Chapter 154 Trapped

Having finally seized an opportunity, how could he not strike with full force, aiming to shred his heart into an irreparable mess with a single strike.

Then, Hu Ma swiftly retreated, stopping only beside Miss Red Wine, before carefully observing.

Ji Tang, his heart pierced and ruined, seemed to lose all strength at once. His body stiffened, the knife in his hand fell to the ground, and he slowly, bit by bit, knelt down. Even his head could not be supported, and it slowly drooped.

“Dead?”

Hu Ma frowned, watching him. He suddenly kicked up a cloud of dirt and scattered it over his body.

There was no reaction, but Hu Ma was even more certain that this guy was not dead.

If he were truly dead, the force in the dirt would have been enough to knock his kneeling body over. The fact that he could hold on meant he still had a breath left.

“Hah…”

Sure enough, Ji Tang, who seemed to have lost all his strength, and whose life appeared to have completely vanished as he knelt, suddenly gasped for air. His head, which had been drooping, slowly lifted again.

Both of his eyes were bleeding, but only one could still see, steadily looking forward. This time, he finally saw Hu Ma in his eyes.

“Never expected, after so many years of effort, consuming so much blood offerings, and finally crossing the threshold of entering the Mansion, I’d be sending my life away in the very first month, and by the hands of the Ba Xi Men (Tricks Sect), which I look down upon the most…”

“……”

“Yes, so I want to remind you…”

Miss Red Wine looked at him, but only smiled faintly, softly saying, “Don’t bother, just a bunch of lackeys. Maybe I’d be looking for them even if they weren’t looking for me?”

He paused slightly and said, “Do you know that I also have to pay tribute?”

After saying this, Miss Red Wine said to Ji Tang, “Of course I know you have to pay tribute.”

“Heh heh, such big words, even stronger than me…”

His voice actually sounded deep and powerful, as he slowly said, “As a Shou Sui (Year Keeper), I never expected that I would die by the knife…”

Hu Ma quickly nodded.

Miss Red Wine seemed not to hear him, simply explaining to Hu Ma, “So, to truly kill a Shou Sui who has entered the Mansion, you can only chop off their head, and it has to be a vertical chop.”

“Now, with me dying here too, you will become a thorn in the side of those above, and you won’t live long either…”

“……”

“Even now, you see this guy is at his last gasp, but in reality, he only lost all his strength for a moment when his heart was broken, but then it rose again…”

Ji Tang was also somewhat surprised by what Miss Red Wine said, and a look of surprise appeared on his face. He seemed to have used all his strength to finish this sentence, then suddenly took a deep breath and slightly straightened his body.

Ji Tang said in a low voice, “You have eliminated too many brothers on the streets.”

“Among these Jianghu (Martial World) gangs, whether people or evil creatures, which of those who have been in their positions for a long time don’t pay tribute to the masters in the Mansion?”

“Impressive…”

“……”

“Even a Shou Sui who has entered the Mansion, with a broken heart, might die if it’s not stitched up in time.”

Hu Ma was slightly startled and immediately held his knife across his chest, ready to fight again.

“Lady Han…”

But Ji Tang had only mustered his last bit of strength, as if he wanted to fight one last time. At this moment, the flower rope in Miss Red Wine’s hand flipped again.

The silver needles, only half of which were still inside Ji Tang’s body, simultaneously pierced into his body, and at the same time, bursts of blood mist suddenly exploded.

His organs were all torn, his bones were shattered, and even his head became like a honeycomb.

At this moment, Ji Tang finally seemed to be completely dead, his body stiffening as he slowly fell to the ground.

Even Hu Ma, at this moment, really felt that Ji Tang was dead. He couldn’t see any reason why he wouldn’t be dead. He stared intently at Ji Tang’s fallen body, considering whether to go over and chop off his head.

Vertically.

“Don’t rush, be careful.”

But at this moment, Miss Red Wine suddenly reminded him, then her eyes narrowed slightly, and the red rope in her hand flipped again.

This flip turned into a cattle trough!

“Whoosh!”

As she flipped out the cattle trough, the surrounding soil burst and splashed.

To the east, south, west, and north, four tall wooden frames emerged from the ground, with yellow banners fluttering on them, blocking the four directions.

At the same time, a Kongming Lantern (sky lantern) slowly flew over and covered the top of their heads, with more yellow banners hanging down.

“This is…”

Hu Ma never expected that Miss Red Wine’s biggest display would come after Ji Tang’s death.

Knowing that something was amiss, he quickly looked at her.

“He was trying to escape just now.”

Miss Red Wine explained in a low voice, “He looked like he was at his last gasp and said those meaningless words to make us misunderstand that he knew he was going to die, so he was making a desperate attempt.”

“But he still thought I didn’t know that after a Shou Sui enters the Mansion, refining their head and soul, they still have one last way to slip away, which is to separate their soul from their body and find someone with similar Bazi (Eight Characters, destiny calculation) to possess and be reborn.”

“In fact, this method can also be used when fighting with people.”

“He grabbed you just now, using that Qing Gui Shou (Green Ghost Hand) to restrain you, and he would have had the opportunity to drill his soul into your head. However, he still thought that I was right next to him and could see through it, so he didn’t do that, but saved it for the end.”

“If we really thought he had just admitted defeat, we would run into him coming to seek revenge in less than half a year.”

“Of course, he might have changed his appearance.”

“……”

“Possess and be reborn?”

Hu Ma thought of a lot of things because of these words.

Shou Sui are indeed difficult to kill, they can run, they can fight, and they can survive injuries that ordinary people simply can’t withstand, and they can still fight.

But how could outsiders know that they are so difficult to kill that even if you see him dead on the surface, he can still slip away in the form of a soul.

And after slipping away, he can be reborn by possessing someone?

In addition, how is this method of possession and rebirth somewhat similar to the way a transmigrator appears in this world?

Especially how close is it to the way I came to this world?

“The people of this world think that we are all evil spirits who have possessed someone, and it is also related to the Shou Sui.”

Miss Red Wine also explained in a low voice, “Some transmigrators also thought that if they wanted to find out how we came to this world, they needed to deeply investigate the Shou Sui, but of course, they didn’t find anything in the end.”

“After all, we are more like reincarnation, breaking the mystery of the womb.”

“……”

Speaking casually, she also gently waved her hand, and the Kongming Lantern floating in the sky slowly descended and landed in her hand.

Hu Ma looked into the Kongming Lantern and saw a moth fluttering inside. He had seen similar things and immediately knew that someone’s soul was trapped in the lantern. Needless to say, it was Ji Tang, the leader of the Beggar Gang, who had just tried to escape.

“After restraining him, I knew that he would definitely use this trick to escape in the end, so I had already prepared for it.”

Miss Red Wine softly said, “After all, we want to ask him about your Shou Sui inheritance. If we forcibly extract his soul, we are afraid that we won’t be able to extract it cleanly, so we set up this trap for him and let him actively drill into it.”

“You really thought of every step…”

Hu Ma couldn’t help but glance at Ji Tang, and the feeling in his heart was a little complicated.

Shou Sui, he is not only a Shou Sui, but also a Shou Sui who has entered the Mansion.

But such a person was completely played by Miss Red Wine, killed as easily as playing?

He felt a bit of rabbit-like sorrow, and even a trace of doubt about the Shou Sui sect.

Miss Red Wine, who was next to him, seemed to have seen Hu Ma’s subtle thoughts, and softly said, “Do you think that this leader of the Beggar Gang is a bit unworthy of his reputation and died too easily?”

“Heh heh, the reason he died in my hands is because I figured out his weaknesses. For someone whose weaknesses have been figured out by the Ba Xi Men, it’s almost a death sentence.”

“Furthermore, although I didn’t use the skills of the bridge, I used the eyesight of the bridge to see his weaknesses and design a trap to deal with him. Even so, it still took so much effort, and there was even a little danger in the middle…”

“Thinking about it this way, do you still think that the skills of this leader of the Beggar Gang are not great enough?”

“……”

“The bridge?”

Hearing this, Hu Ma was really surprised.

He knew that Miss Red Wine’s skills were great, but now it seemed that they were even higher than he had imagined?

“Shou Sui are troublesome…”

Miss Red Wine sighed softly, holding the Kongming Lantern in her hand and walking forward. At the same time, she lightly snapped her fingers, and the wooden frames standing around collapsed with a crash.

As she spoke, she walked towards Ji Tang’s body, and softly said, “People in the sects used to have a consensus, which is that every sect can take advantage of the Shou Sui, but every sect can also fall into the hands of the Shou Sui.”

Hu Ma pondered these words, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it made sense.

The Shou Sui’s skills are too honest, all on their body. When they suddenly encounter other sects, they are indeed easily taken advantage of.

But as long as the Shou Sui seize an opportunity and get close, they can indeed be killed.

Thinking about it this way, he had more confidence in the Shou Sui sect again.

“This guy has a lot of good things on him…”

At this time, Miss Red Wine had rummaged through Ji Tang’s body and said, “He has a lot of skills on him, but he didn’t have time to use them.”

“Look at this arm, it was cultivated from a corpse, but it’s not just this one, the right leg is also good, it seems to be a Feimaotui (Swift Leg)? It’s a pity, if there were two, we wouldn’t have been able to keep him. It seems that something went wrong when he was stealing someone’s leg, right?”

“And this kidney, good heavens…”

“Do you want to change them? I can help you change them!”

“……”

“?”

Hu Ma, who was still in deep thought, was startled and shook his head repeatedly, “Never mind, I like the original ones.”

“Tsk.”

Miss Red Wine glanced at Hu Ma and said, “Then you are destined to not be able to learn many of the Shou Sui’s unique skills…”

(End of this chapter)