Be the Hardest Working Demon Cultivator!

Chapter 14: 14. Fugitive Incarnation

"He went out?"

"How did he go out!"

"He shouldn’t have gone out!"

Murmurs of fragmented whispers rose and interwove behind the counter, sounding continuously.

Invisible to the naked eye, resentful auras began to stir and rise in the area.

However, when a figure stepped in from outside, everything in this ghost charm shop returned to normal in an instant.

It was obviously a living person.

Wearing a mask that melded a tiger’s face with a human’s, he seemed very familiar with the place, for upon entering, he stated, "Not buying ghost charms, buying information, priced the same as the ghost charms."

Immediately, the dim light in the room brightened, and the figures standing in front of the counter became clearly visible.

They were people in black robes, their faces unseen, each wearing a thick mask devoid of features. One could only distinguish between men and women amongst them by their body shapes.

What was strange, however, was that these masked people, at that moment, were motionless, as if they were posed puppets.

The door behind the counter opened, and a shadowy figure emerged from behind it. With each step it took, its figure became clearer.

When it finally became entirely clear, a horribly shocking sight appeared before everyone.

For it was a boulder completely entwined in iron chains, and on this spherical body were faces with expressions of men and women, old and young, all varying from one to the next.

"What information do you want?" Although the faces and expressions differed, the words spoken by all of them were identical.

"In the eerie game, is it true that there have been reports of powerful ghosts disappearing recently?" asked the man with the tiger mask.

"True." Different voices merged into the same response.

Immediately, the man took out a blood-stained finger and placed it on the counter before asking, "Who did it?"

However, the boulder did not answer him; instead, all the faces on it uniformly turned their gaze towards the man.

At that moment, Tan Shuchang saw the ghost’s true body, and his heart blossomed with joy at the sight of its intense aura of gloom and doom.

He had indeed come to the right place!

Looking at the ferocity of this ghost, it was almost on par with the Yin God!

The Yin God is a powerful ghost entity beyond fierce ghosts. However, despite the divine title, its essence hasn’t changed much.

Compared to fierce ghosts, the Yin God, besides being stronger, had also begun to control itself and its consciousness was no different from that of a living person.

"No problem."

Tan Shuchang agreed without hesitation, but as his true body arrived in this land where humans and ghosts coexisted, the owner of the ghost arts shop suddenly shrieked in terror, "What on earth are you?"

Being the runaway incarnation of a Yin God, the fierce ghost couldn’t tell, but the stone sphere ghost could see some clues.

Tan Shuchang had no intention of wasting words with it; he was only short of one last ghost.

Right then, black light swirled between the fingers of his left hand, and the moment black runes appeared, the stone sphere ghost was immobilized.

This was the Power of Majestic Suppression.

Then, Tan Shuchang captured it into his sleeve with an extremely brutal and simple technique.

"Since I’m here, I might as well take some of these items back with me to have a closer look," Tan Shuchang had thought of leaving directly, but his gaze shifted, landing on two strange severed fingers and more than a dozen rolled-up bamboo slips on the counter, which he casually took with him.

The term "ghost arts" had been mentioned by a player during one of his previous instances, and considering the emotions that arose when he mistook for ghost arts, these items must be quite extraordinary. So, even if he couldn’t use them, trading with other players for information about fierce ghosts in the future would be good.

With a thought, he summoned the attribute frame and fixed his eyes on the final mask pattern. In an instant, Tan Shuchang left this land of mixed human and ghost residence.

However, while Tan Shuchang left swiftly, this place soon descended into chaos after his departure.

The cause was those motionless figures who were entering this mixed human and ghost land for the first time, lured in by the stone sphere ghost’s deceptions to bring their true bodies and then making a mistake upon being guided, allowing the stone sphere ghost to remove their "human faces."

These people were like living puppets, but unlike living puppets, when their master, the stone sphere ghost, was no more, they "awakened" immediately. However, since they no longer had faces, they could neither see nor hear, so they could only flail about blindly.

As these faceless people ran out, the news of the stone sphere ghost from the ghost arts shop mysteriously disappearing, and the shop being robbed, also spread.