Hell's Handbook

Chapter 180: Gambling Battle

The pig-headed demigod pointed at Kano Mai with a frosty glint in his eye. It was clear that Su Jin could not refuse his challenge. If Su Jin refused, then even though Su Jin had the Demon Lord as his backer and the Goddess of the Harvest spoke up for them, Ennui was still going to snatch Kano Mai away by force.

And if Ennui did that, the Goddess of the Harvest wasn’t going to attack him for the sake of Su Jin and his teammates. The Demon Lord was stuck somewhere in this universe and couldn’t possibly come out and help him, so the only thing Su Jin could do was to face this demigod himself.

Team Boning Knife was a powerful team, but they weren’t powerful enough to fight a demigod.

Su Jin looked toward Kano Mai and she nodded slightly in return. She wasn’t going to allow her entire team to be annihilated just for her sake.

“How do you want to do this?” asked Su Jin in a deep voice.

The demigod burst into a smile and walked over to a creature that carried a giant tortoise shell on his back. “Turtle, lend me your shell for a while.”

Before the turtle-like creature could respond, he felt a weight lifted off his back as Ennui took it away and walked back to where Su Jin was.

“Like I said, this is a gambling battle, so we’ve got to go through a battle. I’m going to fight with this thing. How about you?” Ennui threw his figurine into the air and the tortoise shell seemed to possess some sort of magical powers that instantly absorbed the figurine.

The figurine came alive and cut its way out of the tortoise shell. It pulled out the two long sabers in its belt and adopted a fighting stance.

“I’ll go then!” Su Jin took a step forward to walk into the tortoise shell. He figured that this tortoise shell was an alternate space of sorts, which was why Ennui wanted it for this battle.

But Ennui stopped Su Jin from going near the shell. “We’re the ones competing here. Nobody sends themselves in such a competition. Find someone else!”

Su Jin frowned slightly. He was the strongest when it came to physical battles since he had a strong body and he could use both psychokinesis and the Demon Lord’s Spirit Power. He also had the Demon Lord’s Longbow as his trump card. He had to do this in order to guarantee a win.

“Boss, I’ll do it.” Chu Yi suddenly took a step forward and nodded at Su Jin to show that he was confident.

Su Jin hesitated for a moment. When Wu Chen introduced himself, he said that he wasn’t a good fighter but was very good at keeping himself alive. Also, his Spirit Power was not suitable for fights like this. Situ Jin lost so badly to Chu Yi, so besides himself, the only other candidate for this was actually Chu Yi.

With that in mind, Su Jin retrieved his Boning Knife from his Handbook and passed it to Chu Yi. He patted Chu Yi’s shoulder and said, “Be careful!”

“Don’t worry, I’ll make sure nothing bad happens to Sister Mai.” Chu Yi gave Su Jin a look of confidence and Kano Mai gave him a grateful smile as well.

“Since you’ve decided, then hurry up! Stop wasting time! You’re making me wait longer to enjoy my time with the pretty girl!” Ennui cackled, which made some of the passengers frown as though they were very displeased with him.

Chu Yi took a step forward and jumped toward the tortoise shell. Once he got close enough, he immediately shrank in size and became only as big as the figurine on the shell.

Once he landed, the figurine looked up with a start. It waved the two sabers in its hands, then leaped up and pounced toward Chu Yi.

Chu Yi held the Boning Knife backwards, gave a low shout and unleashed his internal energy. Chu Yi was now stronger than before, so white smoke rose from his body, which was a physical manifestation of the usually invisible internal energy.

The figurine’s sabers were extremely sharp, so they sliced right through Chu Yi’s internal energy. Its strategy was very simple. It was going to use brute force to eliminate the internal energy.

“Now!” Chu Yi let out a loud shout and leaped toward the figurine, leaving a trail of white smoke behind him that resembled a pair of wings on his back.

The white smoke continued to add significantly to Chu Yi’s strength as he brought the Boning Knife down. The Boning Knife in Chu Yi’s hands was also incredibly tough.

The figurine rotated one saber and clanged loudly against Chu Yi’s knife. Sparks flew as the two blades collided, as though a star had just exploded.

After the two blades collided, Chu Yi let go of the Boning Knife, causing it to fly into the air. At the same time he raised his arms and drew a circle with them.

“Taijiquan!” Su Jin narrowed his eyes slightly. Chu Yi was well versed in all sorts of martial arts and had become an expert after training himself within the Handbook’s training arena. Chu Yi was a grandmaster in his own right in terms of martial arts techniques, so not even Su Jin could compare to him.

After all, Chu Yi’s Spirit Power complemented his martial arts abilities, while Su Jin’s psychokinesis had nothing to do with his physique. He was very good at fighting, but definitely not as good as Chu Yi was.

Chu Yi’s hands looked limp and slow as he drew a large circle with them, but that was merely an illusion. Chu Yi’s palms were actually moving so quickly that the figurine was not able to block the attack with its other saber.

Boom! Chu Yi’s palms landed one after another on the chest of the figurine. The two palms seemed to be glued to the figurine as Chu Yi shouted angrily, “Triple Qi Thrust! Demon Tiger Emerges! Quadruple Qi Thrust, Billowing Sea Waves!”

The figurine’s chest exploded, and the qi from Chu Yi’s palms blew a hole through the figurine’s chest. But Chu Yi immediately paled because he realized that the figurine seemed completely unbothered by the hole in its chest. Its body swayed a little from the impact, but that was about it.

The figurine crossed its two sabers and ran toward Chu Yi. Its movements were as swift as ever, so it was clear that Chu Yi’s attack had not affected it in any way.

“HAA!” Before the sabers could reach Chu Yi, he unleashed another burst of internal energy so that it formed a shield in front of him. It was enough to stop the sabers from piercing him, but the energy and momentum from the attack hit him in the chest anyway, causing him to cough blood out and dye his chest red.

“Crap!” Su Jin was equally dismayed. That figurine wasn’t a living thing, so unless Chu Yi turned it to dust, no injury would affect its fighting prowess at all. The other team members paled when they realized this as well.

The figurine was not affected by mortal wounds but Chu Yi was. At this rate, Chu Yi would eventually lose.

Chu Yi retreated rapidly but the figurine kept running after him. It brandished its sabers continuously, slicing the white smoke of Chu Yi’s internal energy into a thousand pieces.

“Baijiquan, Yama’s Three Point Hit!” Chu Yi clenched his teeth and used his fists to send out three consecutive attacks despite how close those two sabers were to him. Chu Yi was really good at martial arts and each attack landed directly on the sabers, which helped to keep the figurine at bay.

Once there was sufficient distance between them, Chu Yi leaped up and caught the Boning Knife that was descending from above after he had let it go earlier. One knife was better than no knife.

All the passengers watching the battle were amazed by Chu Yi’s level of technique. Fending this figurine off in such circumstances was no easy feat.

“Wind Chasing Blades, Slicing the Sky! Bringing Down the Wind!” Chu Yi yelled and let out streams of white smoke from his nostrils. The white smoke went down Chu Yi’s arm and surrounded the Boning Knife.

He waved the knife and made his internal energy expand outwards by more than 30 meters, effectively creating a knife formed from the cloud that almost filled the entire tortoise shell.

The figurine was not able to hide from this attack and was sliced in half by the blade. Everyone in Team Boning Knife was floored by this attack. They knew that Chu Yi was a powerful martial artist, but none of them had fought to the death with Chu Yi, so they had never known that Chu Yi was capable of such a ferocious move.

Chu Yi panted heavily as he walked over to where the figurine lay in two parts. The figurine couldn’t move anymore and Chu Yi immediately raised both arms in victory.

“We’ve won.” Su Jin let out a sigh of relief. It hadn’t been a smooth victory, but a victory nonetheless.

“Is that so?” Ennui suddenly cackled again.

Su Jin’s eye twitched violently as he yelled, “Chu Yi! Watch out!”

But his exclamation had come one second too late. The unmoving figurine suddenly leaped up from the ground and stabbed the two sabers into Chu Yi’s chest.

“Ack!” Chu Yi let out a weird sound from his throat.

“Heh heh! Unless you grind my puppet into ash, he will not die! HAHA!” Ennui cackled loudly. Chu Yi was merely human, so Ennui was sure that Chu Yi was going to die after being stabbed through the heart.

Just then, Chu Yi suddenly grabbed hold of the two sabers in his chest and pulled them both right out.

“Wait, what?!” Ennui’s eyes widened in shock. How could an ordinary human still do such a thing after getting stabbed in the heart?

Chu Yi used the two sabers to completely mince the figurine. Once he was done, he panted heavily and nodded at Su Jin to show that he was perfectly fine.

Su Jin was really shocked at first, but he remembered that Chu Yi had that Golden Pill. That Golden Pill was capable of completing incredible feats and had probably replaced Chu Yi’s heart by now. But he didn’t think Chu Yi could hold up for long even with the Golden Pill in his body. Thankfully, Su Jin still had some leaves from the Tree of Life, so that would be good enough to help Chu Yi recover from his wounds.

“Ennui, you’ve lost!” said Su Jin as he stared at the pig-headed demigod.

The pig-headed demigod was indignant, but he was surrounded by many real gods who were at a higher level than he was, so he couldn’t go back on his word.

“Fine, you’ve won!” Ennui was clearly very unhappy with this result.

The team members of Team Boning Knife finally smiled again. If this demigod decided to go against his word, their only option would be to fight him here. The owners from Team High Mountain also breathed a sigh of relief. They were also happy to see that Chu Yi managed to win.

“Yay!” Chu Yi waved his arms and cheered, while Kano Mai gave him a big thumbs up.

“HUMPH!” Just then, Ennui became enraged and waved his arm. The little Chu Yi on the tortoise shell instantly turned into ash.