Chapter 79: Reversal After Reversal
Jiang Ce was extremely anxious, so anxious that he was like that virgin who couldn’t find the entrance.
He was also very angry, because he had never suffered such a loss from childhood to adulthood.
Mischief Makers do like to watch the fun, but they don’t want the fun to happen to themselves.
So when the sheer gauze that Jiang Ce was delighted to see happened to him, his double standards twisted his reason and clouded his mind.
No matter who you are, I’m going to kill you today, Jesus can’t stop me, even if God comes he has to turn into wax for me!
His face was drained of blood at this moment, and everything he could vomit had already been vomited out after being beaten into the rock wall.
Fresh blood, stomach acid, mixed with the stench of beer, made him almost unable to take it.
Not only that, the Righteous Qi that had just been condensed not long ago was also dispersed, equivalent to dying once in Jiang Ce’s place, protecting his internal organs.
He was absolutely certain that without the trip to Yangcheng, he might really have died here.
After all, that was a Heaven-Reaching Dharma Master, a true damage punch that fills the rage value, even a dragon turtle couldn’t withstand it.
Regarding this realization, Jiang Ce felt fortunate yet extremely frustrated; a Heaven-Reaching Dharma Master actually ambushed him, unfair!
But he also understood that in real fights of life and death, there is no such thing as fairness, let alone a rematch.
Even so, he was still waiting for an opportunity, waiting for a chance for revenge.
If it were usual, seeing others suffer a loss, he might turn into a groundhog and use Golden Bell Shield to dig a hole and slip away, but not this time, because he himself had suffered a loss.
What to do after suffering a loss?
“I’ve burned so many dead people at the crematorium, you’re the first living person, so I’ll reward you with a luxury set meal!”
Jiang Ce whispered sinisterly into the Old Man of the Farm’s ear, while the latter struggled in pain but it was all in vain.
“Bold!” The Gluttonous Ghost’s Heaven-Reaching Dharma Master spoke for the first time; he no longer had his previous composed demeanor, flew into a rage, and was about to come rescue the Old Man of the Farm.
But Xuan Qing saw the situation reverse, breathed a sigh of relief, and reacted extremely quickly to block the opponent.
At this point, the offense and defense switched, with Xuan Qing preventing him from interfering in this side’s affairs.
Without restraint, Jiang Ce became even more unrestrained in smelting the Old Man of the Farm; soon, purple flames emerged from the latter’s wide-open mouth, starting to burn from the skull, the face gradually melting to reveal charred bones, then spreading to the neck and body.
His abdomen had long been pierced, ribs and spine exposed, internal organs long gone.
But Jiang Ce’s arms instead exerted even more force, actually crushing alive the Old Man of the Farm who had turned into a skeleton.
As the ashes scattered, the unburnt embers carried specks of light like fireflies drifting away.
Jiang Ce’s figure finally emerged from the lava, sliding down against the rock wall, sitting down and shattering the remaining half skull.
He was panting heavily, coughing nonstop.
Qin Shen Bo and the others didn’t dare to breathe, not even daring to meet Jiang Ce’s eyes that still held ferocity.
Jiang Ce fell silent; he had hidden for so long, yet he was still exposed?
But whether Evil Cultivator or not no longer mattered; killing the Gluttonous Ghost in front of so many people, even if I’m an Evil Cultivator, I’m a righteous Evil Cultivator!
“Big Brother…” Liang Zhi Che stared at Jiang Ce with lifeless eyes.
Jiang Ce saw the crowd’s fearful expressions and thought that even if they didn’t think he was an evil cultivator after he used such a method, they would probably still fear him, and might even be strictly investigated after returning. He pondered that the gatekeeper might not be able to stay any longer.
So he quietly looked toward Xuan Qing’s side and saw that the fight there was intense, so he prepared to take the chance while Qin Shen Bo was seriously injured and the others had lost their combat ability to slip away.
Although this time with the gatekeeper had been quite interesting, nothing was more important than his own safety.
If these people in front of him tried to stop him, he could only say sorry.
But unexpectedly, Liang Zhi Che seemed completely unconcerned about how terrifying Jiang Ce had just been, merely whimpering, “My brother’s hand was cut off, quickly think of something!”
Qin Shen Bo also asked in a deep voice, “Are you alright?”
Jiang Ce was stunned, then his expression relaxed slightly as he leaned against the rock wall behind him.
“Teammates, teammates, come help me up!”
Qin Shen Bo and the still-mobile Lu Xing reacted, hurrying over to support Jiang Ce.
“What you just did—” Qin Shen Bo started to say but stopped, and Jiang Ce waved his hand: “You haven’t unlocked the special profession, so it’s normal not to understand. If you get the chance, come to the funeral home and burn corpses with me for a few years, then you’ll get it.”
“You really work at the crematorium?”
“Yeah, complaint rate is still zero right now.”
Qin Shen Bo wanted to say something but couldn’t think of what to say.
Jiang Ce staggered to the side of the unconscious Liang Zhi Zhou, but he hadn’t studied medicine and really had no good way to deal with such a severed arm injury. After thinking it over, he probed, “How about I try to weld it back on?”
Liang Zhi Che was dumbfounded, momentarily speechless.
Hearing this, Qin Shen Bo anxiously stopped Jiang Ce who was about to act: “Don’t mess around. There must be someone in the gatekeeper who can reattach it. We should think of a way to leave first.”
“But…” Jiang Ce frowned as he looked toward Xuan Qing’s battlefield.
He saw that the Heaven-Reaching Dharma Master of the gluttonous ghost, in furious rage, had begun disregarding his own consumption and was using attacks that harmed the enemy by a thousand while damaging himself by eight hundred. The fist imprints had become incomparably fierce, and where the fist winds passed, the wails of fierce ghosts could faintly be heard.
That resentful and venomous muttering was like a curse enveloping everyone’s hearts, actually having the effect of bewitching the mind.
Fortunately, this was merely the influence from the battle’s aftershocks. Jiang Ce and Qin Shen Bo could barely resist it.
Jiang Ce casually slapped a few times to wake Liang Zhi Che and the others, his expression extremely serious.
“Not sure if it’s an illusion, but it feels like he’s gaining the upper hand now.”
Qin Shen Bo frowned tightly: “His fists seem to be absorbing Martial Uncle Xuan Qing’s power.”
The fact was indeed so. Xuan Qing was shocked to discover that the opponent was growing stronger the more they fought—not because of his own strength, but because during the battle, he could steal the power from Xuan Qing’s sorcery that had dissipated, replenishing his own consumption, and even return it amidst the attacks.
If Xuan Qing used ten parts of strength with each strike, the opponent only used seven parts, with the other three being Xuan Qing’s own power.
Thus, the longer the entanglement and the greater the consumption, the more Xuan Qing found himself lacking follow-up strength, while the opponent could always maintain a relatively good state, naturally growing braver with each fight.
As time passed, Xuan Qing was bound to lose!
“Run fast!” Realizing this, Xuan Qing roared at the several people who were now safe.
These juniors had suffered greatly following him down here. Though it wasn’t entirely his responsibility, Xuan Qing had always felt a bit of self-blame. Even just now, if Jiang Ce hadn’t accidentally forced the old man of the farm to expose himself and drawn out this Heaven-Reaching Dharma Master, everyone would probably have died without doubt.
But now that the old man of the farm was dead, Xuan Qing had no worries left. As long as these few could safely leave, he was willing to delay time and pave a path for them with his life.
Everyone’s faces looked grim, but they had already made up their minds in their hearts. Even Gongyang Dan, who was inconvenient to move, struggled to stand up, planning to stay and fight to the death.
However, before Xuan Qing could say that sentence, Jiang Ce, who had seen the situation, had already endured the pain and run a distance, disappearing into the darkness. But after a while, he came back.
“Why did you come back?” Qin Shen Bo had naturally noticed Jiang Ce sneaking away long ago, but he hadn’t stopped him from beginning to end. People have their own aspirations, and besides, Jiang Ce had just saved them and killed the Old Man of the Farm, so they shouldn’t expect more from him.
Jiang Ce didn’t have the nerve to say he hadn’t found the exit, and said righteously:
“Abandoning companions and fleeing alone is not my style!”
Sacrificing this book—turns out someone asked me to promote it, but I forgot, and thought I was all alone wuwuwu. Speaking of which, I have quite a connection with this book, because I came up with its title for the Author. So seeing people in the Comment Section flaming him for the title is pure joy for a Mischief Maker. Whenever my Mood is bad, I go to his Comment Section and secretly like those comments—feels so good.
