Chapter 337: Chapter 301: The Heart-Digging Fiend

Sang Que couldn’t see the whereabouts of the Heart-digging Ghost with her naked eye. A fleeing villager suddenly stopped and screamed in horror. Sang Que instantly teleported over and pushed the villager away.

An icy aura rushed towards her heart. Sang Que reached out her hand, ready to use the Shen Gu Shangmen, but the aura merely brushed lightly against her and then quickly dissipated.

Did she not meet the conditions for the Heart-digging Ghost to dig her heart?

Sang Que quickly used her Ghost Eye to scan the surroundings. The villager who had fallen earlier groaned, spewed out a mouthful of fresh blood, and a bowl-sized hole appeared in their chest.

Sang Que only saw a pale hand clutching a violently beating heart, disappearing into the distorted air.

The Heart-digging Ghost is in the Hidden Realm!

With many villagers still fleeing, Sang Que calmed down quickly to devise a strategy while observing her surroundings.

A ghost that can hide its form in the Hidden Realm must be at least at the fifth layer. Could it be another ghost that escaped from the Evil Ghost Bureau in Wangshan City?

The Heart-digging Ghost’s level is far above hers, and she can’t withstand it head-on. Her Ghost Realm and Opera House certainly can’t contain this ghost.

She needs to find the Heart-digging Ghost’s murder rules to lure it into attacking her.

Another scream rang out, and the fastest and furthest runner had their heart ripped out, falling straight forward.

The previous person died near Sang Que, yet this one was so far away. There were still many villagers around, so why kill the furthest one?

Seeing others still running, Sang Que quickly shouted, “Everyone stop moving!”

Some heard Sang Que’s voice and immediately crouched down, covering their mouths, while others, driven by fear, couldn’t hear her and continued fleeing further away.

This time, the Ghost Eye saw the air behind a fast-running man distort, and a pale hand shot out like lightning.

Sang Que teleported over to stop it, but she was too late; the person’s heart was dug out, and the hand withdrawing back into the Hidden Realm with it.

The scene became chaotic, and in an instant, Sang Que seemed to understand the Heart-digging Ghost’s murder rule.

The hearts being dug out were all beating violently. The ghost didn’t kill those nearby because they weren’t running. As long as movement decreased, the heart’s beating frequency would definitely be slower compared to those sprinting for their lives.

Is this the rule? It would be easy to find out!

Sang Que immediately accelerated her own heartbeat, her entire body boiling with vigor. A surge of manic emotion welled up, giving her a sudden urge to kill everyone here. Even the fresh blood in the nearby corpses became extremely tempting.

Just then, through the Ghost Eye, Sang Que saw the air in front of her distort, and a pale hand swiftly reached towards her.

The speed was too fast to defend against, but Sang Que hadn’t planned on defending. As the hand attempted to dig out her heart, she quickly used the Shen Gu Shangmen, pressing it onto the hand.

All her strength was drained instantly, the Recovery took effect, blocking a fatal attack. The hand failed to dig out her heart and withdrew back into the Hidden Realm.

Next, she only needed to hold on for five minutes, weakening the Heart-digging Ghost’s powers by half, and then she could attempt to imprison it with the painting. The painting had previously trapped the Zhuangyuan Ghost, so it should definitely work on a half-decayed Heart-digging Ghost too.

But the problem was, in these five minutes, she couldn’t let the Heart-digging Ghost escape, nor could she allow anyone else to get hurt.

Another scream came from behind. Sang Que decisively used the power of the Dui Trigram’s Shock Gate.

Once this trigram was activated, even Sang Que herself involuntarily shivered, goosebumps rising all over her body. It felt like an entity far beyond a fifth-layer ghost had truly appeared nearby, watching menacingly.

Just as the Heart-digging Ghost was about to make its move, this intimidation from a high-level ghost caused the pale hand to whoosh back into the Hidden Realm.

Sang Que further accelerated her heartbeat, reaching out to grab a nearby villager’s corpse. The blood from her heart traveled through her shoulder and arm, piercing from her palm into the corpse, rapidly absorbing all its blood to replenish Sang Que’s consumption, preventing her from exhausting all her vigor and blood under such a violent heartbeat.

Suddenly the surroundings fell silent, the sky gradually brightened. The village roosters had yet to crow, and Sang Que wondered if there was still time.

Villagers hidden nearby, covering their mouths, watched this sudden arrival who they couldn’t quite see. Their attention was focused on the vermilion tear mole under her eye.

Time ticked away, and while the Shen Gu Shangmen would render the Heart-digging Ghost half-decayed in five minutes, the intimidation from the Dui Trigram could also only last five minutes.

Sang Que half-kneeled on the ground. As soon as the Dui Trigram wore off, the air in front of her instantly rippled, and that pale arm reached for her heart, slightly slower than before.

Prepared for this, Sang Que’s eyes flashed. She raised her hand and unveiled the painting above her. The Heart-digging Ghost’s hand slipped right into it.

A powerful suction force emanated from the painting. The Heart-digging Ghost struggled to pull back, both the ghost and the painting waged a tug-of-war. After five or six breaths, the Heart-digging Ghost was completely dragged out of the Hidden Realm and fully absorbed into the painting.

The entire painting immediately began to quake. If Sang Que didn’t understand the painting’s secrets, it would be controlled from within by the Heart-digging Ghost, just like the Zhuangyuan Ghost before.

Luckily, Sang Que had already aligned with the ’password,’ becoming the master of this painting. Once the Heart-digging Ghost entered, it was locked in an empty room within.

It tried to rush out, but the door and windows of the empty room transformed into countless arms, interlocking to hold it in place, sealing them tight.

This was a type of ghost called Door Ghost. For humans, it’s weaker than typical fourth-layer ghosts, fond of blocking doors and windows to trap the people inside and keep outsiders from entering.

Humans can easily deal with Door Ghosts using a bucket of black dog blood to drive them away.

Yet, for ghosts, Door Ghosts possess a powerful ability to imprison, unaffected by ghost levels. Ordinary ghosts wouldn’t proactively consume a Door Ghost, this ’garbage ghost,’ so they would just remain inside, immobile.

If they were Yin Walkers, they could break through Door Ghosts’ sealed doors by consuming them.

This is a clever method. In the painting’s Taohuayuan, aside from the small courtyard where Wuyou lives, all the doors and windows of other houses had been intentionally cultivated with Door Ghosts.

Sang Que rolled the painting back up and held it in her hand.

“I’ve taken the Heart-digging Ghost away. You can rest assured now.”

The village roosters crowed, the night retreated, and dawn slowly broke. Sang Que needed to return as well.

If using the painting to store non-living things, this Heart-digging Ghost would take a long time to digest.

“Kind benefactor, please stay. May I ask for your name?”

Survivors of the disaster emerged from various corners, following behind Sang Que, looking at her gratefully. Without her timely, god-like intervention, the entire village would have perished.

Sang Que paused her steps slightly, didn’t turn back, and instantly teleported away.

Shortly after Sang Que departed, two people wearing Evil Suppression Bureau Night Wanderer masks rode into the village. Seeing the corpses gathered by the villagers, they confirmed that the Heart-digging Ghost had fled here.

But recently, wherever the Heart-digging Ghost appeared, no one survived, except for this village where only a dozen or so perished.

The two Night Travelers asked the villagers, who recounted the recent events, leaving the two astonished.

Who could it be?

The two Night Travelers first thought of the Female Night Wanderer, Sang Mulan of Wangshan City, but she had already sacrificed herself. So who was this new heroine, able to imprison and take away a fifth-layer Heart-digging Ghost?

Given the importance, the two immediately mounted their horses to return to Jinzhou Prefecture Sanchuan City Evil Suppression Bureau to report the matter to General Han.

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