HELP! These Girls Wants To Kill Me-Chapter 233

"YOU..." The first thing that came to Yang Ze’s mind after watching it was rage. How could he not understand that these were the ghosts of the girls that should have been dissipitated? Although he didn’t know what would happen after their ghosts disappeared, in his mind, it must be a new beginning.

The girls have already suffered way too much in their lives. Even after death, they had to come back as ghosts to kill their enemies. And now that it was the time for them to finally rest, they were caught once again, neither living nor dead.

How could Yang Ze not be angered? He knew perfectly well what state they were currently in. They couldn’t think, they couldn’t speak, they couldn’t act on their own.

They were like mindless puppets relying on orders from someone else.

After he used his innate skill in the Black Tiger Form, he knew he could keep them as long as he wished to, but in the end, he chose not to.

They had suffered enough, and at least in death, Yang Ze wanted them to be free. He didn’t want to see a group of children fight for him even after their death. That was the reason why he chose to disperse them even though he could keep their ghosts with him.

And now that he saw someone doing this exact vile act... How could he stay calm?

In that very moment, a monstrous, murderous rage erupted in his eyes as he barely managed to hold himself from summoning a cyclone to tear down this entire sea.

But he had decided in his heart that one day he would pull this monster out of this ocean and tear it apart with his bare hands for doing something as vile as this.

He already knew why she took out the ghosts of those five girls and what she wanted to do with them. And sure enough, her next words confirmed his guess.

"These are the ghosts of the girls that you seemed to deeply care about." The girl didn’t have a trace of emotion on her face as she uttered those words.

"Do you know what happens after death?" Her sudden question caught Yang Ze by surprise, who, in turn, simply shook his head in response.

"Well, for cultivators, our life is truly over when we die."

"Since we are already going against heaven by cultivating and going against the natural order by increasing our lifespan, our death would be the end of us."

"We won’t be reborn... we won’t gain a second chance. This is it... Once we die, we cease to exist."

"But mortals..." Her voice reverberated in Yang Ze’s ears.

"Mortals are different."

"When they die, they will be reborn, getting another chance at life."

"These girls..." Speaking till here, she clicked her tongue. "These mortal girls should have already gone through the process, but."

She didn’t finish her sentence, but Yang Ze could hear the hidden meaning behind those words.

"But they are stuck in this lifeless state."

"Would be a pity if someone accidentally damaged and shattered them, making it impossible for them to go through the cycle of reincarnation."

"Don’t you think?"

Yang Ze finally understood why, even after knowing fully well that he wouldn’t truly agree to her plan, she didn’t seem to care about it.

With the ghosts of the girls in her hand, she could make him do anything she wanted. Even if he didn’t want to, he had to agree to her terms just for the sake of the girls.

"Before I agree or disagree to your terms, there is something that I need to know."

Yang Ze didn’t immediately give her an answer but chose to ask a question.

"Shoot." The girl spoke nonchalantly.

"Just now you said that the cultivators after their death can not reincarnate and will cease to exist forever...." Yang Ze’s breathing faltered as he asked in a low voice. "Is it true?"

"...."

"...."

The girl quietly gazed at him for a moment before simply nodding in response.

"According to my understanding... yes."

"I see." Yang Ze’s voice trembled as he clenched his fists.

"Then, those techniques that you gave me that could revive the dead..."

"Can only be used on mortals." The girl spoke in an emotionless voice, "and using it upon the dead mortals will simply bring them back to this exact state." She then pointed towards the ghosts of the girls around her before sitting in absolute silence.

*Huff... Huff... Huff...

Yang Ze, on the other hand, felt like he had been struck by lightning as his body slumped to the ground and the bunch of papers of the supposed ’techniques’ in his hands fell down, scattering all around the tentacle.

From the moment he learned about this technique from the old man’s words, he had a lingering unease about whether it would work for Cang Yue or not.

Even though he never showed it, deep in his mind, there was always this constant fear about what he would do in case it didn’t work out. But he always managed to suppress it and keep an optimistic mindset.

And now the truth was finally in front of him, Yang Ze felt like he had lost his soul.

His hopes of reviving Cang Yue were over before it even started. He wanted to say something, but after opening his mouth, no words came out. He just sat there with his mouth constantly opening and closing, with the papers all around him.

The girl quietly watched the state of the boy in front of her without speaking a word. She didn’t disturb him, but gave him time and space to understand what he had just heard and listened to.

And just like she thought, the truth was too much for Yang Ze to handle. Till now, his entire goal has been to become strong enough to revive Cang Yue. But if a person just ceases to exist after their death, what is the use of getting stronger?

What would he accomplish even if he were to reach the top of the world?

Judging by the girl and her ’true body’ that was under the ocean, she seemed strong... perhaps the strongest being that he had ever seen. And yet if someone like her says that reviving a dead cultivator is impossible, then was there even a hope?

Yang Ze didn’t know.

He grew even quieter than before as he constantly clenched and released his fists.

"The system..." In this moment of despair, this was the only thing holding him together.

He could get numerous talents from his sign-in function. And now that he discovered that ’Gold’ wasn’t the limit for the talents, his ashen heart finally reignited. He was going to keep on piling these talents one after another. If one doesn’t work, then two... if two doesn’t work, then five. If five doesn’t work, then five hundred.

He was going to gather as many talents as possible and upgrade them all to golden and higher. Maybe... just maybe one of those talents might give him hope.

Taking a deep breath, the once-dying flame of hope in his heart once again reignited as he raised his head to take a look at the tentacle beneath him.

[?????????????????]

Looking at the dense number of question marks, Yang Ze merely raised an eyebrow in response.

Though this personal panel was somewhat different from Lin Meilin’s, he didn’t think too much about it. In his mind, this thing beneath him and Lin Meilin were both existence the current he was not even qualified to know about.

Although he was a bit disappointed that he couldn’t get a talent from this thing, he didn’t brood over it.

"You said you needed my help."

Taking a deep breath, Yang Ze asking a soft voice.

"How so?"

This time, the girl’s eyes lit up as she immediately clapped her hands, and with that, the entire ocean beneath her began to rise.

It was only now that Yang Ze realised that it wasn’t water, but the black fog that had condensed into liquid.

"..." Yang Ze’s breathing almost stopped as he watched the changes around him.

The black fog didn’t stop after a while; on the contrary, it kept on rising without showing any intention of stopping.

It wasn’t until it reached an extreme height that the sky above flashed with a golden light as a translucent golden fishing net appeared in the air, tightly restricting the black fog in it.

The girl simply raised another hand as another burst of black fog rushed up. But no matter what she did or how much black fog she sent up, it was always restricted by the golden net.

"This is why I can’t leave this place." She wasn’t afraid of Yang Ze knowing the truth. On the contrary, she wanted him to know about it.

She then snapped her fingers as the black fog around her began to surge at an incredible pace, directly coverging above her open palm.

In just a few breaths, it had condensed into a small black crystal that gave off an eerie glow.

Yang Ze watched while holding his breath as the girl gently pushed it towards him.

"Huh!?" Yang Ze didn’t even know what she wanted him to do with the crystal, and before he could even ask, she simply pushed the crystal on his chest, merging it with his body.

In that instant, Yang Ze felt like there was an additional thing in his body that he couldn’t see or touch.

He didn’t feel any pain or discomfort, but just a slight warmth that soon vanished afterwards.

He merely glanced at the girl in front of him in confusion as to what she was trying to accomplish.

The girl, on the other hand, didn’t say a word but simply waved her hand, and with that, Yang Ze’s surroundings changed once again as he found himself in an empty patch of land that was surrounded by the familiar crooked trees.

"What the hell was all of that?" Yang Ze was still trying his best to wrap his mind around what just happened or why. He only looked around in confusion, only to hear a soft voice in his mind.

"When the time is right, break the seal and free me from my prison."

"HUH!?"

"What seal? Where is the seal?" Yang Ze looked around in confusion and even patted all over his body. But other than the fact that he was standing butt naked and the black fog that was stuck to his body as a leech had disappeared, there were no other changes.

Yang Ze shouted a few times, hoping to get an answer, but the only thing that he received was absolute silence.

"Forget it." Yang Ze was more than happy to come alive from that damned place. As for what she was thinking or what kind of seal he needed to break... he didn’t have to worry about it for now.

"The village..." Raising his head, he looked around for a while, hoping to see the village, but to no avail. He even rushed around like a headless chicken, but found nothing.

It was as if the entire village had disappeared into thin air.

If not for the broken trees and vines that he used against the old man, Yang Ze might have thought that he was sent to the other end of this dead zone.

Even after searching for a good few hours, when he was not able to find anything, he could only give up helplessly.

He simply closed his eyes and sat down. There were so many things that needed his attention.

Without any hesitation, Yang Ze entered his state of Meditation. He needed to get rid of all those riling emotions that were eating him from the inside. He didn’t want to think, he didn’t want to speak, and he didn’t want to see the images of the dead children constantly flashing in his eyes from time to time... especially Qing Cao’s.

And so... just like that, five more days passed in the blink of an eye.

Every day, Yang Ze would use his sign-in to get the Withering Year Mark and then sit down in meditation to cultivate.

And finally, it was the tenth day.

Suppressing the wild excitement in his heart, Yang Ze took a deep breath and spoke in a soft voice.

"Sign in to Withering Year Mark."

The moment Yang Ze spoke those words, the screen in front of him flashed as the number behind his Golden Talent, Withering Year Mark, finally reached 10.

[Withering Year Mark(Golden)] (10/10)

And in the next moment, a small window appeared directly in front of Yang Ze.

[Conditions met to upgrade.]

[Do you want to upgrade your talent, (Withering Year Mark)?]

[Please note that the process would be irreversible.]

Suppressing his nervousness, Yang Ze swallowed a mouthful of saliva before nodding to himself. Now was the time for the truth. He had been waiting for this exact moment.

It was finally time for him to understand the grade above the ’Golden Talent’.

He raised his trembling hand, looked around him for a moment and then, without any hesitation, chose ’yes’.