Seventh Floor

Phew~

Pro took a deep breathe as he stepped up to the door leading to the seventh floor. Sensing the dense yin qi radiating from the floor, Pro couldn't help but frown a bit.

Although he was able to sense the danger somewhat when he was passing by as a mid-level blood spirit, he could sense it even more now because his yin qi senses were upgraded along with his level upgrade. He could now more clearly sense and gauge the strength of the evil spirits on this floor.

Just by the door alone, he could already sense the dense yin qi belonging to at least a mid-level baleful spirit coming from what seems to be apartments 778 and 776. Perhaps, they may even be top-level baleful spirits, but Pro didn't have a gauge on how dense the yin qi between those two levels were.

On the other hand, he could sense the extremely dense yin qi radiating from apartment 779, and Pro was clear that this was above the level of a baleful spirit.

"According to the stairway blood spirit's memory, the blood spirit hiding on the lower floors should be 'weaker' or injured to some extent, but it may still be difficult to deal with. This one should be especially difficult because it has the ability to hide."

Peeking through the small window of the door at apartment 779, Pro couldn't help but frown in thought.

"When I was still a mid-level blood spirit, I actually wasn't able to lock onto its position. Fortunately, the top-level blood spirit upgrade allowed me to do so. Still, I should be careful. After all, it should have control over the baleful spirits to some extent, and there should be at least 7 of those on this floor if the pattern is not broken."

Although Pro wanted to bring his subordinates to come help him, but the danger this time was a bit too great. A blood spirit could easily wipe out baleful spirits and Pro didn't want to waste too much points to recover them, especially since he now knew he need them for promotion.

"For this, I would rather take the risk myself. Plus, even if I can't beat them, I can easily escape. Even if it's a top-level blood spirit, it can't stop another top-level blood spirit from escaping unless that blood spirit blindly charged into its domain. On the other hand, the blood spirit on this floor is definitely not a top-level."

Recalling the dangerous tentacle monster that almost destroyed his domain in the past, Pro knew that this blood spirit hiding here can't compare.

"Well ... here goes nothing. Hopefully, I can get away with some harvest. Even if they damage my domain, I can just let it recover on its own now, so I won't make any losses."

Sneaking into the seventh floor's distorted hallway, Pro was welcomed by a silent gloomy atmosphere. A couple of lingering white joss paper scattered silently throughout the hallway to 'enhance' the atmosphere.

Fortunately, it seemed that the floor of spirits can't sense Pro at all. His Sh*t on the Road skill is truly overpowered, especially after the level upgrade. Although there was no mention of the ability upgrades, it is common sense to know that they would get stronger to some extent along with Pro's power.

Silently strolling through the hallway without disturbing the suspected baleful spirits' apartments, Pro sneaked into apartments 773 and 772. In those rooms, he sensed 4 mid-level lingering spirits and 2 top-level lingering spirits which he managed to harvest with barely any effort. Bringing their remnants back to his domain, Pro happily watched his points jump up by 390.

Pro sneaked into apartment 777 where he also sensed lingering spirits. Although this was a bit close to the blood spirit, Pro had no worries if it truly disturbed the bloke because he already harvested most of the 'easy' ones on the floor.

As expected, Pro managed to hunt three lingering spirits in apartment 777, one top-level and two mid-levels! The top-level spirit was even able to create a strong, invisible barrier around itself that took Pro multiple slashes to cut through, but that was the extent of its power.

It was unknown if it was the little ruckus Pro made or if he was too close to the blood spirit, but when he tried to sneak back to his domain, the apartment door leading to apartment 779 actually creaked open on its own as a couple pieces of joss paper floated out!

Pro knew he was discovered. So, he decided to quickly return to his domain with his trophies. Running past apartment 779, Pro took a glance inside and saw a Chinese funeral scene.

A closed coffin sat in the center of the living room with white, funeral decor around it while white joss paper danced around due to invisible air currents that came from who knows where. An blank portrait sat on a table at the head of the coffin, and Pro was able to notice traces of a face gradually materializing on it.

Ignoring this for now, Pro returned to his domain and let the trophies of his hunt get absorbed. It didn't take long for another 190 points to enter his pockets.

Before Pro could cheer in joy and go back to continue his hunt, he suddenly felt his surroundings distort! In the blink of an eye, he realize he was now trapped in darkness as a soft, but cold, chilly feeling embraced him while he felt something trying to suck his energy away, but failing to do so!

Pro knew that this wasn't normal because he shouldn't be able to feel cold in the first place, and he should still be able to see in the dark regardless if there is light or not. The only reason for him failing to do so would be due to the weird abilities of others!

Groping around in the dark, Pro felt he was trapped in some wooden space with soft cushions around him. Pro rolled his eyes as he recalled the earlier funeral scene.

"Trapping me in a cheap coffin? Unfortunately, I can even put dent in steel, let alone a brittle wood!"

Shing! With a sneer, Pro smashed his claws on the coffin. Thud! Surprisingly, his trusty claw failed to cut through the coffin! However, Pro knew there should at least be some damage as he felt the sawdust falling upon his face.

Although Pro knew he would eventually cut through with his claws eventually, Pro had other options now. After all, the strength upgrade of a top-level blood spirit is no joke!

Pro then thrashed around as he gave the lid of the coffin a couple of strong kicks! Thud! Thud! BAM!

With Pro's strong strength, he blasted a chunk of the coffin lid off as it snapped apart from the rest of the wooden shell that was still nailed to the coffin!

Screeeee! A screech echoed in the room as Pro leaped out of the coffin. Black blood leaked from the sides of the coffin as if it suffered from some heavy injury. Glancing over at the nearby portrait, Pro was able to notice his charming, handsome face in the picture, but it was now distorted as the figure actually roared towards Pro angrily.

"Woah, black tech that can copy visitor's face and animate it! Awesome! Too bad you decided to target me and won't have the chance of being an employee of my haunted house!" Pro growled in frenzy as he smashed his claws down at the portrait and shattered it into pieces.

Black mist defused from the portrait as another screech echoed in the room. Turning to take a glance at the door, Pro already noticed that the apartment door across the hallway was opening up.

"Tsk. Already calling for backup?" Pro complained as he gave the coffin a couple of slashes with his claws, only to watch them gradually mend themselves.

Seeing this, Pro couldn't help but feel it was troublesome. Seeing the portrait that he smashed also mending itself, Pro rolled his eyes and grabbed it. With a hard tug, Pro tore it off the table and 'kidnapped' it.

With the blood spirit's angry scream coming from the portrait as a wave of joss paper flew at him like ninja darts, Pro dashed out of the room and easily dashed into his domain.

Ignoring the variety of screeches coming from behind him, Pro smashed the portrait in the concrete stairway, "Let's see if you can regenerate yourself in my domain!"

Crack! The portrait broke apart as black mist defused from it. A moan came from the portrait, but it failed to regenerate as the remnants were absorbed by his domain!

[Ding! Mysterious object with yin qi detected. Absorbing object ...]

[Host's domain has absorbed a possession object filled with yin qi. Host gains 320 life points.]

"Heh. Not bad," after a short comment, Pro turned back and headed back into the hallway.

Although the amount of points aren't nearly the amount that a blood spirit should give, Pro expected as much. After all, what he just absorbed was not the main body of the blood spirit. It was just an auxiliary component! It's not that easy to kill a blood spirit!

Glancing into apartment 779 where the portrait was no longer regenerating, Pro breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that the annoyance of being trapped in a coffin will be gone for a while. Now, he can focus on dealing with the rest of the baleful spirits that were clambering out of their apartments to face him!

Clang! Smashing the mid-level baleful spirit that pounced towards him, Pro frowned as he heard the metallic clang, but he didn't hesitate for long. With a sweeping kick, Pro smashed back a floating, black umbrella, with a metallic sheen, that was drilling through the air towards him from apartment 778.

Some joss paper ninja darts flew out of apartment 779 and sliced Pro's body, shredding his poor clothes and leaving small scratches on his body. However, Pro didn't even get distracted as he stomped his foot on the front of a trolley speeding his way.

With Pro's stomp, the trolley flipped upwards into the air and Pro happily gave the trolley a solid punch. BAM! A heavy dent appeared on the trolley as it flew backwards and all the way down the hallway, smashing into a group of black tuxedos that were filing out of apartment 770 as a floating Chinese funeral dress dodged back into apartment 771.

Suddenly, a solid black lace, long sleeve dress materialized above Pro and dived down at his face as its sleeves extended in an attempt to strangle Pro. Pro raised his claws in an attempt to shred it into pieces, just to watch the dress split in two to dodge his attack!

The two pieces of the dress than attacked Pro from two different directions as Pro tried to slice it once more, only to see it split into four. Pro frowned as he remembered an annoying cockroach. So, he helplessly put away his claws.

Waiting for the shreds of clothes to approach him, he reached out his hands and swiftly grabbed all the pieces! The scraps of the black dress tried to struggle out of Pro's hand, but Pro only sneered as he held on tight and backed up into the stairway.

Sensing the danger, the scraps of dress exploded into black mist and slipped out of Pro's hand to reform a dress in midair! Unfortunately, the door slammed shut behind it, and when it tried to escape by phasing through the wall, it only slammed into Pro's domain barrier.

"You can't escape!" Pro grinned like a savage bandit while the dress was like a helpless lady that was kidnapped.

Knowing it couldn't escape, the dress intended to fight back. A pale lady's corpse actually materialized within the dress and wore it! Black nails grew from the lady's hand while black tear rolled out from the empty sockets of its face!

Scree- THUD!

Pro didn't even bother to let it scream further. Since it had a physical form now, it can eat his claw. The funeral dress spirit smashed into the wall, causing multiple cracks to appear on it. Pro didn't let up his assault and thrust his claws into the lady's body over and over ... cough, not in 'that' way.

[An invader is attempting to enter your domain. Will you allow or deny the entry?]

[Warning! The barrier to host's domain has been breached! It will cost 20 life points to repair the barrier. Consume life points to repair the barrier?]

"Yea, no, don't let em in. Hold them back a little," Pro sneered as he no longer worried about the repairs of his domain.

Within a minute, Pro completely diced the poor funeral dress spirit into pieces and watched the scraps of the black dress blind his vision, transitioning him to a scene of a funeral.

A weird scene emerged in Pro's vision. The host of the funeral were dressed in white and were clearly hosting a Chinese funeral, but most of the attendees were actually dressed in black. Although the scene was a bit blurry, the contrast was clear, and the mocking voices that echoed only served to worsen the atmosphere.

"It's great he is dead. That tyrant deserves it."

"Now we can split his territory. You all better not fight me over it ... or else I don't mind playing dirty."

"Hah! You think you can swallow it all alone?! Try me!"

"Hey, look at that widow over there. I heard she was the mistress of that b*stard! Hehehe, she has lost her protection ... just look at that body, it's perfect for us to vent. Don't let her escape after the funeral."

The scene cracked and exploded into scraps of black dress that gradually floated down to the concrete ground.

[Host has eliminated an intruder in your domain. Domain is now absorbing the remains of the intruder ...]

[Absorption completed. Intruder was determined to be a Mid-Level Baleful Spirit. System Library updated with new info.]

[After absorbing a powerful spirit, host gains 880 life points.]

Cracking his neck with a grin, Pro then glared at the crowd of evil spirits on the other side of the door, trying to break through his domain barrier.

"Since you want to come in, I'm happy to welcome you one by one. Hahaha!"