Divine & Bizarre: Increasing Points to Invincibility-Chapter 391 - 152: Witch Immortal! Fan Wu: That is a deity! (Request for Subscription to the 10,000-word Mega - )_6
"Imperial Astral Bureau has never gone back on its word," the Chief Flag Officer said with a stern face.
Zhao Ergou remained silent.
He was about to receive fifty taels of silver, and he was completely ignorant of the word "danger."
He took a deep breath.
Under the watchful eyes of the members of the Imperial Astral Bureau, Zhao Ergou recalled the procedures they had taught him, then looked at the items laid out before him: a Bagua Plate, a bowl, a small knife, a tied-up crow, and a bit of bone ash.
He sat down cross-legged and began mumbling incessantly, "Ghost Immortal, Ghost Immortal, please fulfill my wish. Ghost Immortal, Ghost Immortal, please fulfill my wish. Ghost Immortal, Ghost Immortal..."
His right hand grabbed the small knife in front of him and placed the blade on the palm of his left hand.
When his palm felt the cold sensation of the knife blade, he hesitated.
After all, it was a sharp blade!
But if he didn’t cut...
The fifty taels of silver would be gone!
Damn it!
It’s just a superficial wound, isn’t it? It would heal after a short while, and even if he went to see a doctor, it wouldn’t cost more than a few copper coins.
Let’s do it!
He gently slid the knife across his left palm, creating a shallow cut.
Blood flowed out.
Zhao Ergou hurriedly used a bowl in front of him to catch his blood, still incessantly reciting that repeated phrase. Once there was a small amount of blood in the bowl, he tore off a strip of cloth to bandage his injured left hand.
Then he grabbed the tied-up crow and, with a single cut, chopped off the crow’s head, pouring the crow’s blood into the bowl.
"Ghost Immortal, Ghost Immortal, please fulfill my wish. Ghost Immortal, Ghost Immortal..."
Zhao Ergou murmured to himself like a madman, and in his eyes flashed a strange light.
His movements became rigid for some reason.
It was as if the actions he was taking weren’t ones he wanted to do.
As if some invisible force was controlling him!
This odd phenomenon was, of course, keenly detected by the Chief Flag Officer of the Imperial Astral Bureau.
The Chief Flag Officer said nothing.
Instead, he gestured to the other members of the Imperial Astral Bureau, suggesting that they be alert.
After the crow’s blood in Zhao Ergou’s hand had been used up,
He pinched a bit of bone ash,
And sprinkled it into the bowl.
Then he suddenly inserted two fingers into the bowl, filled with human blood, crow’s blood, and bone ash.
This action,
Made the complexions of many members of the Imperial Astral Bureau present change, because they had not taught Zhao Ergou to do this!
You could see,
Zhao Ergou’s eyeballs were rolling upwards nonstop. He murmured very quickly while his body shivered uncontrollably.
The two fingers he had inserted into the bowl,
Were stirring continuously.
Suddenly,
Zhao Ergou lifted his two blood-stained fingers from the bowl and started drawing on the Bagua Plate in front of him—this was also not what people from the Imperial Astral Bureau had taught him to do.
The people from the Imperial Astral Bureau had only taught him to sprinkle the blood in the bowl over the Bagua Plate. Everything Zhao Ergou was doing was completely different from what the Imperial Astral Bureau had instructed!
He was...
Creating a talisman!
Using his own two fingers as a brush, and the Bagua Plate in front of him as the paper... he forcefully wrote one talismanic character after another, as if he were a cultivator immersed in this practice for many years.
This scene was truly inconceivable.
After all, everyone was certain that Zhao Ergou was nothing more than a ladybug + gambling addict. The man had no knowledge of Taoist magic, much less how to draw talismans, let alone do it with such proficiency as he was showing now.
The only explanation for this scene...
was—
the Ghost Immortal had truly appeared!
One by one, members of the Imperial Heavenly Office immediately held their breaths, making their presence extremely weak in an attempt to decrease their existence in this place.
This was not because they were afraid of the Ghost Immortal, but because they did not want to disturb the Ghost Immortal with their presence.
For fear that it would prevent the Ghost Immortal from showing itself.
Time was passing.
Zhao Ergou had already filled the Bagua Plate with drawn talismans, each sigil twisted and bizarre, making anyone who glanced at them feel discomfort throughout their body.
The muttering from Zhao Ergou’s mouth changed. He stopped repeating the same phrase over and over and started saying, "Ghost Immortal, Ghost Immortal, I am willing to sacrifice most of my lifespan in exchange for a wave of extremely good gambling luck."
After these words fell, an eerie aura seemed to emerge within the not-too-large residence.
In an instant!
The Chief Flag Officer of the Imperial Heavenly Office shouted, "It’s coming! Use every method possible to detain It!!"
No sooner had the Chief Flag Officer finished speaking than he saw a towering figure rush past him. The speed was so fast that only a blur was visible out of the corner of his eye.
By the time he realized what had happened, he found that Daoist Priest Fan, who had been next to him, was now standing beside Zhao Ergou at some unknown moment!
The Chief Flag Officer was dumbfounded.
Wasn’t Daoist Priest Fan a bit too reckless? According to the plan they had agreed upon earlier, shouldn’t they be using long-range magic to see if they could capture the Ghost Immortal?
Why had he rushed forward?
The next moment.
A scene that neither the Chief Flag Officer nor any of the surrounding members of the Imperial Heavenly Office from Guyuan County would be able to forget unfolded—Fan Wu’s two fingers pierced into Zhao Ergou’s abdomen!
His fingers were like two sharp short knives, effortlessly piercing through clothing, flesh, and into the body.
Then, like grabbing onto something, Fan Wu’s fingers fiercely jerked backward!
An eerie spectral figure was ripped from Zhao Ergou’s body!
The spectral figure roughly resembled a human shape.
It was whitish and semi-transparent.
It looked very much like a Soul Body.
"I thought so..." Fan Wu, holding the eerie spectral figure by the throat with an expressionless face, said, "I suddenly sensed a very familiar aura just now. It seems... Daoist Priest Fan and you are truly fated!"
"Witch Immortal!" Fan Wu spat out two words.
[Witch Immortal used to reap lifespan and faith—the soul of injustice—Life: 333—Power: 7.7—Skills: Possession, Casting Curses...]
"This guy seems to be just a tool-like soul of injustice..." Fan Wu narrowed his eyes, murmuring, "I reckon there must be an even more powerful existence manipulating it from behind."
"Tsk..."
A sly smile crept over Fan Wu’s face; it had been a while since he had encountered a follower of the Witch Immortal.
"Daoist Priest Fan..." the Chief Flag Officer, watching the soul of injustice Fan Wu was holding, swallowed hard and asked, "It looks like you know something?"
"I do know a thing or two." Fan Wu responded, "The so-called Ghost Immortal of Guyuan County should be called Witch Immortal. Or rather... the other party is using the local legend of the Ghost Immortal as a vehicle to conduct a plundering of belief and lifespan from Guyuan County."
"Witch Immortal?" the Chief Flag Officer said in astonishment, "Is that some kind of heresy?"
"No," Fan Wu said, "It’s a deity."
Chief Flag Officer: "???"
The other members of the Imperial Heavenly Office: "???"
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