The Unruly Immortals

"Clang~~" The Purple Tassel Sword, filled with evil qi, was slowly drawn by Li Huowang from its sheath, its tip steadily pointing at the thing in the corner.

Evil Spirits, since arriving in Da Liang, Li Huowang had seldom encountered such things, and never expected to come across one under these circumstances.

Li Huowang's brows were tightly knitted as he said in a low voice, "Brother Zhuge, it seems that this disaster is not just about the darkness, could this Evil Spirit have something to do with the disaster?"

Zhuge Yuan, with a solemn expression, stood with his hands clasped behind him, looking up at the sky as if recalling something. Zhuge Yuan didn't respond, but the thing in the corner began to move.

As it slowly turned around, Li Huowang saw a pale, ghastly face with a pair of bloody holes.

The gaping mouth slowly opened, and instead of teeth, there were baby hands covered with corpse spots. As the hands clasped together from the top and bottom rows, they formed a hair-raising smile.

At the sight of such a terrifying scene, Li Huowang on the wall had a fierce expression, his feet stomped violently, and he charged straight toward it.

In this completely mad world, he had already experienced too much, and facing such things no longer stirred any ripples in his heart.

Before he reached it, the sword reached first. The Copper Coin Sword, stretching out instantaneously, swept towards the thing's forehead with a whistling sound.

Seeing this, the Evil Spirit used its arms, several times longer than its body, to jab at both sides of Li Huowang. It seemed to be trying to retreat as a way to advance.

However, as Li Huowang's right hand, holding the sword, rapidly flicked and pulled, the coins in the air twisted and turned. The flash of blades and shadows passed in an instant, accompanied by a piercing scream, as both arms were cleanly cut into three sections.

The Evil Spirit's huge head shrank rapidly, and when everyone's clothes fell to the ground, a dark shadow darted out from under the silk garments, escaping into the darkness.

Glancing at the strange severed arms on the ground resembling bamboo sections, and to avoid being lured away, Li Huowang didn't give chase. He flicked the black blood off his sword and turned to head back into the Bai Family Courtyard.

But after just two steps, at the end of the pitch-black road, a paper window suddenly lit up.

A sinister green light shone through the wooden window, flickering on and off. It seemed as though something was moving back and forth inside, but it was certain that it was not a human, for all the villagers were in the Bai Family Courtyard.

At first, only one house lit up, but gradually two, then three. As more windows brightened one by one, the entire Niuxin Village became as ghastly as Fengdu in the Underworld.

Looking at these lit windows, Li Huowang's face began to look somewhat unpleasant. One Evil Spirit was not a concern, but so many could be troublesome.

What's more important was that at the moment he could not be certain that this situation wasn't the beginning of something even worse.

"Bang!" Li Huowang abruptly shut the door of the Bai Family Courtyard, took out a piece of ginger yellow paper, and quickly wrote an Evil-Repelling and Demon-Shaking Talisman with his own blood before sticking it on the door bolt.

Seeing the faces in the courtyard, Li Huowang spoke, "Don't worry about the trouble outside, everyone stay put in the yard! No one is allowed to leave until the disaster has passed!"

After speaking, Li Huowang once again scaled the wall, gripping the sword in his hand and staring deathly at the windows emitting the sinister green light.

"On normal days, encountering a single Evil Spirit is rare. But now, as if they cost nothing, they are all emerging. Is it only Niuxin Village like this, or is the whole world affected? If it's the latter, then perhaps..." Li Huowang's heart began to sink continuously.

"If it is as Brother Li suspects, then this disaster might truly live up to its name," Zhuge Yuan spoke with the same gravity as Li Huowang.

His right hand was half-raised, his thumb continuously hopping across the knuckles of his other fingers, as if he was ceaselessly performing calculations.

"Ah, what a pity, such a fun affair, and I've missed it, I actually died first." The faceless Hong Zhong expressed his regret teasingly by my side.

"Taoist, what in the world is going on? Is this going to result in a lot of deaths?" The monk asked anxiously.

Li Huowang ignored his hallucinations' various remarks and silently stared outside; if there was any good news, it was that even though those windows were lit, there was no sign of any hostile gazes being cast over.

It's hard to say whether they were intimidated by Li Huowang, but those things showed no intention of leaving the windows.

"My goodness! What... what is that! Master, quickly look behind you!!"

Scholar Lv's frantic shouting made Li Huowang whip his head around, and he immediately saw that a window on the second floor had also turned green—they had come in!

What made Li Huowang even more anxious at this moment was that this window was Bai Lingmiao's boudoir!

Li Huowang clenched his teeth and quickly drew two talismans, fiercely sticking them on his knees.

As he exerted force in his legs in an instant and kicked off against the wall, his agile body soared into the air like a spear thrown straight towards the green window.

"Crash!" The wooden window shattered, and Li Huowang, with sword in hand, rolled into the room to see two figures, one in white and one in red, presently kneeling and gnawing on something atop the bed.

From their attire, it was clear these were Bai Lingmiao and Second God!

"Miaomiao?!" When the terrified Li Huowang walked up behind them and turned Bai Lingmiao's shoulder to face her, his heart trembled fiercely.

The once gentle and soft features of Bai Lingmiao were gone, replaced by a face that was terrifying to behold.

A mouth full of backward-facing sharp teeth, a face covered in sharp spikes and green scales all smeared with foul-smelling black blood—Bai Lingmiao bore no resemblance to a human, looking more like a patchwork of various animals.

And yet, with such a visage, Bai Lingmiao was still laughing, her grotesque mouth almost ripped to the roots of her ears. "Hahaha~~ Hahaha~!!"

"Li Huowang! Hahaha! I don't want to laugh! But I can't help it! The Immortal Sects are all mad with joy! They've affected me, and I'm so hungry right now!!"

Having said that, Bai Lingmiao once again pounced on the bed and frenetically began to tear and bite at the corpse that couldn't be identified as any particular evil spirit.

"Crack" went the sound as a bone dripping with blood was chewed into two pieces by Second God, who swallowed it whole without chewing.

Watching Bai Lingmiao degenerate into a beast before his eyes, Li Huowang understood that this was not a solution—he had to calm them down.

He immediately cut his right hand, and a Pai Gow tile appeared in his palm.

Then Li Huowang pinched a Vajra Seal with his hand and pressed the Pai Gow tile against his forehead. "Sever ties, reclaim the mind!"

When he took the Pai Gow tile away again, the skin of his face, like a mask, was removed as well.

Li Huowang held his own face in one hand and pressed it directly onto Bai Lingmiao's face. "Be still, achieve the Way!"

When Li Huowang's face, with the Pai Gow tile hung on the forehead, was placed on Bai Lingmiao's face, she suddenly stopped moving and laughing.