Chapter 82: A Battle with Pu Liuqian

Chapter 82: A Battle with Pu Liuqian

The previous chapter left off with Pu Liuqian suddenly appearing in the casino. This was something I had never expected.

I thought I had been low-key enough. I had only gone home once, then gone to a remote little bar to have a drink, and the place I ended up in was a bottom-level little casino. How had that female demon been drawn here?

To be honest, Pu Liuqian really did scare me a little.

Even her disciple Yuan Lingliang’s mind arts had been difficult for me to deal with. Let alone this demoness herself, who had just sealed off Du Xiaoran’s base, taken the Myriad-Dimensional Brain, and was at the height of her momentum. In daily life, whenever people mentioned Pu Liuqian, there was a sense of fear. That was not without reason.

Scared or not, I could not lose momentum. So I said to her, “Why didn’t you bring your guard detail with you? That’s no good. Not imposing enough!”

Pu Liuqian looked at me with a cold smile and said, “We’ve finally met. I used to hear people mention you all the time, and I always wanted to see you. What, are you unhappy to see me?”

I said, “You and I aren’t close. Why should I be happy to see you?”

Pu Liuqian said, “Don’t be so cold. Take off that old face of yours. It doesn’t look good. Change back into your original face and let me have a look.”

I laughed. “Why should I satisfy you?”

Pu Liuqian said, “Suit yourself. It’s not as if I can’t see what you look like.”

I thought about it, and she was right. Since there was no difference in front of her, and since sooner or later I would have to face her with my true face, why should I care about my current appearance? So I shed the middle-aged man’s appearance and restored my original face.

When the people around us saw how young and handsome I was, they all began murmuring in low voices.

Pu Liuqian said, “Look at that. What a handsome little pretty boy. Much better like this. Call me big sister and let me hear it.”

She almost made me laugh from anger. I said, “Listen, little sister, you’re taking your big brother way too lightly. Acting so disrespectful in front of all these people—be careful, or I’ll go back and tell Pu Xuande to beat you.”

The spectators around us had already been badly frightened by Pu Liuqian’s arrival and had not dared to move at all. Hearing me dare to speak to her like that, for a moment they were all completely at a loss.

This was Pu Liuqian. She did not even put Hua City’s city lord in her eyes.

Across the entire Elite World, almost no one could mention Pu Liuqian without feeling a chill. With one casual sentence from her, you would no longer be an elite person. That was more painful than prison.

Prison at least had a time limit. Being kicked out of the Elite World, for elite people, meant death, abandonment, and struggle. That was exactly what I had seen in the underground Eighteen Levels of Hell. Those criminals would rather endure hellish torment inside than be expelled from the Elite World.

When those people heard me say something like that, they could not figure out what kind of relationship the two of us had at all.

Who was this guy?

Was he truly this bold—or was he really Pu Liuqian’s older brother?

I saw that the fat boss looked scared enough to piss himself. His legs were trembling terribly. After all, he had just competed against me, and he had openly cheated. He was very afraid there would be retaliation afterward.

Pu Liuqian slowly walked toward me, pointed at the casino square, and said, “Come on. Shall we gamble one round too?”

I said, “What are we gambling on?”

Pu Liuqian said, “That green jade token on you.”

I asked, “Then what are you planning to lose?”

Pu Liuqian said, “Heh. Me, lose? Fine. If I lose, I’ll give you a legal identity. You can go wherever you want. How about that?”

I said, “That’s called trying to catch a white wolf with empty hands. You don’t want to pay anything at all. Do I need you to give me an identity? This place was originally my home. Maybe you’re the one who’s illegal.”

Pu Liuqian said, “Then what do you want?”

I said, “I want the Myriad-Dimensional Brain you stole. How about that?”

Pu Liuqian stared at me for a while, then sneered and said, “Forget it. It seems you don’t have any sincerity about gambling with me either. Then let’s just play casually. I can tell you clearly: if you can’t beat me today, you won’t walk out of this hall. Isn’t that exciting?”

I smiled as well. “Then that depends on your skill, doesn’t it?”

As soon as the words left my mouth, Pu Liuqian suddenly disappeared.

Along with her disappearance, I immediately sensed her rapidly transforming into a thin, elongated, indistinct soul-state form, then pouncing toward me.

Before I even had time to turn invisible or react, that thin, elongated soul-state form touched my body and instantly shrank into a mass, becoming an indistinct viscous liquid that covered my entire body. It drove force of consciousness rapidly toward my brain, trying to occupy my brain and control my thoughts.

Among the onlookers present, perhaps only the fat man could see it. Everyone else had no idea what was happening. Many people began running outside, but they were immediately driven back by the patrol team guarding the small door.

All I could do was sit on the ground and tightly shield my brain, waiting to see what other methods Pu Liuqian had.

After all, this was only force of consciousness, not martial techniques. If she could not break through, she could not hurt me.

Pu Liuqian was like a loach, drilling wildly around my body and outside my consciousness body for a while, yet she never found an opening. After all, according to Du Xiaoran, in the Elite World, he had never seen anyone with a stronger shielding ability than mine.

Very quickly, seeing that a forceful attack would not work, Pu Liuqian switched to soul-charm arts.

I immediately felt as if my entire body had been stuck to by the soft body of a woman. Warm lips, tender skin, full breasts, smooth legs, firm hips, a soft waist, murmured words, and an omnipresent fragrant warmth wrapped tightly around me, sliding constantly all around my body, causing my male hormones to surge violently until I could barely breathe.

Her long hair, especially, was like Medusa, that snake-haired demoness, coming fully alive. It went everywhere, slipping into every gap, carrying a gentle, soft, smooth force with it.

This was no longer just a force-of-consciousness attack. It also contained physical martial-technique attacks.

No wonder the men around Pu Liuqian all collectively fell.

What kind of person was this?

She was absolutely a demon, a seductress, a devil.

I had originally thought mind arts were nothing more than a kind of force of consciousness. Yuan Lingliang had been like that. I had never expected that Pu Liuqian’s mind arts were in fact also martial techniques.

She could make it impossible for you to breathe, impossible for you to face your opponent directly, and even impossible for you to find where to strike her. Everywhere was a slippery woman’s body and force of consciousness.

For men in particular, she could stimulate your hormones to surge rapidly to an extremely high level, making it very hard to respond rationally. You could not even sense where her body was. You only felt as if she were everywhere, as if she had already melted all around your body, slipping into every opening.

I immediately thought of petrification.

Since I could not hit her, I could not let her torment me either. So I quickly illusion-transformed myself into a stone the same size as my body, covered all over in sharp spikes, like a hedgehog carved from hard rock, crouched on the ground and unmoving.

As long as I did not regard myself as human, then right now, I was not human. I no longer had human emotions or a male soul.

Sure enough, my method still worked.

Pu Liuqian tangled with me for quite a while, but she still could not find a place to bite into. Perhaps this was also the first time she had failed to make a man submit. So she grew even more frantic, increasing the strength of her mind arts.

And at this moment, I slightly split off a wisp of force of consciousness and quickly searched for a temporary parasitic host.

As luck would have it, the patrol captain who had just been standing at the small door driving people back was walking toward us.

I remembered that the first time I saw Pu Liuqian on screen, Pu Liuqian had called him Li Tongfei. So I called out through force of consciousness in midair, “Li Tongfei.”

When the man heard it, he immediately looked toward me. I seized the chance and plunged headfirst into his brain with my force of consciousness.

If I could not deal with Pu Liuqian, was I supposed to be unable to deal with you?

I immediately controlled him, then walked outside the small door and shouted at the patrol team members outside, “Everyone, assemble.”

There were roughly thirty patrol team members. At my command, all the patrol team members immediately rushed in behind Li Tongfei.

Controlling Li Tongfei, I shouted, “See that stone hedgehog? That’s Miss Pu, controlled by Gu Beichen. The sticky substance on top of it is Gu Beichen. We have to save Miss. Everyone, open fire on the sticky substance.”

At my order, thirty patrol team members raised quantum guns from different directions and fired fiercely at the sticky substance outside my body.

No matter how strong Pu Liuqian was, she was not made of iron. She was flesh and blood, after all. Along with the gunfire, Pu Liuqian immediately revealed her true form, her entire body burned full of holes by the quantum guns.

Although she immediately repaired her body, her aura was unstable. It seemed she was rather badly injured.

Just as she was preparing to explode in anger, my own body immediately illusion-transformed into Pu Liuqian’s appearance, pointed at Pu Liuqian, and shouted, “She is Gu Beichen in disguise. Shoot her.”

More than a dozen patrol team members hesitated a little because they could not tell who was who. If they shot the wrong person, they would be punished. Even so, under Li Tongfei’s command, more than a dozen patrol team members still opened fire on Pu Liuqian.

Pu Liuqian was so furious that smoke seemed to pour from all seven orifices, and she cursed those patrol team members.

At that moment, the Li Tongfei I was controlling rushed forward quickly, leapt up, and kicked at Pu Liuqian. At the same time, I shouted at the patrol team members, “Zhang Xiaolong and Lü Sanyan, what are you standing there for? Hurry up and shoot her!”

The names Zhang Xiaolong and Lü Sanyan were ones I had heard Li Tongfei call out after Du Xiaoran and I stole the Quantum Research Institute materials.

Originally, those patrol team members had still been hesitant. They could not tell who was who, and they were afraid of shooting the wrong one and being blamed by Pu Liuqian. But the moment I called out the patrol team members’ names, they stopped hesitating.

In truth, the real Pu Liuqian could not call out the names of those ordinary patrol team members at this moment. In her eyes, only important people above the city-lord level counted as people worth dealing with. These grassroots patrol team members had never been worth her notice at all.

So, in the eyes of the patrol team members, I was the real Pu Liuqian, and the real one was the fake.

The thirty patrol team members practically chased Pu Liuqian around while shooting.

Although Pu Liuqian kept illusion-transforming, roaring, shape-shifting, and rapidly repairing herself, she still could not withstand continuous attacks from so many modern weapons.

I gave her no chance to explain either. Using force of consciousness, I imitated Pu Liuqian and illusion-transformed into a thin, elongated, indistinct soul-state form, launching consciousness interference against Pu Liuqian.

At this point, Pu Liuqian truly could not defend herself no matter how many mouths she had. She had no choice but to abandon that tattered body and suddenly parasitize into the fat man. Controlling the fat boss, she punched the patrol captain Li Tongfei, who had charged at the front, sending him flying.

This only made it even more convincing that the real Pu Liuqian was the fake one. I seized the chance to strike at the fat man Pu Liuqian had parasitized with another stream of force of consciousness, squeezing Pu Liuqian’s force of consciousness hard.

If judging only by force-of-consciousness strength, Pu Liuqian’s force of consciousness at this moment was about equal to mine. But when it came to hard striking methods, I was not much weaker than Pu Liuqian. Besides, I had the patrol team helping me now and held the initiative. How could I give her any chance to breathe?

Li Tongfei organized the patrol team members into a fierce attack, while I illusion-transformed into Pu Liuqian and supported the assault, beating Pu Liuqian into an utterly wretched state.

At this moment, the gamblers watching also saw a chance to escape and desperately ran toward the exit.

The whole hall fell into chaos.

Some patrol team members wanted to stop the crowd from escaping, but I controlled Li Tongfei and shouted, “Don’t worry about those gamblers. All of you, go catch that fat man. We absolutely cannot let Gu Beichen get away.”

Chaos.

Perhaps this was Pu Liuqian’s most stifled moment. Using the fat man’s body, she shouted, “Gu Beichen, I lost. You can go.”

But I shouted back in Pu Liuqian’s appearance, “Gu Beichen, remember this: the Myriad-Dimensional Brain is mine. I am the true master of the Elite World. Zhang Xiaolong and Lü Sanyan, hurry up and spread the capture net. Catch her.”

After shouting, I smashed Pu Liuqian’s soulless body apart with one palm.

The fat man was tightly covered by the capture net, making it very hard for him to break free. From inside, he shouted, “Gu Beichen, you destroyed one of my Dao bodies. I’m not finished with you.”

I said to her through force of consciousness, “Pu Liuqian, that parasitic host was already burned full of holes and completely ruined. You still wanted it? It was ugly as hell. I destroyed it for you so no one would see you looking that pathetic. You should be thanking me. Besides, you have plenty of money. Go make a few more later, and let me beat them slowly.”

After hearing what I said, Pu Liuqian in the fat man’s appearance was so furious that she spat three liters of blood.