Kill Her, Take the Crystal and Invitation

The Female Ghost screamed for mercy in a hoarse voice, her face full of terror.

She wanted to trade something valuable for her life, and she knew about the Carefree Tower in the Land of Bliss?

I didn't know what kind of place the Carefree Tower was, or what made it a land of bliss.

But right now, I had no interest in bargaining with her.

She had to die.

All I wanted was the crystal.

And I had the Phoenix-Pattern Jade Pendant on me.

Once I killed her, I would get the crystal.

Forget offering me something in exchange for her life. Even if she hauled over two cartloads of gold, she still had to die.

I stared at the Female Ghost before me. Her hair was sparse and her face sickly pale, but faint jade-green ghostly energy seeped from her entire body. I answered in a low voice:

"Enough talk. You're going to die."

As soon as the words left my mouth, I drove my fist toward her forehead.

"No..."

Bang! My fist struck her square in the forehead.

In an instant, the sickly Female Ghost burst apart before my eyes.

Her scream cut off, and she became a mass of human-shaped ghost fire.

At that moment, I felt refreshed as a stream of pure true qi flowed into me.

The ghost fire burned brightly, but it harmed no one and scorched nothing.

It vanished in the blink of an eye. Then came two faint plops as objects hit the ground.

I looked down and saw two things lying there.

One was a plain azure bamboo slip about as long as my middle finger. I had no idea what it was.

The other, though, filled me with surprise and excitement.

It was an azure crystal fragment half the