Chapter 183 - 157: Miss, Your Horse Armor Has Slipped Off

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Chapter 183: Chapter 157: Miss, Your Horse Armor Has Slipped OffThe True Destiny Church was on Stadium Road, and further west on Stadium Road was the area known as the nineteen shops. Mingjiang Prefecture had divided the riverside area into various "shops" based on location. The nineteen shops served as the cargo distribution center for Mingjiang Water Transport. The area bustled with commercial activity due to the constant loading and unloading of sand ships and cargo vessels. At this hour, before daylight, sixteen shops had already lit several lanterns, and a few breakfast shops had opened to welcome customers. Zhou Xuan ordered two baskets of buns and two bowls of hot soy milk, and sat with Lv Mingkun at a small table near the shop’s entrance, chatting as they ate. "You think Mrs. Liu committed suicide?" "It’s not simply suicide." Zhou Xuan recounted Mrs. Liu’s memories before her death—after she signed her name as "Liu Xiuxiang," and Liu Jinmin offered the name to the Life God, the Life God began to control her, though such control appeared unobtrusive, as Liu Xiuxiang was just an ordinary person, unfamiliar with worshipping gods or walking in the underworld, so she couldn’t detect it. On the morning of her accident, Liu Xiuxiang was doing her usual job at the glass factory. While the glass melted to a glowing red in the crucible, Liu Xiuxiang suddenly heard someone calling her name. "Liu Xiuxiang!" "Liu Xiuxiang!" Unable to determine where the voice came from, Liu Xiuxiang felt bewildered. She looked around, left and right, as if entranced, gradually feeling as if the voice emanated from the crucible. Like someone in a trance, she stepped toward the crucible and leaned her head forward... Then Liu Xiuxiang’s scalp was entirely burned. After waiting a long time, Liu Jinmin entered the factory, claiming to "take his mother to the hospital," and carried Liu Xiuxiang to the True Destiny Church. "That’s really weird." Lv Mingkun sipped his soy milk. Zhou Xuan said, "This Evil God, before gaining Dao Level, was very weak. But even without it, once he controlled someone, they’d realize just how cruel this dog-like thing could be. With just a name, he could bewilder a person completely." "Mingjiang Prefecture is truly eerie, with the Alien Ghost Food Heaven setting up Tangkou to abduct people, and these Evil Gods showing up." Lv Mingkun finished his soy milk, stuffed the last small bun into his mouth, and left the breakfast shop with Zhou Xuan. "The sixteen shops have trams, operating early, which is more convenient than taking a rickshaw." Zhou Xuan led Lv Mingkun to wait for a tram in front of a dance hall that hadn’t opened yet at sixteen shops, timing it just right, as a tram stopped at the roadside... The tram doors opened and closed, speeding away. A couple of minutes later, the shadow of a black dog, following the scent of Zhou Xuan and Lv Mingkun at the True Destiny Church, tracked them down to the front of the dance hall. But the scent vanished there. The dog’s tracking was halted... Zhou Xuan and Lv Mingkun had taken the tram, leaving no scent other than the tram’s. Even if the dog shadow jumped on the next tram, it wouldn’t know where Zhou Xuan would get off. With so many tram stops, and the option to stop on request, it couldn’t be certain. Confusion and frustration filled the dog shadow’s eyes. It sighed and had no choice but to jog westward, hoping against hope to catch Zhou Xuan and Lv Mingkun’s scent again. However, the dog shadow soon realized that no matter how it ran, it seemed to be caught in a loop on the road by the dance hall entrance, running from the east wall to the west wall, only to find itself back at the east wall the next instant, running toward the west once more. At that moment, an inexplicable right hand appeared behind it. The right hand grasped its rear skull, delving into its brain until two fingers protruded from its eyes, hooking onto its eye sockets. Zhou Xuan thus lifted the dog shadow. The Sukuna Hand could seize spectral entities. Zhou Xuan controlled his Perception to wander through the dog shadow’s body, surprisingly hearing a conversation between a "man and a woman." "The two who killed ’Life’ can’t be found! Little Black has lost the trail." "They got lucky, if I find out who they are, I’ll skin them alive as a sacrifice." "Luckily ’Life’ was the weakest of the Evil Gods in our grasp. We’ll just train another, given some time..." "Second Brother, stop talking. There’s an eye, quick, kill Little Black, and remove the eye." The woman in the conversation noticed something amiss with Little Black. The next instant, blood runes flashed on the dog shadow with each flash, the dog shadow quickly melted away. In a few instants, the dog shadow Zhou Xuan held disintegrated into nothingness. "’Life’ is the weakest of the Evil Gods in their grasp?" *Zhou Xuan mused over this statement.* "Little junior brother, you’re sharp indeed, you caught a dog." Lv Mingkun praised Zhou Xuan. Between Stadium Road and the nineteen shops, there was a ferry steel bridge. Not long ago, as Zhou Xuan crossed the bridge, he inadvertently glanced back and saw a black dog shadow wandering near the bridge entrance, as if sniffing for something. Zhou Xuan instantly suspected the dog was tracking them, so he intentionally suggested to Lv Mingkun that they eat breakfast outside, while keeping an eye on the distant dog shadow. "It was indeed looking for us." Zhou Xuan noted that the route the dog had taken matched the path he and Lv Mingkun had walked. As the dog shadow approached, they paid their bill and lay in wait near the tram-stop dance hall. They didn’t board the tram but hid in a small alley beside the dance hall. Zhou Xuan put on the Bi Fang Mask, wrapped his sleeves multiple times around the gavel, and waited for the dog shadow to reach the tram stop. He flicked his fingers at the gavel. The gavel, wrapped in cloth, made almost no sound, yet it cast the dog shadow into a dream. Then came the storyteller’s method "Leisurely Stroll," the Nuo God’s right hand appeared in the dream, hooked onto the dog’s eyes, and successfully caught the dog!

Chapter 183 - 157: Miss, Your Horse Armor Has Slipped Off

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