Ying immediately used one of the ghost-seeking talismans upon hearing Zhai’s words. Her qi spread out and locked onto the ghostly specter floating behind Bing with her arms wrapped around his neck. Ying and the female ghost glared at each other, both somehow being able to read the other’s thoughts. Seeing her so closely wrapped to Bing was all it took for Ying to prepare herself for a life-or-death fight.

  Lin Jiajia scoffed as she saw the foolish girl. Trying to claim her source of power right under her eyes? Jiajia might be dead but that didn’t mean she was stupid! She didn’t care how that girl felt about this fatty but she had another thing coming if she thought she could get rid of her so easily. The Walking Devil ranked spirit pushed Bing to the ground as she drastically lengthened her claws to teach this stupid girl a lesson.

“You can’t!” Bing cried out!

  Ying already ignited herself into a flaming human as she dashed towards the ghost woman. Bing’s words fell on deaf ears as a woman’s jealousy isn’t so easily quelled. The flames grew hotter and higher by the second while Jiajia’s sharp and long claws that could compare to swords in length have already reached their full length. Living girl and ghost girl seemed intent on eradicating the other without exchanging a single word.

  Jie was overall rather confused entirely. She couldn’t see the ghost that Ying and Zhai could see but she could feel a very cold and frightening aura in front of Ying. Out of everyone, only she and Zhai heard Bing’s cry. The normal reaction to finding out that a ghost has been sticking by yourself would be to freak out or ask for help so that someone can get rid of it. But why did Bing cry out, you can’t? Was he talking to the ghost or Ying?

  Either choice brings further questions. If he was talking to the ghost, then that would mean that Bing was aware of the ghost following him but hasn’t captured it for the sake of the second test. Which meant the ghost was threatening him or there was some sort of benefit to having this ghost stick around him. But if he was talking to Ying, then that would be even more suspicious. Why would a person willingly want a spirit to follow them around? Knowledge of ghosts and the like isn’t very well spread, so not many people are educated on if spirits can provide benefits to those living. The only benefit Jie could see to ghosts was providing her points in passing this portion of the test.

  Shang knew there were more uses to ghosts than the average cultivator but did that mean this portly fellow knew them as well? Ghosts were filled with yin qi, normal qi, sometimes an elemental qi due to the martial arts they practiced in their life, and malice. These creatures were useful for refining certain talismans, being used as materials for blacksmiths, and strengthening cultivators that relied on spirits to do evil. In the two days spent on this part of the test, Shang has already made several talismans from the essence of spirits when he could’ve just captured them in his amulet.

  Bing sprung back up as he was tossed away.

“Swift Devil!” Bing rushed in between the two girls before they could harm each other.

  His great bone shield blocking Ying’s heavy greatsword while the shield he gained from the Empress blocked Lin’s claw strike. A heavy aura emitted from his once again round figure as he tried to stop the two from continuing their fight.

“Please let me explain.” He kindly asked.

  Ying spat on the ground in annoyance. The spit evaporated from her flames before it could touch the ground. She didn’t even get to cut this ghost man-stealing vixen once! Bing’s really lucky that she liked him or else she would’ve cut him down with the ghost woman.

  As Ying snuffed out her flames, Bing began to explain his history with Lin Jiajia. Jiajia stayed mostly silent as Bing was telling nothing but the truth so far. The ground beneath Ying’s feet cracked as she controlled herself from losing it all to kill this evil ghost woman that almost killed her Bing. Hearing his explanation of their relationship made her want to kill the woman even more!

“So, you’re nothing but a blood-sucking leech.” Ying smirked.

“I’d watch your words more carefully commoner...” Jiajia’s eyes glowed blood red.

“Commoner? I don’t know how long you’ve been dead but your eyes must have died long before then if you think I'm a commoner.” Ying flicked her orange hair back in pride.

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“A rough man-ish gangster like you can be considered a noble? It seems like it was a good thing I died. Nobility has fallen a great distance from how it used to be.” Jiajia turned her face away with a smug grin.

“What part of me looks like a man!?” Ying held up her chest with pride as it slowly bounced. “If anything, you’re more of a man you freakish giant.” She bit right back.

“Giant?! I’ll have you know, I only became this tall after I died! I was even shorter than him when I was still alive!” Jiajia pointed at Bing.

“Heh. So, you were a midget and now a disgusting giant. Doesn’t seem like something to be proud of to me.” Ying continued to flaunt her appearance.

“I’ll tear you apart you annoying cow!” Jiajia tried rushing past Bing.

  But how could he allow her to do something like after hearing their entire conversation? Bing was already preparing to use his Yin of Destruction and Yang of Creation martial arts when they began insulting each other. In a third hand grown out of his stomach, a perfectly shaped qi sphere split between black on one side and white on the other floated above his palm. Once it was completely formed, an immense amount of qi spiked from Bing’s figure that caught everyone’s attention.

“Jiajia. You can’t hurt my friends. I know that wasn’t a part of our deal but you do realize how crazy it would be for me to let you try and hurt my friends right?”

“You’re threatening me?!” She fiercely glared at him.

“I’m not threatening you. Please don’t make me out to be the bad guy. I just want everyone to peacefully reconcile and not try and kill each other.” He calmly told her.

“Ying. I know Jiajia might seem like she’s taking advantage of me because of the deal we made but without her protection, I would be helpless against the ghosts during this portion of the test. I wouldn’t be able to see ghosts nor stop them from trying to taking over my body without her.” Bing explained to Ying.

“I don’t like her. After the test is over, can’t we just get Jing to get rid of her?” Ying bluntly asked.

‘Jing knows how to deal with ghosts?’ Zhai Shang thought to himself.

“That’s an option...” Bing muttered.

“If you dare consider getting rid of me again, I'll kill us both.” Jiajia told Bing.

“It wasn’t an option after all.” Bing helplessly smiled. Looks like he was stuck with this beautiful leech for the rest of his life.

“How pathetic! Dragging someone else's life down with you just because you’re too weak to live on your own!” Ying insulted her.

“In this world, you have to do whatever it takes to get ahead or stay alive.” Jiajia smiled.

“Shameless giant freak!” Ying put down her sword in frustration.

  Bing let out a breath of relief as he put away his second shield and threw the Yin of Destruction & Yang of Creation: Infinite Sphere Ultimate Cataclysm towards the cave entrance. A massive explosion of whiteness overcame the group as their clothes fiercely blew in the wind from the shockwave. Jiajia went to hide inside Bing’s void world to avoid being affected by the technique. The rest of the group couldn’t hear anything over the blowing winds and explosion but the barrier placed in front of the cave cracked from the impact of Bing’s technique. Soon after, it shattered and the cave was now open for any to step inside.

  Although this barrier only needed four cultivators of differing elemental qi, brute force was another method to open it. If one was able to use all four elements then they too would be able to open the barrier easily. But finding a cultivator capable of using multiple elements was not common. Only those with special bloodlines, suicidal tendencies, woefully ignorant, or insane would think about using multiple qi elements.

“It looks like you managed to break the barrier, Bing.” Zhai pointed out.

“I did?” Bing looked over to see the now open cave.

“You didn’t know?” Jie questioned.

“I didn’t expect it to actually work. I just wanted to get rid of the ball of energy.” Bing answered.

“Lucky us. Let’s go see if there’s a plate hiding inside here.” Ying took charge of the group and stepped forward.

“Plate?” Bing asked.

“There’s a third plate missing and we want to get our hands on it before anyone else does.” Jie answered him.

“A plate to what exactly?” Shang didn’t understand.

“Really good treasure! Probably an immortal’s tomb or something filled with many treasures.” Drool leaked from Ying’s face as she thought of all the treasure she could obtain inside, especially the Mystic Flame.

“Probably also filled with deadly traps and sealed ghosts.” Bing didn’t want to be negative but he was a realist.

“We’ll be fine.” Ying waved his worries off with some unexplainable courage.

“You don’t know that.” Bing sighed.

“We’ve been through worse.” Ying laughed.

“Have we!?” Bing honestly couldn’t remember anymore.

“Do you normally run into trouble...?” Jie asked.

“Heaven’s Angels isn’t without its daily, weekly, or monthly share of troubles.” Bing answered.

“If there’s trouble, we’ll be there!” Ying confidently claimed.

  Zhai Shang just stayed silent as he listened to their conversation with a passive look on his face. Learning about his girlfriend’s group would definitely be useful. Perhaps he could even help them and make himself look better in Jing’s eyes. What girlfriend wouldn’t like her boyfriend helping her out?