The sudden interception caught the other party off guard, and instinctively, they used the Fierce Ghost Ability on Da Yi.

A coarse hemp rope appeared out of thin air at the neck position of Da Yi's skeletal frame, and at a speed undetectable to the naked eye, it looped around, immediately tightening as if it intended to hang Da Yi there and then.

The moment the rope was looped on, Da Yi even felt a strange sense of weakness emanating from it, as if it could render the target it hanged helpless, until they were completely hanged to death.

Unfortunately, this weak force was far too insignificant for the Great Venerable level Da Yi.

The moment the rope touched its bone-white skeletal frame, it turned to ash.

The power of the "Dark Sun" was burning incessantly within Da Yi!

Its shell was not something that could be touched easily!

"You! When did you arrive at Great Qin? How long have you been working under the First Emperor?" Da Yi's eyes flickered with a strange, dark red.

Da Yi stared straight into the other's eyes, curiously awaiting the Hanged Ghost's answer.

This was another usage developed within its "Dark Sun" law.

It could make the target being stared at feel like they were being scorched, forcing them to only speak the truth. If they uttered even a single lie, their soul would feel the intense heat of the Dark Sun until it was completely reduced to ash.

"I... met the First Emperor before, but I never joined Great Qin. Recently, I followed my master to Great Qin." The Hanged Ghost panted heavily, trying to mislead Da Yi with the most tactful words possible.

Interestingly enough, there was not a single lie in what it said.

After all, it indeed had met the First Emperor before, though not the First Emperor of this world.

Hearing this, Da Yi frowned, scrutinizing the breath reaction within its opponent.

Indeed, there was no trace of anyone being burned by the Dark Sun due to lying.

Yet it still felt that something was not quite right...

"Master? Who is your master?" Da Yi pressed further.

At a time like this, spending time questioning a Lord seemed somewhat futile.

But as Wu Liang had speculated earlier, it was an extremely prideful entity.

Da Yi never doubted its own judgement.

It always felt that there was something unusual about this character.

"I... my master..." The Hanged Ghost's mind was on the verge of a crash.

It was frantically thinking about how to tactfully dodge this question.

My master is a Venerable? That won't do; the other will surely ask which Venerable.

The First Emperor's friend? That wouldn't work either; Da Yi must know about the First Emperor's friends.

Damn it! It really couldn't think of a response that would make Da Yi stop pressing.

"..."

After a moment of contemplation, the Hanged Ghost began to feel its soul witnessing stabbing pain.

That was an overwhelming searing sensation of being placed on a roasting rack surrounded by intense flames. The pain erupting from its soul's core instinctively propelled the Hanged Ghost to consider revealing Wu Liang's true identity.

The Dark Sun was urging it to make the right choice.

"Hmph, there is indeed something peculiar!" Da Yi squinted its eyes, flashing a hint of a smile.

The opponent had started to be burned by the Dark Sun, proving the master it mentioned couldn't have their identity revealed.

For a mere Lord, secrets of this level should be shared without reservation to a Great Venerable like itself!

What on earth was this guy thinking?

Wait and see! No Fierce Ghost can withstand the soul scorching of the Dark Sun!

Even if the Fierce Ghost before it were the First Emperor, once the scorching of the Dark Sun touched its soul, Da Yi was confident it could inflict agonizing pain for a very long time, let alone just a minor Lord!

"Ah... what bad luck... Why did I have to run into you..."

Suddenly, the Hanged Ghost spoke some unexpected words.

It didn't answer the previous question!?

How could this be! Its soul was still being scorched by the Dark Sun!

Before Da Yi could ponder what really happened, it saw the Hanged Ghost before it make an unbelievable gesture—

The Hanged Ghost raised its middle finger, made a face at Da Yi, and with a vulgar smile said, "If you want the answer, come find me in Hell!"

Whoosh—

Before finishing, the Hanged Ghost's entire spectral form burst into soaring Dark Sun flames.

In an instant, it transformed from a human form into the appearance of its original, a coarse hemp rope, and then completely turned to ash in Da Yi's shocked eyes.

Until only the lingering warmth of burning remained in the air, Da Yi snapped back to reality.

The Hanged Ghost had been completely exorcised!

"No... no way! It... it just now willingly chose to be burned to ash by the Dark Sun, without opting to reveal the secret!?"

At this moment, Da Yi realized the reason the Hanged Ghost didn't directly answer its question wasn't because it resisted or was immune to the soul scorching caused by the Dark Sun.

But rather choosing to completely give up resisting, allowing the Dark Sun to directly incinerate it to ash!

"Damn it! What kind of entity could make it make such a choice! Ghosts should adhere to their true selves! Living... living should have been its choice!" Da Yi crazily rubbed its skeletal head with its bony claw.

It truly couldn't comprehend why a Fierce Ghost would make such a choice?

Reasonably, even if the other party had a death wish, the burning of the Dark Sun would involuntarily cause them to divulge the truth before dying.

What kind of steadfast belief could make that Hanged Ghost not divulge a single piece of information and just be incinerated!?

Or had the Dark Sun already determined that no matter the scorching, the other party wouldn't reveal a single word, so it directly reduced it to ash?

"Damn it! Damn it! Where did that bastard hide!"

Da Yi roared, taking off into the sky, heading towards another peculiar Lord aura it sensed.

These Lords were heading in different directions at high speed, seemingly searching for something.

It didn't believe that every Lord could be as unyielding as that Hanged Ghost!

A Fierce Ghost should act like a Fierce Ghost! Sacrificing their own existence for others was simply squandering their ghostly life!

Among these Lords, surely there would be flaws!

"Don't let me catch you!"

"I told you, the First Emperor can't save you!"

......

......

Crack—

The Tower Ghost suddenly heard a clear cracking sound emanating from Wu Liang inside its body.

Upon close inspection, it realized that he had negligently broken his own finger!

Before it could ask Wu Liang what had transpired, it saw its boss's eyes burning with unending fury. Raising his hand to watch as the broken bone gradually restored, he said word by word:

"Da Yi! You will pay for your actions!"

"I swear, even if I return to the real world, one day I will come back here to..."

"Grind you to dust!"

Just then, Wu Liang sensed that the Hanged Ghost's aura was completely erased from the Ghost Compendium.

Although the Hanged Ghost's abilities absorbed into his body had not disappeared, as his Fierce Ghost Minion, that fellow was now gone forever!

In the same world, the same Fierce Ghosts never reappear.

This was something Wu Liang had known long ago, so after the Hanged Ghost was exorcised, it would no longer exist in the real world.

At the same time, Wu Liang noticed that the aura of the Chained Ghost began to weaken, seemingly on the brink of vanishing. Its soul was agonizing within the Ghost Compendium, as if being burned by something.

"Come back! Return inside the Ghost Compendium! I will find a way to modify reality!" Wu Liang shouted at the Chained Ghost's soul.

However, all he received were three sentences—

"Boss, if I go back, it will guess the connection between us."

"If you use Modify Reality, it will reveal your location—please endure."

"It's been a pleasure serving you; the final stop has been reached. Forgive this driver for getting off first this time..."

Whoosh—

The Chained Ghost's soul also disappeared.

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