I Can Strengthen Infinitely-Chapter 121 - 101: Soul-Catching Arm

The maid’s face changed instantly. She instinctively took a step back.

"Young master, don’t joke with me. How could I be an imposter? Who would impersonate me?"

"That’s something you should ask yourself. Why did you disguise yourself as my family’s maid and infiltrate the Qin Mansion?" Qin Yuesheng drew the Evil-Subduing Saber and took a step forward, chopping towards the maid.

This strike was merciless, and the maid’s features immediately tightened, trying to dodge to the side.

But she didn’t have the skill of the lady, and against Qin Yuesheng’s agility of 45.0, she was instantly smacked in the face with the blade of the Evil-Subduing Saber.

A shadow suddenly burst out of the maid’s body, revealing a haggard and ugly woman. Under the sunlight, her figure appeared extremely dim and seemed to be on the verge of dissolving.

Frightened, the female ghost immediately tried to dive back towards the maid to use her body for shelter.

How could Qin Yuesheng let her succeed? He grabbed the maid’s body and tossed it towards a large tree in the distance.

The saying goes, ’One method leads to mastery of all techniques.’ With the foundation of Flying Knife Skill, the maid was securely hung on the treetop by Qin Yuesheng. The ghost had no hope of possessing her again.

Helpless, she could only speedily float towards a shady area nearby.

However, as soon as she entered the shadow, the ghost saw that Qin Yuesheng had long been standing in front of her.

Qin Yuesheng took out two Soul-Swaying Bells: "Speak, what is your purpose in infiltrating the Qin Mansion? Is anyone directing you from behind the scenes?"

The ghost smirked maliciously and began to burrow underground, about to vanish from Qin Yuesheng’s sight.

At this moment, Qin Yuesheng started shaking the Soul-Swaying Bells in his hands. As the crisp sound rang out, the ghost’s body trembled and began to blur and darken, a prelude to her soul scattering.

The Soul-Swaying Bells may not have much effect on demons, but against ghosts, their power is exceptional.

This ghost was not powerful, trembling beneath the bells. She quickly crawled out from underground, kneeling before Qin Yuesheng, begging for mercy: "Stop shaking, please, stop shaking."

Seeing the situation was getting dire, and that continuing to shake would obliterate the ghost, Qin Yuesheng paused, looking down and asked: "Explain your origin clearly. What is happening to my father, who is secretly persecuting him?"

"I, I was originally just a wandering ghost at a mass grave, until a man captured me not long ago. He made me possess that man, and that’s all I know."

"Who is that man? What does he look like, where does he live?" Qin Yuesheng asked.

"I don’t know either. He took me to Cold Mountain Temple for a long time until that man named Qin Feng appeared. Only then was I released and assigned the task."

"Cold Mountain Temple!" Qin Yuesheng’s eyes flashed with killing intent.

Who would have thought that Qin Feng, out for a leisure stroll, would be targeted by villains?

"Is that man still at Cold Mountain Temple? What is my father’s condition, can you help restore his health?"

"I don’t know. He only told me to monitor Qin Feng and that when Qin Feng dies, he’d show himself."

Qin Yuesheng put away the Soul-Swaying Bells, speaking coldly: "It’s quite the plan, to target my Qin family."

"Young master, I’ve told you everything truthfully. I was forced too. Please, be magnanimous and forgive me. I promise to stay far away from you and your family, and never harm anyone again."

The ghost pleaded desperately, but awaited no response from Qin Yuesheng, only a cold black blade.

Swish!

The Evil-Subduing Saber sliced down from the ghost’s head, and her body shattered into countless fragments, her soul completely scattered.

"A pack of lies, if human words can’t be trusted, how can ghostly ones be?" Qin Yuesheng said. "If I let you go, I’d just be enabling you to harm others again."

At this time, the Soul-Catching Demon hidden on his ankle suddenly stirred, extending a small cherry mouth from beneath Qin Yuesheng’s robe, sucking all the fragments of the ghost’s soul into its mouth.

"Hmm?" Qin Yuesheng reached out to take the Soul-Catching Demon from his ankle.

Ever since returning from Ten Thousand Flowers City, the Soul-Catching Demon has been silent, no matter how Qin Yuesheng tried to command it. Today’s sudden ’revival’ piqued Qin Yuesheng’s curiosity about what had happened to it.

After all, the Soul-Catching Demon had once saved Qin Yuesheng’s life in the Poppy Sea.

"Are you still alive?" Qin Yuesheng asked the ring.

No response.

Qin Yuesheng tapped the Soul-Catching Demon with the Evil-Subduing Saber: "If you’re alive, give me some indication, don’t pretend to be dead."

No sooner had he spoken than the Soul-Catching Demon transformed from hard to soft, squirming around and instantly forming a breathtakingly beautiful face.

Qin Yuesheng was shocked; the face was actually the lady!

A new face grew from the lady’s neck, adjoining her head, another stunning beauty.

Ten Thousand Flowers City Lord, Ji Ruge!

Then Xuerong and all the women Qin Yuesheng had killed in Ten Thousand Flowers City appeared one by one, until the face of the ghost displayed just now, and then everything came to an abrupt stop.

"This, this is..." Qin Yuesheng was stunned.

Suddenly, these women opened their eyes wide and looked at Qin Yuesheng with a calm gaze. Some were beautiful, some were ugly, but all of their eyes had lost the liveliness they should have had, like the eyes of the dead.

Before Qin Yuesheng could react, the Soul-Catching Demon wrapped itself around his entire right arm, and those women’s faces rooted themselves on Qin Yuesheng’s right arm.

For a moment, his right arm was covered with women’s faces, densely pieced together, giving an eerie feeling like a ghostly entity.

But as the host of the Soul-Catching Demon, Qin Yuesheng experienced something else.

Power, the strength in his right arm had clearly increased.

Qin Yuesheng immediately brought up the super auxiliary tool.

In the attribute column, the original 25.0 strength had turned into 35.0.

This meant that, with the Soul-Catching Demon inhabiting his right arm, it alone had 10.0 strength.

Previously, the Soul-Catching Demon had also wrapped around Qin Yuesheng’s arm, but it never increased his attributes.

But now it did.

Doesn’t this mean that this change should be related to the women absorbed by the Soul-Catching Demon?

"Does it grow by absorbing souls?" A thought suddenly came to Qin Yuesheng’s mind.

"Change back." Qin Yuesheng withdrew the Evil-Subduing Saber and stretched out his left hand and said.

Soon, the Soul-Catching Demon turned back into a ring and fell into his hand. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

The strength on the attribute column returned to normal from 35.0.

"Interesting, this could actually be a trump card of mine." Qin Yuesheng thought to himself as he put the ring into his chest.

In the Great Tang, men wouldn’t wear things on their wrists; only women and certain men would do so.

So even if the Soul-Catching Demon could turn into a ring to wear on the wrist for convenience, Qin Yuesheng wouldn’t do it.

Walking over to get the maid down from the treetops, Qin Yuesheng left the garden.

Cold Mountain Temple, this place should be checked out.

Qin Yuesheng wanted to see for himself who was secretly conspiring with the supernatural to plot against his father.

Asking Cao Zhengchun to call the driver, Qin Yuesheng took the carriage and left Cyan Yang City, heading west towards Cold Mountain Temple.

...

Unexpected by Bai Hao was the fact that the Seven-Star Monitoring Special Task Force from Chang’an had arrived today.

Seeing the eight people arriving dust-covered and weary, Bai Hao hurriedly went out to welcome them personally, while Xun Sheng led a group of Cyan Yang City’s associates to greet them from behind.

"Subordinate Bai Hao, greets Lord Zuo." Bai Hao, upon seeing the first person enter the office, immediately knelt on one knee and said.

This person had a square face and big eyes, a tall nose, and thick lips, embodying stability and exuding a powerful presence, giving a strong sense of authority.

Zuo Zonghao, an officer at the Copper Toad Level in the Seven-Star Monitoring, was a martial artist at the Third Layer of the Inner Power Realm, mastering the ’Long-Armed Ruyi Fist’ to perfection. Though he resided in the court, his reputation as the ’Fist of Convenience’ was quite well-known in the martial world.

Behind Zuo Zonghao stood three officers at the Iron Toad Level, the same as Bai Hao, and four officers at the Wood Toad Level, the same as Qin Yuesheng, all skilled in exorcising and dispelling ghosts.

"Stand up and show me all the intelligence you’ve gathered over these days, quickly rooting out those rats." Zuo Zonghao said calmly.

The "rats" he referred to were the foreign guests.

"Yes, this way, Lord Zuo." Bai Hao stood up and then led the other party to his residence.

However, the three Iron Toad officers and four Wood Toad officers did not follow but rather headed towards the opposite direction, out of the office, leaving Xun Sheng puzzled.

Where are these lords going?

In villages and towns across the countryside, if any supernatural or strange events occurred that the local office could not handle, they would report them to Chang’an and request assistance.

The Seven-Star Monitoring would then dispatch multiple Wood Toad officers or an Iron Toad officer to investigate and handle the situation.

In city areas, dispatching Iron Toad officers was the minimum standard.

If the presence of foreign guests was detected, the Seven-Star Monitoring would take it seriously, dispatching a small team led by Copper Toad officers, which was considered a significant operation.

In the martial world, some factions might have no more than five experts at the Inner Power Realm in total.

But officers above the Iron Toad Level from the Seven-Star Monitoring all start at the First Layer of the Inner Power Realm, demonstrating that the Great Tang Dynasty indeed has some depth.

As they walked out of the office door, an Iron Toad officer took out his Exorcism Toad and said: "Before entering the city, Lord Zuo had already looked at the sky above the city, saying that a dark omen covered the city, wishing to overthrow its fate. Everyone split up and search the city, gather here before sunset, and make sure to find the source of the dark omen."

The four Wood Toad officers immediately clasped their hands and said: "As you command, sir."

With that, the group of seven dispersed on the spot, each taking a direction and leaving.