Eternal Saber-Chapter 343 - 64: Getting Closer

This cargo ship is not small, with five layers of hold alone.

Chen Tang took a walk on it, checking here, looking there, occasionally pausing to listen.

After a long time, he came down from the top layer to the bottommost hold, which was dark and damp, filled with various miscellaneous goods and assorted wooden boxes.

Chen Tang walked around below, not seeing a single figure.

He pondered for a moment, then suddenly spoke to the air around him: "Thanks for your help earlier, I brought you some food."

There was silence all around, no one responded.

Chen Tang placed the packed food from his arms to the side, saying, "You eat first, I’ll leave now."

After saying that, he turned and left.

After Chen Tang left, half an hour passed without any movement here.

After a long time, a figure slowly emerged from a dark corner of the top of the hold, like a ghostly apparition, came to the spot where Chen Tang had just stood, looking at the wrapped food, seemingly deep in thought.

This figure was extremely slender, with ordinary features, and eyes as dark as stagnant water—it was the top of the Dark Ranking, Ghost Concealment!

He could actually find me?

Ghost Concealment tilted her head slightly, feeling a bit puzzled.

With a flick of her wrist, a dull gray dagger slipped into her palm.

She extended the dagger and gently pried open the greaseproof paper to reveal the food inside.

She took out a silver needle and tested it one by one.

No poison.

Ghost Concealment thought for a moment, realizing that she was indeed hungry, and picked up the dry food to eat.

As she ate, she thought, "This person brought me food again, what does he want?"

Clearly, the deal was set that after today, there would be no holding back upon meeting again; is he not afraid I’ll kill him by coming over like this?

In the darkness, Ghost Concealment ate alone, quietly and slowly, making no sound at all.

She still ate very little, about one-third full, then she stopped.

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Chen Tang returned to his guest room, recalling what had just happened.

In fact, he hadn’t discovered Ghost Concealment.

But based on Shen Yu’s description, there should be someone who killed all the Upper Concealments boarding previously.

Moreover, the whole process was silent, and even Shen Yu and his people did not know what had happened!

The bodies of these concealers were sunk to the bottom of the sea, so that sea surface was stained with blood.

In Hermit Continent, he knew only a few people, and there were only three with such abilities.

As the leader of the Shadow Tower, Lady Yun’s cultivation is certainly not weak, but it is precisely because of this identity that she cannot help him personally.

That fortune-teller blind man comes and goes without a trace, and the two times he helped before were because Chen Tang paid him.

In his words, it was "taking money from people, solving problems for people."

The other person was Ghost Concealment.

Ghost Concealment may have helped him because of a meal on the first day of the year.

This move, considered as repaying a favor, means both parties owe nothing to each other after.

If Ghost Concealment stays on the ship, it may not yet abandon its assassination intention towards him!

Therefore, Chen Tang decided to wander around, to see if he could find any trace of Ghost Concealment.

He searched for a while but found nothing.

But after entering the bottommost hold and seeing the surrounding environment, based on his days of understanding the concealers, this place is indeed the most suitable for hiding tracks.

Besides, after entering Divine Illumination State, he vaguely sensed a slight oddity here.

If nothing unexpected, Ghost Concealment is right here!

Chen Tang’s idea was simple; he left the food, so once Ghost Concealment ate it, there’d be no chance for an assassination next time.

The presence of Ghost Concealment still put a lot of pressure on him, not even weaker than the third-grade Upper Concealment!

If he could get along with Ghost Concealment and let her give up the assassination, that would be the best.

Even if not, delaying for some time until he breaks through to the fourth-grade, the threat of Ghost Concealment would diminish considerably.

The next day, Chen Tang’s daily routine involved training his cultivation method, guiding Shen Yu’s cultivation, chatting casually with Ye Yushi about martial arts insights, and packing some food to place in the bottommost hold.

Every time he came here, Chen Tang would mutter a few words into the air.

"Your appetite is good, nothing was left from the food I brought last time."

"How is your arm injury? Next time, I’ll bring you some external medicine."

"Your injury last time wasn’t due to lacking power, but because I had the upper hand. If there’s a chance, we should have a good spar with the Dragon Capturing Technique."

"You eat so much, yet you don’t gain any weight?"

"How about I bring you more food next time?"

Hearing Chen Tang’s murmurs daily, Ghost Concealment kind of got used to it.

Only, whenever Chen Tang mentioned her eating a lot, she would feel a bit unhappy and want to retort.

Clearly, she ate very little!

But the leftover food left on the cargo ship could easily arouse suspicion, so she quietly tossed it into the sea.

The tenth day.

"You eat so much, you’re almost catching up to me. Today, I’ve brought you plenty of delicious food..."

Hearing Chen Tang’s mutters, Ghost Concealment finally couldn’t hold it anymore, stepped out from the shadows, and expressionlessly confronted Chen Tang, looking at him coldly.

"Oh, you’ve come out?"

Chen Tang was taken aback but then laughed: "Good timing, it’s still warm."

Ghost Concealment clenched her fists.

She wasn’t a glutton, who’s always obsessed with food!

She ate just to maintain strength; whether it was delicious or not, warm or cold, she didn’t care!

Chen Tang pushed the packed food in front of Ghost Concealment all at once, saying: "Have a quick bite, starving the kid, and now you even came out yourself today."

Ghost Concealment really wanted to kill the man in front of her with a knife and shut him up.

But she couldn’t.

Under Chen Tang’s stare, Ghost Concealment quietly picked up the dry food inside and began to eat, leaving the meat and vegetables untouched.

Having only eaten a small portion, Ghost Concealment stopped.

"Am I making you uncomfortable by watching?"

Chen Tang said: "If you want, I can leave, and you can eat freely."

Ghost Concealment didn’t answer, wrapped up the remaining food, and tossed it all into the sea in front of Chen Tang.

Chen Tang: "..."

Such a waste.

"No wonder you’re so skinny."

After a moment of bafflement, Chen Tang began to rant again: "You need to eat more, look at your sallow complexion, your hair splitting; people might think you’ve been mistreated."

"Let me tell you, I have a little sister who was as miserable as you before, but not long after staying with me, she became healthy and chubby..."

Thinking of Zhiwei, Chen Tang couldn’t help but sigh.

Apart from these old acquaintances, he most worried about was Zhiwei.

After all, she was still young, and alone, learning skills with people from the Profound Celestial Sect, he wondered if there was still a chance to meet again.

"What’s your name?"

Chen Tang turned his head and asked.

Ghost Concealment gave a plain glance at Chen Tang, ignoring him.

"I know you’re Ghost Concealment."

Chen Tang said: "But Ghost Concealment is just your title, surely you have a name."

Ghost Concealment was silent, then raised her hand to point to her mouth.

"Mute Girl?"

Chen Tang tentatively asked.

He seemed to have heard Lady Yun mention it once.

Ghost Concealment nodded slightly.

"Not good, not good."

Chen Tang shook his head: "The name doesn’t sound nice, and in fact, it doesn’t count as a name. How much of your childhood do you remember, like a nickname or similar, any impression?"

Ghost Concealment lowered her head and said nothing.

After a while, she dipped her finger in some water and wrote a character on the wooden box: "Li."

"Li?"

Chen Tang inquired: "Ah Li?"

Ghost Concealment didn’t respond, as though acknowledging.