Newspaper Boy
Chapter 297 Exchange Meeting
Zhang Yuanqing gave an "Mm" sound, "I've been working hard for your sake. After spending so much time, I finally found the materials and located a level six Wraith."
The ghost bride was wearing a gorgeous hijab, unable to see her face, but Zhang Yuanqing knew that beneath the hijab was a face of joy and burgeoning affection.
"Husband's love is deep and righteous, but alas, I am a soul, unable to repay you, sob sob sob..." The ghost bride believed it to be true and was deeply moved.
Zhang Yuanqing nodded slightly, "Since you call me husband, then you are family. No need to thank me, go ahead."
The ghost bride sobbed and hugged Little Doubi as she floated into the array.
According to Ling Jun's standards, I'm already a top-tier scumbag for habitually sweet-talking even my spirit servants, well, a verbal scumbag, Zhang Yuanqing thought to himself.
Seeing the ghost bride fly into the array, Zhang Yuanqing regained his thoughts, squatted down halfway, and pressed his palm against the array.
The Taiyin Array Diagram rose with a viscous, pitch-black energy, like a deep, dark flame enveloping the ghost bride, and also enveloping the black and red wooden box.
Under the scorching heat of the pitch-black Taiyin power, the wooden box emitted violent tremors, faintly transmitting the Wraith's miserable screams.
Strands of invisible, majestic spiritual power were extracted by the array, purified by the deep flames, removing the chaotic will within the spiritual power, and then seeping into Bailan and Little Doubi's bodies.
The spiritual power of the mother and son visibly expanded and strengthened, while the Wraith in the box wailed continuously, but could only watch helplessly as its power was stripped away like silk threads.
This process lasted for more than ten minutes. The Wraith in the box gradually annihilated, while Little Doubi and Bailan completely absorbed its power. The former advanced to level 4, and the latter achieved her wish and broke through to level six.
But the refining process was not over yet. Zhang Yuanqing waved his hand again, and from the darkness flew a turbid, mercury-like substance.
Its surface had a muddy, mercury-like viscous substance flowing.
This material was called the Source of Plague, a Saint-grade item for the Water Ghoul profession. As the name suggests, its purpose was to spread plagues and diseases.
Zhang Yuanqing refined the ghost bride into a plague bride, imbuing her spiritual power with disease. It was easier for a spirit servant to spread disease than a Yin corpse, such as possessing or penetrating, which could implant the disease into the enemy's body.
The Yin corpse was the main attacker, Yichuan Mei controlled the battlefield, and the ghost bride was responsible for weakening the enemy. In this way, he could fight ten level six Saints.
As his level increased, the terror of the Night Wanderer gradually revealed itself. Apart from Qian Gongzi, a freak who was close to mastery, even talents as strong as Jiang Ju and Huang Taiji were no match for him now.
"This makes me more confident in killing Hades."
Zhang Yuanqing continued to activate the array, dissolving the Source of Plague and merging it into the ghost bride's body, then refining it again with the power of Taiyin. Finally, it was completed.
"Husband!"
As soon as the power of the array dissipated, the ghost bride couldn't wait to fly over with her child, looking as if she were inseparable from him.
Women really need gifts, even female ghosts are the same. Zhang Yuanqing thought that he hadn't given Guan Ya a gift for a long time, which was not good, because relationships need to be nurtured... So Xiaoyuan also needs one.
Hmm, the Palace Master also needs one.
He thought incoherently and said, "Try to spread disease to me."
The ghost bride obeyed, and at the same time, she had boundless trust in her husband's ability. She immediately hugged her silly child and passed through Zhang Yuanqing's body.
At first, there was nothing unusual. Three seconds later, he began to feel a tickle in his throat and coughed slightly. Five seconds later, he felt a burning sensation in his lungs and his body began to heat up, his forehead burning hot.
Ten seconds later, Zhang Yuanqing began to retch, and his limbs were weak and dizzy.
Fifteen seconds later, all the symptoms disappeared, and his body was slightly weak.
Twenty seconds later, he fully recovered.
"Without running the power of the Sun God to purify, the plague can only do this to me, equivalent to a brief weakness. Hmm, although I didn't actively resist the disease, my body, after being washed by the power of the Sun God, naturally has the ability to resist various negative states."
"In addition, with the Night Wanderer's vigorous self-healing ability, it can only affect me for ten seconds. But other professions don't have the power of the Sun God, and they don't have such terrifying self-healing abilities. The duration and severity of the disease will be greatly increased. In a life-and-death battle, this weakness is enough."
Zhang Yuanqing nodded in satisfaction, then took Little Doubi from the ghost bride's arms and tentatively said, "Call me Papa?"
Little Doubi tilted his head, his clear and innocent eyes staring at him.
He seems to have become smarter, but not much smarter, still the landlord's silly son, Zhang Yuanqing curled his lips.
He swallowed the ghost bride and the silly son into his stomach, and then began to clean up the traces in the warehouse, put away the talisman-drawing tools, erased the array on the ground, and after handling everything properly, he turned into starlight and disappeared in a crisp snap of his fingers.
Nanming Branch, employee dormitory, 9:30 PM, the bright and dreamy starlight lit up. Zhang Yuanqing returned to the dormitory and looked around.
In the not-so-spacious dormitory, the Queen was wearing a white vest and black hot pants, doing push-ups under the balcony.
The Big Bear and Little Bear she had raised for more than twenty years were very large, and they looked even more majestic under the influence of gravity. Zhang Yuanqing glanced and happened to see the white, creamy cleavage.
Lord Tianzun is a proper gentleman, only allowing himself a three-second glance before reluctantly moving his gaze.
He looked at Annie, who was lying on the upper bunk.
The foreign girl was reading "The Art of War," learning the tactics of the ancient Chinese kingdom.
Xie Lingxi was sitting at the table, trying on her lipstick colors. She was a little worried. In a few months, she would be eighteen years old. After becoming an adult, should she take the sexy, charming, mature route, or continue to stay by her brother's side and be an understanding sister?
Yuan Shi brother definitely prefers wavy hair, suspender stockings, and a mature sister with lipstick, but an understanding sister is her selling point and advantage. Although taking the mature sister route would cater to Yuan Shi brother's taste, could she be more mature than the Queen and Guan Ya?
She was still in that awkward stage where she wasn't curvaceous enough.
"Ah, Yuan Shi brother, you're back." Xie Lingxi rolled her eyes and pretended to be aggrieved, "I'm so annoyed."
"Is your period late?"
Xie Lingxi was stunned, "Of, of course not. I'm annoyed about which lipstick color can please brother."
"Lipstick can't please me."
"Then what can please brother?" Xie Lingxi asked quickly. "Pig tails~" Annie whispered from the upper bunk.
Zhang Yuanqing suddenly lost the mood to tease Xie Lingxi and lay down on the bed, "I'm going to sleep, you guys do what you want."
Xie Lingxi also lost the mood to study lipstick colors and picked up her phone to surf the internet, feeling bored.
"Ah!" Xie Lingxi exclaimed suddenly, "Brother, look at the Five Elements Alliance forum."
Zhang Yuanqing suspiciously took out his phone from under the pillow, logged into the official forum, and subconsciously scanned the red-highlighted and stickied posts. They were all posts with little topicality. The most popular one was still: The Devil's Son has appeared!
It was an old post from a week ago.
He was puzzled. He glanced down and immediately understood what Xie Lingxi meant.
#Outrageous Humiliation, Where is the Official's Face?# The number of comments on this post exceeded 999, and the number of views reached 20,000, making it a hot topic.
Zhang Yuanqing clicked on the post to read:
In addition to the written explanation, the post also included a video.
"Oh, the record is so bad?" Zhang Yuanqing was stunned.
This exchange meeting was within his expectations. He had learned about Heavenly Retribution's nature from Fu Qingyang a long time ago, but he was a little surprised that the official lost so badly.
After Qian Gongzi, who was close to mastery, and "Fengdu Ghost King" both advanced to the Dominator level, the official's peak combat power at the Saint level was indeed greatly damaged.
But Jiang Ju was a demigod offspring with ridiculously strong talent, who had long been famous as a level six peak. Once the Fire Demon was activated, he was unparalleled.
How could he have been defeated so miserably? As for Ling Jun's fear of battle and Huang Taiji's beating, he could understand. The former had a free and easy personality and didn't care about fame. In Ling Jun's eyes, the lure of battle and fame was not as good as a young girl's round buttock curves.
The so-called fear of battle should have been a rejection of Heavenly Retribution's challenge.
Huang Taiji was easier to understand. Earth monsters were beaten as their way of fighting. That was their professional characteristic and not a humiliation.
However, Yin Ji's serious injuries made Zhang Yuanqing a little annoyed, definitely not because he wanted to inherit the Devil's Son's widow. They had gone through thick and thin together and had some friendship.
With a doubtful mood, Zhang Yuanqing clicked to watch the video.
It was a video taken from a distance. First, Jiang Ju, the rebellious young man with red hair, appeared on the screen.
Opposite him was a slender, white-skinned youth.
With short, ear-length hair and three-dimensional features, he was vaguely a proud guy.
The battle lasted only three minutes from beginning to end, and the reason for Jiang Ju's defeat was also visually apparent: he had fallen into the enemy's home ground.
The blond youth had a blue gem hanging around his neck, which had a similar effect to the Water God Seal that I alone possess, and could release hundreds of thousands of tons of seawater.
At the same time, it also amplified the Spirit Walker, turning the blond youth into a person with azure hair, gemstone-like pupils, and intricate runes crawling all over his body.
This person stood on the rolling waves, and from the waves under his feet, huge monsters emerged, revealing the tip of a giant iceberg. He rode the raging waves, swallowing the demigod's son, and the steam from the flames evaporating the seawater blocked the lens. Five minutes later, Jiang Ju was unconscious, while the blond youth, although exhausted, still stood in the arena.
"That pendant is a treasure, at least a top-grade item, or even a rule-based item," Zhang Yuanqing judged.
Jiang Ju lost in the opponent's home ground and in the rules of the exchange meeting.
The normal approach to encountering such an opponent was to avoid his sharp edge and then use long-range output methods such as fireballs and fire spears to kite him, so that neither side could do anything to the other.
But the exchange meeting had venue restrictions, and a result had to be determined, leaving Jiang Ju no room to dodge.
After defeating Jiang Ju, the blond youth with the haughty expression left a message in a very high-profile manner: "Your Five Elements Alliance's Yuan Shi Tianzun seems to have left Songhai early. I wonder if he wanted to avoid my challenge."
The implication was very obvious: Yuan Shi Tianzun had fled!
Zhang Yuanqing vaguely heard a lot of cursing inside, criticizing this siren named Osmond for being shameless, a level six peak trying to bully a junior who had just stepped into level six.
The second match was the wind mage Hoover against Yin Ji.
In this battle, Yin Ji lost very regrettably. The way the two sides fought was rather simple. Yin Ji manipulated her spirit servants to attack the wind mage in the air, while the wind mage waved wind blades to carry out high-altitude bombing.
The wind mage's Sky Eye had keen insight and could discern everything on the ground, perfectly countering Star Escape.
And the carpet-bombing wind blades countered the Night Wanderer's core skill - Night Wander.
Yin Ji's spirit servants failed to solve the enemy before their master fell. She was defeated by two wind blades that struck her chest and abdomen.
The third battle was very boring. The person who fought Huang Taiji was a brown-haired, blue-eyed youth with a silent and serious temperament, like a stereotypical and old-fashioned medieval knight.
The battle process was that this foreign youth with a knightly temperament, carrying a cross sword, beat Huang Taiji in a big way.
The two sides fought with high frequency and high intensity for half an hour, and neither side could do anything to the other. They tacitly ended in a tie.
"The official has lost face a bit this time. The older generation of level six didn't take action, which is also true. It would be embarrassing to win and even more embarrassing to lose."
Zhang Yuanqing flipped through the comments section and asked, "Annie, how many experts like this are there inside Heavenly Retribution?"
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