Chapter 313 The Power of Eerie Entities

Chapter 313 The Power of Eerie Entities

After the game concludes, the Eerie Entities remaining in the game scene become agitated for reasons unknown. However, according to speculations by certain sages from Su Bai's previous life, this phenomenon likely stems from the "administrators" imposing forced restrictions on these entities during gameplay. Once these restrictions are lifted at the game's end, the Eerie Entities redirect their suppressed rage toward players who failed to clear the game.

Thus, as the fog dissipated, the vicious Ghost Lady attacked Su Bai without hesitation.

Su Bai first sidestepped the Ghost Lady's frontal assault, and the bridal veil he had torn off earlier fell to the ground. Dragging the clanking iron chains, he moved to the Ghost Lady's side and swiftly wrapped them around her neck.

"Since the identification phase is over, there's no need for the culprit to continue existing," Su Bai stated. The chains in his hand seemed to take on a life of their own, tightening around the Ghost Lady's upper body. After a moment's thought, he added, "I truly dislike interfering in other people's family matters. If possible, let's just go our separate ways."

"Everything in this mansion must stay here," the Ghost Lady's raspy, aged voice seemed to echo from every corner of the backyard.

With one hand, Su Bai tightened the chain, firmly restraining the Eerie Entity before him, ending any further negotiation. His right hand, now transformed into a spectral claw, pierced directly through the back of the Ghost Lady's neck.

But the sensation that followed felt strange to Su Bai. He should have pierced through the Eerie Entity's body with his ghost claw, imbued with the red moon's power, yet it felt like a sharp blade slicing through tofu—lacking sufficient resistance. The damage Su Bai inflicted using A Xi's power seemed even less effective than the scissors previously wielded by the East Courtyard Bride?

Speaking of which, it seemed Lin Wenhua had picked up those scissors.

Su Bai shook off these irrelevant thoughts. To inflict damage on the Ghost Lady, he imbued the entire chain with blood condensed from A Xi's power. Only then did the Ghost Lady let out an unbearable, ear-splitting shriek, as if an ordinary person had been doused in concentrated sulfuric acid.

Just as Su Bai thought the Eerie Entity before him would be burned to ashes by the power, the Ghost Lady, who had been tightly bound by the chains, suddenly vanished from within them! The extended chains quickly retracted back to Su Bai's side, while the Ghost Lady vanished and reappeared in another location, much like when she had hunted the new players earlier.

By the time Su Bai sensed the surge of energy, the Ghost Lady had already appeared directly behind him. Her ghost claw struck without hesitation at the back of Su Bai's neck, as if the previous attacks on her neck by the East Courtyard Bride and Su Bai had left a lasting hatred and obsession in the Eerie Entity.

However, the Ghost Lady's sneak attack from behind Su Bai did not succeed. The moment she launched her assault, another figure wearing an identical bridal veil emerged from Su Bai's shadow—the true Ghost Bride A Xi.

Ghost Bride A Xi was the first Eerie Entity to come to Su Bai's side and the first to willingly become part of the Evil Ghost Puzzle family.

Although A Xi did not possess any astonishing special abilities—no terrifying true form like Grandma Bai, no fearsome power like Xiao Huo's ability to devour and purify filth, nor did she often use unique abilities like Ghost Umbrella to help Su Bai with disguises...

As the "eldest sister," as long as Su Bai was willing to borrow her power, A Xi's drain on Su Bai's own energy was always the smallest and least harmful. When Su Bai used the power of other puzzle pieces, he would inherit their wounds and deficiencies. But when A Xi lent her power to Su Bai, she would also gradually transform his body into ghost form, granting him a more formidable physique and strength, and providing the newly entered Nightmare World Su Bai with more chances of survival.

When necessary, A Xi was even prepared to serve as Su Bai's second chance at life, sacrificing herself in his place in desperate situations.

After all, A Xi's final obsession was simply for Su Bai to live on.

Perhaps precisely to ensure Su Bai's safety upon entering the Nightmare World, A Xi's abilities, as they grew and mutated, consistently manifested in formidable ghostification and chain restraint. Her ghostified claws were capable of strangling any supernatural being she restrained.

When the Ghost Lady attacked from behind, A Xi, emerging from the shadow, directly intercepted the assault. After all, while enhancing Su Bai's power, A Xi had also strengthened herself to a degree even Su Bai couldn't fully comprehend.

What puzzled Su Bai even more was how the Ghost Lady had escaped A Xi's chain restraint earlier. Although Su Bai could no longer accurately measure the extent of A Xi's power, he was certain that an Eerie Entity of the Ghost Lady's level shouldn't have been able to break free from A Xi's bindings.

Rather than doubting himself for underestimating the Ghost Lady's power, Su Bai preferred to believe that the Eerie Entity he had restrained wasn't the Ghost Lady's actual form at all! The so-called teleportation was likely just the Ghost Lady, hiding somewhere, creating one illusion after another.

Su Bai turned around as quickly as possible to look behind him, but the Eerie Entity that had launched the sneak attack without harming Ghost Bride A Xi had vanished once again.

Throughout this game, the Ghost Lady had used her illusion ability multiple times, and her power to create illusions was sufficient to cover the entire mansion. Su Bai had reason to believe that the Ghost Lady's true form was still hidden elsewhere—perhaps even fused with the entire mansion itself.

In such a situation, A Xi's abilities were indeed of limited effectiveness.

It was at this moment that Su Bai suddenly sensed a disturbance within the "Evil Ghost Puzzle"—one of the puzzle pieces was urgently trying to emerge from the shadows. To Su Bai's surprise, the restless puzzle piece was none other than Xiao Huo, who should have been in deep slumber.

Shortly after entering this mansion, Xiao Huo had directly devoured the blue flames of this lifetime that had not yet gained self-awareness. The bride from the East Courtyard likely vanished around this time as well, after which Xiao Huo fell into a deep sleep, much like A Xi had before.

Su Bai had assumed Xiao Huo would remain asleep for a while, similar to A Xi. He hadn't expected the little one to wake up before the current game ended, eager to emerge from the puzzle.

"What's going on?" Su Bai allowed the blue flames to appear beside him, as Xiao Huo's power could indeed be useful here. Still, he found Xiao Huo's eagerness somewhat puzzling. Although the little one had always been the most mischievous among the puzzle pieces—much more energetic and mischievous than the youngest "Yao"—he wasn't usually this impulsive.

"It's all because of that wretched Yao!" Xiao Huo's voice was full of grievance. "The moment I woke up, he threatened to tear me into eight pieces, saying if I hadn't been so greedy, Xiao Bai wouldn't have had to become someone else's bride. I have no idea what he meant by that."