First Slaying of a Fierce Ghost

"Did you guys hear? They're holding a Fierce Ghost in Seven Star!"

"I know, I heard that Fierce Ghost snuck into the city and killed quite a few people. The Demon Slayer Envoys who tried to capture it suffered heavy casualties!"

"Hey! I heard that Fierce Ghost is locked up in the Seven Star Number Nine Dungeon. I wonder who's unlucky enough to get assigned to it."

Listening to the few Demon Slayer Envoys discussing animatedly, Fang Mu quietly muttered and walked away.

Fang Mu took out a token he had stuck inside his demon capturing bag, and his mouth couldn't help but twitch.

"Damn it, that damned Sun Hou, he's really not a good guy. He actually assigned me a Fierce Ghost."

Fang Mu was confident he could kill other demons, but he had never encountered a strange and uncanny creature like a Fierce Ghost, so he was a little worried.

Looking at the demon capturing bag in his hand, Fang Mu had already dealt with all the demons inside.

Now, only the Demon Slayer token remained, marking the Seven Star Number Nine Dungeon, the very dungeon where the Fierce Ghost was imprisoned.

Fang Mu didn't get anything good from the demons he killed this time, just those Essence Blood Pills and Essence Pills.

Following the iron chain bridge, Fang Mu finally arrived outside the Seven Star Number Nine Dungeon.

"Whatever! Fortune favors the bold. There's no turning back, only moving forward."

Fang Mu secretly encouraged himself, inserted the Demon Slayer token into the keyhole of the dungeon door, and slowly turned it to open the dungeon.

After entering the inner door of the dungeon, he warily looked at the black shadow on the torture rack, bound and locked by strands of light.

The shadow looked like a woman, with blood-red eyes and a fanged, green face, very much like the Fierce Ghosts in folklore.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh"

A series of piercing sounds rang out as Fang Mu shot out many arrows from the torture rack, piercing the Fierce Ghost's body.

"Roar!"

The Fierce Ghost suddenly let out a furious roar, desperately struggling against the strands of light that bound it.

Looking at the Fierce Ghost, which had gone mad and lost all reason, Fang Mu couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

The arrows didn't harm the Fierce Ghost, they simply passed through its body.

"Not good... Bang!"

Fang Mu exclaimed, and was sent flying, crashing into the iron dungeon door.

The Fierce Ghost shattered the strands of light that bound it and escaped. After knocking Fang Mu away, it lunged at him again.

The Fierce Ghost was incredibly fast, turning into an afterimage and appearing before Fang Mu in the blink of an eye.

He didn't have time to dodge and could only engage the Fierce Ghost head-on.

"Bang bang bang"

A series of muffled thuds echoed as Fang Mu fought the Fierce Ghost, unable to harm it at all.

The Fierce Ghost was too bizarre, it could switch between solid and ethereal states at will.

Fang Mu's attacks couldn't hit it at all, and instead, he was scratched by it.

Seeing the situation becoming increasingly unfavorable, he grew anxious when a vine suddenly wrapped around the Fierce Ghost.

The Fierce Ghost turned from ethereal to solid, bound in place and unable to move.

Without time to think, Fang Mu swung his sword. After more than a dozen strikes, the Fierce Ghost screamed and turned into a pile of shattered remains.

As golden light enveloped the shattered remains, the Fierce Ghost directly turned into smoke, leaving no trace of blood.

Fang Mu looked forward to the items he might obtain from refining the Fierce Ghost.

In the fragmented memories of the Fierce Ghost...

A beautiful woman met her companions outside the city for training and leisure.

However, when they passed through a town where they stopped, she was defiled by several men who had been following them.

Her companions were killed, and the woman was locked in a cellar, living a life worse than death, eventually biting her tongue to commit suicide.

Her body was discarded in a wilderness outside the town. The woman, who died with intense resentment, transformed into a Fierce Ghost under the shroud of darkness.

The woman had lost her sanity and killed anyone she saw. She somehow ended up in Qingzhu City, killing many people before being captured.

Sensing the resentment and unwillingness filling the memories, Fang Mu frowned deeply.

He hadn't expected the Fierce Ghost to have been a human, transformed by resentment.

And the darkness outside the city seemed to have created her.

They always said the darkness outside the city was terrifying, and it truly wasn't baseless talk. It could even turn resentment into a Fierce Ghost.

Void Transformation Pill, obtained from refining the Fierce Ghost, allows one to possess the ability to switch between solid and ethereal states.

Looking at the pill that appeared in his hand, Fang Mu's face overflowed with excitement, and he quickly swallowed the Void Transformation Pill.

He didn't care that the pill was formed from a Fierce Ghost; strengthening himself was the hard truth.

The pill melted in his mouth, transforming into streams of cool energy that integrated into his limbs and bones.

"Ugh, why doesn't it seem to have any effect?"

After feeling the medicinal pills within his body had been absorbed and refined, Fang Mu stood up with a hint of surprise.

But soon, his feet began to fade, and his body gradually dematerialized, as if merging into the void.

A black shadow, like a phantom, moved rapidly through the dungeon.

The fast-moving black shadow gradually revealed Fang Mu's figure.

"The Void Transformation ability is quite good. It's as fast as the wind, moves like an illusion, and can conceal one's aura. It's simply a must-have skill for tracking and escaping."

Fang Mu muttered to himself, unable to hide his joy.

From now on, he finally had some self-preservation strength. If he couldn't win, he at least had a way to escape.

However, after Void Transformation, there was a significant drawback, or rather, a common flaw among all Fierce Ghosts.

That is, as soon as he attacked, he would automatically exit the Void Transformation state.

"Sigh! You're also a pitiable soul. I've benefited from you this time. If I have the chance, and the villains who bullied you are still alive, I will definitely avenge you."

"Thank you."

Fang Mu was originally muttering to himself to reassure himself.

He never expected a woman's thought to suddenly appear in his mind, thanking him, which instantly made his hair stand on end.

After sensing carefully, he found that the thought had already dissipated, and Fang Mu breathed a sigh of relief.

Glancing at the watermelon pattern on his hand, Fang Mu said thanks.

If Xixi hadn't intervened this time, he probably would have been finished.

It seemed he needed to study Xixi's abilities when he had time; this cute little guy's abilities didn't seem simple either.

Fang Mu looked at his dirty and disheveled self and gave a wry smile.

He simply rolled around on the ground a few times and then smeared some of the collected blood water onto himself, making his whole body filthy.

Leaving the dungeon and exiting the prison, Fang Mu found it was dark again. He had actually been busy all day.

Fang Mu, covered in dirt, leaned on a wooden stick and walked weakly, looking like he could collapse at any moment.

"Yo! Isn't this Fang, the great Demon Slayer Envoy? Why are you so pathetic?"

The annoying, cold, sarcastic voice came. Fang Mu knew it was the detestable Tu Qing without even looking.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk. Fang Mu, are you trying to escape because you didn't complete your mission?"

Sun Hou, following behind Tu Qing, quickly blocked Fang Mu's path and questioned him.

Fang Mu was somewhat weak and didn't argue with Sun Hou. He took out the opened demon capturing bag and the Seven Star Demon Slaying Token and threw them to Sun Hou.

"You!" Sun Hou was furious, not expecting Fang Mu to dare treat him with such an attitude.

Just as Sun Hou was getting angry and wanted to seize the opportunity to teach Fang Mu a lesson.

Tu Qing coughed and stepped forward, glancing at the demon capturing bag on the ground with some surprise.

"You're like a cockroach. You've slain so many demons and even that Fierce Ghost without being killed? I underestimated you before!"

"Thanks to you."

Ignoring the sarcastic Tu Qing, Fang Mu replied indifferently and left, leaning on his wooden stick.

"You scoundrel!"

Watching Fang Mu leave, Sun Hou was full of anger.

"Brother Qing, why did you stop me? I would have beaten him up and killed him, and it would have been a way to vent your anger."

"Vent your sister's anger! Are you f***ing stupid? If I wanted to kill him, would I need you to do it?"

Tu Qing slapped Sun Hou on the forehead, scolding him with disappointment.

"I'm keeping him alive to find amusement and pleasure."

"He's already covered in Demonic Energy from slaying so many demons. He's going to die sooner or later anyway. What's the point of killing him now?"

"You idiot, stay away from him in the future. Be careful not to get contaminated by the Demonic Energy on him."

Scolded fiercely by Tu Qing, Sun Hou didn't dare to retort and repeatedly flattered him, agreeing.