quickly!!"

"See what these beasts did to Lu Yuan!!"

"They all did this!!"

"If you don't feel sorry for me, you must feel sorry for our Lu Yuan!!"

Lu Yuan: "..."

Yellow Braised Chicken pointed at the claw mark deep enough to see bone on Lu Yuan's shoulder, tone pained and distressed, as if it were the one injured.

When Gu Qingwan's gaze fell on that ghastly wound.

The dark red blood color surging through heaven and earth at this moment completely boiled.

On her eternally frozen face seemed to appear a trace of annoyed expression.

Gu Qingwan seemed a bit angry.

"Tsk, this spectacle... really is a bit frightening."

The hunchbacked old man and old woman surveyed the heaven and earth phenomena around them, corners of their mouths twitching but when their gazes refocused on Gu Qingwan, their faces showed no trace of fear, instead revealing a cold confidence.

"Want to rely on her to save you? Stop dreaming!"

The Life-Severing Wang Family couple wasn't bluffing or making threats.

Things had reached this point—making threats was meaningless.

In these two people's view, no...

Even if most people from the Daoist sects came, they wouldn't think the Life-Severing Wang Family's malevolent ghost would lose.

Only because Gu Qingwan and this super malevolent ghost were two completely different existences.

Gu Qingwan was an evil spirit, belonging to those born of heaven and earth, formed under various coincidences of resentment, malevolence, and other events but the super malevolent ghost was completely different.

It didn't belong to reincarnation, didn't fall into the six paths—it itself was nothingness!

It used the Life-Severing Wang Family's top-tier clan treasure "Malevolent Slaughter Register" accumulated over hundreds of years as its core.

Melting countless malevolent qi, extremely yin objects, plus various ritual implements, heavenly materials and earthly treasures, then forcibly refined through human means.

It was indeed twenty stars in Lu Yuan's [Subdue Demons and Eliminate Evil], but it was a "cheap" twenty stars.

Because it had one fatal flaw—it could only exist for a few hours.

When dawn came, it would dissipate.

If Gu Qingwan's formation difficulty was one hundred, its difficulty was only ten but its sole meaning of existence was to annihilate everything before it within limited time!

This was a top-tier fierce weapon created specifically for "slaughter"!

Its entire meaning of existence was these few hours of bloodlust!

But Gu Qingwan wasn't and now it wasn't comparing anything else, only comparing who could annihilate the other.

So even though Gu Qingwan seemed more terrifying, the Life-Severing Wang Family couple firmly believed that in pure "annihilation."

Their creation was superior!

Hearing the other side say Gu Qingwan wouldn't work, Yellow Braised Chicken immediately exploded, about to jump up and curse back, but was kicked away by Lu Yuan.

"Shut up, don't fan the flames."

Lu Yuan's voice was low, glancing at Yellow Braised Chicken grimacing while holding its bottom.

The next second, his left hand reached into his pouch, taking out a packet of gold-flowing evil-dispelling powder. He tore it open with his teeth, pouring all the golden powder onto the wound on his shoulder.

Tssss—!

Teeth-aching corrosion sounds arose, white smoke mixed with scorched smell rising from between his fingers.

Lu Yuan's face twisted from intense pain, veins bulging.

After a moment, the pain slightly lessened. He gritted his teeth, raised his head to meet Gu Qingwan's crimson pupils in mid-air, solemnly instructing, "Be careful, this thing is very sinister, don't go hard!"

"You try to hold it off, twenty minutes!"

"Just twenty minutes, we'll find a way to kill that old man!"

Lu Yuan looked at Gu Qingwan in mid-air and seriously instructed.

As his words fell, a brilliantly golden, yang qi abundant long sword was drawn by Lu Yuan from his system space.

Xu Erxiao, Wang Cheng'an, Yellow Braised Chicken: "???"

Wait!

Where did he pull that thing from?!

However, just as Lu Yuan prepared to charge forward with sword raised.

An invisible yet gentle force lightly pressed his injured shoulder, instantly soothing that knife-cutting, fire-burning intense pain.

Lu Yuan froze.

Only hearing from mid-air, Gu Qingwan's emotionless red lips lightly parted.

"No..."

"...need!"

Lu Yuan: "???"

Before the words finished, Gu Qingwan's figure had already disappeared from its position, violently charging toward that super malevolent ghost vigilant to the extreme!

Riiip!

Gu Qingwan's jade-white palm transformed into a blade, directly stabbing toward the malevolent ghost's head!

However, that head suddenly became a phantom before her.

An afterimage!

"Too slow!!"

The hunchbacked old man below seeing this let out a triumphant sneer.

Almost at the same instant, the super malevolent ghost's figure appeared behind Gu Qingwan at an unbelievable angle.

Those claws flickering with dark black luster aimed at her back of the head, ruthlessly stabbing down!

This time, no hesitation, no pause!

"Behind!"

Lu Yuan's pupils contracted to needles, a shocked roar bursting out but it was too late.

The claws had already pierced through Gu Qingwan's head but... another afterimage?!

The crowd below watched heart-poundingly. This level of confrontation was so fast in their eyes that only intermittent frame-skipping images remained but Lu Yuan inexplicably relaxed somewhat. Currently, these two seemed evenly matched.

As long as Gu Qingwan could hold on then next he just needed to kill that hunchbacked old man, and this super malevolent ghost wouldn't be controlled, then...

Lu Yuan hadn't finished thinking, hadn't finished analyzing.

A crimson figure appeared without warning, in the same way, behind that super malevolent ghost.

Gu Qingwan.

She slowly raised her hand, the pale palm standing upright.

Those crimson, hollow pupils held no mercy, no killing intent, only emptiness.

BANG!!!!

The world lost sound.

This palm falling made no loud noise. In everyone's ears remained only a sharp, eardrum-tearing humming.

Before their eyes remained only an endless dark red blood mist, devouring everything.

Unknown how much time passed.

Thud—

A section of charred, headless corpse fell from mid-air to the ground, emitting black smoke, gradually dissipating between heaven and earth...

Lu Yuan: "..."

Evenly matched?

Absolutely not... not at all...

Both twenty stars...

That top-tier malevolent ghost... before Gu Qingwan, couldn't even withstand... one move...