Chapter 106

Translator: Vivi

Edited by meowmiao

Proofreader: PenguinStel

happy fall!

The sound of him landing on his face was so loud that anyone could imagine just how painful it was.

He just had to fall face-down. Recalling the familiar sentence he heard before the battle and the ‘I am very unhappy’ expression on his lover’s face at the time, Gu Yan finally confirmed one thing.

His family’s Qiuqiu had done it on purpose.

At this moment, the Heidis’s brow was slightly furrowed. However, his face was extremely attractive no matter how you looked at it. The faint shadow casted by his long lashes hid a pair of beautiful pale-green eyes.

“Qiuqiu, be good.” Gu Yan had once again experienced his lover’s jealousy. Now, in such a public setting, the best thing to do was to bring those words up again.

Under the suspicious gaze of all the people around, including the shocked and doubtful judges, he took the other person’s cool hands very naturally.

The youth held his left hand, the warmth transmitted to him was in stark contrast to his cold self. Having his hand tugged like this, his tense frown eased up. He didn’t even think before grasping the youth’s hand in a grip that was just strong enough to deter him but not enough to hurt him.

His expression that had just relaxed narrowed once more with an obviously cold and aloof expression. The Heidis tilted its head at the youth and repeated its words from before in a low voice. “Reward.”

Hearing the word ‘reward’ again gave Gu Yan the illusion that his family’s Qiuqiu seemed to have grown twisted in some aspects. Twisted to the extent that he could act unreasonably obedient.

“We’ll talk about this later…” Before he could finish speaking, Gu Yan heard the silver-haired officer simply gave a low ‘en’ with narrowed eyes.

Just like this, one man and one ghost held hands. Their actions could be considered subtle and adding on the fact that a majority of the audience was still stunned, they didn’t notice this scene.

Their sights were all attracted by the blonde-haired man who’d landed on the ground after being sent flying out of the arena. After some time, the man still didn’t move, not to mention stand up. He couldn’t possibly have fainted, right?

Having guessed such an outcome from the start, Zhao Huan didn’t hold the slightest bit of concern as he ate his snacks with loud crunches. His gaze landed on the interlocked hands of the two people on the stage. Although it wasn’t clear to see with their bodies blocking, he was very sure that the man and the ghost must definitely be holding hands.

Lover… or it would be better to say, a partner. Completely devoting oneself to cultivating was in fact, a very boring and tedious thing to do. Instead, listening to his shifu’s stories kept Zhao Huan interested. In many of these stories, his shifu had told him about spirit tamers.

It was said that many years ago, there were many famous grandmasters in the cultivation world when it came to spirit taming. There were many ways of falling in love; they were unusual or could also be described as shocking.

There wasn’t much to be said to describe how shocking it was; one sentence was enough. In those days, the outstanding grandmasters from the spirit taming divisions were together with their tamed spirits.

“Shifu, didn’t you say that man and ghosts are fundamentally different? But I see that they’re fine and the line between life and death doesn’t seem that difficult to cross.” Zhao Huan had stopped eating and instead, adopted a serious expression.

Although he asked this question, Zhao Huan knew that there were certain conditions to be fulfilled, otherwise wanting to be together was extremely difficult. However, the man and ghost who’d satisfied these conditions made this line look effortless to cross.

One had a body full of primordial energy of chaos, the type that attracted luck, even if Zhao Huan didn’t know how it worked in the cultivation world, it was definitely not a bad thing. The other was even more unreasonable. If you got on his bad side, it would truly be a headache for the entire spiritual world.

“Tsk, then why haven’t you heard of a human and ghost love story before?” Knowing that his disciple was casually asking even though he was aware of it, Grandmaster Zhao stroked his white beard and replied seriously.

These were all uncertain matters, but dependent on the people involved. As a divination master, he couldn’t be swayed by rumours and theories.

The blonde-haired man who’d been sent flying by the formless strength, laid on the ground unmoving while the evil spirit continued to kneel towards its ‘enemy’. The audience spent several minutes racking their brains to no avail as they couldn’t understand the situation. In just a few moments, the entire hall had somehow fallen absolutely silent. The judges finally announced the winner of this round.

The winner was, without a doubt, China. This victory was something China had never been able to achieve, but the dark-haired youth had done it. When he returned to his seat, the grandmasters from China who’d come to spectate the match all had an expression of ‘I must be dreaming’.

Meanwhile, the young divination master from Helun had directly fainted. At least that was what the doctor who’d come to check said. As for the actual reason for his passing out, only the ghost quietly sitting by the youth’s side would know.

If they hadn’t seen the ghost’s savage appearance earlier, the ghost who was currently playing with the youth’s finger with a lowered head might have been mistaken by the group of divination masters as a docile ghost. But now, these people merely looked at them and wondered how their junior had managed to tame such a ferocious spirit.

Earlier on, the evil ghost had actually defied its master and knelt towards the dark-haired youth without moving. This scene had completely shocked many people.

Generally speaking, it was difficult to undo the dominance a spirit tamer imposed on their tamed spirit because each person used a different technique, and wanting to figure out the specific method required some time. A simpler way was to directly kill the spirit tamer who casted the spiritual pact. If the person died, the spell would automatically become invalid, and there would be no need to solve it.

The blonde-haired man was carried away while the evil spirit knelt on the spot, not allowing anyone to approach. After all, this was an evil spirit and not a normal ghost.

Before anyone could react, they saw a piece of talisman appear between the dark-haired youth’s fingers. None of the divination masters, even those present who specialized in talismans could understand it and at first glance, it appeared to resemble messy scribbles.

But for him to take a talisman out, it couldn’t be for nothing. In the next moment, the youth proved this point.

Those who possessed the primordial energy could be called predestined; others could neither be envious or jealous. When these people used their abilities, this energy would be channeled into their own spiritual power, increasing the effectiveness of their skills.

It couldn’t be seen with the naked eye but all the divination masters present could clearly feel the pure and unadulterated spiritual aura shrouding the youth.

When this spiritual energy seeped into the talisman, it immediately activated. In the next second, the pact that shackled the evil spirit dissipated into dust.

Everyone was stunned, including those from Helun who hadn’t even had the chance to resist. The spirit who had been released from its bond wasn’t any different from before. It continued to kneel respectfully, or rather, fearfully towards the youth until he finally uttered a single word, “Go.” The spirit got up and followed behind him and was now with the crowd from China.

“Wait till the convention is over before sending it back to Ghost City.” Gu Yan quickly gave the answer he had prepared earlier to Grandmaster Wen when he was asked how he would deal with the evil spirit. There was nothing to hide.

“Xiao Gu, it seems that you didn’t use any control techniques…” Just as he said so, Grandmaster Wen stopped himself. “Just pretend I didn’t say anything. You know what you’re doing best.”

The other person most likely used some hidden skills he wasn’t aware of or else, the evil spirit wouldn’t obey him so thoroughly. And since it was a hidden skill, an outsider like him wasn’t in any position to ask about it.

Faced with Grandmaster Wen’s question, Gu Yan chose to remain silent as a tacit agreement. This misunderstanding was good since there was no way to say it was his family’s Qiuqiu who had beaten it into submission. Moreover, his family’s Qiuqiu was a hundred times more tyrannical than that evil spirit and had been the overlord of Ghost City for thousands of years.

Although this was the case, the biased Gu Yan evidently felt that his family’s Qiuqiu was still well-behaved and obedient, and also extremely cute.

After this incident, leaving aside Helun’s attitude towards China, even the other countries had a feeling that they’d been played.

Didn’t they say that China’s spirit taming division had declined? What happened to being forced to forfeit—?

It should be forfeiting, not pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger!

Feeling the evasive gazes from the other countries, it must be said that the bunch of older folks from China were pretty sturdy. Each and every one of them had a calm and collected expression; they might as well have been sipping on a cup of tea.

But God knows that in these people’s hearts, they had already been prepared for China to lose this year’s placement. Now, they felt as if they were dreaming.

They never expected that the newbie they had recruited at the last minute would be so capable. But, who cared about that now… China’s spirit taming division had been subjected to mockery for so many years and now, they finally had a chance to make a comeback and crush their competitors instead.

Only two words: Feels good.