In my surprise,
Master had already spoken:
"Damn it, didn't he just deliver himself to our doorstep? Xiao Jiang, do you remember Gray Fourth Lady?"
I nodded sharply.
"I remember. Gray Nine Heavens even wrote her a love letter. I told you about it, Master."
"Do you remember what it said?"
"I remember some really mushy lines!"
"Mm, that'll do. In a moment, use Gray Fourth Lady to provoke him, so he doesn't just keep running away.
Once we take this guy down, we can openly go see Black Mother."
Master laid out his plan. It was indeed a rather nasty move.
But it felt like it should work.
According to White Immortal, Gray Nine Heavens was an evil demon of the Northeast, wanted by Black Mother.
If we captured him, we could go directly to Black Mother and ask for her blessing, letting him use the "pipe" in his hand to expel the excess Four Misfortune Qi from my body and stabilize my Four Misfortune Qi Cyclone.
That way, as long as I did not actively absorb large amounts of misfortune qi again, my body would have nothing to worry about.
I would no longer need to fear the backlash of the Four Misfortune Qi every full moon on the fifteenth.
Who would have thought we would run into him here in Ghost Cry City?
Capturing Gray Nine Heavens was now just as important as obtaining Blood Dew had been.
Amid our delighted surprise, Master had already stepped out of the bushes, and I followed behind him.
The moment we moved, those demons reacted.
They all turned to look our way...
"People!"
"Two of them!"
"Are they from the Secret Bureau?"
"..."
For a moment, more than a dozen demons, Gray Nine Heavens included, all grew tense and looked