Chapter Thirty-Five: The Capable Shall Occupy It

  Yu Si's physique is tall and majestic, even some men are overshadowed by her. Now this person hanging on Yu Si's body, if you don't look carefully, would think it's a monkey. This person's movements are indeed strange, using hands and feet to climb onto Yu Si, just like a monkey climbing a tree, head against Yu Si's shoulder, as if whispering in her ear.

  "What is she doing?" Su Qi Ruo watched that person's movements warily, afraid of doing something to hurt Si Si.

  "Who knows!" She Ruiwen was also staring at the scene in front of him, but he was purely curious and didn't care about Yu Si's affairs.

  "What is she doing?!" Su Qi Ruo became anxious, seeing that the person was holding onto Yu Si Si and standing still without making any further moves. Su Qi Ruo grew even more worried, now that she was quite far away from Yu Si Si and couldn't see the person's subtle movements. What if he bites her neck and sucks her blood... "I want to go down!"

  Su Qi suddenly darted down, without any reason, the pain of the weeds brushing against her skin was gone. Just as she was about to rush to Yu Si's side, the person clinging to Yu Si's body was startled and turned his head abruptly, scaring Su Qi into stopping in her tracks, frozen on the spot.

  What a face! Su Qi's eyes widened in disgust and fear as she felt her own face twitching. It was like a mud figurine that had just been shaped into a rough outline, but the dissatisfied craftsman had slapped it on the front of its face, leaving behind a vague impression of a person. The uneven holes of varying sizes on its face were asymmetrical, and judging from their positions, one could roughly make out its features. The largest hole on the misshapen face was probably its mouth, which was now facing Yu Si's neck, making it look like it was about to kiss her.

  "Let her go!" Su Qi Ruo spoke to the evil spirit, but his eyes lingered more on Si Si's body. Occasionally, when he glanced at the evil spirit with his peripheral vision, it made Su Qi Ruo feel a wave of nausea.

  "Hoo-hoo-hoo!" The evil spirit panted heavily, the sound of its breathing dull and muffled like a blacksmith's bellows.

  Su Qi Ruo clenched her fists tightly, trying to keep herself strong. As the Water God and one of the six ancient gods, she had a long inheritance and didn't need to fear this monster. "Let me go or I won't be polite!" Su Qi Ruo shouted loudly, both intimidating the evil spirit and boosting her own morale.

  "Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!" The evil spirit seemed to be responding to Su Qi Ruo, but also appeared to be expressing that it didn't understand what Su Qi Ruo was saying, and simply stared at her with a straight gaze.

  "I'm not being polite anymore!" Su Qi Ruo's hands had been secretly gathering power, and since the last time she opened her meridians, Su Qi Ruo had gained some insight into manipulating her spiritual energy under the guidance of the Wooden God. With a focused imagination, her spiritual energy could gather in certain parts of her body as if it had a life of its own. Although Su Qi Ruo didn't think that gathering spiritual energy would have any killing power, Lu Ke had said that the Ghost Tribe absorbed Yin spiritual energy, while she was an ancient Water God, so her spiritual energy was naturally Yang spiritual energy, which should have some effect on the Ghost Tribe.

  "Give me death!" Su Qi Ruo simultaneously flung the spiritual energy gathered in her hands towards the evil spirit, but it still didn't move, staring straight at Su Qi Ruo. Just as Su Qi Ruo's spiritual energy was about to hit the evil spirit, a surprising scene unfolded: Yu Si Si quickly raised her hand and blocked Su Qi Ruo's spiritual energy, which then disappeared into Yu Si Si's hand.

  "Si Si?" Su Qi asked tentatively, but Si Si didn't react at all. Her eyes were still half-closed, clearly she hadn't regained consciousness yet. That meant her reaction just now was under the control of the evil spirit. Although his spiritual power wouldn't harm Si Si for now, if it exceeded the limit that a human body could bear, Si Si would suffer, and might even have her body burst open by the spiritual power. Su Qi's hatred towards the evil spirit deepened at this thought. He couldn't attack Si Si's body directly, so what should he do next?

  Su Qi Ruo was still thinking when Yu Si Si took action. She suddenly stretched out her right arm high, like practicing a volleyball spike, and swiftly slapped towards Su Qi Ruo. Su Qi Ruo subconsciously dodged, and Yu Si Si hit empty air. Her body slowly returned to its stiff standing posture.

  Su Qi thought to herself, fortunately, Si Si's body was stiff and her movements were not agile enough, otherwise she might not have been able to dodge her attacks. However, she couldn't attack Si Si, so how long could she keep dodging? Was she supposed to wait until dawn? But even if it was dawn, what about tomorrow? The day after tomorrow? If Si Si's body continued to be controlled by the evil spirit and one day became agile, what would she do? She had to think of a solution.

  "Goodness! What kind of place is this? It's quite secluded!" Just as Su Qi Ruo was entangled with the evil spirit, Lu Ke and Xi Rui Wen had followed the trail left by Yu Si Si and found the place where she suddenly disappeared.

  Lu Ke took a look around and found that the walls were made of concrete, with some places where the concrete had fallen off revealing a large number of bricks. It seemed to be an old air raid shelter, which was now occupied by the ghost tribe, making it a perfect nest. Lu Ke and She Ruiwen walked deeper while observing their surroundings, but no matter how carefully they looked, they didn't find any signs of spiritual energy surging, meaning there were no spiritual veins here.

  Lu Ke furrowed his brow and fell into deep thought. If this was just an ordinary air raid shelter, even if it was built on a hundred-year-old gathering of yin energy, it would be impossible for so many ghosts to be born here, let alone a fully formed ghost tribe. There must be other secrets here that are not as simple as they seem on the surface. Lu Ke concentrated his mind and carefully distinguished any subtle differences. The air here was very humid, even if it was underground, it shouldn't be this humid. There must be a water source somewhere. It should be hidden deeper inside, Lu Ke's footsteps suddenly quickened.

  Although She Ruiwen didn't notice anything, his racial instincts told him that there seemed to be something abnormal in the depths of the cave. Seeing Lu Ke's pace quicken, he naturally couldn't fall behind and closely followed up.

  "Whoosh!" A fierce gust of wind blew violently towards Cui Ruiwen, and Cui Ruiwen dodged nimbly.

  Lu Ke looked up at She Ruiwen with a raised eyebrow, "What are you following me for?"

  "Hmph!" Si Ruiwen disdainfully curled his lips, "This sentence should be said by me!"

  "Do you want to rush?"

  "Don't compete with me! My patience is limited!" Chi Ruiwen's eyes gleamed with a sharp, golden light, his expression ready to strike at any moment.

  Lu Ke smiled slightly and said, "The capable shall take it."

  "Good! The capable one shall take it!" A profound and mysterious smile also appeared on Shi Ruwen's face.

  Lu Ke gazed deeply at She Ruiwen for a moment before changing his mind, "Find him first."