Bai Yu’s kick landed solidly. The fact that it could send a grown man flying several meters showed just how much force was behind it. Lu Liangting was just particularly resilient; anyone else would have definitely been seriously injured.
Lu Liangting’s back was to Li Nan, already close. When he was kicked flying, he crashed right into Li Nan, knocking him to the ground.
Without Zhang Lin holding it back, the Black Shadow could have killed Lu Liangting as easily as flipping its hand at this moment. Bai Yu thought so too. But to her surprise, the Black Shadow didn’t act at all. Under the dual pressure from Bai Yu and the Fifth Floor Red-Clothed Female Ghost, the Black Shadow just wanted to leave this place fast and not waste any more time.
Clutching his head, Lu Liangting quickly got up and distanced himself from Li Nan. He glanced at him out of the corner of his eye, seeing a confused, fear-stricken mess, then turned his head to look at Bai Yu.
That kick had landed directly on his chest, and his ribs were still aching. He didn’t quite understand why Bai Yu had kicked him.
‘Maybe it was to save me from the Female Ghost. I was less than five meters from her, and she had just charged over. That position was very dangerous.’ Lu Liangting thought to himself.
What he didn’t know was that Bai Yu had kicked him towards Li Nan purely to have him stall Li Nan, or get killed by Li Nan. Nothing more.
‘She’s been watching from the corridor all along, hiding somewhere I can’t see. That means she should know I’ve been looking for her. So why didn’t she come out then?’
Holding his chest with one hand, Lu Liangting’s eyes were filled with complex emotions. He had thought about this when he came at noon, had even talked to himself in the corridor like a lunatic, all words meant for her to hear.
If she could rush over at this critical moment, how could she possibly not hear his voice?
But she was always like this, appearing at moments of dire crisis, saving his life, and then vanishing without a trace.
However, those previous saves had been from ordinary ghostly monsters. The Fifth Floor’s Red-Clothed Female Ghost was different. She was the strongest entity in this haunted building. Her resentment ran deep, not something those common ghosts could compare to.
‘I must find a way to save her!’
A fight between ghosts would only end when one devoured the other.
In his sight, the berserk Female Ghost lunged at Bai Yu again. Large amounts of black mist spread out, assaulting Bai Yu’s body. The ten fingernails were as sharp as blades, each one saturated with immense resentment.
This resentment was the Female Ghost’s power, drawn from all the people in this building who had died tragically and couldn’t find release.
Battles between ghosts are essentially contests of resentment energy, the very foundation of a ghost’s existence. Thus, the process in a fight between two ghosts is usually quite simple: they just continuously devour each other.
Of course, this doesn’t mean technique is useless. Bai Yu’s resentment energy was inferior to the Red-Clothed Female Ghost Xiao Lian’s, but her combat experience completely outstripped the other party.
She sidestepped, dodging the Female Ghost’s claws. Blood threads coalesced into a bloody hook blade at her right elbow. As she evaded, the hook blade slashed down at a bizarre angle, instantly severing the fingertip of four of the Female Ghost’s fingers, which dissolved into thicker black mist.
The Female Ghost raised her head in fury, sucking the black mist into her mouth in one gulp. Just as she was about to roar and expel it, Bai Yu suddenly stepped forward, actively closing the distance on the Female Ghost.
The hook blade on her arm vanished. Blood threads reformed into chains, two fingers thick, wrapping around her slender arm and fist. As expected, the creature’s other claw swiped from the side. Bai Yu raised her chain-wrapped arm to block it, and her free hand slammed onto the face about to screech.
The Female Ghost clearly hadn’t expected Bai Yu to dare approach her so directly. Her eyes beneath the tangled, messy hair couldn’t help but widen.
Squelch!
A spike condensed from blood threads burst from Bai Yu’s palm, and she channeled all her strength into her hand, shoving the woman away. At that same moment, the Blood Thread Spike exploded inside the Female Ghost’s body.
The bursting blood threads were like thousands upon thousands of thin red lines, spraying everywhere in this short section of the corridor.
Black mist gushed uncontrollably from the fallen Female Ghost’s body until her form became completely transparent and disappeared…
From Bai Yu’s appearance to the Female Ghost being dispatched in a few moves, no more than ten seconds had passed.
It could only be said that everything happened too fast.
Behind her, Lu Liangting was still thinking about whether he could go up and calm the Fifth Floor Female Ghost, or perhaps persuade her to flee. But before he could even formulate a strategy in his mind, before he even got to the first step, the fight was over…
“This…”
His mouth hung half-open. Even Lu Liangting, who had seen all manner of ghostly monsters, was somewhat stunned. For a fleeting moment, he even doubted his own eyes.
But the fact was, that Female Ghost was indeed dead, and that seemingly frail-looking ghost stood in place.
In Lu Liangting’s eyes, Bai Yu stood there quietly. The blood threads that had burst out across the surrounding corridor began converging back towards her body.
Her back was clearly so delicate, so capable of evoking a deep protective instinct from the bottom of one’s heart.
But it was this frail body that had just killed the strongest ghost in this building with unusually sharp and efficient moves.
“She seems… different somewhere…”
In his impression, Bai Yu was disheveled, the typical look of a ghostly monster, a white dress stained with patchy blood, her skin a pallor unlike a normal person’s.
But now, her hair was no longer messy. It was neatly groomed, even tied into two incredibly cute twin low ponytails behind her with a red ribbon bow, in a style like a girl next door. Her dress was free of bloodstains, a pure white.
If one didn’t say she was a ghost, one might think it was some little girl who had run out late at night.
Bai Yu paid no attention to the gazes behind her. She was staring intently at the corridor.
The Female Ghost had vanished, but the black mist hadn’t dissipated. The corridor’s stench of decay only briefly disappeared. A foul odor identical to the previous one was rapidly approaching, slowly seeping from the fifth floor down to the fourth.
Sure enough, it wasn’t long before the Red-Clothed Female Ghost, Xiao Lian, descended the stairs from the fifth floor, reappearing unscathed at the corner of the fourth-floor corridor.
Ghostly monsters, especially special and powerful Red-Clothed Fierce Ghosts like Xiao Lian, all had unique abilities. They couldn’t be compared to ordinary ghosts.
Those few moves just now would have thoroughly killed an ordinary ghost. But Xiao Lian, the Red-Clothed Fierce Ghost, had crawled out of Room 506 in less than fifteen seconds and reappeared on the fourth floor.
Seeing Bai Yu still standing there, the Red-Clothed Fierce Ghost showed not the slightest fear or terror, and lunged again with resentment so thick it was nearly tangible.
The outcome was naturally the same as before. Bai Yu killed the Female Ghost in a few moves.
Killing her wasn’t difficult. The problem was that doing so didn’t truly kill her. What was worse was that this black mist was continuously invading and assaulting her own body.
“As expected, I still need to go to that high school and bring her child back. Otherwise, killing her is just too troublesome…”
“Tonight, there’s no need to fight her. The key point still lies with Lu Liangting.”
“That kid almost died here tonight. I refuse to believe no one will step in to save him.”
Thinking this, Bai Yu glanced back at Lu Liangting, then at Li Nan. Something seemed to dawn in her heart. Before the Female Ghost could appear again, she vanished from the corridor, slipping back into Zhao Mingyue’s shadow.
