Ch 328: if Line （10）

Qi Anhui opened her eyes and saw the master, scrambling over on her hands and feet, shouting in terror, “Master! There are ghosts! There are ghosts here!”

The master ignored her and asked instead, “What exactly is Gu Qingyin’s background?”

Qi Anhui was taken aback for a moment, “She’s just a woman of unknown origin, what kind of background could she have?”

The master pressed, “Nothing else?”

A flash of inspiration struck Qi Anhui, “She said she’s a Special Class Taoist Master.”

“A Special Class Taoist Master?!” The master’s voice rose several octaves, his knees weakened, and he almost knelt on the ground, “Why didn’t you say something so important sooner!”

Seeing his reaction, Qi Anhui also panicked a bit, “What’s wrong? Is a Special Class Taoist Master very powerful? Then she must be lying! How old is she? How could she be so powerful!”

“You know nothing!” The master’s chest heaved. Taoist Masters value talent the most, the younger the Taoist Master, the more terrifying they are. Those older, powerful Taoist Masters must have been dominating since they were young.

“Gu Qingyin…” The master pondered, forcing his way through definitely wouldn’t work, he had to find a chance to run. Whether he could escape depended on fate.

“They’re coming up!” The Ghost Messenger guarding the stairwell announced loudly.

The master panicked instantly, he hadn’t even thought of a plan yet! He looked left and right, gritted his teeth, steeled his heart, and with a wave of his hand, released all of his Ghost Messengers.

In the next second, the entire fifth floor was filled with densely packed ghosts, each one baring its fangs and claws, twisting its soul body, its eyes searching for prey, the scene like Hell.

Qi Anhui couldn’t see this scene, but she could clearly feel the surrounding temperature drop drastically, as if she had suddenly stepped into a cold storage. She trembled, shrinking into the corner, holding her head, not daring to open her eyes.

The master also nervously swallowed. Although they were all his Ghost Messengers, it was the first time he had released them all at once. It was also the first time he had seen such a grand occasion. He carefully walked to the left, and the Ghost Messengers obediently separated to both sides, making way for him.

The master breathed a sigh of relief, striding to the back door, ready to escape at any moment.

At this moment, clear footsteps came from the stairwell opposite, and the master heard them very clearly.

“Wow! This scene is really a rare sight.” Gu Qingyin laughed and raised her hand to slap a Restriction onto the wall.

Pale golden light quickly spread out, covering the entire fifth floor in the blink of an eye, and quickly closed behind the master.

The master was stunned for a moment, then quickly went to pull the door, but the door, which was clearly not locked, couldn’t be opened no matter how hard he pulled, as if the entire door had been glued to the wall.

“It’s over!”

The master slid down the wall to the ground, his whole body numb. All his escape plans were useless. Now he could only hope that these Ghost Messengers could hold them back.

The fifth floor was different from the other floors, it was a large open space. Even though there were many ghosts, affecting visibility, the situation on the opposite side could still be vaguely seen, not to mention the continuous, shrill screams.

The Ghost Messengers that the master had placed his hopes on were like paper, easily shattered with a single touch, with no resistance at all. Gu Qingyin and Huo Yunjing, in a devastating manner, carved out a path through the ghost crowd, walking straight to the master.

Gu Qingyin sized him up, a thin, middle-aged man, not very tall, with ordinary looks and a two-stroke mustache, a bit like the image of a traitor in a TV series.

“Master?” Gu Qingyin smiled, “May I ask which school you come from?”

The master chuckled dryly, “A small sect, with no reputation.” He looked at the Ghost Messengers around him who were still alive but didn’t dare to come forward, and then glanced at the sharp sword in Huo Yunjing’s hand. He very sensibly revealed a flattering smile, “Misunderstanding, it’s all a misunderstanding. I’m just doing things for money. If I had known it was you, I definitely wouldn’t have taken this job!”

Gu Qingyin smiled noncommittally, “Someone else would just have to accept their bad luck?”

The master was embarrassed, not daring to look at Gu Qingyin, and defended in a low voice, “We still have to live, you don’t understand, the lives of us lower-level Taoist Masters are really not easy.”

“As far as I know, the Association has enough subsidies for lower-level Taoist Masters, and also provides corresponding job opportunities. Being diligent, earning hundreds of thousands a year is not a problem, how can it be so difficult?” Gu Qingyin looked down at him, “This income is much higher than most ordinary people.”

“That’s ordinary people! How can they compare to me? I’m a Taoist Master!” The master scoffed at ordinary people and felt dissatisfied with his own situation, “I’m much more noble than those ordinary people! Why should they have everything, while I have to live the life of a lower person? This isn’t fair!”

Gu Qingyin frowned. This person was clearly stuck in a dead end and couldn’t be reasoned with, but she still wasted a few more words.

“The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. A Taoist Master’s ability doesn’t make you seem superior, nor is it your capital to despise ordinary people. The duty of a Taoist Master is to maintain the world of ordinary people and protect them from the harm of ghosts and monsters.”

Her eyebrows and eyes were serious, and she said in a deep voice, “You’ve gone astray.”

As expected, the master didn’t listen and mocked with a cold smile, “You have everything, of course you can stand and say some pretty words without feeling any pain.”

Gu Qingyin ignored him and raised her hand to make finger gestures. Thunder light flickered, turning into Thunder Spears, shooting towards the surrounding Ghost Messengers.

After one wave, more than half of the Ghost Messengers were gone.

Gu Qingyin sighed, “You’ve committed too many sins, spend the rest of your life at the Mystical Arts Association atoning.”

Huo Yunjing walked towards the Ghost Messengers next to him with his sword. The Ghost Messengers were very fast, but they couldn’t withstand Huo Yunjing’s sword skills, which were really tricky. It looked like they were deliberately crashing into the sword’s edge.

As the Ghost Messengers were gradually eliminated, the master’s spirit became more and more weak.

Ghost Messengers have their own consciousness. After being refined, they don’t need the master to nourish them too much, and their dissipation doesn’t have much impact on the master. But that’s in the case of a small number. When the number is large, like the master, it will still cause soul fatigue.

Gu Qingyin condensed Spiritual Power with her fingers in the air, drawing a Locking God Talisman, and tied the master up.

The master’s heart was as ashes, and he didn’t have the strength to struggle, so he simply didn’t move, adopting a completely rotten attitude.

Gu Qingyin walked to Qi Anhui’s side, “Are you still awake?”

Qi Anhui trembled, but didn’t speak.

“If you’re awake, get up and go home.” Gu Qingyin said, “Now is not the time to deal with you, we’ll settle your affairs later.”

Qi Anhui tremblingly raised her head, glanced around with rapid breathing, and asked in a low voice, “Are the ghosts all gone?”

Gu Qingyin gave an indifferent “Mm” and said, “Hurry up and leave.”

Qi Anhui immediately scrambled and crawled towards the stairwell.

Gu Qingyin ignored her and looked at Huo Yunjing, who was staring at the long sword in a daze. She slowly walked over and asked softly, “What’s wrong?”

Huo Yunjing came back to his senses, looked at her blankly, and shook his head, “It feels very familiar, but it shouldn’t…” He had never been in contact with cold weapons, but he used the sword with flowing movements, very methodical, as if he had learned it for a long time.

Gu Qingyin smiled, “If you like it, I’ll give you this sword.”

Huo Yunjing glanced at her, intuitively feeling that she should know something, but he hesitated for two seconds and still didn’t ask, only accepted the sword, hooked his lips, and smiled, “Thank you, Madam.”

（End of this chapter）