Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 616 Capturing the Pumpkin
Pumpkin's voice reverberated through time and space, and its figure was gradually enveloped by intense light.

"Be careful, she has so many spirits supporting her, don't fight her head-on." Qinghao hid behind Xiao Ran's shoulder. Although she was also a spirit, and even a spirit that had been worshipped for hundreds of years, Qinghao's strength was definitely not inferior.

Unfortunately, Xiao Ran only knew one of the Zhao family's secret techniques: lighting incense with life-giving fire. She was completely unaware of the other methods and was unable to unleash the full power of the Green Badger.

However, as a spirit, although it didn't know how the pumpkin in front of it had managed to do this, it immediately came up with a way to counter Xiao Ran's move.

"Find a way to disrupt the spirit within her. Once the spirit within her is out of balance, she will inevitably suffer a huge backlash."

Xiao Ran silently kept these words in mind.

At that moment, Pumpkin's figure blurred in the bright light, and then the surrounding glass shards transformed into thousands of light cones in the spiritual light, the refracted phantoms trapping Xiao Ran in an eight-sided light prison.

The pumpkin scepter was pointed out, and the cone of light suddenly contracted, with each fragment bursting out with a blinding white light.

"Ding!"

The moment Xiao Ran took out the guillotine to parry, the blade collided with the light cone, producing a metallic tremor.

The immense force instantly shattered the floor beneath Xiao Ran's feet.

Sensing something was wrong, Xiao Ran snorted coldly, and the Yin God Dharma Image behind him suddenly punched the void. With the support of Xiao Ran's enormous spiritual power, the Yin God Dharma Image's punch caused the space in front of him to tremble violently, and a visible ripple spread out in the air.

"Clap clap clap..."

In an instant, the glass suspended in mid-air turned into dust, and the light refracted on the glass also disappeared.

However, the shattered light quickly recombineed, suddenly coalescing into a three-zhang-tall celestial general wielding a halberd, who swung his halberd and slashed down at Xiao Ran.

Seeing this, Xiao Ran held nothing back and went all out.

The severing blade in his hand stirred up a rolling, eerie wind, transforming into a giant, ghostly blade, which was then grasped in the palm of the Dharma Image behind him. The Dharma Image then swung the blade horizontally, forcefully slashing down with the halberd.

"Clang!" The guillotine and the halberd collided, creating a ring of air, and the entire floor collapsed in response.

Using the momentum of her fall, Xiao Ran quickly leaped into the air, simultaneously launching silver threads from her hand.

"Don't even think about running away!"

Pumpkin's figure emerged in pursuit, its body radiating brilliant light, with numerous spiritual figures appearing behind it.

Then, he flew over and smashed the scepter at Xiao Ran.

Facing the pumpkin scepter, Xiao Ran unleashed a slash, the blade cutting a crescent moon in mid-air from bottom to top.

The moment the two touched, Xiao Ran's expression turned ugly, as she felt the power emanating from the pumpkin scepter was simply outrageous.
With a loud "bang!", Xiao Ran's tiger's mouth burst open, and his body flew out like a kite with a broken string.

Fortunately, Xiao Ran flipped over and landed on her feet, taking three steps backward, each step leaving a footprint on the ground.

Shaking her numb wrist, Xiao Ran stared at the pumpkin suspended in mid-air, thinking, "Is a Spirit Master's power this great?"

Little did she know that as a spirit master, she was not good at close combat, but the scepter in Pumpkin's hand granted her a privilege.

[Body of All Spirits]

Each spirit body can increase her all attributes by 10%-15%, and she also has the ability to shape spirit bodies.

With this ability, the pumpkin's attributes can reach an extremely exaggerated level.

This is also the reason why she was able to fight against Wu Man and escape unscathed.

Such a commotion naturally attracted the attention of many people. Jin Chanzi and the others had just woken up from their dream and, upon hearing the commotion, immediately led a group of people over.

When they saw Xiao Ran being sent flying by the pumpkin, everyone was shocked. They knew this woman was strong, but they didn't expect her to be this ridiculously strong.

What astonished everyone even more was that Pumpkin casually raised the scepter in his hand, and as golden light flashed behind him, the power of those spirits began to gather into a hammer the size of a small mountain, which smashed down towards Xiao Ran.

Its power was so great that it was like Mount Tai pressing down on you.

Clearly, in order to hold Xiao Ran back, Pumpkin was unleashing its full power without reservation.

Seeing this, Xiao Ran did not dodge as Pumpkin had expected. Instead, Xiao Ran formed a hand seal, and rolling corpse energy spread out like a tide. Then, she bowed forward with her hands clasped in respect.

"Whoosh..."

A chilling wind howled through the air, and a muffled knocking sound suddenly echoed in the void.

The King of Hell is knocking on the door!

Pumpkin felt a strange force strike his spirit, but it was quickly blocked by the power of the scepter in his hand.

A cold laugh rippled through his mind: "What kind of nonsense is this, 'King Yama knocking on the door'? Even if King Yama himself came, it wouldn't make a difference."

To Pumpkin's surprise, the spirit within him suddenly became uncontrollably agitated the next moment.

"what happened??"

The sudden accident caught Pumpkin off guard, and he immediately tried to calm himself down and suppress the spirit within him.

The more he suppressed it, the more chaotic his spirit became, and it began to backfire.

The hammer, which had been pressing down like Mount Tai, shattered into pieces before it even landed.

"Damn it, are you all crazy??" Pumpkin's face showed a panicked expression. As a spirit master, he had absolute control over spirits.

There has never been, and there has never even been a case of a spirit turning against its master.

"It's not that they've gone mad, it's that you're about to die!"

At this moment, Xiao Ran opened her fingers, and strands of silver, finer than a hair, hooked onto her fingertips.

As the silver threads on Xiao Ran's fingertips reversed, the spirit on the pumpkin immediately began to go berserk.

It turns out that when Xiao Ran jumped up from the stairwell, she casually launched dozens of threads of fate, which formed a large net.

The stitches of fate, being all-pervasive, easily pierced into the pumpkin's spirit.

At this moment, Xiao Ran flicked his finger, pulling the bodies of these spirits inward and causing them to repel each other. Naturally, Pumpkin could no longer maintain its current state.

Pumpkin groaned and staggered back, his body landing heavily on the ground. Sparks flew as his scepter slammed against the ground, and his face turned deathly pale.

I never imagined that Xiao Ran would have such methods.

I've never heard of anyone possessing such an ability within the Corpse Weaver lineage. Could it be some kind of special cursed object?
These questions only flashed through Pumpkin's mind for a second before she couldn't continue to ponder them, because Xiao Ran immediately followed up with another "King of Hell Knocking on the Door" move, bowing down fiercely to her.

"Bang bang bang!!"

This time was different from the last. Pumpkin immediately felt her mind turbulent and her heart race. The three knocks on the door felt like they had hit her heart hard, making her uneasy and causing her pretty face to lose all color.

Xiao Ran had no intention of showing mercy to the woman, seeing that Pumpkin had already suffered a severe injury.

He leaped into the air, reaching Pumpkin's side at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye, and slapped her heavily on the shoulder.

A bone-chilling cold instantly followed Xiao Ran's gentle pat, making Pumpkin feel icy cold in all four limbs and freeze in place, unable to move.

Pumpkin's life or death is now entirely in Xiao Ran's hands.

"Let me go! Do whatever you want with me, but take your hands off me!"

Pumpkin's eyes widened in anger, clearly dissatisfied with her defeat at Xiao Ran's hands. She knew she might not be Xiao Ran's match, but she never expected to be so utterly defeated.

It should be noted that this was without Xiao Ran using any means as part of the Corpse-Stitching Sequence.

If it weren't for the fact that he was a Spirit Master and had a natural advantage over Xiao Ran's profession, it would be hard to imagine that Xiao Ran would release many powerful corpse slaves at this time if he were in another profession, making it even less likely that he could defeat him.

"Don't worry, I'm not killing you. I'm just telling you to get out of there!"

Xiao Ran was referring to the Ghost Doctor and others.

Having been delayed by Pumpkin for so long, it's likely that Ghost Doctor and the others have already taken control of Zhang Jingmin.

Therefore, Xiao Ran needs to use pumpkins as a form of exchange.

Although the Ghost Doctor is not Pumpkin's subordinate, and in fact, the two are on equal footing to some extent.

But Xiao Ran didn't believe that the Ghost Doctor would dare to ignore Pumpkin's safety, and he didn't believe that Changchun would abandon Pumpkin, a rare C-level professional, for the sake of the hospital he had already smashed.

Pumpkin frowned. After learning of Xiao Ran's plan, her face turned cold, and she refused to say another word to Xiao Ran.

"How are you."

Jin Chanzi led the group over, and when they saw Nangua being suppressed by Xiao Ran with one hand and unable to move, the drug test subjects who had followed her wished they could kill her right then and there.

They already harbored deep hatred for the people of the Changchun Association.

"It's alright, let's go up."

Xiao Ran gestured to Jin Chanzi and the others to help hold down the pumpkin, and the group walked back into the inpatient department.

"what!"

Upon entering the inpatient department, all the nurses and patients had vanished.

A stench of decay filled the air, making Zhao Hongzhong and the others feel nauseous.

"What's that smell? It's so stinky!"

As they spoke, the group looked around and discovered that dark red flesh and blood were growing on the walls from somewhere.

The flesh and blood, like mold, spread from the corner of the wall to the ceiling, emitting an alluring dark red hue.

Moreover, the higher you go, the more of this mold there is.

When everyone arrived at the sixth floor, the walls were completely covered with flesh and blood, and even in the cracks of the floor, there were many things that looked like human arteries.

At first, they didn't know what this thing was, until they arrived at the last ward on the sixth floor, when Xiao Ran and the others finally understood the origin of this flesh and blood.

Inside the ward, thick blood plasma cascaded down the door frame like a waterfall.

Zhang Jingmin's head floated in the center of the room. Her once smooth black hair had transformed into thousands of writhing blood vessels, connecting to the monstrous tumor on the ceiling like jellyfish tentacles. Her body below the neck had completely dissolved, replaced by a gigantic, swollen tumor...

(End of this chapter)