Chapter 16 Evil
Chapter 16 Evil
Evil, a hundred babies!
Li Kefa and others were horrified. There was rarely any evil in the city. They had mostly heard about evil spirits in the countryside, but they had rarely seen such an evil monster!
Only a few yamen runners who often went in and out of the countryside had heard of this creature. It was rumored that the hundred infants appeared at night and were good at imitating human voices. They liked to appear outside the village, hide in the woods under the moonlight, and make the sound of babies crying.
If anyone from the village went to check, they would be caught and eaten by it, leaving only their skin, still wearing their clothes.
The Hundred Infants will then control the human skin, imitate that person's speech, trick more villagers out to check, and eat more people.
There was once a place called Jianyang Village in Xinxiang County where hundreds of infants appeared. They deceived 60% of the villagers and ate them, leaving only the elderly, weak and sick.
However, the Hundred Infants are extremely rare and are relatively powerful monsters among the evil spirits. Li Kefa and others did not expect that they would encounter the Hundred Infants on their first walk in the countryside at night.
"Kill it!"
Someone shouted loudly, and the remaining yamen runners and Li family masters all cast spells. The air in front of them vibrated slightly, and there was a tinkling sound and sparks on the body of the Hundred Infants. It was the sword energy of the Ziwu Zhanxie Sword that fell on the Hundred Infants and cut off the scales on its body!
The Ziwu Evil-Slaying Sword is invisible to the naked eye. It is condensed into a sword with true energy and divine power, making it impossible to defend against.
Several Ziwu Xie Swords missed and hit the trees next to Baiying. Trees as thick as buckets were cut off by the sword. The power was amazing!
However, a spell of this power only cut off a few scales on Baiying's body and failed to hurt it.
"Ding! Ding! Ding!"
Everyone cast spells one after another, but the Hundred Infants were too big and were hit repeatedly. The sword energy cut into their flesh and blood, and blood splattered everywhere.
Some had their necks stabbed by swords and their heads chopped off. After they fell to the ground, they saw babies using their hands and feet to crawl towards them quickly, crying and screaming.
However, as it crawled, it became slower and slower, and gradually lost its breath, turning into a pile of rotten flesh, emitting a foul stench.
The surrounding trees were also immediately affected, and big trees fell down one after another with a loud bang.
The hundred infants were defeated, and they suddenly lowered their limbs and ran away, knocking down trees along the way. They fled into the depths of the forest, leaving a pool of green blood on the ground.
Everyone had just calmed down from the shock, but they were still feeling frightened.
Li Kefa looked around and found that after this incident, there were more than ten people missing out of the fifty or so people they had.
Qu Ji whispered: "Sir, do you want to find a place to camp..."
Li Kefa gave him a gloomy look, and Qu Ji didn't dare to continue speaking.
"Keep on going, we must reach Huangpo Village tonight!" Li Kefa shouted.
The crowd surrounded Li Kefa and headed towards Huangpo Village.
The few yamen runners walking at the back felt a little uneasy and looked around, suspecting that there were some other evil spirits hiding in the mountains and forests, and that something was following them from behind.
"Old He, don't be so suspicious and keep looking back."
A yamen runner smiled at the old yamen runner beside him and said, "When you look back, even I feel uneasy..."
Before he could finish his words, the old yamen runner turned his head, his neck suddenly made a cracking sound, and his head drooped back weakly!
His neck seemed to have no bones, his head hung down and the back of his head was pressed against his back.
The bailiff was terrified and let out a shrill scream. He turned back hastily and suddenly felt as if a pair of strong hands were grabbing his neck.
"Crack!"
His neck was broken and his head drooped on his back!
The other yamen runners were even more panicked. They activated the shrine, mobilized the divine fetus, prepared spells, and looked back.
However, whenever someone looked back, their neck would immediately break and their head would droop backwards!
Evil, broken head vegetable.
"Don't look back!"
Qu Ji was sweating profusely and shouted, "This must be another kind of evil. If you turn your head, your neck will be broken! If you don't turn your head, you will be fine!"
Everyone was trembling with fear and crowded together as they moved forward, and indeed nothing happened.
One of them breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Sure enough, Master Qu didn't say that..."
"call out--"
He was suddenly pulled up into the sky by a huge force. Everyone looked up and could only hear screams coming from the air as he flew into the sky at an astonishing speed.
Evil, filariasis.
"The third kind of evil!"
Everyone was sweating profusely. Even though Li Kefa was a master in the Spirit Transformation Stage, he couldn't help but secretly regret it at this moment.
"What kind of a shabby place is this Xinxiang countryside? Why is it so full of evil?"
At this moment, the sound of trumpets and suonas came from the front, which was very cheerful. Everyone looked in the direction of the sound, but saw many fox people standing up under the moonlight, playing musical instruments and singing, and dancing strange dances towards this side.
Behind them, a blood-red sedan floated in the air, swaying along with the music.
The curtain of the sedan chair was blown up by the wind, revealing a bride in a phoenix coronet and a red bridal robe sitting in the sedan chair. Next to her was a terrified scholar, who must be an unlucky guy who didn't have time to hide in the village before dark.
When the curtain of the sedan chair was blown up by the wind again, the bride in the sedan chair was still as beautiful as ever, but the scholar was nowhere to be seen, only a skeleton was left.
The bright red sedan became even brighter red.
"It's evil!"
Everyone panicked and used all kinds of spells to attack the foxes and the sedan chair.
A cold wind blew, and all kinds of sword energy melted in the wind. Suddenly, the curtain of the sedan chair was blown open by the wind, and the registrar Qu Ji appeared in the sedan chair, sitting next to the ghost bride with a look of horror on his face.
Li Kefa snorted coldly and activated the shrine. The divine fetus in the shrine suddenly became extremely large and reached out to grab the big red sedan.
Suddenly, music started playing, and the fox was playing happily. Li Kefa's body shook slightly, and his breath became scattered, so the divine fetus's big hand could no longer grab him. Everyone surrounded the county magistrate Li Kefa and fled in panic. However, no matter where they fled, they could always hear the sound of trumpets and suonas in front of them. The fox troupe and the big red sedan were right in front of them.
Every time the curtain of the sedan chair was lifted, a missing person would appear in the sedan chair.
The number of people around Li Kefa kept decreasing. When they fled to a yellow mud hill, the shrill sounds of trumpets and suonas suddenly disappeared, and the fox opera troupe and the big red sedan chair no longer chased them.
They seemed to be very afraid of the village ahead.
Li Kefa had just calmed down from the shock and counted the number of people. There were only three people left around him!
More than fifty people set out on the trip, but before they even reached Huangpo Village, only four of them survived!
"The people in the countryside have bad hearts, that's why such evil things are born!" Li Kefa said with deep feeling.
At this time, a deep voice came from not far away: "The appearance of evil things is related to the bright moon in the sky. What does it have to do with the hearts of us country people? Lord Li, please don't vent your anger on us."
"who?"
The three yamen runners hurriedly activated the shrine behind their heads, and divine light shot out from the shrine, shining in the direction of the sound.
I saw a tall old man standing on the Huanggang slope, his blue-white beard fluttering in the wind, but his eyes were glowing red in the moonlight, like a hungry wolf.
Li Kefa snorted, and said with full authority, "Who are you? How do you know that the evil creature is related to the bright moon in the sky?"
The tall old man had a strange look in his eyes, as if he was talking to them, or mumbling to himself: "Because I sense a strange power in the moonlight that makes me want to eat every night..."
He stopped talking and bowed, saying, "Chen Yindu, the talisman master from Huangpo Village, greets Lord Li."
"Talisman Master Chen Yindu? Are you Chen Yindu?"
Li Kefa's eyes flashed with a gleam of light. He took a step forward and shouted, "Did you kill my son Li Xiaoding?"
The tall old man shook his head: "It's not me."
Li Kefa was slightly stunned.
"My grandson killed him."
The tall old man said, "I was just watching outside the camp, on guard against masters he couldn't handle. I was very relieved to see him take action. He finally had some ability to protect himself."
Li Kefa's eyes flashed with ferocity.
Killing his son was actually described by this old man as a means of self-preservation!
For him, it was a humiliation in front of everyone!
The tall old man said slowly, "Lord Li, you are here with such a fierce momentum. Are you going to kill my grandson to avenge your son? Since ancient times, killing someone means paying with one's life, and debts mean paying with one's money. It is natural. You are allowed to kill my grandson, and it is reasonable for me to kill you to protect my grandson."
Li Kefa shouted loudly and took a step forward. The shrine behind his head hummed and a bright light appeared. The shrine was like a temple with the divine fetus sitting in the middle. The divine power was as majestic as the vast ocean!
However, before he could prepare the spell, a ball of fire as big as a finger suddenly came towards him.
While Li Kefa was controlling the Qi to resist, he activated the Li family's unique skill, the Six Yin Jade Wheel. Six strands of Yin Qi were like wheels, spinning and cutting towards the tall old man!
The Six Yin Jade Wheel is also invisible and cannot be seen by the naked eye. One can only vaguely see six wheel-shaped objects rotating in the air, but they cannot be seen clearly.
His divine fetus flapped his arms and danced with his ten fingers, controlling the Six Yin Jade Wheel with even greater power!
However, the ball of fire that seemed to have no great power hit Li Kefa's body-protecting true qi and exploded with a loud bang. In an instant, it turned into a fireball covering an area of about an acre in size. The surging air wave blasted a large pit three or four feet deep in the ground, and the surface soil melted!
The other three didn't even have time to make a sound before they were torn into pieces, their flesh and blood evaporating in the flames.
The talismans on Li Kefa's body, including the Tai Shang Bagua body-protecting talisman, the Tai Shang Hetu life-protecting talisman, the Tai Shang Yansheng life-protecting talisman, etc., were activated at the same time.
These three kinds of talismans were engraved on an iron scroll by the elders of the Li family, using their Nascent Soul to carve them. They were life-saving treasures for the more important children of the Li family.
Each kind of talisman can withstand a blow from a Nascent Soul master.
The three talismans were activated at the same time, but they only lasted for a moment in the firelight before shattering one after another!
The flames were blazing, Li Kefa screamed in the fire, and turned into ashes in an instant. The shrine and the divine fetus were all burned, leaving no trace!
His magic Six Yin Jade Wheel had no one controlling it and dissipated on its own.
"I'm so hungry. I must destroy the body to stop my growing desire to eat people!"
The tall old man looked up at the bright moon in the sky with a look of fear, and suddenly his figure flashed and disappeared from under the tree.
"This moon is getting weirder and weirder..."
In a dilapidated temple on a desolate mountain, Chen Shi stood in the courtyard of the dilapidated temple, his knees neither bent nor squatting, his shoulders and elbows dropped, his body straight, his neck held high, and he breathed in and out slowly.
All around him, starlight, sunlight, and moonlight fell down like fireflies dancing around him, and gradually melted into his body, strengthening his physique.
After the Moon Festival, whenever Chen Shi had free time, he would go to the dilapidated temple in the deserted mountains to practice. Practicing the three lights of righteousness here could attract the lights of the sun and the moon, allowing him to make rapid progress.
Suddenly, Chen Shi seemed to have crossed some kind of mysterious barrier, and he saw that the three kinds of light coming from the air had become much more numerous!
The starlight and the light of the sun and the moon gradually condensed around him, forming seven stars in the shape of a spoon!
"Is this the Big Dipper mentioned in the Three Lights and Righteousness Art?"
Chen Shi was very surprised and looked at the seven stars.
He had never seen the Big Dipper. Not to mention the Big Dipper, he had never even seen the stars in the sky!
Ever since he could remember, there was nothing in the night sky except the moon!
He followed Zhu Xiucai to read ancient books. When he read "After getting drunk, I didn't know that the sky was in the water, and the boat was full of clear dreams pressing down on the Milky Way", he began to wonder what this Milky Way was.
When I read the line “The stars are not the same as last night, for whom am I standing in the wind and dew in the middle of the night?”, I also looked at the sky in a daze, not knowing what the stars are.
After reading Thousand Character Classic, I still don’t know what the “辰宿列张” (Chen Su Lie Zhang) means.
And now, the Big Dipper actually appeared clearly around him!
The Big Dipper is not real stars, but star power. However, it is enough to make Chen Shi inexplicably excited!
"It turns out that the book didn't lie to me. It turns out that there are real stars in the sky, and there really is the Big Dipper!"
He suppressed his excitement and moved his feet lightly, only to see that the position of the Big Dipper also changed with his movement!
As time passed, Chen Shi only felt streams of warm or cool, hot or cold air sweeping through his body, tempering every part of his flesh and blood.
"call--"
Chen Shi exhaled a breath of foul air, and it was like pulling a bellows for smelting steel. A gust of wind blew in front of him, causing the dead leaves to fly.
He took a long breath, just like a bellows inhaling air, and a small air vortex formed around his body.
There is even a fishy smell between breaths, but these are impurities in the flesh, blood, and bones in the body, which are being refined out as the old is expelled and the new is in!
"Hey, this is..."
Chen Shi only felt that his body seemed to have entered a whole new realm. Along with his breathing, there was a ball of qi and blood in his body, which was flowing along with his thoughts. If his mind was focused, this ball of qi and blood would also be focused.
His heart moved slightly, and his mind guided the qi and blood to his arm. He saw that his right arm grew thicker at a speed visible to the naked eye, the fascia bulged, and all the blood vessels in his hand were hidden under the thick flesh, which became thicker and harder than iron.
He swung his arm and smashed it on the thousand-pound stone blocking the door with a bang, breaking a corner of the stone.
Chen Shi was shocked. His attack could actually break monuments and split rocks!
(End of this chapter)