The invincible female ghost is a bit love-struck.

Chapter 170 Why are you two fighting?!

Lu Yuan didn't react much to the sudden appearance of another version of himself.

It's just a common trick used by evil spirits.

Lu Yuan had seen this countless times, and the "self" in front of him did not show any danger signs.

In addition to Lu Yuan's own previous estimation, this so-called "Faceless Evil God" should be nothing special.

This thing is just for scaring people; it's not really useful.

Lu Yuan only glanced at the shadow in front of him that looked exactly like himself, and the next second, his gaze passed over it.

He turned his gaze toward the small figure crouching behind him.

At the same time, the paper tiger rabbit also raised its head and saw Lu Yuan.

Moonlight streamed through the gap in the ceiling, shining directly on her face.

The light shone on her two little pigtails, on her fair and clean little face, and on her round, bright eyes.

His eyes widened in surprise at first.

Then one

It's bent.

It curves into two crescent moons.

"Master Taoist!!"

She called out, her voice crisp and clear, filled with an irrepressible joy.

"What brings you here?!"

Lu Yuan was taken aback.

This reaction...

That's not right.

This response really left Lu Yuan speechless.

According to his thinking, this paper tiger and rabbit should be in cahoots with the living tiger and rabbit.

She stayed here to keep the lamp burning, while the live tiger and rabbit outside acted as lookouts to stop people. Working together from the inside and outside, they got the job done.

Furthermore, the two people should share vision and hearing.

Just like the three paper figures Lu Yuan released before, which were tracking paper figures, Tiger and Rabbit.

Otherwise, the living tiger rabbit wouldn't know what the paper tiger rabbit did at the True Dragon Temple.

They shouldn't know what the paper tiger and rabbit ate that night.

Lu Yuan is rushing here at top speed, intending to take down the paper tiger rabbit with a single strike.

Or to put it bluntly, they should be exterminated!

I did have different feelings for this paper tiger and rabbit before, and I didn't treat her as just a paper figure.

However, after seeing the living Tiger Rabbit and learning about the connection between the two, Lu Yuan no longer regarded the paper Tiger Rabbit as a "person" but only as a magical artifact of the living Tiger Rabbit.

but now……

Her expression

That surprise was real.

That laugh was genuine.

That night at Zhenlong Temple, she said, "I'll come back to see you when I have time," exactly the same thing.

Alas!

For a moment, Lu Yuan was in a daze.

The connection between the paper tiger rabbit and the living tiger rabbit...

Before Lu Yuan could react, the shadow in front of him, "Lu Yuan," suddenly moved.

It raised its hand, gripping the shadow dagger that was exactly the same as the apotropaic dagger, and stabbed it toward Lu Yuan's heart.

No sound.

There was no sound of wind.

It stabbed at us silently.

Lu Yuan snapped out of his daze and immediately dodged backward.

"Why!!!"

A crisp, clear shout.

The paper tiger rabbit rushed to the shadow Lu Yuan's side in two steps and reached out to grab its arm.

"What are you doing!"

She tried to grab the shadow's arm and pull it back with all her might.

But the shadow was illusory; her hand passed through it but grasped nothing.

Tiger Rabbit shouted anxiously:

"Get out of my way!!!"

She shouted at the shadow, as if she were talking to someone.

But the shadow ignored her.

It took another step forward, and the dagger stabbed at Lu Yuan again.

The paper tiger and rabbit were so anxious that they kept stamping their feet.

Suddenly remembering something, she pulled a piece of yellow paper from her pocket—the kind left over from relighting the lamp—with winding, swirling symbols drawn on it. She slapped the yellow paper onto the shadow.

"Smack."

The yellow paper was pasted onto the shadow, and the shadow suddenly froze.

Then, the yellow paper started burning on its own.

It wasn't ordinary fire; it was bluish-white fire.

It was exactly the same as the flame of that lamp.

The flame licked at the shadow's chest, causing it to stumble backward, dropping the dagger. Then, both the shadow and the dagger vanished into black smoke. The paper tiger-rabbit looked at its hand, then at the dissipating shadow, a smug smile appearing on its little face.

"snort."

She snorted.

Then she turned around and ran towards Lu Yuan.

"Master Daoist!"

Lu Yuan stared blankly as Hu Tu Tu ran up to him, looking up at him with bright, sparkling eyes.

"What are you doing here?!"

hiss

Seeing the completely unguarded paper tiger and rabbit in front of him, Lu Yuan was at a loss for words for a moment.

Mainly...

He held the amulet dagger in his hand, and for a moment he didn't know whether he should raise his hand and snatch the paper tiger and rabbit figures!

At the same time, another anxious voice came from behind Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan turned around and looked.

Because of that delay, the living tiger rabbit caught up with them.

She was panting heavily from running, her two little pigtails bouncing on her head.

The moonlight shone on her face and into her anxious eyes.

"Go and relight the lamp!"

She shouted at the paper tiger and rabbit figures, her voice urgent and fast.

"The lights are all out; if we don't go now, it'll be too late!"

The paper tiger rabbit turned around, looked at her, and spoke with a calm and unhurried tone.

"Why did you come down here too?"

The lively tiger rabbit ran up to her in a few steps and reached out to pull her.

"Stop talking nonsense and go!"

The paper tiger rabbit dodged back, not letting her pull it along.

She pointed at Lu Yuan, a smile on her face:

"This is a Taoist priest from Zhenlong Temple."

"I stayed overnight at the Taoist priest's place and ate at his temple."

Lu Yuan: ..…….…”

He looked at this, then at that.

Two tigers and rabbits, with identical faces, identical outfits, and even identical voices.

But at that moment, someone looked anxious, wishing they could immediately put the lamp back on.

One of them, however, was all smiles and busy introducing the two of them.

This……

This is completely different from what Lu Yuan expected.

According to his previous assumptions, this paper tiger-rabbit should be a magical artifact created by the living tiger-rabbit using secret methods.

Just like his little paper dolls, used for tracking, scouting, and doing chores.

As for ritual implements, they do whatever their master tells them to do.

It has no thoughts of its own, no emotions of its own; it is merely a tool.

But now...

The living tiger and rabbit are in such a hurry, but the paper tiger and rabbit are not in a hurry at all.

She even wanted to introduce the two of them.

Lu Yuan suddenly remembered the scene from earlier, where the paper tiger and rabbit rushed over to help him and burned the shadow with yellow paper.

Her reaction at that moment was entirely spontaneous.

Nobody asked her to come.

No one asked her for help.

She came here on her own.

Because I understand myself, I want to help myself…

Looking at her smiling face and her bright, sparkling eyes, Lu Yuan suddenly felt a little dazed.

How can this be a ritual implement?

This is clearly one person.

The living tiger rabbit ignored the paper tiger rabbit's introduction, grabbed her wrist, and pulled her forcefully to the side, saying:

"Stop talking, go now!"

The paper tiger rabbit stumbled slightly as she pulled it, but still refused to move.

She turned around and looked at Lu Yuan, a hint of apology on her face:

"Master, wait for me a moment."

"I'll go and reconnect the light first, then I'll talk to you."

Lu Yuan stood still, looking at the two tiger rabbits.

One person was pulling hard, while the other, being dragged along, was still looking back at him.

The moonlight shone on them, on their two identical faces.

One looked anxious, while the other was all smiles.

One was urging him on, while the other was still thinking about coming back to talk to him later.

A thought suddenly flashed through Lu Yuan's mind.

Not honored.

If this paper tiger-rabbit is really just a magical artifact of the living tiger-rabbit, then the living tiger-rabbit doesn't need to be in such a hurry.

She can simply "take" it back.

Just like when he retrieved his little paper doll, with a thought, the paper doll returned.

No need to chase, no need to shout, no need to pull or urge.

Or you could simply control the paper tiger and rabbit to keep the lamp burning.

But she didn't.

All she could do was chase after him, pull him down, and shout.

What does this tell us?

This shows that she can't control this paper tiger and rabbit.

This shows that the paper tiger and rabbit have their own thoughts and ideas.

What she wants to do and what she doesn't want to do are not things that the living tiger rabbit can forcibly control.

Of course, thinking about these things now is useless.

Lu Yuan has only one goal: to stop the Xu Deng Hu family from continuing the lamp for an evil god!

Now that it's known that only the paper tiger and rabbit figures can keep the lamp burning, Lu Yuan's safest course of action is...

Just take out the paper tiger and rabbit figures, and that will be perfect!

Of course, Lu Yuan had thought and acted the same way before.

But all of that was... Previously, Lu Yuan thought that this paper tiger and rabbit was just a magical artifact of the living tiger and rabbit.

Now, it's impossible to act the way I thought before.

Lu Yuan took a step forward, the moonlight shining on his face.

He looked at the paper figures of Tiger and Rabbit, and said, word by word:

"Don't relight the lamp."

The paper tiger rabbit was stunned.

The living tiger rabbit's expression changed.

Lu Yuan continued:

"That lamp was for the evil god to keep burning."

Do you know what an evil god is?

The paper tiger rabbit blinked but didn't say anything.

Lu Yuan pointed to the dilapidated temple, and to the still-wriggling shadows covering the mountains and fields:

"This thing is called the Faceless Evil God."

"It's not a proper deity; it's a cannibalistic entity."

"I don't know how many people it harmed in the areas outside the Great Wall in its early years."

"But I know that if it continues to live, the first to suffer will be the people outside the Great Wall."

As the paper tiger rabbit listened, the smile on its little face slowly faded.

She looked at the dilapidated temple, then at the shadows, and finally at Lu Yuan.

The moonlight shone into her complex eyes.

Meanwhile, the living tiger rabbit standing to the side suddenly spoke up anxiously:

"Don't listen to his nonsense!"

She grabbed the paper tiger and rabbit's wrist, her voice urgent and harsh:

"What kind of evil god is that? That's the lamp from our Xu Deng Hu family!"

"After so many generations, you've forgotten?"

"Grandpa continued it, Dad continued it, now it's your turn!"

"If you don't continue, it will fall apart. What will our Tiger Clan eat? What will we drink? What will we use to cultivate?"

The paper tiger rabbit was pulled forward two steps by her, but still turned around and looked at Lu Yuan.

The paper tiger and rabbit opened their mouths:

"But the Taoist priest said..."

However, this time the live tiger rabbit interrupted directly, its voice suddenly rising.

"He belongs to the Taoist sect, we belong to the ten sects!"

"Each goes their own way, and each follows their own rules!"

"Our Xu Denghu family has been like this since our ancestors."

"Whether it's a righteous god or an evil god, we must continue!"

"If you don't continue, how will you live?"

"If you don't continue, what will happen to the Tiger family?"

She stared intently into the paper tiger and rabbit's eyes:

"Have you forgotten who you are?"

"You're from Xu Denghu's family!"

The paper tiger rabbit was stunned by her shout.

The moonlight shone on her, and on her two little pigtails.

Two little pigtails swayed gently in the night breeze.

Seeing this scene, Lu Yuan grew a little anxious. Judging by its appearance, the paper tiger-rabbit seemed about to be fooled by the living tiger-rabbit. But the next second, to Lu Yuan's complete surprise, the paper tiger-rabbit only hesitated for a moment before instantly breaking free from the living tiger-rabbit's grasp. Completely unfazed, it glared with its round eyes and shouted loudly:

"Then it must be an evil god!!"

She stared with her round eyes, her voice crisp and clear, not at all weak.

"It's not some Faceless One!"

"It's the Faceless God!!"

The living tigers, rabbits, and hamsters were stunned by her shout.

The paper tiger rabbit took a step back, its little face full of seriousness:

"Don't use my father to talk about me!"

"That's not what Father said!"

The living tiger rabbit frowned:

"What did Father say?"

The paper tiger rabbit looked at her, the moonlight shining on her fair and clean little face, and on her clear eyes:

"My father once said what is right and what is wrong."

"An evil god, it harms people, it's a bad thing!"

Just as the living tiger-rabbit was about to say something, the paper tiger-rabbit stared with its big, round eyes and said:

"Tell me, does this faceless evil god give life, or does it kill?"

This left the living tiger rabbit speechless.

Lu Yuan, standing to the side, was completely dumbfounded.

This isn't right.

This is really wrong.

Judging from the tone and demeanor of the living tiger rabbit, he assumed that the paper tiger rabbit was definitely the one who was completely under his control.

After all, one of them is a living, breathing, and legitimate person.

A paper figure created solely through magic.

Logically speaking, shouldn't something created through magic be obedient to people?

But now?

The paper tiger rabbit not only ignored them, but also dared to talk back.

They argued with such self-righteousness.

no………

This... this really confused Lu Yuan.

The living tiger rabbit was stunned by her shout and took a step back.

But she quickly came to her senses, and the anxiety on her face turned into anger.

"You...you dare talk to me like that?!"

The paper tiger rabbit remained unfazed, its eyes wide open:

"Why wouldn't I dare?"

"You're neither my mother nor my father."

"What right do you have to tell me what to do?"

She took a step forward, the moonlight shining on her face and into her eyes, which already held a hint of anger:

"Stop talking nonsense!!"

"I told you to go and relight the lamp, so you have to go and relight the lamp!"

"Are you going or not?!"

"If you don't go, believe me, I'll beat you up right now!!"

The living tiger and rabbit raised their eyes as if to beat up the paper tiger and rabbit, but unexpectedly, the paper tiger and rabbit was even more amazing!

The paper figure suddenly raised its hand and pulled out a talisman from its waist.

The talisman was different from the one used by the paper tiger and rabbit figures earlier; it was red and covered with dense patterns.

The moonlight shone on it, and the patterns seemed to be alive, slowly wriggling.

She tossed the talisman into the air, formed a hand seal, and chanted:

"Continuing the tradition of the Tiger family, borrowing the first method!"

Lu Yuan, standing to the side: "????"

no! !

Why are you two fighting?!