Chapter 34: Fierce and Sinister

Hundred Earths Mountain Range, Gao Family Village.

"Child? Did something happen again?"

Hearing the roars of tigers, leopards, and wolves rising and falling around her, a blind old woman walked out of her room with trembling steps, yet her words were surprisingly calm.

"Mother, it's nothing."

Stepping forward in time to support the old woman, Pan Hu, the dog-headed humanoid, spoke softly.

Even though Pan Hu had bent down as much as possible, he still appeared so tall and burly.

Outside Pan Hu's door, the villagers of Gao Family Village had long gathered, yet none dared to push the door open and enter.

"Child, Mother is only blind, not deaf."

The old woman, who tried to pat Pan Hu's head as she did in his childhood but could only reach his shoulder, smiled.

"Alas, what a pity; I cannot see what my son has grown into now."

"So tall, so strong; I wonder which daughter-in-law within a hundred li could match my son."

Pan Hu obediently lowered his head and replied with a smile.

"As long as Mother approves, any daughter-in-law will do."

Hearing this, the old woman immediately pushed Pan Hu's head away with a look of bad luck on her face.

"What kind of words are those!"

"We are finding a wife for you, not for your mother."

"Besides, you must see if the Miss is willing; otherwise, people might think you are a bandit snatching a bride!"

Smiling without speaking, Pan Hu looked up toward the direction outside the village and continued speaking in that deliberately lowered voice.

"Mother, everyone is waiting outside! I must now..."

Before Pan Hu's words had finished, the old woman immediately widened her eyes and shouted sternly.

"If they are willing to wait, let them keep waiting!"

"A group of hypocrites who forget kindness for profit; when there is trouble, they know to come begging you, but when there is no trouble, they would rather hide from you."

Blinking helplessly, Pan Hu knew the old woman's words were deliberately meant for those villagers outside the door.

"Mother, this time it has nothing to do with them."

"Did you not teach me in your childhood to repay kindness?"

"There is someone who once helped me and now needs my help; I must go immediately."

After a moment of silence, the old woman finally could only sigh.

"My child's heart is simply too kind."

"Mother indeed taught you to repay kindness, but Mother also taught you what it means to act within one's means."

"Enough, enough; in the end, a grown son cannot be controlled by his mother; go!"

"I still want to eat the meat buns you wrap tomorrow morning; remember to go early and return early!"

Looking at the old woman with reluctance, Pan Hu answered.

"I know, Mother!"

At the same time, above the valley.

"It is that Ghost King; it has appeared in person!"

Xi Luo, whose entire body was enveloped in flames, hesitated not at all and suddenly leaped through the air, lunging toward the source of those black mists.

Although this current situation was not within the original plan.

But Xi Luo was not the type to follow rules rigidly, nor would she possibly let go of such an excellent opportunity.

Roar!

The blazing flames illuminated the sky.

The black mists were quickly ignited and dispersed; the night was lit up as if it were day...

At this moment, Xi Luo could be said to be less a Mountain God and more a Fire God or Sun God descended to the world.

【What is going on with you?】

Seeing that Xi Luo was obviously somewhat off, the flying sword, which had regained its ability to move, quickly rushed to her side.

Compared to her state when dealing with Ru Fu last time, Xi Luo now seemed ridiculously powerful.

If Xi Luo remained this powerful all the time.

Then last time there would have been no need to wait for Li Li Boyang to step in and help her slay that Fiendish God.

"Now is not the time to explain these things!"

Not answering Li Li Boyang's question directly, Xi Luo, in her Red Leopard form, merely growled softly before plunging headlong into the black mists of the Black Cloud Marsh.

【You...】

Having watched so many movies and read so many novels, Li Li Boyang immediately understood.

Xi Luo's current state was likely impossible to maintain for a long time.

Moreover, the reason Xi Luo possessed such a powerful, Fire God-like manifestation was even possibly due to using an ability similar to the "Heavenly Demon Body-Dissolving Great Art."

Whoosh!

There was no time to complain about Xi Luo's lack of trust in him.

Li Li Boyang immediately manipulated the flying sword to shoot out, transforming into a streak of golden light that also rushed toward the source of the black mists.

"Brat! Prepare to die!"

Facing the pincer attack from Xi Luo and the flying sword.

The Ghost King shrouded in black mists suddenly let out a wild laugh, displaying astonishing strength at this very moment.

The claw that swung out emitted a piercing shriek as it tore through the air, simultaneously releasing a chilling, icy aura.

"Awooo!"

It took only a single moment of contact.

Xi Luo, who had been the first to pounce, was forced to retreat.

For the instant the claw swung out, it actually detached from the Ghost King's body and transformed into a pitch-black Ghost-Faced Leopard.

Although that Ghost-Faced Leopard appeared extremely reluctant, it still pounced on Xi Luo under the Ghost King's control.

"Awooo!"

The Ghost-Faced Leopard's various attributes were completely opposite to Xi Luo's, looking unmistakably like her natural counter.

Moreover, that Ghost-Faced Leopard displayed a trait of fearing no death, showing absolutely no fear of Xi Luo's fierce assault.

【Another ghostly creature, and stronger than the previous Black Fiend?】

Such a thought flashed through Li Li Boyang's mind.

The golden flying sword then sliced through the long sky, directly bypassing the Ghost-Faced Leopard and flying toward the Ghost King.

Then, the scene that shocked everyone appeared once again.

"Squeal!"

Accompanied by a loud, piercing long cry.

A similarly pitch-black four-winged eagle flew out from the black mist and, unwillingly, met the Sword Pill.

Just as the manifested Ghost-Faced Leopard had targeted Xi Luo before.

That four-winged eagle was hard as iron all over, and its pair of sharp claws emitted a sharp, cold light.

Even before contact, Li Li Boyang could vaguely feel that the opponent's ability must be suppressing his own.

Clang!

The instant the sound collided with the flying sword, Li Li Boyang's conjecture was confirmed.

【It's not an ordinary ghost? But a true Evil Fiend!?】

After a brief moment of daze, Li Li Boyang reacted instantly.

These ghosts currently present were not ordinary ghosts at all, but one of the strongest ghosts recorded in the Nine Chapters of Divination Secrets—the Evil Fiend.

The Ominous Deity and the Evil Fiend are two calamities recorded in the Ominous and Fiendish Chapter of the Nine Chapters of Divination Secrets.

The former is a natural manifestation of some primordial qi of heaven and earth, a deity born and nurtured by heaven and earth, classified by the Huaijiang Witches as a type of "natural disaster."

The latter, however, is the materialization of the resentment of sentient beings, a type of human-caused disaster even rarer than the Ominous Deity.

The formation of an Evil Fiend requires not only that the deceased possessed strong resentment while alive.

It also imposes extremely harsh requirements on the circumstances of death and the environment after death.

For instance, if a bride dies violently on her wedding day and her resentment does not dissipate, she will transform into a Red Fiend.

Or, for instance, if a wrongfully drowned water ghost finds enough substitutes but still cannot enter reincarnation, it will transform into a White Fiend.

Because these involve special conditions such as birth dates and hours, feng shui, and terrain, their formation difficulty is only more stringent than that of the Ominous Deity, and their abilities are equally more bizarre.

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