Suddenly!
At the other end of Willow Alley, where the Ghost Bride stood, layer upon layer of ear-piercing shrieks rang out, deafeningly loud.
An invisible ring of airwaves exploded outward, ripping the red bridal sedan into countless fragments!
A ghostly female figure shrouded in a deep green shadow...
Appeared within everyone's field of vision!
Astonishing resentment coiled around the Ghost Bride. It was almost solid, affecting everything around it.
It was also staring fixedly at Fan Wu, just like the Ghost Groom...
Both of them were staring at Fan Wu!
Its deathly eyes were filled with shock and fury, as well as chilling killing intent!
The two most powerful fierce ghosts present had locked onto Fan Wu the moment he appeared...
Every last one of them had set their sights on him!!
"What incredibly dense resentment, and such frigid yin energy! What exactly did this newlywed ghost couple go through while they were alive? And why do they seem to hate Fellow Daoist Fan so much?"
Shen Jiyue could not make sense of it at all. She could only speculate pointlessly. "Could it be that they noticed Fellow Daoist Fan helping protect the Heavenly Mechanism Coffin, and thus bore a grudge against him?"
That reason sounded utterly illogical, but ghosts and monsters were inherently unreasonable.
Thinking about it that way...
It actually seemed rather plausible!
Just as Shen Jiyue was at a loss for how to break the current stalemate... her pupils suddenly shrank!
Because she saw the Ghost Bride, overflowing with resentment, transform into a streak of red and fly toward them!
The other's speed was astonishingly fast!!!
"Not good!" Shen Jiyue's heart tightened, but her hands reacted without delay.
She immediately prepared to meet the enemy.
But in the next moment, she realized that the red-clad Ghost Bride rushing toward them was not coming for her.
It was coming for Fan Wu!
"Fellow Daoist Fan, be careful!"
Shen Jiyue hurriedly turned her head and shouted a warning.
Then she was horrified to discover that the instant the Ghost Bride moved, the Ghost Groom at the other end of Willow Alley also transformed into a strange red shadow and flew over!
The Ghost Groom was not targeting her, nor was he targeting Xie Jiuyi. It was targeting Fan Wu!
The Ghost Groom!
The Ghost Bride!
They were both charging straight at Fan Wu!!
It seemed they both wanted to put Fan Wu to death at the first possible moment.
It was as though they both wanted to tear Fan Wu apart!!
In the blink of an eye, the two strange red shadows on either side had rapidly closed in, already within arm's reach! Fan Wu's skin could feel a cold, chilly yin wind blowing toward him.
Yet Fan Wu, caught between the two terrifying fierce ghosts, showed no panic whatsoever. He had not the slightest intention of retreating.
His expression was utterly calm. Without the slightest haste, he raised both hands.
The Ghost Groom and Ghost Bride abruptly halted!
Then...
The sleeves covering both of Fan Wu's arms had been shredded.
They revealed thick, knotted muscles as solid as cast iron, like two arm-shields impervious to blades and spears.
The Ghost Bride's sharp black nails had already dug viciously into Fan Wu's arm, but for them to go any deeper was as difficult as reaching the heavens!
It was as though they had seized a block of steel. The sharp black nails could not pierce his skin at all!
The same was true on the Ghost Groom's side.
They could not break through his defenses at all!
"Did you not eat?" Fan Wu relaxed his grip, and the Demon-Slaying Sword fell from his hand.
Just as the Demon-Slaying Sword was about to hit the ground.
He treated the fierce ghosts' claws as if they were nothing, pulling both arms back.
The next instant!
Two punches!
They thundered out!
His fists moved as fast as lightning, striking the air with deafening explosive booms.
Before the two fierce ghosts could even react, they transformed into two red shadows and were sent flying backward at even greater speed!
Taking advantage of the momentum, Fan Wu snatched up the Demon-Slaying Sword before it could land.
The scabbard slid backward.
The blade was revealed!
He slashed fiercely toward the direction in which the Ghost Bride had flown!
Another slash from the air!!
Only after the Ghost Bride, flying through the air, recovered from her daze did she seem to sense something. A trace of fear actually appeared on her pale, horrifying face!
The figure in midair twisted forcefully with all its might.
She watched helplessly as a mass of distorted air flew past her ghostly body and plunged into the ordinary evil ghosts who had yet to figure out what was happening!
In that instant!
It was like a bomb being thrown into a pond.
Wherever that distorted air passed, the evil ghosts' souls twisted violently before they could even cry out!
One ghost after another was forcibly torn apart!
They turned into a great expanse of fragmented ghostly bodies, rolling and drifting throughout Willow Alley.
This sight left not only the ghosts dumbfounded.
The humans were dumbfounded too!
Shen Jiyue first looked at her own arm, which was already considered fairly robust among women, then at Daoist Master Fan's forearm, its muscles knotted like steel.
Then she turned her head toward the Ghost Bride, who had landed in a sorry state, and the terrified evil ghosts behind her.
She secretly swallowed.
Within the Imperial Astronomy Bureau, Shen Jiyue had seen no shortage of powerful figures. But this was the first time she had encountered someone with such ferocious physical strength, and the shock left her reeling!
How exactly had Daoist Master Fan sent those two fierce ghosts flying just now...? Shen Jiyue realized that she had not seen it clearly.
His punches had been too fast.
She simply could not see them!
"Hiss..." The Ghost Bride, who had drifted down to the ground in a sorry state, let out a pained, labored hiss. Her chest had caved inward, leaving behind a massive fist mark.
A great amount of yin energy leaked from the spot, while pain and venom filled her face.
Her deathly eyes remained fixed on Fan Wu.
But this time, she was no longer so reckless. Instead, a trace of caution colored her expression.
The Ghost Groom on the other side was in an equally miserable state.
A massive fist mark covered his face, half his head caved inward. Only one eye remained, and that eye was filled with disbelief and hatred.
It too was glaring fixedly at Fan Wu!
The two fierce ghosts were somewhat different from the strange shadow Fan Wu had encountered earlier. They possessed a certain degree of reason.
Of course, they also had something in common with the strange shadow.
That was their boundless respect and loyalty toward the "Great Venerable"!
Otherwise, they would not have hated Fan Wu so intensely.
Ultimately...
They believed that Fan Wu had blasphemed the Great Venerable, touching their most inviolable scales!
Thus.
They moved again!
The Ghost Groom's hideous maw, set in his sunken face, suddenly opened impossibly wide. Strands of black mist drifted from his mouth and spread forward at a steady pace.
The Ghost Bride moved in exactly the same way. She too opened her mouth and sprayed out strands of black mist, but that strange black mist did not rush toward Fan Wu.
Instead, it rapidly converged with the mist in midair, where it began to emit strange fluctuations.
Fan Wu narrowed his eyes.
Then, in the very next instant.
The Ghost Groom's ghostly body seemed to be forcibly pulled over by some unseen power. The Ghost Bride on the other side was drawn in the same way!
The black mist rapidly dragged the two together, and the two ghostly figures collided in midair.
Yet rather than bouncing apart, they became entangled with each other.
They began to merge!
"Dual Soul Merging?" Fan Wu did not stop them. He merely watched in silence and murmured the name of a technique.
This was one of the [Skills] he had previously seen shared by the two ghosts.
Under his gaze, in the brief span of a single breath, the Ghost Groom and Ghost Bride had completely fused!
A brand-new strange entity, humanoid in shape and no smaller than the strange shadow...
Appeared before Fan Wu!
[Ultimate Fused Form of the Ghost Bride and Ghost Groom (three-minute countdown)--Life: 1278--Strength: 22.1--Skills: Dual Soul Merging, Black Curtain Barrier, Soul Descent Technique, Ghost Possession...]
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