I am the Ruler of the Kingdom of Mysterious-Chapter 273 - 240: Ghost Devouring

Ghost blood, ghost nails, Little Chan’s hair, He Buning’s yin fire, and the curse erosion Wan Xiangtou was enduring from the earlier heavy injury with the human bone dice.

Under multiple forms of suppression, the Deceitful Bride was unable to move, and Yin Child seized the opportunity to strike, his belly full of ghost hands dismembering the Deceitful Bride.

Unable to dismember large parts, he could still dismember small parts, and in doing so, cumulatively inflicted significant harm on the Deceitful Bride.

No one saw what Yin Child had grabbed; they only saw him tugging fiercely from behind the Deceitful Bride, staggering backward.

The cold aura on the Deceitful Bride’s body and the power that rapidly decayed flesh suddenly weakened, and her body began to show signs of translucence. This was the perfect moment to imprison the Deceitful Bride.

However, He Buning’s outer robe was destroyed, and he had nothing else on him to imprison Evil Ghosts.

At that moment, Sang Que, who was barely able to stand, retrieved a copper mirror from his bag. A flash of light shot across the copper mirror’s surface, releasing something.

Yin Child twisted around abruptly, vanishing on the spot.

"He..."

Summoning the last of his strength, Sang Que threw the copper mirror to He Buning before collapsing heavily into a pool of blood and passing out due to blood loss.

He Buning mistook the sound of ’He’ for ’Brother,’ his heart trembled fiercely.

Catching the copper mirror, He Buning pressed it from the top of the Deceitful Bride’s head down to the ground, sealing the Deceitful Bride inside. All the Ghost Slaves nearby vanished into dust in an instant.

Wan Xiangtou was continuously tormented by pain. Watching them imprison the Deceitful Bride, he had no strength left to summon her back. When the Deceitful Bride was entrapped in the copper mirror, Wan Xiangtou suffered pains akin to being cramped and having his marrow sucked dry.

His body began to rot, emitting a stench akin to a corpse, while the ink and water surrounded him, engulfing him and corroding him.

Once Yin Walkers cross the fourth layer, their lives become tied to the ghosts they control.

There’s a saying that the living cannot control ghosts; only ghosts can control ghosts.

Those who cross the fourth layer as Yin Walkers are essentially already dead, surviving in a half-human, half-ghost state powered by ghostly strength.

He Buning now found himself in a half-human, half-ghost state.

It was out of helplessness that he possessed the yin fire; as a child, he almost died, but his mother sought out the yin fire to save his life.

Without the fire seed in his heart, he would soon become a rotting corpse like Wan Xiangtou now.

"Sister!"

Xia Chan struck his head against Sang Que’s side, but without a body, he couldn’t help Sang Que up, forcing him to return to search for his body, only to turn around and encounter the Soldier Ghost and Red Umbrella Ghost.

The Ink and Water Cage trapped them there, while the two ghosts couldn’t leave, and there was no other means to imprison those two ghosts.

For lower-level evil spirits, Sang Que’s copper mirror could imprison many, but at the ghost level, the fourth layer could only imprison one; even entrapping the Deceitful Bride was a struggle.

He Buning’s half-ruined body was nearing its limits, and upon noticing the jade bracelet on Sang Que’s wrist continuously draining her blood, He Buning realized he must remove the bracelet right away, or she would die.

Those concerns of weighing benefits had long been cast aside; without Sang Que’s assistance today, he, Cui Cheng, Xiao Wu, and Xiao Liu may not have been able to imprison the Deceitful Bride.

Moreover, the townsfolk would surely perish in the Ghost Opera Troupe’s plans.

Sang Que wasn’t a wicked person, at the very least, she was different from the storyteller, and different from what they’d said about her.

Two ghosts lunged toward them, Xia Chan, holding back tears, cried out, "Save sister!"

Having spoken, she resolutely charged into the two ghosts.

The red umbrella spun wildly, the saber raised high; the two ghosts targeted the short-haired Xia Chan soaring through the air.

He Buning’s saber rose as well, aimed at Sang Que’s wrist adorned with the bracelet.

"Dodge!"

Suddenly, a shout came from the side, and a figure of a plump yet oddly nimble person emerged from nowhere, blocking Xia Chan and colliding with the two ghosts.

It was Yu Da!

Xia Chan anticipated witnessing Yu Da’s head being sliced off by the red umbrella and his body split by the saber, but unexpectedly, two crimson tongues shot from Yu Da’s abdomen, coiling around the female ghost beneath the red umbrella and the saber-wielding Soldier Ghost, yanking fiercely.

The two ghosts were dragged into Yu Da’s belly. Xia Chan’s head floated behind Yu Da, hearing sounds of tearing, chewing, and swallowing emanating.

This sound made Xia Chan’s scalp tingle inexplicably.

As for He Buning, his saber hovered above Yin Child’s suddenly appearing head.