Strange Cards

Chapter 396 That's how everything ends.

"There are four cards that can be recycled at the Southern Hunter Base: the four of diamonds, the ten of diamonds, the seven of clubs, and the nine of clubs."

"Let's retrieve them after the Gate of Hell opens and those two hunters are killed."

"In the end, only Qi Wu possesses the mysterious card, and this story will reach its climax."

"We also have to lend a hand; we can't let Nanhai City be destroyed."

"This is the place of the final battle."

The group nodded, and Gu Nian, looking at the three-headed hellhound that had been cut in half, took the blank card and approached it.

A series of suction forces erupted from the blank card, and then the corpse of Cerberus was sealed inside the card.

Gu Nian looked at the card with the pattern reappearing in his hand, then pulled out Bai Lei and cut it in two.

"This card is no longer needed."

"The fifth type of Ace was directly killed by Shigure, and this thing has been reduced to a normal Joker."

"Let's go home."

"There are still hunters guarding outside."

Gu Nian looked at Chun, who raised her hand and released a large cloud of black smoke in all directions, enveloping the group and taking them away from the mountains.

……

Wearing a cloak, Shi Yu looked at the Western Base in front of her, and then glanced at Qian Miaodao standing in front of the Western Base.

"Qian Miao, I don't want to waste any more words on this matter."

"Hand over all the strange tokens from the Western base, and I'll turn around and leave."

"Your strength is not on the same level as mine."

"I won't kill you, but I've lost my patience."

Qian Miao looked at Shi Yu, whose body was oozing blood that condensed into a giant sword, and then said.

"He's got a lot of bravado before he's even fully grown."

"I've always said, how could you possibly betray the Hunters? After all, you're the sixth headhunter. Given your status and position, there's no way you could betray the Hunters."

"I didn't expect you to actually betray me."

"Let me see just how much power you've gained during those three years you've been gone."

As Qian Miao spoke, she frantically drove her ghostly power, using it to create blood and continuously filling the blood-red greatsword in her hand until the giant sword pierced through the clouds.

"ah!!!!!"

Qian Miao swung the blood-stained greatsword with all her might, aiming straight for Shi Yu's head.

The terrifying attack even tore through the void, but Shigure's expression remained unchanged as he stared at the towering, blood-red greatsword.

Only when the blood-stained greatsword was right in front of him did Shigure slowly raise his right hand, grasping the blade of the blood-stained greatsword out of thin air.

Shi Yu looked at Qian Miao, who was struggling, and with a gentle push, countless cracks instantly appeared on the blade of the Blood Greatsword.

"Bang!!!"

With a loud bang, the blood-stained greatsword shattered into countless pieces, and the blood seeped into the ground, staining the earth dark red.

Shi Yu looked at Qian Miao, whose face was as white as gold paper, and said indifferently.

"You should be glad that I'm the one who came to collect your weird cards."

"Any other madman would have already made a move, let alone take advantage of your current weakness to finish you off."

As Shi Yu spoke, she raised her right hand and drew Qian Miao's strange card towards her.

Qian Miao, lying on the ground, stared at Shi Yu, who showed absolutely no ghostly aura, her face filled with disbelief.

"Impossible! How could you withstand my strongest sword strike without using any power?"

"Humans can't be that strong. Even if the Chief Hunter and the other three Headhunters took this sword strike together, they would still suffer considerable damage."

"Because I stopped being human three years ago."

Shi Yu put away Qian Miao's strange card, squatted down, and stretched out her right hand.

Shigure's right hand instantly transformed into a ferocious demonic claw, with a faint hint of transparency.

"In order to fight against the Joker and natural disasters, I abandoned my human identity three years ago and continue to live as a demon, searching for a way to save the world."

"Humans have their limits. To surpass those demons, one must first abandon one's human identity and become a demon just like them."

"So I'm not going to be human anymore."

Shi Yu stood up as she spoke, and after rendering Qian Miao completely incapacitated, she walked into the Western Base.

Soon, a voice came from afar.

"This world is falling apart, and my dearest loved one entrusted its future to me before he died."

"I am not afraid of death, what I am afraid of is that when I die, the world will have no future, and I will have no face to face them."

"That will end everything."

Qian Miao mustered her last strength and roared.

"Even if you have your reasons, why did you kill the hunter?"

"What did they do wrong this time!"

The long, drawn-out voice paused for a moment, then slowly continued.

"I have not killed a single hunter, and I can say this with my own soul at stake."

"I am on a different path from you."

"Those who walk different paths cannot make plans together."

The voice never rang out again, and Qian Miao could only watch helplessly as the sounds of fighting came from her Western base before she completely lost consciousness.

The Western Hunters in the Western Base saw Shigure's invasion, but when they tried to resist, they found that their strength was not on the same level as Shigure's at all.

Shigure didn't even use any power; he subdued the hunters with just his physical strength.

A punch, a palm strike, a kick, a stomp—the simplest martial arts techniques, in Shigure's hands, possess the most terrifying destructive power.

In their eyes, Shigure's aura was no different from that of an ordinary person, and even his demonic power did not fluctuate.

Even after they completed their evolved armor, they were no match for Shigure in a single move. After Shigure fused with the Steel Claw Demon Body and became the Joker, his power level was almost on par with the Joker's.

After thoroughly searching the entire Western base, Shigure held the strange card in his hand, pondered for a long time, and finally sent Qian Miao, who was outside, inside.

Back at the Otherworlder base, Shigure threw out all the strange cards in her hand and looked at Gu Nian.

"I will take care of the remaining strange cards; you don't need to interfere."

"Kid, what do you mean by that!"

Kuang Lei roared and slammed his fist on the table. At that moment, a huge, dark monster suddenly emerged from Shi Yu's shadow and stared coldly at Kuang Lei.

The violent and terrifying aura intimidated everyone present, and even Gu Nian's aura was slightly suppressed by it.

Shigure was simply unwilling to kill, not that he wouldn't kill.

At this moment, Gu Nian mobilized his own power, pressed the ghostly figure behind Shi Yu into Shi Yu's shadow, and then said.

"OK."

"But you need to collect quickly, there are still three bases to go plus those retired hunters."

"They're all bones that are really hard to chew."