Chapter 433

Chapter 433: The Lost Tiger

As Chu’s Jiang transforms more and more, the white tiger seems to sense the threat. It has become somewhat "restless" and has forcefully entered Chu Jiang’s deep consciousness.

At first, the white tiger only lingered in the surface consciousness, showing interest in everything about Chu Jiang.

But now, sensing the urgency, it instinctively starts tracing Chu Jiang’s past, his origins.

The white tiger traces back from Chu Jiang during his time as Ghost Master, all the way back to his student days. From when he was nineteen years old, it goes back to when he was around five or six, and even back to the time when he was babbling.

But it seems that it still hasn’t found what it desires most, so it continues forward, and forward…

Soon, the white tiger reaches the stage before Chu Jiang had any memories.

In this part, Chu Jiang intentionally slowed down Chu’s transformation speed. Because his surface consciousness relies on memory, he couldn’t possibly know what happened during the period when he didn’t have any memories yet.

However, the White Tiger might be able to see and with the help of "心虎" (Heart Tiger) two-way perception, perhaps Chu Jiang could learn about the information he couldn’t see before in the Ghost Mirror.

At first, Chu Jiang could still perceive that the White Tiger slowed down, as if it had seen something interesting.

But gradually, the White Tiger slowed down more and more, as if… it got lost.

What’s even more incredible is that as the White Tiger delved deeper into Chu Jiang’s past, Chu Jiang’s sensing of it became weaker and weaker.

What is this concept?

It’s a bit complicated to explain, it’s like a big black ink stain on a blank sheet of paper, and this ink stain can move and run. Even if you close your eyes, you know what it’s doing.

But from a certain moment on, this ink stain gradually becomes lighter and smaller, and after a while, there’s only a small black dot left.

In the end, with a snap, even that black dot disappeared.

Yes, Chu Jiang lost his connection to the white tiger, as if this ghost disappeared inside his heart.

Hello, hello!! Where did you go? Come out!

If the white tiger disappeared because it sensed danger and left from within Chu Jiang’s heart, that would be understandable. But from Chu Jiang’s perspective, it’s clearly not the case.

The white tiger is more like an intruder in its own deep consciousness, wandering around and sinking deeper and deeper, until it vanishes completely.

This means that the white tiger didn’t leave, but instead stayed within Chu Jiang’s consciousness. This is a major danger.

Who knows when this fierce tiger will come out and bite someone? Chu Jiang can’t be on guard against it 24 hours a day, right?

Thinking about this, Chu Jiang immediately tried to reset time, but it didn’t work.

Although time went back a few minutes, the white tiger was nowhere to be found, as if it was swallowed by Chu Jiang’s past or, um, Chu’s Jiang’s past…

Looking at the dark, blackened zombie body spreading up to his chin, Chu Jiang stopped the process of becoming Chu’s Jiang with a gloomy expression.

What is this? Did the White Tiger fail?

But how did it fail, wasn’t it good at playing with people’s hearts? It only disappeared because it traced Chu’s Jiang’s past, is it not that exaggerated.

Or is it that Chu’s Jiang’s history is too long for the White Tiger to finish in a short time? It even glimpsed the memories of the ancestors of the Chu family, so it became entranced and couldn’t leave?

Anyway, Chu Jiang can’t go into his own consciousness to catch the ghost. After thinking it over, he decided to wait for an opportunity. At least for these few days, he couldn’t sleep and had to be on guard in case the White Tiger suddenly showed up.

Then, Chu Jiang looked at the scene and decided not to touch the jade statue, but he planned to use this bronze cauldron in the future to seal the White Tiger, so he prepared to take it away.

……

Coming out of the underground palace, Chu Jiang first picked up the unconscious Kujo Aino and then put away the Ghost Domain.

He used his heightened senses to scan the surroundings and found that not everyone in the Bai family had lost consciousness. Some powerful Ghost Masters, including Bai Congwu, were able to withstand the impact of forcibly removing the curse.

So Chu Jiang flew directly over there.

……

Bai Congwu was working on evacuation when he received this terrible news. His face turned pale and looked very unpleasant.

On one hand, it was due to physical factors, and on the other hand, it was due to psychological factors. Even his ability as a mischief-maker was taken away, and the White Tiger Clan could be considered finished.

Sometimes, he wondered if this was his punishment. Creating Sincerity Company and using every means possible, was this his comeuppance?

If it really was punishment, Bai Congwu believed that it might not be over yet because most of the White family was still alive, even the main culprit himself was not dead…

"Alright," suddenly Chu Jiang appeared in front of Bai Congwu and said, "I’ll temporarily take the White Tiger and that tripod away. The grudges between you and me will temporarily end here."

"But don’t forget, you have hurt many people in the past. Duan Mingen might seek revenge on you in the future."

"Of course, that is a grudge between the two of you, and I won’t interfere anymore. Since you’re still somewhat clever, I’ll give you one last piece of advice: Those who do wrong will eventually suffer. Take the chance to turn back while you still can, and face the consequences!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Chu Jiang held Kujo Aino and turned into a black-golden beam of light, disappearing in the distance.

As for Bai Congwu, his mouth slowly dropped open, with a look of pure shock on his face. Is it over already? How long has it been?! That was the most terrifying S-class ghost!

Actually, this time, Chu Jiang said he wanted to go under the rockery by himself, and Bai Congwu immediately agreed, not without sinister intentions.

One thing is clear: he didn’t tell Chu Jiang the specific abilities of the White Tiger at all.

Since the ancestors of the White family were able to imprison the White Tiger, they must have fought with this ghost and left some information for future generations.

Another point is: Bai Congwu also didn’t tell Chu Jiang about the mechanism behind the imprisonment of the Bronze Cauldron; nor did he mention how easily its balance could be disrupted. Without absolute certainty, one should not easily get involved.

Deep down, Bai Congwu still had a tiny hope that both Chu Jiang and the White Tiger would be defeated, which might give the White family a chance to benefit.

Of course, this has nothing to do with Chu Jiang not asking; if he asks, he’ll have to give an honest explanation.

What Bai Congwu never expected was that since Chu Jiang went down into the palace, it has probably been less than fifteen minutes, and everything is already over??

Could it be that Chu Jiang didn’t actually fight the White Tiger but managed to seal it directly? How did he do it… considering that the balance was almost impossible to withstand any external force.

No matter how Bai Congwu stood still, the news here quickly spread out. After all, Chu Jiang didn’t hide his whereabouts at all, and some people have been paying attention to him.

In the end, the rough rumors were as follows:

Earlier, Bai Congwu provoked Chu Jiang and actively made enemies with him. Today, Chu Jiang went to his door to settle the score. No one from the Baihu Clan died, but their ancestral Baihu seems to have disappeared…