Chapter 424: Known as

In an instant, Bai Zhu Huan's heart turned cold.

She had considered many situations and made targeted arrangements, even having people set ambushes in secret to prevent traitors from leaking information.

But she never expected the Salt Gang to play tricks.

This couldn't be blamed on her; the people of the Fate-Commanding Society were hidden extremely deep, and even others on Wushan had a hard time finding them.

Even they had to hold pious rituals and suffer enough before the other party would appear.

It was likely the person behind the Salt Gang who came up with the idea...

In just a single moment, Bai Zhu Huan understood the reason.

But now that things had reached this point, there was no turning back.

Sure enough, these people had already started to make their move.

"Bai Zhu Huan, your sins are deep!"

"Be sensible and commit suicide, sparing us from having to take action!"

"If you die, the others can live!"

Several voices echoed left and right, as if merging into the wind and rain, constantly reverberating in everyone's ears, making it impossible to distinguish their location.

Li Yan didn't respond, instead exerting his supernatural powers to the fullest.

Unfortunately, the other party was an Earth Immortal, and their Taoist and mystical arts were far superior to his. Coupled with their early precautions, he couldn't find them at all.

Strangely, the warrant didn't heat up.

Their true bodies weren't here!

At the same time, the Salt Gang kid also shrank his head and retreated, clearly having lit the fire and wanting to leave to watch the show.

"Wu Ba, catch him!"

Li Yan narrowed his eyes and gave a low shout.

As soon as the words fell, Wu Ba leaped out.

Despite his massive size, his human-demon hybrid constitution, combined with his years of climbing mountains in Inside Shennongjia, made his agility no less than that of a fierce beast.

Whoosh!

A black shadow moved through the wind and rain, lowering its body, using hands and feet, like a tiger leaping over a mountain ridge. In just two moves, it reached the cliff.

The Salt Gang kid hadn't even reacted before he felt his body lighten, and he flew up, screaming.

Plop!

He landed splayed out in front of Li Yan.

Li Yan stepped on his head and said coldly, "Speak, where did you find them?"

The kid was terrified, completely losing his previous arrogance.

"Kid, don't be so meddlesome!"

Before he could answer, the voices in the wind and rain rang out again, sounding suppressed and carrying a hint of anger.

"This matter has nothing to do with you Living Yin Constables!"

"Get down the mountain early, lest you bring disaster upon yourselves!"

Li Yan raised his eyes and said indifferently, "What a coincidence, these two little girls are old acquaintances of mine, so I must intervene."

"Exactly!"

Sha Hearing Sha Lifei also stood with his hands on his hips and shouted, "These two are our nieces; we're definitely going to intervene today!"

He shouted with a reckless attitude, but his hands reached under his robes, grabbing his firearms and blocking in front of Lu San.

Sha Hearing Sha Lifei was just like this.

Whether the matter could be accomplished was one thing, but he had to protect his own people first. In his eyes, no matter how cute the two little girls were, they couldn't compare to Lu San's life.

Especially since Lu San was building a tower and was at his most vulnerable.

"Hmph!"

The voices became even colder, filled with fury.

And Wu Wu Chaoyun and Wu Wu Xingyu suddenly fell to the ground, clutching their heads, rolling around and screaming in agony.

Li Yan hadn't expected these people to use the life tablets to cast a curse directly, and his heart burned with fire, his killing intent growing even more intense.

"Take action then!"

Li Yan suddenly spoke, his voice as cold as ice. "Go ahead and take action, and listen well, you bastards watching the show!"

"If we part on good terms today, we will leave the mountain immediately, and it will be as if nothing happened."

"If anything happens to these two little girls, I will guard your Wushan from now on. If I don't wipe you all out, I will never rest!"

He exerted all his strength, his voice echoing through the mountains and wilderness.

The wild wind roared, but it couldn't suppress that biting killing intent.

"What a big mouth!"

A fierce voice rang out, low and gloomy, carrying the lingering sound of a beast. It was the tiger demon he had seen earlier.

It said in a low voice, "Living Yin Constable, I have seen a few, and I have even slaughtered two. You don't know the immensity of heaven and earth!"

"Stop it!"

Bai Zhu Huan's face was ashen, looking at the two screaming girls, her eyes filled with sorrow. "I promise you, as long as I die, can you let the others leave?"

"Colluding with outsiders and still thinking you can leave unscathed?!"

Before the women of the Fate-Commanding Society could speak, the tiger demon spoke directly, "Today, none of you will escape."

Its voice was much clearer, obviously having closed the distance.

At the same time, Li Yan's warrant heated up.

Li Yan didn't hesitate to grasp the warrant and accept the mission.

White mist rolled, and a stone well appeared...

Its name was Luo Heilian, originally a famous shaman in Ganzhou with good aptitude, but he was a wandering cultivator with no sect support.

This person also had fate; while helping people look into matters, he accidentally received guidance from an old ghost in a tomb, obtaining the Fangxian Dao method, and from then on specialized in setting up special Feng Shui arrays to plunder others' fortune and practice Yin ghost arts.

His cultivation improved rapidly, but countless families were ruined because of him, and he was wanted and hunted to death by the Law Enforcement Hall.

But for some reason, he inexplicably left the Netherworld during the Ghost Gate opening on the fifteenth of the seventh month and had been cultivating a human-demon body ever since...

"It's you!"

Li Yan suddenly opened his eyes, his mouth ferocious.

He blocked Bai Zhu Huan, who wanted to commit suicide, grasped the warrant, and shouted loudly, "Everyone, turn your heads back!"

"Qingjia! Ascend to the Black Heaven, descend to the Black Earth. Black Heaven has no light, Black Earth has no gate. Yin people send out troops, Yang people avoid. Collect evil, evil retreats; collect ghosts, ghosts perish. I obey the order of the Northern False False Yin Si Fengdu, act as fast as the law!"

"Heaven has discipline, Earth has order. False False Yin Si detains souls, Yang people avoid!"

Holding the warrant, Li Yan actually used two methods directly.

One was using the Gang Order to summon Yin soldiers.

The other was using the warrant to capture Yin criminals.

This was a secret method from the Living Yin Constable booklet given by Liu Gang.

Using both methods together, as long as he accepted the mission and was not too far away, capturing the other party's aura, he could directly send troops to arrest them.

It was a bit like the Luo Feng Examination and Summoning Great Law.

This method was fierce, but the drawback was that it would cost a Gang Order.

Ordinary Living Yin Constables who obtained a Gang Order would basically save it, keeping it for critical moments to save their lives, and would never waste it like Li Yan.

Whoosh~

A wild wind rose, and the Yin energy of the earth surged.

"Quickly turn your heads and close your eyes!"

Bai Zhu Huan couldn't stop it in time and could only order her disciples to turn their heads.

In an instant, the surroundings fell into pitch darkness.

This was the true might of the False False Yin Si troops. Borrowing the power of the Netherworld, even the clouds and rain of Wushan were temporarily suppressed.

The summit of Wushan fell into darkness.

And this darkness, like a tide, roared toward the mountainside, turning the rain into flying snow along the way, bone-chillingly cold.

"Roar!"

A beast's roar rang out. A fierce tiger suddenly appeared, blood light flashing in its eyes. After running two steps, its whole body was wrapped in black smoke, raising a wild wind, and it fled down the mountain.

This was a type of escape art; clearly, the tiger demon had risked its life.

However, how could it escape the search of the Yin soldiers? The darkness spread downward, and the mountains along the way trembled. Birds and beasts were silent, and no matter what it was, they all shrank their heads tightly.

"Roar!"

Accompanied by a desperate roar, the fierce tiger was swallowed by the darkness.

In the darkness, the sound of armor clashing moved, and chains rattled. Soon, there was no more movement, and the darkness dissipated.

In the original spot, only a tiger corpse covered in white frost remained.

In the warrant, a Gang Order appeared again.

Generally speaking, the False False Yin Si reward for returnees was the least, as some ordinary people would accidentally return to the world.

Unless it was like Zhao Zhao Changsheng and Huang Huang Liushi of the Ghost Sect, who disrupted Yin and Yang and were unforgivable, the reward would be more.

"Hmph!"

Li Yan held the warrant, let out a cold snort, and sneered, "Just a returnee, and I don't know who was bragging."

As he spoke, he looked around and suddenly opened his eyes.

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"Who else?!"

The mountains were silent, only the sound of wind and rain remained.

If they weren't afraid of death, why would they return to the world or become Earth Immortals to survive? Seeing the tiger demon captured by the False False Yin Si with their own eyes, the terrifying memory flooded the minds of those people again.

"You have such guts!"

The female voice of the Fate-Commanding Society rang out again.

"You sneaked up Wushan, provoked us, and killed people—you have already broken the original agreement. From now on, the Mountain Immortals of the Divine Land will not tolerate you, and you will be hunted down endlessly, and you won't even have peace after death!"

The voice was cold, carrying a hint of madness.

Li Yan was also amused by the anger. He said coldly, "Easy to say. I am right here. Why don't you come out and try?"

Sha Hearing Sha Lifei scratched his head, feeling helpless.

This kind of matter was best resolved peacefully.

But he knew Li Yan's temperament—he ate soft but not hard.

He understood human relationships, but when his stubborn temper flared up, he was unscrupulous, selling no one's face, and was extremely difficult to deal with.

Otherwise, why would he be called "Ghost-Fear" in the village.

Seeing Li Yan like this, the people of the Fate-Commanding Society also calmed down and stopped talking, instead continuing to cast curse arts.

"Ah——!"

The two young girls screamed repeatedly, held in Long Yan'er's arms, unable to be pressed down, her eyes filled with tears.

This Long Yan'er was also a sharp-tongued person. She was so angry that she cursed, "You claim to be enlightened masters, but you have the nerve to hide and attack children? What kind of ability is that?"

Beside her, Wang Wang Daoxuan's eyes also turned cold. He took out a talisman, his fingers changing, constantly forming seals.

Finally, his eyes lit up. He wiped the talisman on the foreheads of the two girls and said in a low voice, "Brother Li Yan, I've caught it!"

The Taoist was proficient in the "Seven Arrows Secret Curse," and one of the methods was to use a talisman to capture the aura of the other party's curse and perform a counter-curse duel.

He was naturally no match for those women, and even if he mastered the fourth arrow of the secret curse, he had no chance at all.

After all, the gap in cultivation was right there.

However, Li Yan could directly send troops to arrest them based on this trace of aura.

"Well done!"

Li Yan was overjoyed and quickly went to take the talisman.

But at this moment, Wang Wang Daoxuan's expression suddenly changed. His chest felt stuffy, he spat out blood, and threw the talisman away.

Pfft!

In mid-air, the talisman turned into ashes.

Wang Wang Daoxuan wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and said in a low voice, "The other party is experienced; they noticed something was wrong and have already countered it."

Looking at the two young girls, Wu Wu Chaoyun and Wu Wu Xingyu, they had stopped screaming and were in a deep sleep, their faces covered in blue veins, clearly having been tortured quite badly.

"Let me do it next time!"

Bai Zhu Huan was disheveled, her eyes filled with bloodshot veins, carrying a hint of madness. "I also know the Nightmare Curse. Even if I die, I will take them with me!"

Now that things had reached this point, there was no turning back.

Bai Zhu Huan's last bit of affection for the Fate-Commanding Society had also completely vanished.

It seemed that because they were wary of Li Yan, those people didn't cast curses again, and Goddess Peak remained wind-swept and rain-tossed, becoming even more violent.

Li Yan lowered his head and kicked the Salt Gang kid away.

This kid was unlucky; out of curiosity, he opened his eyes to see the Yin soldiers clearly, and now his hair was completely white, his face ferocious and terrified, covered in white frost, and he was dead cold.

Li Yan looked at Lu San again and saw he was fine, so he sighed in relief.

His anger had flared up, and the situation was urgent, so he directly summoned the Yin soldiers. If Lu San had been disturbed, that would have been truly unlucky.

However, Lu San's situation was also becoming increasingly bizarre.

Moss began to grow under him, and visibly, some grass shoots emerged from the ground.

"He is very lucky."

Bai Zhu Huan took a look and made a judgment, saying in a low voice, "Beast-taming method, spiritual wood secret art—it should have been completely completed."

"His bloodline must be extraordinary. Unfortunately, it is no longer the primitive era, otherwise, he would have a chance to become a Great Shaman..."

As she spoke, Bai Zhu Huan's eyes suddenly lit up, and she whispered, "The opportunity at Goddess Peak is to dream-wander through the former Goddess Palace."

"Although the Goddess Palace was destroyed, some things were collected by the Fate-Commanding Society. When this little brother wakes up, perhaps there will be a way..."

"Then let's wait."

Li Yan nodded, then looked at the others, his expression solemn. "Get ready. Those old ghosts on the mountain have scruples, but they also have experience in dealing with Living Yin Constables."

"First, they will find scapegoats to wear down my trump cards, and then they will hire experts to launch a surprise attack."

"These old ghosts are all wealthy, and there will be no lack of people willing to sell their lives..."

This was the consequence of taking action earlier.

Regardless of the reason, the agreement had been broken, and subsequent attacks would be endless. And even if he died, the Living Yin Constables wouldn't avenge him.

What's more, he hadn't joined the Living Yin Constable organization yet...

It seemed that they were afraid Li Yan would follow the vine to find the melon and summon the Yin soldiers again, so the women of the Fate-Commanding Society didn't appear again, and he didn't know what they were waiting for.

After a while, a wild wind blew on Goddess Peak, and the innate Gang energy around Lu San also dissipated.

Lu San woke up leisurely, his eyes filled with confusion. It took him a long time to recover, and seeing the situation around him, he immediately knew something had happened.

"What happened?"

Lu San stood up, touched the little fox Qiu Chuji, and asked in a muffled voice.

"San'er, congratulations!"

Li Yan could see that Lu San had officially reached the third layer of cultivation.

Usually, reaching the third layer of cultivation required the cooperation of heavenly treasures, but Lu San had broken through easily, which was truly surprising.

But there was no time to ask more. Li Yan quickly recounted what had happened before, then asked, "What did you see? Are there any clues about those people?"

"I entered a palace."

Lu San looked around. "The terrain is similar to here."

"I once entered the Cloud Lord's Divine Palace, and that feeling was very similar, so I have some experience and remembered many things."

"The Goddess Palace was empty. I was guided by a voice to the place where secret classics were stored, but everything was covered in filth..."

"That voice guided me to find the Mountain Ghost inheritance, and then inexplicably asked me to build a tower. Afterward, some strange sounds appeared in my ears..."

"That voice was screaming 'Li'."

"Afterward, the Goddess Palace became dark, that voice disappeared completely, and I heard the sound of flowing water and a woman's cursing."

Li Yan listened and already had a guess in his heart.

Calling "Li" should have been his own dream being rejected, and the Goddess Palace falling into darkness was likely due to the obstruction of the Yin soldiers.

This opportunity must have had a connection with the Fate-Commanding Society.

"By the way!"

Lu San frowned and took an item from his pocket. "In the Goddess Palace, I also found this. I grabbed it during the chaos, and I didn't expect to really bring it out."

In his palm lay a blood-red jade cong...

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