Shangguan Mingyue widened her eyes in disbelief and shouted into the air.
"Come on, Ruler, show yourself!"
Just as she shouted, Bai Qiling blocked her mouth from behind, preventing her from speaking further.
Furious, Shangguan Mingyue turned around and kicked Bai Qiling, glaring at him in anger.
Suddenly, the lights above flickered twice and then went out.
My heart tightened, and I quickly grabbed Mu Xuanche's hand, afraid to move.
"Playing tricks, if you have the guts, come out!"
It was Mingyue taunting, and I was about to tell her to quiet down.
A wave of Yin Qi rushed toward me, forcing me to close my mouth.
A chilling wind swept by, followed by Shangguan Mingyue's scream.
"Ah!"
Then came Bai Qiling's furious voice. "You dare!"
The night was too dark; it was nearly impossible to see anything.
I used my phone's flashlight to take a look and saw two figures, one black and one white, grappling with each other.
Shangguan Mingyue was lying on the side, unconscious.
I rushed over to save her, while Mu Xuanche went to help Bai Qiling fight the female ghost.
"Mingyue. Are you okay?"
Shangguan Mingyue's face was covered in blood, with a long scar running across it, as if something had clawed at her fiercely.
At the sound of my voice, she slowly began to wake up.
"What happened to my face?" she asked me.
Unsure of the situation, I hesitated to tell her the truth.
Bai Qiling rushed over and pulled out a piece of white cloth from her pocket, pressing it against Mingyue's face. "It's okay, I'm here."
I stood up to give them space and turned to ask Mu Xuanche about the situation.
"It got away."
It was surprising that the female ghost managed to escape even after Mu Xuanche and Bai Qiling teamed up against her. It was clear just how powerful she was.
This was one of them; just a moment ago, there had been three explosions in total. If they all came together, it would surely spell disaster.
For a moment, everyone was at a loss. Bai Qiling was most concerned about Shangguan Mingyue's injuries, while Mu Xuanche stood nearby, frowning in silence. I was the only one frozen in place, unsure of what to do.
My eyes caught sight of the bundle that Shangguan Mingyue had left aside. I crouched down, grabbed it, and pulled out a handful of Glutinous Rice, scattering it on the ground to draw a grid.
However, the layout was chaotic; nothing made sense. Could it be that Qimen Dunjia and the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams were failing here?
I refused to give up and tried again, but the Hexagram remained disordered. Frustrated, I overturned the entire setup.
I squatted to the side, sulking in annoyance.
Mu Xuanche had seen me break the formation and still believed in my meager skills. He leaned closer and asked softly, “What’s going on?”
I replied listlessly, “It’s too strange; there’s nothing in this layout.”
Suddenly, a White Shadow flashed at the corner of my eye. I quickly exclaimed to Mu Xuanche, “Over there!”
Mu Xuanche immediately dashed toward it. Naturally, I had to follow him.
By the time we reached the corner, the White Shadow had already vanished without a trace.
Just as I was feeling frustrated, Mu Xuanche pulled me to the left and we ran.
When I was almost out of breath, Mu Xuanche suddenly stopped. His expression was serious as he urged me to stay alert.
I could feel it too—a sensation of being watched, as if a pair of eyes were lurking in the shadows, fixated on us.
The entrance to the alley was particularly narrow. Mu Xuanche and I could only walk side by side as we moved deeper inside.
The walls around us were soaked with a metallic scent that made me want to vomit.
"Snap!"
A soft sound echoed, and the lights in the alley flickered on.
In an instant, Mu Xuanche turned around and grasped my hand tightly. I deliberately looked at the wall.
It appeared as if it had been splattered with fresh blood; the front wall was a vivid red, continuously oozing down.
Following the direction of the blood flow, I looked up.
"Ah!"
I screamed and threw myself back into Mu Xuanche's arms.
I have seen many ghosts, but I have never encountered one as terrifying as this.
A pair of enormous eyeballs hung on the wall, staring at me.
The remaining half of a head dangled beside the eyes, with blood continuously dripping from the corners of its mouth, spreading across the entire wall.
The corpse emitted a strong stench of decay, making me feel nauseous and dizzy.
Mu Xuanche pulled me back, but the passage we had come through was now sealed off.
It was as if there had never been a passage at all. When I looked up, that half head appeared again on the wall above me.
After calculating everything, I realized I had overlooked one person.
It was the woman who had been turned into dumpling filling; her resentment should be the strongest. It seemed that this remaining half head belonged to her.
"Crack! Crack!"
A strange sound echoed in this narrow space. I forced myself to overcome my fear and looked up.
I saw that the woman with only half a head had transformed the other half into that of a pig, crawling toward us incessantly.
Due to the decay of her body, her bones scraped against the wall, producing that "crack" sound.
Her approach was initially very slow, but unexpectedly, just as she rushed towards us, she suddenly appeared right in front of me.
With her mouth wide open, revealing enormous fangs, she lunged at me.
My first instinct was to use the Ghost Suppression Technique and strike at her head, but to my shock, my Ghost Suppression Technique failed. It felt as if I was hitting cotton; there was no damage whatsoever.
Mu Xuanche pulled me away and condensed his energy in his palm, striking the ghostly woman on the head.
"Ah!"
The ghost with half a human face and half a pig's head instantly recoiled.
Mu Xuanche snorted coldly and struck the wall with both hands.
A flash of red light erupted, and the entire wall was immediately pushed down.
He pulled me back to where Shangguan Mingyue and the others were.
Bai Qiling's white clothing had now turned gray, and there was a crack around her neck. It seemed that after we left, they had also come under attack.
"Huff, huff."
The man who had just been stabbed by Mu Xuanche dragged himself toward us, his intestines trailing behind him.
The man was completely charred, his eyes vacant, and he emitted a "huffing" sound from his mouth. I couldn't tell what it meant.
Bai Qiling glanced at me and said, "He's been possessed."
I nodded in agreement with his assessment.
This formation was only effective against women with Yin Qi, so this man must have been possessed by one of the female spirits that had just died.
He was surrounded by resentment and fury. It was the Vengeful Spirit's resentment that was causing this disturbance.
"Heart."
As soon as I finished speaking, the man lunged at me.
Caught off guard, he knocked me to the ground, mouth open, ready to bite into my neck.
Mu Xuanche tried to save me but was held back by the female spirit with half a human face and half a pig's head.
Four people were restrained by four female spirits, and even Shangguan Mingyue couldn't escape.
I fell to the ground, pain shooting through my back, while my hands struggled against his grip on my throat.
I bent my knees and focused on him, determined not to let him pounce on me.
As I saw his mouth approaching my neck, I quickly kicked out with my foot, hitting him squarely in the center.
Mu Xuanche was furious over there; being pinned down by a man was a huge insult to him.
"Give me Shiro!" he shouted.
In a panic, I threw Shiro away.
After grabbing Shiro, Mu Xuanche lunged it toward the female ghost, Pig Face.
With a fierce thrust, he severed half of the ghost's head completely.
Then, Mu Xuanche slashed Shiro across his arm, coating it with some black blood before stabbing at the remaining half of the ghost's head.
"Ah!"
The ghost screamed as a flash of red light appeared. Her body emitted a crimson glow and slowly vanished like dust.
After dealing with the ghost, Mu Xuanche rushed over to save me, yanking the man who had been pinning me down off of me.
With his other hand, he grabbed the man's intestines and pulled them out in one swift motion, as if venting his anger.
Mu Xuanche swung his knife and severed all the intestines before decapitating the man with a swift kick.
The man's skull collided with the wall, shattering apart.
A wisp of blue smoke drifted from the man's bald neck. The female ghost attempted to flee but was seized by Mu Xuanche and thrown to the ground, revealing her true form.
He lifted his foot and stomped down hard on the ghost's body. He pressed down relentlessly until her entire form caved in before finally releasing his foot.
Then he crouched down and plunged Shiro into the center of the ghost's forehead.
The female ghost didn't even let out a cry; she, like the previous one, was instantly obliterated.
Now he stood before us like a bloodthirsty demon, walking towards us.
"Gu Yanxi, stop him quickly; he's about to turn into a demon."
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