Chapter 16 "Get back here!"_2

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So, in this short span, he had already understood that the burnt corpse evil spirit before him was B-class, namely a "Fierce Ghost," lacking the house owner level of space manipulation.

What made it special was that it was "a ghost transformed from a Curse Forbidden Master after death," a type of being that often inherited part of the power from its lifetime, and the curse on it was likely some variant of Cursing Prohibition, indeed more troublesome than the ghosts of ordinary people after death.

And what about Cen Dongsheng? Although he possessed the Power of Tiger Demon, only those who had fully mastered the Triple superpower were qualified to call themselves a Class A Curse Forbidden Master.

Thus, with him yet to awaken any superpower, according to future definitions, his strength rank could only be considered B-class, but he had an overwhelming advantage in close combat, allowing him to easily suppress the theoretically same-level Deng Rong as soon as the fight began.

... If he could find an opportunity to engage in close combat with this Fierce Ghost, it seemed barely manageable.

One had to fight to know.

Cen Dongsheng once again kicked away the pouncing burnt corpse evil spirit, nimbly leaping out of the building.

Since this creature initially headed towards Kong Yulin, this could be fully exploited, as he wouldn't foolishly act as a vanguard for others.

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Thus, two humans and one ghost played a game of hide and seek in the Xiaokang Building's square-shaped hallway.

The burnt corpse ran wildly, and he followed, waiting for it to find Kong Yulin; then, as soon as Kong Yulin was forced to reveal herself, he would unleash his full strength, attacking both humans and ghosts together.

As the ghost lacked reason, only chasing living people by instinct, and Kong Yulin was not its match, she had to hide miserably all over, allowing Cen Dongsheng to quickly gain the upper hand by leveraging this strategy.

During the last brief encounter, the burnt corpse evil spirit swallowed that centipede, and Kong Yulin's face turned pale instantly, clearly suffering a significant internal injury, taking some time to hide again; in the meantime, the burnt corpse itself had an arm pulled off by him as if uprooting a radish.

Now, with the armless burnt corpse running ahead, Cen Dongsheng followed it with unhurried steps.

At this rate, Yu Wentao and Deng Rong's strength were roughly at B-class, and Kong Yulin's was unknown, but she was obviously not good at frontal combat.

It could be said that this civilian team's strength was still acceptable; even placed in the future, the basic Exorcism Team in which Cen Dongsheng was involved was at this level—going further meant having a Class A Curse Forbidden Master leading an elite team capable of independently conquering a Ghost House.

But it was clear at a glance; they lacked basic trust, just a group of people barely banding together for shared interests, always at risk of falling out over those interests.

For such a team, if the members didn't hold each other back, it was already considered good; there was no need to think about cooperation.

Cen Dongsheng loathed this type of cooperative relationship. The reason he longed for partnership was that he didn't want to battle ghosts while being wary of a knife in the back.

Thus, he was now very thankful that he had already developed feelings with Sister Zhi Zhen... He vaguely realized in his heart that this emotion itself might be more important than ability.

While deep in thought, the burnt corpse ahead suddenly stopped in its tracks.

It looked around blankly, no longer moving forward, but exhaled a mouthful of scorched smoke.

Seeing this situation, Cen Dongsheng immediately heightened his vigilance and readied himself.

Don't be fooled by how easily he tore off this ghost's two arms; that was because they hadn't yet reached the point where they were serious. He felt "barely manageable," truly a bit barely.

Ghosts were not human, without flesh and blood, thereby lacking the greatest weakness, and couldn't be resolved by breaking hands and feet to severe injury; True Qi must be used to completely dissipate to nothingness.

Moreover, the Ghost House was a place where yin energy gathered, and the scale of energy that ghosts could mobilize often exceeded that of a Forbidden Master. Over these six days, he methodically refined the yin energy in this space to weaken its ability as much as possible.

But he could see that the true power source of the ghost still lay hidden within that charcoal-like corpse...

"Boom!"

Standing in the corridor, the burnt corpse suddenly ignited entirely, like a torch, the blazing firelight illuminating the entire dark void.

The scorching flames continued to spread, the previously icy building now resembling a house swaying in a raging fire, illuminated with a bright red glow.

Realizing it couldn't find Kong Yulin's whereabouts, it simply released the curse power within, the blazing light of fire leaping seven or eight meters high, accompanied by billowing black smoke as if intending to ignite the entire Xiaokang Building.

The expanding flames resembled a burning snake rapidly enlarging; this giant Fire Snake swiftly slithered through the corridor, from the third-floor aisle, stairs, down to the second floor, lighting up the windows of surrounding rooms.

With no shadows in hiding, Kong Yulin, who tried her best to conceal herself, was eventually forced out by the suddenly expanding flames, smoke, and heat.

Kong Yulin rolled off the second floor and fell into the atrium area.

Cen Dongsheng promptly jumped to a higher position, avoiding the oncoming wave of flames, looking down from above. Even so, his clothes caught fire, and scorch marks spread across his hands, feet, and face, forcing him to speed up the circulation of True Qi within to counteract.

He saw the silhouette of the burnt corpse emerging from the vast firelight, its hands completely restored, intact.

Kong Yulin, sitting dejectedly on the ground, looked despairing.

She knew she was no match for this ghost. She just hadn't expected her past familiarity with the ghost in life became a death warrant.

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