Chapter 218: My Greatest Strength is Borrowing Power

After confirming that Lu Yunze was truly asleep, Jiang Sui finally relaxed and hoisted him onto her back.

“Anyone can die in this fight, but not you.”

“If you die here, what about my future plans? Who’s going to deal with the Luo Family for me?”

Just as Jiang Sui was about to turn around, she noticed Baigui Shitu’s gaze fixed on her, so she turned back to meet his eyes.

“You. I remember you. You were at the Luo residence too…”

As Baigui Shitu spoke, he stuck out his tongue and licked his lips.

“I remember you’re very appealing to me. You’re also a delicious grand banquet.”

“Before that, can I ask what your criteria are for calling people a ‘grand banquet’?”

He seemed surprised by her question.

Baigui Shitu let out a cold laugh.

“A grand banquet is a grand banquet. Eating one ordinary person only lets me recover a little strength.”

“Eating one of you or him is worth a hundred or even a thousand of those useless ones!”

‘Are Lu Yunze and I some kind of ginseng dolls?’

Hearing this answer, Jiang Sui really didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

But it also raised a new question for her.

“Why does that include me?”

Lu Yunze was the male lead of the original novel, so it was normal for him to have a special status.

But Jiang Sui didn’t understand why she had become a target too.

In the original novel, she was just an insignificant minor villain.

“I don’t know.”

Baigui Shitu shook his head.

“Anyway, you two are very appealing to me. Anyone who appeals to me is a grand banquet.”

‘So that’s why we encountered you when you were still a ghost?’

That answered one of Jiang Sui’s questions.

Two “top-grade delicacies” were right in front of him.

Plus, Baigui Shitu had just taken Luo Heng’s attack and was in dire need of a big replenishment.

A pale arm shot out from under his feet, opened its palm, and lunged at the two of them.

Just then.

Baigui Shitu heard a noise in the distance.

A car was speeding toward them, heading straight for Jiang Sui.

“Sui’er, hurry, get in!”

Xia Youqing opened the passenger door and performed a drift, smashing the pale arm away.

But the car body now had several dents.

Time was of the essence.

She could only stop for two seconds, but that was enough for Jiang Sui to get Lu Yunze into the car.

Bang!

Jiang Sui slammed the door shut after getting in.

At the same time, Xia Youqing floored the accelerator, and the car sped off into the distance.

Baigui Shitu’s face twisted into a snarl as his shadow and pale arms erupted simultaneously, vowing to catch up with the retreating mother and daughter.

The car drifted wildly down the road.

But it couldn’t completely shake off the enemy.

The two inside could even hear the pale arms slapping against the car body.

Each slap left a clear palm print on the roof.

“Mom, can’t you go any faster?”

“This is as fast as it gets!”

Jiang Sui frowned and looked back.

Just then, a figure flew in from behind, smashed through the rear window, and tumbled into the car.

It was a clawing ghost, reaching out its sharp claws toward them.

Xia Youqing screamed in fright and nearly lost control of the steering wheel.

Jiang Sui kicked the ghost back.

But couldn’t stop it from lunging again.

The space inside the car was too small.

Jiang Sui pursed her lips and shouted:

“Duck!”

“Huh?”

Xia Youqing immediately bent down.

At the same time, Jiang Sui summoned the Waning Moon Scythe and performed a huge spin inside the car.

The ghost’s head was instantly separated from its body.

But the once decent car also lost its entire roof, turning into a convertible.

The rushing wind blew the ghost’s corpse and head away together.

“It’s over, it’s over. I can’t afford to pay for this car.”

Xia Youqing was about to cry.

“Is this really the time to worry about that?”

Jiang Sui retorted as she stood up, swinging her scythe continuously to drive back the pale arms surrounding them.

Now she finally understood why Baigui Shitu could keep chasing them.

That guy was using the giant pale palms to leap and pursue them.

At this rate, they would be caught sooner or later.

Jiang Sui glanced back at Lu Yunze.

He was sleeping peacefully.

After inhaling the scent of her potion, he definitely wouldn’t wake up anytime soon.

Jiang Sui tightened her grip on the scythe, then gave a bitter smile.

“Never thought I’d do something the protagonist would do.”

“What?”

“Mom, keep driving. Don’t stop.”

With those words.

Jiang Sui bent down, her body turning into a cloud of black mist, flying in the opposite direction of the car.

“Sui’er, what are you doing?!”

“Sui’er!!!”

The car was quickly enveloped by the black mist.

The once open world instantly turned gloomy, making it hard to even tell directions.

“Child’s play.”

Baigui Shitu sneered.

This kind of decoy art could be easily broken by launching a wide-area attack around himself.

The shadow spread.

Pale arms flailed wildly, mercilessly lashing everything nearby.

Soon, Baigui Shitu felt a solid hit.

Seeing the rapidly dissipating black mist, he thought he had succeeded!

Baigui Shitu spun around abruptly, opening his mouth to bite the “Jiang Sui” in front of him.

But after the first bite, he froze.

The taste was wrong.

He let go.

Only to find that he wasn’t biting Jiang Sui at all, but a random corpse.

The real Jiang Sui had already used the distraction to prepare her attack from behind.

She crushed the blue crystal.

The gushing water instantly froze, completely encasing Baigui Shitu in ice.

Crack!

Almost the moment the ice formed, cracks had already appeared.

And they were spreading fast.

Jiang Sui didn’t hesitate.

She swung her scythe repeatedly, trying to inflict heavy damage before he broke free.

With a loud crash.

The ice shattered.

Baigui Shitu’s body fell to the ground along with the broken ice.

Was that it?

Jiang Sui looked down at the scythe in her hand.

But her puzzled expression suddenly froze.

She slowly looked down.

And saw a pale arm piercing through her abdomen from behind.

Baigui Shitu’s head had twisted a full 180 degrees, his face twisted and ferocious.

Jiang Sui quickly cut off the arm and retreated.

She didn’t stop until she tripped over a piece of rubble, breathing heavily.

The pale arm picked up the scattered pieces of Baigui Shitu’s body.

And reassembled them right in front of her.

The wounds were healing at a visible rate.

Baigui Shitu stretched his body.

As if nothing had happened.

Jiang Sui tried to get up.

But even with the scythe for support, she only fell again.

‘Is there… no hope left?’

Jiang Sui clutched her bleeding wound.

Her cheeks, which had regained some color in the car, were now pale again.

The light in her light purple eyes was slowly fading.

Jiang Sui gave a self-deprecating smile.

‘Never thought my life would end covering someone’s retreat.’

‘Doesn’t that make me look like some fangirl of the protagonist?’

‘From villain to supporting character…’

‘What’s this?’

Baigui Shitu’s pale arm was almost upon her.

Yet all Jiang Sui could think about was Lu Yunze in the car.

‘If he knows I died to save him…’

‘Will he remember me forever?’

In that case, Jiang Sui felt her plan was half a success.

In the end, Luo Yao still couldn’t compete with her.

Lu Yunze’s heart would belong to her forever.

Just as the pale arm was about to grab her neck.

Two flashes of cold light suddenly cut through, shattering the arm.

Baigui Shitu froze.

Jiang Sui froze too.

A small black cat slowly walked up to her.

“Do you still want to keep going?”

The black cat looked at the dying girl.

Hearing this, the light in Jiang Sui’s eyes rekindled.

“Do you have a way, Senior?”

“Do you still want to keep going?”

The black cat’s voice remained cold.

“The risk might be great. Your body might not be able to handle it.”

‘…Are you going to give me power?’

“Something like that, but I’ll have to be the one controlling it.”

‘So she’s asking to borrow my body temporarily?’

Jiang Sui let out a breath.

‘And here I thought it was something serious.’

She pulled the mysterious ancient book from her bosom.

“Senior, don’t forget. Borrowing power is what I’m best at.”

The one person and one cat exchanged a knowing smile.

Just as the black cat’s forehead began to glow with a purple-black light.

Baigui Shitu’s attack came again.

The wildly flailing pale arms slammed heavily into where they stood.

Cracks spread wildly across the ground in all directions.

“Annoying pest.”

No sooner had Baigui Shitu complained than he sensed something was off in the dust.

A hand reached out from behind the dust.

With a light wave, it dispersed the dust.

The Jiang Sui who had been lying on the ground was now standing again.

Holding a black cat that had stopped breathing.

“I’ll need it later, can’t let it get broken.”

She gently set the black cat aside.

This “Jiang Sui” now had golden eyes.

Her demeanor and movements were no longer the same; every gesture carried a seductive charm.

On the surface, it was Jiang Sui.

But in reality, the black cat was controlling her body.

She freely moved this young body, her face filled with a long-lost sense of exhilaration.

“It’s been a long time since I felt young.”

“But Jiang Sui, don’t you ever find those two lumps of fat annoying?”

She looked down at her chest, full of emotion.

Baigui Shitu frowned.

“Who are you?”

The black cat tossed her grayish-brown hair, her golden eyes smiling.

“Just a mysterious secret arts practitioner.”

Baigui Shitu snorted.

“But I do recognize you.”

The black cat rubbed her chin, her interest piqued.

“I always thought it was just a rumor. So it’s true?”

“There really was an experiment like that, and a success product like you.”

“…They never called me a success product. They all called me a failure.”

Halfway through his sentence, Baigui Shitu suddenly realized something was wrong.

“Wait, even people within the Black Star Cult don’t necessarily know my identity.”

Even the bishop who had unsealed him.

Only knew he was an apostle, the Chosen of God.

Nothing else.

Just who the hell was this person?

The black cat’s smile deepened at his words.

“I know a lot more than you think.”

“I not only know that the experiment ultimately ended in failure.”

“But also why the Black Star Cult went to such lengths to release you.”

Baigui Shitu’s expression grew grave.

“Don’t tell me you actually think they wanted you to reclaim an apostle position?”

“How naive.”

The black cat took a deep breath.

“Rare to have such a healthy body.”

“Now, let me stretch my limbs a little.”

“Let’s have a real fight!”

She smashed her left fist into her right palm.

Smack!

Her face was filled with fanaticism.