Xiao Xue said, then stretched out her hand, gesturing four fingers at the Ghost King. After pondering for a while, she extended her other hand, trying to gesture half a day, but after quite some effort, she couldn’t figure out how to show half a finger.

She was slightly troubled.

Ghost King...

Others...

So could you tell them what’s going on? Shouldn’t they be seriously... fighting? Why did it turn into a question of how tasty it is?

The Ghost King was also baffled by this transparent yet muddled little creature. Did she actually see that he wanted to eat her?

Tsk tsk, what a perceptive little girl. She looks a bit cute, what should I do?

The Ghost King thought for a moment, looked at Su Yu, then at the girl, noticing they looked quite alike, there must be some relation.

He crossed his arms, raised an eyebrow, and said to Su Yu, "Don’t you want the Seven Star Stone? Give me that little girl, and I’ll give you the Seven Star Stone."

Su Yu slightly moved his lips, chuckling lightly, "Then you can keep it, I don’t want it."

As he finished speaking, he glanced at the Ice Lake behind the Ghost King: "If you dare to undo that Rebirth Mantra, today we’ll fight to the death."

The Ghost King gnashed his teeth, wanting to retort who’s afraid of whom, but... the reason he stayed at the bottom of this Ice Lake was that while becoming Ghost King, he was struck by lightning. Originally supposed to become human with Three Souls and Seven Spirits, he ended up missing one spirit. Thus, although he cultivated into a human form, he couldn’t function like a normal human due to the missing spirit. He tried everything, gathered the Seven Star Stones, and set an array in this Ice Lake, attempting to restore that final spirit.

But when ghosts have bad luck, even drinking cold water gets stuck in their teeth. He painstakingly tried for a thousand years without success and even lost a Star Stone a few years ago, causing his Star Stone Array to be damaged. He still couldn’t complete that final spirit.

If he can’t complete the Three Souls and Seven Spirits, he can’t be like a normal human; he’s still incomplete. For a perfectionist like him, how could he accept this? And more annoyingly, his Ghost King abilities could match Divine Level humans, but because of that missing spirit, his strength was only close to a Spirit Cultivator’s White Flame Level, but not quite at that level.

Very... pathetic.

So, fighting and struggling with Su Yu seemed pointless because, in terms of strength, they were evenly matched.

If they truly fought to the death, there was no guarantee he’d survive.

From a wandering ghost, to training into ghost spirits, then step by step becoming Ghost King, and spending thousands of years attempting to restore a spirit—oh, it’s still not complete—overall, the hardship involved far exceeded several tens of thousands of times the effort humans spend on Spirit Cultivation. He really didn’t want a death match with him!

If Su Yu were to destroy him, it would mean thousands of years of cultivation power would be obliterated just like that.

He could handle some fighting, but he really didn’t want it to become lethal.

"Su Yu, we can talk this out. You should know, the effects of the Soul Stabilizing Needle have damaged the Three Souls and Seven Spirits, but only the Seven Star Stone can fully restore them. So, we can completely discuss this properly; there’s no need for a fight to the death, it’s not beneficial to either of us, don’t you think?"