Chapter 113 - Losing Control

"Guangru's daddy..."

Li Feng chewed on his lip as he stared at the woman behind Shao Yi. It was more powerful than he had ever seen… and yet it was still nothing to Guangru's power. He then gritted his teeth as he hissed. "Aren't you afraid Guangru will fly here to deal with you?"

"Hehe, why would Guangru do that? He only cared about his prospective daddy anyway." The girl laughed out. "You're just a worshiper of a human who wielded the power of ghosts. If anything, you're a kind that we all loathed.

"Shao Yi, go on, pull the trigger. Let's see how Guangru's daddy will react to the death of his servant."

"I can't believe you've become so pathetic, Li Feng."

Shao Yi went through the motion of pulling the trigger, but Mian Tianyu took out his talismans and created a wall that soon cleansed the floor. The girl hissed in pain while Shao Yi screamed like he was hit by scalding water.

Hung Guangjian pulled Li Feng back and started firing at the other man. However, no matter where the bullet hit Shao Yi, he wasn't fazed by the pain. The holes would bleed, but he still managed to fire back at them. Li Feng pulled his grandfather down and away from the crossfire.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Gunshots echoed in the hallway, but only the officers were suffering from the shots. Li Feng then grabbed his grandfather's hand. "Grandfather, you need to start the cleansing ritual. I will keep them busy."

"I don't mind, but you might get hurt... the miasma in your blood..."

"Please don't think about me." Li Feng smiled as if reassuring his grandfather, but it was rather useless. He had no confidence in facing a newly-risen ghost king even if Liu Xiaodan could help out. Guangru might be formidable, but she was right. Li Feng was not Guangru's daddy.

"Shao Yi!" Li Feng ran out and tried to distract the shooter by running towards him. However, the woman sent one of her arms to grab onto Li Feng. He continued to struggle, using his talisman to resist the king's power. "Shao shit! You want me, right?! Why don't you come at me instead?!"

Shao Yi didn't care about the police anymore and just aimed straight at Li Feng's face. "Bastard! You dare show your face to me after you got more people killed?! You're dying today for real!"

The girl then twitched all of a sudden and used Li Feng to hurl at something towards the other end of the hallway, causing Shao Yi to miss. The king then hissed. "Who are you?! What do you want?!"

Li Feng yelled as he flew across the place, but he was caught by a person who walked into their views. She was clad in white, and black mist floated around her as if she phased out of the shadows. The woman only had Li Feng pressed against her c.h.e.s.t before she gazed at the king.

"I was hoping that the storm brewing in this school would be strong because of the dybbuk's influence. It seemed that you rejected every inch of his power." Qiao Shan ignored the others and even Li Feng as she sent the black mist forward. "Hop! Bring her to me!"

The black mist dashed towards the girl, and the girl only screamed as she hopped off of Shao Yi. "I will not die! I didn't breed all these useless ghosts just for them to fail me!"

She breathed into the black mist, a darker miasma coming out of her mouth. Shao Yi covered his nose and mouth from it, but he still felt like it was eating him from inside. The black mist didn't even bother with him as it plagued the girl.

Within the black mist came out what seemed to be a woman in a black dress. Her hair was covering most of her face and c.h.e.s.t, and it was notable that she had no arms. She hid in the black mist and continued to attack the newly-risen king.

Qiao Shan's eyes quivered as she felt like the school's king wasn't that simple. Perhaps decades of negative energies had given it more power and experience in fighting than a king bred by the Qiao family. She just realized that Hop might actually lose to this girl.

"Q-Qiao Shan?" Li Feng managed to get to his feet slowly, his eyes pinned at the beautiful woman he once saved. "Is this... is this what the Qiao family is...?"

"Li Feng, please don't talk to me right now." Qiao Shan was new to this, and she was scared to lose focus. She had no problem with weaker ghosts, but battling another ghost king was harder than she thought. Her hands clenched as she gritted her teeth.

Tak! The first echo spread all throughout the dorm. Both kings reacted to the source of the cleansing ritual. The girl then tried to surge toward the direction while Hop tried to hold her back as much as she could. However, the newly-risen king had been feeding on Shao Yi...

She had more power than Hop at the moment.

Tak! The second echo made the ghosts scream in pain. Even Qiao Shan held onto her c.h.e.s.t. She then whispered, "Just one more echo, and the school will be cleansed, Xiaodan. If you do not leave, you will be in trouble." She actually stared at Li Feng's eyes. "You should go."

As a response, black miasma shot out from Li Feng and shrouded the entire floor. Even Hop grew scared of the thing... more than the long-armed girl. The latter then hissed. "You think you can intimidate me with this?! I'm not scared of you or your shaman friends!"

Whip! The miasma formed wh.i.p.s and swiped down at the long-armed girl. Every hit had shaved off a chunk of her materialization.

"What?! How is this possible?!" The long-armed girl cried out at the sudden elevation of the black miasma's power.

"Hop! Come back!" Qiao Shan ordered the black mist to come back as her heart raced much faster. The dybbuk's power was surging as if it wanted something. She then looked at Li Feng again. "I'll see you again."

Li Feng didn't know why Qiao Shan would come and leave as fast as she did. More about whether she was saying goodbye to him or to Liu Xiaodan. In the end, the long-armed girl was devoured by the wh.i.p.s before the third echo blasted through the entire dorm.

The man was prepared to feel pain, but he didn't even feel anything else aside from the waves of purification going through his body. He forced his eyes to open, and he saw the miasma vanish in the waves of faint white light.

Screams of trapped souls echoed in Li Feng's ears, but those were only from the shadows generated by the negativity in the place. He could also hear the screams of the negative emotions replayed in the walls of the dorm. All the residents were eaten, but parts of them still remained to be purified.

"Xiaodan... are you hurt by this?" he murmured. He then got up to his feet after he felt the five waves pass through and reverberate without a problem. His eyes were on the man on the ground, crawling toward the steps leading downstairs.

"Shao Yi... it's over..." Li Feng walked closer, unwilling to save the guy who tried to gun him down.

"Curse you, Li Feng..." Shao Yi only bled on his spot. He wanted to die, but he knew he was too strong-willed to just bleed to death. He was surely going to get his revenge... but not today.

"I'm wondering why he was blaming you. I thought he came here to burn down the dorm?" Hung Guangjian held onto his colleague that was shot in the abdomen.

"I can't answer you, detective. He's probably confused by the spirit." Li Feng only sighed before letting them descend on their own. He came to his grandfather who was inspecting the walls. "The purification went through. Thank you, Grandfather."

Mian Tianyu turned to him and blinked. He then reached out to pet Li Feng. "It vanished completely. Just like when you were being purified. How could Liu Xiaodan possess you so easily if he had to corrupt you again and again?"

Li Feng then raised his arm. "His blood is in me. Maybe that's how."

However, Mian Tianyu only frowned deeper. "Possession through blood? Could it be that Lengleng was correct? No, that's impossible. She had no ability to do so... it could be an adverse effect of what they did to Qianqian..."

"Grandfather?"

"Ignore me, Feng'er. Hm, is he still alive?" Mian Tianyu gazed at Shao Yi, and Li Feng followed his gaze. "He's still alive, Grandfather."

Soon, they had paramedics come to fetch Shao Yi. The only detective remaining on the scene was being patched up as he asked the paramedics about the shooter's status. However, Li Feng didn't stay long. He walked Mian Tianyu back to the grounds instead, Kang Jun and Li Yunru very worried about them.

Instead of speaking with Li Yunru, Li Feng turned to Ruan Jin instead. "Do you know that Liu Xiaodan came? Guangru's miasma should be... no... it was Liu Xiaodan through and through. He's losing control..."

Ruan Jin grew more somber. While he was on his way for a stroll, he felt that Ye Ling was acting strange. He didn't think that the news of a ghost king was the worst he would hear today.

Li Feng only sighed. "I already said this. Liu Xiaodan will go insane soon enough. Now that he had consumed a newly-risen king, I don't think it would be long before he consumes another."

"I know, man." Ruan Jin gritted his teeth. "I just... I just don't know if we could help him as is. We have to admit, man... we're both too weak to give him a reason to stop."

...

Qiao Shan sat down inside a family car, and she removed her face mask. She then looked at the person in front... at two of them actually. "Qiao Yun, you were right. He's advancing so fast. He could easily devour a ghost king now. Why is that?"

"It's not probably him alone. I doubt the child isn't aiding him." Song Qixi, in his disguise, hummed as he started the car and drove away from the school unnoticed. "Besides, a newly-risen king is nothing to a demon. What I'm worried about is... devouring kings would elevate the child's power more and more.

"He might not be able to control the child if this persisted. What more of us."

The other male with them, who was already in his mid-fifties, only laughed out. "Worry not. He will not lose control of the dybbuk. In fact, it's the dybbuk who should be scared of him." The man then chuckled as he whipped out his phone and sent reports to someone else.

"Who would have thought that our little experiment wouldn't show in Qianqian but in her son instead...? And what luck for us to have a demon to be aiding us willingly?"