That night.
The moonlight had been obscured by the drifting black clouds at some point, and the light suddenly dimmed. Bursts of coughing could be heard from the courtyard of the west wing, which was hung with red lanterns.
"Master, Master! I found the ten thousand ginseng!" The door was creaked open, and the housekeeper in the mansion rushed to the sickly and skinny man called Master's son with a ten thousand ginseng in his hand, sweating profusely.
The middle-aged man was the eldest son of a famous and wealthy Jiangnan merchant. He was over 50 years old, with no children or grandchildren. Instead, he had more than a dozen concubines. He was frail and sickly, relying entirely on these precious herbs to stay alive. On average, he consumed three ginseng roots a month, and ten or a hundred would not be enough. He needed at least a thousand roots of ginseng before he could consume it all! The whole house was filled with the aroma of herbs!
Not long ago, I bought a maid who was just coming of age to bring good luck!
The man's face was ashen, with long, thin eyes and slanted slant eyes. The wrinkles of old age spread out like ripples on the water. When he saw the housekeeper holding ten thousand pieces of ginseng in his hand, he shouted with a glint in his eyes, "Quick, quick, bring it to me..."
"Master, this is for you." The butler handed over the ginseng with both hands.
"Good, good, good..." He was just saying three good words in a row, and his fingers, which were so thin that the joints were protruding, were stroking the extremely precious ten thousand ginseng. He thought that with these ten thousand ginseng, he could live a few more months.
His face was expressionless, as if solidified in wax. Then, extremely slowly, his liver-colored lips began to pull to the sides, opening with great difficulty like a rusty, discarded iron chain, revealing a mouthful of jagged, yellowed teeth.
He pinched the ginseng and stuffed it into his mouth!
The butler stared at Zhengqi with his eyes fixed, full of hope and excitement!
The red candle flickered, and a gust of cold wind blew the door open. Suddenly, there was an eerie rustling sound, like the sound of soil dripping when digging.
Just as the dragon bit into the ten thousand ginseng, countless ginseng tendrils suddenly expanded infinitely, winding and stretching in an extremely strange posture! They intertwined and entangled with each other, like forming a huge hemp net, tightly wrapping the dragon's head with airtightness!
"Master!" The butler was frightened by this scene. The next second, a ginseng tendril as thick as an adult's thigh pierced into the butler's mouth and drilled rapidly into the deep of his throat. With a "bang", it pierced through the butler's body vertically, and a pool of blood burst out!
His face flushed red from holding his breath, he was frightened and scared, and tried to use his hands to push away the thousands of ginsengs crawling on his face, but his body suddenly felt a resistance, his eyes almost popped out, and strange bloodshot appeared in the corners of his eyes!
At this moment, that ginseng-like body actually grew five senses! A bloody mouth opened and let out a hoarse, cold and surprised laugh:
"Everyone in the world wants to eat me. Today, I want to taste human flesh!"
A sense of despair and fear ran through Zheng Zheng's body. He struggled with all his might, but was unable to move the ginseng demon even a little!
The ginseng monster opened its mouth wide, and to everyone's surprise, there were sharp serrations in her mouth, and countless wriggling ginseng tendrils were numb, gradually approaching the main body!
"Help! Help..." His legs became weak, blood flowed back all over his body, and he shouted tremblingly!
With a "whoosh", all the red candles in the house were extinguished. A strange and terrifying shadow was reflected on the ground. The ginseng demon laughed evilly, and people were disgusted.
The next second, a lake green figure flew out of the dark and gloomy courtyard, and only a shadow could be seen as it teleported.
The man's fingers, which shone with a jade luster, tightly grasped the transparent green long sword. Under the reflection of the moonlight, it exuded a cold chill. He swung the sword with dazzling movements and suddenly cut off several pieces of the ginseng monster. In a moment, the ginseng monster let out a shrill scream!
This, this is the Qingxuan Jade Sword from the Lou family, the foremost family of monster hunters! It's so powerful that even a ten-thousand-foot-level monster would be doomed!
Why are the Lou family members here?!
The ginseng demon was shocked!
Before he could react, a slender and strong figure appeared beside the ginseng monster!
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