The woman's words clearly struck a nerve with Shisan. He gritted his teeth, enunciating each word, "Chu Wu, if you're willing to help, help. If not, just get lost. I asked you to come here to keep that dragon here, and all that's left is a tail. Do you think you're very useful?"
Hearing his question, Chu Wu shot back a cold laugh, her tone showing no sign of backing down. She retorted, "Even if I couldn't keep the dragon, I still dealt it a heavy blow. Shouldn't this be blamed on you for notifying us too late? If you hadn't been so greedy for credit from the start and had asked us to come earlier, perhaps none of them would have escaped, and you wouldn't be in such a sorry state yourself."
Listening to their bickering, Lu Wuming could sense that they believed they had already won.
And indeed, that was the case.
If their most important objective was to capture him, the Young Master, then their mission had been accomplished with great success.
What chilled Lu Wuming the most was that, based on their conversation, he could confirm that the light that had attacked Ao Lie earlier wasn't from the Ghost King he had imagined, but from the woman named Chu Wu, whom he hadn't even seen yet.
How powerful that woman was, Lu Wuming didn't want to contemplate for the moment.
He only knew that, just as Chu Wu had said, if it weren't for Shisan's greed for credit and delayed report, their current situation would likely have been a complete annihilation.
But fortunately.
At least the materials his Master wanted had been sent out, and his Master himself had also left. So, it didn't matter if he was temporarily held here.
He wouldn't die anyway.
Upon reaching this conclusion, Lu Wuming completely gave up resisting. He retracted his ghost claws, which he had been maintaining, back into human hands, and then watched as the light that had severed the black dragon reappeared. The zombified figure, already shattered by the attack, was finally sliced apart once more.
This time, the light severed his sword-wielding fingers.
Without its anchor, the divine sword, despite its unwillingness, ultimately fell to the ground.
Seeing this, Shisan reached out to grab it.
However, another withered hand was a step faster, snatching the sword into its grasp before him.
It was an extremely thin woman.
Describing her as skin and bones seemed particularly apt. She was like a shriveled, tall skeleton with a layer of human skin stretched over it. Her eye sockets and cheeks were sunken, only her eyes bulged out, as if a slight touch would pop them out, making her look incredibly terrifying.
Seeing her take the divine sword, Shisan no longer had any intention of fighting for it. After all, their strengths were evident. If they didn't want to humiliate themselves, the best course of action now was to remain silent.
As for the woman herself, she eyed the long sword in her hand with a very critical gaze. After toying with it for a while, she shook her head. Seemingly very displeased with the sword, she said, "I originally thought that even a waste, holding this sword, would at least be able to sharpen its edge. I didn't expect a waste to be a waste, unable to do even such a simple thing. Truly useless."
Hearing her words, Shisan looked up.
His gaze fixed directly on the long sword in Chu Wu's hand, he said, "If you don't want it, you can give it to me."
"Why should I give it to you? Do you deserve it?" Chu Wu sneered and flatly rejected Shisan's idea. She said, "I plan to give this to the King. It's useless to me anyway, and I don't intend to take other people's things. However, the King will probably like it very much. If you want it, go ask the King yourself."
As she spoke, she burst into laughter again.
Her laughter was sharp and piercing, accompanied by her somewhat hoarse voice, like fingernails scraping across a tabletop, utterly unpleasant to the extreme.
Shisan lowered his head and fell silent.
He turned and headed directly towards the central area of the ghost city.
Seeing that he wasn't cooperating with her at all, Chu Wu became somewhat displeased. She shouted at Shisan, "Where are you going?"
"To deliver the Young Master to the King," Shisan replied with remarkable calmness. He said, "The King wants him. As for the others who weren't caught, so be it. As for the sword, the King hasn't arranged its fate. Whether he wants it or not is still uncertain."
His words were indeed not wrong.
After all, the Ghost King knew of the divine sword's existence, but he had never expressed a desire for it.
And all along, what he had truly wanted was just this Young Master.
Thinking of this, Chu Wu felt a pang of irritation. However, she still followed Shisan, letting out a cold哼, her tone expressing her dissatisfaction.
During their journey, Chu Wu and Shisan remained silent, and Lu Wuming, as before, feigned being a corpse, remaining quiet and speechless.
He had never imagined a day would come when he would be separated from his Master. And the reason for the separation was a decision he himself had made.
Although they hadn't been separated for long, he already missed his Master a little.
He didn't regret the decision to send Liu Buli away.
But what he regretted was not having Liu Buli kiss him on the lips when they were on the flying sword earlier.
He didn't know when they would meet again.
For such a long time, he could only rely on that single kiss on the cheek to get through it. Lu Wuming felt a bit pitiful just thinking about it.
With his mind wandering to these useless thoughts, Lu Wuming didn't feel much fear about what lay ahead.
After all, as he himself had said, he wouldn't die.
With that as a premise, no matter what the ghosts intended to do to him, he truly didn't care much.
His thoughts drifted, and finally, when they reached the building at the very center of the ghost city, Chu Wu and Shisan stopped.
Lu Wuming stopped with them, but Shisan nudged his back, his voice cold, "You go in."
Lu Wuming raised an eyebrow, "Aren't you coming with me?"
"The King does not permit others to enter, so stop your nonsense," Chu Wu said coldly. "Go in properly and don't have any wicked thoughts. We'll be watching from behind. If you try to escape, we won't hesitate to chop you to pieces and throw you in."