Vol 2 Chapter 5.1 (2/2)

In the name of the G.o.d of the Eastern Sky, pledged by the word of the G.o.d of the Eastern Sky, thou spirits and familiars art free, thou shalt not serve under any master, from this moment henceforth!

Even if this went to court, no one could accuse the boss of murder, right? He had only given the familiars their freedom. That they had immediately turned and murdered their master after gaining their freedom wasn’t his problem, right?

Zhang Dongping had to have abused his familiars for no reason. That was why those familiars would take revenge on their previous owner the moment they gained their freedom!

If his family’s Xiao Xue became free, she wouldn’t kill him. Jiang Ziya was confident in that.

“But if you’re able to compensate, then there is still room for negotiation.”

“…” Jiang Ziya was a bit speechless. This person must have had a rotten, super duper, terrible relations.h.i.+p with his cousin. “How much do you want?”

Jiang Ziya felt defeated. He didn’t have the means to fight family to family, so he could only see if he was able to foot the compensation. But it was for a human life. He felt that the money involved would cost him his entire lifetime to pay.

“That artifact demon, the familiar in your necklace, and you must promise me three things.”

Zhang Dongqi’s final condition was quite despicable. Right now, he still didn’t know the guy’s background. Earlier, from the result of their digging, they learned that he was just a normal university student. But look at him now—just how is he normal, huh?

Since he still wasn’t sure of the guy’s true background, he had just gone with “three things,” this kind of unclear request. Later, he would observe the guy’s condition and make his actual requests, like letting him borrow his power or handing over more familiars.

Hearing this kind of demand, Jiang Ziya’s face darkened. He wasn’t willing to hand Xiao Xue over as a bargaining piece again, and the other guy had said that there was a familiar in the necklace too. He didn’t even know what the necklace was, but it was probably Yu Shu’s, Lu Yang’s, or the boss’s. He couldn’t make the decision to hand it over.

And those “three things,” no matter how much of an idiot Jiang Ziya was, he would never agree to such a compensation. That would practically be giving up his future!

“How’s that?” Zhang Dongqi coldly said, “Why hesitate? Agree, and you’ll escape with your life. If you don’t agree, you’re dead meat!”

Jiang Ziya blanched.

“Who’s gonna be dead meat, we don’t know that yet—Attack, strike!”

A familiar, angry voice shouted, and noise erupted. The light bulb no more than three meters from Jiang Ziya exploded, but that was only the start. The room began splitting apart from the top, the crack spreading downward and downward, from the wall to the floor, forming an entire circle. Then, a “bang” resounded boomingly again, and the room before his eyes actually split in two, falling apart to the left and right.

Jiang Ziya stared at the night sky outside.

Only then did he realize that they had been confined in a cargo container. It was just that the inside walls had been lined with sound-absorbing foam. The metal walls hadn’t been directly exposed to them, so he hadn’t been able to discover that they were actually in a cargo container.

Even though knowing that didn’t help much either.

In the sky, House Keeper had a gigantic pair of bat wings on his back. He carried Yu Shu, elegantly landing not too far from Jiang Ziya, making Jiang Ziya feel like Yu Shu was just like a queen making her entrance. Furthermore, this queen had even used a single strike to cleave apart a room—no, this wasn’t a queen. This was practically a monster!

Yu Shu stood there, seemingly with a sword in her hand. Because the sword glowed brightly, Jiang Ziya couldn’t see it clearly. But as the glow slowly dissipated, the true form of the sword was revealed… to be plastic, toy sword.

Crack!

And it even broke.

Yu Shu lowered her head to look. She offhandedly tossed the toy sword that had broken in half, shrugged, and said, “Uh huh, I’ve used up my powers. This has nothing to do with me anymore. I’m heading home to work on my ma.n.u.script. Bye bye!”

…Hey!

“Ah, I can’t leave yet.”

So you know you can’t leave yet!

Yu Shu walked over and snagged the necklace that lay against Jiang Ziya’s chest. She gave a “bye” and turned to leave just like that.

Jiang Ziya stared as Yu Shu swaggered over and fell back against House Keeper, who gave Jiang Ziya an apologetic smile. After that, he extended his wings and flew away with his mistress.

However, halfway through their flight, a streak of black suddenly shot toward House Keeper and Yu Shu, who were in midair.

Jiang Ziya didn’t have time to see what it was. He immediately yelled, “Yu Shu, watch out—”

The large bat wings in the air elegantly served, easily dodging the streak of black. Then, Yu Shu even guffawed arrogantly.

“Missed me! Hahaha—”

From below came Zhang Dongqi’s angry scream, “Just you wait, the Zhang family isn’t going to overlook this!”

“Fine, I’ll be waiting at home for you!” Yu Shu retorted with quite a despicable exclamation. Come to my place if you dare. No matter how many people come, you won’t survive!

Of course, asking her to leave the apartment was impossible.

Where Jiang Ziya was currently located was neither high in the air nor close to the ground. He seemed to be on the “second floor,” likely because two cargo containers were stacked on top of each other, and he was in the top cargo container.

Curious, he looked down. That streak of black that had shot toward Yu Shu had landed on the ground. It was actually something like a beast, but it wasn’t truly a beast. It was a mess of deep black, the shape like a leopard or tiger. He couldn’t really say what kind of beast it was, but whatever it was, it appeared undeniably ferocious. If he got any closer, he felt that he would get torn to shreds by those claws!

Zhang Dongqi was actually riding on top of that beast.

Jiang Ziya abruptly had some understanding of how terrifying these “pract.i.tioners” were. No wonder Zhang Dongqi had little care for guns. There were powers like Yu Shu’s and powers like that shadowy beast. A mere gun really didn’t cut it…

Can we really safely retreat after catching the attention of someone like this? That Zhang Dongqi even said that the entire Zhang family wouldn’t overlook this. If the Zhang family has a lot of people with this kind of power, then I’m dead meat.

Jiang Ziya freaked out. It was fine if it was just him, but he might even endanger his sister and brother-in-law—

“Sigh, who would have thought that Zhongxiang City had a woman like this around? Looks like I still don’t know my own place of residence well enough.”

Hearing this voice that sounded like it was echoing in a valley, Zhang Dongqi knew that the most famous person he had heard about today had arrived.

“G.o.d of the Eastern Sky, Taiyi!”

Jiang Ziya stared, his jaw dropping. The person who had appeared before his eyes was extremely familiar.

That person was dressed in a very elaborate Chinese robe. It was black-based with a golden trim. His hair was even tied into a bun, and he was wearing a similarly styled, black-based coronet lined with gold. He even wore a mask on his face, a golden mask. It had designs on it as though it was mottled, and the nose was especially sharp, like a crow’s beak.

It’s actually the mottled mask guy from the supermarket!

Wait, didn’t Zhang Dongqi just call him…

G.o.d of the Eastern Sky, Taiyi?!

Could the mottled mask guy be—Fu Taiyi?!

Seeing that the G.o.d of the Eastern Sky had shown up, Zhang Dongqi was actually at a loss. There were plenty of rumors about Jiu Ge’s boss. However, most of them were about how he had good relations with demons and familiars, and how his personality and actions were odd. Some even claimed he wasn’t human at all, that he was one of the strongest spirits!

As for his abilities, there wasn’t a single rumor around. It was said that he had little interest in matters related to pract.i.tioners, so he rarely interfered. However, it went without question that he had to be very strong. After all, Jiu Ge had several others that were said to be extremely powerful. Therefore, their leader couldn’t possibly be a weakling!

Even though he was up against a powerful opponent, Zhang Dongqi thought of Zhang Nanzhu. She was well hidden, responsible for maintaining this barrier dimension. No one should be able to find her. As long as the barrier dimension was still up, he couldn’t possibly lose!

As for Liu Jing, he had no hopes of depending on him. The moment that woman sliced the cargo container apart, that guy had been scared s.h.i.+tless. He had lost all his nerves, unable to fight, and who knew if he had fled already.

However, that woman couldn’t be that strong. She probably had a special ability. Zhang Dongqi bet that she had left in such a hurry because she actually didn’t have any combative power!

Zhang Dongqi abruptly felt more confident again. If he could defeat the boss of Jiu Ge here, even if it was because of the barrier dimension, he would become famous… He was kind of eager to try.

“Even if Jiu Ge’s boss is here, inside my barrier dimension, you’re nothing!”

“That is true,” Fu Taiyi sincerely agreed. The eyes under the mask glanced toward Fu Jun, who was hiding in the dark. If his Dong Jun were a bit bigger, and the “inheritance” was a bit more complete, wouldn’t destroying this barrier dimension be as simple as a snap of the fingers?

It was a pity that Dong Jun was too small, and the inheritance wasn’t complete enough. He couldn’t even activate a tiny bit of the power of “spiritual words.”

“Sigh!” Fu Taiyi despondently let out a breath. What can I do about my son being too small still? It’s not like I can give him growth hormone injections, right?

“So Jiu Ge is intent on clas.h.i.+ng with the Zhang family today?” Zhang Dongqi pretended to scowl, using that to cover up his own guilty conscience. Even though he was pretty high up in the Zhang family, provoking Jiu Ge right off the bat was enough for him to catch a lot of flak once he returned.

“Nothing of the sort.” Fu Taiyi said lightly, “It’s just that you’ve captured a little friend of mine. Of course I would come over to take a look.”

“He killed my cousin! What’s wrong with taking revenge—”

“Oh, sorry, I was the one who killed him.”

“…”

Jiang Ziya listened to the contents of their conversation, his heart thumping faster and faster the more he heard. Just who exactly is the boss? Why does the bad guy look like he fears the boss a lot?

“Ziya, don’t look back.”

Jiang Ziya stilled but figured out right away that the voice definitely belonged to Lu Yang!

He was hidden in the darkness behind Jiang Ziya. He gave pointers in the dark, “Use your left eye to look at that beast. It’s not real. It’s just a lie.”

“It’s not real?” Jiang Ziya felt that it looked real enough.

“Yeah, it’s not real. That person set up a barrier dimension here. Only in his own barrier dimension would that kind of thing be that powerful. It’s like the guy who captured me last time. His female corpse, scarecrow, and crawling corpse, once the barrier dimension was destroyed, was just a plastic model, scarecrow, and broken burlap sack.

“Even though this lie is much, much stronger than those three illusions, it’s definitely nothing all that dangerous. He’s only powerful because of the barrier dimension.”

When Jiang Ziya heard that, he slowly began to feel that that should be the case. Otherwise, if that kind of shadowy beast were to run outside, wouldn’t that throw the entire world into disarray?

“Ziya, observe the surroundings. There has to be someone maintaining this barrier dimension. Try to figure out who it is and tell me where he is. Then, I can destroy this barrier dimension!”

Hearing that, Jiang Ziya calmed down. Just as he was about to say “okay,” he heard the soft sound of the nylon rope around his hands being sliced apart.

After that, Lu Yang jumped out. In front of him was that shadowy beast.

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