Ghost Catching System

The System’s words made Chu Hao ponder deeply. There’s nothing that can’t be solved with Pretentiousness Points.

Chu Hao had a stroke of inspiration. He phoned the kidnapper, saying, ”Take good care of my three relatives.”

Yanzhong laughed. ”Have you come to your senses?”

Chu Hao scoffed. ”Take good care of them. Every other day, I need to know if they are still there and unharmed. If not, I swear to slaughter the Nine Gates of Huaxia, and my word is my bond.”

Yanzhong was infuriated. ”You think I wouldn’t dare to kill?”

Chu Hao replied, ”You wouldn’t dare kill them as long as I’m alive! Ants will always be ants, even if they dream of kidnapping my people. You’d better hide them well. Don’t let me find them, because if I find out who did this, I’ll annihilate your entire family.”

Yanzhong, enraged, retorted, ”Then I’ll kill one right now to show you!”

Chu Hao wasn’t intimidated. His heart hardened, and he said coldly, ”You kill one, and I’ll slaughter a hundred from the Nine Gates of Huaxia. Who can stop me? Besides, you vermin don’t even dare to show your faces, yet you still fantasize about harming me without weighing your own strength.”

Yanzhong felt a pang of despair. Chu Hao’s words were irrefutably true.

Their biggest mistake in this kidnapping was allowing Chu Hao to know they were one of the Nine Gates of Huaxia.

”Ding... Host has successfully intimidated with pretentious bravado, obtaining 2000 Pretentiousness Points.”

After saying that, Chu Hao hung up the phone. Actually, his heart was racing.

Yan Chen’s father grabbed him. ”Don’t be rash! If you kill them, Chu Hao will truly be enraged. Then we won’t be able to seek revenge, and you’ll bring disaster upon our family.”

Yanzhong shouted angrily, ”Then what do you suggest we do?”

Yan Chen’s father, appearing much older, said, ”For the family’s sake, let’s release them.”

Yanzhong grabbed him, his anger flaring. ”Don’t you want to avenge Chen’er?”

Yan Chen’s father clutched his hair, saying in anguish, ”What can I do? I’m desperate too! His strength is terrifying. We’re no match for him, and no one in the Yan Family can stop him.”

Yanzhong snarled, ”Coward!”

Yan Chen’s father said agitatedly, ”We were wrong! He’s not someone we can afford to provoke. It’s like ants trying to chew an elephant! Let’s forget about revenge and go home. I’ve already lost Chen’er; I don’t want to lose you too.”

Yanzhong’s heart softened. After all, this was his own kin. Simultaneously, a profound fear of Chu Hao grew within him.

This was the pressure emanating from an Inborn Expert. How arrogant of them to scheme against and try to kill an Inborn Expert! It truly was like ants trying to chew on an elephant. If their opponent became enraged, not even the Yin and Yang Realm would find peace, let alone the mere Yan Family.

Chu Hao left.

He was gambling; he had no other choice. The other party was meticulous and secretive. Well then, let’s see who’s more ruthless. It’s just killing, isn’t it? I can do that too. If they push me too far, I’ll start by killing a hundred!

「The next day.」

Chu Hao received a call from the police. They said the three kidnapped individuals had been found.

All three were safe and sound, merely a bit shaken.

Arriving at the police station, Chu Hao saw Grandpa Zhang and the two children. He smiled and said, ”Well done, Wang Pang.”

Wang Pang looked up and said seriously, ”I wouldn’t let anyone hurt Little Xin.”

”I know.”

Chu Hao was touched. Everyone in the orphanage really looked out for one another.

Seeing the orphanage’s sixty-year-old director, Chu Hao quickly asked, ”Grandpa Zhang, are you alright?”

Grandpa Zhang still looked puzzled. ”Why would they just let us go?” he asked.

This question rendered Chu Hao speechless. So, they released you, and now you’re wondering if they’re out of their minds?

This time, Chu Hao’s gamble had truly paid off.

The System was right. Sometimes, bravado really can solve everything.

Bluffing with bravado, intimidating with bravado—all kinds of showing off could indeed resolve issues.

His intimidating display of pretentiousness had clearly subjected the other party to immense psychological pressure, a form of mental torture. This was the realm of the ’Little Prince of Pretentiousness’! Was there truly anything pretentiousness couldn’t solve?

Of course, what mattered more was actual strength. His reputation alone was already terrifying enough to scare his opponents, making them afraid to act recklessly.

Everyone has family, don’t they?

「Afterwards.」

Chu Hao relocated everyone from the orphanage to Anli City. He enrolled the children in the best schools and bought a courtyard house in Anli City for the elders to live in.

After he handled this matter, the Taoist forces of condemnation finally arrived.

However, in the eyes of the Nine Gates of Huaxia, Chu Hao had become terrifyingly unapproachable. The word among them to their subordinates was: ”Under no circumstances provoke Chu Hao. For him, annihilating any one of our families would be child’s play.”

「...」

The Censure Alliance was formed. Essentially, anyone dissatisfied with Chu Hao joined this Censure Alliance, led by Longhu Mountain and Mao Mountain. These people banded together and sent out an invitation, requesting Chu Hao attend a meeting.

This meeting was clearly intended for censure. Another Hongmen Banquet?

Chu Hao had just returned from Ma Bozhen’s. He had gathered almost all the necessary medicinal ingredients; only one item remained elusive. This item was in a collection in Tibet, and its owner absolutely refused to sell.

Chu Hao received the invitation upon his return to the Sanqing Pavilion.

”A symposium at Cloudy Mountain.”

Chu Hao looked at the invitation. The person who delivered it was an amiable-looking young man with a smile on his face.

The young man said, ”Yes, you’ve been specially invited to this symposium.”

”And who might all of you be?”

The young man replied, ”I am a disciple from Longhu Mountain.”

Chu Hao frowned. A few days ago, Zhao Gousheng mentioned something about a ’censure’... Could these be the people who sent an invitation for me to attend their meeting?

What a joke. It’s clearly a trap like the Hongmen Banquet, and they still expect me to attend? Besides, what good would attending do for me? Who knows, there might be some powerful expert waiting for me to fall into their trap.

Chu Hao said, ”I’m not going.”

The young man grew anxious. ”You can’t refuse to go!”

Chu Hao glanced at him sideways. ”I have a lot on my plate. What good would attending do for me? Am I supposed to discuss Yin-Yang Techniques with a bunch of brats like you?”

The young man looked deeply hurt. He was indeed just an ordinary disciple, his power level a million miles away from Chu Hao’s. ’But we’re the same age,’ he thought, ’how can your words be so cutting?’

The young man thought for a moment, then said, ”This meeting will host many experts. You can discuss Yin-Yang Techniques with them.”

”I’m not going,” Chu Hao reiterated.

The young man, exasperated, exclaimed, ”You—!”

Chu Hao said, ”I’ve heard recently about a Censure Alliance that wants to come after me. That wouldn’t be you lot, would it?”

The young man’s expression darkened. ”Chu Hao, your actions were too despicable; this was inevitable. If you don’t go now, matters will only become more serious.”

Chu Hao stood with his hands clasped behind his back, looking at him coldly. ”Who do you think you are to speak to me like that? Is there no respect for seniority in the Yin and Yang Realm?”

The young man flinched, suddenly feeling a terrifying oppressive force emanating from Chu Hao. Only then did he remember, his mind clearing, that the man before him was an Inborn Expert of the Yin and Yang Realm—one of its few top masters.

”S-Senior Chu, I... I didn’t mean it that way,” the young man stammered, a wave of panic washing over him.

He had initially thought he wouldn’t be flustered when facing Chu Hao. But now that Chu Hao was serious, he felt incredibly nervous.

Chu Hao said, ”Go back and tell the Censure Alliance this: I did not ambush or frame Zhang Chengshan and Yang Cheng. The four of them first used me as bait to lure the Black Water Ghost King. Their plan backfired, and that’s why I killed them.”

Hearing this, the young man’s heart trembled. He instinctively stepped back and asked, ”It... it was really you who killed them?”