Chapter 405: Chapter 401 She’s a Real Dog

Qin Liuxi plucked a few treasures from the two great Ghost Kings. Without being stingy, he dug out a jar of wine he brewed himself as an offering and then began to discuss business.

Kuang Shan tasted Qin Liuxi’s brewed wine for the first time; it was only supposed to be a taste, but once he started, he couldn’t stop. Oddly, the wine seemed to contain a hint of Spiritual Energy.

Suddenly, from the corner of his eye, he spotted that old scoundrel, the Eastern Ghost King, taking out his hanging wine pot and beginning to pour wine into it.

An utter oil-stealing rat.

Kuang Shan: “…”

He contemptuously rolled his eyes, then silently pulled out a Jade Pot, not allowing the old ghost to benefit alone.

Qin Liuxi watched the two ghosts, coughed, and said to Kuang Shan, “It’s precisely to seek your help that I called you here, as the north is your territory. I wonder if you would be willing to run an errand to Beichuan and deliver a message for me.”

Kuang Shan: “?”

Huh, deliver a message? A Ghost Messenger’s errand?

“Who is the message for?” he asked.

“A sly vixen.”

A vixen?

Upon hearing this, an image of a soul-seducing, breathtaking beauty instantly sprang into Kuang Shan’s mind. Smiling, he said, “It would be my honor to serve as a messenger for you, sir. May I ask what the message is?”

“Come here,” Qin Liuxi beckoned him over, positioned a hand atop his head, slightly closed his eyes, and only after transmitting a soul thought did he release his hand.

Kuang Shan’s expression was indescribable.

Criticizing someone like this, isn’t it a bit undignified?

He coughed and said, “Sir, is that it?”

Qin Liuxi nodded and added, “There is another matter concerning Zhou Le, the previous Ghost King. I’d like to ask you about it.”

“Please, ask away.”

“Before Zhou Le disappeared, did he take anything strange up the mountain?”

Kuang Shan was taken aback and looked towards the Eastern Ghost King, not understanding the connection.

“You know, I’ve always coveted his position, but also feared him, so I never dared to get close and naturally didn’t pay close attention to what he took with him,” Kuang Shan awkwardly explained and then tentatively asked, “Could it be that Zhou Le embezzled treasures from you?”

Qin Liuxi shook his head: “He wouldn’t dare. The treasures left in Zhou Le’s cave have all ended up in your pocket. Have you found anything unusual among them?”

“No, there were only ordinary items like gold and silver jewelry, Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, utensils, and antiques,” Kuang Shan grew more anxious. Could it be that Zhou Le really did something that this ominous star knows about, and now it’s time for settling scores?

If that were the case, wouldn’t he be the ready-made unlucky scapegoat?

The Eastern Ghost King couldn’t hold himself back and said, “Sir, if you suddenly bring up Zhou Le, have you recalled something?”

“Not really,” Qin Liuxi pondered for a moment, then formed a Sealing mantra with both hands and laid out a small Barrier before taking out a box full of runes from indoors.

The two ghosts exchanged glances. Those were Prohibition runes, weren’t they?

What’s inside that requires such caution?

Their instincts told them that the object inside the Prohibition Charm Box exerted a covert temptation upon them.

Indeed, as Qin Liuxi opened the box revealing its contents and wiped away one of the Prohibitions, both of their Divine Souls trembled slightly.

That was a piece of translucent white finger bone, seemingly endowed with tremendous power, making it impossible for them to look away.

“Is this?”

Qin Liuxi caressed the Buddha Bone in her hand and spoke lightly, “Unless I’m mistaken, this should be the Buddha Bone of Evil Buddha Siluo. Of course, I have no concrete evidence—it’s just a guess!”

“What?” The Eastern Ghost King leapt up, staring at the finger bone.

“Some time ago, I performed an exorcism for a young girl. The new ghost that had possessed her somehow obtained this Buddha Bone. What do you make of that?”

Both ghosts looked at her intently, they weren’t fools; sealing it in a Prohibition Charm Box proved that the item was extremely formidable. That new ghost must have tapped into its power and became inflated.

“I was ambushed by it and got injured,” said Qin Liuxi nonchalantly.

She lifted another layer of prohibition, and the bone faintly exuded Buddha Power, yet it was tinged with a trace of evil.

The two ghosts paused their breathing momentarily, their eyes instantly turning crimson red.

Such a small Buddha Bone had actually managed to injure Qin Liuxi, the Great Demon King.

What if they themselves merged with it?

Both were old ghosts with over a thousand years of cultivation, endlessly pursuing power. They even aspired to reach higher, for in this world they were not the supreme rulers—there were always beings mightier than they, pressing down upon them, like the scourge before their eyes.

If a new ghost could use this Buddha Bone to injure Qin Liuxi, wouldn’t they, by integrating the Buddha Bone, become mightier, potentially ascending to Ghost Immortal or even ghost?

With this thought, the two ghosts’ crimson eyes revealed a glint of greed and longing.

They desired strength, and even more of it!

Qin Liuxi saw the fluctuations in the ghosts’ ghost power and let out a disdainful snort.

“Want it? Don’t forget that this thing belongs to that bastard Siluo, and he escaped from the suppression of hell,” Qin Liuxi chuckled, “Legend says that when he fell, his Physical Body turned into nine Buddha Bones scattered about. Now tell me, if he escaped, wouldn’t he try to reclaim these Buddha Power-infused bones to reconstruct his Physical Body?”

The two ghosts shuddered, coming to their senses.

“That bastard would lament over no one nurturing these Buddha Bones for him. If you’re willing, even better—if a Ghost King with profound ghost power integrates with it, providing a superior nourishment, when he comes back for it, he’d not only retrieve his Buddha Bones but also feast on your own ghost power, greatly contributing to Siluo’s cause,” Qin Liuxi said, passing the bone over with a giggling smile, “So, who wants to become a nurturing stove for this bone?”

Both ghosts retreated in horror, staring at Qin Liuxi, You’re not human, but the true devil!

Sure, having power is great, but you also need to live to enjoy it. By taking this thing, wouldn’t they just be marking themselves for Siluo to track them, effectively blinding themselves to reality?

“What, changed your minds?” Qin Liuxi glanced at them with a mocking smile.

The Eastern Ghost King forced a laugh, “My lord jests, we’re not those shamelessly greedy spirits.”

Kuang Shan: You’re slapping your own face, and yet you still remember to slap mine. How excessive.

Qin Liuxi snorted lightly, placing the Buddha Bone back in the box and reapplying the Prohibition, saying, “It’s good you know what’s at stake. Although this Buddha Bone is imbued with Buddha Power, it carries evilness within. Should you take it and it becomes a scourge in the mortal world, it will be my duty to carry out divine justice.”

The two felt a shiver in their very souls upon hearing this threat, and hastened to formally address her, “My lord, such evil should indeed be destroyed.”

“Enough, how to deal with it is for me to decide,” Qin Liuxi replied, “I mentioned it so that each of you is also alert. Should any other Buddha Bones be found, inform the Mystic Sect and the Buddhist Sect. Should that Evil Buddha break free, he’s not about to live as a hermit; he’ll definitely try to reclaim these.”

“Yes, my lord.”

As Qin Liuxi closed the box and re-sealed it with Prohibition, in a certain small village, inside a peasant’s yard covered with corpses, a black shadow stood besides the body of a child whose chest had been torn open, squeezing a bloody rib bone and absorbing it into its own body.

The shadow touched the area where its ribs were and sighed retrospectively, then suddenly perked up, uttering a ‘huh’ and looked into the distance—something appeared and then vanished.

“My things, whoever takes them, dies!”

The shadow burst into laughter and vanished into the darkness.