I Cheated While Cultivating

Cheng Jiangjian was referring to the bait that had been set up for the Seal Wraith.

The night before she came looking for Zhou Heng, she had used a sixth-class secret treasure to lay a trap around the city walls of Yellow Wood City.

At that time, Wu Zhongshan had already indicated the arrival of an expert.

He was actually referring to Cheng Jiangjian.

The moment the Seal Wraith knew that the Heavenly Circulation Guardians was coming, he was only left with two choices.

It had to go all out to kill Zhou Heng and absorb his Yang energy. After that, it had to digest the energy at an express pace to enhance its own level and then flee.

The other option was to escape right away in order to prevent any encounters with the Heavenly Circulation Guardians.

If cornered, it could wreak havoc all over the city. It would be a suicidal attempt and only hastened its demise.

This was the true scheme that would leave the Seal Wraith with no other choices.

Therefore, Cheng Jiangjian only came looking for Zhou Heng after setting up everything.

She had not come just to offer her apologies. She wanted to protect his safety in order to prevent the Seal Wraith from coming for Zhou Heng for a death battle.

Of course, if the Seal Wraith were to really come for him, it might only dig its own grave sooner.

Since the Seal Wraith had not shown up, it must have attempted to flee the city. That way, it had fallen into her trap.

As the owner of a secret treasure, Chen Jiangjian was able to sense where the Seal Wraith had fallen into her trap.

Therefore, she could determine the exact location right away.

It was just over the city gate there.

As for why she was asking Zhou Heng to go along with her? The reason was very simple. She was not sure if this was a diversion.

Ghosts were cunning creatures.

What if it had pretended to have fallen into her trap, only to circle around for Zhou Heng?

Of course, it was safest to bring Zhou Heng with her. With that, she could keep a close watch on him.

Zhou Heng and Cheng Jiangjian were on their way to the city gate. After he learned that she was his guardian, the way he looked at Immortal Jade Mountain had changed.

‘What should I call her?

‘Should I call her my beautiful personal guardian?’

He felt cool about it!

Hehe!

Since Zhou Heng’s house was on the outskirts of the city, it was quite a distance from the city gate located in the east.

Therefore, the journey was not a short one.

He chatted with Cheng Jiangjian. At the same time, Zhou Heng recalled the interface of Lucky Bag.

He wanted to open one of them and see if he could obtain anything good from it.

Moreover, he also wanted to verify if he was the one with bad luck, or if the Silver Lucky Bags were cursed!

He recalled the rewards that he had obtained from the Bronze Lucky Bags with the “You’re very lucky” prompt. They were actually quite good.

Silver Lucky Bags seemed to have been cursed.

“Two Bronze Lucky Bags are bags equipped with literally everything. Once you open it, you’ll gain rewards you will not expect.”

“Open one of them!”

“Congratulations! You’re very lucky! You have obtained one special skill card, one memory shard drop card.”

‘Huh?

‘So, I’m indeed very lucky!’

Zhou Heng was surprised. At the same time, he felt relieved.

‘Indeed, it’s the Silver Lucky Bag that has been cursed instead of my own luck!

‘I’m still lucky, but the Silver Lucky Bags have always given out late-blooming rewards!

‘By the way, what is a memory shard drop card?’

He switched his thoughts and the relevant introduction appeared in his mind.

“A memory shard drop card can be applied to a living being at near-death within three feet. You can obtain part of its memories which will be coalesced into a crystal and read the information from its memories.”

‘So, is this a simplified version of the soul searching skill?

‘If I really can get some important information from the memories, this should be quite useful.’

Zhou Heng thought to himself, ‘When is the best time to use this skill card?

‘Who should I use it for?’

Early in the morning, the city gate of the Yellow Wood City was completely sealed off.

No one was allowed to enter or leave.

The guards on duty prevented the citizens from approaching the city gate within thousands of feet.

Apparently, something had happened there.

Zhou Heng and the masked Cheng Jiangjian were not restricted by the order.

The mayor, Wu Zhongshan had given them express instructions.

The two of them walked side by side. After walking past the rows of guards, they came to the gatehouse of the city gate.

It was rather gloomy, and there was no sunlight.

The mayor of the Yellow Wood City, Wu Zhongshan was already waiting there. A glowing golden birdcage floated in the air close to his right hand.

There was a palm-sized shadow curled up inside the birdcage. It stayed motionless inside as if it had lost all thoughts of resistance.

Wu Zhongshan made obeisance to pay his respects. He said to Cheng Jiangjian, “The ghost has been captured. Please strike and kill the ghost so that the peace returns to this world, Lord Star Messenger.”

“Sorry to trouble you for this, Lord Mayor.” Cheng Jiangjian nodded gently. She sounded nonchalant and there was no hint of any emotion.

She put on a cool temperament with a mask on her face, which was totally different from her maskless persona. She was like a high and mighty immortal that would not be polluted by the earthly beings.

Meanwhile, Zhou Heng just stood beside her and remained silent.

As he watched the floppy shadow inside the birdcage, he could not help but heave a sigh, and said, “The Seal Wraith once stirred up the city and now, it has been reduced to this.”

The sixth-class secret treasure was indeed as terrifying as hell!

Cheng Jiangjian’s gaze was fixated on the shadow. She said, “Mr. Zhou and Lord Mayor Wu, please step back.”

Obviously, she was going to deliver the Daoism technique to exterminate the Seal Wraith.

Wu Zhongshan immediately retreated.

Zhou Heng also took a few steps backward and was at least two hundred feet from that birdcage.

He felt a bit regretful about this. From such a distance, he could not activate his memory shard drop card.

Otherwise, he could extract shards of memories from the Seal Wraith which enabled him to gain some understanding about the ghosts.

Just then, Cheng Jiangjian walked over lightly and approached the birdcage.

She gently patted the brocade bag around her waist, and five pieces of yellow-apricot chinese talisman flew out. They fell into the birdcage and pasted themselves on the surface of the Seal Wraith’s shadow form.

Sizzle!

The sound of sizzling meat was heard. Clouds of black and thick smoke began to emanate from the five yellow-apricot chinese talisman, filling the gatehouse with a pungent smell!

At the same time, the shadow started to transform into a viscous pitch-black liquid and churned violently.

Suddenly, Zhou Heng sensed a bad omen.

This was very different from the last time when he watched Cheng Jiangjian exterminate Yu Shang.

Previously, Yu Shang was instantly frozen after being affixed by those chinese talismans.

This was nothing like that.

Cheng Jiangjian also seemed to notice something amiss.

Without further ado, she immediately placed both of her hands in front of her chest and chanted.

Seals were formed quickly!

Crystal clear silver lights coalesced and danced wildly on her fingertips.

They glowed like star lights in the gloomy, dark gatehouse.

“You are watching Cheng Jianjian delivering Broken Piece of Heavenly Third-Class Stardust Divine Punishment Technique, and have inexplicable insights about it. You feel like you have gained something from it, yet, you are unable to fully understand it. Therefore, you do not gain points for your level of proficiency.”

Initially, Zhou Heng focused on Cheng Jiangjian’s fingers that had been placed in front of her chest.

However, after hearing the familiar notifications prompted, he subconsciously turned to look at the Seal Wraith that was about to be struck by the starlight.

“Hurry! Close your eyes!”

Cheng Jiangjian shouted anxiously.

Before Zhou Heng had time to react to this, he felt like his head had been smashed by something. It buzzed as if it was going to explode.

He felt an invisible and terrifying force rushing to his spirit, wanting to tear him apart completely!

At that moment, he felt the rise of a neutral and warm aura that seemed to be able to encompass all things from his elixir field and surged upward through his limbs and bones in order to calm his spirit that had been violently shaken.

It was the Complete Reality Internal Energy Cultivation Technique!

Zhou Heng’s heart raced. He clearly felt his mental state being rapidly calmed. Even his blurred vision and perception started to turn recover.

‘The profound Complete Reality Internal Energy Cultivation Technique really lives up to its name!

‘It is actually this effective at resisting the external mental attack!

‘I’ve even mistreated this internal energy as something that’s defective!

‘I’m really sorry for that!’

After returning to his senses, he noticed that the shadow inside the cage had completely mutated and turned into a puddle of dark, sticky liquid-like sludge.

The five chinese talisman cast by Cheng Jiangjian had disappeared. They had most likely been devoured by that puddle of sludge.

If not for the golden birdcage that was still able to exert its confining power, that puddle of sludge might have already flown out from it.

Just then, Cheng Jiangjian was still casting her spell to form seals.

She could not be interrupted right then.

The sixth-class expert Wu Zhongshan was about to strike that puddle of sludge.

The next moment, the golden birdcage used to imprison that puddle of sludge turned pitch-black and broke open, allowing the sludge to flow out.

Then, the black birdcage rose up in the air and grew bigger. It actually held Wu Zhongshan inside, imprisoning him so that he could not strike.

Nobody knew since when the sixth-class secret treasure had revolted against them!

At the same time, the black sticky sludge unveiled more than a hundred mouths, each revealing sharp teeth. It stretched out its long black tongues and shouted in a singular unison.

“Yang energy… Yang energy… I need Yang energy… Yang energy!”

It seemed to have lost its mind and fallen into madness. The only thing left was the desire of the ghost’s essence toward Yang energy. After that, a miserable, ghastly pale eye grew on its hundreds of tongues.

Hundreds of eyes manipulated the movement of the tongues to look around. All of them looked at Zhou Heng, and those longing gazes were filled with greed!

Over a hundred mouths shouted again.

“Yang energy!

“Hahaha! Yang energy! Supreme Yang Divine Soul!

“You’re mine!”

Apparently, the puddle of dark, sticky liquid had fallen into madness. But it still remembered about the Supreme Yang Divine Soul, its so-called delicious meal.

As it was shouting, the black and sticky liquid took to the air at lightning speed.

Over a hundred mouths spread open. Within an instant, a hundred mouths became a thousand mouths!

Blinking small eyes grew on each of those small and sharp teeth. All of them were staring straight at Zhou Heng.

It pounced at him and wanted to devour him!

On the other hand, Zhou Heng had already come back to his senses and was prepared to have history repeat itself.

He repeated the same trick. He reversed the flow of his qi and blood forcibly by using his internal qi, enabling a mouthful of blood to flow into his mouth.

He endured the feeling of numbness of his scalp and gathered a puff of air in his mouth!

“Pooh!”

A mouthful of crimson blood shot out in a spray of mist toward the monster that was lunging at him!

“Ah! Ah! Ah!”

The incredible piercing shriek was heard once again, that puddle of mutated sludge that had been stained by Zhou Heng’s blood instantly burst into flames, turning into a huge fireball.

It fell to the ground near Zhou Heng’s feet and kept rolling over and struggling.

Buzz!

At the same time, the void trembled. A bright starlight fell, and enclosed the huge fireball!

When Zhou Heng saw this, he hurriedly applied the memory shard loss card.

“You have applied one memory shard drop card to the mutated Seal Wraith. Gained one Seal Wraith’s Crystallized Memory.”

When the starlight dissipated, the Seal Wraith completely turned into ashes and ceased to exist!

Another notification prompted again.

“Congratulations! You have assisted Cheng Jiangjian in killing a deadly enemy, a Mutated Seal Wraith. You will be granted two Silver Lucky Bags.”