Who wants to become a god? Aren't you all forcing me?

#421 - Chapter 420 Can you help me?

Li Chenqiu stopped in front of the spatial rift and asked warily, "Why should I trust you?"

"If I weren't the artifact spirit, how could I control that section of the Finishing Touch Brush?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the section of the Finishing Touch Brush that Li Chenqiu held in his hand trembled slightly, as if trying to break free from his grasp and fly towards the wooden house in front.

Li Chenqiu firmly grasped the Finishing Touch Brush, not saying a word.

"The Finishing Touch Brush was artificially divided into several sections, and the artifact spirit is the same. Part of it is sealed within the artifact, and part of it, like me, is trapped in the painting," the man's voice carried a hint of loneliness.

Li Chenqiu looked puzzled, "What's the purpose of telling me this?"

"I've been trapped here for too long, too long. I want to go out, I want to leave this place, I want to return to that section of the Finishing Touch Brush, so... help me, okay?"

Li Chenqiu coldly refused, "I'm sorry, I can't help you."

"Why?"

"I know very little about you. I don't know if you're lying to me, or if you have other motives. If you want to harm me, what should I do?" Li Chenqiu retorted.

"Heh heh heh, kid, you really think too highly of me. I'm just a fragmented artifact spirit, with less than ten percent of my original strength. I have no power to harm you at all.

Besides, you've already made this section of the Finishing Touch Brush recognize you as its master. In a way, you're also half my master, and you can use the recognition ritual to restrain me. What do you have to fear?"

Hearing this, Li Chenqiu became even more wary of this person, but on the surface, he showed no abnormality, pretending to be tempted and asked, "If I help you, what can I get?"

The man's tone was filled with undisguised joy, "So, you're willing to help me!"

"I'm just asking what I can get," Li Chenqiu didn't rush to agree or deny.

"You can get a lot. I can tell you many unknown secrets, I can help you improve your strength, and I can help you get the other sections of the Finishing Touch Brush."

Li Chenqiu's eyes lit up, "You know the location of the other four sections of the Finishing Touch Brush?"

"Of course. As the artifact spirit of the Finishing Touch Brush, sensing their location is not difficult for me, but the premise is that you have to trust me," the man said confidently.

Li Chenqiu stroked his chin, pondered for a moment, and then looked up and asked, "How should I help you?"

"It's very simple. Do you see the small wooden house at the foot of the mountain? You just need to reach out and open the door of the wooden house, and I can escape this different dimension and return to the Finishing Touch Brush!"

"Hmm?" Li Chenqiu frowned slightly, "That's not right. I remember that wooden house couldn't be entered, right?"

"Those dark fellows are not the masters of this section of the Finishing Touch Brush, so naturally they can't enter, but you're different. You can!"

"Then... I'll try?"

"Yes, just gently push it open!"

Li Chenqiu nodded, flapped his Fire Wings and landed on the ground, grasping the Finishing Touch Brush, and walked towards the small wooden house step by step.

The man said gratefully, "Thank you for taking me away, thank you!"

Li Chenqiu replied indifferently, "It's just a matter of taking what we need. I hope you won't lie to me."

"No, I never lie."

Hearing this, Li Chenqiu smiled and nodded, a faint, almost imperceptible, cold glint flashing in the depths of his eyes.

Earlier, he deliberately dug a pit, falsely reporting the number of sections of the Finishing Touch Brush, but this person, who claimed to be the artifact spirit, didn't notice anything wrong and directly agreed.

So, from that moment on, Li Chenqiu determined that the other party was lying. If he was the artifact spirit, how could he not even know how many sections he had been divided into?

There was only one possibility, this guy wasn't the artifact spirit, but a monster sealed into the painting by the Finishing Touch Brush!

"I'm going to see what you are," Li Chenqiu said to himself inwardly.

Under the man's anxious urging, Li Chenqiu quickly arrived in front of the wooden house, stopping in front of the closed wooden door.

"Just push the door open?" Li Chenqiu asked uncertainly.

The man said eagerly, "Yes, reach out and push the door open!"

"Okay."

Li Chenqiu raised his arm and pressed it towards the wooden door. Just as his palm was only a few centimeters away from touching the wooden door, he suddenly stopped without warning.

"You... why did you stop? Shouldn't you push the door open?"

Li Chenqiu retracted his arm and gently shook his head, "I suddenly don't want to push it anymore. I always feel like you're weird."

"Weird? Where am I weird?"

"I don't know, but I just feel like you're weird."

"You... in the end, you think I'm lying to you, right!" The man suppressed the anger in his heart.

"Yes," Li Chenqiu pursed his lips and smiled, slowly saying, "I really feel like you're lying to me, so I don't plan to push the door. This matter... we'll talk about it later. I have to go, see you next time."

Saying that, Li Chenqiu waved his hand and was about to turn around and leave when a sharp, ear-piercing scream came from the wooden house.

"No!!!"

Visible sound waves spread out, and the closed wooden door was smashed to pieces with a "bang" as if made of paper.

Whoosh—

A slender finger pointed hand rapidly enlarged in Li Chenqiu's eyes, grabbing towards his face. Everything happened in a short instant.

"So fast!"

Just as Li Chenqiu realized something was wrong and the thought of dodging arose in his mind, the hand had already pressed close.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh—

The strong wind howled, and his hair fluttered wildly.

Li Chenqiu stood unharmed in place, the hand stopped in front of him, or rather, it stopped behind the threshold of the wooden house.

"Why! Why! Why!" A scalp-numbing voice came from behind the hand.

Li Chenqiu narrowed his eyes, took a step back, and then saw the appearance of the person he was talking to.

It was a young man wearing loose white clothes, looking to be around twenty years old.

The young man had a pair of light golden double pupils, and his slightly curly red hair, like ocean waves, was rippling in the cold wind that rushed into the wooden house. The high bridge of his nose made his features particularly three-dimensional.

If one ignored the overly pale skin, sunken eye sockets, chapped thin lips, and bamboo pole-like figure, he could be called "handsome."

The young man's limbs were all bound by circles of silver chains, the other end of the chains connected to the beams of the wooden house. The reason why Li Chenqiu was spared was thanks to these taut chains.

"Why! Why! Why!" The young man's face was twisted and distorted, and he shouted angrily at Li Chenqiu, "It was so close, why did you..."

Rattling—

Before the young man could finish speaking, the taut chains suddenly shrank back, forcibly pulling him back from the doorway of the wooden house.

At the same moment, dozens of steel whips poked their heads out from the shadows, looking at the young man like venomous snakes.