Under the iron-gray sky, the yaksha ghost roared as it swung its blade. The arc of steel flung up a spray of blood that seemed to pierce the heavens. Zhou Su clutched his throat and fell in agony.He still failed to escape death. The yaksha ghost that caught him severed his throat with a single stroke.His vision went dark—but quickly brightened again. Zhou Su revived once more, and he instinctively looked down.The shadow had already climbed to his calves. The Headless White General’s shadow seemed to possess its own will, its arms twitching with excitement.At this rate, after eight or nine more deaths, his soul would be swallowed entirely.But that last death had not been meaningless.In his final moment, he had launched a suicide attack, snatching a yaksha ghost’s long blade and driving it through the creature’s skull.He hadn’t managed to kill it, but the instant he heavily wounded it, he sharply sensed a looseness in this world.He realized this cage was not unbreakable. If he could slay enough yaksha ghosts—destroy enough of the source products of this space—he might escape.Realizing there was a path to survival didn’t lighten his mood. The yaksha ghosts were far too many, dense as a storm cloud, stretching beyond sight.Under their siege, killing even one was extremely difficult. To break the cage, it surely wouldn’t suffice to kill just one or two.The required number was likely far beyond imagination.To an ordinary person, this was an absolute dead end. But Zhou Su still had a single thread of hope.“If anything can break this deadlock… it has to be that.”Zhou Su fixed his gaze on the crimson book floating before him.Even in a spiritual space, the book could still be used—because it was, after all, a thing born from his own soul.It was something the Headless White General could not have anticipated—something beyond its reach.Only two materials remained inside the crimson book: the White-Bone Dagger, and the Tang Dao: Ghost Hong.There was no way to acquire more materials here; yaksha ghosts were pure spiritual pollution, and the crimson book could not perform God’s Theft on them.The White-Bone Dagger was clearly useless. His attention fell entirely on Tang Dao: Ghost Hong, and he carefully reread every detail.After a moment, Zhou Su showed a thoughtful expression and flipped to the Mystery Shop page.The shop refreshed once per month, and the next refresh was still nine days away—far too long to wait.There was only one item left in the shop.【Heart-Clearing Jade Pendant (Blue-Rare)】【Description: When activated, dispels invading heart-demons. Each dispel consumes part of the pendant’s energy. Once depleted, the pendant shatters.】【Price: 380 Dusk Crystals.】“Does the Headless General’s shadow count as a heart-demon?” Zhou Su wondered.There was no one to answer him. He could only test it himself.Fortunately, he had earned a large sum of Dusk Crystals in the ghost domain. Otherwise he couldn’t afford the pendant.He had 790 Dusk Crystals total; after the purchase, only 410 remained.The Heart-Clearing Jade Pendant emerged from the book, cool to the touch. Zhou Su suddenly felt his mind clear completely, the agitation within him gradually swept away.The effect exceeded his expectations—it was indeed the most expensive item of the current cycle, and he hadn’t even activated its ability yet.Zhou Su tightened his grip on the pendant, focusing his intent. A soft white radiance bloomed, flowing like water toward his feet.The clear light collided head-on with the shadow. As if striking its nemesis, the shadow recoiled from his calves, forced back from his insteps.But when the light attempted to advance further—toward the Headless General’s shadow—a beast-like roar erupted from within it, and the light could no longer proceed.The Heart-Clearing Jade Pendant seemed provoked. Its glow surged, ready to battle the shadow to the death.At that moment, Zhou Su suddenly released his grip, retracting his intent. The pendant dimmed.A faint smile finally appeared on Zhou Su’s face. At last—good news. The Headless General’s shadow did count as a heart-demon, and the pendant restrained it.As for why he stopped the activation—because it wasn’t worth it.The shadow could be driven back only because it was rootless, with no further power supply.But its energy tier was far too high. Driving it off would likely drain nearly all the pendant’s energy.More importantly—even if he drove the shadow away, what then?As long as the shadow remained in the spirit space, it would return. Once the pendant’s energy was exhausted, the shadow would attack without restraint.Driving it back would be nothing but drinking poison to quench thirst.Zhou Su never forgot his true objective: slay the yaksha ghosts and escape this place.Only by escaping could he obtain more resources—and fully resolve the Headless White General’s problem.“Time to risk everything.”Zhou Su took a deep breath, placed the Heart-Clearing Jade Pendant in his mouth, and dropped all mental defenses.His pupils instantly turned blood-red—not from activating the Bewitching Ghost Eye, but from sheer overwhelming psychic shock.The shock came from beneath him. The Headless General’s shadow writhed with excitement, rising like a surging tide, gradually submerging him—from insteps, to calves, to thighs, to torso…The Headless General was devouring his soul with terrifying speed—because Zhou Su had willingly dropped his defenses and was actively merging with his heart-demon.This madness wasn’t born of panic—on the contrary, Zhou Su had never been more clear-headed.He knew with absolute certainty: relying on his own strength, killing massed yaksha ghosts was impossible.In this entire realm, ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) the only thing capable of doing it was the heart-demon shadow—since it carried remnants of the Headless General’s power.He had to try using that power.Zhou Su’s body shuddered violently as countless fragments of imagery flooded his mind—the shattered memories of the Headless General.Such an immense inflow of information would destroy his mind if he failed to process it quickly. This was one method of killing a soul.At that moment, a hazy radiance drifted from the Heart-Clearing Jade Pendant. Its effect was immediate—some of the blood-red faded from Zhou Su’s pupils, and the sharp pain in his mind eased.This was his plan: voluntarily fuse with the heart-demon, then suppress it with the pendant’s power.The risk was enormous—a single misstep, and the heart-demon would devour him whole. It was like dancing on the edge of a blade.But he had no other choice. This was the only path to survival.“Not enough. This isn’t enough!”Zhou Su stared into the distance. The yaksha ghost army surged toward him like a roaring black tide.His right hand reached into the void, as if grasping something, then drew it out in a blade-drawing motion.A weapon materialized in his hand—a standard Tang Dao, blade length 85 cm, hilt length 25 cm, spine thickness 0.8 cm.The pitch-black blade bore golden feather-like ripples that shimmered like flocks of ravens across a night sky.The guard was oval and hollowed, carved with an eight-petaled manjusha blossom, its heart a dark-red raven’s pupil.The hilt was red bonewood, wrapped in black-gold cord. At its end perched a raven with wings spread, its eyes inlaid with two grains of corundum that refracted eerie green light.The entire blade radiated overwhelming Presence Suppression, like a ghostly kingdom descending.“Kill! Kill! Kill!”Zhou Su gripped Tang Dao: Ghost Hong and roared.His reddening eyes burned like twin wells of blood, his vision turning viscous and crimson.An endless lust for slaughter surged through him. He wanted to tear everything apart—reduce all existence before him to the realm of death.【Fusion Defect: Warning! If not recognized by Emperor Hong, forced fusion with this blade will result in severe spiritual contamination.】This warning, written in bold red, flashed on the blade’s entry within the crimson book.Zhou Su knew all of this—yet he still chose to fuse.Because under his current state, he had no chance of defeating the yaksha ghost army.Without madness, no survival.Only by betting everything did he have any hope of breaking the deadlock.

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