Chapter 23: Occasionally

He's not some hungry ghost who eats people on sight...

At this moment, a Merchant suddenly said, "If you ask me, Li Qi, if you're really lusting after her body, why not just take her right here? She's not even awake anyway. Once you're done and satisfied, just leave her by the roadside. You can't let her drag you down your whole life, right?"

"After all, you're her savior, so her offering herself isn't much, right?" The Merchant chuckled.

These words were utterly devoid of humanity. Li Qi heard them and was displeased, frowning. He simply stood up and walked over to the woman, speaking in a joking tone as he approached, "Hey, what do you mean 'take her right now'? Do I look like..."

Before he could finish, the woman shivered and woke up.

"Ah, you're awake?" Li Qi was delighted and breathed a sigh of relief. It was good that she was awake; now he wouldn't have to agonize over it.

"Miss, what's your name?" He decisively stepped forward and asked her.

Who knew, this beautiful woman shrank back, her face filled with terror and fear, and she said in a trembling voice, "I... I'm very powerful, you, don't come any closer..."

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Shen Shuibi never dreamed she would fall to this point.

When she served the empress before, though she didn't live in luxury, at least all miscellaneous tasks were handled by servants. She only needed to obey the empress's commands and instruct the subordinates.

But when the empress suddenly lost power and was forced to flee to Baiyue, she naturally followed. Not only did she endure countless hardships along the way, but she also became separated from the empress and was stranded in the Shiwan Mountains.

Those Human-Ghost Cultivators not only shattered her Spiritual Artifact but also implanted Divine Sense into her cultivation, forcing her to self-disperse her cultivation base to escape their monitoring.

She thought she could finally catch her breath. She found an abandoned, dilapidated temple, enlightened a wild dog, and prepared to rest for a while. But then she encountered someone who practiced the unique spellcraft of the Baiyue Grand Invoker, possibly a Disciple or attendant of a certain Invoker. They had the power of ghosts and gods protecting their body, could divine good and ill fortune, and could even reverse rain, calm wind and drought, alleviate disasters, and ward off illness, possessing various different and peculiar Divine Abilities.

She had read ancient texts; among the Shaman, the most supreme were the Grand Diviner and the Grand Invoker.

The Grand Diviner commanded the three methods of divination: first, jade divination; second, tile divination; third, origin divination. The body of their divinations numbered one hundred and twenty, and their chants were one thousand two hundred.

They also commanded the three methods of change: their basic hexagrams numbered eight, and their variations sixty-four.

Furthermore, they commanded the three methods of dreams: first, induced dreams; second, strange dreams; third, ascending dreams. Their cycles numbered ten, and their variations ninety. They used the eight commands of the tortoise for state affairs, and with these eight commands, they assisted in the divination of the three divinations, three changes, and three dreams, to observe the good and ill fortune of the world and calculate the destiny of all living beings.

The Grand Invoker, on the other hand, could perform a Da Ji, sacrificing to Human-Ghosts, Heavenly Gods, and Di Qi (Earthly Qi), making Human-Ghosts, Heavenly Gods, and Di Qi (Earthly Qi) harmonize and become usable by humans. They controlled the six calamities, the six prayers, composed the six incantations, distinguished the six omens, distinguished the nine sacrifices, distinguished the nine bows, and held fire and water to serve ghosts and gods and be called a Invoker. They had ghosts and gods protecting their body, ancestral spirits accompanying them, and Heavenly Gods, Di Qi (Earthly Qi), and all gods of the four directions blessed them. Their power was terrifying.

Both the Grand Diviner and the Grand Invoker were the most powerful experts in Shaman Dao. Before the invasion of the human Dao, they were undoubtedly the rulers of Baiyue.

The Art of Ten Thousand Beasts was a unique spell of the Grand Invoker lineage, an exclusive privilege of the Invoker.

After she came out, she confirmed that it was indeed the Ox Strength Technique, unique to the Grand Invoker lineage and bestowed by the Di Qi (Earthly Qi) of a hundred beasts. She was immediately terrified.

After much thought, she still decided to run away quickly. After all, the wild dog had no intelligence; it was just a mad dog, and she only used it for temporary protection.

For this, she summoned the black mist.

This was a spell called Burial Qi Technique.

Burial means to hide, to ride the Life Qi.

Life Qi is the Qi that circulates in one cycle; in the sky, it flows through the six voids, and on earth, it generates all things. Without it in the sky, Qi has no source; without it on earth, form has no support. Furthermore, Life Qi is hidden deep within the earth, invisible to humans.

The Burial Qi Technique was like this: it drew out Life Qi, making oneself invisible and losing all traces.

But she didn't know what Divine Ability the other party had; they could actually see through the black mist directly!

And even if they could see through it, they happened to have a group of machete-wielding men with them who had killed countless pigs!

The clanging of the machetes activated the Evil Qi on the blades. Where water was unsuitable for the coming and going of spirits, there was fierce killing. This was the bane of Life Qi, forcing the black mist to recede, and she was directly captured.

Shen Shuibi knew her injuries well, and besides her injuries, she had also self-dispersed her cultivation base to avoid being searched...

This was very awkward.

So, she instinctively, purely out of habit, used her innate skill.

She was a rabbit demon that had already taken human form.

What was the rabbit demon's innate skill?

It was playing dead...

She prayed in her heart: "You can't see me... You can't see me... You can't see me..." Then, she hoped the other party would find her unlucky or troublesome and throw her by the roadside, which would be ideal.

However, what she didn't expect was that this Invoker... was actually a good person.

He actually carried her for an hour during a critical moment.

Oh my god, you're so kind, can you please let me go!

Shen Shuibi was on the verge of tears.

But soon, she really was about to cry.

She listened as those people tried to persuade Li Qi to abandon her, and she secretly rejoiced. As long as she was left by the roadside, she could immediately run away.

But then, that person named Li Qi just refused!

She thought he was just being kind, but then Ba Kui, who was next to him, pointed out that Li Qi was actually interested in her body!

To be honest, she almost couldn't keep up the act then. Shen Shuibi had been with the empress since she was little; where had she ever seen such things?

She barely managed to hold it together, and then she heard someone else say... to just take her directly and then abandon her body in the wilderness.

Honestly, she almost peed herself.

This rabbit demon had indeed faced life-or-death crises in her life. Although she had grown up with the empress since childhood, she had been separated from the empress earlier and was hunted down. Although most of the pursuers went after the empress, she still almost didn't get away.

But life-or-death crises were life-or-death crises, and this was a different nature.

And that Li Qi...

This person seemed to have listened.

He walked straight towards her.

And he was laughing!

His 'hehehe' laughter made Shen Shuibi's rabbit ears almost pop out.

Why would rabbit ears pop out? Because she was so scared she was revealing her true form.

Rabbits are inherently timid, and now she couldn't even pretend to be dead anymore.

She hardened her heart, clenched her small fists, and made a firm decision!

At this point, she could only suddenly wake up and fight him!

Even if the other party was a Invoker, what of it? A rabbit can be killed, but not humiliated.

But... wait, the other party didn't seem to care if she lived or died. When she was playing dead earlier, he didn't seem to care either, and was even ready to just come over...

It's over.

As soon as she thought of this, Shen Shuibi immediately wilted.

Then came the scene just now.

She tremblingly opened her eyes, shrinking her neck, staring at Li Qi, scared to death.

As for Li Qi...