Chapter 128: Fate Ghost Breaks the Seal

I had grown accustomed to the kind of scene that would leave an ordinary person trembling and paralyzed.

The Underworld Live Show live broadcast didn't just grant me points to exchange for things ordinary people could never touch; it also honed my willpower, allowing me to keep a calm and clear head no matter the time or place.

'Tie Ningxiang was invited to Century New Garden by Lu Jin, but when I just called her, Lu Xing was the one who answered. The situation tonight is a bit complicated. Could Lu Jin and Lu Xing have both planned to make a move on Tie Ningxiang and accidentally run into each other?'

Neither of them were good people in my eyes. I would love nothing more than for the two of them to tear each other apart and perish together.

The sixth-floor corridor was far too quiet. The only illumination came from the emergency lights on the wall, their eerie green glow decorating the corridor entrance like the path to the Yellow Springs of the Underworld.

I turned my phone's flashlight up to maximum brightness. I hadn't taken more than a few steps before I saw a figure collapsed in a pool of blood.

Running over to him, I saw it was actually Lu Jin in his suit. 'Still breathing, just unconscious. Lu Jin is heavily injured. It looks like Lu Xing is the winner.'

Here, the idiom 'evil cannot triumph over righteousness' was turned completely on its head. As the dao rises one foot, the demonic force rises ten feet; this Lu Xing was not to be underestimated.

I loosened Lu Jin's tie to keep him from choking to death on the blood in his windpipe. As payment, I flipped open his jacket and fished a Multicolored Gold Treasure Pouch from inside.

We both practiced the Profound Truth Dao Method. Whatever items he could use, I could unleash their power as well.

With no time to inspect it closely, I stuffed the Many Treasures Pouch and its assorted sundries into my shirt and continued deeper down the corridor.

After walking another ten meters or so, a muffled bark reached my ears. "Bai Qi?"

I called out down the corridor on reflex, but received no response at all. Bai Qi had come upstairs a step ahead of me, but now he seemed to have vanished.

This corridor was exceptionally long. I slowed my pace and focused my attention on my surroundings. Lu Xing could charge out of any of these rooms to launch a sneak attack.

That homicidal maniac was different from Lu Jin. He knew the most fragile parts of the human body, and trading blows with him would determine life and death in a split second.

A few steps later, scattered bloodstains began to appear on the floor. I bent down to inspect them and found one or two pale yellow dog hairs mixed in with the blood.

'Bai Qi is injured?' This dog was capable of taking on a wolf pack single-handedly. In my heart, he had always been a god of war. I never expected that even he would get hurt.

A few meters further on, the barking gradually grew clearer. Turning a corner, I finally saw Bai Qi.

His fangs were bared and his hackles were raised as he faced the other end of the corridor, looking as if he were confronting a formidable enemy.

"Who's there?" I focused all my attention, sliding one hand into my pocket to pinch the thunder talisman as I looked past Bai Qi to the opposite side. "Tie Ningxiang!"

Leaning against the wall, Tie Ningxiang looked like a princess in a deep sleep. Her eyes were squeezed shut, and the expression on her face was completely agonized.

On the surface, there were no wounds on Tie Ningxiang's body. I let out a breath of relief, but just as I was about to walk toward her, Bai Qi suddenly barked furiously twice and clamped his jaws onto my trouser leg.

'The person right in front of me is definitely Tie Ningxiang, so why is Bai Qi trying to stop me? Could it be that her mind is already being controlled by Lu Xing?' I couldn't help but think of hex sorcery art. But to determine whether Tie Ningxiang had a hex cast on her, I needed to pry open her eyelids and check her pupils.

"Bai Qi, keep watch." I looked at Bai Qi with an ache in my heart. There was a knife gash seven or eight centimeters long on his hind leg, and blood was trickling down it.

Tie Ningxiang was exceptionally beautiful today, but also exceptionally unapproachable. At this moment, she was less than three meters away from me.

I patted Bai Qi's head to make him release his grip, wiped the sweat from my palm, and walked toward Tie Ningxiang.

One step, two steps. Even when I walked right up beside her, she made no abnormal movements. "Senior Sister? Can you hear me?"

I asked softly, my voice actually echoing in the silent corridor. Tie Ningxiang didn't have much of a reaction; her eyelashes merely fluttered a few times, as if she were trying hard to open her eyes but couldn't quite manage it.

'Is she under a hex?' I hesitated for a moment before reaching out for Tie Ningxiang's eyes. I prepared to lift her eyelids to see if there were vertical lines formed by a curse inside them.

My fingers touched Tie Ningxiang's smooth skin. Afraid of hurting her, I moved very gently. Just as I rested two fingers on her eye socket and was about to lift her eyelids, the door to the private room beside me suddenly swung open!

A man wearing a baseball cap lunged at me, thrusting whatever he held in his hand right at my face!

I knew very well that Lu Xing was the kind of person who wouldn't rest until his goal was achieved. He had to be waiting in ambush nearby, so my entire body was already tense and ready to counterattack.

I planted my foot, threw my hands up, and seized Lu Xing's arm in a vice grip. "This time, I've finally caught you!"

Lu Xing tilted his head back beneath his baseball cap with an evil smirk, revealing that terrifying face I would never forget after seeing it just once. "You caught me? Gao Jian, I should be the one saying that. Look at what I'm holding."

A terrible premonition suddenly seized me. I looked down. The 'murder weapon' in Lu Xing's hand was nothing more than a chopstick wrapped in a napkin!

'Not a knife? Crap!' My spine went cold, a chill piercing straight from my tailbone into my brain. I snapped my head around to see Tie Ningxiang pulling a razor-sharp dagger from beneath her. Holding it in both hands, she raised it high!

"I've killed so many people and stayed on the loose until now. Did you think I'd be just like those idiots?" Lu Xing's hands coiled around my arms like snakes, completely restricting my movement. "In this world, there are only people I want to kill, and no one who can catch me! Fate Ghost! Do it!"

Tie Ningxiang's eyes bulged wide. Inside those murky, pitch-black pupils, a ghost seemed to be screaming in excitement. She brought the sharp knife slashing down, putting all her strength behind it!

"Bai Qi!"

The knife was too fast. By the time Bai Qi lunged over, my vision was already dominated by the sharp blade. In that life-or-death moment, I poured all my strength into wrenching just one hand free. I turned in a futile attempt to grab Tie Ningxiang's wrist, but it was already too late.

The moment I turned, the tip of the knife plunged into my chest.

Crack!

A sharp snap rang out from my chest. I felt as if I had taken a heavy punch directly to the sternum. My legs gave out and I dropped to one knee.

"How does it feel to die at the hands of the one you love most?" Lu Xing knew the exact force of that stab and where it landed. It missed my heart, but it was still more than enough to be fatal.

My chest burned with pain, but when I reached up to touch it, I didn't feel blood. Instead, I felt a torn Many Treasures Pouch. A pink medicine bottle inside had been shattered by the impact, scattering pink pills all over the floor.

'That stab hit the medicine bottle in the Many Treasures Pouch perfectly!' In that split second between life and death, I felt as if I had taken a stroll straight through the Ghost Gate and back. 'The medicine bottle absorbed the impact. My chest only suffered a light wound. Thank god, thank god.'

Lu Xing didn't realize I had just brushed past death. Releasing my arms, he ordered the Fate Ghost to sever my head. "Xiaofeng likes you very much. If I let her see your head, she'll definitely be so happy she'll faint."

"Is that right? You really know how to look out for your little sister, don't you!" Clutching my chest, I dropped low and delivered a sweeping kick. Caught completely off guard, Lu Xing was tripped up. I didn't dare give him a single moment to breathe, pinning him firmly to the floor. "Bai Qi! Tear his throat out!"

It wasn't that I was cruel. For a guy this devoid of humanity, killing him outright was an act of mercy in my eyes.

Bai Qi opened his jaws, baring his fangs as he lunged for Lu Xing's neck. Beside me, Tie Ningxiang, still possessed by the Fate Ghost, raised the sharp knife and drove it toward my back. It all happened in a flash of lightning. This was a situation of mutual destruction.

"Gao Jian, it seems I really underestimated you!" Pinned to the floor by me and completely immobilized, Lu Xing didn't panic in the slightest. "But did you think you could kill me like this?"

An inexplicable smile curled onto the ugly, scar-covered half of his face. Then, the scars actually seemed to expand, quickly spreading to his handsome, pale half. "Ksitigarbha commands, saving the souls of the netherworld, opening yin and yang, granting you return! Break the seal! Soul-Reaping Fate Ghost!"

Tie Ningxiang clutched her head and let out a piercing scream, her eyes returning to their normal color.

At the same time, the solid Black Eyeball that Lu Xing always carried on him stopped spinning, resting quietly in his palm as it shed a single tear of blood.

Then, a resentful wailing echoed through the entire corridor, and something seemed to crawl right out of that eyeball!