Recalling on his own, the peculiarities of Ghost Hand's several strikes must reveal a solution.

After indulging himself, Ghost Hand's eyes gleamed as he looked at Lu Yu, extending his hands once more, trying this time to steal Lu Yu's heart.

Seeing this, Lu Yu slashed out with his blade, the blade light thoroughly shredding Ghost Hand's body, leaving not even a speck behind. Lu Yu didn't believe it would survive this.

Simultaneously, flames ignited within him, golden flames burning inside Lu Yu. If Ghost Hand dared to take Lu Yu's heart, Lu Yu would let him know the consequences.

Poof~ Ghost Hand emerged from elsewhere, the Ghost Hand completely shredded by the blade light had vanished, but a new Ghost Hand appeared.

No, it wasn't new. He held Lu Yu's heart in his hands, greedily staring at it, drooling, eager to "devour" this robust heart.

Lu Yu's face hardened as he triggered the seed of flame hidden in his heart. Golden flames erupted from within him, Lu Yu gazing at Ghost Hand in bewilderment.

The heart in Ghost Hand's hand did not change, appearing just like an ordinary heart, but from the spot where his heart should have been, the fiercest flames erupted.

Recalling the scene when Ghost Hand first struck, enlightenment flashed across Lu Yu's mind.

What he saw as Ghost Hand was not the real Ghost Hand at all, but merely a shadow he created.

He looked at his own body; the real Ghost Hand had burrowed into him during its first strike.

The Ghost Hand trying to stuff the heart into his chest hesitated upon seeing Lu Yu's expression and actions, a look of panic crossing its face as it screamed, "No!"

A sinister chill emanated from Lu Yu's body, encasing himself in an ice coffin. Inside the coffin, the Celestial Falling Bright Flame burned fiercely, with the most intense flames igniting his left kidney, right lung, stomach, and heart.

A shadow burst out from Lu Yu's innards, unable to withstand the flames, trying desperately to escape this place.

But there was nowhere to run; Lu Yu's entire body was sealed within the ice coffin, making escape impossible.

Outside, Ghost Hand vanished into the air with wails of misery, while inside Lu Yu, the true body of Ghost Hand was burned by the blazing flames, like the Monkey King trapped inside Tai Shang Laojun's Alchemy Furnace.

Lu Yu was not Tai Shang Laojun's Alchemy Furnace, and Ghost Hand was not the Monkey King. Under Lu Yu's refining, Ghost Hand gradually shrunk until it completely disappeared within Lu Yu's body.

The organs that Ghost Hand had "taken" from Lu Yu also underwent change, hovering between existence and nonexistence, seemingly transformed into something of the same nature as Ghost Hand.

With Ghost Hand's death, Lu Yu still didn't understand what it truly was, but it did bring him significant benefits after its demise.

At the very least, Lu Yu no longer had to worry about his heart being a target, as there was essentially no heart within him.

Or rather, he had a heart, a left kidney, a right lung, yet they didn't exist within but he still felt no abnormality, remaining alive.

"A heart in another dimension?" Lu Yu pondered while touching his chest, "It should more accurately be called a shadow-heart."

When Ghost Hand first struck, it had targeted Lu Yu's shadow. At that time, Lu Yu instinctively used the ice coffin to freeze himself, repelling Ghost Hand's external attack.

It seemed that the sinister chill struck Ghost Hand, erupting cold air from the shadow.

In truth, Ghost Hand had entered Lu Yu's shadow, assaulted by the sinister chill. Any parts of Ghost Hand not yet fused with the shadow naturally suffered, releasing cold air.

By then, Ghost Hand had already hidden in Lu Yu's shadow, and during Lu Yu's battle with the butcher, entered Lu Yu's body. What followed was a feigned performance of "taking" Lu Yu's organs.

In reality, all the organs remained in Lu Yu's body, merely concealed by Ghost Hand, which made Lu Yu feel his organs had vanished.

Logically, with Ghost Hand dead, the hidden organs should have returned, yet they didn't, though their function was unaffected, puzzling Lu Yu greatly.

Still, it was a good thing, so Lu Yu chose not to dwell on it deeply.

He walked towards the butcher, finding a nameless martial art book on him. According to Ghost Hand, the butcher's martial art was called the Pig-Slaughtering Blade Technique, but Lu Yu preferred to call it—Weak Point Puncture.

The contents noted in the butcher's secret manual suggested it wasn't a blade technique at all, rather that the butcher adapted the martial art using his blade skills.

At higher levels, this martial art could pierce opponents' vulnerabilities, allowing the weak to defeat the strong, collapsing the whole by targeting a point. Earlier, the butcher could break the shadow of the Seven-Colored Glazed Tower by identifying a weak spot in the illusion.

Boom! Lu Yu casually blasted a large pit, burying the butcher. Regardless of his past deeds, he was a worthy adversary and didn't deserve the fate of being exposed to scavenging wild dogs.

After taking care of everything, Lu Yu set off towards Beifeng City.

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