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Chapter 834 Change my ass!

While the two were negotiating, the others also got up and were shocked to see the strange masked man suppressing the evil spirit with one hand.

After discussing Luo Jun's suggestion, the group decided that Cheng Hao would take out a small box containing a row of ten little figures.

"This is the Spirit Prison, a treasure my master gave me when I graduated from the Celestial Master's Mansion... cough cough..." Cheng Hao seemed to have suffered internal injuries while fighting the vengeful ghost. His face was pale, blood was flowing from the corner of his mouth, and his breath was very weak.

"The figures inside are made of different materials: four straw figures, three wooden figures, two bronze figures, and one gold figure, each capable of imprisoning souls of varying strengths."

“My master is a true disciple of the Old Celestial Master. According to him, a bronze-level being can already imprison all the evil spirits I encounter. As for a golden-level being, don’t even think about taking in such evil spirits; just run away when you see one.”

"Is it that precious?" Luo Jun looked at the box in his hand. "I'm taking this. Aren't you worried about it?"

"Of course it hurts! This is a parting gift from my master!" Cheng Hao took a deep breath, clutched his chest, and said with a determined expression, "But in order for everyone to get out smoothly, I have no choice but to part with it."

“Very good…” Luo Jun took the item, took out a bronze figure, infused it with vital energy, and used it on the vengeful ghost he was pressing down on.

The vengeful ghost immediately let out a shrill scream, but ultimately it couldn't resist the powerful force attached to the bronze figure and was completely sucked in. As for the originally dark bronze figure, after absorbing the vengeful ghost, it suddenly gained color, like a sculpture that had been sprayed with paint.

"It really is true! A bronze statue can absorb a peak-level vengeful ghost!" Luo Jun was quite surprised. "Although it's just a little Karami who just broke through to the peak, it seems that the Celestial Master's Mansion really has some good stuff. I didn't take enough last time!"

Having subdued the vengeful spirit, Luo Jun took out the Treasure Authentication Seal, stamped it, and transformed it into a legendary-level treasure.

The specific effects were clearly indicated after it was transformed into a Noble Phantasm.

The straw figure can imprison ordinary souls, the wooden figure can imprison vengeful ghosts, the bronze figure can imprison red-clothed ghosts and even peak-level vengeful ghosts, and the only golden figure can even imprison vengeful ghosts at the Ascension level!

Of course, this thing doesn't automatically subdue the evil spirit just by throwing it out; to successfully imprison it, you still need to defeat the evil spirit first. So, it seems this thing is indeed only at the Ascension level. If I can subdue it, what's one more sealing artifact I need?
However, this thing just solved Luo Jun's urgent problem. He put away the Spirit Prison Box, took out the Creation Heavenly Craft Chess, and cast a high-level healing spell on Cheng Hao. A soft white light shone down, and the guy's injuries were immediately healed, and even his depleted vital energy was instantly replenished.

Then, Luo Jun took out Miss Betty's picnic box and poured out a large amount of desserts, juices, and snacks. The Spirit King Group had come to this building to investigate last night, and hadn't eaten or drunk anything for sixteen or seventeen hours. They had also experienced many intense battles during that time, and their stomachs were already rumbling. As soon as they saw the food, their eyes lit up!
Chu Yue, in particular, had a sweet tooth and couldn't help but lick her lips when she saw the delicate pastries.

"Stop holding back, come and eat!" Luo Jun said with a smile, spreading out a picnic blanket. "Judging from your appearance, you haven't eaten in quite a while, have you?"

Everyone swallowed hard and turned to look at the team leader.

"Cough cough..." Chu Yue coughed twice: "We are all the elite of the elite, and have received the most rigorous training. In such a critical moment, how can we be swayed by our appetites when faced with food of unknown origin!"

Hearing the team leader's reprimand, everyone put aside their thoughts, but then Chu Yue stepped forward: "I'll test the poison first!"

The group was stunned for a moment, and by the time they realized what was happening, Chu Yue had already stuffed a piece of cake into her mouth... Seeing this, the others immediately rushed over and began stuffing food into their mouths as well.

Watching his teammates enjoying their meal, Luo Jun shook his head and released his spiritual sense to perceive their surroundings.

The building appears to be a single entity, but in reality, it seems to be divided into countless independent subspaces. Each floor, including the stairwells and elevators, is a separate space. Luo Jun can only perceive the information within the current floor; beyond that, he can neither see nor hear anything.

"How long have you been here?" Luo Jun asked. "Have you found any clues? Do you know where the owner of this alternate dimension is?"

Chu Yue took a sip of black tea, swallowed the chocolate cake in her mouth, coughed twice while pounding her chest, and finally said, "Based on the clues we've uncovered so far, the most likely possibility is the ninety-ninth floor!"

"Why?" Luo Jun asked. "Is there any basis for your answer?"

“There are many clues, but I won’t list them all…” Chu Yue said, “I think the most compelling evidence is that we’ve been wandering around this building for over ten hours. The elevators are randomly assigned to different floors. We’ve gone up and down the elevators hundreds of times, entering and exiting each floor two or three times, but we’ve never been to the ninety-ninth floor.”

"Have you been to all the other floors?" Luo Jun stroked his chin.

“Yes…” Chu Yue said, “This isn’t our first time here, including the forty-fourth floor. We just glanced at it briefly when the elevator doors opened and then left. Now that we can’t find our way out, we started a thorough search, and that’s when we encountered this vengeful ghost.”

"Alright, let's go to the ninety-ninth floor then." Luo Jun nodded.

"How do we get there?" Cheng Hao complained. "Didn't you hear what the captain said? The elevator doesn't go to the ninety-ninth floor..."

"Who said I was going to take the elevator?" Luo Jun stretched, his joints cracking, then looked up at the ceiling: "Each floor is a separate space, and the floor slabs are the barriers between spaces... but the strength of this space is not very good."

With that, he pushed off with both feet, propelling himself upwards and crashing headfirst into the ceiling with a loud bang!

With the impact, violent ripples spread across the ceiling, as if the solid floorboards had fallen asleep. The powerful shockwave swept through, knocking several people off their feet.

When they turned around, they found that a large hole had been punched in the ceiling, and the edges were still slowly healing.

Did it really break open?
Everyone was stunned. Before they could react, another series of loud noises came from above the cave entrance!
The group quickly ran to the bottom of the hole and looked up. They saw layers of floorboards that had been smashed through, large holes leading to smaller ones, all the way upwards...

"Wasn't the space supposed to be enclosed?" Everyone looked at each other, puzzled. "How come it looks like we just crashed through a normal floorboard..."

“No, breaking through the spatial barrier shouldn’t only have this effect, I’m afraid…” A thin man wearing glasses suddenly frowned. Before he could finish speaking, tremors began to emanate from the surroundings. The walls started to warp unnaturally, and the floor beneath their feet rippled, as if everything was becoming unstable. “Man-made alternate dimensions have limited stability. With him messing around like this, this space is about to collapse!” The bespectacled man immediately formed hand seals and began casting a spell: “No, with my power, I can’t completely stabilize this space. If spatial turbulence forms, we probably won’t survive…”

"Then what should we do?" Chu Yue asked.

"Go up!" The bespectacled man pointed to the still unhealed hole. The space above it was broken later, so it should collapse later!
"Then why not go down there?" the bald, tattooed man asked. "There's no breakage down there. Isn't it safer?"

"It's too late!" the bespectacled man shouted. "Whether we take the stairs or the elevator, we have to run. This place will collapse before we get there!"

As he spoke, he leaped up and jumped toward the upper level.

Seeing that the first floor was about to collapse, the others had no choice but to follow suit and chase upwards through the hole that Luo Jun had smashed.

As soon as they left the forty-fourth floor, they felt intense spatial fluctuations beneath their feet. The floor they had just been on had been annihilated by the spatial turbulence!

At the same time, this layer also began to distort under the influence of turbulence, and was on the verge of collapse!

"Keep going up!" Chu Yue roared, raised her hand and swung out a long whip that hooked onto the ceiling of the next floor. She soared into the air and jumped up two floors in one breath!

The others followed suit, chased upwards by the spatial turbulence that kept bringing them annihilation, scrambling and stumbling all the way...

Finally, Chu Yue, who was the fastest, climbed to the ninety-ninth floor, but as soon as she got up there, she felt a chill that went deep into her bones!

No, this is ghostly energy, such powerful ghostly energy that just being in this space makes one feel a deep-seated fear!

Chu Yue looked in the direction from which the ghostly aura was coming, and her eyes widened immediately.

It was a cramped workstation. A bespectacled, slightly balding office worker sat huddled in his chair, his hands flying across the keyboard, the reflection of the document he was editing on the computer screen in his glasses…

Behind him stood the masked man, one hand on the table, the other on the back of the chair, his eyes fixed on the screen.

"Does this still need to be changed?" Luo Jun asked. "I think this plan is already very good..."

“No way… The client isn’t satisfied, the project manager won’t approve it, the boss won’t give his nod, I have to scrap it and redo it… This is already the seventy-third version…” came the tired voice of an office worker. He sounded quite young, which didn’t match his prematurely receding hairline.

"Seventy-three versions? Are you crazy?" Luo Jun was also taken aback by the number. "What was your original version like? Was it that bad that it needed to be revised more than seventy times?"

The office worker had just finished typing the last line, saved and sent it, then closed the document and opened a new one: "This is the first version..."

Luo Jun glanced at it and couldn't help but purse his lips: "Although I don't know much about your company's business, intuitively, I think this first version is better..."

"The first version is better?" The office worker was stunned for a moment, then his office software on his desktop popped up. He clicked on the latest message, which was from the project manager.

"Let's revert to the first version!"

"Hehehe, it's always like this... always like this..." The office worker lowered his head, his shoulders starting to tremble involuntarily: "Everyone does it, revising and changing, but in the end it's still the first version. So what about my seventy-plus versions? I've stayed up so many nights, lost so much hair, wasted so much of my life, what does it all amount to?!"

As he complained, he began to exude a terrifying ghostly aura, his body expanding continuously, causing the narrow workspace to deform and become unable to contain his swollen form.

"What do you want... I don't understand... I don't understand!!"

With a series of terrifying growls, the office worker transformed into a muscular monster over three meters tall. With his left hand, he grabbed the still-lit computer screen and put it on his wrist, causing pages of documents to fly out and piece together to form a giant shield. With his other hand, he grabbed the keyboard, and as the keycaps bounced, characters flew out, forming curses that swirled around him!
"Is this the grievance of an overworked office worker?" Luo Jun sighed, looking at the office worker in front of him who had completely transformed into a monster.

By this time, the others had also climbed up to this level. The moment the last person emerged from the floor, the monster swung the keyboard, and the two large characters "Closed" popped up, instantly sealing the hole in the ground and isolating it from the ever-approaching spatial turbulence below!
Immediately afterwards, he swung the keyboard again, and the two big characters "Purge" popped up. The office room, which was originally full of partitions and workstations, was cleared out in an instant. Even the ceiling seemed to extend dozens of meters upward, turning into a huge, open space!

Seeing this terrifying power, Chu Yue couldn't help but clench her teeth: "This is beyond our ability to deal with... Retreat!"

But the entire space was already sealed off; there was nowhere left for them to retreat!
Chu Yue's shouts attracted the monster's attention. He swung his keyboard, and the words "Useless trash, die!" flew towards them!
Luo Jun frowned, raised his hand to open the Creation Chessboard, and threw out a card. Instantly, a protective barrier enveloped the group, blocking the incoming curse.

The monster turned its head, its blood-red eyes fixed on Luo Jun: "It's you! You're the one who's stopping me! You're the one who wanted the first version! I'll show you which version is better!"

As he spoke, he slammed his shield on the ground, and one plan after another flew out, wrapping Luo Jun tightly in layers, making him look like a robust mummy.

Immediately afterwards, the text on these solution pages began to glow, tightening as if carrying immense resentment, wanting to completely strangle the person trapped within!

However, a sigh could be heard from beneath the ever-reducing page.

"Theoretically, one peak-level vengeful ghost is enough, but since we've encountered one, I'll help you find peace..."

As soon as he finished speaking, a hole suddenly appeared in front of the page, and two fingers emerged, like a pair of scissors, instantly cutting all the discarded plans into pieces!
(End of this chapter)