"Stop pushing me! I'm about to die from your pushing! How can you people have no manners at all?" the policeman shouted, trying to throw away the paper figures he was holding with both hands, and then pushing them away with his hands.
But just as he was about to throw away the paper figure in his hand, he realized that he couldn't get rid of it no matter what he did! The policeman looked up in confusion and found that the paper figure, which he had already torn, was tightly gripping his hands, and its tattered face was showing a strange smile to the policeman...
"What the hell is this?!" The policeman saw the tattered paper figure in his hand still smiling at him, and he completely broke down! He involuntarily blurted out a curse!
The policeman was both shocked and furious. He saw that his hands were being gripped tightly by the strange paper figure and he couldn't shake it off. His body was also being squeezed and crushed by the paper figures around him. When the policeman saw that the paper figures around him were showing eerie smiles, he realized that this was not some extras, but a real paranormal event!
"What should I do? What should I do now? I can't die here. I don't have a girlfriend yet. I haven't tasted love yet. I can't die now!" The policeman muttered to himself in terror. Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain in his palm. The paper figure that had grabbed his wrist had pierced his palm with the bamboo strip in its hand!
The bamboo strips inside the paper figure were like venomous snakes trying to crawl into the policeman's hand, but suddenly a burst of dark yellow flames shot out from the policeman's right hand, instantly igniting the paper figure that was clutching him!
"Waaaaah..."! The paper figure that was holding the policeman let out a strange cry as it was burned by the dark yellow flames. Then it suddenly released the policeman's hands and jumped more than ten meters away, still covered in dark yellow flames!
With a loud "boom," the yellowish-brown flames emanating from the paper figure that had landed among its kind instantly ignited the surrounding paper figures, turning the area into a sea of fire.
The continuous screams of ghosts deafened the policeman. Now, apart from a buzzing sound, there was no other sound in his head. Suddenly, he felt something flowing out of his ear. Curious, the policeman dug it out and found that his ear was bleeding, and more and more blood was flowing out!
"Huh! What's that ahead?" The policeman picked at his ear and, using the firelight, saw a pile of lumps not far away on the dirt road. It seemed different from the paper figures. The policeman went to the pile of burnt paper ashes and dug around with his hands. It looked like there was a person inside!
"Could it be the Three Wolves?" The policeman quickly shoved the ashes aside and then saw a woman's body, with another person lying under her body!
"Ruhuan! It really is Ruhuan! Thank goodness, we've finally found you! And Sanlang, wake up! It's too dangerous here, we need to get out of here quickly!" The policeman saw that the flames he had set out were already enveloped by the gray fog and were about to go out. The surrounding fog was also slowly thickening! It seemed that countless things were crawling towards him from inside the thick fog!
"Wake up, you two!" The policeman shook them for a long time, but they showed no signs of waking up. He had no choice but to carry them on his shoulders and run desperately toward the three lights. The thick fog behind them was about to catch up with him.
His throat was burning from the smoke, and his heart felt like it was about to jump out of his chest, but the policeman gritted his teeth and ran towards the three lights...
They had finally arrived, and the policeman hurriedly tugged at the red string on his left hand...
"Fortunately, they've all come back. Alas, it's just a pity..." The Taoist priest looked at the two men and one woman lying in his temple, shook his head, and then left...
"Phew, finally out!" The policeman woke up as a ray of morning sunlight shone on his face through the window. He felt incredibly sore all over. He never imagined that ghosts really existed. Thinking about the terrifying paper figures on the road to the underworld, he still felt a chill run down his spine.
"Huh?" Just then, the policeman suddenly realized something was wrong. He was a single guy, so how could there be someone sleeping in his bed? When did this happen? Why did he have no recollection of it at all?
The police officer looked at the stranger who was wrapped tightly in his blanket and felt a little strange. If it was a beautiful woman, he could let it go, but if it was an ugly woman, he didn't want to have nightmares about it every night.
The police officer went to the other side of the bed and looked at the strands of hair that were coming out from under the covers. Looking at the smooth, black hair, the officer felt that this woman probably wasn't too bad.
"Hey, wake up, it's already daylight. Who are you? When did you come to my house? Why do you have a key to my house?" The policeman gently nudged the sleeping woman.
The woman was woken up by the police while still in bed. She moved around a bit, but didn't speak or lift the covers.
"You're getting shy now, beautiful lady. What would you like to eat? I'll go downstairs and buy you breakfast..." After saying that, the policeman, filled with anticipation and curiosity, hummed a little tune as he walked out of his room and went downstairs to the breakfast shop to buy breakfast.
"Oh my, Xiao Yang, you're so happy to have found money this early in the morning," the breakfast vendor asked with a smile, looking at her regular customer, a policeman, who was beaming with joy.
"No, no, I'm just inexplicably happy, hehe. Auntie, give me two servings of spicy noodles, to go!" the policeman named Xiao Yang said smugly.
"I knew it! So Yang's been so happy. Turns out he has a girlfriend. Tsk tsk tsk, whose daughter is she? Is she pretty? Do you know her, Auntie?" the breakfast vendor asked gossipy.
"Hehehe, it's a secret, a secret..." Officer Yang's mouth was practically splitting open to his ears. Then the breakfast vendor took two steaming hot breakfasts from his hands, paid for them, and excitedly ran straight home...
"Ding!" The elevator doors opened, and Xiao Yang hurriedly went into his home. He took out his keys, opened the door, put the breakfast on the table, and then opened the bedroom door, intending to call the strange woman to get up and have breakfast. However, he found that the bed was empty...
"They're gone? Sigh..." Officer Yang returned to the living room somewhat dejectedly, looked at the two steaming breakfasts, and then sat on the stool in a daze...
Suddenly, he heard the sound of water coming from his bathroom. Could it be that the woman was taking a bath after getting up? Xiao Yang, who had been very disappointed, suddenly became happy again.
Xiao Yang tiptoed to the toilet, peering through the frosted glass at the blurry figure inside. He felt his mouth dry and a strange restlessness rising within him. Just as Xiao Yang was still hesitating whether to go in, the person inside seemed to sense his presence, and the rushing water suddenly stopped...
Apart from the dripping water from the toilet and Xiao Yang's heavy breathing outside the door, the house was very quiet. The people inside didn't speak or make any movements; they were just quietly in the toilet...
"After you shower, come out and have breakfast. I've already bought it for you. Eat it while it's hot. I'm going to work now. I'll bring you some clothes back tonight. Can you tell me what kind you like?" Outside, Xiao Yang slowly calmed his agitated emotions. After all, he was a policeman, and this sudden appearance of a strange woman had added a pleasant surprise to his life. However, he still needed to ask this woman what she did and why she had suddenly appeared in his room when she was facing him.
With a clang, Xiao Yang closed the door and went to work at the police station. The sound of running water from the showerhead came from the toilet inside the room again...
Xiao Yang was absent-minded and distracted throughout the day at the police station, and even searched for countless women's clothes online...
After finally getting off work, Xiao Yang was about to leave when a sudden incident occurred: a group of thugs got into a fight over a girlfriend. Xiao Yang had no choice but to work overtime with a disgruntled expression...
"Hello, this is Xiao Yang. I'm not home right now. Please leave a message if you need anything!"
"Hey, are you still there? I have to work overtime now. There's been an emergency, and I don't know when I'll be back. I'm sorry. There's money in the bedside table. If you're hungry, take the money and go downstairs to buy something to eat," Xiao Yang said, reluctantly hanging up the phone, as if the woman was quietly listening to his message right next to his phone at home...
"Phew, finally done!" Xiao Yang stretched, feeling utterly exhausted. He had finally finished dealing with everything, and then excitedly drove home, wondering if his wife had found the money or if she was hungry.
Xiao Yang unlocked her door with her key, took off her shoes, and put on slippers. Passing through the entryway, she noticed her breakfast, which she had left on the table that morning, was gone. Xiao Yang smiled knowingly, then tiptoed into the bedroom. She saw a human-shaped bulge under the covers, but couldn't see the face; only hair was sticking out from under the covers…
Xiao Yang was very excited. She quietly closed the door, then turned on the water and filled the bathtub. She slid into the bathtub like a fish and groaned comfortably. Soaking her whole body in the warm water felt so good.
After soaking in the bath, Xiao Yang wrapped himself in a towel and went to the bedroom. Looking at the strange woman lying on the bed, Xiao Yang's primal desires finally erupted in the darkness. Xiao Yang took off the towel and crawled into the quilt...
Xiao Yang was incredibly excited because he was so close to this strange woman. His heart pounded with excitement, and his hands trembled as he reached out his shaky hand to the stranger he was sharing a bed with.
"Hmm? Something's not right?" Xiao Yang suddenly realized that the strange woman with him was not right! When he put his arms around the woman's waist, he felt that the woman's body was very hard, and it had a texture that did not feel like human skin, but more like very rough paper!
Startled, Xiao Yang suddenly threw back the covers and found a paper figure lying inside! This paper figure looked exactly like the woman who had grabbed his hands on the road to the underworld!
The paper figure gripped Xiao Yang's hands once more, then a strange smile appeared on its mutilated face, and it slowly moved closer to the now immobile Xiao Yang...
"Ah..."! A terrified scream jolted Xiao Yang awake. He realized he had fallen asleep in the bathtub without knowing when, and his phone was still playing a video on repeat on the stool next to the tub...
Xiao Yang wiped his face with his hand, then picked up his phone and saw that it was 2:47 a.m.! He had been soaking in the bathtub for almost four or five hours since he got off work!
The water in the bathtub had gotten cold! Suddenly a gust of cold wind blew in! Making the bathroom even colder, and Xiao Yang felt as if something was swirling around his feet in the water.
Xiao Yang lifted his foot in confusion and found a strand of hair on it! The hair was very long and had somehow gotten tangled around his foot.
Suddenly! Xiao Yang felt something swirling around his waist! Looking down, he realized that his bathtub was now completely covered in hair! The hair had pinned him to the tub, except for his head!
Xiao Yang struggled frantically, trying to break free from the strange hair that had appeared in the bathtub, but the hair was tightly wrapped around him, and he couldn't break free at all!
The bathtub was empty of water, filled entirely with incredibly smooth, jet-black, and shiny hair. If this hair were on a woman's head, it would turn heads, but seeing it in a bathtub terrified Xiao Yang!
Just as Xiao Yang was struggling to survive, the hair in the bathtub slowly grew like a tree, then quickly grew into a human-shaped thing, and then the hair returned to the bathtub...
A mutilated face! A tattered body! A sinister smile! This paper figure crawled slowly toward Xiao Yang...
"Ah..."! Xiao Yang was awakened by a nightmare again. He was still in the bathtub. He looked around to see if the bathtub was full of hair, but it was full of clear water, which was still a little warm.
At 00:05, the time displayed on his phone, Xiao Yang wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and prepared to get out of the bathtub to take a shower. Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed someone standing outside his bathroom!
"Who? Who's outside?" Xiao Yang shouted at the figure outside, and the figure outside the door vanished instantly!
"Am I under too much pressure and hallucinating?" Xiao Yang rubbed her temples, then put on her pajamas, opened the bathroom door, and looked at the cold and deserted house, which seemed unchanged. Unexpectedly, she was lying in the bathtub and suddenly had a dream within a dream.
Xiao Yang went downstairs to buy a late-night snack, and then he also bought two bottles of beer. After eating the snack, he went to bed feeling dizzy under the influence of alcohol, and then fell into a deep sleep...
Just as Xiao Yang was sleeping soundly, he felt something brushing against his face. Xiao Yang scratched his face, then turned over and continued sleeping. But not long after, something gently brushed against his nostrils and ears.
Xiao Yang groggily opened his eyes and saw a blurry figure standing beside his bed. As he rubbed his eyes to see who it was, a mutilated face was suddenly thrust in front of him…
Xiao Yang grabbed the paper figure that was almost pressed against his face in a panic, and then, in a fit of shock and anger, tore the paper figure apart beyond recognition...
Xiao Yang was panting heavily. Looking at the paper figure beside him that he had ravaged beyond recognition, he felt a sharp pain in his hands. Looking at his hands, which were covered in blood, he realized that when he was tearing the paper figure, the bamboo strips inside the paper figure had cut his palms!
Just as I was about to get up to find the first-aid kit in my house to bandage my wounds, I suddenly felt something gripping my feet tightly!
Looking down, Xiao Yang saw that his feet were being tightly gripped by the twisted arms of the paper doll he had torn beyond recognition. The head, which Xiao Yang had crushed, bounced like a ball to Xiao Yang's side, then bit down on Xiao Yang's bloodied left hand and began to greedily suck Xiao Yang's blood. Xiao Yang felt his life and his blood rapidly draining away...
In order to survive, Xiao Yang began to struggle desperately to break free from the paper figure's restraints. However, to his surprise, when he kicked with all his might, his feet were kicked off. Then, he watched as the paper figure dragged his feet into the shadows with its hands, while the figure let out a series of chilling laughs.
"Holy crap!" Xiao Yang was jolted awake by a nightmare once again, finding his pajamas soaked with cold sweat. He quickly looked around his bed, but there was no one there, nothing at all. Xiao Yang sat on the bed and let out a long sigh of relief. He then prepared to get up and drink some water to calm his nerves when he suddenly noticed someone hiding inside the curtains of his French windows by the light...
"Why is this happening?" Ru Huan looked at the two people lying on the bed, her brows furrowed. Sanlang looked ashen-faced, as if he might stop breathing at any moment, while Xiao Yang looked terrified, twisting and turning restlessly, unable to wake up...
"To save you, they both descended the Yellow Springs Road, but their bodies were invaded by the ghostly energy there, which eroded their souls. Now, one of them is constantly on the verge of death, and the other is constantly struggling in nightmares," the Taoist priest said.
"Long-term? Master, can you rescue them both from inside?" Ru Huan asked the Taoist priest who looked very much like her master.
“There’s no way for external forces to interfere with this. It depends on them. If they give up on themselves, they will be free soon and it will all be over. If they break free from it, they will come back to life!” The Taoist stroked his white beard and said.
"Master, where exactly is this place? Is it the human realm or the battlefield of the gods?" Ru Huan was a little confused. She and her companions were on the battlefield of the gods, but she was suddenly and inexplicably taken to some kind of Nine Netherworld Road. Then she was rescued by two humans dressed in strange clothes. One of them looked very much like her junior brother, San Lang, and the other looked somewhat unfamiliar. Now her master seemed not to recognize her at all. What was going on?
"The human realm? The battlefield of the gods? Never heard of it. I am in the 21st century!" The Taoist priest shook his head and said.
"The 21st century?" Ru Huan asked, looking at the Taoist priest who looked very much like her master.
"Well, it's the 21st century now. Where are you from?" the Taoist priest asked Ruhuan.
“Me? I came from the human realm, and then I went to the battlefield of the gods from the human realm, and then somehow I ended up here,” Ru Huan said.
"Then how is time determined in your human world?" the Taoist priest asked with some curiosity.
"I don't know either. I only know that the human world I was born in seems to have just gone through the Investiture of the Gods five or six hundred years ago," Ru Huan said somewhat uncertainly.
"The Investiture of the Gods? Five hundred years later? The Eastern Zhou Dynasty!" The Taoist priest looked at the human who looked like a teenage girl with some surprise. She came from ancient times!
“I don’t know anything about the Eastern Zhou or Western Zhou dynasties, but I used to be the lord of Shuofeng City. I know that a man named Xiaopo Hou went to the Battlefield of the Gods with me. Of course, it was his corpse that went there; his body had already died in the mortal realm,” Ru Huan said.
"Lord Xiaopo? Never heard of him, but I know nothing about what you're talking about!" The Taoist shook his head and said.
"Oh, I almost forgot. Thinking of my junior brother reminded me that I have something here that can revive them," Ru Huan said excitedly, patting her cloth bag.
"You have a way to save them?" The Taoist priest looked at the seemingly young girl with surprise, somewhat disbelieving.
"Yes, because I have this!" Ru Huan suddenly pulled out a talisman that emitted a purple glow from her cloth pocket!
"The Purple Gold Talisman! The legendary Purple Gold Talisman! Boundless Heavenly Venerable, I have finally seen the legendary Purple Gold Talisman! Can you let me see it? Please, grant my wish!" The Taoist priest, who looked like her master, suddenly knelt down in front of Ru Huan with a "plop" and begged.
"What are you doing? It's just a talisman I drew. Why are you so agitated at your age? Aren't you afraid your heart can't take it?" After saying this, Ru Huan quickly handed the talisman in her hand to the Taoist priest kneeling in front of her.
The Taoist priest held the object in his hands as if it were a priceless treasure, then stood up abruptly and left the place in a frenzied manner...
Ru Huan looked at the Taoist priest with some confusion, then took out two purple talismans from her bag and stuck them on the foreheads of her two saviors. Then she took out a handful of white powder from her bag and sprinkled it on the two people. Strangely, the white powder entered their bodies immediately after being sprinkled on them.
"This is the legendary Purple Gold Talisman! I have finally seen such a top-tier talisman in my lifetime. I have no regrets in this life, no regrets in this life, hahaha..." The Taoist priest held the talisman and laughed loudly.
“Master, I feel like this woman has more than one card, right? Why don’t we just…” The Taoist’s eldest disciple made a throat-slitting gesture.
The Taoist priest gazed silently at the shimmering purple-gold talisman, lost in thought. His disciples remained silent, waiting for their master to make a decision.
"Young lady, this is a soul-stabilizing soup I personally prepared for you. You just returned from the Yellow Springs, and your soul is still a bit unstable, so I brewed a bowl for you. Drink it while it's hot!" The Taoist priest turned slightly to the side and took a fragrant jade bowl from his eldest disciple, smiling as he looked at Ru Huan.
"Yes, thank you, Master," Ru Huan said, taking the slightly warm jade bowl and drinking it all in one gulp. She then wiped her mouth and handed the bowl back to the Taoist priest.
"I wonder where you, young lady, learned your master, and on which celestial mountain and pavilion you attained enlightenment. I have been trying to attain enlightenment for over ten years, but with little result. If possible, I would like to ask you to introduce me to your master so that I may have a chance to meet him and receive some inspiration for my path," the Taoist said to Ru Huan with a pleading expression.
"Well, it's not that I don't want to help you, but I don't even know where I am right now. And I have no idea about this 'Road to the Underworld' thing you mentioned. All I know is that I went from the mortal realm to the battlefield of the gods, and then somehow ended up here. My master got separated from me when I was in the mortal realm, and I'm still looking for him," Ru Huan said with some disappointment.
"So, young lady, you're all alone now? Where are your fellow disciples? Don't they have Red Bull with them?" The Taoist's eyes slowly revealed an indescribable look.
"Young lady, I see something unusual about the cloth bag around your waist. May I take a look?" The old Taoist priest stared intently at the cloth bag that Ru Huan was wearing across her waist.
"No, this is from my master. Everything I own is in it. I can't give it to you!" Ru Huan held her forehead, feeling her head was extremely heavy, so heavy that she felt her whole body was about to give up on it!
"What if I insist on seeing it?" The old Taoist priest asked coldly, his tone extremely sinister.
"No, this is me..." Ru Huan hadn't finished speaking when she suddenly collapsed to the ground with a thud...
"Hahahaha... Master, we're rich now, hahaha... I'll go get this bag for you!" The old Taoist's eldest disciple was already very eager to get Ru Huan's bag. He wanted to make the first move and get rid of this old man as soon as possible!
"I'll go get it myself. If there's any danger, I can protect you for a while," the old Taoist priest said without hesitation.
"Alright, then be careful yourself." The eldest disciple didn't argue with his master anymore. When the old Taoist squatted down to take Ru Huan's cloth bag, the eldest disciple pretended to be curious and came up behind the old Taoist. While his master was focused on taking the cloth bag from the woman's waist, the eldest disciple grabbed the old Taoist by the neck, and with lightning speed, the short knife in his hand was plunged directly into his master's neck!
Before the old Taoist priest could even struggle, his eldest disciple stabbed him dozens of times in the neck and back! The old Taoist priest lay dead on Ru Huan's body, his eyes wide open...
"Get the hell out of my way, you old bastard!" The eldest disciple kicked his master's corpse aside, ignoring the blood that covered Ru Huan's body, and then began to take the cloth bag from Ru Huan's waist!
"Finally untied, hahaha... I'm rich, hahaha..." Just as the eldest apprentice was gloating over Ru Huan's cloth bag, a corpse with a blood-soaked head hanging from its chest slowly stood up!
"My good disciple, give me this bag!" A sudden voice from behind startled the smug eldest disciple.
"You... how... how are you still alive? Are you a human or a ghost?" The eldest disciple turned around and looked at his master, who looked like a zombie, and asked incoherently.
"How could your master be a ghost? Quickly give me the bag, and I can forgive you for trying to kill me. But if you remain obstinate, then I will have to expel you from the sect!" The old Taoist priest's head was hanging from his chest by only one tendon, his chin pointing upwards and his hair downwards. He swayed with every step, and blood dripped from his already stained white hair onto the ground, looking extremely terrifying!
"Old man, you can't even rest in peace after you're dead. Do you think I'd give back the treasure that's in my hands? You wish!" The eldest disciple sneered, then pulled a woodcutter's knife from his back and charged toward the eerie old Taoist priest with a ferocious expression...
The eldest apprentice swung his wood-chopping knife and slashed fiercely at the tendon hanging from the old Taoist's neck, but he couldn't stop the knife halfway down!
The old Taoist priest had his hand tightly gripping the machete! The eldest disciple tried to pull away several times but couldn't. He then thrust the short knife in his other hand directly at the old Taoist priest's head, which was hanging from his chest!
But before his dagger could even pierce the old Taoist's head, the old Taoist, whose head was swaying back and forth in front of his chest, tried to bite his wrist! The eldest disciple screamed in pain, and the dagger in his hand clattered to the ground.
"Give me the bag! Hurry up! Or I'll eat you alive!" the old Taoist priest mumbled incoherently.
"Old man, you still can't let go even in this state? I'll make sure you die a horrible death today!" The eldest disciple endured the excruciating pain in his wrist, stomped his foot hard, and a hidden knife appeared on the toe of his shoe. The eldest disciple kicked the old Taoist in the abdomen repeatedly, and the hidden knife on the toe of his shoe had already pierced the old Taoist's abdomen to pieces!
The old Taoist priest, with his head hanging from his chest, devoured his eldest disciple's hand, skin and bone, like he was gnawing on a chicken claw, and then began to gnaw upwards along the disciple's elbow!
Inside the room, a young man with a ferocious face howled in agony, kicking incessantly at the mangled figure before him. His neck had been gouged out, and a thin tendon connected the head to the neck. The bloodied head was rapidly devouring the young man's arm, already reaching his shoulder! The tendon attached to the head stretched longer and longer along the young man's back, like a long, pale white tail attached to the back of a head.
"Hehehe..." The bizarre head devoured the young man alive, leaving only a pile of bloody clothes. The head seemed unsatisfied and was still looking for another person to gnaw on.
This head spotted the unconscious Ru Huan behind it, then licked its blood-soaked lips and swayed toward the unresponsive Ru Huan...
"Hmm~, this woman is different from these people. It feels like this woman's whole body is a spirit, and if I were to be eaten by this spirit, my strength would definitely increase countless times." This head thoroughly enjoyed smelling Ru Huan, then opened its blood-soaked mouth, preparing to bite down on Ru Huan's head!
Suddenly, a blade-like energy appeared within Ru Huan's body! Before the head could even touch Ru Huan's body, it was cleaved in two by this unstoppable blade-like energy!
The strange creature conjured by the old Taoist priest suddenly lost its footing and collapsed to the ground with a thud. Its lower body had been severed by the sudden blade energy and burned to ashes!
"What the hell is this thing? Why did it burn my lower body? I've lost half my strength! Ah... you damned woman, you ruined my thousand years of cultivation! I'll fight to the death to kill you!" The strange creature roared furiously, and then its blood-soaked head suddenly appeared in front of Ru Huan, biting down hard on her neck!
With a "poof", the mysterious blade energy within Ru Huan's body instantly cleaved the fiercely approaching head in half!
"How is this possible? Wasn't she already poisoned to death?" This strange creature never understood how it had been killed by the woman who had already been poisoned...
The corpse of the eerie creature began to rot rapidly, filling the entire room with a nauseating stench. A centipede, about half a meter long, emerged from the decaying corpse, glanced at Ru Huan's body, and its two tentacles on its fist-sized head twitched incessantly toward Ru Huan's body, as if it were extremely unwilling to accept its fate, before slinking away.
As long as the green hills remain, there will always be firewood to burn! Leaving now will lead to future glory! The centipede was preparing to leave this place and find another place to continue its cultivation, but before it could even crawl out of the house, it was pinned to the ground by the elusive blade energy, and no matter how much it twisted and struggled, it could not break free.
"Whoosh!" In desperation, the centipede sprayed its venom at the invisible blade-like energy on its back, trying to corrode the terrifying energy with its own deadly poison. However, the energy was completely unaffected by the centipede's venomous spray.
The centipede felt the ghostly thing pinning it to its back slowly slashing towards its head and tail. If it slashed its head out, it would be split in two, with no chance left!
"No, this thing seems to be looking for its own inner core, trying to detoxify this woman!" The centipede suddenly realized what the blade-like energy was trying to do by pinning it down!
"I'd rather self-destruct than let you succeed!" The centipede was extremely ruthless and decisive! It directly tried to detonate the inner core inside its head, but just as it was about to detonate, it suddenly felt something pierce its head and pin it firmly to the ground.
The centipede watched as its inner core was ripped from its head, floated in the air, and slowly drifted onto the woman's corpse. It then watched helplessly as its inner core entered the woman's mouth. The centipede felt its consciousness growing increasingly blurred, and the scene before it became increasingly indistinct...
After Ru Huan swallowed the centipede's inner core, wisps of black mist began to emanate from her body. Initially, this mist spread around her, but soon returned to her body. At this moment, a mark resembling a short knife appeared on Ru Huan's wrist, looking very ancient. Ru Huan suddenly opened her eyes, her body remaining still, but the short knife mark on her wrist began absorbing the spiritual energy within the Taoist temple. This spiritual energy surged towards Ru Huan, though very thin, it was better than nothing.
Ru Huan stood up and looked around at the drastically changed environment. The once lush forest outside the house was now all yellowish-green, as if malnourished, and even the wild grass and flowers on the ground had not been spared.
Ru Huan looked at the two people still lying in bed and left the Taoist temple first. The two people were no longer in any serious condition and would wake up soon!
Ru Huan descended the mountain and looked at the extremely dilapidated Taoist temple, feeling somewhat incredulous. This place seemed to be a place of beautiful mountains and clear waters, so how could it be like this? Could there be some unspeakable secret here?
But she didn't know that she was the one who caused the Taoist temple to become like this. When she woke up, the old Taoist priest was gone, and everyone in the temple seemed to have vanished into thin air. There was no one there except for herself and those two people.
When Ru Huan woke up, the entire house had been wiped clean by the short knife mark on his wrist. He hadn't even spared the people in the Taoist temple, because some of them, like the old Taoist priest, had been possessed by strange creatures without their knowledge. As for the ordinary people, the short knife mark didn't care at all; it simply forcibly erased the memories of the strange creatures he had killed...
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