I can push my cultivation progress to the end

Following the voice, Steward Liu looked into the distance with a puzzled expression, only to discover that the words were spoken by a musketeer standing a dozen or so yards away.

This soldier was tall and sturdy, but he kept his head lowered, making it impossible to see his specific features.

Therefore, Steward Liu frowned and scolded with some dissatisfaction:

"Hey, I'm talking here, what are you interrupting for? And why are you keeping your head down, you wretched brat? Raise your head for me!"

"Li Hai?! !"

Steward Liu widened his eyes and stammered, "You you… weren't you burned to death? Are you, are you a person or a ghost?!"

"As you can see."

Li Hai chuckled, "I ~ am ~ a ~ ghost ~"

Immediately, his face turned cold, and he raised his gun and fired.

After a loud bang, Steward Liu immediately screamed and knelt on the ground, clutching his right thigh.

At the same time, the dozens of musketeers scattered far and near around Li Hai also saw and heard all kinds of illusions that were either terrifying, horrifying, bizarre, or strange, and then fell into chaos.

"There are ghosts! So many ghosts! They're all chasing me! Ahhh! I'll kill you all! I'll kill you all!"

"Why is it getting dark? Why can't I see anything? Hey! Is anyone there?"

"Eh, why are there so many watermelons on the ground? Hehe, just what I needed, I'm thirsty."

"Are you crazy? You're eating corpses!"

"How did I run to the edge of a cliff? Help! Someone save me!"

"Wow! So much gold, hey! No one is allowed to fight me for it, whoever takes it, I'll kill them!"

"Ah ah… I've been shot! Who's attacking me!"

In this extremely bloody and chaotic madness, there was even an invisible evil spirit possessing and killing everywhere, laughing wildly and stirring up the great chaos even further.

But no matter how chaotic and noisy it was, it couldn't affect Li Hai's pace as he slowly walked towards Steward Liu.

It was as if invisible high walls were erected on his left and right sides along the way, and no one could get close to him.

Step ~ Step ~ Step ~

Facing Steward Liu's fearful, bewildered, and shocked gaze, Li Hai smiled and asked playfully:

"Steward Liu, you probably didn't expect that we would meet so soon, right?"

"Spare… spare my life, Young Hero Li, no no, spare my life, Living Immortal!"

Having personally witnessed the effects of Li Hai's evil magic, Steward Liu slumped to the ground and begged in extreme fear, "I… I was just acting under orders, this this… it was all Guo Huaijin who did the evil!"

"Are you stupid?"

Li Hai tilted his head and looked at him with a strange expression, "Did you really think I came here to reason with you? I came to vent my anger on you!"

He grinned evilly, raised the butt of his gun, and slammed it hard on Steward Liu's face.

"Ah! !"

Along with the flying broken teeth and miserable screams, the lower half of Steward Liu's face was smashed in on the spot, and he could only roll around on the ground in pain.

Immediately, Li Hai picked up his gun and aimed at his two ankles and two wrists, firing four shots in a row, turning him into a complete cripple.

"Compared to Guo Huaijin, the mastermind who wanted to harm me, you are indeed just a small fry."

Li Hai raised his foot and stepped on Steward Liu's face and said leisurely, "So, magnanimous as I am, I'll allow you to live a little longer."

With that said, the musketeer squad around the earth mound, who had fallen into self-slaughter due to the bewilderment of illusions… no, there was no musketeer squad anymore.

In this chaos and massacre, everyone had been reduced to tragic and incomplete corpses, with no survivors.

"Alright, I'll go take care of your master first."

Li Hai threw away the gun casually and said coldly, "As for you, just lie here and keep the corpses company for now, and I'll come back to deal with you after I'm done with my business."

After saying that, he turned around and strode towards Guo Family Fortress.

"Wuwuwu… Ah ah ah…"

Looking at Li Hai's receding back, Steward Liu, who was lying on the ground in great pain, finally couldn't help but howl out a cry full of regret.

He regretted it.

If only he had slipped out of Guo Family Fortress with the gold and silver a day earlier, he wouldn't have had to suffer this great crime, and he wouldn't have had to lie here waiting to die.

Unfortunately, it was too late for regrets.

Now Steward Liu could only wait for death here in unbearable torment like a maggot.

"If I had known, I might as well have been a farmer…"

Just as he closed his eyes and recalled the past while enduring the pain, Li Hai's voice appeared again:

"No, I can't leave you alone here."

The sound of footsteps got closer and closer, "The saying goes, 'Cut the weeds and eliminate the roots, or they will grow again in the spring breeze.' What if a nosy peerless expert comes along and saves you later, and after a few years you transform into an expert and come to seek revenge on me? So, let's just get it over with once and for all."

These words made Steward Liu open his eyes on the spot and look at Li Hai, who was walking quickly, in disbelief.

"No, look at me, how can I become an expert like this, living daddy, I beg you, you can just let me go like a dog."

Steward Liu wanted to say these words, but his tattered mouth could no longer support this task, so he could only whine twice.

But after only a few whimpers, Li Hai ruthlessly stomped on his head with great force without hesitation.

From then on, Guo Huaijin's loyal lackey, Steward Liu, completely returned to the Yellow Springs.

… …

Guo Family Fortress, at the mansion where the Blood Tree Stump was located.

"A Su, over the years I have always missed you very much, you have always been the most important person in my heart."

Guo Huaijin sat on the grand master's chair, looking into the distance at the disheveled female ghost who was tightly bound to the Blood Tree Stump with a dark purple rope—A Su, shaking the beard on his old face with heartache:

"But you, as soon as you appeared, you shouted to kill me, not remembering the slightest bit of our past affection, alas ~ you really let me down, it can only be said that my deep affection… was misplaced."

As he spoke, he slowly stood up and put his hands behind his back and said:

"A Su, to be honest, every time I wake up in the middle of the night, I am very afraid that your figure will appear by the bed.

So, after I outlived that old thing and completely took control of Qian Family Fortress, I began to find ways in this world to find treasures that could restrain your kind of ferocious ghost.

Speaking of this, Guo Huaijin smiled: "Fortunately, I found this Demon Subduing Rope, which can effectively suppress the evil power of ghosts.

How is it, are you unable to move at all, and unable to use even a trace of Yin evil ghost energy?"

A Su covered her face with her hair and said nothing, only trembling silently.

"Oh ~ I forgot, you can't move now, and you can't even say half a sentence, hmm… I know you hate me, but even if I could do it all over again, I would still make the same choice, only because…"

Guo Huaijin smiled first, then slowly said, "I can't accept rotting in a small village for the rest of my life, so I must marry into Qian Family Fortress and climb to a higher branch, and you and the fetus in your womb are precisely the obstacles between me and that branch, so…"

"So you set fire to your pregnant wife, just to…"

Accompanied by a voice full of contempt, Li Hai strolled in from outside the mansion with a look of sarcasm, "Become a live-in son-in-law."

He stood still, looked at Guo Huaijin, who had a surprised face, in the courtyard from a distance, and sneered coldly:

"Old dog Guo, you are really a rare… living animal."