Chapter 313: Anger That Is Hard to Express

The duck herder lay on the ground, pressed tightly by the fox, his head tilted to one side, his whole body shivering from being frozen by the cold air, his eyes reflecting the figure of the martial artist walking over with a spear.

Suddenly, there were footsteps from the other side.

The duck herder's eyeballs moved.

The person walking from that side was a young Daoist, leading a gray donkey with a dull expression. Just now, this young Daoist hadn't said a word to him, so he had naturally ignored him, and until now, he couldn't even raise any impression of him in his mind.

"You... people..."

The duck herder's teeth chattered from the cold, his words were still stuttering, and his expression and tone were still timid and fearful:

"How... did... uh... you... find... out..."

"These things you use, this skin, this expression, this set of rhetoric, every sentence, every word, which one wasn't learned from a human? You use these to deceive people? To deceive your grandfather me?"

Luo Seng's wrist flicked lightly, and the heavy long spear shot out like a snake's mouth, piercing the ground right next to the duck herder's cheek, with the entire spearhead buried in the ground.

If it had pierced his head, it would probably have gone right through.

"I ask, you answer."

"..."

"What kind of thing are you?"

"Duck..."

The duck herder's teeth were still chattering, frost had formed on his eyebrows, and after spitting out this one word, he turned his head to look in the direction of the duck shed and the ducks.

"So it's a duck," Luo Seng paused. "What is the yaoguai that is harming Jinping County? What is its name? What abilities does it have? How many yaoguai came? Are they in the city or somewhere else right now?"

"I... uh..."

The duck herder's teeth kept fighting.

The fox turned its head, its expression innocent.

Lin Jue met its gaze, then raised his chin at the duck herder it was pressing down, and the fox immediately understood, lowered its head, and spat lightly, very, very lightly.

A stream of heat dripped straight down.

"Hiss..."

The duck herder shuddered again.

Then he shuddered many more times in succession.

But in the end, he slowly recovered; at least his teeth stopped fighting, and he could speak.

"If I tell you, will you spare me?"

"I can ensure you won't be tortured."

"You..."

"Puff!"

A spearhead pierced into his foot.

"Ah! I'll tell! I'll tell!"

The duck herder instantly became obedient.

After wailing twice and calming down slightly, he endured the excruciating pain and said to them:

"My King, my King has three great generals under his command. The one who came this time is the second-ranked General Wolf. General Wolf was ordered by my King to come here to smash the incense-offering ground of Lord Yi Li, forcing the divine generals on that side to divert their mental energy to this side, and then..."

The duck herder's words became smoother and smoother.

But when he reached this point, his expression suddenly froze; his body was still being pressed by the fox, but his neck suddenly stretched out nearly a zhang long.

While stretching his neck, his mouth quickly chanted a spell: "Yin and Yang energy, source of mystery, concentrate the spirit and gather the intent, transform things according to the heart, all appearances before the eyes, all become my thoughts."

After the spell was finished, his neck had also stretched to its limit.

That nearly one-zhang-long neck, carrying his head, suddenly turned backward, opened its mouth at them—

"Hoo!"

A mouthful of thick smoke was instantly sprayed over.

Both of them and the fox reacted very quickly.

The fox pressing his body was closest to him; without seeing the fox make any movement to borrow force, its entire huge body suddenly leaped backward and upward. Even though the thick smoke was sprayed very quickly, the fox still managed to jump to the top of the tree behind it before the smoke could touch it.

The huge white fox, light as nothing, stood on the fine leaves of the treetop.

Lord Luo could have dodged just as quickly, but as Lin Jue's protector, in his urgency, his first reaction was still to step to the side, pull Lin Jue's right hand, and then dodge to the side.

Lin Jue waved his sleeve with his left hand, fanning out a wild wind.

The speed and power of the wild wind were no worse than the incoming thick smoke; the two collided, instantly stopping the momentum of the smoke, but the two also collided to create shattered wind, rolling the thick smoke to stir in all directions.

Lin Jue and Lord Luo still got a little on them.

Lin Jue suddenly felt a palpitation in his heart.

And under his perception, it was a magical power of heavy yin and weak yang, which made his whole body cold. However, he also practiced Yin and Yang spiritual arts, and his own magical power had its own resistance to such spells. This weak chill reached his body, just like a bit of water vapor in a surging fire basin, and disappeared in an instant.

And although Lord Luo did not have Yin and Yang magical power, he had a vigorous blood energy, which was also as scorching as the sun, and had strong resistance to these yaoguai spells.

The two regained their senses, and there was almost no change in their bodies, except for a little fine fluff growing where they had been touched by the thick smoke.

A closer look revealed it looked like duck down.

Lin Jue frowned.

A white shadow flashed, and the fox jumped back to their side.

At this time, the thick smoke had already been pushed back by the clear wind, but the figure of the duck herder was no longer on the ground in front of them.

"Ran?"

Lord Luo instantly bent his legs and jumped onto the treetop, looking out.

Lin Jue also turned his head to scan the surroundings.

But the distance and the surroundings were very calm; not only was there no sign of anyone fleeing, but even the running ducks could not be seen.

Only the fox tilted its head to listen.

A moment later, it jumped and leaped toward a bush.

While still in the air, it became smaller, becoming about the same size as a colored fox; as soon as it landed, it drilled into the bush and dug fiercely into the fluffy fallen leaves under the bush.

It didn't know what it was digging for, and it didn't know what it had dug up; it only saw the fox lower its head, bite something, and walk back.

And at this time, Lord Luo had already jumped down from the tree. Under the gaze of the two people's puzzled eyes, the fox walked back to their side, turned its head to look at the two of them, lowered its head, and opened its mouth, and a ball of rotten soil and a few fallen leaves fell to the ground.

Among the rotten soil and fallen leaves, there was a small thing.

A closer look revealed it was the duck herder.

But now he had become only as thick as a little finger and as long as a little finger, looking like a small insect.

The duck herder's face was full of despair.

In front of him was the huge, squatting fox, which not only stared at him curiously but also gently poked him with its claws. As soon as he stood up, he was knocked over to the ground again. He thought it would be fine if he didn't climb up, but the fox, which was the size of a cat, poked him with its huge claws compared to him, making him roll on the ground.

And the martial artist also squatted down.

"You have this kind of ability?"

"..."

The "insect" on the ground suddenly became larger, returning to the duck herder's original size.

Lin Jue lowered his head, looking at the tiny duck down growing on the back of his hand, his brows still tightly furrowed.

This was similar to being spat on by himself and blooming into flowers.

But it didn't feel like being hit by "Blooming in an Instant," feeling that his essence and magical power were being drained by it; instead, it was an itchy and very strange feeling.

Lin Jue pondered for a moment, reached out and pulled a small piece of fluff, and began to pull upward with force.

The duck down was connected to the skin and was pulled up in a small clump. As he gradually exerted force, the duck down was gradually pulled out and completely left the skin in an instant. This feeling was just like pulling out one's own body hair.

Lin Jue immediately turned around and looked behind him.

"Lord Luo, I'll leave this to you; I'll go over there and take a look."

"Good!"

Lin Jue immediately walked back.

Beside the burnt duck shed, after the flock of ducks was briefly startled, they still gathered there, motionless.

Lin Jue examined them.

He had noticed before that these ducks were duller than ordinary ducks, which was one of the many reasons they were suspicious of this duck herder. However, because "ducks being dull" is not rare, there could be many reasons for this, such as the feeding process, such as the ducks eating fish drunk on grass, such as not being fully awake, so it was just one of many reasons.

Now that Lin Jue had come here again, the more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.

And this was not difficult to verify—

The spell used by this yaoguai was a Yin and Yang spell, and because of the yaoguai's cultivation reasons, the Yin energy was heavy and the Yang energy was light, so there was a way to break it.

Lin Jue immediately took a deep breath.

When he spat it out again, it already contained pure Yang energy.

"Hoo..."

The pure Yang energy was spat toward the flock of ducks, brushing past each duck, and also passing over the corpses of several wild ducks. Those were the wild ducks that were ready to fly away when the fox and Lord Luo appeared to capture the duck herder, but they were cut down by the flying sword that flew from the forest as soon as they took off.

At this time, as the pure Yang energy passed, many ducks seemed to gradually recover their spirits, and they became more and more energetic, starting to quack wildly.

Lin Jue instantly felt their emotions—

Among them were confusion, bewilderment, and fear and helplessness.

"Hoo..."

Another few mouthfuls of pure Yang energy.

This was pure magical power, without any spells, using a clumsy method, but it also caused the duck herder's spell to gradually fail.

The first duck in the flock turned back into a human.

That was a completely naked young boy.

The young boy squatted on the grass, and although his body had turned back into a human, his brain hadn't reacted yet, so he could only squat in place, slightly raising his head, his eyes reflecting the figure of a young Daoist.

"Immortal... save me..."

It wasn't until he spoke and discovered that what he spat out was no longer a quacking sound that he regained his senses and was suddenly jolted awake.

His eyes instantly blurred, but when he opened his mouth again, he was already choking and unable to speak.

One by one, the ducks turned back into humans.

It seemed like something to be happy about, but the Daoist's expression became increasingly gloomy.

This yaoguai actually turned its own kind into ducks!

And it even disguised itself as a duck herder, herding ducks!

Where was it herding them to? And what was it going to do with them?

It was probably not hard to imagine.

Lin Jue had unconsciously gritted his teeth.

About two incense sticks later.

In front of him, a group of people were already squatting or standing, mostly teenagers, both male and female, all naked, a sea of white, their expressions either sorrowful, fearful, or numb. Whether it was them, Lin Jue, or Luo Seng who had just walked over from a distance, there were no other distracting thoughts in their hearts.

Lord Luo's expression was as gloomy as Lin Jue's, his fingers gripping the long spear with force, his veins bulging, but his face remained relatively calm, and he said in a deep voice:

"I've already asked... but, if I had known, I shouldn't have let him go so easily!"

"Hmm."

Lin Jue nodded and didn't say much more about it.

Seeing that the common people in front of him had gradually regained their clarity, he bowed to them and pointed to the road they had come from, saying:

"Follow this road, half a day's journey, and you can get out of Jinping County. There is a dragon boat by the Wei Shui River; you can board that boat. If a person named 'Lord Pan' comes to ask, you just say that I told you to go to that boat, and ask him to send you away and protect your safety.

"I am the Daoist Lin Jue from Mount Yishan, currently attached to the Ju Xian Fu, and I have come specifically to eliminate that yaoguai.

"Once you get there, you will be safe.

"As for the matter of eliminating the yaoguai and taking revenge, you don't need to worry; just leave it to us. Within a few days, or even today, there will be a result."

After speaking, he didn't stop at all and turned to leave.

Seeing with one's own eyes is indeed different from hearing.

At this time, the anger in his heart was hard to express.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 314 =====