What Is Love?
As the Corpse Puppet approached the Sky Cicada Wood, the pile of white bones in the distance suddenly began to churn and surge.
Something is moving through the bones!
The thing was incredibly fast, reaching the Corpse Puppet's feet in an instant, then bursting out of the pile of bones, sending countless bones flying.
The newcomer was none other than the Dwarf Ghost.
It rammed directly into the Corpse Puppet, sending Corpse Puppet flying into the air.
The Dwarf Ghost seized the opportunity and swung its claws at the lower half of the Corpse Puppet, the claws swirling with ghostly energy.
The Corpse Puppet's sturdy left leg was instantly severed from its body, broken off at the root.
The Corpse Puppet at the Qi Refining Sixth Layer was no match for the Dwarf Ghost.
The Dwarf Ghost was about to completely dismember the Corpse Puppet when it suddenly stopped.
It turned out that it emerged from the pile of bones, revealing the cave where it was hiding.
Inside the cave where it hid, the tall, Green-Faced Female Ghost lay extremely weak. It was unknown how the Dwarf Ghost had managed to revive the ghost whose soul was on the verge of dissipating.
A dozen or so Beetle Gu were flying around the female ghost, baring their fangs and claws, as if they were about to tear her soul to shreds at any moment.
"Human, if you dare to touch Him, I will make sure your soul is annihilated."
The Dwarf Ghost, like a wildcat whose tail had been stepped on, suddenly flew into a rage. Its ghostly aura began to surge violently, filling the entire cave with an eerie atmosphere.
The Dwarf Ghost's voice was unpleasant, like a broken bellows, booming and groaning.
Seeing the Dwarf Ghost's reaction, Song Wen smiled slightly.
To my surprise, it actually worked!
In the previous cave, the Dwarf Ghost chose to abandon its attack on the dying female ghost in order to heal her.
He guessed at the time that the female ghost was very important to the Dwarf Ghost, or that they had a very deep relationship.
Therefore, after discovering the Green-Faced Female Ghost, Song Wen decided to use the weakened female ghost to threaten the Dwarf Ghost.
"Give me that three-hundred-year-old Sky Cicada Wood, and I will leave without harming it in the slightest," Song Wen said.
"This is impossible!" the Dwarf Ghost roared.
"Oh? Is that so?" Song Wen smiled wickedly.
The sixteen Black-Bellied Beetle Gu surrounding the female ghost suddenly surged with spiritual energy. The already extremely weak female ghost, surrounded by so many Beetle Gu, could only flap her wings and cause the Spiritual Qi to vibrate, causing her soul to sway as if it were about to shatter at any moment.
"Stop! Stop right now!" the Dwarf Ghost cried out in a panicked voice.
"I'll give you Sky Cicada Wood."
The Dwarf Ghost floated toward the Sky Cicada Wood, reaching out to pluck it up.
"Brother Tian, no! These two Sky Cicada Wood are the ones you painstakingly found and transplanted. They are the key to your breakthrough into a second-tier ghost." The weak female ghost suddenly spoke.
Her voice was sharp and piercing, like two pieces of iron rubbing against each other.
The Dwarf Ghost grabbed Sky Cicada Wood's hand, stopped, and looked at the female ghost with a complicated expression.
"But if I don't give him the Sky Cicada Wood, he'll kill you!"
"If you lose the Sky Cicada Wood, you can find another one. But if your soul dissipates, you won't even have the chance to be reincarnated."
The Dwarf Ghost's voice, which sounded even worse than banging a broken gong, was tinged with a sob.
Just when Song Wen was about to get his hands on the Sky Cicada Wood, a single sentence from the female ghost caused an unexpected setback. He grew anxious and urged her on.
"Quickly, give me the Sky Cicada Wood, or I'll take action."
The Dwarf Ghost's expression changed drastically, and he hurriedly roared, "Don't kill him, I'll give it to you!"
After saying that, he uprooted the Sky Cicada Wood and threw it at Song Wen.
As Song Wen watched the Sky Cicada Wood getting closer and closer to him in mid-air, his face lit up with joy, but then turned to panic.
The reason was simple: after the Green-Faced Female Ghost cried out "Goodbye, Brother Tian," her soul disintegrated and vanished.
"No!" The Dwarf Ghost's voice was filled with shrillness, tragedy, and despair, as if he had suddenly lost the meaning of life.
Its body was filled with ghostly energy, like a surging, turbulent flood.
With a swift movement, the Dwarf Ghost rushed into the cave, its ghostly energy surging wildly towards the female ghost's split soul, attempting to leave the Green-Faced Female Ghost in the mortal realm.
However, it was all in vain.
The female ghost's torn soul, like a wisp of smoke spreading out, dissipated even faster when confronted by the ghostly energy.
"No!"
Another roar, filled with sorrow and anger, followed.
They exuded a murderous aura and possessed an overwhelming momentum.
Boundless ghostly energy swept wildly in all directions.
Before they could get away, the sixteen Black-Bellied Beetle Gu were caught in the ghostly energy and immediately lost their life force. Then, carried away by the ghostly energy, they drifted away to an unknown destination.
Having finally obtained the Sky Cicada Wood, Song Wen was activating the Blood Escape Technique to escape when he sensed the death of the Black-Bellied Beetle Gu.
He had already lost fifteen Black-Bellied Beetle Gu during the battle against the White Bone Worm, and now he had lost sixteen more, bringing his total loss to thirty-one.
However, Song Wen had no time to ponder these things at that moment.
He just wanted to get away as quickly as possible.
The crazed Dwarf Ghost was truly terrifying.
Song Wen felt like he had gone too far.
He never imagined that the bond between these two ghosts would be so deep.
The Dwarf Ghost is willing to forgo the fortuitous opportunity to advance in rank for the sake of the female ghost.
The female ghost willingly sacrificed her soul for the sake of the Dwarf Ghost.
Such a moving, unwavering, and selfless love!
It's unbelievable that this happened to two ghosts.
Willing to give everything for the other person, even their life—this is perhaps the most beautiful form of love.
In contrast, the emotional entanglement between Lao Chun and Zi Yi is filled with madness, morbidity, and scheming...
Sometimes, the emotions between humans are not as pure and sincere as those between ghosts and monsters.
The ghostly aura emanating from the Dwarf Ghost enveloped the entire cavern, and countless bones in the pile of bones rose from the ground and floated towards the Dwarf Ghost.
The Dwarf Ghost's aura was also rapidly increasing, and he soon broke through to the Qi Refining Ninth Layer.
In the blink of an eye, a gigantic ghost, over two zhang tall and covered in bones as if wearing a suit of bone armor, appeared.
"Humans, die!"
The dwarf White Bone Ghost's furious roar shook the cave, causing countless rocks to fall.
The dwarf White Bone Ghost chased after Song Wen in the direction he fled, rampaging and smashing through countless rocks along the way.
Song Wen had already run two or three miles, but the bloody scent he left behind, created by his Blood-Burning Technique, was completely out of place with the surrounding corpse energy and Yin Qi energy, making him very conspicuous. The Dwarf Ghost followed the scent and came after him.
The dwarf White Bone Ghost was even faster than Song Wen, who had exhausted all his methods, and the distance between them was gradually closing.
"Bang!" Song Wen crashed into a walking corpse blocking his way. This walking corpse, which was comparable to the Qi Refining Third Layer of Qi Refining, was smashed to pieces by Song Wen, with rotten flesh flying everywhere.
The dozen or so zombies wandering around were attracted by the rich Blood Qi emanating from Song Wen and hurriedly moved closer to him.
But Song Wen was too fast; before they could get close, Song Wen's figure had vanished without a trace.
Immediately afterward, a dwarf White Bone Ghost, two zhang tall, charged forward. The walking corpses were swept over by its ghostly aura and were all knocked to the ground. Many of the walking corpses had a layer of rotten flesh scraped off, revealing their stark white bones.
The dwarf White Bone Ghost was enraged as it could not catch up with the humans ahead.
A transparent, sharp blade appeared in front of it, then moved with lightning speed, instantly covering hundreds of meters, and stabbed straight at the back of Song Wen's head.
Song Wen swayed slightly, but his speed was hardly affected, and he continued to flee.
The dwarf White Bone Ghost behind it was taken aback. It hadn't expected that its usually invincible mental attack would miss its target.
Not only did it fail to harm that damned human, it also slowed down its own speed, increasing the distance between them.