In another distant street, another murder of crows erupted, but this time they were crimson red. They released vast amounts of crimson mist carrying intense heat that swept over the ghosts like a tidal wave. Countless ghosts burst into flames upon contact, struggling in the sea of fire.
In the sky, countless black ripples exploded in various places, pushing forward dozens of meters. Space continuously twisted and shook under the force of these ripples, until the entire sky was trembling, space itself wavering like an earthquake.
The ghosts swayed unsteadily from the tremors.
"Eliminate."
As this authoritative voice echoed through the sky, the ghosts on the ground truly vanished without a trace, just as the command had ordered!
Lamp Realm! Laws of Reality!
Su Ze was utterly shocked. He never expected that the person coming to relieve him would be a Lamp Realm expert who commanded the Laws of Reality!
The Laws were a force that could alter everything in existence - the power of gods, the power used to create the world!
Uesugi Akizuki in his arms burrowed deeper like a hamster, pulling in her feet and curling up tightly while trembling.
Su Ze sensed someone's presence and sharply turned his gaze toward the tallest building in the distance.
Under the blood-red moonlight, a figure was dancing atop the building in the bitter wind. The movements were elegant and sweeping, with the crimson moon as their backdrop. Watching the dance, Su Ze could almost see the figure's bewitching smile.
As the dance ended, the figure bowed toward Su Ze's location, and in that forward-leaning motion, plummeted straight toward the ground!
Just before impact, they suddenly exploded into a flock of crows that soared upward.
Su Ze turned his head to see a disheveled young man with a sickly complexion walking toward him with a smile. He looked exactly like a yandere character from a novel, especially with the two fangs visible in his smile. He was handsome, but gave Su Ze a very dangerous feeling.
"Huaxia Ghost Officer, Mo Ziang greets you."
"Merry Christmas Eve."
As he came closer, Su Ze could see him more clearly. The young man was very handsome, wearing a black coat that danced in the wind. His face was pale with an unhealthy whiteness, with redness around his eyes like someone just recovering from a serious illness.
"Huaxia Forerunner, Su Ze returns your greeting. Peace be with you."
Mo Ziang gazed at the sky rolling his eyes lost in thought, curiously examining Uesugi Akizuki in Su Ze's arms. After pondering for a while, he asked seriously with his pale, sickly face, "So... what's it like keeping a ghost? I want to catch one to raise too."
Su Ze was taken aback, "How would I know?"
Mo Ziang pointed at Uesugi Akizuki, "How could you not know?"
"You mean... she's a ghost?" Su Ze frowned at Uesugi Akizuki in his arms.
Uesugi Akizuki trembled and tried to curl up even smaller, attempting to squeeze her entire body into Su Ze's embrace.
Mo Ziang left it at that without saying more. Instead, he drew the long sword from his back and, like a conductor in a grand opera house, used it as a baton to elegantly direct the tens of thousands of crows in the street, eliminating all ghostly beings.
Su Ze tilted the umbrella backward, allowing the red moonlight from the crimson moon to shine directly onto Uesugi Akizuki in his arms.
In the next moment, red ghostly energy rose and surrounded her body. A pair of sharp horns, red at the base fading to white at the tips, appeared without warning, even piercing through Su Ze's clothes. The girl's pupils also turned crimson.
This was a characteristic of the ghost race - under the blood moon, ghosts would become very powerful, and also more aggressive.
Su Ze used the umbrella to cover her from the blood light again, and the girl returned to normal.
"Thank you for your hard work today. Peace be with you."
Su Ze left with Uesugi Akizuki after saying this.
Mo Ziang hummed a melody, slowly spreading his arms as if trying to embrace the crimson blood moon. His body began to dance slowly, his elegant and beautiful movements twirling beneath the blood-colored sky, his sickly face maintaining a bewitching and maniacal smile throughout.
As he danced, waves of seemingly endless ghosts in the street were eliminated.
As he smiled, tears began to fall. His sickly face was covered in tears yet still smiling as his dance became increasingly elegant and intense, his sweeping movements cutting through the fierce wind, his coat flapping loudly.
Countless ghosts vanished within his dance.
In the living room, Su Ze and Uesugi Akizuki stared at each other for a long time.
Uesugi Akizuki knelt on the sofa, blinking her innocent eyes while clutching Su Ze's hand.
Su Ze patted her head and used his spiritual power to sense her gene lock, which though unopened, had loosened somewhat. If he was willing to use his spiritual power to assist in adjusting Uesugi Akizuki's breathing, she could open her gene lock, though the process would take ten to twenty hours, or even a day or two.
Some people spend their entire lives unable to loosen their gene lock, while others merely need to attempt activating it for it to loosen, and more incredibly, some open it immediately upon trying!
The realm achieved after opening the gene lock isn't necessarily the lowest Firefly Realm - it depends on talent. Some people start at the lowest Firefly Realm, while others might directly reach the pinnacle Lamp Realm upon opening their gene lock.
The opening of the gene lock might also accompany the awakening of supernatural abilities. Those who awaken abilities become Ability Users, while those who don't become Transcenders.
Transcenders might still awaken abilities during future realm breakthroughs.
Given the strength of the girl who had fled with Uesugi Akizuki, she could have done this too, but she seemed to have no intention of opening Uesugi Akizuki's gene lock.
Su Ze rubbed his temples dejectedly. Whether Uesugi Akizuki was a ghost or human didn't really matter to him.
Huaxia was currently quite tolerant of newly appearing races, as long as they didn't harm Huaxia's interests.
In fact, among the Ghost Officers and Night Watchers, one-fifth of the members came from other worlds, though most of their races were human variants from those other worlds.
Looking at the girl's innocent and pure eyes, Su Ze sighed and pinched her soft, cute cheeks, "Go to your room and sleep."
Uesugi Akizuki nodded and pulled Su Ze toward the bedroom.
Su Ze had wanted to go smoke, but seeing her determined attitude, he gave up resisting.
Since he had seen the strength of his replacement, he had no more concerns. This person was stronger than him and Shen Qingsheng combined.
Meng Xingyao and Uesugi Chigenki were fighting a fierce battle against the ghosts in District Six's streets, with blood and corpses creating a grand yet horrifying scene under the red light.
Meng Xingyao stood in the center of the battlefield surrounded by ghosts, clutching a long sword wound on her abdomen, her head slightly tilted and gaze somewhat dazed, blood flowing from her mouth.
"Stop spacing out! If you can't handle it, stay back!" Uesugi Chigenki defended against the ghosts attacking Meng Xingyao while accumulating more and more wounds himself.
The third day's blood moon had clearly produced stronger ghosts than the previous two days.
The ghosts from the first two days had mostly remained at the Firefly Realm stage, the lowest realm, with only one or two Candle Realm ghosts occasionally appearing, which hadn't posed much threat to them.
But now, they were encountering one or two Candle Realm ghosts every couple of hours.
u Chenyuan transmigrated into a female-oriented novel about a real and fake heiress, becoming the CEO elder brother of both. Unfortunately, the entire Lu family—including himself, the CEO—were mere cannon fodder in the story. Determined to save himself, Lu Chenyuan took action. The spoiled, attention-seeking fake heiress? Thrown into the harsh realities of the working class to learn humility. The love-struck real heiress? Pushed toward academic excellence, so lofty goals would blind her to trivial romances. As for the betrayed, vengeful arranged marriage wife… the plot hadn’t even begun yet. There was still time—if he couldn’t handle her, he could at least avoid her. "CEO Lu, are you avoiding me?" Mo Qingli fixed her gaze on Lu Chenyuan. For the first time, the shrewd and calculating Lu Chenyuan felt a flicker of unease.
lan, the Luo family, tracked him down - along with the babies in their arms. Mo Xuan stared pensively at the paternity test results from over a dozen top institutions, both domestic and international, showing a 99.99% match between himself and the two baby girls. At 23, Mo Xuan, a doctoral student, had become the father of two three-year-old children. The kicker? The mothers weren't even the same person! He gradually realized he was being lured step by step into an elaborate trap designed by these two yandere sisters. "Be good, little Xuan. Sister's life belongs to you entirely." "Brother, if you try to run away, I'll have no choice but to tie you up." Mo Xuan: "Do whatever you want, ladies. I give up."
Explosive Plot Song Gua crossed over into another world, bringing along a whole crew of his doppelgangers—all of them mischief-makers. This was a world where everyone could choose a class. Song Gua became a "Bondweaver," capable of borrowing power, while his doppelgangers took on a wide variety of classes, covering just about everything. The number of doppelgangers grew day by day, each one a talented individual with a charming way of speaking. Under Song Gua's brilliant leadership, they would "greet" each other daily and engage in friendly "sparring," pulling off one major scheme after another on Earth. Sometimes they were bandits—stealing bosses, plundering mines, snatching resources. Sometimes they were saviors—descending like divine warriors to face world bosses threatening to massacre cities. Sometimes they even went undercover, infiltrating various major factions to stir up trouble from within, keeping their enemies constantly on edge. To prevent their doppelganger abilities from being exposed, Song Gua made them wear masks with mahjong tile patterns and don Taoist robes in various colors. "Remember, in front of outsiders, call me 'The Dice.'" "Got it! Boss!" "Not 'Boss'—it's 'The Dice.' Think about the vibe, pay attention to the vibe." "Yes! Boss!" "For crying out loud..." From then on, whenever they appeared, they would have their own theme song playing: ~Hey~ paying respects at the mountain stronghold at night~ whose arm is draped over whose shoulder~ gather your courage and follow along...
+【Epic Battles!】 "Your Highness, they say Linxi Temple is miraculous. Won’t you make a wish?" "A wish? It should be making wishes to me." "That may be so, but since you’re already here..." "..." "Fine. Then grant this princess a consort to play with." "He must be obedient, devoted, and utterly infatuated with my body—so much so that he’d kneel and kiss my feet." "Your Highness, that’s not a consort. That’s a dog." "Then add clever, witty, heroic, ambitious yet pragmatic..." "Hmm, that’s enough for now. I’ll add more later." After tossing out these words half in jest, Princess Anle departed the temple—only to catch a fleeting glimpse of the Bodhisattva statue smiling at her. Meanwhile, Yang An, fresh out of university, was having a very bad day. Good news: He’d transmigrated into another world with a cheat granting tenfold combat power. Bad news: He’d immediately fallen into the clutches of a certain villainess. Good news: Said villainess possessed peerless beauty and royal status. Bad news: She was absolutely monstrous!!! In the frozen wilderness, Yang An knelt beneath Qin Guo’er’s feet, drenched in sweat despite the cold. Desperately clutching her porcelain-perfect foot—the very one poised to crush his throat—he could only think: How do I survive this?! Need answers NOW!
