"Heh, you're injured like this, I thought you were dead, and you still dare to talk such big words!"
Chen Hua sneered and said in a venomous voice.
Hearing his mockery, Seventh Uncle raised his head, his tone stern:
"Back then, because of my cowardice and incompetence, I made a terrible mistake. This time, I will absolutely not let that happen again!"
Seeing a glimmer of hope to buy me five minutes, I quickly took out cinnabar and first drew a simple Bagua diagram on the ground.
"The first direction is the Qian position!"
I took out a rusty copper coin and embedded it inside.
As the copper coin embedded itself in the soil, the surrounding yin energy noticeably diminished.
Chen Hua seemed to have sensed something, and gave me a deep look.
Ignoring the need to argue with Uncle Qi any longer, he frantically launched his attack!
"Focus on setting up the formation!"
"Seventh Uncle said in a deep voice, 'A branch almost poked my back just now, but fortunately Seventh Uncle stopped it in time.'"
I dared not be distracted. My seventh uncle and the others risked their lives to stop the branches and those crazy villagers.
Next is the second direction, the Kun position!
With the arrival of the second rusty copper coin, the Bagua formation began to take shape!
The yin energy within the formation began to become disordered, and the villagers who were being controlled became noticeably slower in their movements.
"Don't even think about it!"
Chen Hua let out a deafening roar, and the entire locust tree shook violently at that moment!
The next moment, thick tree roots burst forth from the ground, attempting to disrupt my formation.
"Don't even think about it!"
This time, Uncle Qi went all out. He bit his right index finger and used the dripping blood to draw talismans on his chest.
He drew the talisman extremely quickly, and as soon as it was completed, Seventh Uncle's face turned extremely ugly, but his aura became much stronger.
Chen Hua clearly recognized the spell and shouted through gritted teeth:
"Old man, you dare to use such a forbidden technique? You don't want to live anymore!"
"Heh, I've had enough of living!"
Uncle Qi responded in a hoarse voice, and we could all tell that he was absolutely telling the truth.
I didn't have time to listen to their conversation. If I set up the formation in time, Uncle Qi might still have a slim chance of survival.
I sped up, my clothes already soaked with sweat. These formations aren't as simple as just embedding copper coins in eight positions!
"Zhen position! Xun position! Kan position!"
As each copper coin was buried, the Bagua formation slowly took shape, and a faint golden light began to emanate from within it!
Those villagers, like walking corpses, seemed to be blocked by an invisible wall, unable to take another step forward.
"Only three directions remain!"
I was breathing heavily, my fingers trembling and turning white from exerting too much force.
Chen Hua realized that something was wrong.
If I hadn't set up the formation, it wouldn't have been long before Li Huai, Luo Tianhe, and Seventh Uncle would have been easily killed by him because they were exhausted!
But now, it's clear that time is not on his side.
A ferocious expression appeared on his face.
Then he did something incredibly crazy: he started absorbing the life force of the controlled villagers!
Seeing this, my expression changed drastically!
Although these villagers were already mentally unstable, eliminating Chen Hua might restore them to normal.
But now, at least half of the villagers have lost all vitality and have become true living dead!
Even if they could break free from Chen Hua's control, the best outcome would be becoming a vegetable!
Even most of the people whose life force he absorbed didn't even become vegetative; they would immediately become corpses.
"stop!"
My seventh uncle was far more anxious than I was; he shouted loudly,
But Chen Hua just laughed and ignored him completely.
A chill ran through me; I had to speed things up, or there might be no one left alive in the village.
"Leave the position! Position of Gen (艮)!"
Only one exchange is left.
I held the copper coin in my hand and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Just as I was holding the copper coin and placing it into the array's core, suddenly an incredibly thick tree root burst out of the ground, heading straight for my face!
In an instant, my face turned deathly pale.
I was so exhausted that there was no way I could escape.
As the tree root moved, a loud whooshing sound rang out!
It could probably blow my head off like a watermelon!
"Brother Yan!"
At the critical moment, Li Huai, who had been just standing by, suddenly lunged at me and pushed me away.
He rolled away, narrowly avoiding the tree root, and fell heavily to the ground.
"Li Huai, Chen Yan!"
Luo Tianhe exclaimed in surprise, but there was no time to get there in time.
The branches and roots were acting like they were insane; if he wasn't careful, he would be pierced through by countless branches.
"We're fine."
I gave a casual reply, not bothering to check Li Huai's injuries, and took the opportunity to embed the last copper coin into the array's eye.
"Eight Trigrams to suppress evil, activate!"
With a loud shout, the copper coins in all eight directions burst into flames at the same time, and the entire Bagua formation erupted with dazzling golden light.
Accompanied by the humming sound of copper coins, the golden light formed a solid wall, completely isolating the locust tree from the outside world.
"Get out of my way!"
Chen Hua roared in frustration as he frantically rammed against the golden light barrier.
But every time he made contact, he was bounced back, causing black smoke to continuously billow from his body.
The villagers who had not yet been absorbed fell to the ground one after another. Old Chen and Luo Tianhe took the opportunity to drag them to a safe area, so that they would not die in the aftermath of Chen Hua's last crazy madness after being so lucky to survive.
I collapsed to the ground, panting heavily.
Setting up this formation almost exhausted all my energy. At this moment, I feel dizzy and lightheaded, as if I haven't slept for three days and three nights.
"Is it finally over?"
Luo Tianhe helped Li Huai up after he fell and was injured. Li Huai seemed to have sprained his ankle and was limping.
Seeing that Li Huai had only suffered some superficial injuries, I breathed a sigh of relief. However, after glancing at Chen Hua, who was acting wildly in the formation, my expression quickly turned serious.
I shook my head and said:
"It's far from that simple; this is only a temporary fix. To completely resolve the situation, we must use the Yin-Breaking Nails!"
The reason I set up this formation so quickly is partly because I was truly very serious and completely focused.
Secondly, this formation is not very powerful; it can only suppress evil spirits and cannot effectively eliminate them.
So this formation isn't actually that useful; I only chose to set it up because I had the Yin-Breaking Nail.
Chen Hua stopped yelling and screaming; he frantically attacked the barrier!
The once incredibly sturdy barrier was now teetering on the brink of collapse under his impact.
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