### Chapter 233: An Que’s Response
“Ah, this…”
An Que’s final shout did manage to grab the attention of the Thousand Eyes Godmother, but as soon as she looked over, she was met with the sight of him fainting from anger. If Chen Yunshi hadn’t said he was still alive, she would have thought there really was someone with such a terrible tolerance for psychological pressure.
Speaking of which, how has An Que managed to live for nearly two hundred years and still be such a weakling? It’s not like he was ignored—was it necessary to faint like that?
He hasn’t changed at all after all these years.
Thousand Eyes was dumbfounded; this was pretty much the An Que she remembered—timid, scared of trouble, and quick to get heated.
“Tsk, tsk, tsk, I finally found someone more useless than you,” Chen Yunshi raised an eyebrow, “what’s up with this guy?”
“Maybe it’s because I didn’t talk to him, making him feel undervalued,” Thousand Eyes shrugged innocently. “He seriously thinks too much. I’ve never cared about him from the start, and I have nothing to say. If we talked about the past, all I’d recall is endless pain, not a single sweet memory. What’s there to say? I didn’t slap him to d*ath out of nostalgia!”
“Hmph, what a loser, lived all these years just to become a waste. I mean, Thousand Eyes, how could you be fooled by someone this stupid? What were you thinking back then?”
“You can’t blame me! I was young back then and had never left the woods. My world was tiny and I had no experience. This guy used super-fast candies to trick me and said all these sweet nothings about taking me out to see the world.”
“He said once I got out, I could make big money, and with money, I could bring my parents and grandparents to live in the city so we wouldn’t have to suffer.”
“Anyway, he said a whole lot, and I believed him.”
Thousand Eyes lowered her head, her tone nostalgic. “At that time, I was only fourteen or fifteen, and he was four or five years older than me.”
Once she said that, Chen Yunshi for once didn’t tease her. Instead, she continued to doodle strange and twisted symbols on the ground.
After a while, the formation was almost complete; she spoke up, “It’s okay now, there won’t be any more. This guy will get what he deserves. Trust me; I’ll make him repent for everything he’s done.”
“I thought you’d scold me for being a disgrace or something,” Thousand Eyes leaned in closer.
“You don’t even have a body right now. What’s there to scold? Besides, you’re the victim,” Chen Yunshi stood up, the formation completed.
She turned to the Thousand Eyes Godmother and said, “Besides, you are me, and I am you. Why would I scold myself for being a disgrace?”
“But you never hold back when you call me useless.”
“That’s because you really are useless.”
“Kind words don’t come from a dog’s mouth!”
“Alright, that’s enough.” Chen Yunshi waved her hand, “Go call Bai Yu; I need to start.”
“Got it, I’m on it.”
Thousand Eyes zipped off, and soon the few people in the tin house emerged, spotting Chen Yunshi standing before the formation, hands together, mumbling something. From her murmurs, the bl**d-painted formation gradually turned black.
Chilly winds howled, and a dark, ominous aura began to rise from within the formation.
Bai stood to the side without interrupting; she didn’t know the specific meaning of the formation but could only guess the rough idea.
Chen Yunshi was using some power to possess herself, reaching a state that could peel An Que out of his body.
Just as she thought, Chen Yunshi quickly entered the possessed state, visibly marked by large black veins appearing all over her body, and her hands became pitch black.
Then the bizarre happened—Chen Yunshi half-crouched next to An Que, her hand clasping his neck before she actually reached through his body and yanked something out.
What came out was a translucent figure, clearly an evil ghost, with an aura just like any standard evil ghost.
There was no doubt that this bald evil ghost was An Que; while in the body, he remained in a coma, but now pulled out by Chen Yunshi like a dog by the collar, he instantly woke up, bewildered as he turned to look at Chen Yunshi and then at his own body, struggling desperately.
Unfortunately for him, all his struggles were futile in front of the state Chen Yunshi was in.
Bit by bit, he was being peeled away; An Que tried to attack Chen Yunshi, but naturally, she was not harmed at all, and he was the one sent reeling back.
A massive black aura rose, and with the evaporation of bl**d, the corpses in the darkness nearby also dissipated; those were the offerings, gobbled up entirely.
After about three minutes, An Que’s original body was completely peeled away. On the ground, his former body aged visibly, becoming shriveled.
With a flick of her hand, Chen Yunshi sent An Que flying, suspended in the air by Bai Yu using a thread of bl**d.
Once his state was dissolved, Chen Yunshi was panting heavily, drenched in sweat.
“Alright, this is his true form, a parasite living off a living body—sc*m.”
“What do you want from us!” An Que, bound in the air, still struggled, refusing to give in.
His face was ashen; he never imagined Chen Yunshi would truly be able to peel his true form from his body.
He thought to himself, there’s no way they could get a word out of him. Worst case, he just had to d*e, and his true form would perish with his body. He was fine with that; after all, he felt he had lived enough.
“There are some things I need to ask you, and you’d better answer honestly,” Bai Yu crossed her arms, holding An Que upside down in front of her.
Chen Yunshi took a tissue from Lu Liangting, wiping the sweat off her face. “Did you hear that, you bald j*rk? Since I can peel you away from that body, you must understand what that means.”
“I have countless ways to torment a ghost. You play with ghosts; you know what I mean. Torturing a living person just leads to d*ath, but with ghosts, you can’t even d*e if you wanted to. The torment you will endure will be a thousand times worse than d*ath.”
“Do you know what ‘Burning Soul’ is?”
While still struggling, the moment An Que heard Chen Yunshi’s words, he gave up, his expression changing drastically.
He couldn’t think of a retort.
What Chen Yunshi said was true; she was a master, one who played with ghost techniques far surpassing him, the vice president Gatekeeper.
If he were in her shoes today, could he so easily peel someone like that from their body?
Clearly not; he didn’t have the capability, and he once thought no one could.
And ‘Burning Soul’—for ghosts, it was a torment more horrific than a hundred forms of torture.
If the other party was strong enough, torturing a ghost in a “Burning Soul” state could last for a whole month!
An Que’s body trembled; he raised his head to glance at the Thousand Eyes Godmother again, but she didn’t even look at him, whispering something to Chen Yunshi with a grin.
Relying on Thousand Eyes was useless; An Que lowered his head.
“Go ahead and ask.”
“Where is the embryo of the Burning Heart Goddess?” Bai Yu asked casually.
“I… I don’t know. I wouldn’t dare enter Eternal Life Village. After all these years, Burning Heart surely moved her embryo!”
“But you have a way to seal her.”
“It’s the heart.” An Que sighed. “I have the heart of the Burning Heart Goddess. It was given to me by my master back when Burning Heart failed to be sealed. Before my master died, he entrusted it to me, and I’ve kept it ever since.”
Actually, it was because An Que’s master desperately held off the Burning Heart even managed to suppress her at one point. At that critical moment, he had An Que take the heart to seal her, but An Que was too scared and hesitated, ultimately running away as his master gradually faltered, and they lost their chance.
This act caused his master’s d*ath and was detrimental to Eternal Life Village.
To this day, just remembering it made him feel guilty. What had he done? Instead of solving the mess in Eternal Life Village, he just burned incense for his master every day.
Eternal Life Village, anyone can go if they want.
“Where is the heart?”
“At the Fo’an Group, inside the golden Buddha statue in my office.”
“How did Burning Heart come out?”
“Years ago, my master and I were wandering the world, looking for a way to close the Ghost Gate. We happened to pass by a village with an uncontrolled Ghost Gate. By the time we arrived, most of the people had already died. But through our investigation, we found that there were no ghosts coming out—only the embryo of an Evil God.”
An Que answered honestly, “Then my master and I killed this embryo and extracted its heart, but this Evil God was far stronger than we thought. So, we took the yet-to-be-formed embryo to Eternal Life Village, intending to go somewhere else, but Burning Heart suddenly woke up there.”
“What’s the connection between the Ghost Gate and the Evil God?”
“At this moment, I’m not sure, just know that most Evil Gods come from behind the gates. The Ghost Gates and their natures aren’t the same; some only release normal little ghosts or evil spirits, while others give birth to Evil Gods.”
“After an Evil God emerges, the embryo becomes directly connected to the Ghost Gate. If you want to know more, just bring the embryo to the other side, and everything will be clear.”
“The Evil God uses the embryo to gain malevolent thoughts; it’s the power of curses turned into malevolence after passing through the embryo.”
“If I’m not mistaken, you are also a ghost. I don’t know why you care about the Ghost Gate, but here’s a piece of advice: don’t try to get involved with it, or you’ll be corrupted by the Ghost Gate.”
“I’ve entered once, and the change in my body was drastic.”
Bai Yu listened intently as An Que spoke about the Ghost Gate, her eyes showing a hint of contemplation. This matter was more complex than she thought; there must be a huge secret behind it.
“Is there a connection between the Ghost Domain and the Ghost Gate?”
Upon hearing this, An Que’s eyes shifted slightly. He didn’t know if this was something Bai Yu had already deduced or a new thought. If it was the latter, then this ghost was quite scary.
“There must be some connection. I suspect all members of the Ghost Domain enter the back of the Ghost Gate, becoming a kind of half-human, half-ghost state. A part of their souls is the essence of the ghosts.”
Once An Que finished speaking, Zhao Mingyue glanced at Bai Yu, feeling that the situation reminded her of her own with Bai Yu.
She, too, had part of Bai Yu’s soul in her, rendering her half-human, half-ghost.
“What’s the use of that?”
“Controlling ghosts.”
“Is that it?”
“That’s my current understanding.”
“Do you know what soul fragmentation is?”
Upon hearing the words “soul fragmentation,” An Que fell silent for the first time after speaking so much. It took him over ten seconds before he opened his mouth, “How do you know about this?”
“It’s not important.”
“I only know there are two situations for soul fragmentation. One is that the fragments split into two sides: the yang side being the living, and the yin side being the dead. How this occurs, I don’t know. The other situation is having two yang sides.”
“In this case, one is bound to become the embryo of an Evil God, and the other becomes the vessel for the Evil God, eventually growing into an entity above the Evil God.”
“My master once told me that the yin-yang aspect is key to closing the Ghost Gate, and we’ve been looking for such individuals.”
Bai Yu’s expression didn’t change, as she considered the implications of An Que’s words.
“What about the connection between the Painful Threads and the Ghost Gate?”
Initially, she hadn’t planned to ask this, but An Que mentioned that the Evil God’s malevolent thoughts were transferred from the Ghost Gate and wouldn’t naturally arise. Her bl**d threads, in the process of growing into Painful Threads, constantly absorbed these malevolent thoughts.
“The connection is that the more you absorb, the deeper your bond with the Ghost Gate, and one day, what’s inside the Ghost Gate will find you and transform you completely into part of the Ghost Gate.”
“Last question, how do you maintain the living body state?”
“Simple, find a soulless shell and fuse into it. I keep this body on the brink of d*ath every day while temporarily suspending my original form, simultaneously absorbing the life force of other living people. After countless repetitions, I basically merge into it.”
He made it sound simple, but in practice, it was quite troublesome. During the absorption of life force, drinking the heart’s bl**d of children and smoking the ashes of strong men were just basic operations.
Once everything was clarified, Bai Yu raised her hand. Over there, Chen Yunshi pinched An Que’s empty Buddhist bead, pulling his original form back.
As for what would happen to An Que after being taken back, that was up to Chen Yunshi. Surely, his fate wouldn’t be a pleasant one.
But one couldn’t deny that An Que was well-informed, provided he wasn’t lying.
Everything he said needed time to verify, so there was no rush.
First, let’s make use of the Twin Souls!
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