Chapter 95
Big Liu died right in front of me. In a rage, I drew a Five Thunder Talisman and hit it.
The Five Thunder Talisman was much more powerful than the Sha-Breaking Talisman, at least capable of inflicting damage. After several of the Five Thunder Talismans struck it, it couldn't withstand the impact and shattered, falling to the ground and turning into pieces of stone. The originally standing Liu Da Ge, without its control, became a headless corpse, collapsing to the ground.
At this point, I had no choice but to quickly go find Liu Danchen. There were still many people waiting to be rescued, and he couldn't handle it all by himself.
With this experience, I can be on guard next time I face a human head. Its behavior just now was really beyond my expectations. I didn't expect it to actually eat Liu Da's head with the Five Thunder Talisman!
I was running down the village street when I heard a commotion: several people were running around in the street, and there were screams.
They all gathered around Liu Danchen, and I hurried over.
Six human heads surrounded them. Liu Danchen drew a circle on the ground with his sword. He lit the talisman in his hand and threw it onto the circle. The circle immediately turned into a barrier of fire. He shouted, "Stay in this circle and don't leave!"
At this moment, everyone huddled together and hid in the circle of fire, fearing that those heads would come in.
"Brother Danchen, you can use the Five Thunder Talisman and the Five Thunder Curse to destroy them!" I shouted to Liu Danchen.
"I've tried, but they will recover." Liu Danchen held the sword in front of him and said vigilantly while looking at the heads.
But I clearly smashed a head just now, and I didn't see it recover.
Could it be caused by the energy mutation in my body?
But the next second I realized that I overestimated myself, and the head I smashed rolled from behind me.
"Be careful!" Liu Danchen shouted.
The result was a scene that stunned him. The head ignored me and rolled out of the circle he had drawn. It seemed that Liu Danchen didn't know that these heads only sought suitable male bodies and had no interest in female bodies.
But he also saw this at this time.
Seven human heads gathered together, surrounded the circle of fire, and actually began to swallow the fire.
Seeing the situation was dire, Liu Danchen immediately pulled out a handful of talismans. He folded them into triangles and released them from his hand, placing them on the ground. As the triangular talismans increased in position, they formed a roughly eight-diagram shape.
Seeing that the fire circle was no match for him, he wanted to set up the Bagua Demon Subduing Formation.
All I could do now was buy him time, quickly drawing the Five Thunder Talisman and hitting those heads. But those heads seemed to feel no pain, even when I smashed them to pieces, they ignored me and just continued to devour the flames.
With my delay, Liu Danchen quickly set up the Eight Diagrams Demon Subduing Formation. He bent his right arm upwards and placed his left hand on the hollow of his right elbow.
"Qian Yuan Heng Li Zhen. Dui Ze heroic soldiers. Gen Fang blocks the ghost door. Li Fire rides the flaming wheel. Kan Water surges into waves. Kun Earth reserves the human door. Thunder roars. Xun Wind blows the mountains. I sit in the center palace. All generals, protect me!"
As his sword finger guided the sixty-four talismans, they glowed yellow in the night. The formation was complete, and he breathed a sigh of relief. This Eight Trigrams Demon Subduing Formation was truly powerful; no matter how hard those heads charged, they couldn't break it.
They persisted like this until a faint white light began to appear in the eastern sky, and then the heads rolled away.
The villagers collapsed to the ground as they watched the head roll away. The confrontation that night had a significant psychological impact on them. Compared to those villagers who were not rescued, they were considered lucky.
When daybreak came, besides Liu Da Ge, two other villagers were dead.
There are five people left working at Uncle Zou Zhen's house, and they insist on following Liu Danchen everywhere.
After this incident, the villagers were in a panic for a while. Those who could escape ran away, leaving only a few of us involved.
Old Liu, in his sixties, was quiet. Young Liu, only nineteen, was terrified. They were a grandfather and grandson. The others were Zhang Jinbao, Xu Xiaogang, and Yin Qiang.
Now the five of them were hiding behind Liu Danchen and trembling, while Liu Danchen and I were checking these heads.
Tiny cracks appeared on their heads, which were not there yesterday. It seemed that the Five Thunder Talisman was not completely ineffective in destroying them.
But this discovery seemed useless, because at this rate, we'd both die before we could completely eliminate them. Both drawing talismans and setting up formations required energy, and Liu Danchen's internal energy clearly couldn't sustain it for that long.
To make matters worse, the sky was always overcast, with no sun. These human head evil spirits were a type of Yin evil spirit, and exposure to sunlight would reduce the generation of evil spirits. If the sun was strong enough, over a long period of time, it could even completely eliminate the Yin evil spirits.
There's another story: there was a bachelor in a village. One day, after drinking, he came home from a night of drinking and encountered a demonic spirit. It tormented him severely throughout the night. The next day, he went to a fortune teller, who determined the demon's location, but couldn't get rid of it due to his lack of magical powers. Since it was the hottest time of year, the fortune teller had the demon's remains dug up and laid out in his yard to dry. They dried the bones for a month, and the demon was completely extinguished.
But now even with the sun shining brightly, it's too late.
The only solution now is to find the source of the evil, as it concerns the life and death of the villagers.
"Have you lived here before?" I had no idea, so I had to start asking from the origin of the village.
"Our ancestors have lived here for generations," said Zhang Jinbao.
"How long has this house been built?"
"That's been going on for ages, ever since I can remember. To be honest, Zou Laosan's (Zou Zhen's uncle) family doesn't have much money. If he hadn't gone to marry that widow, he wouldn't have rebuilt the house."
"Everyone in the village says that it was the widow who killed the third child. In fact, this is a bit unfair. If she killed the third child, why did so many of us suffer as well?" said Xu Xiaogang.
In fact, everyone knows that this matter has nothing to do with them, they just made up this excuse.
"Has this ever happened before?" I continued to ask.
"I haven't heard of that." said Zhang Jinbao.
After hearing what he said, I was at a loss as to where to begin. Why are these heads so ominous? It makes no sense. Someone must have done this on purpose, and this foundation also shows signs of being sealed. Why haven't they heard of this?
Liu Danchen was also thinking, this matter is beyond our understanding.
"Something must have happened, otherwise there would not be this 'Three Yuan Demon Sealing Formation'!" Liu Danchen said affirmatively.
Hearing him say this was the Three Element Demon Sealing Formation, I looked towards the foundation and indeed saw three stars arranged in a straight line, though they had been destroyed and were difficult to discern. Unexpectedly, Liu Danchen had spotted them. The Three Element Demon Sealing Formation is inspired by the three stars of the celestial constellation, Orion, known in the folk as the Three Stars of Fortune, Longevity, and Happiness, and in the West as the belt of Orion. It harnesses the power of the stars to seal away demons, but their destruction rendered the formation ineffective.
At this moment, Old Man Liu, who had been silent all the time, said something.
"I remember when I was a child, I seemed to have heard something like this happened in the village."
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