8. Do You Think I’m Human or Ghost?
“Jealousy, arrogance, prejudice, and anger—these are the easiest things to exploit. You’ve embraced all four, so naturally, this is the result.”
Gong Yiling looked at the people lying on the ground and sighed. “That’s why I hate people who are clearly stupid but still think everything is under their control.”
“Bad people are just bad, but stupid people… can become both stupid and bad, which is a real headache.”
Her words were clearly directed at the people from Shuhua Daoist Mountain, who were being used as pawns without even realizing it. But the people below didn’t care what she was saying.
After all, they had died and then been resurrected. What was going on?
Could she be a twin?
“Who are you!?”
“What? Is that the only thing you can say?” Gong Yiling rolled her eyes. “As for who I am, didn’t you even ask before you started killing? Don’t you even know who you sent to hell?”
Wait, why did I say ‘hell’? That sounds strange.
Just then, someone finally couldn’t take it anymore and sent a wave of sword qi towards her. The woman’s eyes sharpened, and she deflected it with a wave of her hand, then leaped down from the second floor, landing gracefully in the pool of blood.
“You’ve never seen a ghost, so how do you know if they have a physical form? Why test me?”
Miss Gong rubbed her hands together mysteriously, then reached out and pulled the man named Zhong Li’an towards her.
Suppressed by her cultivation, he couldn’t break free and could only cry out to his leader, “Captain Long, save me!”
“Young Master Long.” Gong Yiling sneered. “If you still have a brain, you shouldn’t get involved in this. The person behind this, do you think it’s still you?”
“You should be watching now, am I right, Yin Wuzong?”
At these words, Yin Wuzong, controlling this body from outside the barrier, suddenly opened his eyes.
His eyes were filled with disbelief, but more so with coldness.
Heh, so what if you found out?
The trap was already set. Since using the people from Shuhua was no longer an option, he would do it himself.
With a thought, the other cultivators he controlled suddenly shook out a large amount of white powder from their sleeves.
The surrounding cultivators who inhaled the powder immediately fainted.
This was a top-grade knockout powder. Even those who reacted in time couldn’t resist its potent effects and collapsed.
Only Miss Gong, having taken an antidote, remained standing. She moved a chair to the center of the room, facing the door, unfazed by the surrounding blood.
Until Yin Wuzong and Wen Qiyin walked into this hell on earth.
“I thought,” Wen Qiyin glanced at the corpses on the stairs, “you were their friend.”
“How can you be so sure I’m not?”
“If you were their friend, would you be sitting here so calmly?” Wen Qiyin chuckled. “But now, do you think we’ll let you go?”
“Why not?” Gong Yiling countered. “I have no connection with that Immortal Master. Her disciples being killed has nothing to do with me. I might even be under her duress, forced to help her.”
“If you can remove the restriction she placed on me, I might even switch sides and help you. Having one more friend is better than one more enemy. I can also help you find that Immortal Master and eliminate her once and for all.”
“What do you think? A good deal, right?”
“Miss Lü must be joking.” Yin Wuzong said, “If we can control you, why should we care about the restriction in your body?”
Gong Yiling finally understood. “I almost forgot. You have that strange Gu poison waiting for me. So I have no free will, right?”
“If you want to live, that’s your fate.”
“Sigh…” Gong Yiling sighed. “And what about the others?”
She pointed at the unconscious and dead people on the ground. “To kill us, you instigated the people from Shuhua Daoist Mountain, then deliberately provoked a larger conflict, forcing them to kill.”
“This way, you created the illusion that the entire Ruohuai Daoist Mountain was wiped out by Shuhua Daoist Mountain… no, not an illusion. They were indeed killed by them.”
“This way, you easily eliminated the threat to the Divine King’s Court and protected yourself. Even if you couldn’t deal with that Immortal Master, she wouldn’t blame you.”
Miss Gong even started clapping. “Young Master Yin, a brilliant plan, truly brilliant.”
“But you anticipated all this and even prepared a fake body for yourself…”
Wait… a fake body?
Yin Wuzong and Wen Qiyin both sensed something was wrong.
If this girl had prepared a fake body, it meant she knew someone would come here. Then… why didn’t she tell anyone else?
She should have known it was impossible for her to escape from them. And she should have helped those girls, warned Lan Suqin.
Why did she do nothing, just prepare a fake body for herself?
No!
This wasn’t right. This girl was definitely up to something.
Thinking of this, Yin Wuzong immediately charged forward.
He drew his sword, intending to kill her on the spot.
But then, something unexpected happened.
He passed right through her body, as if she were a ghost.
An illusion.
And another Gong Yiling emerged from a room on the second floor, fanning herself, looking down at him with contempt.
“Young Master Yin, who do you think has been tricked now?”
With that, the corpses on the ground and stairs vanished, along with the bloodstains, leaving only Gong Yiling, Yin Wuzong’s men, and the scapegoats from Shuhua Daoist Mountain in the vast room.
“What!?” Yin Wuzong frowned.
All of this… was just… an illusion!?
