Chapter 258: line with translation of chapter title

258 Five elements generate and overcome each other, one thing subdues another.

The drought demon whose head was cut off by the ghost-head blade stood straight there.

Its final moment of consciousness deeply remembered Tushan Jiu's face.

Tushan Sheng at the front saw the head on the ground glaring fixedly at his daughter, and he snapped his fingers.

'Pa'— the ghost gate opened.

He used his spear as a stick; Tushan Jiu, seeing this, cooperated with her father, kicked up the drought demon's head with one foot, and Tushan Sheng swung his spear.

'Boom', 'one pole into the gate'.

Tushan Sheng raised his eyebrow at Tushan Jiu, she laughed and reached up to pat him, saying, 'Thanks, Dad!'

"Great-grandfather, great-grandmother, grandfather and grandmother, second uncle, second aunt,..."

Tushan Jiu called them one by one; for higher generations she actually wouldn't know the order, but she finally concluded with a smile: 'Thank you all elders for coming this far, thanks everyone for your hard work!'

Everyone chattered, 'What's there to be tired about? We're all one family.'

"We Tushan Family have only you as our sole heir; if you're well, we're all well. If anything comes up, just speak up—our family down below doesn't have much, just lots of people."

"Exactly, don't stubbornly tough it out; sometimes connections are part of strength. Otherwise, what's the point of us doing these down below? It's just to give Tushan Family's juniors more confidence."

"Wait, wait until the great-great-great-great-great-grandfather cultivates for a few more hundred years, runs for Fengdu... uh, old lady, why are you covering my mouth?"

"Don't boast; I've told you to drink less, drink less, but you just won't listen!"

Thus finally, the great-great-great-great-great-grandmother grabbed the great-great-great-great-great-grandfather's ear and led him back to the underworld.

The rest also began to head back one after another.

Although most of them were idle personnel, some still had jobs; they had skipped work to come support the juniors, and now they had to return to work.

They didn't take that drought demon away, but left it for Tushan Jiu and her group to go through the normal procedures.

That's all part of our own children's share.

Anyway, for ghosts cut by the ghost-head blade, even if sealed, after the process is completed and they go to the underworld, there's still time to give them small shoes.

The ghost gate closed.

Maomao plopped down on the big tree behind him that had been knocked over by the qi wave.

Tired, didn't want to move.

Tushan Jiu also wiped the light sweat from her forehead and sat on the broken big tree.

Lin Xiu'er and the others, seeing that the crowded 'crowd' had dispersed, hurried forward to check on their condition.

Tushan Jiu waved her hand, indicating she was fine.

The others also shook their heads.

After confirming they were all unharmed, Lin Xiu'er then led people to start collecting the zombies and the mastermind who caused this incident.

Tushan Jiu also handed over the soul-summoning banner to the other staff members.

Just now, upon touching it, she knew this thing was what that drought demon had snatched from Bai Bai Mountain.

Have Lin Xiu'er and them notify the Bai Bai Mountain office to come pick it up.

After experiencing a great battle, several people had consumed a lot of qi.

Sit and rest for a while.

Maomao saw Wang Dongqing puff out his cheek, rolled his eyes, and said, 'Are you pretending to be a toad with swollen glands?'

Wang Dongqing stared for a moment, then realized he still seemed to have water in his mouth!

Feeling his cheeks losing sensation, he quickly spat out the water in his mouth and rubbed his cheeks.

Mumu heard the sound, looked over, and mercilessly mocked, 'Are you stupid? Even I can think of spitting the water back into the bottle, hahaha, you big idiot.'

Wang Dongqing gave Mumu a sideways glance, then, with the speed of 'swift as thunder, not giving time to cover ears while stealing the bell,' he hauled it over to his side.

Then he began pouring water into Mumu, who doesn't need to eat or drink.

At first Mumu didn't react, but when it did, its mouth was pried open and a stream of icy water began flowing down its body: 'Mmm? Gurgle-gurgle, mmm, Xiang, mmm, ice mountain save me!'

Soon Mumu became soaked inside and out, turning into a soggy piece of wood.

Xiang Yichu went to grab Mumu but couldn't; 'Stop pouring, I apologize on its behalf—if we keep pouring, we'll have to dry it later, which takes too much time.'

Wang Dongqing snorted, striking a victorious pose: 'Do you dare call me stupid again? With your elm-like head, you still have the nerve to say that? I already knew you could spit water back into the bottle—are you teaching me how to do things?'

Just as he was getting into it, Maomao snatched the Mumu from his hand, shook off the water, patted its head, and mercilessly exposed: 'Based on my understanding of him, his gaze is unfocused, he speaks loudly, and he lifts his chin over forty-five degrees—he's just being stubborn. He simply didn't think of it. Good Mumu, we won't argue with a big idiot.'

Wang Dongqing choked: '......'

Mumu laughed, and everyone laughed.

Indeed, the five elements generate and overcome each other; one thing subdues another.

Lin Xiu'er and them, seeing that several people still had the mood and energy to joke and play, couldn't help but shake their heads and smile.

The matter was settled, but the vehicles by the roadside could no longer be driven.

Almost all of them had been deformed by that qi wave's impact.

Among them, Maomao's SUV took the lead, suffering the most severe deformation.

Xu Jiangshan, stationed at the office, upon receiving the news, immediately rushed over to pick them up.

In this situation, Xu Jiangshan directly said to reimburse and give Maomao a new car.

When everyone had returned to the office and just entered the building, Maomao suddenly said, 'So did I profit from this trip?'

Everyone was amused by her slow reaction and burst into another round of laughter.

For this case, Tushan Jiu's team contributed the most effort, so naturally the points fell to them.

As for Zhao Yuanhu and the others in the hospital, they had no objections either.

In the metaphysical world, the rule is that the capable rise above.

However, they too suffered work-related injuries and are entitled to corresponding work injury compensation.

This is also one of the guarantees for civil servants; no matter what, someone will have their back.

Back in the office, Tushan Jiu and the others, following convention, began organizing this case, making a case summary, and submitting it to Lin Xiu'er.

As for tracing how that corpse demon evaded the underworld officials' pursuit for over a thousand years, they don't need to do that; once that thing goes down, after passing the retrospection stone, they will naturally know.

But Tushan Jiu still wrote down everything she had 'seen'.

That guy, before his death, used to travel with them and was also a xuan master.

However, later he was expelled from his master's door for secretly practicing evil arts.

Because he refused to accept the master's decision, he began painstakingly studying the evil arts to prove himself, but later the evil arts backfired, turning him into a conscious walking corpse, wandering about.

One day, that guy wandered to a village where the villagers had been slaughtered by bandits; as he passed behind the village, he accidentally fell into a dry well.

In that well were all kinds of rotting corpses, all thrown in by the bandits.

Because that guy had been wasted by the backlash to nothing but bone, he had no strength left, and finally died in that dry well.