Master, This Poor Disciple Died Again Today

Chapter 755: Golden Character

He threw his own qi down beside the death qi and swirled it around, gathering up the scraps of the gold qi. With his own qi, a bit of phoenix qi, death qi, and the remnants of the gold qi, Hui reformed the character from memory.

The other characters paused. The glow dulled, then faded entirely. Huis cobbled-together character flickered a little, not quite stable, but with the other characters backing off, it managed to hold itself together. Hui let out a slow breath, afraid to accidentally jostle it. A foothold. Now, to capitalize on my initial success!

Outside of the barrier, the drama continued. Hui peeked at it, dividing his attention just enough to make sure he had the right expression on. A moment later, he rolled his eyes at himself. Why am I bothering to split my attention when I have mental clones?

Quickly splitting off a mental clone to run his facial expressions and pay attention to the drama, Hui immersed himself back in the barrier.

Jun Ke. What is your purpose in coming here? Sa Zhangli demanded.

Jun Ke gave her a look. You know my purpose.

She rolled her eyes. Are you still trying to rescue me? I chose this life. Id rather be on the winning side than the losing side. Ha! You even lost your post as the brothels owner, didnt you? To that weird boy-girl thing.

Their name is Bai Xue, and theyre my spouse, Hui interjected firmly.

Sa Zhangli startled. You married that?

Hui looked at Jun Ke. What do you like about this woman? I cant understand it.

Jun Ke met his eyes. Her body.

Hui nodded slowly. Ah. Like I said, no accounting for taste.

My body? You truly see me as so little? Sa Zhangli snarled.

Im starting to see you as that little, Hui muttered to himself.

Excuse me? Sa Zhangli whirled at him, her eyes narrowed.

Hey. Mental clone. No need for spicy takes right now. Lets stay quiet and out of the argument, okay? Im busy breaking the barriers, I dont need someone to notice!

Shes attacking our spouse!

I know, I know, but yeah, okay. Just let her be after this, okay? Im busy!

Sa Zhangli, come with me. Please. We can make a new life for ourselves. Well figure out a way to break you out of the Golden Immortals hold, Jun Ke said earnestly.

I dont need it. Leave me out or your mad plans. Im on the winning side, Sa Zhangli returned.

In the barrier, Hui looked over his unstable character. Out of all the characters that made up the barrier, only his flickered. Even as it flickered, smaller characters swam between the lines of large characters, full of healing energy.

Huh. The barrier repairs itself, huh? What an interesting barrier! I should copy some of these techniques for my own barriers.

The self-repairing is going to make it hard to corrupt unless. Hui grinned slowly, looking at the tiny characters as they glommed onto the big one. Unless I hijack those small characters! Theyre so small, so theyre probably easier to take over than the big ones. And if Ive hijacked the self-repairing feature, wont I essentially own a way to repair the whole barrier into my barrier?

Excellent, excellent. Hui sent more death qi into the character through the corrupted parts of it. As the self-repairing small characters glommed onto it, he coursed the death qi into them. They glowed, fighting it off, then quickly faded. Again, Hui gathered his qi around the small characters and reformed them from the scraps of gold qi and bits of phoenix qi and death qi until all the small characters flickered, as corrupted as the large character hed attacked.

The small characters stopped trying to repair the large flickering character. Instead, they turned to the nearest whole, ordinary character and latched on to it, sending their corrupted qi into the heart of the character. The small characters flickered even more strongly, on the verge of going out. Hurriedly, Hui fed the small characters more death qi and phoenix qi, and they recovered. Phew! I didnt expect it, but I should have. It looks like the small characters are meant to die out after they repair a character, which makes sense! It would also prevent my plan from working. In other words, if I corrupted the characters without being nearby to feed them more qi, the barrier wouldnt self-destruct. One large character would get destroyed, but the rest of the large characters would survive. But since Im here to keep the corrupted characters alive, I can have the self-repair characters fully destroy the barrier!

One at a time, the self-repair characters attacked each of the individual large characters. Hui fed them death qi and phoenix qi the whole time, keeping them alive. When a him-sized selection of characters under his feet all flickered, he slowed the pace of the self-repair characters. I dont want to draw too much attention to the barriers decay. All I need is enough decay to break away from this room. I dont need to collapse the whole barrier.

It would be fun, though

He shook his head at himself. No, no. Now isnt the time. I still need to do things in this loop. I cant blow the whole loop destroying the barrier and getting chased by Inspectors.

Sending his divine sense through the hole in the barrier, Hui peered around on the far side of the hole. Id hate to burst through the barrier, only to find myself in another room with the same exact barrier. I dont know why theyd put a barrier this complex on the wall of an internal room, but who knows? Sometimes cultivators are a little over-the-top.

On the far side of the barrier and the wall, Hui found himself in a bustling tea shop, where cultivators ate sweets and drank tea, sharing gossip back and forth. He pursed his lips, a little bit startled. The Inspectors office is on top of a tea shop? Shouldnt they have a building of their own?

Well, on the other hand, its not like they use the office much. Theyre cultivators. They can do paperwork anywhere, if theres even paperwork to do!

Hmm gossip clone, is it a good time to slip out?

Gossip Clone? What? Ugh, whatever. Yeah Jun Ke and Sa Zhangli are still going at it. I think theyll be going at it all day.

Recalling the mental clone, Hui put his hands behind his back and put on a placid smile. He shed a snakeskin, adding one for Zhubi and Tian Lan, as well, then compressed his body down. With a wiggle, he escaped through the bottom of the snakeskins foot and directly through the floor beneath. The two dragons followed his lead, snaking along after him with a natural quietude. Coming out on the other side, he crawled along the ceiling, up high where no one was looking, then quickly slipped through the door. Outside, he quickly flew away, making a beeline through the city. I dont have long before they notice. I might end up locked in prison for the rest of the loop, and in the best case, Ill still be unable to return to the city until the next loop. In fact, I might be unable to return to the city again in the future

But thats fine. I cant do this indefinitely. I dont know if Im deteriorating. I might be missing loops, or

You are. Even Im

Right. Were deteriorating. We need to end this, soon. The Golden Immortal wins the battle of attrition.

But the Elusive Ghost

After this. Theres something important we need to do first.

Right.

Hui flew around the corner and dropped down in front of a small, dingy room. He returned to his ordinary size as he landed and took a deep breath. Li Xiang?