Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 533: The Immortal in the Painting is Still There, All Evil Beings Are Frightened by the Fragrance

Upon hearing this, Xiao Ran squinted his eyes and looked at the corpse in the coffin. He noticed that the old man had a fatal wound on his chest, which went directly through his heart. However, his wound was very strange, appearing to be torn. He didn't know what weapon had caused it.

There was a gleam in Xiao Ran's eyes, and he quietly looked over with the power of retrospection.

As the effect of the flashback took effect, the old man's skin and flesh began to recover rapidly, his face gradually became clearer, and his demeanor seemed to have returned to that when he was alive.

But Xiao Ran only had time to see a jagged flywheel being slowly pulled out of the other person's chest, and he felt a sharp pain in his eyes.

He blinked quickly and stopped watching.

"I haven't asked you yet..." Xiao Ran retracted his gaze and asked the man.

"I am Jia Youcai!"

Jia Youcai raised his head and pointed at the body in the coffin with great pride, "This thing is useless to others, but it is a great treasure to you who receives the corpse. How can it be useless?"

Jia Youcai revealed Xiao Ran's occupation in one sentence.

This surprised Xiao Ran a little, because after becoming a beginner, most of the corpses he came into contact with were still fresh, and the smell on their bodies had gradually faded over time. The other party could see that his profession was to collect corpses, so obviously he must have some other methods.

Seeing this, Xiao Ran didn't waste any words. He patted the Yinbing Gourd on his waist, and a corpse was thrown on the ground.

"This man is a Western missionary. He has many secrets of the Western religion. I'll exchange his body for another one. Do you want to exchange it?"

"What do I need the corpse for? It's useless!" Jia Youcai refused decisively.

Seeing this, Xiao Ran put away the body, then took out a scroll from the space and put it on the table: "Japanese ninja profession, D level, do you want to change it?"

Jia Youcai looked at the scroll in Xiao Ran's hand and hesitated for a few seconds: "Anything else?"

"No, your body is worth this price." Xiao Ran said, and kicked the coffin lid to close it. "If you don't want it, I won't give you anything else."

Seeing that Xiao Ran was unwilling to offer a higher price, Jia Youcai pursed his lips in obvious dissatisfaction. After all, the profession of knife sharpener was very scarce.

But then Jia Youcai's eyes rolled around, he opened the fan in his hand, and waved the fan on the table, and eight teacups fell on the table.

The eight teacups form a circle around the table.

The shape of each teacup is also different, including an old man, an old woman, a boy, a girl, a young man, a girl, and a beauty.

It seems like a pair of men and women, four stages of life.

Each of the little figures is pretending to hold something in his hands, but his hands are empty.

Eight cups were placed on the table.

Xiao Ran and the other two got the hint immediately.

"Warning! You have been locked in by the [Ghost Story Tea Formation: Eight Gates of Withering and Flourishing Formation]. Both parties may offer one item as a pledge.

After confirming that everything is correct, both parties will drink two cups in turn, and then a strange curse will be randomly generated. Please act quickly according to the requirements of the curse.

If the curse is extremely demanding, you can choose to give up, but the bet will belong to the other party.

If you complete four rounds of ghost talk, or the other party gives up halfway, you will get the bet.

(Note: This tea formation is based on eight elements: opening, resting, birth, injury, stopping, scenery, death, and shock. Please be careful!!)

Looking at the eight cups on the table in front of him, Xiao Ran's face darkened, and he raised his head to look at Jia Youcai in front of him; "What do you mean by this?"

"Of course we use tea as the formation. We are willing to accept defeat. This is the rule!"

Jia Youcai waved the fan in his hand, and after he finished speaking, he raised his head and shouted towards the second floor: "Everyone, I can prove that the rules of the teahouse have always been like this."

Unexpectedly, Xiao Ran got angry when Jia Youcai said this. He stood up and took out his guillotine from the space:

"Fuck your rules!"

The big knife stuck heavily into the ground, Xiao Ran stared at the man in front of him with his eyes straight: "It's just a corpse, and you want to fight me? You can sell it if you want, or get out if you don't."

Even through the mask, Xu Yan and Wenwen could feel the murderous aura from Xiao Ran.

Xu Yan was also shocked by Xiao Ran's action. He didn't expect Brother Xiao to turn hostile so quickly: "Sure enough, none of the lone wolf masters are easy to deal with."

Thinking of this, Xu Yan immediately became alert, ready to take action at any time.

Looking at the big knife in Xiao Ran's hand, Jia Youcai stared at the guillotine in Xiao Ran's hand with his eyes wide open. Looking at the golden light flashing on the knife, a look of fear flashed across his face, but more of it was greed.

"Boy, don't mess around. This will break the rules." Jia Youcai spread out the fan in his hand, and four words appeared on the fan: "Whoever is cowardly is a dog!"

Xiao Ran was really angry. If the other party took out the whetstone and wanted to have tea with him, he would have nothing to say.

But it was just a corpse, and a weird one at that. I had already paid a high price for a D-level professional spell rune, but the other party actually wanted to set up a tea array for me. It was obvious that they were trying to bully me.

You really think you are a soft persimmon that can be squeezed however you want, right?

There were bursts of sneaky laughter coming from the second floor: "It's been a long time since I've seen anyone dare to take action here. Shopkeeper, look, someone is going to smash your store."

"It's rare. No one has dared to challenge here for many years. How dare you, a mere corpse collector, use a knife here? What gives you the right?" Along with bursts of teasing whispers on the second floor, the bronze lamps at the four corners of the teahouse suddenly burst into green flames, and the flames twisted on the wall into a picture of crying human faces.

"Sir, my shop is a place for drinking tea, not for fighting with knives. But since you have used a knife, you have broken the rules."

The shopkeeper stood up from behind the counter, his spine making a crisp sound like bamboo joints cracking, and slowly walked out of the counter. In just a few steps, his body suddenly grew to two meters tall.

Holding an abacus in his hand, every step he took caused the blue bricks under his feet to make a sharp cracking sound.

"Warning!! You have violated the rules of the teahouse. The owner has activated his privilege against you. All your attributes will be temporarily reduced by 60%, and you will not be able to activate cursed items."

"Warning! You have violated the rules of the teahouse. You can make the following two choices: pay an equivalent amount of money to save your life, or all the tea drinkers in the teahouse will attack you."

Two warnings appeared in front of Xiao Ran. At the same time, Xu Yan also felt that all his attributes were weakened and all the spell patterns could not be activated.

"Oops!"

The moment he realized something was wrong, Xu Yan immediately took out an assault rifle from the space and pointed the muzzle directly at the shopkeeper who was walking towards him.

But this action undoubtedly made the guys who were watching the fun on the second floor even more excited, and there was a sound of footsteps on the stairs.

"Want a gang fight?" Xiao Ran snorted coldly.

However, what no one expected was that in the face of warnings and the footsteps upstairs, Xiao Ran did not show any sign of fear and patted the Yin Bing Gourd on his waist.

In an instant, the butcher's huge figure appeared behind Xiao Ran, followed by Sanli, Liumu, the archer, the painter, and the foreign "friends" who had performed dissections in the company before were all summoned by Xiao Ran.

The shopkeeper suddenly paused, and his red eyes were temporarily attracted by the butcher behind Xiao Ran.

The butcher's appearance was too ferocious. Not to mention the bloody mouth on his abdomen, even the aura from the underworld on the eight tentacles behind him made these old ghosts feel afraid.

What made the shopkeeper even more unsure was Liumu standing beside him.

Liumu was standing behind the crowd, but black and red flames appeared on his body from time to time. The look in his eyes when he was staring at him was clearly as if he was staring at prey.

After the last trip to Plum Blossom Manor, after Liumu was shown to be stupid and was exposed by Xiao Ran, this guy can no longer play dumb. With demonic energy surging in his body, he took a step forward, looked up at the sneaky figures on the second floor, and glanced at Xiao Ran again.

Then he walked to Xiao Ran calmly.

"Trouble, those guys up there are hard to deal with."

"Even you can't handle it?"

"30% and 70%." Liumu said.

When Xiao Ran heard that a 70% chance of winning was not bad, he didn't expect Liu Mu to say, "We have 3, they have 7."

Hearing this number, Xiao Ran glared at Liu Mu in anger: "If you dare to be lazy, I will make you stand upside down in the toilet when I get back!"

"No, you are on someone else's territory, and I only have half of my soul. Those old guys upstairs are thousand-year-old ghosts. Besides, there is a master behind this teahouse. If we really fight and alarm them, none of us will be able to escape."

Jia Youcai looked at Xiao Ran and waved his hand. He actually had so many corpse slaves under his command. His eyes rolled around, as if he was afraid that the world would not be in chaos.

"No wonder you are so arrogant. Even if you invite the King of Hell here today, you can't leave here!"

"Do I need to ask the Lord of Hell to deal with you?"

Xiao Ran curled his lips in disdain, took out only one painting from the space, and opened the scroll with a flick of his hand.

As the painting unfolded, a faint scent of plum blossoms wafted through the air.

When Xu Yan looked at the scroll following the scent of the plum blossoms, his eyes suddenly widened.

There was a plum tree in the painting. The plum blossoms on the tree seemed to be alive and swaying in the wind. Countless petals of the plum blossoms fell down.

A patch of bright red was left on the ground, and under the tree, there was a person standing. It was a back view, wearing a green robe, with long black hair, his hands behind his back, holding a plum blossom.

"A fairy on earth."

These four words involuntarily emerged in Xu Yan's mind.

Compared to him, who was absorbed in the painting, the shopkeeper had a look on his face as if he had seen a ghost. His large body shrank to the size of a normal person like a deflated ball. He stared at the figure in the painting and shouted strangely, "Plum Blossom Taoist!!"

"Ahhhhhhhh!!! Why is it him!"

"Is this guy still alive?"

"Shut up!!"

The old ghosts on the second floor opened their eyes wide, and screamed like a cat seeing a mouse. Then they turned around and curled up in the building, not daring to show their heads out.

Xiao Ran didn't expect that he had just opened the painting and scared these old ghosts like this.

Jia Youcai, who was so arrogant just now, saw this and his legs went weak and he knelt on the ground with a thud. He was trembling all over and didn't even dare to look at the person in the scroll. He could only use his fan to block in front of himself.

When the fan was unfolded, two words were written on it: "Woof woof!!"

(End of this chapter)