Murim Recurve

"Come!" The whip Magic Artifact shone with blue radiance as Re'Kha lashed out at the blob of blank space before her. The whiplash seemed to have torn something as a tearing sound resounded. The blob dispersed into smoke and moved away, condensing at one corner on the first floor.

"Ugh," Re'Kha grunted, watching the ghost move without trouble through the floors. But to chase it, she had to climb up and down the floors. It was one of the reasons ghosts were troublesome. Each ghost had a unique but fearsome ability and was also able to fly and phase through objects. This made killing them almost impossible, unless a team of Harmonisers circled it.

'My objective is not killing you anyway.' Re'Kha began lashing out on the floor; the impacts caused a faint scream to resound every time. The ghost had wrapped a blanket around the restaurant to put everyone in a state of rest while they experienced a nightmare.

So, all she had to do was damage the blanket and cause the people to wake up. Every lash of her whip was akin to a Harmoniser's attack, for it spewed Water Qi in concentrated forms. Re'Kha attacked everywhere she sensed a blank space, shattering it as her Wind Qi perception spread more freely.

Upon getting damaged repeatedly, the blanket on the ground floor collapsed, the Ghost Qi forming it was suppressed and annihilated by the Water Qi. As a Magic Artifact was made from Elemental Qi Essence, it was able to generate Elemental Qi.

But, it wasn't able to emit Elemental Qi like an Elemental Qi Essence. Still, it formed a layer of Elemental Qi over the Magic Artifact that upon attacking caused the places of impact to be covered by its respective Elemental Qi.

Therefore, every place Re'Kha had lashed out contained traces of Water Qi that prevented the ghost from erecting another barrier in the area immediately. A lot of people had been dining on the ground floor when they were pulled into the hallucination.

Now that she had broken the hallucination in the area, they showed signs of getting up. Moreover, as it was the most crowded in the restaurant, the stream of Fear Qi flowing into the pipes decreased sharply.

Before anyone caught sight of her, Re'Kha sprinted through the flight of stairs, watching the ghost retreat to higher floors in fear. The fear wasn't because of her tired, panting self, but rather the Magic Artifact held in her hands.

Re'Kha felt weak, stopping halfway in the flight of stairs. Despite her vigorous activities, the chillness in her body hadn't abated. Instead, it was turning colder. She noticed the Blinded Ghost move towards her now. As the distance between them decreased, the chillness in her body increased.

But upon a closer look, as she extended her Wind Qi perception, she noticed the Blinded Ghost float higher, turning its body as it peered into something within the second floor of the restaurant from the building on the other side of the road. It paused, seemingly thinking of something before heading into the open. The rain splattered upon hitting it, the damage it did was minute as the rain's intensity was decreasing. It seemed like it was about to stop.

'This is the only chance I can face it alone.' Re'Kha jumped, skipping the steps upon each jump, running through the floors as she endured the pain in her body, finally landing on the second floor. She then rushed through the corridor, watching the blob forming the ghost be positioned to her back, at the end of the corridor.

Seeing the whip in her hand, it refrained from moving in her direction. While running, Re'Kha lashed out with the whip a couple of times, causing tears in the blanket the ghost had erected. She didn't manage to shred it apart, but at least managed to disrupt the flow of Fear Qi for the moment.

Re'Kha stopped in the corridor, sensing the Blinded Ghost move towards the restaurant's wall, about to enter. She was facing the spot it was supposed to enter from, hand poised at a striking pose, ready to attack upon first sight.

In the inn, Burfuna Ki'Tse finished unlocking all the rooms until the third floor and managed to wake up the people within. Unfortunately, there were no other Harmonisers among them, so she didn't get any new allies. Three girls trailed behind her, shuddering in fear as they noticed the situation.

Having left the three girls in her custody after rescuing them, Burfuna Ki'Sha descended through the stairs, intending to help Ki'Nha when she felt her skin crawl. She hurriedly peered through the window and noticed the figure of the Blinded Ghost hovering before the restaurant's second floor, about to head within.

Sensing her gaze, the Blinded Ghost glanced in her direction, looking with its single open eye, causing fear to sprout in her heart. Ki'Sha took a step back, only realising her action after the Blinded Ghost turned around.

"Dammit," She felt humiliated, having taken a step back in fear. She sprinted into a room on the second floor—that had been opened by Ki'Tse—and headed towards its balcony, emitting black radiance from both her palms as she sent forth two palm projections. The grill on the balcony was shattered, creating a big enough hole for her to jump through.

The moment she jumped through the grill, her legs shone with a blue radiance that elongated into a serpentine form, like the body of a serpent's tail end. The blue radiance was bright, clearly outlining her legs within the serpentine form.

The tail coiled around the grill using its gaps as her body free fell, swinging as the tail curled itself. She was controlling it by shrinking and elongating her legs accordingly, making use of her toes for finer control.

The tail coiled and used the circular momentum brought about by her fall to spring up. Burfuna Ki'Sha used the grills in the balconies to sway from one to another and quickly approached the Blinded Ghost before it could fully enter the restaurant.

"Take This!"  Her hands shone with blue radiance, shooting two palm projections towards her target. On the other side, Re'Kha lashed out with her whip the moment she noticed half of the Blinded Ghost's figure appear within the corridor.