Chapter 50: The Persimmon Is Weak, You Should Encourage【extra 5,000 Words, Thanks To No.1 And October Flying Snow】
Under the night sky, the old men in Taiping Ancient Town rarely all gathered together in an old Ancestral Hall.
“Old Liu is dead.”
Inside the Ancestral Hall, He Liansheng held a spirit tablet, his expression gloomy, showing no emotion.
The old woman gripped the hem of her clothes tightly with her hand, her gaze cold.
The faceless person said nothing, just looked toward that spirit tablet with a faceless visage.
No one spoke, He Liansheng’s eyebrows lowered.
In Taiping Ancient Town, every person would leave behind a spirit tablet, just to confirm if the old men who went out had died.
Living people cannot be soul summoned, only dead people can.
As a soul summoner of this era, he checked the spirit tablets in the Ancestral Hall every day to confirm who was still alive and who had died.
There were many spirit tablets here, not just theirs.
“I will soul summon Old Liu, do any of you have objections?” He Liansheng looked at the faceless person and the old woman.
The two shook their heads, having no objections.
They also wanted to know how Old Liu died; he had just gone to capture a ghost performer, how could he possibly die?
He Liansheng nodded, his single eye dim and dissatisfied.
Immediately after, a strange supernatural force quickly appeared from the old man, then enveloped the spirit tablet.
Immediately after, the candlelight in the Ancestral Hall dimmed slightly, and a chill emerged from the spirit tablet.
Then, a strange scene appeared: an illusion slowly emerged from the spirit tablet.
The illusion quickly solidified, revealing the figure of an old man dressed in a death robe, his expression numb and deathly still.
The figure was illusory, but soon the illusion disappeared, and a hint of vitality appeared in the old man’s numb and deathly still expression.
“Sigh…”
The old man was somewhat bewildered, but he quickly understood his situation.
He sighed, full of helplessness.
“What happened to you?”
The old woman spoke first to ask.
“Weren’t you going out to capture the ghost performer? How did you end up like this?”
“Don’t tell me you got counter-killed just by capturing a ghost performer.”
Hearing the old woman’s words, the soul summoned old man fell somewhat silent.
He sighed again, “It wasn’t the ghost performer, I encountered Lin Qian.”
“Lin Qian? Who?” He Liansheng frowned.
“It’s that young person I let go.”
The Ancestral Hall instantly fell silent.
“What nonsense are you talking!” The old woman frowned; how could anyone believe such nonsense?
In less than half a month, the other party had grown to the point of being able to take him down?
What a joke!
“You mean, a kid who escaped from our hands grew in less than half a month to the point where he can take you down?”
He Liansheng asked with a serious expression.
The old man nodded, “I know it’s hard to believe, but that’s the fact.”
“I found the ghost performer in Da Jiang City. At that time, the ghost performer and a ghost with a ghost domain appeared in the same place.”
“I saw Lin Qian, that kid I let go.”
“He possessed a ghost domain, with strange methods; he could abandon his own fierce ghost, and during the confrontation with me, he completely controlled the ghost performer.”
“The opponent’s abilities were very strange, with more than one fierce ghost on him.”
“I fought him, but the opponent seemed to know that competing in abilities wouldn’t work, so he directly competed in supernatural power with me.”
“I didn’t test out too many of the opponent’s abilities.”
“Currently, the abilities I know are strangeness, the ghost performer’s ability, a ghost mouth that can blow chilling wind, and an ability to dodge supernatural attacks.”
“Among them, the opponent’s ability to dodge supernatural attacks has a very high limit; at least when clashing supernatural power with me, he almost relied on this ability to dodge most of my attacks. Even when I pulled him into the grave pit, he used this ability to avoid being dragged into the supernatural land.”
“I wasn’t careless, nor did I go soft, but I still lost.”
“His terror level isn’t as high as mine, a bit lower than me, but the opponent’s fierce ghost abilities made up for that gap.”
“Moreover, the opponent wasn’t pushed to desperation; he has a ghost inside him with extremely strong suppression power against ghosts. If he used that ability, I might have lost even faster.”
“But for some reason, the opponent didn’t use it.”
“I guess the opponent is using that ghost to suppress the newly controlled ghost performer inside him.”
“When I fought him, his ghost performer had just been controlled and was reviving, but during the confrontation with me, although the fierce ghost was reviving, it never fully revived.”
The old man spoke all the information he knew in one breath.
“Can quickly control fierce ghosts and establish balance, has the ability to suppress fierce ghosts, ghost domain, ability to dodge fierce ghost attacks… Sorry, I shouldn’t have let him go.”
The old man said, feeling somewhat guilty; he hadn’t expected that a moment of softness would lead to this.
Silence, deathly silence.
He Liansheng wanted to say something, but it was already too late.
The old woman looked up at the beam of the Ancestral Hall; she wanted to curse loudly, but for some reason, she couldn’t.
The faceless person pointed at the old man, then at the three of them.
The old man shook his head, “No need for revenge.”
But the faceless person shook his head, and text appeared on his head:
“Not for you, for us. We’ve already offended that kid. Unless we seek reconciliation with him, but that’s impossible; that kid won’t give up.”
“You let him go, but he still didn’t let you go; that’s already good proof.”
The old man wanted to retort, but the faceless person waved his hand, and the text changed, new text appearing:
“We can escape, but Taiping Ancient Town can’t, Ghost Lake can’t.”
“We can’t abandon Ghost Lake for one Lin Qian; this concerns Yin Er.”
The old man’s expression changed.
The text changed again: “This is an opportunity. Before, we couldn’t find that kid; now that we can, that’s best. We go directly to deal with him, and everything ends.”
In the previous pursuit, they failed to catch up due to Lin Qian’s methods.
The opponent drove that out-of-control taxi to who knows where.
By the time they found out, it was too late; the opponent had long gone somewhere.
One highway, extending everywhere; who knew where the opponent went?
Moreover, they couldn’t leave Taiping Ancient Town for too long at the time.
They also had things they needed to guard.
So, the pursuit ended hastily.
But now, the opponent is in Da Jiang City and actually took out one of them.
His boldness is remarkable.
Now, they know the opponent’s location, strength, and some abilities, so they have a plan.
The faceless person didn’t believe that all three of them together couldn’t take down one Lin Qian.
Not to mention He Liansheng could soul summon.
In the entire Taiping Ancient Town, the weakest was the dead old man.
The old man looked at those words, sighed, and nodded, “You’re right.”
The old woman snorted coldly, “Even in death, you’re indecisive; you deserved to die first.”
The old man fell silent, He Liansheng said nothing, and silently ended the soul summoning.
The old man’s figure quickly turned illusory, then disappeared.
He Liansheng put away the spirit tablet in his hand and looked at the two.
“A scourge.”
The old woman nodded with a grim expression, “If he doesn’t die, we’ll be the ones to die.”
The deadlock is already set; they were wrong first, but reconciliation is impossible.
They can only go down this path to the end.
No choice.
The faceless person pointed at his face, no text appeared.
But the two understood what he meant.
He could tear off the ghost performer’s mask, just like the ghost performer mask Lin Qian got back then.
“Go back and prepare; we’ll set out at midnight tonight.”
He Liansheng decisively decided to go and confront them tonight.
The faceless person and the old woman turned and left the Ancestral Hall.
He Liansheng’s eyes narrowed slightly; that kid needed to be killed as soon as possible!
The opponent was developing too fast!
Da Jiang City, suburbs, in a cemetery.
Three people stood in front of a newly erected tombstone.
This was a tombstone for an unnamed person; Lin Qian placed flowers on it.
“President, you really are kind-hearted. He wanted to kill you, yet you left him a corpse.”
Ye Feng, arms crossed, looked at this new grave.
After a ghost controller dies, generally the body isn’t left behind.
After all, after death the fierce ghost revives, and when detained, it’s detained along with the corpse; no one bothers to extract the ghost from the corpse.
Besides, it’s difficult; after all, the corpse is already in the shape of the ghost.
But Lin Qian went to some effort to pull the ghost out of that old man’s corpse, leaving him a body, which he buried and even erected a tombstone for.
“He let me go once; leaving him an intact corpse is only fair.” Lin Qian said somewhat complicatedly.
The opponent wanted to kill him for a simple reason: not because the opponent wanted to kill him, but because he had to.
He was let go before because he was an ordinary person; later they wanted to kill him because he was a ghost controller.
“He let you go, then wanted to kill you later; too contradictory.” Wang Xiaoqiang was somewhat puzzled.
If they wanted to kill Lin Qian, why let him go at first?
Wasn’t that asking for trouble?
Lin Qian smiled at that, “He’s a good guy. If he were a villain, I wouldn’t have survived this long, and he wouldn’t have been counter-killed by me.”
He waved his hand, “Let’s go, back.”
“The trouble coming next won’t be small.”
He wouldn’t forget that He Liansheng had soul summoning ability.
The opponent would sooner or later discover the old man was dead—no, they probably discovered it the moment the old man died.
He Liansheng would definitely soul summon.
After soul summoning, he would definitely be exposed.
He didn’t believe the old man he took down would cover for him.
“What trouble?”
Wang Xiaoqiang was puzzled, “Li Yong and his Dawn Organization have been wiped out. Though Dawn Organization has ties abroad, it’s not simple for people from abroad to enter domestic.”
“Besides that, your trouble is just Taiping Ancient Town…”
At this point, Wang Xiaoqiang paused, eyes narrowing, “This old man is from Taiping Ancient Town?”
Lin Qian hadn’t mentioned the old man’s identity, and they hadn’t asked.
But now…
Lin Qian nodded; the trouble known about him currently was Taiping Ancient Town, and the unknown was the other ghost performers.
His ghost performer was just one of the thirty-six.
There were still thirty-five ghosts out there.
Caesar Grand Hotel had most of the ghost performers; currently, they couldn’t escape.
But it wasn’t certain they wouldn’t leave via that corridor leading to the supernatural land, then come to reality from the supernatural land.
That ghost bus could bring ghosts to reality, as long as the ghost stayed on without getting off.
But that was too remote.
The biggest threat now was Taiping Ancient Town.
Lin Qian thought if it were him, he would definitely come to take him down that same day.
Best to settle grudges on the same day, or endless trouble follows.
“So, people from Taiping Ancient Town will come knocking soon?” Wang Xiaoqiang frowned and asked seriously.
“Something like that; they’ll know about this old man’s death soon.”
“Might even know already.”
“I need to go back and prepare.”
At this time, it would be hard for headquarters to deal with Taiping Ancient Town’s people, unless Qin Lao acted.
But getting that old man to act was basically impossible.
“Should we notify headquarters and Circle of Friends?” Ye Feng asked.
“After all, they agreed to your conditions; calling on them to help now is completely reasonable.”
But Wang Xiaoqiang shook his head, “Why fight them? We go to headquarters and hide for a while; do they dare come to headquarters to kill?”
“They wouldn’t dare go to headquarters.”
Lin Qian said.
No matter how angry Taiping Ancient Town’s old undyings were, they wouldn’t dare go to headquarters to kill.
Joking about confronting a country was suicide.
“Then we go to headquarters.” Wang Xiaoqiang said.
“At headquarters, we’re safe and it won’t affect developing the club.”
“Besides, headquarters wants you there anyway.”
Lin Qian stroked his chin; going to headquarters was indeed a good method. Currently, without going all out, his strength could take down this old man.
But Taiping Ancient Town’s He Liansheng, old woman, and faceless person…
He had no confidence in taking them down, especially He Liansheng.
Without instant-kill capability, confronting He Liansheng was suicidal.
Not to mention the faceless person and that old woman who could make fierce ghost clothes.
The death robe on the dead old man was made by that old woman.
Lin Qian was certain that blood-red death robe was very fierce.
Extremely high terror level; once revived, it could easily take down Ye Feng.
Currently, going to headquarters was the most stable choice.
But don’t forget, the ghost messenger was at headquarters.
However, with his current value, as long as he mentioned this, headquarters would definitely move the ghost messenger away.
But he would expose his flaw: the closer he was to the ghost messenger, the faster his fierce ghost revival.
That was a hidden danger.
So, headquarters was not an option, or at least not now.
“Headquarters is not considered; I have my own plans.”
Lin Qian looked into the distance; at this time, it seemed a terrifying ghost had come here from abroad.
He could maneuver a bit.
Of course, if he couldn’t, that was fine; he still had ways.
“Then we notify headquarters and Circle of Friends?”
Wang Xiaoqiang hesitated a bit before asking.
Honestly, he didn’t understand what Lin Qian was thinking.
Going to headquarters was a very safe and stable method, so why did Lin Qian directly say no?
Did Lin Qian have some issue with headquarters?
Wang Xiaoqiang guessed inwardly.
“No need, I have arrangements.”
Wang Xiaoqiang and Ye Feng exchanged a glance, both somewhat helpless.
The three bid farewell to the cemetery and returned to the club.
Back there, Lin Qian looked at the neatly arranged coffins in the office, eyes narrowing slightly; he looked up at the time—it was seven in the evening.
At that moment, Wang Xiaoqiang pushed the door open and came in, “I got what you wanted.”
Wang Xiaoqiang handed a bundled painting to Lin Qian.
“Sure it’s that person’s appearance?”
“Yes.”
Wang Xiaoqiang looked at Lin Qian somewhat strangely, “You like that woman?”
“Honestly, she’s indeed beautiful, flawlessly perfect, but somehow, the more I look, the creepier she seems.”
“Creepy is right; there’s no flawlessly perfect appearance in this world.”
Lin Qian took the painting without looking at it.
He couldn’t look at this painting; only those unaware of the truth could look at it safely.
But those who knew, would have problems after looking.
This painting was currently just an ordinary painting.
But if someone who knew the truth looked, then this painting was no longer ordinary.
“Style correct?” Lin Qian confirmed again.
“It’s an oil painting as you requested, clothes are correct too, completely hand-painted.”
Wang Xiaoqiang said.
Lin Qian nodded, “Then no problem.”
“Has the ghost candle from headquarters arrived?” Lin Qian asked again.
“It has, at the bar counter downstairs. By the way, what do you want white ghost candles for?”
“That thing attracts fierce ghosts; are you planning to suppress all supernatural events in Da Jiang City and wipe them out?”
Wang Xiaoqiang couldn’t understand Lin Qian’s operations anymore; since coming back, he had him investigate a person, then paint their appearance and a piece of clothing together.
Then he called his big brother to get a few white ghost candles.
“Suppress all supernatural events in Da Jiang City?”
Lin Qian tilted his head, “That sounds familiar.”
“Seems like I’ve heard it somewhere; feels pretty badass.”
“But not now.”
Wang Xiaoqiang: …
“You haven’t been online for a long time, have you?”
Lin Qian nodded, “Yeah, not for a long time.”
“That explains it.”
If Lin Qian went online more often, he wouldn’t just think it sounded familiar.
“Not handling Da Jiang City’s supernatural events, then what do you want white ghost candles for?” Wang Xiaoqiang didn’t explain directly but continued asking.
“You’ll know when the time comes.” Lin Qian showed a wicked smile.
He didn’t want to go to headquarters or flee Da Jiang City, so he could only send those old men to play somewhere first.
Of course, ghost candles alone couldn’t attract that terrifying fierce ghost.
But with this painting, it was different.
“Watch this place; I’m heading out.”
Lin Qian thought and immediately planned to leave.
“Where are you going again?”
Wang Xiaoqiang was speechless; how could this guy not stay still?
“Why are you so talkative today?”
“Instead of worrying where I’m going, pick one from these ghosts, see if any suit you. If there is, tell me; I’ll help you control it when I return.”
“Of course, best to ask your big brother; he’s more experienced.”
Wang Xiaoqiang’s expression turned serious, “You make a good point. Go quick and come back quick; I’ll contact my big brother to help pick a ghost.”
Lin Qian patted Wang Xiaoqiang’s shoulder, “Strength is the way; life is just the foundation for pursuing strength.”
“Keep it up, I believe in you. The club is weak; you must strive!”
With that, Lin Qian gave Wang Xiaoqiang an “I believe in you” look, then took the bundled oil painting and left.
Wang Xiaoqiang stroked his chin, “Why does that sound so familiar?”
