The organization I founded has been exposed by the reborn!

Just then…

"Da...da...da..."

The crisp, hard sound of high heels clicking echoed once again in the dilapidated training room.

With that deadly sound, the temperature in the room seemed to plummet to freezing, and dust on the ground was swirled up by an invisible, eerie wind.

Those red shoes, their surfaces stained with large patches of dried, blackened blood, had somehow emerged from the cracked mirror on the other side of the room.

It has no owner, yet it presents a posture as if a pair of invisible severed feet are piercing through it.

The toes of the shoes point slightly downwards, and the heels hover in mid-air. Each rhythmic tap of the air creates a visible ripple of blood-red color, producing a chillingly clear echo.

The deathly stillness and oppressive feeling that descended from a higher dimension was like an invisible net, tightly binding everyone's hearts.

But this time, Qin Xinran and her three companions learned their lesson.

Everyone controlled their eyes, forcibly locking their gaze straight ahead, resolutely refusing to look down at their feet.

Feng Gang had already stuffed the two strips of cloth into his ears beforehand. Although he could still faintly hear the knocking sound, it was much better than before.

"Give me these worn-out shoes, Lao Feng, prepare to charge!" Qin Xinran's eyes were icy as she quickly issued the order.

"superior!"

Accompanied by Qin Xinran's delicate shout.

"roar!"

Old Feng let out a roar like a caged beast being released, and his fists suddenly burst into dark red blood fire.

His thick, pillar-like leg muscles suddenly exerted force, crushing the old wooden floorboards to pieces.

He was like a heavy tank charging at full speed, with the momentum to crush everything, as he launched a ferocious charge toward those red shoes.

At the same time.

Qin Xinran took a step forward with both feet, and [Shadow Mastery] was unleashed in full force.

A large shadow beneath her feet shot into the sky like boiling ink, instantly transforming into two thick, bucket-like black chains in mid-air.

Like two venomous pythons emerging from their cave, with a hissing sound as they cut through the air, they perfectly surrounded the red shoe from both sides, trying to bind it!

however.

Just as the two of them took their first step...

The rapid "tap, tap, tap" of the air suddenly resonated with the frequency of their frantic footsteps.

The reflections of red high heels in the surrounding broken mirrors suddenly lit up with a ghastly light.

【Rule Two (Stillness or Dance)】This moment was forcibly triggered!

There was no physical contact.

Only a mysterious force of rules instantly clamped down on their ankles.

"Snap! Snap!"

Two muffled, chilling sounds of bones cracking echoed together in the deathly silent room.

"Ugh...!"

Qin Xinran felt a sharp pain in her ankle, the pain of her bones being forcibly twisted in the opposite direction.

She let out a painful groan, her delicate face draining of all color in an instant. She lost her balance and fell heavily onto the wooden floor, which was covered in shards of glass.

Old Feng, who had the strongest momentum, ended up in an even more tragic situation.

His ankle, under the immense inertia of the high-speed charge, was twisted into a pretzel shape by that force of rules!

The glaring white bone spurs pierced the skin, exposing it to the air, and red blood mixed with bone fragments gushed out instantly.

"Bang!"

Old Feng's massive body slammed heavily onto the wooden floor.

The intense pain contorted the tough man's features, and large beads of cold sweat streamed down his face.

"President Qin! Old Feng!"

When Lao Zheng, who was in charge of controlling the situation from the back, saw the two key players suddenly break their legs and fall to the ground, his mind went completely blank.

Instinctively, he took a step forward, instinctively wanting to rush forward to check on the two men's injuries.

however.

"Snap!"

Just as his right foot lifted off the ground.

That invisible force of rules also descended upon him.

Zheng Qiang felt a chill on his ankles, followed by excruciating pain. His ankles were twisted at a 180-degree angle, and he collapsed to the ground.

In the blink of an eye.

Three members of the once-invincible team lost their mobility after breaking their ankles due to triggering the rules.

"call--!"

The eerie wind in the training room suddenly became raging and violent.

Deep within those broken floor mirrors all around.

Five pale female corpses, dressed in tattered dance costumes and missing their legs below the knees, floated stiffly out of the mirror, accompanied by the grating sound of bones and joints grinding together.

Their faces were highly decomposed, their sunken eye sockets were empty, and their arms swung limply in the cold wind, dancing an extremely distorted dance, rushing towards the three people who were lying on the ground from all directions!

"court death!"

Despite the excruciating pain from his bent legs, Old Feng roared, and his [Qi and Blood Torrent] erupted instantly. A ring of blazing dark red Qi and Blood fire spread out within a three-meter radius around him.

The moment the female corpse at the very front stepped into the area, her skin sizzled as it was burned by the intense yang fire.

But the other four female corpses showed no sign of retreating; their sharp fingernails pierced through the storm of qi and blood, and were about to grab Feng Gang's vital points.

In the critical moment, Qin Xinran endured the excruciating pain of her fractured bone and supported herself on the ground with one hand.

"Shadow Arrow! Seal!"

A dark light shone brightly in her beautiful eyes.

Dozens of thick black arrows shot out from the shadows on the ground, pinning the four female corpses that rushed at them to the black stone wall behind them with a series of "thuds".

But Qin Xinran's attacks did not stop there.

The four female corpses were just a feint; her real target was the red shoe that had been hovering in mid-air!

"Stay here!"

At this moment, Qin Xinran pushed [Shadow Mastery] to its limit.

The shadows that pinned the female corpse suddenly reassembled in mid-air, transforming into a giant black net that enveloped the red high heels in mid-air!

Qin Xinran wanted to forcibly block it!

The black netting descended in a vast, overwhelming manner, threatening to completely trap the red shoes.

"Da da!"

The red shoe in mid-air sensed danger.

Just as the shadow net was about to close, it transformed into a streak of scarlet light, instantly disappearing into a fallen shard of mirror on the ground.

……

As the woman in the red shoes escaped, the four female corpses nailed to the wall instantly lost their source of support, turning into withered bones scattered on the ground.

The suffocating, murderous aura of rules in the air receded like the tide, and the train-car-like training room returned to deathly silence.

"Xiaoxiao, quick! Treat her!" Qin Xinran shouted, her forehead covered in cold sweat.

Wen Xiaoxiao, who had been standing there in shock, suddenly woke up as if from a dream and rushed forward, releasing emerald green healing light from her hands.

Under the effect of [healing and recovery].

The broken ankles of Qin Xinran and the other two emitted a sickening sound as the bones began to heal, returning to their original state within seconds.

"Damn it."

Feng Gang got up from the ground, stretched his ankles, and cursed through gritted teeth, "Do these red shoes have some kind of foot fetish? Why do they always target my ankles!"

"It's not a foot fetish, it's a rule."

Zheng Qiang pushed up his nose bridge; the sharp pain from the fracture still lingered in his mind. He looked at Qin Xinran and analyzed in a deep voice:

"We didn't bow our heads, so the rules weren't triggered. The problem must be with our actions."

"Everyone, think back to when the red shoes started clattering. President Qin and Lao Feng launched their attack, I ran to rescue them, and all three of us moved. But Xiao Xiao…"

Zheng Qiang turned to look at Wen Xiaoxiao.

Wen Xiaoxiao raised her hand somewhat shyly: "I... I was too scared just now, and I just squatted there without daring to move."

These words were spoken.

Everyone suddenly realized what was going on.

No wonder only Wen Xiaoxiao was unharmed just now!

"I see."

Qin Xinran also realized: "The second rule of this vengeful ghost is related to movement! When it taps its heel, we absolutely cannot move, otherwise the power of the rule will be triggered, and our ankles will be forcibly broken."

"Either stand still and be a sitting duck, or..."

Zheng Qiang's brain worked at lightning speed, and he added the second half of the sentence: "Either you move in accordance with the 'tap-tap' rhythm of its heels. In other words, you dance with it."

"Damn! Do I have to learn to dance just to fight a ghost?" Feng Gang looked constipated.

Making this brute dance is worse than killing him.

"Moreover, this ghost has another very troublesome aspect."

Qin Xinran looked around at the densely packed broken mirrors on the walls: "It can use these mirrors to teleport in a zigzag pattern, ignoring obstacles. As long as these mirrors are still there, it can attack or run away as it pleases, and we can't catch its true form at all."

The four of them huddled together, quickly discussing countermeasures.

Just then.

"Da, da, da..."

The shrill, almost agonizing sound of high heels echoed for the third time in the practice room.

The red dancing shoes floated out from a mirror once again.

This time.

The four of them had learned their lesson and stood still, even reducing their breathing to a minimum.

really.

The forces of the system were not triggered, and their ankles remained unharmed.

But the red shoes seemed to be enraged when they realized their prey had stopped running.

The speed at which the heel struck the air suddenly increased.

"call--"

It summoned back the four female corpses that had lost their legs, and they waved their pale arms and pounced on the four motionless people.

"Make your move!" Qin Xinran hissed.

Before he finished speaking, Feng Gang took a deep breath, his feet firmly planted on the ground like two steel nails, and the blazing furnace of blood and qi within his body began to operate with a roar.

Facing the two pale female corpses rushing towards him, he twisted his waist and slammed his bridge, unleashing two [Blazing Sun Fist] strikes that created a piercing sound as they blasted through the air.

"boom!"

Two violent fist gusts, burning with dark red blood and qi, roared out and collided head-on with the female corpse in mid-air. The extremely yang fire wave instantly engulfed their bodies and carbonized them into ashes.

On the other side.

Qin Xinran also did not move her feet even half a step. She coldly stared at the remaining two female corpses, while the thick shadow beneath her feet churned violently like boiling water.

"Pfft!"

Several dark, sharp spikes burst forth from the shadows on the ground, like pointed spears, instantly piercing the two female corpses in mid-air from bottom to top.

As Qin Xinran clenched her fist, the Shadow Thorn exploded inside the monster's abdomen, transforming into countless black lights like meat grinders, tearing them apart into scattered Yin energy.

The entire exchange lasted only a few seconds, and neither of them even moved their shoes.

He watched as his ghost servants were wiped out.

The red shoe paused in mid-air, seemingly sensing danger. It turned its toe, preparing to escape back into the mirror.

"This is the moment we've been waiting for."

Qin Xinran's lips curled into a cold smile, and a strong dark energy instantly erupted from her deep, beautiful eyes.

"Shadows descend!"

boom!

A thick, intense darkness, so dense it seemed to drip ink, spread wildly outwards from Qin Xinran like a flood bursting its banks.

In just one second.

The entire spacious dance studio was completely swallowed up by this absolute darkness.

The light was forcibly erased.

Those broken dressing mirrors on the walls became completely useless after the light was no longer reflected.

The pair of red shoes, which were preparing to escape, could no longer escape and were trapped in this dark realm.

The red shoes seemed to sense the danger and frantically pounded their heels in the darkness.

however.

Strange things happened.

No matter how hard it struck, not a sound came out of the air.

Because within this [Shadow Descent] domain dominated by Qin Xinran, the five senses can be stripped away!

Although the red shoes are a vengeful ghost, the medium through which its rules are triggered is sound.

Under Qin Xinran's control, she not only deprived the red shoes of their ability to make sounds, but also deprived the team members of their hearing in that instant!

I can't hear anything anymore.

Then the rule that murders can only be triggered by "hearing" naturally falls apart.

This is the countermeasure that Qin Xinran and the others came up with.

"Old Feng, give it a try!"

Qin Xinran pointed forward, giving the instruction.

She can't try it herself.

If the rules are indeed triggered, her domain will also disappear, so only Feng Gang can attempt it.

Upon receiving the gesture, Lao Feng tentatively took a step forward.

There was no sound of bones breaking.

The ankle is intact.

The rules have been broken!

"Hahaha! Sister Qin is awesome!"

Feng Gang roared excitedly in his heart, and then his fists instantly ignited with blazing blood and qi, like a tiger released from its cage, he pounced towards the red shoes in the darkness.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

In the pitch-black darkness, Feng Gang's iron fist, imbued with the most powerful and yang energy, pounded relentlessly on the red shoes like a raging storm.

Although the red shoes were immune to ordinary sword and gun attacks, the surface of the shoes began to sizzle and burn continuously under the burning of the blood fire.

Large splatter of thick, blackish-red blood gushed from the shoes; it was the yin energy that the vengeful ghost had purified and evaporated.

"Sister Qin, is this thing dead or not?"

After throwing dozens of punches, Old Feng, panting heavily, turned around and gestured.

He felt that although the shoes had been beaten until they were dull and lifeless, the eerie and chilling aura had not completely dissipated.

"Vicious ghosts cannot be killed; they can only be suppressed or sealed."

Qin Xinran shook her head.

A thought struck her.

Countless thick shadow chains rose from the ground within the domain, instantly binding and entangling the red shoe that Feng Gang had already weakened.

Then.

Under Qin Xinran's compression, these shadow chains gradually transformed into an airtight black box, completely sealing the red shoes inside.

"receive."

Qin Xinran dispelled the shadow domain with a single gesture.

The dim light once again filled the practice room.

As the source of the vengeful spirit was sealed, the pungent smell of pine resin and decay in the air began to dissipate rapidly.

"Finally, it's resolved." Zheng Qiang wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

"We really defeated a ghost!" Wen Xiaoxiao jumped up excitedly, her previous fear gone.

Although the operation was somewhat dangerous and resulted in several broken legs, the team's initial coordination went surprisingly smoothly.

This filled them with confidence for the future.