Eternal Life Starts as a Hunter-Chapter 362 - 139: Turning the Hand Brings Rain, Demon Li Yuan
Outside the Hengwu Restaurant, a black bird quietly perched, watching the two figures depart. Before long, a masked gray shadow arrived.
The gray shadow walked along the roadside, resembling a ghost. Not only could you not feel his presence, but you couldn’t even see his appearance.
The gray shadow silently approached the Hengwu Restaurant, quietly pushed open a second-floor window, and then entered. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦
Steward Wu yawned and lay down on the couch. Though he was merely an apparition, he still needed to sleep.
Once he was sound asleep, the window outside his room suddenly opened.
The gray shadow floated in like a ghost.
Upon entering, the gray shadow covered Steward Wu’s mouth with one hand and lifted him abruptly with the other.
Steward Wu slept soundly, suddenly feeling himself suspended in the air. Something he carried... a copper pendant he always wore was falling.
Clank, clank, clank...
The copper pendant fell onto the bed.
At this point, Steward Wu finally woke up, but he couldn’t scream, and his body felt disjointed, unable to move.
Immediately, he saw something flash in the gray figure’s hand; a soft and cold object snapped onto his wrists with a "click," and then that object vanished. Yet a feeling of bondage rooted from his soul quickly surged forth.
Slam.
The gray shadow released Steward Wu.
Steward Wu gasped for air, the copper pendant that could resist an evil ghost’s attack lay beside him, but it wasn’t on him, so it couldn’t fend off the human skin handcuffs’ assault.
In a moment, the human skin handcuffs took effect, and Steward Wu suddenly flipped up and kneeled on the ground, respectfully facing the gray-clad man before him and saying, "Duan Yangsheng, greetings, Master."
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The next day, early morning.
Li Yuan smiled as he led two Black Kings into Cui Huayin’s carriage.
"Why? These Black Kings are heavy..." Cui Huayin looked helplessly at the wheels almost bursting.
Li Yuan said, "I’m just worried about my lady."
Cui Huayin spat and said, "Don’t be so corny."
But she did not refuse Li Yuan’s goodwill and allowed him to place the dogs in the carriage, then drove away.
Li Yuan, as usual, had breakfast, strolled around a blacksmith shop, and then arrived at Hengwu Restaurant as agreed by midday.
He went to the reserved private room.
Waiting for him inside was Steward Wu.
Steward Wu conversed with him in tight whispers about "leaving the Divine Wood Hall," yet his eyes betrayed a respectful gaze watching his master.
After a private conversation, Li Yuan left again.
Steward Wu wandered in Hengwu Restaurant for a while, then proceeded to Ghost Street on Mianzhou Path.
In this Ghost Street, vendors were calling out at the entrance, but they weren’t selling "sugar figures," "rouge," or "pendants, hairpins," but "balloons," "sacks," and "mirrors."
Steward Wu, familiar with the way, came to a mansion at the street’s entrance and reported to an apparition inside, "The matter is done."
"Has Master Li agreed to come with us?"
"Once he knew his father-in-law was on our side and saw three Fifth Grade individuals dead in Divine Wood Hall, his heart was already shaken.
He said...he’s just a pure Weapon Forger, only wanting to quietly pursue higher forging skills, and he can forge anywhere.
So, he agreed to come with us. However..."
"However, what?"
"He said to wait. First, there are many in Divine Wood Hall watching him. Second, his son Li Ping’an is still in Divine Wood Hall, and he doesn’t dare leave now."
"Ha, no need to worry about that.
His bed partner will persuade him.
This evening, Cui Huayin will become our female slave.
When the time comes, she will do whatever we want her to do.
She will make Li Yuan confident to leave, then she will seek an opportunity to extract his son...
However, at that time, she won’t be able to bring him out.
Li Yuan’s son will be killed by us.
In this way, Li Yuan will become a mortal enemy of Divine Wood Hall and even the Five Elements Forces, serving us better."
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Dusk, the light as red as blood.
A carriage slowly emerged from behind the Triple Gate, then exited the Double Gate.
On the path from the Double Gate to the First Gate, it passed through a relatively barren wilderness.
This place once occupied by inhabitants was vacated after demolition, intended to be used for planting Spirit Flowers and Herbs.
The carriage proceeded slowly.
Inside, Cui Huayin, with slightly closed beautiful eyes, pondered the lines on the Life Atlas, constructing something within her mind, making her Shadow Blood rotate as if following some special trajectory, indicating a breakthrough to the Sixth Grade was imminent.
Suddenly, the driver’s voice came from the front.
"Who are you people, and why are you blocking the way?"
"Ah!"
The voice had just fallen when there was a scream.
Cui Huayin quickly grasped the Long Blade beside her, ready to draw it, only to see the curtain blown up by a violent wind, even causing her long hair to flow backward.
Outside the carriage, in the distant glow of the dusk, two figures appeared approaching, and the driver lay in a pool of blood, his body decapitated.
His corpse lay on the ground beside him, his head held in the hand of one man.
That man carefully placed the driver’s head on a nearby stone and then, nonchalantly, took out a Rouge Box from his coat and began applying makeup to the head. The scene was quite bizarre.
The other strong man looked at Cui Huayin, "tsk-tsking," and said, "Princess Consort Yin, your beauty is truly as captivating as they say."
Cui Huayin watched him cautiously, "Who are you?"
The strong man smiled, releasing his aura without a care, a force far surpassing the Qi and blood power of Seventh Grade Shadow Blood spreading from around him, enveloping the carriage.
