Free Web NovelChapter 176: Chapter 176: A Top-Tier Evil Star’s All-Out Strike? Merely a Dirty Sleeve
Seeing such a brutal elbow strike.
Many viewers from the Dragon Country gasped.
They subconsciously touched their own necks.
This was a high-level Evil Star, for crying out loud!
If it came to the real world,
it would be enough to wipe out a mid-sized country!
Even the Ghost City was helpless against it!
Otherwise, Si Qin wouldn’t have risked her life to try and stop it.
And what was the result?
It got sent flying by Yun Zhenyue’s beautiful little paper person!
And it looked like she hadn’t even used her full strength.
[Holy elbow strike, paper person out!]
[Such a classic move. I think I saw a helicopter.]
[Is Boss Gu Yuan’s blood essence really that strong?]
[I was wrong. I used to think he was stingy, but now I see he’s as generous as they come!]
[Every single drop of that blood must have been condensed from all the power in his body. Is that why he’s a homebody all the time? I think I’ve uncovered the truth!]
[So he’s not injured or sealed away, he’s just been condensing his blood essence?]
[My heart goes out to Boss Gu Yuan!!]
...
「Meanwhile.」
The foreign viewers just felt numb in both body and mind.
Many of them had been counting on this blood-red paper person to take out Yun Zhenyue!
But in the end, it couldn’t even beat a paper person she whipped up on the spot?
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You’re the one who made that paper person!
You got beaten to a pulp by your own power!
I’ve never seen something so pathetic!
[Has Gu Yuan lost his mind? Giving his most precious blood essence to help this woman?]
[Aish, Miss Sumi is still shoveling shit while everyone else is here for the final battle.]
[How did she get even stronger? Are we really never going to be able to take her down?]
Unlike the other foreign viewers who were crying foul,
the viewers from Coconut Country were in a total panic!
[Cecil, why did she turn into a paper person too?]
[No way, she didn’t even do anything! She’s not going to be killed, is she?]
[Run, Cecil, run! Didn’t Lord Corpse-Eating Ghost give you anything to save your life?!]
[He just gave her a useless pen! It’s completely worthless! He’s nowhere near as good as Gu Yuan!]
[Don’t insult Lord Corpse-Eating Ghost like that. He has his reasons.]
...
「At that moment.」
The blood-red paper person staggered to its feet amid the ruins.
The ghost was completely bewildered.
Betrayal after betrayal!
It had brought him to the brink of a mental collapse!
Ghostly flames consumed its body!
The pain was heart-wrenching!
Pain!
It was too painful!
But the ache in its heart was worse than any physical torment!
Even if it had been the first to do wrong,
could the City Lord dare say she bore no responsibility?
If she hadn’t opened some milk tea shop that led to the destruction of Embers...
If she hadn’t secretly stolen the paper person he created...
None of this would have happened.
A plan decades in the making,
was it all ruined by a mere Ghost Lemon?
The blood-red paper person’s scarlet ink bled from the tear in its neck, as if it had just drunk fresh blood.
The ghost match had first ignited its neck.
It had been burning for a while, leaving the area extremely fragile!
That elbow strike had nearly knocked its head clean off!
Fortunately, its regenerative abilities were strong.
All the paper people in the city were providing it with nourishment.
Even though its main artery was hit, the injury wasn’t fatal.
A searing wind billowed through its empty sleeves; its paper-pasted clothes were already charred.
It ripped them off in one motion, revealing the bamboo-strip skeleton beneath.
Its hateful eyes stared at Yun Zhenyue and her paper-person adopted daughter.
"A traitor... and a liar!"
"I won’t let you get away! I’ll kill you, I’ll rip out your hearts... I want to see why... your hearts are so black!"
As its deathly-pale face swayed in the wind,
the blood-red paper person’s painted eyes filled with madness!
It no longer cared about the flames licking at its body.
There was only one thought in its mind!
Kill them both!
It had to play its only trump card!
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This Ghost Skill could allow every paper person in the city to merge with its body!
It would unleash power far beyond its limits!
It hadn’t wanted to use it, as it hadn’t fully recovered and was currently injured. Forcing it would inevitably damage its body, causing a significant drop in its future power.
But now...
it only wanted to drag them all down with it!
Two streaks of red ink streamed from the corners of the blood-red paper person’s eyes. It rasped hoarsely, "You think you can oppose me just because you’ve taken full control of the Ghost City?"
"You fool! The upper echelons of the Ghost City may belong to you, but all the ghosts in the lower levels are mine!"
"I can no longer be harmed!"
As it finished speaking!
THUMP!
THUMP-THUMP!
It was as if countless heartbeats were echoing all around them.
Amidst the pouring rain,
the entire Ghost City came to life.
From the edge of their vision,
an endless, lifeless horde of paper people began to walk toward them.
Against the sounds of wind and rain, the twin circles of rouge on their pale faces were exceptionally glaring. The rustling of their paper clothes created an eerie sound, like millions of silkworms mercilessly devouring mulberry leaves.
They were innumerable!
Everyone was completely surrounded by paper people!
"This is trouble," Mr. Luo said, his brows tightly furrowed.
He could tell.
The blood-red paper person must have used its Ghost Skill.
This scene was so similar to what he had experienced at Chilling Middle School.
Unfortunately, he was no match for the blood-red paper person.
He couldn’t do anything to it even if he dragged it into his heart-space.
Si Qin also gripped the corner of her cheongsam, looking at Yun Zhenyue with unspoken words.
’These paper people... they seem to be all the low-level ghosts of the Ghost City.’
’If I hadn’t been so laissez-faire all these years, perhaps this blood-red paper person wouldn’t have grown so arrogant.’
But setting fire to these paper people now was not an option.
After all, they were residents of the Ghost City.
At that instant!
Tens of thousands of paper people tilted their heads back in unison. Their bodies suddenly froze, and their necks twisted at a bizarre angle toward the blood-red paper person.
As raindrops fell upon them, the paper people dissolved one by one into streams of light, merging into the blood-red paper person’s body!
The blood-red paper person’s form suddenly ballooned!
At a speed visible to the naked eye!
It became a monstrously huge paper person, several stories taller than even the Meng Ghost in the Fierce Ghost Mall!
It blotted out the sky and sun!
It was almost as large as Luofeng Mountain behind it!
Even the flames clinging to its body were extinguished.
The onlookers could only see its paper-mâché feet.
"This is the price for opposing me!"
But just as the blood-red paper person was savoring the terrified gazes of the crowd!
SWOOSH!
A figure shot toward it like a beam of light!
Seeing this, the blood-red paper person burned with rage.
’I haven’t even finished my speech! I haven’t had a chance to enjoy the fear in these traitors’ eyes!’
It had wanted to drag things out a bit.
’The fusion isn’t even complete, and you launch a sneak attack? Have you no sense of honor?’
"Die, you damned rat!!!"
It roared.
Its right foot, like that of an enraged god, came crashing down!
It was like a great mountain falling from the sky!
It kicked up a furious gale and heavy, dark clouds!
A terrifying aura swept through the entire Ghost City!
Seeing this, Si Qin and Mr. Luo found their breath catching in their throats.
This one strike!
It had nearly unleashed the power of a top-tier Evil Star!
Even they couldn’t block it!
If they tried to take it head-on, they would be stomped to death!
"—BOOM!!!"
A violent gale swept through the entire slum!
Countless houses collapsed from the impact!
The wind and rain were so intense that Yun Zhenyue instinctively closed her eyes.
When her pupils focused again,
she saw her little paper person pinned beneath the blood-red paper person’s right foot.
A massive crater had formed.
The ground was cracked, and the air was thick with swirling dust.
The latter was grinding its foot into the ground as if exacting long-awaited revenge!
It seemed to want to crush its victim to dust!
Yun Zhenyue’s heart skipped a beat!
’Could it be... that my little paper person died just like that?’
Everyone present held their breath, their eyes filled with anguish.
But just then,
as if sensing Yun Zhenyue’s worry,
a gentle, reassuring feeling bloomed in her heart.
"Is that all you’ve got?"
The colossal blood-red paper person was breathing heavily. That one attack had consumed most of its power.
When it moved its right foot away,
an astonishing scene was revealed.
The blood-red paper person froze on the spot, its painted pupils shrinking to pinpricks. It couldn’t believe the scene before it. Its mind went blank, a feeling more terrifying than any nightmare!
"How... how is this possible!"
There, in the middle of the massive crater, Yun Zhenyue’s little paper person let out a yawn.
It was indeed injured!
But in the blink of an eye!
The injuries healed instantly!
Only...
the corner of its clothes was a little dirty.
