Chapter 215: Fleeing in Disarray

The High Priest was still kneeling in prayer.

The short halberd's target was her.

An attendant priest walked down from the cliff, waving the wooden staff in his hand, seemingly shouting, and struck the short halberd with a single blow.

Crack!

The wooden staff shattered, and the short halberd hit the attendant priest.

With a whoosh, dark blue flames engulfed his entire body.

Chanting a eulogy in a language of this era that no one could understand, the attendant priest collapsed with a thud, burned into countless bizarre lines, and vanished into the void.

On the cliff, Qin Ze shivered involuntarily: "This woman... I'm afraid I'm no match for her."

Di Youzhi glanced at him: "You really know how to flatter yourself; you're not even worthy of being her opponent, got it?"

Xu Yuan also had to admit that this female Law Keeper had a narrow mind, acted by any means necessary, was sinister and cunning, but possessed enough strength to be a Law Keeper.

Wei Huchen had already slain one warrior, but ten more from the Shanhe Office had died.

The warrior drew the little figure for the fourth time; this time, Wei Huchen finally failed to dodge, and one little figure rushed straight at him!

"Ahhh!" Wei Huchen spat out a mouthful of abdominal fire, enveloping himself from top to bottom.

As a Seventh-Rank Rank Dan Xiu, he had this level of control.

The little figure lunged in, sizzling as it was burned.

After holding on for a moment, it finally dissolved into several lines and vanished.

Wei Huchen let out a long sigh of relief.

Lady Fu Shuanghui had already thrown a second short halberd, killing another attendant priest.

Now both sides were simply exhausting each other.

Seeing Fu Jingyu couldn't help but say: "Should we give them a hand?"

The other three said nothing.

Not adding insult to injury was already good enough; help them?

Seeing Fu Jingyu felt that... they should help.

This wasn't about repaying kindness with kindness or anything like that.

After all, the enemy was an evil spirit, and we are all from the Three Offices of Strange Affairs.

Seeing Xu Yuan's face full of inner conflict, he ordered: "Inspector Fu, go to the rear and convey my order: no one is to act rashly!"

"As you command!" Seeing Fu Jingyu clasped his fist and retreated.

He himself also breathed a sigh of relief.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Qin Ze beamed and quietly gave his my lord a thumbs-up.

Lady Fu Shuanghui had brought four squads.

By now, twenty-seven were already dead.

The warriors had drawn twelve little figures.

Wei Huchen burned one away; of the remaining eleven, Liang Yan had dealt with one, but there were still ten, which had seized ten people!

Lady Fu Shuanghui was in a state of extreme anxiety; if they all died, only a few would remain!

Moreover, there were still those warriors around.

She swiftly threw two short halberds in succession.

She had brought only seven short halberds in total, all stored in the carriage.

Biting her lip, Lady Fu Shuanghui took out a silver scale and pressed it to her forehead.

This was a reverse scale from an elder of her family.

The silver transformed into a layer of shimmering waves, flowing through her entire body.

Lady Fu Shuanghui pulled a long halberd from beneath the carriage, roared with a sound like a dragon's cry, and then galloped out to kill.

Crack!

She chopped through that boundary line with a single strike of her halberd.

Black fire surged along the boundary line, and countless black insects crawled along the long halberd onto Lady Fu Shuanghui's body.

Looking more closely, however, they were not insects, but individual drawn "dots."

Lady Fu Shuanghui shuddered all over; silver flames spread across her body, forcing these black dots away from her.

But as soon as the silver fire faded, these black dots would reattach, each one drilling inward through the gaps in her scales!

Lady Fu Shuanghui maintained the flames, rushed forward, chopped down a warrior with a single halberd strike, and escaped with her remaining subordinates.

Ten little figures were still chasing from behind.

Lady Fu Shuanghui, enraged, turned back and chopped down all the little figures.

The warriors closed in; Lady Fu Shuanghui swept her long halberd, chopping down another, displaying great power.

The surviving remnants of the Shanhe Office under her command took this opportunity to hastily retreat from the valley.

Lady Fu Shuanghui glared fiercely at that cliff, her eyes burning with hatred like Xiong Xiong.

She suddenly turned back, charged forward, and hurled the long halberd in her hand with a mighty thrust!

Whoosh—

The long halberd pierced the air; two attendant priests rushed forward to block it, and with two puffs, it seemed to pierce through leather.

The two attendant priests vanished.

The power of the long halberd was exhausted; it failed to injure the High Priest.

Lady Fu Shuanghui was full of unwillingness, yet she still flicked her tail and swiftly retreated from the valley.

The remaining warriors chased them to the valley mouth but could not go further.

They cannot stray too far from that cliff face.

On the cliff, Qin Ze shrank his neck; this woman was too fierce!

Xu Yuan, however, looked at another group in the valley: the villagers.

A sixty-year-old elder held a young child with cropped hair, his face pale and trembling.

Yet from beginning to end, the evil spirits never marked them within the scope of the human sacrifice!

Xu Yuan watched as the warriors slowly returned to the cliff face and said, "Think of a way to bring the villagers out."

Qin Ze and Di Youzhi naturally agreed.

We will not rescue the people of Shanhe, but these innocent villagers must be saved.

Lady Fu Shuanghui tricked us into that dragon's belly; I watched you do nothing while the evil spirits surrounded and attacked you. This is fair.

The warriors returned to the cliff face.

This battle was also a heavy loss for them.

The High Priest began an ancient sacrificial dance on the cliff face.

To mourn those companions who bravely gave their lives in the fight.

It seemed he even began singing a certain chant to summon the souls of the dead.

Strange lines slowly appeared in the void, writhing as they returned to the cliff face.

The subordinate priests and warriors who had been annihilated in the battle just now had returned!

Although they clearly needed further recovery, they had indeed been resurrected.

Xu Yuan suddenly understood; no wonder those subordinate priests stepped forward without the slightest hesitation.

As long as the High Priest does not die, they can be resurrected even after dying. If the High Priest is annihilated, this nest of evil spirits will eventually be wiped out completely.

About the time it takes to burn one stick of incense, the cliff face calmed down.

Those evil spirits turned back into true murals.

And the three ancient bronze tripods on the riverbank likewise turned into three stone piles, each one person tall.

On the stone piles, bone spears held beast skins, and atop them sat a pitch-black human skull.

Xu Yuan wanted to save those villagers, but discovered the villagers had already regained their composure; then, supporting the old and the young, they walked toward the other end of the valley.

Xu Yuan could not help but frown.

Qin Ze was also surprised: "My lord, it seems these villagers do not need our help."

Xu Yuan nodded.

There must be some kind of relationship between the villagers and that dragon.

So many large snake skeletons buried around the village were likely not without reason.

It now appears the villagers fear Shanhe but are not afraid to enter Little Yu Shan; obviously, that dragon gave them the confidence.

But the reason Xu Yuan frowned was not these things.

It was because just now, when Xu Yuan wanted to save people, he looked at those villagers a few extra times.

He saw a "Literary Cultivator" among the villagers!

After distinguishing carefully, he made it clear: that Literary Cultivator was draped in a painting.

Obviously, he was disguised as one of the villagers.

Xu Yuan turned his head and asked Di Youzhi in a low voice, "Have you been watching Lu Xiang closely?"

Di Youzhi ground his teeth: "Never relaxing! Either I or Zhou Leizi must be by his side."

"Have there been any new discoveries?"

"Before we set out, I personally watched him and found him meeting with Wei Huchen."

"Does he have any means to transmit messages remotely?"

"None have been discovered for now."

Xu Yuan nodded.

If the Purification Bureau watched from the sidelines while Lady Fu Shuanghui was surrounded and attacked by evil spirits, and Lu Xiang leaked this out, it would be very unfavorable for Xu Yuan.

Moreover, Lady Fu Shuanghui would learn in advance that this group of ours is still alive.

It now seems it has not been leaked yet.

But Xu Yuan thought again; this Lu Xiang can no longer be kept.

(End of this chapter)