Chapter 160: Taboo Designation 4-55, Ghost Costume

Chapter 160 -156: Taboo Designation 4-55, Ghost Costume

Jiang Chaosheng looked at Wang Qinghai.

To be precise, he was looking at the opera costume Wang Qinghai was wearing.

It was garish.

A crimson so deep it looked like it was about to drip blood.

Item No. 4-55, the Ghost Costume.

Once, the young mistress of a wealthy family became pregnant, and her father, the master of the house, discovered it.

To protect her lover, the young mistress didn’t dare say the child was a servant’s.

She lied, claiming she had been defiled by a young male actor who had previously come to their home to perform in an opera.

The master of the wealthy family paid a high price to hire the opera troupe again.

The moment the young actor stepped through the door, he was seized by the family’s servants and thrown into the Bishui River.

His resentment never faded. Over hundreds of years, his bright red opera costume, steeped in his malice, gained a strange power.

Its ability: Don the costume, bear the actor’s grudge, and transform into a Fierce Ghost!

At that moment, Wang Qinghai’s body began to change.

A thick Yin Qi seeped from his body.

His eyes turned blood-red.

His skin became deathly pale and began to swell with water.

He looked exactly like a Water Ghost!

Wang Qinghai threw a savage punch at Yang Xiao’s head, roaring in fury:

“Good, good, good! I lost a son but got a Taboo Item in return. I’d say I made a killing!”

Yang Xiao’s head, like a rubber ball, was sent flying by the punch, tracing a dark arc through the air.

Wang Qinghai knew that one punch wouldn’t be enough to kill Yang Xiao.

He let out a strange cry and leaped down from the second floor, his body seemingly weightless as he swiftly drifted toward Yang Xiao’s head.

Straight punches, elbow strikes, knee jabs, and roundhouse kicks.

After all, Wang Qinghai had clawed his way up from being a petty street punk.

He knew how to brawl.

His fighting style was no different from a common thug’s.

Every single one of his attacks was aimed at Yang Xiao’s head.

Like a rubber ball, Yang Xiao’s head was relentlessly battered by Wang Qinghai.

He knocked it up to the ceiling, then his body appeared there as a streak of red light, lashing out with a roundhouse kick that sent the head smashing into the doorframe.

Wang Qinghai then transformed into another red streak, blocking the doorway and punching the head into the opposite wall.

Yang Xiao was being completely overpowered.

However, his eyes were darting around wildly in their sockets.

He was searching for Wang Qinghai’s movements, analyzing his attack patterns.

In truth, the moment Wang Qinghai decided to only attack Yang Xiao’s head, he had already lost.

Because Yang Xiao was the kind of guy who could have his head knocked off and just put it back on like a hat.

Wang Qinghai once again transformed into a red streak and sneered.

“You want to find my weakness? Dream on!”

A strange power flowed from Wang Qinghai’s body.

That power was directed at Yang Xiao’s eyes.

A shadow fell over the eyes on Yang Xiao’s head.

This was Wang Qinghai’s most practiced technique: the Ghost Concealing Eye!

In mid-air, Wang Qinghai aimed a heavy kick at Yang Xiao’s head.

“I even killed your father, you’re still too green!

If your old man hadn’t been so cunning, leaving Liancheng for the South Sea the very night he died…

Heh, the Taboo Item he had would have been mine too!”

As expected, Wang Qinghai knew that Yang Yaozu possessed a Taboo Item.

Before his death, Yang Yaozu had also guessed that Wang Qinghai had a Taboo Item.

At the same time, Yang Yaozu had also figured out that Wang Qinghai’s Taboo Item definitely didn’t come from that antique shop.

Because Yang Yaozu had always guarded against any rivals or partners going to the South Sea.

He had made his fortune using the Black Magic Doll; how could he not know the terror of Taboo Items?

That was why, on his deathbed, he instructed Yang Xiao to take his body and the Taboo Item back to the South Sea overnight.

Yang Yaozu knew that Wang Qinghai wouldn’t dare set foot in the South Sea with a Taboo Item of unknown origin!

A trace of confusion appeared on Yang Xiao’s face.

‘Dad… was he worried about me before he died?’

‘He was already dead, yet he was worried Wang Qinghai might come after me?’

‘Perhaps Mr. Dusk finding me to retrieve the lost Taboo Item was also part of his plan.’

‘A man like my dad… was actually worried about me?!’

Wang Qinghai stared at Yang Xiao’s head, a greedy smile spreading across his face.

“Heheheh, you and your father are both useless!

Both of you are trash who had a Taboo Item and still ended up getting killed by me!

When I get the Taboo Item from you, I wonder what kind of reward Prince Heng will give me!”

Yang Xiao’s head rolled to the ground. It stared at Wang Qinghai, the corners of its mouth curling into a smile that revealed deathly white teeth.

Yang Xiao’s headless body formed a sealing technique with its hands.

From the shadows on the ceiling and walls, two Ghost Hands, each the size of a person, shot out abruptly.

Wang Qinghai stared in disbelief at the Ghost Hands that had emerged on either side of him.

“How is that possible! You’ve been hit by the Ghost Concealing Eye, how can you possibly see me?!”

How could Wang Qinghai know that for every shadow Yang Xiao had, he had a pair of eyes!

The two giant Shadow Ghost Hands seized the trapped Wang Qinghai in a death grip.

It was like an adult grabbing a doll.

The next second, dozens of Shadow Ghost Hands shot out from behind Yang Xiao, clawing fiercely at Wang Qinghai.

“THUD!”

“THUD!”

“THUD!”

The Ghost Hands clenched into fists and unleashed a furious barrage of blows on Wang Qinghai’s body!

Although Wang Qinghai had transformed into a Fierce Ghost, the Ghost Shadow’s attacks also carried a Soul Attack.

One of the Shadow Ghost Hands grabbed Yang Xiao’s head and slowly snapped it back onto his bare neck.

He twisted his head, getting used to it again, then glared at Wang Qinghai, his face taking on a perverse and violent expression.

“I’m going to… beat you to a pulp, one punch at a time!”

Under the relentless assault of the Shadow Ghost Hands, the color of the Ghost Costume on Wang Qinghai’s body grew fainter and fainter.

What was once as crimson as blood was now tattered and decaying, like a ragged cloth that had been soaked in water for ages!

Finally, Wang Qinghai’s head slumped down.

His crimson eyes returned to their normal color, and the swelling in his body subsided.

The blood covering his body stained the Ghost Costume.

Wang Qinghai struggled to lift his head. He looked at Yang Xiao, his eyes no longer filled with arrogance and contempt, but with the fear of death.

“Y-you, if you kill me, the person backing me won’t let you go!

Think about it! Someone who could just casually give me a Ghost Costume must have incredible connections!”

The Shadow Ghost Hands stopped punching Wang Qinghai, freezing in mid-air as if someone had pressed pause.

One Shadow Ghost Hand even hovered just at the tip of Wang Qinghai’s nose.

Seeing that Yang Xiao was indeed wary of his backer, Wang Qinghai heaved a sigh of relief, a smug look returning to his face.

“Yang Xiao, if you let me go today, I’ll pretend you were never here.

Don’t worry, I won’t tell my backer that you have a Taboo Item.

And I won’t ask where your Taboo Item came from. I…”

Yang Xiao suddenly scoffed.

The sound cut Wang Qinghai off.

Wang Qinghai stared blankly at Yang Xiao.

He didn’t know what he was laughing about.

He could only watch as Yang Xiao’s quiet chuckle grew into a wild, uninhibited laugh.

Yang Xiao stuck out his thumb and pointed behind him.

“You’re trying to pull the ‘backer’ card on me?

When it comes to patrons, I’ve never been afraid of anyone!”

Wang Qinghai shuddered violently.

A moment ago, with his son dead and having just encountered the Taboo Item of his dreams, he had lost his ability to think clearly.

Now that he had calmed down, he began to piece together the clues about Yang Xiao.

Yang Xiao’s hometown was the South Sea. What kind of fortuitous encounter did he have there?

South Sea… Taboo Item…

Wang Qinghai’s eyes suddenly went wide!

There really was a legendary existence in the South Sea who could bestow a Taboo Item upon Yang Xiao!

His eyes filled with shock, Wang Qinghai looked incredulously in the direction Yang Xiao was pointing with his thumb.

He saw Jiang Chaosheng sitting quietly on a chair in the corner and cried out in alarm:

“You… you’re Dusk?!”