Heavenly Official Sends Evil

Chapter 879 One o'clock at midnight

Of the four enhancement options, the Holy Flame cannot be selected.

The number of kills mentioned by the Fire Seed should correspond to the description of the 'Long-lasting Flame Character', which states that an item blessed by this talisman will only extinguish its flames after killing three evil spirits.

Wu Xian also has a box of fire-attracting powder, which means he now has four chances. He already has a hard time killing a single evil spirit, let alone using up these four chances.

Therefore, the only remaining options are the fire location and the fire temperature.

After a moment's thought, Wu Xian chose 'Fire Temperature', which could increase the temperature of the flames. Only by increasing the dagger's lethality could he have a chance to use it to kill the evil spirits.

call!
As soon as Wu Xiangang made his choice, the flame on the dagger turned orange-red, and he could feel a distinct burning sensation as he gripped the handle; the temperature had clearly increased.

Not only that, Wu Xian also had a blue mark on the back of his hand.

This means that the Sacred Flame Talisman given by the Sacred Flame Token of Benevolent Words is considered a worship talisman and can be used to activate the effects of the blessing "Surrounded by Stars" and "Three into One".

Even with just this one Sacred Flame Token, Wu Xian can quickly build up his fighting strength.

The happiest person after finding the treasure was Wu Xian.

But Li Xiaohu felt resentful.

They took such a huge risk and even used up his virgin urine, but the treasures they obtained can only be used by Wu Xian himself. Is that fair?

"Let's go check out the inner courtyard," Li Xiaohu suggested, continuing the investigation in hopes of finding a tool he could also use.

Wu Xian agreed, but made one request: "Okay, but we can only search two rooms at most, and then we'll leave the courtyard."

Li Xiaohu asked indignantly, "On what grounds?"

"Time!" Wu Xian replied calmly, "It's almost one in the morning, and something will definitely happen then."

Li Xiaohu continued to question, "After entering the blessed land, none of our phones could be turned on, and there were no clocks on the second floor, so how did you know that the time was almost up?"

Wu Xian sighed, "I was silently counting down the time."

"Nonsense!" Li Xiaohu retorted instinctively.

"enough!"

At this point in the conversation, Liu Nana couldn't stand it anymore. She glared at Li Xiaohu and whispered a rebuke:
"Are you ever going to stop? Can you please stop wasting our precious time trying to survive on your trivial questions?"

Seeing that Chen Chao also looked somewhat dissatisfied, Li Xiaohu finally shut up.

Wu Xian wasn't lying. When he first entered the second floor, he confirmed that the danger of the blessed land was related to a specific time point, so from that moment on, he had been silently counting down the time in his mind.

Wu Xian had specifically trained this ability during his breaks at Fudi.

The silent counting process will require Wu Xian to think for a certain period of time. If there are no major distractions, he can keep the error to about two or three minutes if the timer is set for an hour.

However, there were too many distractions in the blessed land. Wu Xian had paused to count silently when the prisoner girl asked for a kiss. In addition, the old lady appeared frequently, so the error may have fluctuated by up to ten minutes.

To ensure his safety, Wu Xian chose to leave the Ye residence ahead of time.

Li Xiaohu's questioning took up some time, so the group only checked one more room before carrying a large bundle of yellow paper from the main hall of the Ye residence and hurriedly ran to the gate of the Ye residence.

But just as everyone was about to push the door open and go out, Wu Xian caught a glimpse of a red light through the crack in the door!
It turned out that the prisoner was on the left side of the road, checking each of the dolls to see if they could move. This time, the prisoner was obviously using a lot more force in her checks, and even sticking her rotten fingers into the dolls' mouths to pull them. If this method were used on Wu Xian and the others, they definitely wouldn't be able to hold on.

The prisoner lingered there for a moment, then crawled off in another direction with a rustling sound.

The four waited a little longer, estimating that the prisoner had climbed to either the upper or lower path, before Wu Xian and the others pushed open the door and came out. *Knock, knock...*

It's 1 a.m.

The bell tolled from the direction of the small square, and everyone looked in that direction at the same time.

Suddenly, everyone heard the sound of chains rattling and running. The prisoner, accompanied by a sharp red light, suddenly appeared at the crossroads!

This speed is wrong!
She had just entered the bottom lane, why did she suddenly come back?

The sudden appearance of the prisoner Su Qishi startled Wu Xian and the others, but fortunately, she did not attack them. Instead, she ran to the small square and leaped high at the junction of the square and the eastern area, hanging her neck on the rope above the square!

Wu Xian breathed a sigh of relief.

It seems that the prisoner returns to the small square every hour on the hour, giving them a period of safety on the street.

However, will this be the only change made on the hour?

Wu Xian turned around in confusion and quietly pushed open the small door of the Ye residence a crack. Inside, the Ye residence was unusually quiet, as if nothing had happened.

Liu Nana picked up a stone from the ground and threw it into the Ye residence.

click!
The moment the stone hit the ground, all the human skin water bags in the Ye family began to shake violently, not like the shaking when the old lady was drawing water, but like the shaking when she was hit by something!

This reminded Wu Xian of the scene he had seen outside the window of the clothing store on the first floor.

I'm afraid that the Ye residence right now is just like that street, teeming with unseen evil spirits!
……

Wu Xian silently closed the gate of the mansion.

Walking to the Xiao residence across the street, he slightly pushed the door open and threw in a stone, but nothing unusual happened.

Seeing this, Wu Xian pondered silently for two seconds, then said to Chen Chao and the other two:
"Perhaps the anomalies that occur every hour on the hour do not follow a certain order, but rather depend on our location. When the hour arrives, the danger in the area where we are will be activated!"

Next, Wu Xian handed the collected yellow paper to the surrounding puppets. The puppets happily accepted the yellow paper, removed their heads, lit the yellow paper, and threw it into their bodies, so that they could use the ashes to communicate.

Since the ashes were precious, Wu Xian only asked the puppets two questions.

The first question is about the identities of the two corpses hanging in the tree on the east side of the second floor.

After verification by the dolls, the two people were indeed the Wu couple recorded in the county annals. They had hanged themselves after being swindled out of all their money by an evil monk. Even after their deaths, they continued to report the movements of the imprisoned women to the dolls, which shows that the records in the county annals were correct and that the two people were indeed honest and law-abiding.

The second question concerns intelligence about the Lin, Su, and Xiao families.

Wu Xian and his group must find one of the remaining three residences to enter before the prisoner woman comes to inspect the streets again.

The dolls didn't know much about wealthy and powerful families.

All that is known is that the men of the Xiao family are skilled in martial arts, the head of the Su family is known as a 'divine strategist', and the Lin family is the richest in Xuanling County but has a bad reputation.

After careful consideration, Wu Xian and the others decided to explore the Su residence next.

The reason is simple: the prisoner was Su Qi, meaning her original surname was Qi, but she married into the Su family.

So perhaps the Su family mansion holds the key to unlocking the mystery of the blessed land, breaking the prisoner's abilities, and allowing everyone to enter the west side of the second floor!

(End of this chapter)