OBS 003 How can a man be so melancholy and carefree?
003 How can a man be so melancholy and carefree?
"I can't give up! My mother is still waiting for me at home. I can't die!"
Ning Kui mustered his courage to dispel the fear that lingered in his heart.
Even if the enemy is overwhelmingly superior, even if you are unarmed, don't expect him to obediently wait for death!
He stared intently at the white-spotted ghost fish, quietly retreating towards the riverbed, trying to use the complex terrain to find a way out.
The six ghost fish floated indifferently in the water, completely unconcerned about Ning Kui's little actions.
"Very good, that's it..."
Ning Kui's heart raced; these beasts didn't seem to see him as prey.
However, his joy did not last long before his back bumped into something.
In terms of touch, it has a strange softness.
Ning Kui's heart sank; there was something behind him.
Thick, black hair flowed from his back to his front, like countless hands trying to pull him into their embrace.
"grass!"
Ning Kui mustered his last bit of courage and suddenly turned around.
A pale, beautiful face suddenly magnified rapidly in his pupils!
He actually came face to face with the drowned Miss Wang!
"Gurgle!!"
Ning Kui, whose oxygen supply was running low, was so frightened that he spat out another mouthful.
Stimulated by the life force of the living, Miss Wang's pale pupils suddenly opened wide.
A chilling, bone-deep cold force then violently invaded Ning Kui's body.
In an instant, his body stiffened, rendering him unable to resist.
To Ning Kui's horror, a scholar dressed in a Confucian robe, with an exaggeratedly swollen and festering face, crawled out from the body of the Wang family's young lady and stretched out his rotting arms to grab Ning Kui.
"Physical body, fresh physical body..."
According to legend, drowned ghosts are ghosts who died violently. If they want to be reincarnated, they must first find a substitute whose birth chart matches theirs.
"This guy is a male ghost, unable to reincarnate in Miss Wang's body, so he chose me instead?"
"But why would this drowned ghost want to harm Miss Wang? Shouldn't his target be men? All the people who died before were men."
Forget it, I'm about to die anyway, why bother with all this...
The drowned ghost's hands were already halfway inside Ning Kui's body, and its swollen, ugly face gradually revealed a look of wild joy.
This young and robust body is highly compatible with his birth chart!
"I am finally about to be freed from the torment of being trapped at the bottom of the river for all eternity!"
Just as he was about to completely merge into Ning Kui's body, the look of wild joy on his face suddenly froze.
As if witnessing some great horror, his ugly features twisted into an extremely exaggerated expression, like a pancake that had been thrown to the ground and trampled on countless times.
"What the hell is that?! No! No! Let me go!!!"
The piercing howl transformed into a high-frequency shriek, spreading out in concentric shockwaves visible to the naked eye.
Wherever he went, all the fish and shrimp turned over and died. Ning Kui even had foul blood flowing from his seven orifices, looking extremely miserable.
However, all the struggles were in vain.
On Ning Kui's bare back, the human-shaped birthmark, which depicted him sitting cross-legged, began to writhe violently. Several thin black lines shot out from it, like harpoons, and "plop," "plop," pierced into the body of the drowned ghost.
"Spare me! Attack..."
Before the drowned ghost could finish speaking, the entire birthmark burst open, with hundreds of black threads densely piercing into the drowned ghost's body, transforming into a black membrane that tightly wrapped around it.
The drowned ghost struggled left and right in the black membrane, but it could not escape its predetermined fate.
The bulging black membrane continued to contract into Ning Kui's back. After a moment, when everything subsided, only Ning Kui remained, silently suspended in place.
The six large white-spotted ghost fish swam not far away, their limited intelligence unable to discern whether their master had succeeded or failed.
The scene was strangely harmonious for a moment.
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"Am I... dead again?"
Ning Kui's eyelids trembled. After opening them with all his might, he found himself in a void, with only a desolate and dilapidated ancient building standing in front of him.
It was the temple that sent him to this world.
Ning Kui's heart clenched suddenly. It turned out that "He" had been hiding in his spiritual sea all along!
I pushed open the door and entered without waiting. The first thing that caught my eye was a huge, withered old tree.
The gnarled and robust tree trunk is covered with horrific scars from lightning strikes, fires, and cleavage.
The barren canopy was devoid of leaves and fruit, with only withered branches stretching out in all directions like a spiderweb, resembling bony, withered hands trying to vainly hold up the cracked, gray sky.
A stone, which could be either a tombstone or a temple stele, was stuck diagonally under a tree like a broadsword, with several lines of bold characters appearing on it.
[Master of Fate: Ning Kui]
[Great Supernatural Power: Devouring Yin and Evil (Beginner), Progress (100/10000)]
【Characteristics: Consuming ghosts and demons grants Yin Qi Points, which can be used to comprehensively enhance the user's destiny, allowing them to transcend mortal status and ascend to immortality】
[Minor Supernatural Power: Water Control (Obtained from a Drowned Ghost, Minor Success), Progress (100/1000)]
[Characteristic: Can manipulate water flow within a radius of ten zhang; the power depends on the user's own strength]
[Yin Qi Points: 0 (The subject is about to drown; Yin Qi Points have been consumed to automatically evolve the Water Control Divine Power)]
[Comment: If it weren't for the chance encounter with a drowned ghost, you probably would have had to wait until your mother ascended to heaven before you could get here?]
The sharp comment made Ning Kui's face twitch, as if the stone tablet were a living thing, pointing at his nose and cursing him.
However, at this point, Ning Kui finally realized that he had activated his cheat ability.
No wonder there has been no movement for so many years; it actually took him to devour a ghost genius to barely reach the activation threshold.
He even suspected that if it weren't for the drowned ghost's own wicked attempt to possess his body, thus activating the birthmark on the idol, any other ghost would have killed him from afar long ago.
"So, is the birthmark on my back the one that sits in the temple...?"
Ning Kui's gaze returned to the temple in the center of the courtyard, his feelings a mixture of complex emotions and trepidation.
If the statue inside is still there, what should he do? Should he kowtow in gratitude, or question the other party about their motives?
After a while, he slowly walked to the temple door, took a deep breath, and pushed it open with all his might.
The gate remained firmly in place.
Ning Kui looked up in astonishment, his expression a mixture of anger, confusion, and relief.
"Fine, you won't see me then. I'll come back to see you when I'm stronger!"
Whether you see them or not at that time will be out of your control!
Unable to articulate his thoughts, Ning Kui turned and walked out of the courtyard without looking back.
The moment he stepped out of the temple, his consciousness spun around and quickly returned to his body.
In the murky, dark, and deathly silent river, the still-moving boy's body suddenly twitched, as if he had been startled awake from a dream.
Ning Kui suddenly opened his eyes. The surrounding river water moved away rapidly due to his instinctive resistance, but was then bound by the enormous water pressure, forming a bowl-shaped space about ten feet in diameter, upside down on the riverbed.
"Is this the supernatural power of water control?"
With my current pathetic strength, I'm capable of manipulating a flow of water with the force of ten thousand pounds? *Hiss...*
Ning Kui couldn't help but gasp. Well, there was no air...
He stood at the bottom of the river, and with another thought, the water above his head obediently swirled upwards, opening up an air passage the size of a bowl, connecting the riverbed with the outside world.
The fresh air and rainwater rushed in, giving Ning Kui a sense of joy at the arrival of life.
Came alive.
At the same time, six enormous black shadows surrounded them. The white-spotted ghost fish stared with blood-red eyes, swayed their giant tails, and silently watched the tiny Ning Kui.
"I almost forgot about these white-spotted ghost fish. Now, I might actually be able to fight them!"
Ning Kui reached out and beckoned, and the distant water flow immediately carried the fish-killing knife to his hand.
In the water, he is God!
However, in the next instant, the six white-spotted ghost fish lowered their heads one after another, radiating a sense of submission.
They were born from the fusion of the resentment of the drowned ghost. After the drowned ghost was devoured by Ning Kui, they, being of low intelligence, recognized Ning Kui as their new master.
Seeing this, Ning Kui was secretly delighted. These white-spotted ghost fish were huge and had considerable combat power. Even martial artists who had achieved minor skin refinement could easily crush them one by one.
But they were too big to be taken away and had to be left in the Shadow River.
As if sensing Ning Kui's displeasure, the six white-spotted ghost fish stared at each other blankly, then suddenly transformed, dispelling their ghostly aura and shrinking to five or six inches in length.
It's about the same size as a slightly larger yellow catfish.
"Excellent, excellent, what a fine fish!"
Ning Kui was overjoyed. If he could carry these ghost fish with him, he, Ning Kui, would be in charge of the waters of the entire Fish Valley County!