Chapter 68: The Devilish Young Master

  "What does it mean?"

  Shu Bailin was shocked at first, then jumped up three feet high and shouted: "He deceived me?"

  That voice, with a hint of grievance, is like that of a young woman in her early twenties, it can make one's heart and bones go soft together, no problem. But if I were to translate it into Shu Bai Ling (a Chinese dialect), forget about it.

  "Ah~"

  Ning Feng let out a sigh, covered his forehead with his hand, and was completely speechless towards this guy.

  He shook his head, unable to bear looking at Shu Baili's current expression, and gazed into the copper mirror. His expression solidified, and he asked in a low voice: "The joke is over, can you report your name and which noble family you are from?"

  "Ning Feng" was holding his belly in laughter in the mirror, completely breathless, and it took him a long time to straighten up, stifling his laughter: "You're really funny, too amusing, let me laugh for a while."

  He said it lightly, but that guy's face turned green with anger. Under the gaze of everyone, he was so angry that he wanted to hide his head in his crotch.

  Too embarrassing.

  "I'm really too naive..."

  Shu Bailin was in a state of repentance, and "Ning Feng" smiled enough in the mirror. He said leisurely: "The first person to travel the world in the modern era of the Sun God Temple, you can call me 'Mirror Young Master'."

  "Is it Mirror Boy?" Ning Feng slightly nodded his head, his eyes gazing at the copper mirror for a moment, as if he had come to a realization.

  "You must be wondering why I've come looking for you."

  Jing Gongzi still had a calm and composed demeanor, with the same tone of voice, not showing any intention to change his attitude, and continued: "Coincidentally meeting you, I'm in high spirits. We're both newcomers, so let's have a competition."

  "A fight?"

  Ning Feng raised an eyebrow and shook his head, saying, "Not interested."

  "You will be interested."

  Jing Gongzi smiled mysteriously, and that evil aura lingered on.

  "Oh, I'd love to hear more about it."

  Ning Feng's expression changed, knowing that the other party had appeared in such a strange way and was speaking so boldly, with every word and deed revealing arrogance and complacency, without any regard for others' feelings or opinions. Such a person would not shoot randomly.

  "Looking at you, Ning brother, I'm afraid the Sun God Temple has given you some kind of mission?"

  The person in the mirror stretched out a hand and pointed, his finger strangely protruding from the mirror surface, nodding twice in mid-air as if acknowledging something, and said: "According to the characteristics of Press Stop Witch, Tragic Wen Ugly, and Old Sangshu, yesterday I traveled thousands of miles under the mirror, and found two suitable targets nearby."

  "Both of these incidents have one thing in common, previously there were ominous signs, and then mysteriously for three days it seemed as if some external force was intervening, until today when no one else has been injured or killed."

  "Wait, what does he mean?"

  Ning Feng's face finally changed color, and he vaguely grasped the meaning of Mirror Gongzi's words. What was even more ominous was the evil aura emanating from this person's entire being, and his way of doing things was probably not a good omen.

  As the two of them spoke, the ground in front of the copper mirror suddenly heaved up with a couple of slight tremors from the finger poking out of the mirror's surface, forming two small mounds of earth that looked like two graves. Then, with a loud "boom", they burst open, sending mud flying everywhere.

  The wind was blowing strongly and I could see clearly through the dust that had been stirred up, what was under the two piles of earth.

  On the left side of the mound was a narrow, elongated coffin, only half as wide as an ordinary one, and even longer, looking strange and ancient.

  On the right is a dead cat with its limbs stretched out, looking silly and cute, even as a corpse.

  These two things are too strange, and as soon as they appear, they attract Ning Feng's attention.

  He was lost in thought, when Shu Baili finally regained his composure, and with a hint of shyness, whispered to him: "Ning Gongzi, I don't know where that dead cat came from, but the one on the left is someone I know."

  "What's with the shape of this coffin?"

  Ning Feng glanced at Shu Bailin and, as expected, saw him puff out his chest with a pleased expression, and immediately felt relieved.

  Usually at this time, Aspirin is still reliable.

  "This proves that what's buried inside are children under twelve years old or dwarfs."

  Shu Bailin pointed and nodded, saying with great certainty: "It's probably right. This implies the wishes of the person who buried him, hoping that the next generation will grow taller, so they made the coffin extremely long and narrow."

  "So it was."

  Ning Feng immediately believed it, and with this explanation, everything made sense.

  "Wow, this trick is actually somewhat useful after all."

  Jing Gongzi waited patiently for Shu Baili to finish biting his ear before saying this with a face full of admiration.

  As soon as he finished speaking, Shu Bailin felt that every part of his body was unwell.

  What's going on here?

  What is called good deception? What is called having some use?

  For some reason, Shu Bailin still felt a strong sense of threat through the mirror, otherwise he would have jumped up and scolded loudly.

  As for whether he was in the belly and had eighteen generations of relatives with Mirror Gongzi, Ning Feng and Mirror Gongzi apparently didn't care.

  The Mirror Prince pointed at the long and narrow coffin and the dead cat through the mirror, saying: "Inside this coffin is a ghostly corpse called Huashenggui."

  "This ghost can only be formed when a child under the age of 12 dies prematurely, it likes to trick and play with children of similar age, but adults cannot see it at all."

  "This strange creature has been spotted in this area. More than a month ago, seven children from this village went missing and were never seen again."

  Ning Feng's eyes flashed with a stern expression upon hearing this.

  So eerie and sinister, specifically targeting children, it's truly detestable.

  He no longer cared to think about whether this ghost had any grievances or injustices in his past life, what kind of hardships he had suffered, how he died young, and so on. None of these were important anymore, nor could they be used as an excuse.

  "This young master was too lazy to wait for it to appear, so he used the mirror method to snatch away the spirits of all the village youths, leaving only one person unmoving, and then waited around him. Sure enough, he discovered this transformed ghost."

  "Dig up his grave, open the coffin and beat the corpse, exterminate him."

  "The remains of the previously missing child were also found in the coffin by this young master."

  Jing Gongzi said it very calmly, but only when mentioning the temptation of the ghost's appearance, he showed a little pride.

  It's not the same with Ning Feng.

  Having heard this far, his face turned as black as the bottom of a pot. When he opened his mouth, a few hints of anger emerged: "Mirror Young Master, what about those children whose spirits you stole?"

  "Child?"

  Mirror Prince seemed to be taken aback for a moment, then suddenly enlightened and said: "Oh, I remember, this prince didn't reason much with them, they should still be in the Mirror Realm now?"

  "When I have time, I will refine them into mirror slaves. It's the perfect age to teach them a lesson, thank you Brother Ning for reminding me."

  "What?"

  His face was calm as water, but his gaze towards Mirror Boy had an icy chill that couldn't be concealed.

  "Do you know what you've done?"

  "Not all children have family members who can take care of them, and every day delayed will result in the death of children due to hunger, dehydration, poor medical care, and other reasons."

  "Their deaths are all on your hands."

  "One person you killed is worth more than countless ghosts of reincarnation."

  Ning Feng had not even finished speaking, let alone gotten to the part about advising him to release his captive, when Jing Gongzi waved his hand impatiently and said: "Brother Ning, as a member of the immortal sect, please don't prattle on like those private tutors who spout grand theories."

  "This young master is a person of the demonic sect, and he can't stand those kinds of people."

  "Let's talk about this cat demon again."

  Jing Gongzi was excited and continued, "This demon is quite interesting. In its previous life, it was a cat that people liked very much. However, the family abandoned it for some reason, and it wandered in the wilderness. Later, it was cruelly killed by ignorant children for their amusement."

  Ning Feng suppressed his anger for the time being and listened to Jing Gongzi's words, but the more he heard, the more he frowned.

  With such an encounter, that cat demon must have been filled with resentment and anger, if it were to wreak havoc, the consequences would be severe.

  "It didn't know what kind of opportunity it was, but at the moment of its death, it turned out to be a dark spirit going out for a stroll, possessing other wild cats, and mastering a cat plague method. As long as those who were scratched by its cat claws would wail for three days before dying, with habits similar to those of a cat, especially loving to catch mice."

  "It likes to gather wild cats, use each other as stools, climb into human shape, and then put on a black robe, walking in the quiet town at night."

  "As long as the black robe is not lifted, no matter which direction you look from, it's like a person, and true or false can't be distinguished."

  "When encountering a lone traveler, the cat demon reveals its true form, startling the opponent and scratching them with its claws, causing them to contract cat plague. Before this, many people in the town had experienced such encounters, so at night no one dared to walk around."

  "This cat demon became even more ferocious, spreading the cat plague to all the cats in town. Those cats injured people, although not as fiercely as it did itself, still enough to take human lives."

  Ning Feng listened as Mirror Gongzi spoke up to this point, his heart sinking bit by bit.

  Cat plague and rabies are not much different, with the same oral transmission, the same onset of illness without rescue, only cat plague has no latent period, making it even more frightening.

  Judging from Mirror Boy's way of doing things, Ning Feng could vaguely guess how he would handle this matter. Even if he didn't consciously think about it deeply, a chill still ran down his spine.

  "This young master is impatient with temptation and discernment, so he simply uses the mirror method to disturb the minds of all the cats in town, making them go completely mad."

  Mirror gentleman again showed a complacent expression similar to before, seemingly pleased with himself for finding a way to deal with Ning Feng differently. "All the townspeople, attacked by cats, is there any reason not to fight back? In just one day, almost all the cats in the town have been wiped out."

  "There is no cat family to rely on, just like a grain of sand that has been moved from the desert into a bowl, it's as obvious as can be."

  Jing Gongzi didn't continue speaking, and Ning Feng didn't need to listen anymore.

  All the cats in the town were killed, and that cat demon was like a tiger with its claws and teeth pulled out, wasn't it just waiting to be slaughtered by anyone?

  He didn't even have the heart to think about how he would solve it if he were in his shoes.

  Ning Feng's face was filled with indignation, and in his mind, there was only one scene...

  "How many people were injured by cat claws? How many people contracted cat plague?"

  "Is this your method, Mirror Young Master? To pay such a price and sacrifice so many lives just to get rid of one cat demon?"

  "This is playing with people's lives!"

  Ning Feng unconsciously clenched his fists, loudly shouting in indignation.

  He had never so sincerely wanted to kill anyone!

  This is the one and only time.

  Mirror Prince is the first!

  "Haha, you're an immortal, I'm a demon. You can't stand me being normal, and I also can't stand you."

  "Now, your task, I've taken it for myself, you're destined to fail."

  "Alright, let's have a good competition and see whether your Immortal Dao is correct or my Devil Dao is the right path."

  The Mirror Prince rubbed his fists and wiped his palms, extremely excited.

  "Is this really magic?"

  "To achieve one's goal, no matter what means are used, as a human being, can be so indifferent to human life, is this the devil?"

  "I see, I understand now."

  His face was gloomy, his head hung low, but when he lifted it up again, he regained his composure, calm to the point of being icy.

  "Whatever tricks you have, bring them on."

  "I'm here, waiting for you."

  "Hahaha~~~" Mirror Gongzi burst into loud laughter, his voice passing through the mirror and entering the ears of everyone present, so arrogant, so presumptuous, filled with an eerie horror that made people's hair stand on end.

  The next moment, "bang" a sound, copper mirror fell to the ground, and the glass shattered.

  In the blink of an eye, the entire sky and earth were dyed with an indescribable color.

  He raised his head and a majestic face floated in the sky with an evil smile.