(five)
Time passed slowly, and the mountains became quiet, with only occasional insects and birds flying up and causing a slight ripple.
Zhou Ziqiu looked up at the dark night sky: "It's time."
"Oh." Wen Su stood up and patted his bottom.
After a short while, the surroundings became even quieter, just like the mountain in the Luoqinan Forest that night.
Zhou Ziqiu frowned. A dark, damp, and putrid smell filled the air, and black fog seemed to rise before their eyes. The two of them moved their feet to prevent any sudden changes from happening. The walkie-talkie went silent after a few static sounds.
At the same time, a sharp shriek rang out—
Zhou Ziqiu turned around, but before he could see what was in front of him clearly, Wen Su grabbed him by the waist and dodged the ghost infant that was rushing towards him. Wen Su's expression was displeased.
Accompanying the ghost baby was a putrid, damp smell that was twice as pungent as the one Zhou Ziqiu had smelled from the vengeful ghost in the hospital. The screams of the ghost baby and the shrieks of the female ghost were almost enough to shatter one's eardrums, and the surrounding yin energy was so thick that it was impossible to dispel.
The ominous forces of the mother and child arrived at this very moment!
They had been on guard against the evil spirits of the mother and child since they arrived in Changnan Village, but they never expected to encounter them here.
The ghostly infant did not continue its attack. Instead, it used the tree as leverage to cling to itself, opened its mouth full of fangs, and bared its teeth at the two of them, blood dripping from its mouth onto the ground.
The female demon appeared before the two, covered in blood, with a gaping hole in her abdomen, a sight that sent chills down one's spine.
Zhou Ziqiu and Wen Su stood back to back. Wen Su reached behind him and took out his dagger from his waist. He drew a line on his palm to activate the dagger, and golden runes floated around his body. Zhou Ziqiu summoned his scimitar, and faint black energy flowed at the tip of the blade. Blackness spread in his eyes until they became completely black, and black lines spread out around his eyes.
The ominous signs between the mother and child are no small matter.
After letting out a shriek, the mother demon pounced on Zhou Ziqiu, while the ghost infant also rushed towards Wen Su. The two of them moved swiftly.
Wen Su dodged the ghost infant's attack, and as he dodged to the side, he threw the Extinction Talisman at the ghost infant. However, the ghost infant was incredibly swift, and after dodging the talisman, it continued to pounce on Wen Su.
Zhou Ziqiu held his sword against the mother demon's sharp claws. After slicing open the mother demon's hands, he aimed straight for her throat. However, the mother demon did not dodge. Instead, she quickly grew new sharp claws, grinning as she reached out to grab Zhou Ziqiu's neck. But Zhou Ziqiu was quick-witted and swiftly chopped off the mother demon's hands again. He then quickly twisted his wrist, and the curved sword changed direction, stabbing towards the mother demon's forehead.
Seeing that the ghost infant had dodged his talisman, Wen Su knew that throwing talismans like this was useless. Taking advantage of the ghost infant's lunge at him, he quickly stuck his dagger into the ground, then retreated to avoid the attack. His hands moved quickly to form hand seals, and he chanted incantations. At the same time, the golden runes around his body began to rotate rapidly, with red patterns flowing within them.
While dodging the ghost infant, he circled the dagger he had stuck in the ground, squeezing blood from his hands and splattering it on the ground, using his dagger as the core of the formation to draw a formation on the ground!
The Mother Demon was stabbed in the forehead, and her body suddenly dissipated. However, the black mist scattered in the air surged towards Zhou Ziqiu. Zhou Ziqiu saw the Mother Demon's true form hidden in the black mist at a glance. Facing the black mist, he stabbed the curved blade into the Mother Demon's true form again. The Mother Demon was forced to reveal herself. Zhou Ziqiu kicked it into the center of the formation drawn by Wen Su. The curved blade nailed the Mother Demon into the formation like a nail.
The moment Wen Su completed his formation, the blood on the ground turned golden, emitting a dazzling golden light. Wen Su's hand seals were also formed; his right thumb pinched the character "酉" (you), his ring finger bent beneath it, and his index and middle fingers extended and joined together. He recited rapidly yet clearly:
"Heaven and earth are natural, and impurities disperse. The cave is mysterious and vast, bright and clear. The mighty gods of the eight directions make me natural. The spirit treasure talisman is proclaimed to the nine heavens; Ganluo Dana, Donggang Taixuan; slaying demons and binding evil, killing thousands of ghosts."
The Zhongshan Divine Mantra, the Primordial Jade Text, recited once, cures illness and prolongs life; travels throughout the Five Sacred Mountains, known throughout the Eight Seas; demon kings bow their heads, guarding my abode; evil and filth dissipate, the Dao's Qi endures forever. So be it!
Destroy them all!
Wen Su arranged the sword techniques into an array and chanted the Purifying Heaven and Earth Mantra; both were methods for exterminating ghosts.
A phantom dagger descended from above the heads of the ghost infant and the mother demon, while the formation on the ground bound them tightly to the ground. The mother demon and the ghost infant raised their heads and screamed, as if trying to escape the formation, but then the dagger fell from above their heads.
Just when it seemed the ominous influence of the mother and child demons was about to be resolved, an unexpected turn of events occurred—
Suddenly, the mother demon let out a shrill scream, broke free from the array's restraints, and lunged at the ghost infant within the array, using herself to block the sword technique's attack. Then, within the golden-light-filled array, black mist rose out of thin air, enveloping the mother demon and the ghost infant within it.
"The mother and child are fierce demons, twin evil spirits; one is destroyed while the other survives, devouring each other; when all living beings are wiped out, it will ultimately lead to a great calamity."
From within the black mist, the baby's laughter rang out. The "giggle giggle" sounded innocent and adorable, but once the black mist dissipated, the child became terrifying.
The ghost baby's head was swollen, looking like a huge tumor growing out of its head, and on it was the face of the mother demon. The mother demon's shrieks and the ghost baby's laughter mixed together, making people's scalps tingle.
Zhou Ziqiu and Wen Su exchanged a glance, and Wen Su said coldly, "I need to set up an array to help me hold it off."
Zhou Ziqiu looked at him and nodded.
Then, Wen Su pulled out a dagger from the ground, knelt down, took out a small bottle of rooster blood from his pouch, and sprinkled it on the ground, using the blood as the core of the array to draw an intricate formation.
Zhou Ziqiu walked up to the ghost infant that was still devouring the mother demon, facing the ghost infant baring its teeth and howling at him. He plunged the curved blade in his hand into the ghost infant's mouth. At the same time, a stream of black energy poured down from the curved blade, fighting, entangled, and suppressed another completely different stream of black mist.
On the other side, Wen Su's hands moved swiftly as he drew the array, his face slightly pale, perhaps because he had used a little too much blood.
Finally, the two formations drawn by Wen Su, one large and one small, were interlocked, and a dazzling golden light, almost red, shot out. Zhou Ziqiu glanced back at the formation and his expression changed slightly.
On the small "Shi Gen Formation," there was clearly the Maoshan "Sending Ghosts to the Underworld." This method states: "All spells use extreme yang to subdue extreme yin, and both have the power to 'enter the underworld.' When yin is overwhelming, yang will decline and perish; but when yang is overwhelming, the vengeful spirit will be cast into the underworld, never to be reborn." This means that if extreme yang energy is used to counter extreme yin energy, both have the power to completely subdue the opponent. If yang energy is no match for yin, the spellcaster will die; but if yin is no match for yang, the vengeful spirit will be cast into the underworld, never to be reborn.
"Wensu!"
Zhou Ziqiu shouted at Wen Su, clearly fearing that Wen Su would suffer a backlash if his spell failed.
Wen Su looked up at the sound, raised an eyebrow and smiled at him: "I'm fine, little beauty, just you wait and see."
After saying that, he slashed the dagger in his hand into his palm again, spraying blood into the center of the array. Then he raised his hand and fiercely plunged the dagger into the ground of the array's eye, his eyes filled with ruthlessness.
"Those who defy me shall die! Anyone who dares to defy me shall be condemned! My blade will plunge into the underworld, drawn by my true yang! So be it!"
Destroy them all!
A dazzling golden light emanated from the center of the array, illuminating the night sky. Even Cui Yongle and the others in Changnan Village saw it. Fatty and Glasses shouted anxiously into the walkie-talkie, but no one responded. They had no choice but to drop the walkie-talkie and rush up the mountain.
Screams echoed through the mountains.
Gradually, the golden light dissipated, and the fierce demonic figures of the mother and child in front of Zhou Ziqiu disappeared. Suddenly, a woman appeared before them, clutching her waist and arguing loudly with someone beside her. The woman couldn't understand why her husband had suddenly become so strange: "What's wrong with you? Why have you become so irritable since we moved here?"
When questioned, the man's expression turned furious. He angrily smashed the lamp on the ground and left the room. Through the woman's perspective, she could see that the man hadn't gone far and was standing in the yard, staring at the woman inside the house with a gloomy expression.
Then came the scene Zhou Ziqiu saw in the bedroom. A moment later, the image disappeared, but clearly now was not the time to think about that.
"Wensu!"
Wen Su drew several formations, and the ground was covered with his blood. Now that the fierce evil spirits of the mother and child had been dispelled, Wen Su staggered for a moment, but quickly recovered.
Zhou Ziqiu drew his scimitar, got up and ran to Wen Su's side. His eyes returned to normal, and he put the scimitar away.
"Don't worry, it's just that a lot of blood was used. You know, sometimes if you cut too hard, you bleed a lot." Wen Su sat on the ground and waved to Zhou Ziqiu, indicating that he was in okay condition.
Although Wen Su said he was alright, his hands looked painful. Zhou Ziqiu took out a clean handkerchief from his pocket and carefully bandaged Wen Su's blood-covered hands.
"Little beauty, you're quite impressive." Wen Su recalled Zhou Ziqiu's skillful movements just now, which clearly showed that she had practiced. "Can I see your knife? It's not common to see people using knives these days."
Zhou Ziqiu glanced at him, then raised his hand and summoned a curved sword, handing it to Wen Su. Wen Su gently stroked the blade with his hand wrapped in a handkerchief. He was delighted with both the well-forged blade and its cool, smooth texture. He felt like he had seen the sword somewhere before, but even if he did, it wasn't something he could say. After a few quick glances, Wen Su returned the curved sword to Zhou Ziqiu, not forgetting to comment, "This sword is not bad."
Zhou Ziqiu sheathed the knife and said, "It was a gift from an old friend."
"That person was quite nice to you."
"Um."
After resting for a while, Wen Su's strength recovered considerably, and the adverse effects of blood loss had almost disappeared, so he headed down the mountain.
On their way down the mountain, the two encountered a fat man and a man with glasses coming towards them.
"Are you alright? Did something happen on the mountain?" the fat man asked anxiously, glancing repeatedly in the direction the two had come from.
Zhou Ziqiu nodded: "Mm."
"Are you alright? Did you eliminate them?"
Wen Su leaned against the fat man and waved his bandaged hand at him: "Don't you believe your boss?"
The fat man grabbed Wen Su's hand tightly, saying with concern, "Boss..."
Wen Su chuckled: "It's nothing, look at you like this."
"Boss!"
The four of them descended the mountain and encountered Cui Yongle. Cui Yongle quickly pulled Wen Su to the SUV to clean his wounds, asking about what had happened on the mountain as he did so. When he heard that the two had encountered the Mother and Child Fiends, his heart clenched, but he breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that the two had resolved the situation. Then, realizing what Zhou Ziqiu had said, he lost control of his strength and the bandage tightened around the wound, causing Wen Su to gasp in pain.
Zhou Ziqiu took the bandage from Cui Yongle and re-bandaged Wen Su.
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