Chapter 367: Chapter 331: Catching the ’Turtle

Sang Que temporarily detained the Puppet Master here, and all the puppets throughout the county government stopped moving, turning into dead bodies.

Xia Chan was facing a giant baby spirit standing over two meters tall, covered all over with small baby heads, constantly crying.

The crying made Xia Chan’s head feel as if it would split open, even the silhouette of the Deceitful Bride flickered between reality and illusion in the sound.

Only the Red Ghost was unaffected, standing before the giant baby spirit. Yet, when the Red Ghost continuously attacked the giant baby spirit with sharp claws, strange bulging lumps appeared all over its own body, with baby faces beneath the skin struggling to break free.

The hair on Xia Chan, tangled around the giant baby spirit’s body, also showed eerie baby faces emerging.

Seeing this situation, Sang Que swiftly moved behind the baby spirit and quickly stamped a ’Thunder Trigram’ on its body.

As soon as she touched the baby spirit, a burst of chilling force rushed into her body, causing intense abdominal pain. Fortunately, she possessed the force of the Golden Child, transforming into strands of blood that invaded her abdomen, devouring the baby spirit trying to take root within her.

“Block your ears, retreat for five minutes.”

Sang Que instructed Xia Chan to gather her hair back. Xia Chan used her hair to completely wrap her ears and extended some to Sang Que. Sang Que felt a sharp pain in her ear canal, and in an instant, the entire world fell silent. She heard nothing.

Xia Chan gestured to Sang Que, indicating that the lack of sound was temporary.

Spending time with Qiao Ling recently, Xia Chan had learned a lot.

The invisible constables continued to wander the corridors of the back courtyard. Earlier, Sang Que had made the Zombies try, but the invisible constables couldn’t harm them; Zombies are already dead, and the constables can only claim the lives of the living.

Sang Que had the remaining Corpse Mud Zombies and Wheat Evil Zombies swarm together, attacking the giant baby spirit along with the Red Ghost.

In the silent world, Corpse Mud Zombies formed a mire, trapping the giant baby spirit’s feet, as zombie claws reached out from the mire, tearing away the baby faces on the bloated legs of the giant baby spirit, with Corpse Mud pouring into their mouths to muffle their cries.

Only about ten Wheat Evil Zombies remained, all clinging onto the giant baby spirit, with clusters of golden Wheat Evil sprouting from its body, even piercing out of the baby faces’ throats.

However, the Wheat Evil Zombies were parasitized by baby spirits on their bellies and backs; the baby spirits grew quickly, and within less than a minute, they burst forth from the Wheat Evil Zombies.

The Wheat Evil Zombies collapsed and died, and the new baby spirits merged into the giant baby spirit.

The Red Ghost was also parasitized, but it was strong enough that the baby spirit within grew slowly.

Meanwhile, Sang Que noticed the silhouette of the Yin Child flickering and vanishing around the county government, closely pursuing something.

It’s obvious it’s the dwarf controlling the baby spirits, too bad the dwarf is too ugly; otherwise, the Deceitful Bride would naturally intervene. The Yin Child has the Ghost Eye; catching the dwarf is just a matter of time.

The scroll in the bamboo tube behind Sang Que began to tremble as the Puppet Master trapped within tried to break through the painting.

The cry of the giant baby spirit weakened further, and Sang Que silently counted the time; roughly five minutes later, she charged forward with a long knife, dancing the blade in a red glow, quickly slashing the giant baby spirit into pieces.

Before it could regroup, Sang Que unleashed the power of the Golden Child within, a cluster of blood vessel-like red threads shot from her chest, fiercely piercing into the shattered body of the giant baby spirit, entwining and siphoning.

A massive amount of chilling energy reciprocated back into Sang Que’s body; her heart beat powerfully, quickly replenishing the depleted trigrams, her body growing colder, but her strength ever more potent.

The overflow of power was even absorbed by her long knife, causing a blood-red halo to emanate from within its black blade.

Once the giant baby spirit completely disappeared, the swelling lumps on the Red Ghost’s body gradually vanished too, returning to normal.

Her ear canal tingled with pain, hearing returned, and Sang Que nodded to Xia Chan, then flashed to a nearby rooftop, searching for signs of the Yin Child.

The dwarf was relentlessly pursued by the Yin Child, using everything at his disposal, yet unable to stop the Yin Child.

At this moment, he began to regret his recklessness; he wanted to catch a turtle in a jar, but ended up being the ’turtle.’

The dwarf fled toward the county government’s back courtyard, where there was a ’Judge’s Pen.’ Although it cost a life to write just four words of city rules, merely obtaining the pen would turn the tables.

Seeing the house storing the Judge’s Pen right before him, the dwarf’s heart surged with joy, only for his path to be blocked suddenly by a black-clad girl. Her eyes were filled with killing intent, giving the dwarf no time to react as she raised her bizarre weapon at him.

Bang!

With a gunshot, the dwarf’s entire head exploded in mid-air, and within the permeating blood mist, his body still rushed towards Sang Que, heavily falling at Sang Que’s feet.

A sharp and piercing infant cry soared into the sky, making Sang Que frown in endurance.

The Yin Child appeared beside Sang Que, offering the Puppet Master’s arm to Sang Que, and only after Sang Que accepted it did the Yin Child go to the headless corpse of the dwarf.

The dwarf’s upward-pointing braid unexpectedly extended deep into his body, still standing rigidly at this moment.

With Sang Que’s approval, a cruel smile slowly curved on the Yin Child’s lips. She crouched down, continually tearing at the headless corpse of the dwarf.

Arms, legs, organs, she pulled out each piece and discarded them, satisfying the Yin Child’s inner desires for dismemberment and bloodthirst.

The cry emitted by the dwarf was shrill and tragic, which the Yin Child thoroughly enjoyed.

The Yin Child slowly dismembered the dwarf into a pile of rotten flesh, and finally used her blood-stained hands to clutch the dwarf’s upward-pointing braid and forcibly extracted the ghost from within his body.

Beneath the braid lay a premature baby, its entire body blue and bloodstained, continually struggling and crying out, the braid like its umbilical cord.

The Yin Child tilted her head back, instinctively wanting to swallow the baby whole, but suddenly halted, looking towards Sang Que with a pleading, pitiful expression in her blood-red eyes.

Sang Que nodded, a joyful glint flashed in the Yin Child’s eyes, and she swallowed it in one gulp.

Sang Que turned to look at the dark house. She had just seen the pen within the house, but at the moment the scroll behind her was vibrating ever more intensely; she needed to deal with the Puppet Master first.

“Sister!”

Behind Xia Chan followed the Red Ghost, the Deceitful Bride, and the remaining Corpse Mud Zombie, running from afar.

Sang Que took out the scroll, shaking it open, then it hung suspended in mid-air by itself.

“Watch over for me, I am going in.”

Sang Que took something out from her carry-on bag, stained it with her own blood. Although she had copied He Buning’s yin fire ability, it only activated her blood into yin fire when the corresponding trigram was used. Otherwise, her blood remained normal.

Holding the item tightly in the wooden and flesh-composed arm of the Puppet Master, Sang Que stepped into the scroll, with the Red Ghost and other Corpse Mud Zombies closely following.

In the fields of Taoyuan, the one-armed Puppet Master escaped from the house imprisoning him, at this moment being besieged by ordinary zombies within the painting in the farmland.

Though only left with one arm, the Puppet Master still transformed some zombies into his puppets.

“Hey, your arm, give it back to you.”

Sang Que suddenly appeared behind the Puppet Master, throwing his arm to him.

The Puppet Master was startled, seeing it was his own arm, he cautiously stepped back rather than catching it directly.

Just as the Puppet Master was about to say something, Sang Que drew out the Hundred Blade, “Today you will leave your life here!”

As soon as her words fell, the Red Ghost leaped up, and the Deceitful Bride suddenly appeared behind the Puppet Master.

The Puppet Master’s face was completely covered in dark cloth, Sang Que did not know his appearance, but the Deceitful Bride’s active attack indicated the Puppet Master himself must be handsome.

Under multiple pressures, many thin transparent threads shot out from the Puppet Master’s broken arm, pulling the severed arm off the ground.

With a snap, the arm was reattached beneath the shoulder, but the Puppet Master’s entire body trembled, his eyes opened wide in shock.

He pulled up his sleeve to see a blood-dyed Mandarin Duck Jade Pendant embedded within his arm, with the blood quickly flowing through the pendant, seeping into his arm, ascending along his blood vessels, and finally imprinting an indelible mark on his heart.

Sang Que halted the Red Ghost and Deceitful Bride’s attack, watching the Puppet Master’s body sway, his gaze gradually becoming dazed.

Though the method was a bit disgusting, it was currently the most effective tactic, as he was destined to die in the end, how it happens does not matter!

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