Chapter 132: It's Not Over Yet (Just Messing Around)

[You touch the literary anomaly and obtain a wisp of true qi.]
[You touch the literary anomaly and obtain a wisp of true qi.]
[You touch the literary anomaly and obtain an item: Contract Book, effect unknown.]

Ah Bai spat out a wisp of black Qi, devouring Ghost One completely.
Fang Mu touched his chin, wondering what kind of thing a Contract Book was, as the prompt indicated an unknown effect.
There were too many people around, so he didn't take it out to examine immediately.
At this moment, everything around them began to blur continuously.
Fang Mu fixed his gaze on the masked woman, waiting for the end.
Once it was over, he would slaughter this woman right away.
Then, the surroundings blurred to an extreme limit and gradually transformed into clarity.
When everything became clear, Fang Mu found himself in the middle of a grassland.
The sky was azure, the grass was verdant, a vibrant scene completely different from the previous gloomy atmosphere.
In front of the grassland stood another ghostly shadow.
"Congratulations, everyone, you have passed Ghost One's trial." The ghost's voice was ethereal. "My name is Ghost Two, and your next opponent is me."
Having said this, Ghost Two paused for a moment.
The azure sky was shifting, and a beam of light descended from the heavens, landing right between the group and Ghost Two.
Fang Mu narrowed his eyes, wondering what kind of rules this Ghost Two possessed.
The light gradually dissipated, revealing the object within.
Fang Mu looked towards the light, his gaze shifting slightly.
Inside the light were actually five round straw cushions.
The cushions were covered with yellow cloth, looking completely brand new.
At this moment, Ghost Two's appearance changed.
The hazy ghostly figure of Ghost Two gradually became clear, shifting as if going from 360p to Blu-ray 1080p.
Dressed in yellow monastic robes and a red cassock, coupled with a bald head, Ghost Two turned out to be a monk.
Ghost Two brought his palms together, walked over to sit on a cushion, and waved at the group. "Please take a seat, everyone."
Fang Mu frowned, walked over, and sat down on a cushion.
The other three sat down one after another.
Once everyone was seated, Ghost Two spoke.
"In my previous life, I was a monk in Cangyun City." Ghost Two maintained the posture of palms pressed together and slowly said, "My trial is not as complicated as Ghost One's. You all only need to answer me one question. If you answer correctly, I die; if you answer incorrectly, you all die."
Fang Mu smiled and said, "That simple?"
Ghost Two shook his head and said, "Of course not. There is a small requirement inside. If you can—this is!"

Before he could finish his sentence, Ghost Two's expression changed.
The azure sky and verdant grassland began to shake violently.
A face appeared abruptly; it was the face of the Lord of Cangwu City.
"Trial aborted, people from Lingyun City have arrived!"
The voice rolled like thunder, and the face in the sky gradually dissipated.
Ghost Two was stunned, never expecting to encounter such an event just as it was about to execute its trial.
Fang Mu was also stunned. What was the situation with a sudden abortion, and who on earth were these people from Lingyun City?
After the face in the sky vanished, a figure appeared.
The Lord of Cangyun City, clad in armor, stood amid the grassland with a somewhat gloomy expression.
Ghost Two hurriedly got up and respectfully said, "City Lord."
"Ultimately it remains uncompleted. The backlash of the rules requires someone to bear it." The Lord of Cangyun City looked at Fang Mu and the others, sneering, "You got off easy."
With that, the City Lord of Cangyun City raised his right hand.
Starting from the wrist of his right hand, it snapped off directly.
The right hand fell to the ground, yet no blood spurted out.
"Let's go," the City Lord of Cangyun City said slowly.
A large hole appeared in the sky, and immediately the City Lord and Ghost Two flew into the spatial breach.
Fang Mu: "..."
Everything happened so suddenly that he didn't even have time to react.
There were supposed to be three more trials, but they were suddenly gone.
Iron Calculation Immortal and the others breathed a sigh of relief. Disappearing was a good thing; rule-based anomalies were far too peculiar, and they did not possess absolute certainty.
Just as everyone harbored their own thoughts, a black Qi emerged. Fang Mu turned his head and found that the black Qi originated from Ah Bai.
Ah Bai spat out black Qi, sweeping it toward the severed hand on the ground.
The black Qi moved extremely fast, and just as it was about to touch the hand, something even faster appeared.
A hand covered Ah Bai's mouth, and Ah Bai looked at its master with a puzzled expression.
At this moment, the fingertips of that severed hand were gradually turning into ashes.
Excitement flickered in Fang Mu's eyes as a thought occurred to him.
Ah Bai's action just now clearly indicated a desire to devour, and the target of that devouring was precisely the hand on the ground.
That hand had been left behind by the City Lord of Cangyun City to resist the so-called rule backlash.
Logically speaking, the City Lord of Cangyun City should be a rule-based anomaly, yet Ah Bai actually wanted to devour it.
A problem arose here: could it be that he was not a rule-based anomaly?
Fang Mu couldn't help thinking of the Master of the Ghost Market.

At that time, the Master of the Ghost Market had one of his arms severed by Department Head Wu, who had once stated that the Ghost Market Master was a corpse-type anomaly.
If the Ghost Market was a rule-based place, and Cangyun City was as well, could this City Lord of Cangyun City also be of the corpse type?
The hand on the ground was still slowly turning into ashes. Fang Mu couldn't wait any longer; he hurried to the side of the hand and picked it up.
The moment he touched the hand, prompt tones echoed...
[You touch the nameless anomaly and obtain a wisp of true qi.]
[You touch the nameless anomaly and obtain a wisp of true qi.]
[You touch the nameless anomaly and obtain a wisp of ghostly qi.]
[You touch the nameless anomaly and obtain a wisp of ghostly qi.]
The true qi merged into the true qi fish inside Fang Mu's body, lighting up another portion of the scales on the true qi fish.
Up to now, the lit fish scales were nearing the halfway mark.
The ghostly qi similarly merged into his body, bringing his total to six wisps when combined with what he had saved previously.
What puzzled Fang Mu was why touching it yielded ghostly qi instead of a skill.
Could it be that identical skills couldn't be dropped repeatedly?
Fang Mu couldn't help thinking of the Tiger Strength Fist, a skill he had obtained from the arm of the Ghost Market Master.
He suspected whether the City Lord of Cangyun City had some connection to the Ghost Market Master.
Of course, now was not the time for deep contemplation. Fang Mu cast his gaze toward the masked woman nearby.
The surrounding scenery was blurring continuously, and Fang Mu walked over.
Moments later would be this woman's time of death.
Iron Calculation Immortal and Zhang Liu exchanged glances and surrounded the masked woman.
The masked woman neither spoke nor moved. Although her face could not be seen, she didn't seem panicked in the least.
The blurred scenery reached its absolute limit, and then suddenly became sharp and clear. Fang Mu and the others reappeared in the original mountain forest.
The butcher's knife flashed with a brilliant light, and a fiery red web of blades descended from the sky.
An Eight Trigrams phantom appeared, enveloping the masked woman.
The Goose-翎 Saber flashed with blade light, and a black blade aura soared into the sky!
Fang Mu and the other three struck simultaneously.
The masked woman raised her hand, and three dark shadows flashed, intercepting the attacks in the middle.
These three dark shadows were three corpses covered in corpse spots. Fang Mu's attack was blocked, Iron Calculation Immortal's attack was blocked, and only Zhang Liu's attack went unblocked.