Chapter 764

On the day the Wufu Town Pawnshop reopened for business, it was officially renamed Wufu Town Yin Dang Hang.

The Jiǔyàn qū side made an extremely imposing plaque and hung it above the main door of the Dang Pu.

Friends from all over expressed their congratulations in various ways, and they received a large pile of gifts.

Three days before opening, it was calm and peaceful, with not a single business.

Xiao Jiu wasn't in a hurry either; she understood that in today's society, Yang Dang is naturally scarce, while Yin Dang is the main business.

After experiencing the Thousand Ghosts Besiege the Gate Incident, it was only natural that those Yin Dang practitioners with ill intentions would be deterred, so they dared not come to the door for the time being, which is reasonable.

Taking advantage of this period, Xiao Jiu calmed down to reorganize the pawnshop inside and out, seeing if more staff were still needed.

It must be said that after Li Qingying became the City God of Jūnzhú Shān, many things inside and outside the pawnshop now required Xiao Jiu to handle personally, which is indeed somewhat burdensome.

Until the fourth night, Xiao Jiu guarded the pawnshop until 11:30 p. m., and outside it remained quiet.

She had already stacked a pile of gold ingots, packed them in transparent bags, and was just about to send them to the Funeral Shop when a wind suddenly rose on the street outside.

An indescribable rotten smell drifted in the air.

Xiao Jiu suppressed her discomfort and looked outward.

Not long after, a……monster appeared on the street outside.

At a glance, Xiao Jiu thought it was a sheep, unable to see its color because it was too dirty, with long hair tangled together, matted with unknown grime or blood scabs, and that rotten smell emanated from its body.

But looking past the sheep's head, she discovered that the 'sheep's' body seemed overly large……it was not a sheep's body at all, but……a cow!

Precisely described, this thing was a sheep's head grafted onto a cow's neck, instantly reminding Xiao Jiu of the former stitching monster.

Xiao Jiu instantly became alert.

That monster kept staring at the pawnshop's entrance, as if wary of something.

Now the counter is higher than the original Nan Shu Fang counter, with surroundings protected, but it is not as enclosed as the original Yin Dang Hang counter.

Xiao Jiu stood inside the counter, her gaze constantly fixed on that monster.

Actually, she had no confidence either.

She was confident that the Yin Earth given by Hou Tu Niangniang would be very effective, but before seeing the effect with her own eyes, she would always feel nervous and anxious.

That monster stared at the pawnshop for a long time, as much as half an hour.

Until the stone quartz clock inside the pawnshop chimed, the time had already reached midnight 12:00, and the monster finally moved.

It kept swaying its body, desperately throwing its head back, until a human head protruded from beneath the sheep's head, and then it lifted its foot to walk toward the pawnshop.

Its steps were heavy, and the footsteps echoed continuously in the alley entrance.

Xiao Jiu waited patiently.

The monster walked all the way to the threshold, stopped, and spoke in human words: 'I want to pawn…'

"Sorry." Xiao Jiu said loudly, "Wufu Town Yin Dang Hang is open for business, with its own pawnshop rules. Rule three: for any Yin Dang practitioner, if they can cross the pawnshop's main door to enter and pawn, they must have a request and cannot be refused. Since you have not yet crossed the pawnshop's main door, we do not discuss pawning."

That fellow hesitated for a while, then lifted its foreleg and cautiously approached the pawnshop's main door.

However, the moment its right foreleg just touched the pawnshop's main door, a flash of greenish light flickered, like a bolt of lightning striking hard at the right foreleg.

After letting out a sound like a cow and a sheep, that fellow staggered back two steps, looking at the doorway in terror.

Xiao Jiu was also startled.

Because just now only a flash of greenish light flickered, that fellow's right foreleg began to ooze black smoke continuously, turning into a stark white bone at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Xiao Jiu thought, it seems this deal is going to fall through; the other party probably won't risk flying ashes and smoke to rush the pawnshop again, right?

Meanwhile, she also pondered in her mind, what on earth is the origin of this thing?

Does the strong reaction of the Yin Earth to it indicate that this fellow is not something good?

After a while, when the pawnshop closes, she needs to tell Liu Junyan to have the hall investigate; if it's confirmed not good, it's best to eliminate it promptly.

While Xiao Jiu was pondering, that fellow actually moved again.

This time it no longer tentatively probed timidly; instead, it stepped back two steps, made a buffer, then mustered its strength and charged toward the pawnshop's main door.

With that thunderous momentum, it seemed as if it wanted to smash through the counter.

But just as its two forelegs had just crossed the threshold, the greenish light flickered again, like a multitude of blades stabbing toward the monster's body.

The wail almost rang throughout Wufu Town, countless streams of black qi rose from the monster's body, the cow-like body already showing its skeleton in many places, and the whole body swayed on the verge of collapse.

Xiao Jiu pursed her lips, feeling no sympathy at all.

Such a strong backlash can only mean that the karmic burden this fellow carries is not to be trifled with.

No wonder it hesitated for so long at the start, not daring to move forward; it turned out to be guilty.

Although Xiao Jiu stood there motionless, in fact a small cluster of Nirvana fire had already condensed on her fingertips, ready to strike at any moment.

However, that fellow never managed to break in.

It retreated once again.

This time it retreated directly onto the street.

Under Xiao Jiu's gaze, its body began to split; not long after, outside it was shadowy and crowded, as if filled with ghosts.

Those ghosts all had sheep heads and bovine bodies, but above each sheep head floated a human skull.

The next moment, those fellows, as if receiving some order, swarmed toward the Dang Pu's gate.

It seems tonight this monster is going to fight to the death.

It will try every means to break into the Dang Pu.

This situation is different from the previous thousand ghosts besieging the door.

On the night of the thousand ghosts besieging the door, those yin evil entities had the awareness that it was hard to retreat, but they realized too late, and were caught in a pincer attack by Xiao Jiu and Li Qingying, and a large number were eliminated.

Yet tonight this fellow, clearly could have given up completely after the first and second attacks, but it did not.

Not only that, it instead showed a resolve to stake everything on one throw.

A gloomy green light radiated outward, incessantly devouring the souls that dared intrude, while Yīnfēng howled, yet it remained blocked outside the gate.

Even without Xiao Jiu making a move, within about an hour, the opponent was already slain to the point of not leaving a single piece of armor; finally the whole body turned into a skeleton, the Yīnfēng blew over, and it scattered everywhere with a clattering sound.

It... just like that turned to ashes and smoke, vanished.

Xiao Jiu could imagine that tonight's battle, the news would probably soon spread throughout the Three Realms and Six Paths.

The threshold of Yin Dang Hang in Wufu Town will probably deter many people.

The street regained calm, Liu Junyan walked out from the shadows.

Xiao Jiu exclaimed in surprise: "You've been here all along?"

"Of course." Liu Junyan said, "How could I leave you to face all this alone?"

Xiao Jiu's mind was still on that monster just now, he asked: "Āyàn, do you know that monster just now? What exactly is its origin?"