CHAPTER 256: CHAPTER 256: KILLING A PIG WITH A DULL KNIFE HURTS MORE

"It’s over! Completely over! What should I do?"

Liu Qiang, in a state of despair, got up and looked at his own hands, finding them empty.

Whether raising little ghosts or fiends, the principle is similar: using a secret technique to forcibly create something that doesn’t belong in the mortal world, then forming a bond through a pact.

The master feeds the fiend; the fiend obeys commands and, after killing someone and absorbing energy, returns a portion of it to the master through the bond.

There’s only one possibility for the bond to disappear — the two parties no longer maintain a mutual benefactor relationship.

In other words, the fiend you once raised will no longer follow your commands.

If the agreement to break the bond is mutual, letting it go to dust as it should, both sides go their separate ways peacefully. But if the bond is forcibly severed, the fiend, having been oppressed, will certainly seize the opportunity for revenge!

Liu Qiang’s once powerful force was unexpectedly burned away, and his mind flashed with the scene of refining the Mother Fiend, as well as the seals he used to keep them under control...

Growing increasingly desperate, he suddenly roared, "Call the police! Quickly, call the police and arrest me! I killed many people, hurry let the police come to arrest me!"

The onlookers found it more amusing, seeing that he was dressed in a suit looking fashionable, yet had gone mad to this extent.

At one moment he shouted for help in putting out fires, the next he was begging Lord Guan for mercy; just before he was lamenting over some losses, then he claimed to be a murderer at a mature age, they wondered if he was some kind of internet celebrity shooting a short video.

Only Chuci looked at Jiang Yuan with admiration, "Bro, I’m really impressed! How did you do it? Actually made him confess by himself, even to the murders, it’s indeed quite a show!"

"The show I meant wasn’t this." Jiang Yuan nodded his head, gesturing for him to look out the window.

Chuci glanced and then turned pale, "Oh my! This... this is broad daylight!"

A red-clad female ghost exuding intense malevolence just floated in gracefully like that.

She was slightly plump with long black hair that clung to her face, exposing parts of her scalp covered in blood, floating mid-air with her head slightly lowered as if observing the man she once feared but no longer found terrifying.

"No, don’t... Tingting, I know you were always the most obedient and well-behaved. I’ll go buy you your favorite milk candy..." Liu Qiang had lost all means and strength, yet his naturally gifted Yin Yang Eye still unstintingly helped him.

Seeing the Mother Fiend approaching with intense Yin energy, he trembled all over with fear, trying to appeal to emotions, hoping the girl who loved him deeply until her last moment would let him go.

The Mother Fiend, now purely instinctive and searching for her child, hadn’t seen her baby for a long time.

But Liu Qiang’s body lacked the baby’s scent, and her anger and grievance soared, causing a sudden whirlwind in the hall.

"Why did it suddenly get cold?"

"Did someone open all the windows? It dropped in temperature after the heavy rain last night."

"Damn, this wind is really chilly!"

Listening to the whispers of the crowd, Chuci pursed his lips, feeling uncomfortable as he thought, how could it not be cold? Damn, a few female ghosts have appeared!

Although none had the overwhelming Yin energy like the red-clad ghost that chills at first glance, the other three female ghosts following closely behind exuded danger too, surrounding Liu Qiang, scaring him so much that he wet his pants, squatting on the ground holding his head and shouting: "That nine-year-old girl who went missing three years ago while selling cold noodles with her grandma, I raped and killed her!

She became famous after being recorded online, someone exposed her birth date as purely Yin, so I tricked her, raped and then killed her, refining her into a money-attracting little ghost! Hurry and report me to the police!"

"And the Qiushan Park case! That female university student who disappeared while jogging in Qiushan Park, I also raped and then killed her..."

......

The fear of falling into the hands of the fiend he personally refined broke his mental defenses. Liu Qiang only sought a place to hide, even if captured and sentenced to death, it would come as a relief, plus the ghosts wouldn’t dare approach a police station.

Having done such things cleanly with no tangible evidence, as long as he could be saved temporarily, he could always recant his confession and find a way to live!

The originally mocking crowd suddenly fell silent, as Liu Qiang’s confessions were all of sensational unsolved cases up to now. If what he said was true, he was a murder maniac!

"Hiss..."

"Hiss hiss..."

The girls refined into fiendish ghosts emitted threatening sounds, their bodies entwined with black evil energy. Hearing his terrified cries, each of them who had lost sanity recalled their tragic deaths, causing a surge in their malevolence.

However, the fear from once being strongly suppressed hadn’t completely vanished. With no clear thinking ability, they saw that their "master" seemed different from usual, not understanding what had happened, and uncertain whether they could attack.

Only the Mother Fiend, frantically turning in circles unable to find her child, finally couldn’t hold back and extended a reddened Sharp Claw, ready to tear Liu Qiang to shreds!

"Snap!"

Seeing the situation, Jiang Yuan quickly unleashed a Heaven-Burning Flame, with the fire flaring intensely upon contact with the fiend, causing the Mother Fiend to freeze.

Yet they made no sound, as the heavy shackles on their bodies eased, and rationality gradually returned, all of them turning to glare at Jiang Yuan with bloodshot bulging eyes.

"Bro, what are you doing?" Chuci, excited and thrilled to see the wretched person torn to pieces, didn’t expect Jiang Yuan to help, even drawing their hatred towards them.

Seeing those female ghosts’ terrifying visages staring fiercely, Chuci’s legs weakened and face turned pale, he tugged at Jiang Yuan, lowering his voice to shout, "Why are you helping that scum?"

Jiang Yuan precisely controlled the Heaven-Burning Flame, unable to break free from his grip, sighed and said, "Do you really want Liu Qiang to play a ’big transformation’ in such a public place, being dismembered in seconds? That would not only cause panic but the teahouse wouldn’t be able to do business again."

"Listen to everything he’s confessed to... Damn, even dismembering him alive would be too lenient!" Chuci gritted his teeth in anger.

Jiang Yuan nodded in agreement, lowering his voice even more, "That’s why we can’t let him die so easily, a slow knife is more painful for him.

Besides, look at these pitiful girls enslaved by him, they are all attacking ruthlessly out of pure instinct with no sanity left, what use is it to dismember him even then?

At the very least they should know what they are doing clearly and... I personally believe we have no right to decide for the victims, whether to seek revenge or how to do it, should be up to them.

So can you let go of my arm? I need to ensure their malice is reduced to a certain extent, enough not to affect their sanity nor entirely pacify them losing both means and power, it’s not easy to manage, don’t interfere."

"Oh, sorry, I wasn’t intentionally affecting your performance." Chuci quickly released his grip, then hesitated, "But if, in case... in the event of encountering a lovesick ghost who, even after being harmed to such extent, can’t bear to seek revenge, what then?"

"Then it’s purely deserved, a willing victim and an aggressor, it’s their own cause-and-effect entanglement, why are you in such a hurry?"

Feeling it was about enough, Jiang Yuan retracted the Heaven-Burning Flame, exhaling in relief, "Backlash alone is enough for him to suffer, moreover you don’t think so many pitiful girls died because of love, do you?

Plus, with Liu Qiang’s confessed vicious crimes, picking any one would be enough to ensure his death without a grave, threefold security absolutely no problem."