The Revenge of the Reborn Supreme Sovereign-Chapter 344 - 334: Dead Man Gu!

Time ticked into the early hours of the morning. The entire Jinling University had fallen into a deathly silence. With the older students still on break and the freshmen exhausted from a day of intense training, everyone was long asleep.

Outside the several-meter-high campus walls, a figure in black appeared at its base, having avoided all surveillance cameras. The figure lifted a head that revealed only a pair of eyes and gauged the height of the wall, quickly discarding the idea of vaulting over it. Instead, they took a thin nylon rope from a pocket and threw it upward.

CLANG!

The sharp iron hook at the end caught the top of the wall perfectly. Hearing the faint sound, the figure didn't hesitate, swiftly and adeptly climbing the rope.

With a soft rustle, the shadow landed on the other side. They scanned the surrounding terrain, then shot forward like a leopard in the night. Unnoticed by anyone and uncaptured by any surveillance camera, the figure arrived at the Block C dormitory building within two minutes.

708, is it? she thought, her lips moving silently. She leaped swiftly up the stairwell, arriving soundlessly outside dorm room 708. Crouching down, she took several black butterflies from another pocket and slipped them through the gap under the door.

Inside the dorm room, the black butterflies immediately began to flutter, flying around the room. With each flap of their wings, they released streams of gas. After silently counting to thirty, the figure in black rose. She took out a thin wire and inserted it into the keyhole. With a twist and a turn, the lock clicked open.

Her gaze swept over the beds. In the darkness, her eyes seemed to have their own discerning ability as she quietly approached Qin Fan's bunk.

She hummed softly, "Miao Haohao might not care if you're the one who killed my brother, but I do. I'll let you live for a little while longer."

As the hum ended, she leaned down, grabbed Qin Fan, and heaved him onto her back. She walked quickly out of the room, silently closing the door behind her, then began to sprint through the pitch-black night with Qin Fan on her back. The added weight hindered her, and though she was still swift, escaping over the several-meter-high wall was now utterly impractical. So, the woman in black set her sights on the bamboo forest in the school's backyard.

However, just after she entered the bamboo forest, she suddenly felt a pressure on her chest. Looking down, she saw Qin Fan's hands kneading her breasts comfortably.

Before she could speak, a voice came from her back. "Feels nice. I bet these haven't been touched by a man before, have they?"

"Damn it!" With no time to ponder how Qin Fan could be awake, boundless rage surged in the woman's heart. She shouted fiercely and flung Qin Fan forward off her back.

SWISH!

Riding the momentum, Qin Fan landed steadily on his feet. Crunching over the dry bamboo leaves, he turned around and grinned. "Isn't it tiring to wear a face covering in this heat? No one will find you here. Take it off."

"Heh-heh..." A fierce, bloodcurdling laugh escaped the woman's lips, filled with boundless rage. She slowly removed the scarf covering her face. In the sparse moonlight, a hideous knife scar was revealed. Paired with her cold expression and her all-black attire, her entire being seemed to radiate a deathly aura.

"Hmm? Shrouded in necrotic energy? Are you using a Dead Man Gu to prolong your life?" Unfazed by the scar on her face, Qin Fan was instead startled by the aura she exuded.

"You know about using a Dead Man Gu to prolong life?" The woman was utterly shocked. She couldn't believe a teenager had exposed her deepest secret the moment she showed her face. He must be the one who killed my sworn brother. A student who knows about the Dead Man Gu can't be ordinary! Impossible! Gritting her teeth, she asked coldly, "Did you kill my brother?"

"Are you talking about that middle-aged man who was using his own Life Source to nurture a Gu?" Qin Fan asked, the surprise fading from his expression as his lips curled into a smirk.

"It was you who killed him?" Anger, hatred, resentment, malevolence, and darkness—these five auras burst from her body the moment she spoke.

"I was planning to interrogate him before killing him, but to protect his secrets, he chose to shatter his own Lifebound Gu and commit suicide. Yep, right here. Right on the spot where I'm standing," Qin Fan said, pointing a finger at the ground beneath his feet.

"I'm going to kill you!" Unleashing all her accumulated anger, hatred, and malevolence, the woman lunged at Qin Fan.

"You can't," Qin Fan replied with a smile, leaping into the air. He met her attack with a sweeping kick to the side of her head. In that lightning-fast moment, the woman couldn't even process the movement before she was knocked sideways to the ground, spitting a spray of blood—black blood.

"Your brother nurtured a Lifebound Gu, and you're using a Dead Man Gu to prolong your life. You two siblings are quite the pair, heh. This must be the work of the Gu Clan. They always said a clan of Gu-practitioners existed at the far end of the Southwest. Seems they weren't wrong," Qin Fan sneered playfully, looking down at the woman struggling to get up.

"You know," he continued, "if I wanted to kill you, you'd be a corpse right now. Oh, but I forgot, that wouldn't quite work. You're using a Dead Man Gu to prolong your life. As long as the Gu doesn't die, you don't die, right?"

"How do you know all this?" Her previous anger and hatred turned into endless fright. Listening to Qin Fan's calm explanation, the woman's pale face began to tremble. Using a Dead Man Gu to prolong one's life is a forbidden secret technique of the Gu Clan. There's no way an outsider could know about it! And yet this student, who looks to be less than twenty, knows everything so clearly? 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

"I not only know that you're using a Dead Man Gu to prolong your life, but I also know that your days are numbered," Qin Fan said, shaking his head with a little laugh. "A Dead Man Gu can indeed bring someone back from the dead, but it has another trait: it slowly converts your vital energy into Death Qi. Then, it slowly consumes that Death Qi as its food. Once it accumulates enough, it will burst from your chest, and that will be the day you die.

"Furthermore, a Dead Man Gu has a particular requirement for its host: the body must be filled with resentment and malevolence. To have become a host for a Dead Man Gu, your past must have been quite tragic. Heh-heh..."

"That's not true! It's not! You're talking nonsense! Yes, you're spouting nonsense! Damn it, who in the world are you!" the woman screamed ferociously.

"Who I am doesn't matter. What matters is that the Death Qi in your body has reached a critical point. It won't be long before the Dead Man Gu's absorption is saturated, and that's when you will die.

"I really don't know what kind of sins you two siblings committed. Your brother had an Essence Blood Gu implanted in him, sustained by his Life Source, while you have a Dead Man Gu. In the end, both of you were caught in an inescapable death trap. Even if I didn't kill you, you wouldn't have lasted much longer before being drained dry.

"It seems the person behind you is quite ruthless. The real pity is that you were sold out yet still helped count the money. Pitiful, lamentable, tragic," Qin Fan said with a long sigh.