Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 1776: Chapter 931: Tug of War

Many people in the Inner World always felt that Time Travelers were like bugs in this world.

For example, those clubs leveled by the Parents’ Meeting, where everyone fought hard against the Parents’ Meeting in District Three. After finally injuring them, when midnight passed, those family members suddenly became lively, full of energy, as if they had used some special ointment in the War Academy!

The family members not only applied medicine, but also played for seven days, playing basketball, gaming, gardening, bathing several times, and watching several movies before coming back to continue beating you up.

Who could endure this?

But that wasn’t even the craziest part; the craziest part was them returning with love bites.

Buddy, we’re in the middle of a battle here, could you take this a bit more seriously?!

For Qing Chen, seven days had passed, but for Chen Yu, only a moment.

At this time, Li Bingxi beside Chen Yu mocked, "Look, he doesn’t take you seriously at all. His hair is short now, which means this kid not only had time to go back and get cozy with a woman, but he also had the time to get a haircut."

"Shut up," Chen Yu replied coldly.

He looked at Qing Chen through the perspective of the Goddess. His heart sank upon seeing the other party’s injuries healed.

Chen Yu knew that Da Yu had a Taboo object that could restore paintings, so he guessed that Qing Chen might use this Taboo object to heal his wounds, but even being prepared, he still had a bad premonition.

Qing Chen silently looked toward the end of the maze corridor, where the Green evergreen trees had been neatly trimmed, and Gou Wa was embedded in the wall not far away, staring wide-eyed at Qing Chen.

Even he seemed very surprised.

"Long time no see," Qing Chen said with a smile.

As he spoke, four Goddesses swooped down from the sky, and when they were more than ten meters away, they shook out the red ribbons in their hands.

But the next moment, lightning surged outside the wall. At the intersection of light and shadow, Qing Chen suddenly appeared in front of a Demon King Kong, swinging his bare hands, and midway through the swing, drawing the Black Knife from the void.

The Black Knife, capable of slicing through even Taboo objects, cut down along the shoulder neck of the Demon King Kong, slicing it in half with a single stroke!

The strike was extremely fierce and swift, almost formless and shadowless.

After the knife cut through, the body of Demon King Kong seemed intact, but a second later, that burly figure gradually disintegrated, turning into a mass of white mist and dissipating into the air.

The Goddesses missed their target, yet Qing Chen treated this Ghost House Maze as his own arena, beginning to freely traverse using light and shadows!

From now, within this Ghost House Maze, only he would be hunting others; no one could hunt him anymore!

In a brief moment, the roles of attacker and defender swapped, Qing Chen was no longer the prey, but the hunter!

He stood there quietly, closing his eyes to carefully listen to the distant footsteps.

In a flash, Qing Chen leapt forward, knife swinging, although there was nothing before him, only an empty maze corridor, seemingly aiming to cut through the air in front of him.

Yet as he advanced rapidly, lightning surged several times, and this strike of Qing Chen seemed to constantly leap through the space of light and shadow.

A gentle leap, as if passing through a kilometer, arriving straight at another Demon King Kong!

Slash!

With a clang, the knife’s speed was too fast, causing the Black Knife to strike the air with a metallic clang as if unsheathing from its scabbard!

Qing Chen leapt from a kilometer away, using light and shadow displacement to cross the distance, passing by Demon King Kong with the Black Knife held in reverse, cutting down, disassembling Demon King Kong’s armor with ease.

In this world, those capable of so decisively and cleanly killing demigod paintings in such a manner numbered no more than five throughout millennia!

And Qing Chen was one of them.

He hadn’t even used the God Cutter yet!

Chen Yu’s pupils shrank, as much had happened in this moment, though time was short. How many seconds had passed? The other’s return had only been a minute, yet his two Demon King Kongs had been dismantled!

He manipulated all the flying Goddesses to take off, converging in the direction of the Water God Gonggong, until he confirmed that the area beneath the painting was all covered with King water before finally stopping.

The area covered by the Water God Gonggong’s King water was already four kilometers in radius, a place Qing Chen could not set foot.

Qing Chen stood in the maze, listening to the sounds with closed eyes, mocking loudly, "Chen’s Grand Emperor, now only dares to cower here? Come on! Kill me now!"

Outside the Ghost House Maze, Li Bingxi scoffed, "You see, I said if you let him return to the Outer World and he advances to demigod, you’ll have no chance. Back then, your father lost to Uncle Li, and now you’ll lose to Qing Chen. Perhaps this is the fate of your Chen Clan’s Demigods! Knights will forever shit and piss on you!"

"Shut up," Chen Yu roared angrily.

Demi God Knight!

Yet another Demi God Knight!

This Demi God Knight came and went like the wind in the Ghost House Maze, making him unable to land a blow with all his strength.

Suddenly, he sliced his own thigh, manifesting the Fire God Zhu Rong, who incinerated Li Bingxi into ashes with a breath of fire!

But Li Bingxi left, only for another ghostly figure to appear, surprisingly Jindai Chika: "If you partnered with me to kill Uncle Li and Qing Chen back then, would there still be these issues today?"

"You die too," Chen Yu roared.

The Fire God Zhu Rong engulfed Jindai Chika, turning him to ashes.

He continued to burn one Shadow after another, and with each one burned, his mental fortitude weakened slightly.

Until Chen Chuanzhi suddenly said coldly, "Go avenge me, now is the best time to kill him. You’re running out of trump cards, if you don’t kill today, when will you ever kill him?"

"You shut up too!" Chen Yu replied coldly.

Fire God Zhu Rong’s flames engulfed Chen Chuanzhi like a dragon, refining him alive!

Until Chen Chuanzhi completely vanished, Chen Yu hesitated for a moment, and his consciousness briefly regained clarity: "Father..."

But it was only for the span of a breath that Chen Yu smirked again: "You should have died long ago."

Yet it was this instant of clarity that allowed Chen Yu to realize, and he suddenly laughed: "So none of you actually exist, you are me, I am you."

Having said that, he stood on the back of the Green Ox and soared into the sky, flinging all those spirits to the ground.

Chen Yu looked down and saw over a hundred ghosts silently standing there, eerily smiling at him, watching him rise into the air.

Chen Yu calmly rotated the Jade Thumb Ring on his thumb and softly said, "Just like that."

This time, he didn’t continue to feel restless and uneasy. When he figured out why he was hallucinating, he was able to temporarily break free from the shackles of spiritual pollution.

The spiritual pollution didn’t cease; it only slowed down significantly.

This Chen Clan’s Demigod rode the Green Ox to the center of the Ghost House Maze, thousands of meters from the ground, overlooking the entire layout of the maze.

Only at this moment did he realize that the green walls of the entire maze formed a gigantic pattern of a gecko, with the head in the north and the tail in the south.

He frowned in thought about how to counter it, but gradually he found he couldn’t take any action against Qing Chen unless he revealed all his trump cards!

Qing Chen was more adept in this maze than he was.

Initially, Chen Yu relied on remembering the opponent’s route, then used the speed advantage of demigod artwork for suppression.

But now? There was no shadow in the entire maze, and he had to wait until at least two in the morning to find a path.

The shadows he relied on had now become his greatest dilemma.

Furthermore, even if Flying Goddess chased after him, what would it matter? Before, Demon King Kong could chase and suppress Qing Chen, but if Flying Goddess chased after him now, it would be sending her head instead!

Knights are born at the pinnacle of each level, and the speed is astonishing.

Even if four Flying Goddesses rushed up, they might not touch the opponent’s shadow... And God Cutter, Qing Chen hasn’t used God Cutter even once yet!

Lastly, if fighting others, Chen Yu could completely exhaust the opponent, forcing them to leave the maze when they are worn out.

Qing Chen had no supplies on him, but the saddlebag on the Green Ox’s back contained water and food.

But the problem was, Qing Chen was a Time Traveler. If he starved the opponent for seven days and nights, Qing Chen could just go back and eat well, returning with full energy, while Chen Yu would end up exhausted...

Moreover, the duration of the artwork was seven days, after which these Goddesses and Water God Gonggong would disappear.

What to do? Chen Yu couldn’t think of any solution at the moment.

Unless he revealed his trump card.

At that moment, Chen Yu sneered, he once again cut open his other thigh, and saw another Fire God Zhu Rong fly out, hovering beside him.

Chen Yu’s actions didn’t stop, he even tore open the clothes on his chest... revealing two Water God Gonggongs!

The lineage of the Chen Clan’s Family Head had tried their best to calculate Chen Yu’s trump cards, yet they underestimated Chen Yu’s speed of artwork creation. Even though Chen Yu relied on Zhi Lanxing to advance to demigod status, he was still a rare genius in the Chen Clan over the past hundred years!

The four Water Gods no longer pursued Qing Chen, instead each occupied one of the four corners of the Ghost House Maze, starting a carpet-style attack, spraying nearly every inch of the maze with terrifying King Water.

King Water flooded towards low grounds like a deluge, surging and muddy currents scouring and spreading through the corridors. If the maze wasn’t made by Taboo items, it would have been eroded long ago.

King Water surged towards the center of the maze, within just one hour, it ’polluted’ several kilometers.

Soon, the four Water Gods stopped to rest, and after an hour, they poured out new King Water again!

Qing Chen frowned, as he resorted to brute-force methods, so did Chen Yu, starting to use the simplest yet most pragmatic strategy.

Within a maximum of three days, the entire maze would turn into a pool of King Water, leaving Qing Chen no place to stand!

Qing Chen slowly retreated, while thinking of a countermeasure.

Rush in to kill? Impossible, Chen Yu and the demigod artwork were high in the air, and Qing Chen had no means to reach them. Even using triple God Cutter couldn’t touch a hair of them.

The Demi God Knight dilemma was lacking anti-air capability, Fire God Zhu Rong plays with fire in the sky, and Qing Chen had no recourse.

Chen Yu realized this, so he elevated his altitude to initially secure an invincible position!

Dragging it out? Qing Chen contemplated; his previous spiritual pollution was already severe, Chen Yu must be in a similar condition, but whether he could drag it out for three days and whether Chen Yu would collapse within that time, Qing Chen couldn’t be certain.

No, the Ghost House Maze cannot be stayed.

Qing Chen must find a place where he can exhaust Chen Yu to the point of losing control.

Break out? The roller coaster area and Ghost House Maze are independent spaces, to exit one must go through the roller coaster area.

There are only two ways to leave: first, ride the roller coaster eyes open to reach the exit, which is impossible; the speed of the roller coaster is not as fast as demigod artwork, sitting on it would definitely lead to being chased down.

The second way is to hold a companion’s hand, eyes closed, and retreat backward, but Qing Chen has no companion now.

The first option is certainly unusable, the second one...

Lightning surged again, Qing Chen reappeared in front of Gou Wa, he pulled Gou Wa’s corpse from the maze wall’s plants, shouldered it, and ran towards the labyrinth’s exit.

The visitor guidelines mention holding a companion’s hand, but they never said this companion must be alive.