"Clang~~" The sword with a strong aura, the Purple Tassel Sword, was slowly drawn out of its scabbard by Li Huowang, its tip pointing steadily at the thing in the corner.
Ever since he arrived in Daliang, Li Huowang had rarely encountered these evil spirits. He never expected to come across one in this situation.
Li Huowang furrowed his brows, his voice low and solemn. "Brother Zhuge, it seems that this calamity is not just about the darkness. Is this evil spirit related to the calamity?"
Zhuge Yuan, with a grave expression, looked up at the sky, seemingly recalling something. Zhuge Yuan did not respond, but the thing in the corner started to move.
As it slowly turned around, Li Huowang saw a pale face with two bloody holes.
The gaping mouth opened slowly, revealing no teeth but instead, baby hands covered in corpse spots. As the hands from the upper and lower rows clasped each other, a horrifying smile formed.
In the face of such a terrifying scene, Li Huowang's expression turned fierce. With a stomp of his feet, he charged straight towards it.
In this completely insane world, he had experienced too much. Facing such a thing no longer stirred any ripples in his heart.
Before the person arrived, the sword struck first. The elongated copper coin sword swiftly swung through the air with a whistling sound, aiming for the creature's forehead.
Seeing this, the evil spirit used its arms, several times longer than its body, to thrust towards Li Huowang from both sides. It seemed to be trying to turn defense into offense.
However, as Li Huowang's right hand, gripping the sword, swiftly shook and pulled, the copper coin in the air spun and twisted. With a flash of sword light and a piercing scream, the two arms were severed into three pieces.
The evil spirit, with its arms severed, quickly shrank its large head and, when everyone's clothes fell to the ground, a black shadow swiftly emerged from within the silk clothes and disappeared into the darkness.
Glancing at the strange severed arms on the ground, Li Huowang did not pursue to avoid stirring up more trouble. He forcefully wiped the black bloodstains off the sword, turned around, and prepared to return to the Bai family's courtyard.
But just as he took two steps, a paper window at the end of the pitch-black road suddenly lit up.
A gloomy green light seeped through the wooden window, flickering intermittently. It seemed that something inside was moving back and forth. However, it was certain that it was not a person because all the people from Niuxin Village were in the Bai family's courtyard.
At first, it was just one house, but gradually, two, three houses appeared. As these windows lit up one by one, the entire Niuxin Village became as eerie as the underworld.
Looking at these lit windows, Li Huowang's expression began to darken. One evil spirit was insignificant, but so many would be troublesome.
Moreover, what was even more important was that he couldn't determine whether this situation was the beginning of something worse.
"Bang!" Li Huowang forcefully closed the door of the Bai family's courtyard and took out a piece of ginger-yellow paper. He quickly used his own blood to write a talisman to ward off evil spirits and stuck it on the wooden post.
Seeing the faces in the courtyard, Li Huowang spoke, "You don't need to worry about the trouble outside. Stay obediently in the courtyard until the calamity passes. No one is allowed to go out!"
After Li Huowang finished speaking, he flipped over the wall again, gripping the sword tightly as he stared at the windows emitting a gloomy green light.
"Encountering one evil spirit on ordinary days is rare, but if they all come out like they're free, is it just in Niuxin Village or is it happening everywhere? If it's the latter, then I'm afraid..." Li Huowang's heart sank continuously.
"If it's really as Brother Li thinks, then this calamity is probably going to be real." Zhuge Yuan's expression was equally grave.
He raised his right hand, with his thumb continuously jumping between the joints of his other fingers, seemingly calculating something.
"Ah, what a pity! Such an interesting thing, but I died before I could witness it." Red, with a face full of regret, teased beside him.
"Taoist, what's going on? Will many people die?" The monk asked anxiously.
Li Huowang ignored the various hallucinations and words, silently staring outside. If there was one good news at the moment, it was that although those windows were lit, there were no hostile gazes projected from them.
It was unclear whether they were intimidated by Li Huowang, but those things did not leave the windows.
"Oh my heavens! What... What is that! Master, look behind you!" Lv Xiucai's panicked shout made Li Huowang abruptly turn his head. He immediately saw that a window on the second floor had also turned green. They had entered!
What made Li Huowang even more anxious was that the window belonged to Bai Lingmiao's chamber!
Clamping his teeth tightly, Li Huowang quickly drew two talismans and stuck them on his knees.
With a powerful push off the wall using his feet, his agile body soared into the air like a spear thrown straight towards the green window.With a "crash", the wooden window shattered. As Li Huowang, sword in hand, rolled into the room, he saw two figures, one white and one red, currently kneeling on the bed, gnawing at something.
From their attire, it was clear that these two were Bai Lingmiao and Twin Soul!
"Miao Miao?!" With a heart full of fear, Li Huowang approached them from behind. He reached out to Bai Lingmiao's shoulder and turned her around, his heart pounding.
The once gentle and soft-looking Bai Lingmiao was gone. What appeared before Li Huowang was an extraordinarily horrifying face.
Her mouth was full of sharp, backward-facing teeth, her face covered in spikes and green scales, all smeared with foul-smelling black blood. Bai Lingmiao had lost all semblance of humanity, looking more like a patchwork of various beasts.
Despite her monstrous appearance, Bai Lingmiao was still laughing, her grotesque mouth stretched almost to her ears. "Hahaha~~hahaha~!!"
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"Li Huowang! Hahaha! I don't want to laugh! But I can't help it! The immortals are all going mad with joy! They've influenced me, and I'm so hungry!!"
With that, Bai Lingmiao pounced back onto the bed, tearing into the unidentifiable corpse with frenzy.
With a "crack", a bloody bone was bitten into two by Twin Soul, swallowed whole without even chewing.
Looking at Bai Lingmiao, who seemed to have degenerated into a beast, Li Huowang knew that this was not the way. He had to calm them down.
He immediately made a cut with his right hand, and a card appeared in his palm.
Next, Li Huowang formed a vajra seal with his hand, pressing the card against his forehead. "Sever ties, restrain heart!"
When he took the card off again, his face, like a mask, was also removed.
Li Huowang held up his own face and pressed it directly onto Bai Lingmiao's. "Peace, enlightenment!"
When Li Huowang's face, with the card on the forehead, was placed on Bai Lingmiao's, she immediately stopped moving and laughing.
(End of Chapter)
