HELP! These Girls Wants To Kill Me-Chapter 229

"Hear the techniques..." Yang Ze stopped mid-sentence as he suddenly thought of something.

"Those whispers!?" He almost screamed out loud, only to be met with the old man’s laughter.

"That’s right..." The old man was full of pride. When Yang Ze made the heavenly oath, he had thought about this course of action in case Yang Ze didn’t jump into the old water village. He himself didn’t know if it was going to work or not. Thankfully, it worked.

Now with the heavenly oath restricting him, this little bastard couldn’t take any action against him. Even if he were to attack this brat now, he wouldn’t be able to attack back. He could only passively defend.

But this didn’t mean he was going to launch a barrage of attacks on him. On the contrary, he was even more wary of him. From Yang Ze’s action, he was sure that the boy didn’t want to kill him. Instead, he wanted the techniques.

If he dared to attack him now, he was sure that the boy would definitely take action, and at that time, there would be no mercy.

Since he could find loopholes in the heavenly oath and make those husks of flesh recite the techniques, Yang Ze too could find another way to bypass the heavenly oath. And the best way to do it was to simply use his wind blade to strike the top of the cave and bury him alive.

"...."

"...."

Silence filled the air as the two of them stood face to face in silence, each one carefully measuring their next step.

It wasn’t until a few moments passed that Yang Ze was the first one to speak out.

"How about we find a way that would benefit us both?" For the safety of the children and the techniques, he was willing to compromise.

"Oh!" The old man raised his eyebrow in response, clearly tempted by the offer. "And how would we do that?"

"It’s simple." Taking a deep breath, Yang Ze began to speak.

"The only thing I want are the children and techniques to revive the dead."

"Free the children, and if possible, find me a way to bring them out of this place to the outside world."

"And then, give me the technique."

"Just these two things."

"And in return...." Yang Ze’s voice lowered as he spoke softly. "You can ask for anything from me."

"Really?" The old man couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow. "If I fulfil these two conditions of yours, are you really willing to do anything?"

"..." Yang Ze didn’t speak but simply gave a nod.

"What if I were to ask you to find me another batch of children for sacrifice?"

His words made Yang Ze clench his fists in response.

"Don’t you have enough?" It took Yang Ze all his strength to speak those words.

"Mmm... Maybe not," the old man shrugged before adding further. "Or, maybe yes."

"Forget about a new batch of children."

"What if I ask you to impregnate a group of women? Don’t take it the wrong way, I merely wanted to see how talented your children would be and if sacrificing them would have better effects?"

With every word that he spoke, the vein on Yang Ze’s forehead throbbed. If not for the heavenly oath restricting him, he would have taught this old bastard why the winters were cold.

"Oh? No help with this either?" The old man simply gave him a shrug before adding another sentence.

"In that case, how about letting me do you once?" The old man’s eyes flared with a brilliance as he licked his lips while gazing at the boy’s petite and soft, otherworldly, alluring body. His gaze was particularly stuck on the thing hanging between Yang Ze’s legs as he constantly swallowed mouthfuls of saliva.

"Years of living with these empty flesh husk has made me forget about the human touch."

"How about you remind me of that?"

The moment he finished the sentence, Yang Ze almost raised his hand to pat him dead. It took all his willpower to hold his anger and impulse of butchering the old man as he took deep breaths while gazing coldly at the old man.

"Tch..."

"You can’t do this... You can’t do that... for someone who couldn’t even do such basic things, you sure do talk big."

Yang Ze closed his eyes for a moment before asking in a voice while suppressing his rage.

"I mean, help you with other things."

"Maybe one day you are surrounded by enemies and need someone to rescue you."

"Maybe one day you are captured by some demonic beasts who are keeping you alive as a ration and need someone to bring you out."

"Think about it... You can use my help in a number of ways."

The old man rubbed his chin while in deep thought. He would occasionally look at Yang Ze and the children in the corner before calculating in his heart.

It wasn’t until almost fifteen minutes passed that he finally broke the silence.

"Eeeehhh..."

"While it is tempting to get the help of a core condensation realm powerhouse, I think I am gonna pass."

"....."

"....."

His words stunned Yang Ze, who was still trying to think of a way out of this situation.

"What the hell do you mean by no?"

"Meeeh." The old man simply shrugged in response before taking a few steps back as he waved his hand, and a thick gown appeared out of nowhere on his body, along with a dark crown on his head and a walking cane in his hands.

"Now then..." He simply waved towards Yang Ze as a burst of black fog surrounded him.

"There is just this one last ritual that I need to perform."

"Initially, I was going to take my time and wait for the perfect opportunity, but your presence here has spiralled things out of control."

"I can’t just take these risks forever, you know!"

Before it was that damned woman, then it was Yang Ze... the old man didn’t dare to imagine who would show up next time.

Instead of waiting for trouble to arrive and being at the mercy of others, it was much better to strengthen himself and fight against these intruders. In worst case scenario, he could simply change the place.

With a laugh, he smashed the other end of the walking cane onto the ground and with it, a dense black fog burst out of his body like a drop of ink upon contact with water

In less than a few breaths, the black fog covered the entire cave.

Yang Ze, who was still hesitating on whether to use his wind blade to chop this black fog, suddenly narrowed his eyes in response as he looked at the pitch-black darkness around him.

It took a while for the black fog from his surroundings to disappear, and once it did, he saw the children from the village lying neatly on top of the platform constructed with bones.

Every child had an expression of serenity with a slight smile on their faces as if they were experiencing something beautiful.

Yang Ze’s heart clenched as he looked at the children. Especially the five girls who seemed to have appeared out of nowhere and were standing beside the old man with dazed expressions.

"Heh." The old man seemed to be enjoying it way too much as he first pointed his finger towards the hanging giant between Yang Ze’s legs and then at his open mouth before laughing maniacally.

After receiving no response from Yang Ze, he merely shrugged before tapping the walking cane on the ground as the five girls began to walk to the very end of the bone platform.

Looking at the group of girls, Yang Ze wanted to rush forward and simply take them away from there, but the moment this thought came to his mind, the black fog condensed around him like a thick layer of ink.

He used his internal energy to punch and tear it apart, but the moment his fists made contact with the black fog, it was as if he was punching a thick ball of cotton.

"What the!?" This was the first time Yang Ze saw something like this. Previously, at least his attack embued with internal energy did some kind of damage but now...

He couldn’t help but look at the black fog around him, which was clearly different from before.

If the black fog earlier was like a firefly, then the black fog surrounding him was akin to a moon.

"It’s not the old man." Looking at the old man’s gloating expression and his constantly waving around his walking cane like a monkey, Yang Ze knew it wasn’t something the old man was capable of doing. Yes, the old man could control the black fog, but it could never resist his internal energy like this. Otherwise, the old man would have done it a long time ago.

And just when Yang Ze was confused as to what was going on, his fleeting glance caught a small figure silently hovering in the air.

"HUUUUH...."

Yang Ze’s eyes narrowed into slits, and his breathing almost stopped. He didn’t even notice when the other person arrived there, much less watch him from the air.

Swallowing a mouthful of saliva, he controlled his breathing while looking at the small girl floating in the air silently.

It was the same girl that he met a few days ago.

Just to make sure, he even used his system to look at her personal panel and sure enough, it showed a familiar text.

[Incarnation]

Yang Ze finally had an answer as to why the black fog surrounding him became so different.

Even though he was wary of the girl floating in the air, he didn’t dare to gaze at her for too long.

He tried to appear calm on the surface, but in his heart, there was already a monstrous surge of emotions. Only those in the realm of Heaven Step could actually fly.

Although Yang Ze too could fly with his talent, he couldn’t appear so silently and especially could not use something as mysterious as the black fog.

From the very first moment he met this girl, he knew she wasn’t simple. But to think that she would be this strong... words weren’t enough to describe what Yang Ze was feeling at the moment.

Shaking his head, he chose to ignore the girl for now and focus on the old man in front of him.

Since he couldn’t use his internal energy to break this black fog, he wanted to use his wind blade to tear it down, but every time he raised his hand, the old man would jump in front of him, clearly placing him in the path of the wind blade, triggering the heavenly oath.

"Just relax. This is once in a lifetime spectacle."

With a chuckle, the old man’s wrinkled face gleamed in excitement as he smashed the cane to the ground once again, and with that, the five girls’ footsteps came to a halt.

By now, they were standing at the very edge of the bone platform, at an even distance.

"Begin." Without wasting another second, the old man tapped his cane on the ground once again, and with that, the five girls who seemed to have lost their minds simply raised their hands in the air.

Looking at their actions, Yang Ze’s eyes narrowed into slits. Every single girl was holdinga sharp knife.

"What the fuck are you doing?" Yang Ze couldn’t help but curse at the top of his lungs, but before he could say anything else, the girls simply brought down their knives with all their strength, plunging them deep into the chests of the children lying there unconscious.

"YOU MOTHER FUC..." Yang Ze took a deep breath before opening his mouth to let out an ear-splitting scream.

"WWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

This was the first time he was using his Inverted Wail against the old man.

Initially, he thought it would at least make the old man dizzy and prevent the girls, but to his dismay, it didn’t affect them in the slightest.

The old man merely looked at him in puzzlement, wondering why he was screaming like an animal.

’No internal energy.’ It was only now that Yang Ze remembered that his talent only affected the source of the internal energy, and this old bastard didn’t have it.

He could only watch helplessly as the girls walked forward, raised their knives and stabbed the heart of another batch of kids.

They kept on repeating this process again and again till they finally reached the altar.

By now, Yang Ze’s eyes had turned incomparably cold. Everything was happening in front of his eyes, and the only thing he could do was watch helplessly.

He was stuck in this damned fog, unable to break free. And if that wasn’t enough, there was also the heavenly oath restricting him from taking action against the old man.

"I should have killed you when I had the chance." In the end, this was all Yang Ze said before closing his eyes.

He now deeply regretted not killing this old man when he first met him. At that time, he still hated the idea of killing another human. And when he heard there was a technique that could revive the dead, he was even more unwilling to kill him.

Had he known things would turn out to be like this, he would have given the old bastard a swift death.

Alas! There was no medicine for regret.

"Hey... don’t close your eyes. Now is the best moment." The old man was unable to contain his excitement as he constantly jumped around Yang Ze.

Yang Ze, on the other hand, cast a glance at the old man and then at the bunch of children before using his internal energy to unleash the third grade of the Black Tiger Technique for the first time.

The moment Yang Ze used his Black Tiger Technique, a surge of internal energy exploded around his body.

The thin layer of black fog that was covering his body like a layer of tattoo was immediately suppressed back to a single spot.

The black internal energy that had a tinge of gold in it began to gather around his body, completely enveloping his figure.

The old man’s scalp tingled as he watched the sudden changes.

"DO IT NOW." Without any hesitation, he crushed the crown upon his head. And with that, the girls’ bodies trembled as they raised their knives, ready to plunge them into their own hearts.

And at this exact moment, the black fog surrounding Yang Ze and preventing him from moving finally shattered like a fragile piece of glass, unable to hold back the surging wave of internal energy.

*Gulp

The old man watched in horror as the black internal energy dissipitated and in its place was a gigantic black tiger whose massive body occupied half the cave.

And at the moment, its cold, emotionless golden eyes were looking at him...