Chapter 51: Instantly Suppressing Three Death Robes
Headquarters.
Sigh…
A sigh echoed within an antique room.
An old man slowly opened his eyes, his gaze vacant yet profound.
The old man reached out and grasped his cane, his eyes flickering slightly with a cold glint.
“Three strikes and you’re out. I’m not dead yet.”
The old man stood up, leaning on his cane, and walked towards the doorway.
The wooden door automatically opened, and the old man stepped out, disappearing into the corridor.
Da Jiang City, suburbs.
Night, eleven o’clock.
The wind was cool, the night pleasant.
On a highway in the suburbs.
A young man sat by the roadside, with a wrapped painting and two white candles beside him.
The candles emitted a faint, almost imperceptible smell of decay.
The young man held a bottle of beer, with peanuts as a snack.
The streetlights were bright, and the grass was alive with the chirping of insects.
In the sweltering summer heat, only the night breeze felt comfortable.
The young man tilted his head slightly, with swarms of flying insects circling the streetlight above him, dense and numerous.
The young man showed a faint smile, “Moths to a flame?”
He looked at the wrapped painting and the two white candles beside him.
Although he didn’t know if it would work, according to the killing pattern of that ghost in the original work, his current actions should be effective.
But if it didn’t work.
Lin Qian’s eyes narrowed slightly. He glanced at something wrapped in gold in his pocket.
“If it doesn’t work, then I’ll run.”
This was the worst-case scenario.
Suddenly, the streetlight above flickered.
Lin Qian’s gaze shifted slightly, and he quickly unwrapped the painting.
Then, without hesitation, he lit the two ghost candles.
The white ghost candles emitted a strong white light, instantly engulfing the surroundings.
“Wang Xiao Ming really has something!”
As the ghost candles lit up, he could even feel his own fierce ghost being drawn to them.
He inserted the two ghost candles into the ground.
He looked at the painting in his hand; it was an oil painting.
The painting depicted a woman in a red wedding dress with flawless, exquisite beauty.
The woman’s appearance was impeccable, like a piece of flawless jade.
Beautiful, uniquely beautiful in the world.
Beautiful to the point of being breathtaking, beautiful to the point of being eerie and unsettling.
“Ghost Painting.”
Lin Qian’s eyes flickered slightly.
Hiss!
The streetlight extinguished, and the insects around it, as if struck by a tremendous force, stopped flying and fell to the ground.
Lin Qian stood up, but suddenly, he looked at the oil painting. At that moment, the oil painting gave him a different feeling.
He sensed danger from the oil painting.
“Did it succeed?”
Lin Qian’s expression shifted slightly. He then confirmed his success because the face of the beautiful woman in the oil painting began to blur.
The woman’s posture in the painting, which was initially facing him, subtly turned sideways at that moment.
The change occurred in the blink of an eye.
Lin Qian breathed a sigh of relief. Success meant things would be easier to handle.
He no longer paid attention to the oil painting.
The surrounding environment had begun to dim.
The roadside streetlights were extinguishing one by one.
Lin Qian directly activated his ghost domain.
But suddenly, he noticed a dark green light flashing on his body.
This was his ghost domain.
The light flashed once and then disappeared.
“Is it their method? Or…”
Lin Qian frowned and looked at the oil painting beside him.
This oil painting was becoming a medium for a ghost. Based on his understanding of this ghost, simply making the painting a medium wouldn’t be very effective.
Therefore, he used two white ghost candles to attract the fierce ghost’s descent.
Based on the time, this ghost was currently in the country.
With the existence of a medium, this ghost would descend here quickly.
Tap, tap, tap!
On the dimly lit street, two sets of footsteps suddenly sounded.
Lin Qian looked up, and two figures appeared from the darkness.
One man and one woman.
A faceless person and an old woman carrying a basket.
All acquaintances.
His guess was not wrong. Putting himself in their shoes, they had arrived as he had predicted.
“You seem to know we were coming.” The old woman’s eyes were filled with coldness as she stared intently at Lin Qian.
The old woman glanced at the items behind Lin Qian.
Her gloomy eyes flickered slightly, “Since you know we’re coming, why aren’t you running?”
“Your confidence rests on these two candles and that strange-looking painting?”
Lin Qian remained silent, searching for He Liansheng’s trace.
But he failed quickly; he did not see He Liansheng.
He wouldn’t miss this ambush.
The other person must have come, but since they hadn’t appeared, there was only one answer.
He was performing soul summoning.
Lin Qian glanced at the oil painting behind him, feeling the eerie aura emanating from it.
It wouldn’t be long, at most three minutes.
The effect of the two ghost candles was truly terrifying.
“You deserve to die,” the old woman said coldly, reaching into her basket and drawing out a black death robe.
She threw the death robe forward.
Instantly, a terrifying scene unfolded. The death robe swelled up in mid-air.
Then, a person emerged from the death robe, propping it up.
Thud.
The figure landed and walked towards Lin Qian.
It was a middle-aged man with a ashen face, his eyes dull and lifeless, emitting a strong, pungent smell of decay.
“Ghost Shouyi.”
Lin Qian’s eyes flickered slightly as he glanced at the faceless person.
He was unclear about the other person’s killing pattern; even the original work didn’t describe it in much detail.
However, the person was faceless.
Therefore, their killing pattern was likely related to faces.
Lin Qian did not use the supernatural abilities of the Ghost Performer.
The middle-aged man in the death robe was very fast, arriving in front of him in almost the blink of an eye.
Immediately, a terrifying supernatural pressure emanated, and the middle-aged man reached out to grab him.
The death robe on his body also lifted its hem at that moment, coiling towards him.
“You think you can kill me with just one death robe?”
“Are you underestimating me too much?”
Lin Qian’s expression remained unchanged, but the next moment, the middle-aged man in the death robe was sent flying backward.
In mid-air, the middle-aged man vanished, and the death robe, like a deflated ball, rapidly shriveled and then fell from the sky.
The old woman’s gaze shifted as she watched Lin Qian slowly retreat.
“The terror level is not low, and his control over the fierce ghost is high.”
“He forcefully suppressed the death robe using only supernatural abilities.”
This kick was not something a normal ghost controller could achieve.
When he kicked the death robe ghost away, he was not attacked by the death robe, which is something ordinary ghost controllers would find difficult.
“The ability to evade supernatural abilities? Quite troublesome. No wonder Old Liu Tou died at your hands.”
The old woman didn’t even look at the falling death robe; it was just a ghost not worth mentioning.
“Then let’s see these ghosts.”
The old woman shook her basket, and more than a dozen death robes of various colors and styles tumbled out.
The moment the death robes touched the ground, they transformed into fierce ghosts wearing death robes.
The fierce ghosts were both male and female.
Their expressions were, without exception, dull and lifeless.
Lin Qian narrowed his eyes slightly, his gaze subtly sweeping over the female death robe ghosts.
More than a dozen death robe ghosts walked towards him.
The old woman’s methods were like scattering beans to create an army, but here, she was scattering death robes instead of beans.
The more than a dozen ghosts exuded terrifying supernatural energy, making the surrounding environment become eerie.
The various colored death robes had different terror levels.
The faceless person had not yet acted; they seemed to be waiting for something.
Lin Qian’s eyes flickered, and his neck was suddenly torn open, revealing a ferocious mouth from his neck.
The moment the ferocious mouth appeared, it instantly opened.
A strange, eerie wind blew out from the tongueless mouth.
It blew towards the more than a dozen death robe ghosts walking towards them.
The eerie wind howled, and terror descended upon the death robe ghosts.
The more than a dozen ghosts stopped in their tracks. Several death robe ghosts were blown apart, their death robes rapidly shriveling and falling to the ground.
However, the remaining fierce ghosts in death robes, after being attacked, paused for a moment and continued to walk towards Lin Qian.
The death robes on their bodies resisted the eerie wind.
The old woman’s expression remained unchanged as she calmly watched Lin Qian struggle.
His strength was not high; he only managed to kill Old Liu due to that peculiar killing pattern.
Without that peculiar killing pattern, he would have died long ago.
“Aren’t you going to use the Ghost Performer’s abilities yet?”
“Have you discovered something?” The old woman’s eyes narrowed slightly, her old face covered in wrinkles.
At this moment, the old woman’s appearance was like a cunning, aged weasel, slyly and deceitfully guiding the young man down a path of no return.
The eerie wind howled, like a child’s wail.
Lin Qian frowned slightly; the terror level of these death robes was not low.
Looking at the approaching death robe ghosts, Lin Qian glanced at the ghost candles behind him.
These ghosts were not only manipulated but also attracted.
The other party had clearly noticed this but didn’t seem to care, even appearing pleased.
“Against these old timers, my Ghost Performer is completely unusable.”
“My ghost domain is suppressed, and instantaneous close-quarters combat is impossible.”
Lin Qian contemplated his current situation.
The Ghost Performer originated from Taiping Ancient Town, and everyone there possessed means to counter it.
His ghost domain was suppressed, and it was unclear whether this was due to the oil painting or the other party’s methods.
He Liansheng was covertly performing soul summoning somewhere, while a faceless person stood by menacingly, waiting for him to use the supernatural abilities of one ghost.
The old woman was using the death robes to wear him down.
They were all seasoned veterans.
Interesting.
“This is the third time. The kid has looked at the candles behind him three times.”
“Those candles are for attracting fierce ghosts, similar to ghost incense.”
“Why would he light such candles?”
The old woman’s gaze suddenly fell upon the strange oil painting.
“When?”
At some point, the woman in the oil painting had turned from facing them to having her back to them.
“Something’s wrong.”
The old woman’s face suddenly fell. “Find a way to get rid of that painting. This kid is using those two candles that attract fierce ghosts to draw a terrifying ghost here!”
Such a smart kid, knowing he couldn’t beat them, actually thought of using ghosts against them.
Hearing this, the faceless person slowly retreated.
Lin Qian frowned, but he wasn’t overly surprised.
He didn’t think he could fool these people.
“Get rid of this painting?”
“You might as well look at the sky.”
Lin Qian smiled and pointed towards the sky.
The old woman slowly looked up, her expression changing slightly. “This is… a ghost domain!”
The sky, at some unknown time, was gradually turning grayish, and in the far distance, the sky had already been enveloped by the grayness.
And within that eerie grayness, figures could be faintly seen.
Paper ash drifted in the sky.
“Kid, you’re asking for death!”
A ghost domain of this scale, what a joke!
How would this kid even know about the existence of such a fierce ghost!
“Let’s see now, who arrives faster, this ghost or you killing me.”
Lin Qian strode towards the death robe ghosts.
Even if they extinguished the ghost candles and destroyed the painting now, it would still be impossible to stop the fierce ghost’s descent.
The ghost had already arrived; unless they killed him and escaped before the ghost arrived.
But was that possible?
Even a chicken would struggle when being killed, let alone a ghost controller like him?
This fierce ghost arrived faster than expected.
The old woman’s expression was cold, but she wasn’t flustered. It was just one ghost; they had ways to deal with it.
The moment Lin Qian walked towards the death robe ghosts, behind him, the faceless person suddenly appeared, a gust of chilling wind quietly arose, and two candles were directly extinguished.
And at the moment they were extinguished, the faceless person reached out and grabbed the oil painting.
But suddenly, the faceless person paused. He looked up at Lin Qian and found Lin Qian tilting his head, looking at the faceless person with a half-smile.
The faceless person’s heart sank. He quickly withdrew his hand and retreated into the shadows.
Lin Qian felt a bit regretful.
Why didn’t the other party just grab the painting?
Never mind, he had only intended to trick them if possible; if not, then so be it.
Lin Qian paid no mind and instead looked at the old woman.
His expression became serious. Dealing with over a dozen death robe ghosts was difficult; his area-of-effect attack damage was too low.
He couldn’t clear them all out.
Lin Qian stretched his neck. He was going to show these old geezers what a new era’s non-stick pan was like.
It was at this moment that the death robe ghosts reached them.
The death robe ghosts reached out to grab his body.
Lin Qian’s eyes sharpened, he raised his hand, grabbed the opponent’s arm, and directly kicked.
With a bang, the death robe ghost was kicked down.
But it wasn’t over yet; the other death robe ghosts also reached for him.
Lin Qian was not afraid and proceeded to punch and kick.
Every death robe ghost he hit or kicked was knocked down and fell to the ground. Those with lower terror levels were directly suppressed and reverted back to death robes.
Those with higher terror levels merely fell to the ground, and after a moment, they stood up again.
“This kid absolutely cannot be spared!” the old woman said, her gaze deep upon seeing this.
His control over supernatural abilities was too terrifying.
It seemed the kid didn’t need to trigger any killing patterns; every punch was like an attack that triggered the killing pattern of a death robe ghost.
Moreover, it seemed he wasn’t even being attacked in this manner.
Was his dodging ability that terrifying?
But suddenly, the old woman was stunned.
She realized Lin Qian had been attacked.
It was a female death robe ghost. As she kicked him down, the skin on her foot clearly turned pale white, a sign of being attacked by supernatural forces.
“Is there a limit to dodging? Or is it?”
The old woman observed his every move and soon discovered that when he attacked male death robe ghosts, he wouldn’t get contaminated by any supernatural power.
But when he attacked female death robe ghosts, he would be contaminated by supernatural power.
In other words, when confronting female death robe ghosts, he was unable to dodge supernatural attacks!
Discovering this, the old woman sneered. She shook her basket, and terrifying supernatural power radiated out.
Three large red embroidered death robes were shaken out from the basket.
As soon as the death robes appeared, they directly transformed into three women wearing death robes.
The women had no faces, and their skin was pale white.
Seeing this, Lin Qian’s heart sank. Had the opponent guessed his ability?
This killer ghost, acquired from Headquarters, had a killing pattern that only targeted males; any attack from males could be evaded.
However, attacks from females could not be evaded.
This ghost’s ability played a significant role in killing that old man.
“It took me considerable effort to sew these three fierce ghosts.”
“Kid, after you die, I’ll turn you into ghost clothes too!”
Lin Qian’s heart sank. The terror level of these three ghosts was not low!
Three fierce ghosts clad in blood-red death robes attacked him. In almost the blink of an eye, they were upon him.
Lin Qian’s expression turned cold. “You’re asking for death!”
A terrifying supernatural power emerged. Lin Qian grabbed the arms of the three fierce ghosts as they attacked, pulling them together.
Absolute suppression power emerged, bearing down on the three fierce ghosts.
The supernatural powers of the three fierce ghosts were instantly suppressed.
The arms disappeared, and Lin Qian held three blood-red death robes, still oozing blood.
The old woman’s face darkened. “How is this possible!”
Lin Qian held the three death robes, supernatural power emanating from him, a chill spreading from his body.
The ghost was beginning to revive!
But he didn’t care and charged towards the old woman.
“Asking for death!” The old woman’s expression sank. Instead of fleeing, she reached out and grabbed towards Lin Qian.
But as she reached for Lin Qian, a black bone needle strangely appeared in her hand.
The old woman’s expression contorted. “You deserve to die!”
