17: Chapter 17 Got you!

"Caught you!"

Lu Siye held the blazing blood saber in his hand, looking sinisterly at the skeletal phantom behind Shi Yimin.

Hearing the voice, the Mirror Ghost immediately turned its head to look at the bathroom door, its pupils shrinking suddenly.

Why could a Night Patrol Envoy discover me? I was cautious enough; I hadn't even left the mirror, nor had I leaked a single trace of Yin Qi.

[Mirror Ghost Wu Jianyuan was terrified, Fear Value +87!]

It's over! It's over!

The opponent is definitely not a Night Patrol Envoy; a Night Patrol Envoy couldn't possibly discover my existence through the mirror. He is most likely a Night Wanderer!

Damn human, actually pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger.

Oh no, I'm dead for sure this time!

[Mirror Ghost Wu Jianyuan became more terrified the more he thought about it, Fear Value +93!]

If Lu Siye could hear the Mirror Ghost's inner thoughts, he would probably laugh out loud.

In reality, he hadn't noticed the Mirror Ghost's existence before; when he knocked on the wall, it was just an instinctive action.

But he hadn't expected the other party to be startled by his knocking, contributing a wave of Fear Value to him, which let him know there was a Mirror Ghost in the next room.

The Mirror Ghost didn't know that its momentary fright had exposed it. Now, it only wanted to retract the curse immediately. Since it was the weaker party, it absolutely could not suffer any more backlash.

As for the duck that was already in its mouth flying away, so be it; in the current situation, saving its own life was more important.

[Mirror Ghost Wu Jianyuan was terrified and prepared to run away, Fear Value +86!]

Lu Siye heard the notification sound in his ear. If Shi Yimin weren't still here and if he didn't need to maintain a good image, his mouth would have stretched all the way to his ears.

He hadn't expected that by just saying one sentence, the other party would be so compliant, contributing nearly three hundred Fear Value in the blink of an eye.

However, Lu Siye didn't give the Mirror Ghost time to run just because it was compliant. Shi Yimin was currently in a life-or-death situation, so saving him was the priority.

Lifting the blazing blood saber, Lu Siye infused his Qi and blood into the blade, and the mysterious patterns lit up instantly.

He bent his legs and kicked off hard. The immense force shattered the floor tiles beneath his feet. The reaction force propelled Lu Siye forward rapidly, and a flash of red blade light arrived in the darkness in an instant, slicing through the skeletal phantom behind Shi Yimin.

Boom!

An invisible flame of Qi and blood, invisible to the naked eye, erupted within the confined space. The skeletal phantom caught within it was instantly ignited and burned into nothingness in the blink of an eye.

Shi Yimin in front of the mirror suddenly felt a sense of lightness in his body. The feeling of his body being out of control vanished, and then his legs went weak, causing him to fall to the ground.

At the same time, the Mirror Ghost inside the mirror let out a shrill scream. Several slender knife wounds appeared on its body out of thin air, with sparks scattering from the wounds.

On the cursed skeleton behind it, a third of the maggots spontaneously ignited, erupting into clusters of green Yin fire, before turning into wisps of blue smoke and dissipating within the mirror.

The Mirror Ghost was terrified to its core; the opponent's ordinary strike could destroy its curse and cause it to suffer backlash—he was definitely a practitioner at the Night Wanderer Realm.

[Mirror Ghost Wu Jianyuan was terrified. "No... I don't want to die again!" Fear Value +99!]

The Mirror Ghost didn't care about its injuries; pulling the cursed skeleton behind it, it hurriedly turned and ran toward the depths of the mirror.

"Want to leave! Did you ask your Si Ye?"

Lu Siye shouted violently. He reversed his grip on the blazing blood saber, kicked off the wall to spring forward rapidly, and thrust the blazing blood saber directly through the mirror.

The scorching Qi and blood spread along the blade to the entire mirror, and a shrill scream rang out from within the mirror, vibrating his eardrums.

[Ding~ Fear Value +...]

Hearing the Mirror Ghost's scream, Shi Yimin shuddered all over. He scrambled over to Lu Siye's side, reached out to hug his thigh, and asked with a trembling voice: "Great... Great Master, is that... Ghost in the mirror dead?"

"No. For things like Mirror Ghosts, if they don't run out of the mirror, just smashing the mirror they inhabit is useless."

Lu Siye shook his head. According to the records of the Evil Suppression Bureau, Mirror Ghosts are among the more difficult to deal with among common Ghosts.

"Then... then am I still in danger?" Shi Yimin said with a mournful face.

"Rest assured, although I couldn't kill the Mirror Ghost, it has been trapped by me in this mirror. As long as this blade isn't pulled out, it can't escape."

Using Qi and blood to seal the object that a Ghost inhabits is a method to restrict the Ghost's movement, which he had seen in a post on the Evil Suppression Bureau app.

Originally, it was a Move that only those above the Night Wanderer Realm could use, but with the assistance of the blazing blood saber, he could achieve the same effect.

After explaining, Lu Siye couldn't help but turn his head to look at the pierced mirror, his expression suddenly becoming a bit strange. Had he accidentally set a flag?

"In that case, that's great!" Hope rekindled in Shi Yimin's eyes.

After confirming that there were no accidents with the mirror, Lu Siye looked down at the emaciated pendant on his thigh. From the tactile sensation on his leg, he could feel that the other person's body was ice cold.

Gathering the Yang Qi in his body to his eyes, Lu Siye looked at Shi Yimin's shoulders, top of his head, and heart.

The two fires on his shoulders had long since extinguished, leaving only the fire on top of his head barely flickering. Moreover, there was a stream of pitch-black Yin Qi circulating within his body, and the Yang Qi in his heart was like a candle in the wind, at risk of extinguishing at any moment.

Lu Siye had seen the consequences of Yang Qi extinguishing on the Evil Suppression Bureau app before. Generally, after Yang Qi is extinguished, there is an eighty percent chance of dying on the spot, and the remaining probability is either becoming a zombie or becoming a Ghost.

Lu Siye placed his hand on the other person's shoulder and said seriously: "Don't Move if you don't want to die."

"Ah?" Shi Yimin opened his mouth wide, his face full of question marks.

Before he could react, he suddenly felt a stream of scorching hot air rising from his shoulder, rapidly traveling through his blood vessels to his whole body, dispelling the coldness in his body.

Half a minute later, Lu Siye withdrew his palm and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

He had just utilized the characteristic that circulating the "Dragon-Elephant Prajna Art" generates heat waves of Yang Qi, injecting the generated Yang Qi heat waves into the other person's body through Shi Yimin's pores.

Gathering Yang Qi to his eyes again, the Yang Qi at the other person's heart position had flourished again and would no longer be at risk of extinguishing at any moment.

This was his first time attempting to save someone with Yang Qi heat waves; although the consumption was a bit high, it was still within an acceptable range.

"Thank you, Great Master, for saving my life!" Shi Yimin immediately let go of the other person's thigh, put his hands together, and said with a grateful expression.

Although he didn't know what this Ghost-repelling Great Master had done to him, he could clearly feel that the feeling of his whole body being ice cold and the sensation that he might kick his legs and die at any moment had disappeared.

"Alright, I'll keep watch here. If nothing goes wrong, this Mirror Ghost can be dealt with tomorrow. You go and rest first!" Lu Siye looked at Shi Yimin's sunken eye sockets and waved his hand at him.

"Yes! Yes! Thank you for your hard work, Great Master!" Shi Yimin nodded repeatedly in response.

Although he still had many questions in his heart, since the Great Master had spoken, he didn't dare to disturb him any further.