Chapter 146: Wang Chunxiao Makes a Move

"What method?"

Lying in bed, Xiaoqian's beautiful eyes flickered with a faint light as she asked.

"I have a way!"

"I can refine you into an incense deity, making you my subordinate. From then on, as long as there are living beings offering faith and descendants passing down incense, you can attain immortality."

"However, from this moment on, I am your master, and you must work for your life."

Su Yang looked at Xiaoqian before him and said, "I wonder if you are willing?"

"Do I need to be handled physically?"

Xiaoqian thought for a moment, letting out such a bold and wild phrase with her pure and innocent face.

"If you are unwilling, you won't be." Su Yang said calmly.

"No matter what, my end won't be too good right now. Since that's the case, I agree to become your subordinate, as long as you don't force yourself upon me."

Xiaoqian nodded and said.

A second-rank wild ghost.

Even being a thug wouldn't be bad at all.

He hadn't expected such an unexpected harvest from coming out for the imperial examinations; it was truly wonderful.

He opened the interface.

Ten soul fragments and one thousand points of incense gradually dissolved, slowly floating out of the interface and sinking into Xiaoqian's body.

After the time it takes to burn a stick of incense.

Xiaoqian's originally frail body rapidly recovered.

"My body seems a little different now." Feeling her own soul body, a trace of surprise appeared on Xiaoqian's face.

"How is it different?"

This was his first time condensing an incense deity for a ghost, and he felt quite curious inside.

"The Yin energy in my body is gone, replaced by another kind of power, and I can sense incense and the power of faith, though I'm not sure if I can still bear children."

Xiaoqian felt the power within her body, her face filled with wonder as she spoke.

"Let's not worry about childbearing for now. Let's first leave the city and test it out to see if that Ghost King can still perceive where your body is."

Su Yang said.

"I presume it can no longer sense it. Every time that Ghost King sensed the location of my body, I would feel a sense of heartache. Now that feeling has vanished, so the connection must have been severed. That secret technique is no longer useful on my current body."

A look of joy appeared on Xiaoqian's face as she said, "If we leave the city now, that Ghost King definitely won't be able to sense us."

"It's no longer safe here. I'll go call Miss Song so we can leave the city together and get away from this place."

Su Yang finished speaking, and just as he was about to head out, he felt a premonition in his heart and looked out the window.

A wisp of red fortune drifted slowly from afar. It looked familiar—it was precisely the fortune that had been stripped from the top of Gu Chen's head. Without any deviation, it fell right into his own body.

The next second, Su Yang felt a sudden clarity in his mind, filled with wonder and disbelief. How had Gu Chen's fortune ended up on his own head?

Could it be because Gu Chen's fortune was lacking here with Xiaoqian, and now that Xiaoqian had become his person, her fortune fell onto his head?

That still didn't make any sense!

Since it didn't make sense, he simply stopped thinking about it.

In the next room.

Hearing the commotion outside, Song Tiantian had already woken up. Hearing the knock at the door, she quickly opened it and looked at Su Yang before her, asking, "What's wrong?"

"The Ghost King is on our tail. It probably sensed Xiaoqian's location. I've taken some measures just now, and Xiaoqian says the Ghost King shouldn't be able to perceive her anymore, but I still feel a bit uneasy."

"Now I'm going to take Xiaoqian and leave the city. I wonder what you have in mind? Will you continue to stay in Qingliu County, or will you come out of the city with me?"

Su Yang said.

"I will leave the city with you."

Song Tiantian thought for a moment and ultimately decided to leave the city with Su Yang. Without a high degree of certainty, this man would never take such a risk.

She needed to reach Jiangzhou as quickly as possible.

If Su Yang left, and the Ghost King indeed couldn't perceive Xiaoqian's location, it might retaliate against Qingliu County and hunt down all the commoners leaving the town. In that case, she wouldn't know how long it would take her to return to Jiangzhou.

At the same time, Song Tiantian felt a great sense of security following the man before her.

It felt as though even if the sky were to fall, he would be there to block it.

Thinking of the scene back at Luosha Temple, where Su Yang slaughtered in all directions and displayed endless means, Song Tiantian couldn't help but feel a surge of admiration in her heart.

One had to bear in mind that this man was only in his early twenties and had grown up in a resource-barren county town. Once he reached a broader stage in the future, he would undoubtedly spread his wings and soar, with a boundless future ahead.

Therefore, Song Tiantian chose to leave the city with Su Yang.

Without delay, Su Yang and his party disguised themselves and escaped from the western gate.

However, what Su Yang did not expect was this:

When the Black Cloud Ghost King lost the ability to perceive Xiaoqian's whereabouts, it promptly ordered its subordinates to guard all four gates of the county town and dispatched a group of wild ghosts to patrol beneath the city walls. Anyone leaving the county town at this moment would most likely be the group of martial artists who had stolen its concubine.

After all, with wild ghosts running rampant outside and a Ghost King reigning supreme, no commoner would dare to run outward.

"The West Gate?"

Upon hearing his subordinate's report, the Black Cloud Ghost King transformed into a mass of black clouds and hurried toward the western gate. The Ghost King's speed was swift; it arrived at the west gate before long and, following the trail left by the wild ghosts tracking Su Yang's party, rapidly pursued them ahead.

"Brat, if I catch you, I will surely tear you to pieces!"

The Black Cloud Ghost King gnashed its teeth, its gloomy eyes revealing an infinite, vicious, and ruthless glare.

Terrifying Yin energy permeated the air, causing the surrounding flowers and plants to wither upon contact.

"Let this end here!"

Just as the Black Cloud Ghost King drew closer and closer to Su Yang, a figure materialized out of thin air ahead.

Wearing a long dress and a white veil over her face, with an exquisite figure, she was undoubtedly a peerless beauty capable of toppling kingdoms.

An overwhelming, mountain-and-sea-like vitality emanated from the woman.

Sensing the terrifying vitality radiating from the woman, the Black Cloud Ghost King felt every hair on its body stand on end. It retreated dozens of steps in a flash and stared at the woman standing ahead, demanding, "Why is Senior stopping me?"

"You cannot kill that man."

"This matter ends here!"

The woman's tone was as cold as frost.

"On what grounds?"

"That man stole my concubine!"

A surge of anger brewed within its heart, but feeling the terrifying vitality inside the woman before it, it dared not act rashly.

"That man is my man."

"If you dare take even one more step forward, I will slaughter you!"

As soon as Wang Chunxia finished speaking, she turned and left, leaving the Ghost King shivering all over. Staring at the direction where Wang Chunxia had vanished, it gnashed its teeth... and also turned and left...

Su Yang sprinted all the way, capturing two monsters along the way to ride upon, as the monsters' beasts were much faster.

During this time, he cleared away the few wild ghosts that had been tracking him.

Before nightfall, a new county town appeared before Su Yang's eyes. He hurriedly led Song Tiantian running inside. Once inside the county town, he figured that Ghost King wouldn't dare to act recklessly.

He rented two guest rooms.

Xiaoqian had now become his subordinate deity and needed incense or the power of faith to prolong her life. However, Xiaoqian had no descendants, and he didn't know whether an incense deity could bear offspring, or what kind of offspring they would produce.

Thus, he could only focus his efforts on the power of faith.