“Li Hai? It’s you! How is this possible?”
Guo Huaijin retreated three steps in shock, “You should be dead? How could you…?”
“What nonsense!”
Li Hai coldly shouted, “Laogou, prepare to die!”
With that, he immediately activated the Devouring Blood Burning Heart Divine Ability, his entire body turning crimson and expanding, rushing towards Guo Huaijin in the courtyard like a ferocious tiger, filled with Killing Intent.
However, just as he crossed dozens of feet in two or three steps, extending his palm into a claw, bringing wind and a whistling sound, about to strike Guo Huaijin’s head, the opponent suddenly vanished into the ground with a whoosh, just a split second before the attack arrived.
Thus, Li Hai’s full-power strike… missed.
“Damn it!”
Cursing, Li Hai immediately stomped and cracked the ground, forcefully stopping his forward momentum, and turned his head to look back.
Then he saw that where Guo Huaijin had just disappeared, a deep hole, two feet wide, had appeared.
Clearly, Guo Laogou had successfully escaped danger just now by relying on this inexplicably appearing underground hole.
“This son of a bitch sure knows how to play~”
Li Hai sneered as he walked towards the underground hole, “He actually dug a tunnel in his own courtyard. He must have done too many bad deeds.”
He bent down and tried his best to peer into the dark, deep part of the hole, but after a long while, he couldn't see any light, it was completely pitch black.
“This old scoundrel must have installed mechanisms inside, and quite a few of them.”
Li Hai clicked his tongue and pondered, “Tsk, if I go down so rashly, I’ll definitely fall into his Dao.”
Logically, this would be an opportunity to unleash the Formless Evil Spirit. As long as he threw it into this tunnel, Li Hai would immediately understand all the tricks within it.
But unfortunately, after leaving the Evil Ground, the power of Li Hai’s various Ghost Dao Evil Arts began to decline sharply.
Earlier, at the three-way intersection bordering the Evil Ground, this abnormal situation wasn't so obvious.
But as the distance increased, Li Hai felt that the power of all his Ghost Dao Evil Arts had plummeted at an alarming rate.
It was as if this world did not allow ghosts to appear in the human world outside the Evil Ground.
Li Hai speculated that this might be due to the scarcity of Yin Qi outside the Evil Ground, or the excessive Yang Qi under the bright sun.
In short, the power of his various Ghost Arts now remained at less than one-tenth, practically one in ten.
Therefore, the Formless Evil Spirit within Li Hai’s Soul naturally could not leave him for too long or too far.
Even if it possessed some unlucky person nearby, it would not be able to fully control his form and spirit.
However, this did not mean that Li Hai had no way to deal with this tunnel.
His eyes darted around, and he turned to walk to the side of the blood tree stump, looking at A Su, who was tightly bound to the stump and unable to move, and chuckled:
“It’s decided, it’s you! Go, A Su.”
With that, he forcefully pulled off the so-called Demon Subduing Rope that bound A Su.
“Ah ah ah ah ah!!”
As soon as the rope hit the ground, A Su, as expected, howled to the sky and transformed into a turbid black wind. After exchanging a glance with Li Hai, she spun rapidly and urgently drilled into the dark underground hole.
As for Li Hai, he leisurely sat down on the Grand Tutor’s chair and began to wait.
Although A Su, like him, had suffered a severe decline in her Ghost Dao Evil Arts, even weaker than ordinary Death Soul-level ghosts, she should have no major problem with breaking through mechanisms and exploring the tunnel.
A Su naturally sensed Li Hai’s calculations, which was why she gave him a deep look before entering the underground hole.
But this was an overt scheme, and A Su had no room to refuse.
Sure enough, not long after, a series of low rumbling sounds came from the underground hole, like a pile of bombs exploding.
And upon hearing these muffled sounds, Li Hai’s body swayed, and he quickly rushed to the underground hole, jumping down without hesitation.
As soon as he entered the underground hole, he felt himself sliding into a narrow, smooth, slightly inclined passage, rapidly falling downwards.
Not long after, this passage reached its end, and Li Hai arrived at a spacious chamber, whose depth from the surface was unknown.
Although this chamber was dark and lightless, it could not conceal Li Hai’s sharp vision.
Scanning around, he saw that apart from the various messy mechanisms in this chamber, there were actually four exits in the east, south, west, and north.
“Damn it, Guo Laogou, are you cosplaying Ghost Blows Out the Light?”
Li Hai sneered, “You actually built a labyrinth underground.”
Though he said that, he had actually expected it.
Guo Huaijin, this scoundrel, was a pure and despicable villain.
And all villains are very concerned about their own lives.
So, as long as the conditions were sufficient, how could Guo Huaijin not perfect his escape route?
Fortunately, A Su was still there; she could guide Li Hai’s direction.
The reason he was so certain was because Li Hai knew from the “Evil Spirit Earth Drawing Yin Method” that a ghost, while pursuing the enemy who caused its death in life, would almost never get lost.
As long as the distance between them was close enough, for example, within the same town, this almost Karma-level lock-on would immediately take effect, and the ghost would begin its frenzied pursuit.
And no matter where the hunted target hid, as long as the distance from the ghost was not dozens or hundreds of miles away, he would not be able to escape alive.
Especially if the opponent was a living person, the ghost’s sense of direction would be incredibly precise… like a cow standing on its head—awesome to the extreme.
The so-called Karma cycle and retribution being swift, and harming others leading to inescapable consequences, is precisely this meaning.
Li Hai slightly closed his eyes, and relying on the faint, ethereal connection between ghosts, he immediately knew A Su’s approximate location.
Namely, the eastern entrance of this chamber.
Whoosh~
Without hesitation, Li Hai immediately strode rapidly towards the eastern entrance.
…
“Four consecutive chambers, each with four winding passages leading in different directions, and along the way, every chamber and passage is equipped with a large number of arrow and gunpowder mechanisms, tsk tsk tsk tsk~ Guo Huaijin…”
Walking slowly in a long passage adjacent to an underground river, Li Hai shook his head and sighed, “You really know how to make trouble, I’m tired of chasing you.”
Fortunately, he finally sensed A Su’s location change and her stopping.
And her turbid Yin Qi, after enduring the various mechanisms in numerous chambers and passages, had finally weakened to a degree even worse than Guo Lao San, and far worse, almost Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering.
But fortunately, A Su finally caught up with Guo Huaijin, who had been fleeing for his life, and used up her last bit of evil power… Possessing him.
Therefore, Guo Huaijin was now sprawled beside a dilapidated rock wall thirty feet away from Li Hai, his facial features and limbs all twisted, crawling weakly like a maggot.