Warning! The evil god's minions are invading the eerie dungeon.

"Varied……?"

The student ghost's expression froze, and he suddenly turned around to look.

Three meters behind him stood Qi Xie, his clothes torn in several places, revealing wounds that were slowly healing underneath.

"Impossible, how did he dodge an attack of that magnitude?"

The student ghost's expression was stiff.

Just then, Qi Xie suddenly raised his right hand.

The student ghost then noticed that Qi Xie's blood axe had disappeared at some point, replaced by a retro-styled fountain pen.

"Rough?! Rough, rough, rough!!!!"

Strangely, however, after seeing the pen in Qi Xie's hand...

The student ghost instantly reacted like a cat with its fur standing on end, as if it had seen something incredibly terrifying, and screamed as it tried to back away.

"Hmm? It's afraid of this?"

Qi Xie noticed this detail:

"Then we absolutely cannot let this opportunity slip by!"

He also brought out his left hand, which he had been hiding behind his back.

He held an old pocket watch in his left palm. In addition to the main body that used hands to show the time, there was a raised button on the watch body that was pressed against Qi Xie's thumb.

Click!

Qi Xie pressed down hard.

"Damn it! I'm going to kill this bastard! I have to kill him!!!"

A surge of madness welled up in the student's mind. He stared intently at Qi Xie, while retreating rapidly, the force of his retreat stirring up scraps of paper all over the ground.

However, the next moment, he noticed an unusual piece of blood-red paper falling in front of him.

The scraps of paper tumbled and fell through the air at an extremely slow speed.

"No...it's me too..."

The student suddenly noticed that his movements had become sluggish, as if he were moving in water and experiencing resistance.

He looked at Qi Xie with astonishment.

Qi Xie's expression remained calm, and the hands of his pocket watch stopped completely when he pressed the button.

The 【Timed Pocket Watch】 is a level 4 sealed item obtained from the gatekeeper's chest inside the Ghost Bride instance.

Its effect is to slow down all movement within a five-meter radius except for the holder for three seconds, and it can only be used twice within twenty-four hours.

At this moment, Qi Xie frowned slightly as he watched the student ghost struggling slowly to get away.

Normally, once the pocket watch is activated, all movement within a five-meter radius except for the watch itself will be slowed down to a near-static state.

But now the student ghosts can not only struggle, but they are also moving faster and faster.

Clearly, the eerie influence of the [Time-lapse Pocket Watch] on the student ghost is decreasing at an alarming rate.

However, this was within Qi Xie's expectations.

The [Fixed-Time Pocket Watch] is, after all, only a level four sealed artifact. It's impossible to expect it to maintain control for a full three seconds when facing a dangerous and bizarre monster.

The key is how to severely damage the student ghosts while the impact is still ongoing.

Qi Xie was prepared. He raised his pen and drew a line in the air, from the student ghost's right shoulder to its left waist.

puff!

In an instant, a gap suddenly split open from the student ghost's right shoulder to its left waist, as if a pen had drawn a line in the air, slicing its body apart like a slash.

This is the effect of the "Boundary Pen".

However, like the [Timed Pocket Watch], it also has a major limitation: it is only a level four sealed item.

That slash caused limited damage to the student ghost; it didn't completely pierce through its body.

Of course, there was a reason why Qi Xie chose to attack the pocket watch instead of the Blood Axe within the limited time available.

He wielded the brush with incredible speed and unpredictable angles, his strokes flowing like dragons and snakes.

First, a sharp slash landed on the student ghost's right hand.

puff!

The student ghost's right hand broke off, and the bone spear he was holding came loose and fell to the ground.

Having disarmed the student ghost, Qi Xie's movements did not stop; his wrist flicked so fast it left afterimages.

The head is cut into three horizontal slices and then a vertical stroke down the center; the limbs are cut into eight pieces; and the torso is simply sliced ​​into minced meat.

*Pfft pfft pfft!*

A series of explosions rang out, and the student ghost's body burst out of black smoke, almost being cut into a pile of mangled flesh.

Click!

At the same time, with a crisp click, the button on the [Time-lapse Pocket Watch] snapped back, and the hands resumed their movement.

The influence of the pocket watch has completely ended!

The student ghost's body convulsed, its surface splitting into countless pieces, looking as if it was about to fall apart.

Qi Xie didn't expect to be able to kill a dangerous-level monster with just two level-four sealing artifacts, so he raised his foot and charged towards the opponent.

At the same time, his shadow rose up again, following closely beside him.

As Qi Xie charged, he plunged his hands into the shadows. When he pulled them out again, he was holding a sharp, gleaming blood axe.

"Press your advantage! We'll dismember you!"

Qi Xie's eyes flashed red, and he immediately saw that the student ghost's eerie core was in its head. He swung his blood axe and made a head-on leaping slash, trying to cut the opponent in half from head to toe.

"My hand...my hand..."

Unexpectedly, the student ghost didn't look at him. Instead, he stared palely at his severed right hand, his eyes filled with terror and sorrow.

"No, no, no, my hand is broken... How am I supposed to do my homework or take tests like this... Damn it, damn it, damn it!!!"

As it spoke, a few drops of bloody tears actually slid from the corner of its eye.

when!!!

Amidst the clang of metal on metal, several streams of thick, ink-like blood suddenly gushed from its sleeve. It then grabbed the fallen bone spear and fiercely blocked Qi Xie's slash.

"Um?"

Qi Xie raised an eyebrow, but instead of forcing a breakthrough, he used the momentum to do a backflip to create distance and looked at the student ghost.

The boyish-looking student didn't even look up, staring blankly at his severed right hand, his lips trembling as he murmured in a hollow voice:

"No...no...the college entrance exam is coming up soon...how can I get into a good university with these grades..."

"College entrance exam? And you're a high school student?"

Qi Xie tossed his blood axe over his shoulder, tilted his head, and looked at the student ghost with a light laugh:

"Hey kid, stop studying and take a break! How about I take you somewhere nice?"

The student ghost ignored him, continuing to ramble incoherently:

"My English...yes...damn English...my vocabulary is terrible, I need to memorize words..."

Qi Xie opened his mouth slightly and stretched out his hand:

"Hey classmate, you..."

"Abandon, abandon, give up, forsake... Damn it, which bastard put this first in my vocabulary list! It's already hard enough, now I don't want to memorize it at all!!!"

The blood and tears in the corners of the student's eyes seemed to have thickened even more...

Qi Xie's eye twitched:

"Even after turning into a ghost, you're still thinking about the college entrance exam?"

"What do you know?!"

The demon screamed suddenly, looking at Qi Xie with eyes full of madness and stubbornness:

"Life has reincarnation, but the college entrance exam only happens once!"

Qi Xie: ...

He opened his mouth, unsure what to say, and after a long silence, finally managed to utter:

How do you know there's reincarnation?

"Isn't that obvious?!"

The student roared angrily:

"The school rules say jumping off buildings is prohibited! Anyone who jumps will be disqualified from taking the college entrance exam! I jumped and nothing happened, so there must be reincarnation!"

Qi Xie: ...

"Excuse me, if it's as you say..."

He pointed at the demon:

"Now that you've been disqualified from taking the college entrance exam, you don't need to study anymore, do you?"

The demon stared blankly at Qi Xie for a long while, then said in a daze:

"That's right."

The next second, he suddenly squatted down, tears streaming down his face like a dam breaking.

"My life is over, waaaaaah..."

Qi Xie: ...