Strange Cards

Chapter 172 Opening the Door VS The Fiend Blade

Gu Nian looked up and saw a fiery meteor flying through the sky. He patted Chun, who was holding Shi Yu, and said.

"The reconstruction of the Ace of Spades' heart is complete, and we've saved this kid's life too."

"Let's go."

Chun nodded, placed Shigure on the ground, and instructed Steel Claw Demon to take good care of Shigure.

Steel Claw Demon nodded after hearing this, because Shigure had lost his ability to move, and he was the only one who could protect Shigure.

Just before Bai Yu arrived, Chun transformed into smoke and left with Gu Nian. Meanwhile, Ace of Spades busied himself, and with the help of the Rejuvenation Pill, they finally pulled Shi Yu back from the brink of death.

Bai Yu looked down and saw Shi Yu lying on the ground, with Steel Claw Demon standing guard beside her.

However, because the Shigure Asura Karmic Fire was ignited, Steel Claw, as a contracted ghost, naturally also received a portion of the buff. Combined with his terrifying strength, no ghost within a mile radius dared to approach.

Bai Yu landed next to Steel Claw, picked up Shi Yu, buried her face in Shi Yu's shoulder, and cried.

"Master!"

Bai Yu cried so hard that tears and snot streamed down her face, and the deafening sound woke up Shi Yu, who was recovering.

Shi Yu forced her eyes open and looked up to find Bai Yu lying on her chest, her clothes completely soaked from crying.

Shi Yu laboriously raised her hand, placed it on Bai Yu's head, and gently patted it twice.

"Stop crying, or I'll really die."

Bai Yu was suddenly startled when her head was touched, and then she saw Shi Yu with her eyes open.

"Master! You're alright!"

As Bai Yu spoke, she hugged Shi Yu tightly. The terrifying force made Shi Yu quickly pat Bai Yu's back a few times.

"I've just come back to life, if this continues I'll die again."

Bai Yu quickly released Shi Yu and helped her up. Shi Yu was so shocked when she saw that the Steel Claw Demon, who had just entered the S-rank, could fight on equal terms with the Demon in the early stage of Purgatory and even hunt it down.

The fact that Steel Claw Ghost can easily defeat a ghost in the early stages of Purgatory by going three levels higher is entirely due to Steel Claw's terrifying Ghost Domain.

Steel Claw's Ghost Domain is simple: it burns one-tenth of its ghost power to amplify its strength, increasing its power by half every second, with no upper limit.

During the hunt, Steel Claw can continuously amplify itself by devouring the ghost's power. Under the influence of this ghost domain, Steel Claw can even come into contact with ghosts at the peak of Nightmare difficulty under certain circumstances, or even hunt them down.

After hunting down two early-stage Purgatory demons, Steel Claw brought them back to Shigure's side, allowing Shigure to absorb the demonic power of the two demons and regain the ability to fight.

The hunters were overwhelmed with excitement as they watched Shiyu's little red dot light up again.

"Thanks, old buddy."

Shi Yu was thanking the Ace of Spades. He knew very well that he was already completely dead at that time. If the Ace of Spades hadn't snatched him back from hell, he would be a cold corpse now.

The Ace of Spades completely ignored Shigure, because he clearly sensed that the strange card on Baiyu's body was exactly the Ten of Spades.

"My strength can finally be restored..."

"Be careful!"

Even without Ace of Spades reminding him, Shigure sensed the danger. After dodging the attack with his substitute puppet while holding Shiro, he watched as the person who shattered the two puppets reappeared in his hand.

"This is... my elder brother's soul."

"Wait, the aura of the dead coming back to life..."

The man in front of him, wearing a mask with fangs, suddenly drew his sword from its sheath, pointing the tip directly at Shigure.

"I am Bai Zhong, and I have been ordered by the First Emperor to open the gate and slay all those who are not immortal."

"You're already dead; you shouldn't be alive in this world."

Shigure recognized the sword, which was wreathed in black and white energy, as the other of the two Mortal Blades. He opened the door.

"You want my master dead? Go to hell!"

"As Aunt Liu would say, I'm going to kill you today!"

Shi Yu looked at the cat girl who was cursing and holding the Remnant Flame Evolution Device, ready to make a move, and stretched out her left hand to stop Bai Yu.

"You're no match for him, leave him to me."

As Shi Yu spoke, he drew his murderous blade, instantly wielding four cards.

"My resurrection proves that Heaven doesn't think I deserved to die, and that I still have a reason to live."

"As for the First Emperor, who turned himself into an immortal abomination in his pursuit of immortality, he has already been executed. Since you have lived for so many years, you must also be one of the immortal abominations."

As Shi Yu spoke, golden lightning began to erupt from the knife in his hand, and he brandished the evil blade in a starting stance.

"Leave the knife behind and run."

"Run as far away as possible, for the hunter's judgment will come, and you cannot escape it."

Bai Zhong stopped wasting words and started fighting with Shi Yu, grabbing the door opener.

Bai Yu and Steel Claw Ghost went to clear out the ghosts nearby, but Shi Yu did not expect that Shura Karma Fire would absorb the ghost power fed back by Steel Claw Ghost after killing the ghost.

The ghostly power, combined with the malevolent and violent energy emanating from Shiyu and the resentment generated when the ghost died, formed karmic force, causing the karmic fire to burn ever more fiercely.

The cloak behind Shigure was slowly burned through by the karmic fire, and a faint smell of burning clothes wafted out from the cloak.

Burn marks slowly appeared on Shigure's left arm, and scattered sparks began to emerge.

Sparks began to fly from Shigure's clothes until he was completely transformed into a demon.

Shi Yu suddenly felt his strength increase greatly and discovered that Bai Zhong's impenetrable attack was full of flaws. With a slight raise of his hand, he broke Bai Zhong's storm of attacks with two slashes.

Bai Zhong hadn't noticed it before, but upon closer inspection, he discovered that the Asura Seed within Shi Yu's body had taken root and sprouted, growing into a towering tree.

Shigure himself had transformed into a demon, his demonic blade now entangled in demonic karmic fire, resembling a demonic weapon just pulled from hell.

During his thousands of years of wandering, Bai Zhong also killed many undead evil beings, including two who had fallen into the Asura realm.

Bai initially thought that Shigure, the newly emerged Shura, was the same as the previous Shura, but he suffered several major losses in his subsequent battles with Shigure.

Shi Yu was unaware that her consciousness was gradually being eroded by Shura.

The power of Asura is also two-sided. It can indeed make humans stronger and stronger, but it can also make people's minds more and more corrupted, until they become bloodthirsty monsters.

Bai was at a disadvantage in all seven of their encounters, and in the last one, he was even slashed in the chest by Shiyu, who almost managed to pull out and kill the immortal centipede inside him.

Looking at Shigure, who was wreathed in Asura's karmic fire, Bai Zhong knew he couldn't defeat Shigure in her Asura state. So, after collecting his brother's soul by opening the gate, he put the knife to his own neck.

"Brother, I'm entrusting the rest to you."