Chapter 214 The Red Child
Chapter 214 The Red Child
Li Heng stared at the child with extreme vigilance. Seeing him riding the monster getting closer and closer, he couldn't help but feel a little strange.
"Why doesn't he open the field?"
Li Heng muttered to himself in confusion. You have to know that his domain is covered at the moment. For the strong people in the fairyland, this is a definite precursor to a battle.
But the child in red just rode the monster slowly and calmly, without showing any aggressiveness for the time being. If you were to say what this child did, it was probably to control the gate and prevent it from leading to the outside world.
When it reached the edge of Li Heng's domain, the huge monster suddenly stopped.
Before anyone could react, a figure appeared next to the child.
He was a middle-aged man covered in scars, his clothes torn to pieces and stained with blood.
Chu Yu had no idea whether he was like this before he died or if he was injured afterwards. He only saw him holding a dried corpse and respectfully presenting it to the child in red.
Chu Yu's pupils shrank slightly, and he was surprised to find that the corpse was actually Master He.
The child in red simply examined Master He's body briefly and ignored it. The middle-aged man quickly left with the body in his arms.
Just when Chu Yu was confused, she heard a childish voice. The voice almost hit Chu Yu's sea of consciousness across the realm:
"Where's the other one?"
What another?
Chu Yu thought of Liu Yunhuan. Wasn’t the person who came in with Sect Leader He Liu Yunhuan?
But, Liu Yunhuan is already everywhere... Chu Yu looked at the dust still floating around and felt a little embarrassed.
At this time, the giant monster slowly walked over a tree. The branches of the tree were all black and red, and there was a head stuck in the hole in the middle of the tree.
Is that the woman in the tree?
So the middle-aged man covered in wounds just now is the tomb keeper?
Chu Yu didn't expect that these ghost kings were actually related to the child in red. The members of the troupe tried their best to stop him from disturbing the child, but these ghost kings were not very afraid of the child.
Could it be that the Ghost King and the opera troupe belong to two different forces?
It was unknown what message the woman in the tree gave the child. The child suddenly looked at Li Heng and Chu Yu behind him.
"You can't find the other one either?"
"One of the two people I'm looking for is dead, and the other is missing. The two people opposite are alive. Do you have any clues about this?"
The child in red still did not show any aggression, just like a child who simply asked adults to help him find something:
"Ok?"
"Why don't you speak? Don't you know anything?"
The child tilted his head. Although he looked innocent and cute, the terrifying aura he exuded made people dare not look directly at him.
The red-clothed child's consciousness was filled with overwhelming resentment, covering the area like a vast ocean, but it was all blocked by Li Heng. Even so, the child had no intention of taking action.
The child seemed to have suddenly seen something just now and looked at Chu Yu in confusion.
"how come……"
Wasn't this woman already dead? Why did she look as if she were still alive?
He was very sure that this woman was carrying his curse. He cursed everyone based on the most desperate memories in their hearts. This woman must have had her cultivation robbed, and in despair she intended to die with someone, but failed.
He thought that his curse was cast on an ignorant ghost cultivator, but he didn't expect it was a living person.
It would be fine if it was a living person, whether it was a human or a ghost, one could not escape death if cursed. So why was this woman still able to survive after being cursed by herself?
What made the child feel even more strange was that the aura of his curse was slowly weakening on the woman, as if she had consumed the curse herself.
Seeing that the child was staring at Chu Yu and refused to look away, Li Heng suddenly interrupted: "The other one is dead too, just now."
Li Heng thought about it and felt that there was no need to hide anything. The other party had not shown any aggressiveness so far, and he wanted to find out the child's purpose.
"Ah, he's dead too..." The red-clothed kid's tone revealed regret and he looked troubled.
"Master Ghost Infant, these two must have killed them." The tomb keeper stared at the two people opposite him. Li Heng didn't dare to look directly at them, so he turned his gaze to Chu Yu behind him:
"They killed someone important to you, do you want to..."
Before he could finish his words, the ghost baby interrupted him and turned to ask Li Heng:
"Did you kill the magician, too?"
Not knowing the other party's intentions, this question made Li Heng immediately alert.
So what if it is, so what if it isn’t?
The two seconds of consideration gave the ghost baby an excuse to continue speaking:
"I came to take the traitor's head in person, but he was killed by someone alive."
"I should thank you, but this is a den of ghosts, and we should follow the rules of a den of ghosts."
"If you hadn't interfered, the Magician would be in my stomach right now, slowly waiting to merge with me and become a part of my power. Tell me, who can fill in the gap of Ghost Saint that I'm missing?"
The ghost baby felt as if it had found Li Heng's fault, and it released a cold and bloody aura that could not be concealed. This aura was oppressive and intimidating.
It looked as if the ghost baby was going to swallow the living person in front of it to make up for the "snacks" that had already been destroyed.
Li Heng's eyes were stern. Although there was a gap above the fairyland, there were not many that could make him feel threatened. The aura of this ghost baby was stronger than his own. Even if Li Heng could guarantee his own safety, he would not dare to joke with Chu Yu's life.
The most important thing is that the aura of this ghost baby is erratic, like an uncontrollable naughty child. You never know what he is going to do in the next second, but every inch of his aura makes Li Heng feel dangerous.
This ghost baby should be considered as one of the most gifted ghost cultivators.
But he didn't take any action. He could have started killing people just because he was unhappy, but he didn't. Instead, he chose to threaten.
Behind every threat, there is a goal that needs to be achieved. If Li Heng goes with the flow at this moment, the purpose of this ghost baby will be exposed.
But Li Heng didn't want to go along with it. Who knew what this ghost baby was up to? Although he looked young, he couldn't be treated as a child at all. His thinking was more mature than many adults.
"So," Li Heng turned around and did not follow the ghost baby's words:
"So what if I killed the magician? Even if this is a den of demons, he captured the lives of an entire city and put the people in danger. I killed him according to the rules of the Kyushu Continent!"
"It's not up to you to decide what rules to follow." The ghost baby's innocent expression suddenly turned ferocious. The monster under him stretched out several "legs" and began to stomp on the floor, making a buzzing sound like thousands of troops, which made people feel scared.
"I have no choice but to do it." Seeing the ghost baby being enraged, Li Heng also issued his own ultimatum, saying slowly: "The ghost den and the Jiuzhou continent were originally at peace, but they kidnapped a living person from my city innocently. The human cultivators tried their best to save them but died in the ghost den."
"If this matter gets out, do you know how the human race will react?"
I don't know which sentence touched the ghost baby's funny bone. He laughed like a baby, which was extremely creepy in the desperate night of the ghost den:
"This kind of thing cannot be spread out. No one will know that the living people in that city are in the ghost den, because everyone who knows about it is dead, and you can't get out."
Li Heng raised his eyebrows when he heard this: "Are you sure?"
"I have reported the disappearance of Pingyuan County to the sect, and I left clues before entering the ghost den."
"If we die here, I dare not say anything else, but the next time someone comes to the ghost den, it may not be as simple as my little fairyland."
"I once heard that a demon god ravaged Qiangruo City in Fenghuangzhou, but after just one night, the demon god's bloodline was eradicated by the powerful gods of my clan."
"The people are so innocent. In order to save them, when they track down the ghost, someone may open the gate from the Jiuzhou side. By then, I can't guarantee that the one coming in will still be a cultivator from the fairyland..."
As he spoke, Li Heng went from being the one being threatened to being the one making the threat.
After hearing his words, the ghost baby actually thought about it patiently for a while. If someone else said this, he would have laughed at him, but the person he was talking to now was a powerful fairyland master of the human race.
Even from the perspective of combat power, they can represent the position of their respective ethnic groups.
Therefore, he did not doubt what Li Heng said. The confidence of this living person in front of him might really be given by the divine realm.
"Hmph," the ghost baby suddenly floated down from the giant monster and hovered just outside Li Heng's territory. He did have a purpose, but now he chose to use a more peaceful method to achieve it.
"How about we talk about it instead of fighting?"
Only then did Chu Yu see the ghost baby's face clearly. It was different from what he had expected. The eyes of other ghost cultivators were scary in their own ways, but the ghost baby's eyes looked like those of a normal person.
This is strange, does it mean that the stronger the ghost cultivator is, the closer he is to humans?
After taking another look at the horrible monster under the ghost baby, Chu Yu gave up this idea. She felt that such an abstract ghost saint would not likely turn into a human form.
"Okay." Li Heng agreed without much thought. As long as they could talk, it meant that the ghost baby's goal was not to the point where it had to be achieved by force, so he could listen.
The other party threatened just to give themselves more bargaining chips.
But what he didn't expect was the ghost baby's next move. His small fingers stretched out from under his wide sleeves and pointed directly at Chu Yu: "Not with you, I want to talk to her."
The ghost baby now showed a maturity that was different from his appearance, like a little adult. Seeing that Li Heng agreed, he began to put forward his own requests.
Unexpectedly, this proposal was rejected by Li Heng: "No, it can only be between the two of us."
The ghost baby frowned. He had tried his best to appear calm, but this man was still so alert.
"I promise I won't hurt her."
The ghost baby thought about it and finally made a concession. He seemed to be confident in himself.
Li Heng did not agree, but just laughed: "If there is anything, we can just talk about it briefly, there is no need to trouble others."
The ghost baby suddenly smiled and said directly: "Don't be so hasty to refuse. After you listen to what I have to say, you will agree to let me talk to her."
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