Chapter 288: Chapter 174: My Junior Brother Took the Initiative to Touch Me...
"This..."
You Su couldn’t believe his eyes as he read the images on the gold paper back and forth.
At the top of the image was a black coffin, which You Su instantly recognized as the black coffin in which the True Lord resided!
Below the black coffin, five dark lines flowed downward.
The first line was very thin, and two totem-like images began to appear below it. The first was a mass of flowing red flesh, an evil spirit You Su had seen in illustrated compendiums before, none other than the Red Meat Ghost that Mr. Ling had been nurturing for years; and the second was a mutated Blood Leech Ghost that had persistently besieged him in the underground cave with Ji Xueruo.
The second line was so faint it was almost invisible, with nothing underneath it.
The third line was visibly more distinct than the previous ones, and there were two patterns underneath, both of which You Su had surprisingly encountered! The first was the Lantern Ghost with a glowing tumor on its forehead, and the second was the giant sandworm with peculiar eyes he had seen just days ago—Zangtu!
The fourth line was also quite clear, and below it was none other than the Taisui he had seen countless times in his dreams!
But when he saw the fifth line, You Su suddenly held his breath, because the image connected to this thick line was no longer an evil spirit but two identical people!
Ji Lingruo and Ji Xueruo!
"What on earth... does this mean?"
Despite having prepared himself, he was still shocked by the mystical nature of this gold paper.
The gold paper reflected golden light onto You Su’s dark eyes, making them appear eerie and sacred.
His mind raced, processing the content of this image.
From the known information, it could be inferred that the first three lines were clearly arranged in the order of ’Blood Flesh Attribute, Five Elements Attribute, Dream Master Attribute’. The meaning represented by the thickness and thinness of these black lines was also easy to infer; it was the sum of the powers of the evil spirits below them.
You Su carefully recalled; it seemed he truly had not killed any evil spirits belonging to the Five Elements Attribute, which explained why nothing was there.
But he had killed far more Blood Flesh Attribute evil spirits than just the Red Meat Ghost and the mutated Blood Leech Ghost, so why didn’t they show up here? Could it be that the evil spirits in the mist of Chuyun City were too weak? Or was there another reason?
You Su hadn’t personally killed the Dream Master Attribute evil spirit Zangtu, so why did it appear here?
Staring at the Taisui beside it, a flash of inspiration suddenly struck You Su. He quickly took a square mirror from his Qiankun Bag, and although his face showed no change in the mirror, the originally pitch-black ink eyes were now emitting a strange dark green light!
You Su had seen this kind of light before! It was exactly like the light from the countless compound eyes of Zangtu!
You Su finally understood the meaning of these patterns; just as he had absorbed the Power of Taisui and thus Taisui appeared here, he had unintentionally absorbed the powers of these evil spirits, which is why they showed up here!
Low-level evil spirits like the Red Meat Ghost and Lantern Ghost did not bring noticeable changes to You Su, but high-level ones like Taisui and Zangtu visibly altered him, one giving him pitch-black yet sight-capable eyes, the other bestowing some unknown green light in his ink eyes.
Could it be... that before Zangtu died, it intentionally merged its power into me while leaving a final message in my mind?
The specifics were unknown to You Su, so he had to continue contemplating further.
You Su remembered that Little White Fish had previously told him that strictly speaking, Taisui was not a descendant of the three Great Evil Gods; it was a uniquely independent evil spirit, so belonging to its own branch was no problem.
But this fifth black line perplexed You Su; why were his sister and Miss Ji appearing here? This thick black line clearly indicated they had a profound connection with the True Lord as well.
You Su recalled the truth revealed to him during his final meeting with Zangshui; she had attempted to transform Ji Xueruo into her retainer and seize her, but failed because Ji Xueruo was already You Su’s retainer.
Initially, You Su hadn’t paid much attention to this, but looking at the image now, he couldn’t help but speculate that this line represented the True Lord’s retainer.
The True Lord was the source of all evil spirits; didn’t this mean the True Lord was the greatest evil spirit in the world?
Bearing the True Lord within him, had he unwittingly transformed this pair of sisters into his own retainers?!
You Su forced himself to calm down. He had never intended to drag those he cherished into this hazardous conflict between the True Lord and evil spirits, yet things still went against his wishes.
He didn’t know what effects these retainers might have, but at least for now, they hadn’t had any negative impact on them; otherwise, he would blame himself to death.
But why were the retainers specifically them?
You Su carefully compared the commonalities between the sisters and arrived at a conclusion that shamed him—they seemed to have refined the ’Sword Intent’ he had introduced into their bodies.
He only knew this ’Sword Intent’ contained his own yang energy, essence, and the Power of Taisui, but hadn’t realized it also granted them the Power of the True Lord.
Just as You Su was lost in thought, a sudden change occurred!
You Su suddenly felt a piercing pain like needles on the back of his hand. Feeling something was wrong, he quickly turned his hand over, only to be shocked to find that the gold paper seemed to have come alive! Vine-like appendages stretched out from its back!
These eight tendrils were as black as carbon ink, with only the suckers at the tips shining with dazzling gold light like the body itself, attaching themselves to You Su’s hand, causing a strange tingling sensation.
You Su hurriedly let go of the paper, trying to shake off these tendrils. Seeing no effect, he tried to pull them off with his hand, but these suckers were like leeches already burrowed into flesh, and no matter how hard he pulled, they wouldn’t budge!
