Chapter 315: Chapter 279: Evil Village

Zheng Xuan trembled all over with fright, nearly falling to the ground as he ran toward Sang Que.

Sang Que did not fall. She flung away the shotgun, leaving the man who had fired in stunned silence. As he turned, he bumped into the Deceitful Bride, whose bright red veil flew up to reveal her horrifying face.

The man was bent over by an invisible force, mimicking a bow to the Ghost Bride. As his head lowered, his breath ceased, and he fell softly to the ground. An identical shadow stood quietly at the same spot; his soul had become the Deceitful Bride’s Ghost Slave.

This indicates that the man was alive; the villagers earlier might all be Black Magic Masters unique to the Southern Ocean.

Before Zheng Xuan arrived, blood and flesh squirmed at Sang Que’s chest. Red threads sprouted from her heart, pushing out all the shrapnel and steel balls embedded in her body. The red threads intertwined, swiftly mending her bloodied wounds.

After reaching the Ghost Level, this half-human, half-ghost body proves useful at times.

Her weakness now is her heart; as long as her heart isn’t removed, she can indefinitely repair bodily damage by quickly and massively consuming qi and blood.

“Are you okay?”

Zheng Xuan came running, stretching out his hand and assessing Sang Que from top to bottom but dared not touch her, fearing that a touch might make her close her eyes and collapse.

Yet apart from her pale face, and clutching her chest with no visible wounds, Sang Que seemed fine.

Zheng Xuan lowered his head and saw the shrapnel and pellets at Sang Que’s feet, spotlessly clean without a trace of blood. Zheng Xuan’s mind crashed again.

Firing a shotgun at her chest, loaded with steel pellets, yet not a single pellet hit?

Is her body made of steel?

Golden Bell Shield and Iron Cloth Shirt?

Isn’t that martial arts from the novels?

Zheng Wujun caught up and, ensuring Sang Que was fine, gazed at the slowly disappearing form of the Deceitful Bride.

The Deceitful Bride reveals her form when killing; that’s why Zheng Wujun and Zheng Xuan could see her.

Once silent, at Zheng Xuan and Zheng Wujun’s level, the Deceitful Bride becomes invisible.

Zheng Wujun sensed it was an extremely powerful Fierce Ghost; when it appeared behind him earlier, his hackles raised, enveloped in death with an inability to struggle.

Was that an S-Class Fierce Ghost?

“Are you a Ghost Controller?” Zheng Wujun asked Sang Que.

Ghost Controllers appear in their family’s ancient records but no longer appear in modern times.

Behind them, Yin Child stealthily peeked out from the well, and when Sang Que forbade nearing, it retreated again.

Controlling a single ghost is enough to shock Zheng Xuan and Zheng Wujun; Sang Que’s exposed power tonight might shake all hidden sects and families, and the institutes in Huaxia.

Sang Que glanced at the corpse on the ground with her Ghost Eye, and after organizing the situation, she told the two, “Now is not the time for this. I hope you can keep things about me secret temporarily. Once I’ve resolved the issue at the mountain village, I’ll answer your questions.”

“First, you two leave here, find my mother and Sister Wu at the guesthouse, and wait at the city’s legitimate Buddhist Temple. This mountain is the main den for creating Golden Child using infant corpses. They collude with the people from the village below.”

Upon hearing this, Zheng Wujun and Zheng Xuan realized the seriousness of the situation.

They’d already experienced Sang Que’s prowess profoundly; staying would only be a hindrance.

“Alright, be careful.”

“Don’t worry, Brother Wu Jun knows the way to leave; follow the route taken upon arrival.”

Zheng Wujun nodded, leading Zheng Xuan away from the abandoned temple.

After they left, Sang Que exhaled deeply, squatting by the corpse with released hands from her chest; fortunately, she wore black clothing, the bloodstains wouldn’t be visible, otherwise it would be terrifying.

Thin hair-like threads extended quickly from Sang Que’s heart, entering the corpse, consuming its blood like blood vessels, replenishing Sang Que’s energy.

The fall of man begins with the first try.

Previously, Yu Da saved her by letting her drink human blood; since then, she no longer rejected such blood-sucking actions, considering maintaining capability was worth it, not like she had to bite a neck and suck with her mouth.

Though right now it seems odd, next time, she’d try letting the threads extend to the palm to suck with her hand.

The corpse quickly became a dried one; Sang Que felt revitalized, retrieved some shotgun pellets from the corpse into her pocket, then turned to grab the shotgun thrown aside.

This was Sang Que’s first time handling a real gun, previously only seen on TV; she learns quickly, and after a few tries, loaded new shells. Testing it on the mountain later for recoil experience.

She called the Deceitful Bride and Yin Child back into her body, discovering the Deceitful Bride took her Ghost Slave away too, the slave looking decent.

Maybe the Deceitful Bride has some dimensional pocket for storing Ghost Slaves, otherwise Sang Que wouldn’t understand where she keeps them, and she needs five old copper coins as media to control the Five Ghosts.

Sang Que first released the flower sedan, letting the Five Ghosts bear the sedan to leave, but they circled in the same spot, unable to breach the barrier formed by red threads and shen kan.

Out of options, Sang Que wore the slightly tight embroidered shoes and effortlessly walked out of the barrier.

Before the embroidered shoes acted, she removed them using dismemberment abilities.

Earlier, she didn’t use the embroidered shoes because they were two people; the embroidered shoes can only let the wearer breach the barrier, unable to carry Zheng Wujun.

When Sang Que reached the abandoned village on the mountain, she stood at the village entrance, gazing back at the forest, hearing rustling sounds. The people who escaped the abandoned temple earlier still ran in the woods.

The village lay in darkness, silent without a soul, marked by a putrid smell, with piled corpses of disemboweled wild beasts nearby, with a cart ready to discard the bodies elsewhere.

Previously, Wu Cheng explained to Sang Que that during practice, the Flying Head technique requires consuming human or livestock blood and once started, cannot stop.

The technique demands seven rounds; each round requires forty-nine consecutive days, during which the head must detach nightly, with internal organs, to feed, avoiding detection.

Slack in blood consumption or failure to return before dawn leads to losing prior progress and dissolving into blood.

Each completed layer dramatically boosts power, and completing all seven rounds liberates from daily blood consumption, granting eternal life.

However, every forty-nine days, a pregnant woman’s blood is needed to maintain eternal life.

This technique stands as the most evil in the Southern Ocean, detested even by its people.

The temple serves as cover for the mountain group; they create Golden Child statues from dead infants for those seeking fortunes.

They further solicit resources, including sacrifices of young girls, impregnating them, and then…

Women disappear frequently in the Southern Ocean annually.

If Zheng Xuan hadn’t rescued the girl with the story relay group’s intervention, she might already be pregnant here, awaiting someone’s feast.

Many at the village below serve as Golden Child’s slaves; their remote, resource-barren mountain village became an internet sensation due to the Golden Child’s power and deliberate promotion, attracting tourists worldwide.

The undetected exposure likely results from unclean higher-ups in the Southern Ocean.

The case, upon consideration, is terrifying; it urges caution among friends and advises against visiting such remote locations.

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