Seeing the rope about to loop around her neck, the young girl finally took action, as if frightened into madness, suddenly biting her lip.
"Splash!"
A mouthful of blood spat onto the ghost's head.
The rope lost its strength, swaying in the green light, occasionally hitting the girl's sweat-covered neck, like the ghost's tongue licking repeatedly.
The ghost was fixed in place.
The girl was frightened to the point of collapsing to the ground, her face pale, and her body constantly shivering.
[Passable.] Li Changzhou's tone relaxed, a hint of relief hidden in his heart.
The path of 'the victor,' he had no choice but to strive for, naturally not wanting to be eliminated right away.
Only then did he have the leisure to notice the girl, around fifteen years old, ignoring the deathly pale face from being scared by the ghost, one could say she was a beauty with a slender figure, surprisingly exquisite.
If he had known she was so beautiful, Li Changzhou would have chosen the ghost.
This girl, incapable of tying up a chicken, yet beautiful, he was now only a "Magic Treasure," unable to take initiative; the tests she would face were many.
However, only in the turbulent seas are heroes truly revealed; gas without challenges are not ones Li Changzhou enjoys playing.
The girl finally regained her senses, quickly throwing the ghost head in her hand to the ground, picking up the nearby bag and running towards the temple's exit.
[Run!] Li Changzhou laughed, [Guess how many ghosts are outside!]
Thud!
The girl fell to the ground, not only were her legs weak, but she was also scared by Li Changzhou.
The girl didn't get up, kneeling directly on the ground, bowing her head towards the top of the temple.
"God, Lord, save ! Please have rcy and save !"
[Put your mind at ease, gather your courage, regulate your Qi before speaking.]
After a long while, the girl gradually cald her excited heart, yet she still dared not look at the head on the ground, or the headless ghost corpse floating in the air.
[Tell your origin.] Li Changzhou said.
The girl paused, then said: "I was born in Wang Family Village. Before I had a proper na, I was sold by my parents to Mr. Liu, the county's patron, to be a maid. The lady gave the na Little Hong."
[Little Hong? Then why aren't you staying at Mr. Liu's place, and instead co to my temple in the dead of night?]
The girl's face showed a sorrowful and resentful expression: "Mr. Liu took a fancy to , wanted to warm his feet. Last year, Little Green ward Mr. Liu's feet, and died from heavy bleeding. I was terrified and secretly ran away.
"Returning to Wang Family Village would only harm my family, and with nowhere to go, I rembered a miscellaneous journal the lady had read which ntioned Immortals nearby, so I sought Immortal aid, never expecting to encounter...encounter...."
The word 'ghost' dared not escape her lips, as if once spoken, the hanged ghost might regain movent.
She shivered coldly, then continued: "Luckily, I encountered God, Lord!"
[Where there are gods and ghosts, there will naturally be gods.] Li Changzhou said with a smile, [From now on, you will be my attendant, and I shall grant you immortality.]
The girl looked bewildered.
So young, who would be interested in immortality?
[Are you willing?]
"Willing, willing, Little Hong is willing! I'm willing to serve God, Lord!" The girl quickly said.
[Little Hong...that's not a good na, how about I give you a new na?]
The girl said nothing, obediently listening.
[From now on, take my surna, 'God,' God.....hmm, you said there's an Immortal here, but there's only gods and ghosts. Then you shall be that Immortal—, from now on you will be called 'Immortal.']
"God, Immortal?" The girl montarily forgot about the hanged ghost.
[Co over, take the branch from the altar, this is my Divine Statue.]
"God, Lord, what if...I still go by Little Hong?"
[Go back to continue warming Mr. Liu's feet, dying from heavy bleeding? Think it through, do you want to be 'Little Hong,' or 'Immortal.']
The girl licked her dry lips, the previous wound on her lip relenting to bleed again, the scent of iron spreading across her tongue.
She bit down: "I want to be an Immortal!"
[It's Immortal.] Li Changzhou corrected, [Co, take the branch.]
The girl stood up, wearing a dress with a lotus-embroidered bodice, a slender figure, though not full, yet slightly shapely.
She avoided the hanged ghost and walked to the altar, carefully removing the branch.
[Tuck it at your waist, then take the ghost head, grip the hemp rope, and head out.]
"Ghost, ghost head?" Immortal said in a trembling voice.
[Outside is filled with ghosts, if you don't lead the ghost head, how will you scare them?] Li Changzhou said.
"....God, is there no other way?"
[Of course there's another way.] Li Changzhou was quite reasonable, understanding a normal fear of ghosts, making no undue demands, [You can dash yourself against the altar and return as a ghost, ghosts naturally don't harm ghosts.]
The girl tucked the branch into her belt, picked up her bag, and then hid her left hand in her sleeve, lifting the ghost head with the sleeve and tremblingly took hold of the hemp rope with her right hand.
She walked towards the outside, the hanged ghost's body floating behind like a kite.
"Ah..." She softly cried, her legs trembling.
[Hahaha!] Li Changzhou laughed heartily.
The girl cried louder, yet gradually, the fear in her cry lessened, replaced by a bit of aggrieved resentnt for being mocked.
Just like this, a beauty carrying a silently screaming ghost head, leading a hanged ghost's body, walked into the night, sobbing.
If there really were ghosts outside, even they wouldn't dare approach?
"God, Lord, where are we going?" The girl finally cried enough.
[Anywhere...wait.] Li Changzhou discovered a Transmission Array.
The Transmission Array had so disguises, yet with his sensitivity to space, and his ability to wield a million-year Mana of Divine Sense, even if suppressed to scan only 10 ters around, he remained nearly unbeatable.
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