Eighteen Ghost Emperors of my ancestors, how dare you make me live in terror?

At this moment, on the white jade platform suspended in the center of the giant city.

Below were hundreds of blood-red steps, from which fine red water droplets seeped, falling one by one into the black mist.

The unblemished surface was polished to a mirror-like smoothness, reflecting the image of the giant face in the sky.

In the very center was a vermilion eight-immortal table, covered with bright red brocade, the surface of which was embroidered with mandarin duck patterns.

A pair of silver wine jugs, two empty wine cups, and a plate of dried and blackened pastries.

There was also a yellowed marriage certificate, which read, "With Heaven and Earth as our witness, and the Sun and Moon as our pendulum..."

The moment Ling Xin'er opened her eyes, she found herself dressed in a wedding gown, adorned with brocade, and firmly chained in mid-air.

Before her stood a pale man with disheveled hair, also dressed in wedding attire, staring at her blankly. "So beautiful..."

Without a second thought, the long sword that appeared behind Ling Xin'er pierced straight towards the opponent's brow.

In just a moment, the longsword, which had been nurtured by her body and gathered all the strange energy within her, was caught between two fingers by her opponent and then plunged into her abdomen.

"Um........"

Ling Xin'er cried out in pain as the chains binding her hands and feet tightened even more, cutting off the flow of the strange energy within her body.

Despite possessing "Double A" level anti-deception abilities, he was powerless to fight back against his opponent.

It can only be the city lord in the dungeon, the S-rank eerie boss, the disappointed top scholar.

"You will always be the most beautiful woman in my heart."

Thin, cold fingers gently brushed across Ling Xin'er's face, the top scholar's gaze filled with endless infatuation and tenderness.

"I personally chose this wedding dress for you, using the hair of a thousand women. I'm sure you'll love it. All other women in the world are only fit to be your backdrop."

"Do you know how heartbroken I was after you left? I searched everywhere for you, I slaughtered the entire Jiang family, and I gave this whole city as a dowry to marry you."

"I'm just waiting for the day you come back to me."

The words, though full of tenderness, sounded incredibly cold and sinister to Ling Xin'er.

She knew the other person wasn't looking at her, but at the phantom image of the "Wedding Dress Ghost" on her body.

Blood kept flowing from his injured abdomen; the wound from the sword piercing him was bleeding profusely.

Her eerie aura was suppressed, and her dual A-level ability to control eerie entities was unable to be utilized. Standing in front of her was an S-level eerie boss.

He got arrested again...

Ling Xin'er suddenly seemed lost in thought.

She had already tried her best, even persevering for so long in that hellish A-level dungeon, and still managed to obtain a second A-level bizarre ability.

How come I got caught so easily again?

Last time it was in the dense forest outside the academy, this time it's in this eerie instance. I'm really weak.

A resolute glint flashed in Ling Xin'er's calm eyes as her surging, eerie energy forcefully broke free of its shackles.

Since the A-level ability to control ghosts has been sealed, then let's just give it up and sacrifice it.

But the next moment.

A ghostly hand tore its way into the wound on her abdomen, churning wildly. Ling Xin'er's face turned pale instantly, and she let out a muffled groan. The eerie energy she had just gathered froze completely, and a trickle of black blood flowed from the corner of her mouth.

"Don't move! Who gave you permission to move?! If you dare to hurt my wife, I'll tear you to pieces!"

The tenderness in the top scholar's eyes vanished, replaced by a ferocious expression. Terrifying cracks appeared on his handsome face. After venting his anger for a while, his tone suddenly softened again.

"I know you like me, you were forced into this, it's all that human's fault!"

"He stole it! It's all his fault!"

"It's him!!!"

As he spoke, the top scholar went mad again, his eyes turned bloodshot, his white hair danced wildly, and even the giant ghost face in the sky became ferocious and terrifying.

Finally, he rushed to the table, picked up a brush, and quickly wrote something on the marriage certificate.

"You like him too, right? Why do you like him? No, no, he's a sinner, and sinners should be punished."

"Since he stole the one I love, I'll make him taste what it's like!"

"Once our names are written on the marriage certificate, you will be my bride. You will stay in this city forever, and we will never leave each other for all eternity. I will cherish you just like they did."

The top scholar was still in a madman's state, frantically writing on the marriage certificate while pointing to a certain spot.

Ling Xin'er looked up.

Over there stands a 100-meter-tall temple of skeletons, densely packed with the skeletons of women.

You're wrong.

Ling Xin'er spoke for the first time, her tone calm.

He doesn't like me.

.........

the other side.

Lu stopped in the brightly lit neighborhood, turned to look at Bai Ye who had followed him, and asked, "What are you doing here?"

Bai Ye ruffled her wind-blown hair and calmly said, "Don't forget, I'm also an S-rank."

"It doesn't matter who you're talking about."

"So even though I don't understand why you two were so stupid as to challenge an S-rank monster, if I didn't come since you two are here, I'd look really silly."

Bai Ye calmly took a step forward, looking at the huge, eerie creature floating in mid-air directly in front of him.

It was a writhing mass of flesh that seemed to be made up of hundreds of women, with countless hands and faces, constantly snickering.

"That's the weirdo from Scarlet Pavilion." Chen Chen pointed ahead, suppressing his nausea. "If we compare what we're doing to beating a game, before reaching the final boss, we have to take down a few mini-bosses blocking our way. This guy is one of them."

Bai Ye nodded. "Understood. I'll take care of this."

Chen Chen glanced sideways. "Don't pretend if you can't do it."

"I'm very strong."

Bai Ye calmly took another step forward, and a black sphere suddenly appeared in front of him, pushing Lu Ye and Chen Chen out of the way.

The black sphere seemed to be some kind of barrier, isolating all breath and sound. Inside, Bai Ye silently waved his hand and stepped forward.

Lu continued flying forward.

Two minutes later, the two stopped in mid-air above a street alley.

Chen Chen looked down at the bizarre figure directly below, which was pounding its chest like a gorilla in heat. Its expression fell. "Alright, you can leave now. This one is mine."

"Are you sure you can do it? If you can't, don't pretend." Lu Ye retorted to what Chen Chen had just said about Bai Ye.

Although he didn't understand the specific reason, he knew that Chen Chen, as an S-rank, seemed to be different from other S-ranks and didn't seem to be that powerful.

"It's not a big deal. I can't kill it, can I?" Chen Chen nervously stacked buffs on himself again, "but it can't kill me either. At most, I'll just get beaten up a bit, but it's not a big problem."

"Then I'll try to finish quickly so you won't get hurt too badly."

"No need for that. Yours is the hardest to deal with. You should take it easy. If things get too tough, just use the key to run away. It's better for one person to die than for a bunch to die."

Chen Chen muttered a couple of things, then took a deep breath and, like a crow flying in an airplane, swooped down towards the "gorilla" below, letting out a thunderous roar.

"Grandson, your grandpa's here!"

They instantly engaged in a fierce battle.

Lu Ye glanced at the white jade platform not far away, grinned, and then burst forward.

"Your grandpa's here too!"

With his full power, Lu Ye flew up to the platform several hundred meters high like a cannonball.

He happened to see the top scholar who hated him to the bone writing something animatedly at a table.

Based on the principle that "making the enemy happy is making yourself unhappy", Lu Ye used the remaining strength to knock the top scholar flying with a Iron Mountain Lean.

He casually reached out and grabbed the paper and pen the other person was writing on, and without even looking at them, he quickly scribbled the name he had written on into a blob of black ink.

He quickly wrote down his name.

This scene left the top scholar, who had been knocked flying, stunned.

Ling Xin'er, who was bound by iron chains, was also stunned.

"you......."

"Did you write your own name on it?"