Ch43 – Round and round, Karma comes around

Although the torn ghost territory quickly closed itself, Chi Fangfang frightened Liu Hu and he finally began to face up the ghost.

“Is Chi Fangfang dead? Has she turned into blood mud?! No, that’s not right.” 

Liu Hu’s voice was shocked and guarded, as he said, “You’re Chi Fangfang. How did you become this kind of ghost?”

“Wu Rong, it was you, wasn’t it?!”

Liu Hu hated that he was only one step away from getting what he wanted. It’s reasonable to say that the blood mud shouldn’t be restless now. Chi Fangfang should still be a standard senior high school girl. It should’ve been easy to kill her. How else could he be in such a dilemma like now!?

He had been bewitched by the fox breath for a long time, and his whole person had become irritable and neurotic. He couldn’t think of any more reasons, and so his hatred was fully projected onto Wu Rong. 

Since he appeared, he’s been in trouble everywhere. From Xun An, to the pet hospital, to the factory, he’s been against him all the way. This time, he must be involved.

Hateful, abominable!

As his mood fluctuated violently, the ghost territory of black fog billowed. The thick black fog covered the walls and floors like tar, engulfing all buildings, and the toilet became even more decadent and horrible. The smell of blood came from nowhere, which irritated a person’s nerves. The tar black oil stains had a strong smell, and the surfaces swelled and bulged as if heated, like several pus bubbles were bulging. The pus bubbles broke, and several scorched human shaped ghosts staggered out, rushing towards Wu Rong and Chi Fangfang.

Their whole bodies seemed to be burnt, without heads, from the neck to the limbs only a layer of bones was left, no flesh and blood, sticky and falling black tar was attached to their bodies. In the dark, a big fire was burning. It was not an ordinary flame. The red flame was not affected by the ghost domain at all and was burning vigorously. The burnt black fog had a tendency to disappear faintly, but the tar ghosts were not affected by it at all.

Watching the raging fire, Liu Hu smiled strangely and reluctantly. Before the raging fire arrived, he had changed his position to avoid it.

This is the killing move that Hu Xian gave him. Even if Chi Fangfang’s blood turns to mud, he is sure to kill her.

All ghosts are afraid of fire, especially spiritual fire.

The temperature was getting higher and higher. Wu Rong could feel the soaring temperature around him making his ghost hands agitated. Now the best course of action was to leave here immediately, first exiting Liu Hu’s ghost domain before making plans. But Chi Fangfang was beside him. 

“Róngróng, Róngróng, come with me.”

Chi Fangfang begged hard. She seemed to know that Liu Hu had come for her and that had caused Wu Rong trouble. She was very humble. After being pushed away, she did not dare hold his arm again. The hands that could easily tear apart a ghost domain pulled on a little bit of his clothing. She was afraid of being pushed away again. She did not look at the approaching tar ghost and the raging fire. She only saw Wu Rong, for whom she was morbidly obsessed with.

“You shouldn’t be here.”

Another one? 

Wu Rong thought of the ghost boy who wanted him dead so that he could return to the ghost throne, and his eyes turned sharp.

Is Chi Fangfang also one?

He pushed away the girl who stuck to him, grabbed the sneak attack of the tar ghost with his ghost hand, and then stepped back using the power of the big ghost to distance himself from Chi Fangfang. His left hand felt strange. The tarred ghost he held was melting, and it was wrapped to his left arm like glue. The dark, viscous body fluid was mixed with a trace of gold, with a pure and peaceful glow.

Liquid Gold! 

There was liquid gold in the body of the tar ghost. Gold is stable and is a container for all ghosts. But it was inserted into the tar ghost, which made it savage and monstrous! If the ghost or ghost raiser was caught off guard by the liquid gold in the tar ghost, it’s very likely that their power would be sealed!

At this moment, the gold and black interwoven liquid quickly spread up Wu Rong’s arm and engulfed his forearm in an instant.

Chi Fangfang, who was pushed away by him, did not know anything. Her expression changed from pain and sadness to amazement and surprise. She took a step towards Wu Rong, stammering: “I can help you, I can dedicate everything to you, please follow me……”

However, Wu Rong didn’t pay any attention to what she was saying. At this moment, all his attention was on his left arm. A strange, cold and chilly breath awaked in his left arm. The Zhong Gu trembled like jumping beans. Alongside it, so did the Qingling Snake and the black rock tarantula, who were also auxiliary gu, they all stared at Wu Rong’s left arm as if they were facing an enemy. The black and gold body fluid that kept climbing up and engulfing his arm suddenly stopped. 

The big ghost was about to wake up.

Binding, sealing, narrowing, constraining, suffocating.

All kinds of emotions that did not belong to Wu Rong passed through his mind, like a thick haze wrapping around him. His thoughts were as cold as Arctic sea ice. Ghost Land, No. 444 Tiankeng, Chi Fangfang, Liu Hu, it seemed like everything disappeared into nothing and gradually faded away, like there was only Wu Rong and the little blood red in the distance left in the world.

That bloody red was the phantom of the big ghost, with a strong and violent atmosphere of craziness and tyranny, just like a bloody tyrant. Even if he seemed as faint as to disappear in the next second, he was invincible, and no one dared to touch his edge. The distance between Wu Rong and him was extremely far, just like between the horizon and a cape in the sea. The blood red was spreading, like blood drops falling into the water, and the air seemed to be tinged with light red. 

The bloody shadow turned around, as if to look at him, but in the next moment Wu Rong was awakened by the strength on his hands.

Chi Fangfang was breaking off the black gold pieces which had coagulated on his left arm. Her face was wet and her hair was stuck together. Her whole person seemed like she was fished out of the water, but her face became more and more ruddy and shiny. He looked at her eyes. They were as moving as spring water.

Gululu… Gululu…

The noise of clogging and twisting sounded again. It was in Chi Fangfang’s body. Wu Rong’s sharp eyes saw that her whole body seemed to be thinner, as if someone had peeled off a layer of skin from the back of her head, but she was facing him, smiling and laughing, as if deliberately trying to hide it. 

After all, what Liu Hu wanted to deal with was Chi Fangfang. Except for the tar ghost that was used to deal with Wu Rong, the other attacks were all aimed at Chi Fangfang.

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“Róngróng, I…”

“What on earth do you want to do?” 

Wu Rong was too lazy to get entangled with her again. He said directly, “Kill me?”

Chi Fangfang, shocked by his sudden words, turned pale at his question, and trembled as if her heart had been stabbed. She said, “How could I possibly want to kill you? I won’t. I will definitely never do such a thing! I just, I just couldn’t help myself when I saw you for the first time…”

“Your purpose.”

While entangled with Chi Fangfang, Wu Rong did not forget to look around. The toilet was completely covered by Liu Hu’s ghost domain, where he was omnipotent. It was easy to change the environment. There are often ghost stories saying that an originally twelve story building suddenly had gained a thirteenth story, or that some stairs would never end when walking down them. This was because they had fallen into a ghost domain. 

The original exit to the corridor was now a wall, and the two rows of hand basins and faucets had disappeared. No one knows where the real exit is except the owner of the ghost domain. The only way to deal with the ghost domain was to use stronger ghosts to crush it.

Or use external forces to breakthrough it.

Wu Rong vaguely heard a voice chanting sutras coming from the northwest corner. The deep and loud voice contained great and peaceful power, and even the ghost domain could barely completely block it. In the next moment, the voice chanting sutras disappeared, but the sound of knocking wooden fish became louder and louder, stable, peaceful, and unhurried. It seemed like all ghost domain barriers were affected by this force and became thin.

It was almost dawn. 

Suddenly, Wu Rong’s arms were burning. It was the Buddhist relic beads that were hot, then a gust of cold air hit Wu Rong, but it was blocked by an invisible yellow barrier. Chi Fangfang stared at Wu Rong’s chest with venom, where the Buddhist relics and beads were placed. Her face began to melt, and red sticky blood mud spilled from her eyes and nose, like a melting wax man. She had to go back to a cool and cold place to remain intact.

After dawn, the blood mud could only stay in the sewer.

But she was not reconciled.

“Please follow me. I just want you to follow me.” 

Her throat melted in half, and he could see the foul smelling blood mud. The sound was not from her throat, but the trembling blood mud. Her voice was hoarse and deep, with a terrible possessiveness that made people tremble. Just as when she begged Wu Rong to save her, Chi Fangfang extended her hand to Wu Rong. The corrosion had started from her head, and her arm no longer had any bones, it was just like a limp, flesh-colored rubber tube.

“I want to take you to my world.”

“No.”

Wu Rong’s left arm had completely turned into a ghost’s hand, and there were layers of bloody cut marks on his skin, but it didn’t look fragile, exuding an extremely terrifying aura. He could vaguely feel that the brightness outside the ghost domain was unnatural, not like daylight in the day, but more like an overwhelming orange flame. The intense heat made the ghost domain melt like a natural enemy, weakening layer by layer. 

Zhengyang Fire, Fu Qing was coming.
The sound of the wooden fish in the fire became more and more louder and clearer. Once the situation changed, the ghost domain had started crumbling in the firelight and the sound of the wooden fish. The flames in the ghost domain had long been extinguished, and the tar ghosts all around the domain were melting. They wouldn’t last long.
At present, Chi Fangfang was the most dangerous one.
Her melting face in the dark and bright shadows became more and more terrible, and her eyes were swallowed by the overflowing blood mud. Up till now, her whole face had turned red, becoming more and more similar to the monster shown by her shadow. But even without her eyes, Wu Rong could still feel that she was looking at him.
After Wu Rong repeatedly refused, Chi Fangfang’s expression changed slightly, and her eyes were full of passion and paranoia.

[I’m sorry I didn’t want to do this to you]

A cold and dull voice suddenly sounded in Wu Rong’s mind and his expression changed suddenly. He attacked Chi Fangfang who was about to turn into a handful of blood mud, and when the ghost hand was about to pinch her ‘neck’

[The task ‘Answer Chi Fangfang’ failed. The next day Wu Rong, the tester, will be punished.] 

[Fall]
At the same time, Liu Hu was caught in a dilemma. He had been forced out of the ghost domain. His eyes were red and his pupils were dark, like an old wolf whose head had been forced into a desperate situation by a hunter. He stared at the man who sat cross legged in front of him with his eyes closed, chanting as he struck the wooden fish. Although the light of the golden Buddha seemed weak, it repeatedly blocked his attacks.
At the same time, the burning sensation of a flame was getting closer and closer. Liu Hu could feel that his ghost domain was shaking in fear under the Zhengyang Fire. It had shrunk, from covering the whole four floors to only covering the women’s toilet, it was still waning and would be broken soon.

“Damn, damn it!!!”

Liu Hu doesn’t know how he got into such a mess. Obviously, the plan to move ahead was very smooth. Kang Jianbai was fooled by him. When he saw the end, he originally wanted to kill Wu Rong. Who knew that Su Jingjing would be killed by Chi Fangfang. From then on, his good luck seemed to have run out.

First, Chi Fangfang had a problem. That thing was not a normal female high school student. The promise of history repeating itself was eaten into the ghost’s stomach. Especially when she looked at Wu Rong with sticky eyes, Liu Hu got goosebumps on his back. He was so prepared that the ghost fire and the tar evil spirits could keep going until dawn.

At that time, the blood mud would return to the sewer, and Chi Fangfang’s consciousness would dissipate, killing her. 

But how can that damned Taoist have the Zhengyang Fire! And the bald donkey chanting sutras in front of him, they were all against him!

After thinking about it, Chi Fangfang’s change started from Wu Rong, and the Taoist was also Wu Rong’s partner. Liu Hu was tired of being angry. A little fear and panic rose in his heart. Was Wu Rong born to conquer him, and he would be unlucky whenever he met him?

Tonight was a failure. Liu Hu tried to plan his own exit, but the more he tried, the more desperate he became. There were wolves in front of him and tigers behind him, and his life may end here tonight, but Liu Hu was not reconciled! He was a desperado and became even crazier when he fell into a desperate situation. His left hand curled like a tiger’s paw, and his expression was ferocious and twisted. He was about to break the cauldron and sink the boat, but just then——

Boom!!! 

The air waves radiating everywhere burst with a deafening explosion, and the ghost domain covering the women’s toilet completely burst. The backlash hit Liu Hu’s chest like a heavy hammer, and he spat out a mouthful of blood. His face was unusually flushed. The air wave threw him hard into the wall, and a crack spread. This hit made Liu Huyan dizzy and he nearly fainted.

“Oh, the Tiankeng Crack is opening!”

The breath in his chest pulled Liu Hu back from the edge of his coma. The monk with the wooden fish in his hand was bleeding from his seven orifices, and his face was as injured as gold paper. However, he ignored Liu Hu and stared at the center of the explosion. He wanted to rush in, but he could not withstand another wave of hot air. He was slapped on the wall and laid beside Liu Hu: “Stop quickly——”

The Tiankeng Crack was about to open. 

Liu Hu sensed the heavy Yin Qi in it. He thought of something. His breath was sluggish, and his heart was beating wildly, about to jump out of his chest. At this moment, the Yin Qi torrent was stronger than the Yin Qi Vortex. This was his last chance! When the Yin Qi was strong enough, he quietly took out a small fox statue, no more than half the size of a palm, from his arms.

Instantly, an invisible channel connected the two worlds, and the increasingly powerful Yin Qi torrent that was about to tear up the space seemed to have found a breach and rushed to the Fox Statue.

“No!!!”

An angry and resentful hiss came from the torrent, and its rage reached its climax: “Kill you! I will kill you!!!” 

Boom!

The sound of thunder roared across the campus, and Kang Jianbai, who was covered in wounds, lost his voice in horror and distress, “Terrible!” The person beside him stepped up the steps without a pause, his whole body had a chilling momentum, and he ignored the turbid Yin Energy rushing towards him as if it was nothing. The Yin Qi where the golden Zhengyang Fire went was scattered and the ghosts retreated. Kang Jianbai quickly ran to catch up. But they were a little too late and stopped on the stairs leading to the fourth floor. Kang Jianbai gasped.

The area including women’s toilets and surrounding dormitories has disappeared!

In the gap between the Tiankengs, on the earth rock mountain, next to the tumultuous graves, the crude fox wood sculpture placed under a dead tree suddenly floated up into the air, and the two carved eyes stared closely at the sky. When it saw that the red brown clouds were stirred, and the sinister atmosphere rushed like a falling dragon, it screamed loudly, and could not wait to rush into the sinister atmosphere, rushing with it towards the tumultuous graves. 

The fierce wind rolled up the sand, stone and soil particles, and howled throughout the sky. The Yin Qi, which contained energy powerful enough to tear up the space, rushed towards the tumultuous graves. The dead trees were shaken and broke apart, and the excavated tombs were completely lifted up. The dark sky was stained even more with scarlet.

On the night of the devil, the golden amulet on the only intact tomb, at the center of the graveyard, was blown with a clattering sound, and bright gold powder fell down, with the faint roar of a tiger. But in the end, it spent most of its magic power on the suppression, and the gold veins on its surface were peeled off by the heavy Yin Qi erosion.

Crash!

The seal script was finally blown up by the strong wind. It was unknown where it was blown away to. When it finally disappeared, the space suddenly became quiet, and an invisible force in the silence spread. The world that had not changed for a hundred years, and was solidified like an oil painting, came alive. The golden charm suppressed not only this grave, but also this space! Under the red and brown rocks and soil, there was a rustling sound, and after the dead silence of the rocks, there emerged one after another, green ghost fires. 

The torrent of Yin Qi has not dissipated yet, and the whole mountain had gradually awakened like a living creature under its breath!

The thickest Yin Qi was condensed on the grave and its dim red glow was like a blood-red shadow under a thin crimson gauze. Suddenly, a sharp claw, which was as thin as skin and bone, and full of white hair, broke out of the grave like a zombie. Flocks of white, dirty and blood stained hair split the soil layer, and the soil particles were mixed with white stones, which were shaken off from its hair.

“Hehe, haha, haha.”

Shrill laughter, like a baby’s cry, came from the grave, mixed with the roaring and whimpering of wild animals, which was creepier than a cat’s cry in the dead of night. 

“Emerge, I have finally emerged, hee hee, hee hee, hee hee.”

Clatter

The mass of hair that first came out of the earth was completely pulled out from the grave. The pure white plaster-like soil fell like rain, and the Yin Qi flowed like the best comb. The dark white hair was straightened out as the Yin Qi blew by. The dirt and stone particles sandwiched in it were shaken off, and the hair spread out in the wind – it was a fluffy, huge, almost one-person-tall fox tail.

The dreary crash of bells sounded, skulls were hanging on the longest hair clusters at the tip of its tail. Most of the skulls were either amber or black, with strange shapes. A series of skeletons collided together, like wind chimes made of human bones. 

When the tail was completely blown by the wind, the sharp and piercing laughter gradually subsided.

“How many years have passed?”

The voice said to itself, and then smiled proudly: “Sima Gyatso, 80 years ago, you had sealed me for 80 years, and in another year I’d completely disappear. What a pity!”

“I am alive, hahahaha, I am alive, and you are dead. You are dead, Fu Qingnan is dead, and you are all dead. Who else in the world can stop me!” 

Another ghost-like long-haired sharp claw stretched out, and the two claws grasped the crack and tore it, completely splitting the grave. First came a pair of pointed fox ears, followed by a thin, sharp, ghost-like long-haired fox face. The green fox eyes embedded in that face looked extraordinarily large, exuding a crazy and treacherous light, like that of a wild beast.

“The last thing you should’ve done was not kill me, Sima Gyatso, hahahaha. When I leave this damned prison, who can stop me?”

The fierce anger and resentment that had been sealed off for decades broke out. The fox burst out of the ground with a wild laugh, stood proudly on the grave, and cackled wildly against the wind.

“Who else!” 

“Kill you, I’ll kill you——”

The crack, which was continuously impacted by the Yin Qi wind torrent, was finally overwhelmed and split open. On the fox’s head, a huge mass swelled like a hill, stinking and wriggling, and bloody mud with strong murderous aura crashed down, burying the fox below it like a mountain top.

“I will kill you!!!”

“Liu Hu!!!” 

The fox howled more sharply than the blood mud’s dull hissing, and became furious: “Goddamn thing, what the hell are you doing!!”

Not only Chi Fangfang, the bloody mud, but also Liu Hu, Wu Rong and the ‘students’ in the surrounding dormitories were caught in the slit of the Tiankeng by the torrent of Yin Qi. The Yin Qi was unstable, and everyone fell into different places like dumplings.

Wu Rong’s brain was buzzing, and his eyes darkened. Closing his eyes, Chi Fangfang was still being cursed in his mind. Chi Fangfang’s voice in his mind was the same as the voice of the Tiankeng consciousness. Wu Rong quickly realized that Chi Fangfang, or the blood mud, was the embodiment of the Tiankeng consciousness. She had planted a pitfall since the release of the task, no matter whether Wu Rong agreeed or not, he would fall.

But strangely, Chi Fangfang doesn’t seem to want to make him angry and resentful, just like how she wanted to send the image of Chi Fangfang’s death to Wu Rong, she felt a bit miserable and wanted Wu Rong to be soft hearted. 

The Image of Chi Fangfang’s Death

Tiankeng No. 444 had been opened many times, and countless testers have entered here, and Chi Fangfang, who is the beginning of everything, is naturally the goal of most people. Everyone wants something from her, and everyone had bad intentions. Every time she was swallowed by blood mud, Chi Fangfang would ask them for help in fear.

‘Is your body now blood mud?’

Someone squatted in front of her greedily and crazily, and cut her face with a knife: ‘You can safely take away the blood mud with your skin, right?’ 

‘If you take me as your master, I will help you.’

Some people laughed at their charity, and they could not help but put a ring around her neck: ‘I never thought that it would be so easy to take over a ghost.’

Someone stood at the door of the toilet and shot her coldly. Facing her shattered and limp corpse, he wrote down: ‘The body of Chi Fangfang who was shot will not produce bloody mud.’

Someone called out “Amitabha” in pity, and she begged for mercy in pain while being roasted by the blazing Buddha light. 

Why, why did she die, why did she die, the reincarnation of the Tiankeng repeated again and again, and the testers came to the Tiankeng again and again, making Chi Fangfang’s hatred and resentment deeper and deeper. It’s not that she had no memory, but except during her short time of death, she can only repeat the history that happened in the past.

She vaguely remembered the first time the Tiankeng was opened, she stepped on the air and fell into the toilet, crying in despair, someone pushed open the door and walked towards her, how grateful she was with anticipation at that time, she even anxiously reminded him that it was dangerous, to not come close.
But what did she get.

Each time she died unpleasently, with more hatred, more anger, and more sorrowful than the first death. I wish I could destroy the world.
Until this time.

Wu Rong was different. 

Because of Liu Hu’s trouble, Wu Rong fell into the Yin Qi wind torrent before he could see Chi Fangfang’s true sentiments for him. It was very uncomfortable to be caught in the crack. Wu Rong, who was afraid of heights, had a headache and was nauseous. Gradually, the blood mud screams and Liu Hu’s roar went away, leaving only the howling wind. Wu Rong suddenly felt terrible pain being in the wind, and then his eyes flashed like he was seeing a horse lamp.

The scenes in these pictures were familiar and strange, like his own memories, but there are some mistakes. Wu Rong saw a lot of familiar faces and scenes, but he felt a strange feeling that he could not clearly explain.

It was not until he saw an abominable face that he suddenly realized what was wrong.

Xun An. 

Wu Rong saw the scene of the first day of his rebirth, at the bar, where he meets Xun An, but he gives the money to Xun An and listens to him. The younger brothers were ignored by him whether they threw photos or launched at Fu Qing. Everything seemed to repeat itself, but there were various differences. Wu Rong saw himself giving money to Fu Qing, and heard him say ‘ghost-haunted’.

‘I will be here tomorrow.’

But the next day Wu Rong and Xun An went to pick up his sister and played with her for a whole day. It was already dusk when they finally returned to the bar.

There was a seal character and a note at the front desk of the bar. The Taoist who was as handsome as a crane had left. 

“It is used to exorcise ghosts and evil spirits.”

“We’re not fated to meet again”