How to snatch back prey that has already become a victim of the killing rule? It's simple, just immerse the prey in your own killing rule before it completely dies.
Chu Qing did just that.
The moment Liu Lian saw that pair of blood-red pupils, the Human Head Lantern in the sky seemed to lose its restraint over her.
Liu Lian, now completely caught between two strange battlefields, could no longer endure the incessant torment. At the moment she fell from the sky, she passed out.
In the darkness.
The blood-red light from the ground and the sky reflected each other.
Extending his hands to catch Liu Lian, he tossed her aside as if she were trash, and then Chu Qing looked up again.
The Blood Eyes immediately gave him feedback:
【Human Head Lantern】
【Grade: Ninth Grade】
【Type: Spiritual entity weirdness】
【Yin Shou: Seven months and sixteen days】
【Head and body separated (Rule): Located directly beneath the Human Head Lantern, one will enter a dragging state. Once the head is dragged into the lantern, the killing rule is completed.】
【Darkness under the lamp (Ability): The blooming candlelight can alter sentient beings' perception. Simultaneously, when the candlelight blooms, it can obscure the vision of beings outside the candlelight and block attacks from any non-spiritual entity means.】
【Spiritual Entity (State): Cannot normally be observed and can phase through physical obstructions. Each phase consumes a certain amount of Yin Shou.】
【Promotion Requirement: Unknown】
【Note: This darn thing's potential is quite good, but compared to this great master, it's still a bit lacking! Alas, being invincible is truly lonely.】
Chu Qing calmly observed this thing. At this moment, he was standing directly beneath this Human Head Lantern.
Two consecutive escaped prey seemed to have angered this lukewarm Big Red Lantern.
The swaying red light rendered this entire world a deep crimson.
It also gave Chu Qing a sense of detachment.
This must be the sensory deception, right? What a terrifying ability!
It can be said that the ability of this Human Head Lantern could truly destroy a city! If this thing were to be promoted in grade in the future and not purged, countless ordinary people in Luocheng would likely suffer greatly.
No wonder even the proud Blood Eyes said that the Human Head Lantern was only slightly inferior to him. Apart from its killing rule seeming quite weak, the Darkness under the lamp ability is indeed powerful.
However, the cold feedback from his eyes did not stop Chu Qing's thoughts. Instead, it made him slowly open his mouth and say softly:
"It does get a bit dark at my place at night, and I'm lacking a light. Would you be willing to go?"
『Whoosh!』
Inside the entire Jinshan Residential Area, it was as if a fierce wind had suddenly risen.
Amidst the howling, Chu Qing's jet-black trench coat flapped noisily.
The Human Head Lantern gave its answer.
The massive lantern suddenly plunged downwards, as if something was directly tied to its neck.
However, the Human Head Lantern's attempt to drag it up abruptly froze in place.
This was because, within the Human Head Lantern, a terrifyingly ferocious face turned its gaze towards Chu Qing.
Crimson pupils met.
The rope around its neck was untied.
The massive lantern slowly landed on the ground.
Even as a Ninth Grade spiritual entity, the Human Head Lantern had to submit to the Blood-Eyed Dragon Lord under the clash of rules!
An eye for an eye!
The moment Chu Qing's blood-red eyes met its gaze, the Human Head Lantern's killing rule was perfectly reflected back by Chu Qing.
So, it was the Human Head Lantern that was trying to drag Chu Qing before, and now, Chu Qing was dragging this Human Head Lantern.
If he wished, by reversing the heavens and extending his head into this Human Head Lantern, it wouldn't be himself who died, but this Human Head Lantern.
It was precisely because it sensed this situation that the Human Head Lantern no longer resisted.
He slowly lifted it up.
Looking at the Human Head Lantern, whose red light had significantly dimmed, he revealed a smile.
At the same time, his curiosity grew even more.
How high was the rule weight of the Blood Eyes?
Weight is the 'power' of a spiritual entity's rule ability.
Often, especially many years after the Era of Terror arrived and spiritual entities advanced to higher grades, the power of their rules easily led to rule clashes.
The victor of a rule clash between two spiritual entities would be determined by the rule weight of both sides.
And in the later Era of Terror, many Ghost Controllers measured a spiritual entity's potential primarily in three aspects:
First, is the activation of the rule simple, and is the ability's effect powerful?
Second, what is the rule ability's weight?
And third, is a domain Chu Qing had not yet ventured into, which is the ascension of the spiritual entity.
These three are the most important standards for measuring spiritual entities.
Unfortunately, perhaps because the grade was too low, the only thing the Blood Eyes could not detect was the weight and power of their ability rules.
Once the Book of Life and Death appeared, Chu Qing could properly examine the weight of the Blood Eyes.
And now...
He walked forward slowly, carrying the blood-red lantern. Bathed in the light of the blood-red lantern, Chu Qing was slightly taken aback and looked at a figure beside him.
It wasn't Liu Lian, but the man Liu Lian had saved at the beginning.
However, to Chu Qing's surprise, this person was someone he knew!
That's right,
Since his rebirth, he had forgotten most of the people from before.
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But the person before him was someone he had seen with his own eyes yesterday morning, and the other person's attitude had left a deep impression on him.
Xú Wěi.
The guy at the reception when he arrived at North Mountain Cemetery.
Why was he here?
Chu Qing's blood-red eyes narrowed slightly.
At the same time, the Blood Eyes provided feedback:
【Xú Wěi】
【Grade: None】
【Yang Shou: One month】
【Near-death coma (State): Unable to act, unable to think.】
【Note: A weak human male, infected by corpse qi and Yin energy, with numerous sharp wounds all over his body. Even if he didn't encounter the Human Head Lantern, he wouldn't live much longer.
Human, I guess with your intelligence, you've figured something out, haven't you? To thank this great master for his contribution, why not give him to me as a snack?
】
Chu Qing's gaze remained unfocused. He picked up the Human Head Lantern and donned his jet-black umbrella again.
As he walked, he covered his eyes and said:
"Stop making noise. Eating too much of that stuff is bad for your health and will affect your development. Be good...
"Besides, how would you eat him? Are you asking me to pry open his eyelids?
"That woman? She's no good, I have other uses for her.
"Alright, enough nonsense."
In the deep, dark night, the time had slowly crept towards nine o'clock.
In the empty and dark residential area, a figure walking under a black umbrella, carrying a blood-red lantern and talking to himself, was enough to scare anyone unconscious.
However, it was precisely this scene that caused a figure to groggily open her eyes.
Liu Lian looked at the red light and the tall figure beneath the trench coat. She wanted to reach out, but the previous dragging had left her completely weak, and the place where she fell was excruciatingly painful:
"Wait... wait..."
The figure stopped but did not turn around.
"What is that... what is that thing?"
The blood-red lantern at this moment was as docile as a kitten, hanging in the figure's hand, as if everything that had just happened was an illusion.
The voice spoke again:
"It's just a little thing that's hungry. Sorry, I scared you."
Liu Lian looked at the thing blankly, looked at the departing figure blankly. The feeling of weakness kept coming, and the double vision made her unable to discern the details of the figure. She could only ask one last question:
"Then… who are you?"
The figure no longer spoke and slowly walked outwards.
Outside the range of the Human Head Lantern's light, due to the effect of the Darkness under the lamp ability, others could not even see what was inside.
As the figure grew further away, completely hidden by the light of the Human Head Lantern and slowly disappearing into the darkness, Liu Lian's consciousness finally collapsed completely, and she fainted again.
However, at the very moment she lost consciousness, a voice drifted from the misty darkness:
"King Chujiang."