Chapter 338: A Strange Appearance Out of Nowhere (Requesting Monthly Tickets)

At the entrance of the Nancheng patrol post.

Old Qin, accompanied by several subordinates, hid inside the gatehouse.

As noon approached, the sunlight grew increasingly scorching.

On the bluestone pavement before the door, a black flame sprang up from nowhere!

Hiss—

The flame rose higher and higher, burning brighter and brighter!

A monster with a human body, ox horns, a tiger face, and a rat tail appeared and disappeared within the flames.

It clawed at the edge of the fire, as if peering over from another world, drooling as it stared this way.

Old Qin kicked one of the nearby youths: "Go quickly and report to my lord!"

When Xu Yuan arrived shortly after, the monster had already pushed halfway through the flames.

Xu Yuan thought for a moment, then, from a distance of several zhang, spat out a mouthful of fire with a whoosh.

But the Fu Zhong Huo, which had always been able to suppress evil spirits, was contaminated by that black flame!

The Fu Zhong Huo, originally a bright yellow, was rapidly dyed black.

Xu Yuan quickly shut his mouth.

The Fu Zhong Huo that had been spat out was immediately entirely dyed black!

The passage for the monster to enter the mortal world widened greatly.

It let out a joyful roar, its pair of blood-red tiger eyes filled with bloodthirsty fury, and it seemed about to charge forward.

Xu Yuan rushed out with long strides and kicked.

Thud!

The monster swayed, yet it did not retreat even half a step!

Xu Yuan was startled; he had already activated the Dragon Form Art, unleashing power equivalent to a sixth-rank Wu Xiu!

A pitch-black darkness raced up Xu Yuan's leg from his foot with incredible speed.

Fortunately, Xu Yuan had anticipated this; his foot was wrapped in a Pi Dan.

Retracting the Pi Dan, Xu Yuan sensed inwardly: the Pi Dan had actually been infected!

The Pi Dan possessed an extremely strong isolation effect; previously, upon contact with evil spirits, it had never been infected.

Xu Yuan therefore became even more cautious.

"The Forbidden Gaze of the Sun" was indeed perilous.

Xu Yuan waved his hand, drawing forth the power of the Dragon Pearl.

"Face-Smashing Rain."

A dense downpour of raindrops poured onto the black fire.

The momentum of the flames was immediately checked.

Xu Yuan waved his hands repeatedly, and the rain grew denser and denser.

The flames were forced back to their original size.

This trapped the monster.

Xu Yuan drew his long blade and slashed through the air; lightning flashed within the rain.

Crack—

The monster shook continuously within the lightning.

Xu Yuan dared not make any further contact with the monster.

Through that strip of black fire, Xu Yuan vaguely saw that in the world beyond the black fire, there seemed to be a vast, boundless palace.

Inside and outside the palace floated countless shadows of various kinds.

They all wore expressions of confusion, as if they had lost awareness of themselves.

Whenever they touched one another, they would rapidly entangle and devour each other, finally merging into a new, grotesque monster.

"That is... what place?!" Xu Yuan was shocked in his heart.

Xu Yuan waved his hand, and the Pi Dan flew out once more.

This time, the target was not the monster or the black fire.

It rose to a height of several zhang, expanded to a size of ten zhang, and blocked the sunlight from above.

Without the light, the black fire immediately dropped three chi in height.

The flames shrank rapidly; the monster roared in pain. The fire was the passage from its world to the mortal realm; trapped within it, a large amount of ash-gray mist, like blood, flowed from its body.

It struggled desperately outward.

Its entire body tore in half!

One half of the body quickly retracted into the black fire.

In that world, only one hand and one foot remained; then, from the void, it grabbed several shadows and stuffed them into its wound.

Those shadows were forcibly fused by it, and the wound stopped "bleeding."

Meanwhile, the half-body that had charged forward, roaring and hopping, lunged at Xu Yuan.

Xu Yuan stared at it, retreating step by step.

The Pi Dan above his head spread toward him, still blocking the sunlight.

However, on the Pi Dan, black and gray beast fur had already begun to grow!

Xu Yuan raised his hand and released a Gui Dan.

Six-Eyed Eyed Minge!

Inside were still confined two Yin Soldiers and Zhang Laoya.

Zhang Laoya had already become Xu's Yin Soldier, but Xu had not yet had time to send him back to the Old Market of Little West Temple.

Three Yin Soldiers drilled out and took a long breath toward that monster.

From the wounds on half the monster's body, that ash-gray mist resembling blood accelerated its flow, and they sucked it into their bellies.

Bloodlight blazed fiercely in the Yin Soldiers' eyes!

But Xu Yuan knew this method was correct.

Xu Yuan did not make contact with the anomaly, constantly moving under the cover of the Skin Pill, while the three Yin Soldiers continued to "suck blood" from the anomaly.

More and more black-and-gray beast hairs grew on the Skin Pill, already reaching half an inch in length!

Xu Yuan gritted his teeth and persisted.

Let us see who collapses first.

Xu Yuan activated his "Hundred Taboos Forbidden" Fate to resist the eerie transformation of the Skin Pill.

The speed of the beast hair growth slowed.

Xu Yuan gritted his teeth and shouted at Zhang Laoya: "Put in more strength!"

Zhang Laoya looked toward the Nancheng Patrol Station; Old Qin and others were peeking and peering over.

Zhang Laoya gritted his teeth, disregarded everything else, opened his mouth wide, and split it open to a full half-zhang in size!

Fangs filled his mouth like Shi Lin.

With just one suction, that half of the monster's body collapsed by half!

Old Qin and others stood with mouths agape and eyes wide.

This old man lived in our courtyard before; he looked quite normal. When did he turn into this ghostly appearance?

That monster let out a roar and chased Xu Yuan even more frantically.

Xu Yuan unleashed the movement technique from the "Dragon Form Art," moving like a loach; no matter how fast the monster moved, he could always twist his body and slip past.

The Skin Pill could barely hold back the pressure.

Several fine cracks had already appeared amidst the dense beast hairs.

The cracks trembled, about to open.

A wisp of bloodlight leaked out from within!

Zhang Laoya, accompanied by two Yin Soldiers, chased the monster and continuously sucked.

The monster reached back to grab; Zhang Laoya wrapped up the two Yin Soldiers, transformed into a gust of Yin Wind, and swept past with a "Whoosh."

The monster grabbed at empty air!

The monster roared and bellowed continuously, yet the sound grew lower and lower.

On the Skin Pill, those several fine cracks had already opened a bit.

The bloodlight was intense!

Inside every crack, more than a dozen pale, bloodshot eyeballs were squeezed together!

Zhang Laoya opened his huge mouth wide again and sucked; a massive amount of gray mist floated out from the monster's wounds, and it finally dried up completely into half a mummy.

Its roaring sound stopped abruptly—

Thump!

The monster fell to the ground and shattered into more than ten corpse fragments.

Xu Yuan exhaled a long breath, first quickly using the Six-Eyed Minge to absorb Zhang Laoya and the other two, then quickly waved his hand, and the Skin Pill fell down...

Yet it wriggled, refusing to return to the form of the Longzhu Waidan.

Xu Yuan violently spat out a thick stream of Fu Zhong Huo from his belly.

Squeak squeak squeak—

The burning beast hairs emitted waves of foul stench.

The Skin Pill finally returned to the Longzhu Waidan; Xu Yuan swallowed it in one gulp and continued to refine it with Fu Zhong Huo.

"Haa—" Everyone exhaled a breath of relief together.

Xu Yuan quickly retreated into the yamen.

Under the sunlight, the monster's shattered corpse fragments twitched a few times—Di Youzhi rushed out from the yamen, spat a mouthful of fire onto them, and finally burned them completely clean!

That black fire could contaminate Fu Zhong Huo, but this monster could not.

Xu Yuan hid inside the yamen and spent more than two shichen before finally eliminating the eerie transformation of the Skin Pill.

By afternoon, someone suddenly came to the main gate to report a case, yet he wore the patrol uniform of the Shanhe Office!

It was Zhang Police Inspector, Miao Yu's confidant; he was so anxious his head was covered in sweat: "My lord, it's bad! Young Master Zhu was captured by an anomaly that appeared out of thin air! My lord Miao asks you to go over and save him..."

(End of this chapter)