Chapter 29: Tiger Soul, Possess!

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“Young fellow Daoist, run! This fiend is extraordinarily powerful. Neither of us can handle it,” said the Daoist surnamed Lu hurriedly when he saw Chu Tian.

“Daoist, the fact that you can’t beat it is your problem. Don’t lump me in with you.” As he spoke, Chu Tian walked over while watching the ghost fox.

“Young fellow Daoist, don’t be reckless! Do you see the six coffin nails in that creature’s body?” The Daoist surnamed Lu quickly rose and came to Chu Tian’s side. “Those are Seven-Fiend Demon-Sealing Nails, an extremely powerful sealing method generally used against formidable demons and monsters. Once the Seven-Fiend Demon-Sealing Nails pierce the body, the sealed creature will be weakened day and night until it vanishes. The fact that this fiend was sealed with them proves that it was once so powerful that even the senior expert who arranged the formation was unable to kill it! Your abilities are impressive, fellow Daoist, but this fiend is even stronger.”

“Even stronger?” Chu Tian smiled. “No matter how strong it is, it’s still a ghost, isn’t it?”

“Boy, are you going to stand in my way too?” the ghost fox asked, staring at Chu Tian.

“Ah… I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Chu Tian. I’m an underworld officer, and my daily duty is dealing with unruly ghosts in my jurisdiction.” Chu Tian’s tone was calm. “Unfortunately for you, you’re in my territory.”

“Then die!”

At Chu Tian’s words, the fox demon lunged straight at him. Its enormous claws came crashing down toward the top of his head.

“Fellow Daoist, watch out!” the Daoist surnamed Lu shouted.

Amber light flashed in Chu Tian’s eyes, and tiger stripes appeared across his skin.

“Tiger Soul—possess me!”

A golden phantom tiger enveloped Chu Tian. He raised one hand and caught the ghost fox’s claw with sheer force.

The sight left the Daoist surnamed Lu utterly dumbfounded.

Those claws had nearly beaten him to death moments ago. He knew exactly how powerful they were; saying they could split mountains and shatter boulders would not be an exaggeration. Yet this young man had blocked one so effortlessly?

The Daoist surnamed Lu looked at the ghost fox, his eyes conveying a single thought:

Are you two seriously putting on a show just to mess with me?

“If you can’t help, then leave.” Chu Tian glared at the Daoist surnamed Lu standing behind him.

The Soul-Locking Chain in his hand lashed out like a spirit serpent, coiling toward the ghost fox.

“Get lost!”

The ghost fox roared. Its body shook violently, and the force actually snapped Chu Tian’s Soul-Locking Chain apart.

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Looking at the Soul-Locking Chain broken into several pieces, Chu Tian’s eyes filled with astonishment.

Could the Soul-Locking Chain break? Of course it could. But the possibility of a ghost creature breaking it through sheer force was practically negligible. For one thing, the chain naturally suppressed ghosts; unless the opponent’s strength far surpassed Chu Tian’s, it should have been impossible to tear it apart. Moreover, the more ferocious and evil the ghost, the heavier the sins it carried, and the harder the chain was to break. The Soul-Locking Chain absorbed the sins within such beings, becoming even more durable in the process.

The ghost fox before him was not currently much stronger than Chu Tian, yet it had still shattered his Soul-Locking Chain.

That could only mean one thing—

The ghost fox possessed merit!

Protected by merit, it could not easily be restrained by an underworld officer.

This ghost fox, mistaken by the Daoist for an unparalleled great demon and now proclaiming its intention to kill, had apparently never committed murder before. Not only that, it possessed profound merit.

“Why do you want to kill people?” Chu Tian asked, watching the ghost fox.

“That has nothing to do with you!” the ghost fox replied before pouncing at him once more.

At that moment, the strength of a tiger gathered within Chu Tian. He was able to fight the ghost fox on equal terms, exchanging blows back and forth. The battle left the Daoist surnamed Lu staring in stunned disbelief.

It was one thing for the fox demon to be so powerful. Who would have thought that this young man possessed such astonishing strength as well?

“Your fists lack force. You don’t want to hurt me. Then why are you stopping me?” the ghost fox asked after several exchanges.

“With all the merit you possess, killing someone will cause it to vanish completely.” Chu Tian looked at the ghost fox. “Don’t you think that would be a waste?”

“A waste?” At his words, the ghost fox roared furiously. “Of course it would be a waste! Hundreds of years of cultivation were destroyed by them in a single day. How could that not be a waste? This entire store of merit is useless now. How could that not be a waste? I have returned to the mortal world today for the sole purpose of revenge! Once my great vengeance is complete, death will be nothing to regret!”

Looking at the ghost fox’s frenzied appearance, Chu Tian could imagine what kind of profound hatred lay behind it.

To drive a great demon blessed with merit to such a state, the grudge between them could hardly be an ordinary one.

At that moment, the ghost fox glanced toward the direction in which Meng Shaoan and Fan Shishi had left and snorted coldly.

“You may stop me today, but I refuse to believe you can watch over those two for the rest of their lives!”

With that, the ghost fox turned and vanished into the darkness.

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“Fellow Daoist, you cannot let it escape—”

As the ghost fox disappeared, the Daoist surnamed Lu hurriedly spoke. Chu Tian ended his Tiger Soul possession and withdrew the Soul-Locking Chain before looking at him.

“Don’t let it escape? Then go after it.”

“Fellow Daoist, I…” The Daoist surnamed Lu flushed and said, “I’m afraid I’m not up to the task.”

“You can’t catch it, and neither can I. Besides, I don’t think this ghost fox is truly evil.” Chu Tian spoke calmly. If he really wanted to pursue it, he naturally could have caught up. But why bother?

That was a great demon capable of shattering an underworld officer’s Soul-Locking Chain through the protection of merit. No matter how furious such a creature was, it would still know its limits. What kind of decent people could have driven a great demon blessed with such merit to this point?

Since a great demon of merit wanted revenge, Chu Tian might as well let it go. At worst, he would simply have two more souls to collect later.

Chu Tian had no intention of leaping out to uphold justice and protect a villain when a good person’s entire family had been slaughtered and that good person sought revenge.

As a law-abiding citizen, he considered it enough that he did not take advantage of the situation.

However… he could allow the ghost fox to seek revenge first, but once its revenge was complete, he would still have to bring the fox under his control.

After all, if it killed someone, the merit on its body would be canceled out.

Without the protection of merit, having taken its first life, and with no underworld officer like himself to watch over it, the ghost fox would sooner or later fall into depravity and become a menace.

“Not truly evil? Fellow Daoist, this monster intended to take human life. If you had not saved me just now, I would already have died at its hands,” said the Daoist surnamed Lu.

“But you’re not dead.” Chu Tian shrugged. Before killing its true enemy, would the ghost fox really be willing to murder some random passerby just to squander the merit within it? He had not realized it earlier, but thinking back, it was clear that the ghost fox had never intended to kill the Daoist surnamed Lu.

“Forget it. If there’s nothing else, I’ll be going. The people from the Righteous Qi Dao Alliance should be arriving soon.” Chu Tian turned and left.

The Daoist surnamed Lu glanced around and quickly departed as well. As for the mess left behind, the people from the Righteous Qi Dao Alliance could deal with it.