Chapter 56: A fierce battle

The head of the Hungry Ghost King only stopped at the door of the secret room for less than a second. Then I and Su Rou heard the sound of cracking, ‘crack, crack,’ which was the sound of the green bricks at the door of the secret room breaking. Then its half shoulder squeezed in. Was it going to catch us in a jar?

Su Rou and I exchanged a glance. We never planned to hide in this secret room from the Hungry Ghost King. A guy who can break down a huge stone door like that, what good is a secret room?

Su Rou and I hurriedly moved towards the two sides of the secret room, as close to the door as possible. But I hadn’t taken two steps when I saw the hungry ghost king staring at me coldly, with a somewhat humanized ‘mocking’ look in his eyes.

Next, without warning, it opened its mouth and a green liquid shot at me.

“Your mother!” I yelled, not having time to dodge properly, and I could only roll on the ground to avoid the liquid. Needless to say, this hungry ghost king looks like a snake, so what fun can it be to spit out?

The ground was covered in fragments of pottery jars. This roll made me ache all over. Before I could get up, I heard a continuous series of “pang” and “pang” sounds. That was the sound of the green bricks at the door being crushed and broken on the ground.

The hungry ghost king’s shoulders and arms had already squeezed in, and I saw it grab at the crispy meat without hesitation.

“Su Rou, be careful!” I didn’t have time to save Su Rou, so I had to shout anxiously.

Su Rou was not slow to react. As soon as he saw the hungry ghost king’s hand reach out, he quickly retreated inside. But he was not a martial arts practitioner after all, and his body’s reaction speed was still a little slow. The hungry ghost king’s claws grazed his body, and Su Rou’s arm was actually scratched by several bloody marks. The blood instantly dyed Su Rou’s sleeve red.

I was watching this scene with my eyes tearing, because I saw with my own eyes the hand of the hungry ghost king withdraw, with a few shreds of flesh, which was the flesh of the crispy meat!

I got up and rushed to the side of the crispy meat. The crispy meat looked at me and said blankly, “Sanwa, I don’t hurt.”

I looked down at the wound on the crispy meat, which had already swollen up quickly and was a strange greenish-black color. I looked back at the hungry ghost king, and it actually stuck out its long, thin snake tongue and licked the flesh on its claws. There was a strange kind of satisfaction and brutality in its eyes.

Su Rou was poisoned. I almost didn’t think about it, and ripped off Su Rou’s sleeve and tied it tightly in front of his arm wound, then said, “Su Rou, you have to bear with it.”

I took the cleaver from Su Rou’s hand and ‘swish’ cut open the swelling of Su Rou’s wound. The blood that had already turned ‘greenish black’ almost sprayed out. I gritted my teeth and squeezed Su Rou’s arm with all my might, trying to squeeze the poisoned blood out.

Su Rou screamed in pain, “Sanwa, don’t do it, it hurts, Sanwa…”

“I won’t kill you…” I hadn’t finished speaking when I heard a louder cracking sound and the sound of bricks falling to the ground. The King of the Hungry Ghosts had finished licking the ‘blood food’ on his hands and his entire body had squeezed in!

I finally saw the full body of the hungry ghost king, and I knew why its footsteps sounded so strange, because it had not evolved completely! Its upper body was considered to be “perfectly evolved,” with its entangled muscle lines showing great strength, and it was covered in black scales, giving the illusion that it was invulnerable to swords and spears.

Its lower body, however, is very strange. From its feet to its knees, it has a complete leg, but above its knees, it is like a snake, not completely separated, and from a distance, it looks like it is wearing a skirt.

So it can’t stand or walk at all, but has to crawl like a beast, using its hands and feet.

That’s why its footsteps sound so strange!

At this point, the Hungry Ghost King’s body had completely squeezed into the room, less than three meters away from me and Su Rou. The room was originally not very large, but it was very large. I estimated that the Hungry Ghost King was at least two and a half meters tall, assuming that it was standing up. When it was lying down, it looked like the most majestic lion, no, it was like a lion that was half as big, or maybe even bigger.

It looked at us like it was looking at mice in a cage. It wasn’t in a hurry to act, but it felt like it was psychologically torturing its “food,” wanting its “food” to collapse in fear, as if that was the only way to make it more delicious.

My hand was still tightly gripping the wound in the crispy meat, but my peripheral vision was observing whether the blood that was leaking from the crispy meat had returned to normal.

In fact, I was very scared, so scared that I had to force myself to stay calm so that my legs wouldn’t tremble. The fierce look was almost all the courage I had, because my master had once said, “When facing evil things, you must not lose in terms of momentum. You must be more fierce than it is. They come from the dark, and their specialty is to find your psychological weaknesses, teasing you mercilessly and making you collapse before you even fight back.”

Is that how ghosts are?

No, this is true for any evil spirit. When you can’t avoid it, even if you can only scold it, you have to scold it fiercely, and it will retreat instead.

I don’t expect that I can scare the hungry ghost king away with my eyes, but I know that as soon as this momentum dissipates, I will lose, and I will not even have the courage to fight.

The hungry ghost king doesn’t seem to be able to make any human expressions. Its only emotional change is in its eyes, which are very clear in their expression. I guess it’s a ‘gift’ from being a hungry ghost worm. That kind of worm has a very strong influence on the human brain. My master said that it is a manifestation of a strong soul.

So a few emotional expressions in the eyes are nothing.

The air in the chamber seemed to have solidified, turning it into a standoff between me and the hungry ghost king. Su Rou was already in a daze from the pain, but fortunately the swelling had slowly subsided and the blood that had flowed out had turned bright red.

At this moment, the eyes of the hungry ghost king suddenly changed to a look of inquiry but indifference. The next moment, I felt an instinctive danger. Almost subconsciously, I kicked the crispy meat away, and I felt a gust of wind hit my face. When I looked up again, I almost peed my pants.

Because the face of the hungry ghost king was less than ten centimeters away from me, his arms had formed a semicircle around me, and his pair of cold eyes were staring directly at me. I felt dizzy and almost blank in my consciousness. The talent of the hungry ghost worm had not been lost. I was a person with such a strong spiritual sense, and I was even affected to this extent.

I felt as if I could see the hungry ghost king laughing at me, looking down on me like an ant. The next moment, I was almost staring blankly as its arm raised and fell, reaching out to grab me, and its mouth opened wide, to an unbelievable limit. I saw its fangs, and the greed in its eyes.

I guess after eating me, its two legs will be able to completely transform, my consciousness finally returned at this moment, but it was already too late to do anything, and I could only think of such a boring question.

However, the hungry ghost king’s hand did not fall. I heard a muffled thud. It turned out that the crispy meat had picked up the rolling pin that I had thrown aside when I took the kitchen knife from his hand and smashed it hard at the hungry ghost king’s arm.

He smashed it so hard that the rolling pin broke in two the moment it collided with the arm of the hungry ghost king, flying out and finally blocking the hungry ghost king’s arm that was about to grab me!

Everything happened so fast, and everything seemed like slow motion.

The King of the Hungry Ghosts was actually hurt by the blow, and suddenly let out a long, angry howl! It may not care about the ridiculous power of the crispy meat, but it cannot help but care about the blood on the middle finger of the rolling pin.

The blood with the most yang energy can definitely hit any evil thing and cause it to hurt.

“Sanwa, run!” Su Rou, still holding half of the rolling pin in his hand, shouted almost hoarsely, and even his voice trembled a little. It was estimated that he had almost used up all his strength with that blow.

After he finished shouting, I saw Su Rou’s body fly up. The angry Hungry Ghost King had actually swept Su Rou up with a single sweep of his arm.

With a muffled thud, Su Rou fell heavily to the ground. This sweep actually swept him out of the secret room, because the door to the secret room had been completely destroyed by the hungry ghost king. Then Su Rou did not get up again. He fell in a pile of bricks, and blood slowly flowed from his head.

At this moment, my anger had reached its peak. At the moment the hungry ghost king turned around, I roared and raised the cleaver, slashing it viciously at the hungry ghost king’s head. With a ‘sang’ sound, the cleaver seemed to be stuck on an iron plate, but I didn’t care anymore. I pulled the cleaver back with all my might, and the cleaver went from the hungry ghost king’s huge forehead to its sharp chin, and its eyes were also ruthlessly cut by the cleaver.

The hungry ghost king let out its loudest roar, and the entire chamber trembled. The knife, which was covered in the blood of the middle finger, cut across its eyes, undoubtedly giving it the greatest trauma since it met us.

My anger was still burning, and I was completely desperate. I slammed my elbow into the hungry ghost king, and my years of martial arts training gave me much more strength than the ghost king. The ghost king was howling with his eyes covered, but I was able to push him back a little with this one hit.

It was this gap that I immediately used to escape, running quickly towards the door of the secret room!

The next moment, I heard the heavy, turning sound of the hungry ghost king. I had completely angered it, and it could not let me escape.