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Chapter 29: Evil Possession
The bad news brought by the young man disrupted the tranquility of Huaigu Village at night.

Liu Shan apologized to Wu Chang, and without caring that he was half drunk, he staggered towards the other end of the village with his men.

Wu Chang naturally would not miss such an emergency and followed everyone to act together.

On the way, he stopped a villager who was using talismans to verify the mountain ghost and asked what happened.

The man who was held back was named Liu Jinfu. He gave Wu Chang a brief explanation.

Ever since the evil spirit began to appear, on the eve of every New Year's Eve, the children and women in the village would be arranged to live on the top of a mountain near the village.

The mountain top has strong yang energy and it is difficult for evil spirits to approach. Only after the New Year's Eve festival is over and the evil spirits are suppressed will the children and women be brought back to the village.

The evil spirits are particularly serious this year. Starting from the past two days, people will be harmed by evil spirits even if they hide on the top of the mountain.

Xiao Ning, who was just mentioned, is the granddaughter of the village chief Liu Shan. She just turned sixteen this year. She is tall and graceful, gentle and lovely, and is the object of admiration of all the young men in the village.

Liu Ning is naturally intelligent. Not only is she loved by Liu Shan, but she is also the apple of the eye of the whole village. If we were to say who in the village was the most unacceptable to be attacked by evil spirits, it would be Liu Ning, besides Liu Shan.

For the young boys in the village, the order is even reversed.

The group left the valley and went up the mountain road. Not long after they left the village, a thin black shadow caught up with them.

He was a young boy, whose facial features showed that he was fourteen or fifteen years old, but due to lack of nutrition, his body was only developed at the level of an eleven or twelve year old.

He was wearing a ragged singlet with straw hastily stuffed inside to keep warm, and straw sandals that leaked air on his feet. As he ran, he clapped his hands and shouted:
"Fire, fire dragon, the fire dragon is coming up the mountain again! The immortal is coming!"

"Run! Run!"

"lively!"

"Hee hee hee……"

Liu Shan and the others were concerned about Liu Ning, so they went up the mountain without looking back. However, Liu Jinfu could not stand the boy's noise, so he picked up a stone and threw it at him, shouting coldly:
"Shut up!"

The boy was hit on the forehead by a stone, and his feet were unstable, so he sat on the ground. The boy shed tears in pain, but he still had a silly smile on his face and kept repeating "fire, fire, fire..."

Wu Chang glanced at the young man and asked in confusion, "Who is he?"

Liu Jinfu spat, "This unlucky guy is a fool. The village chief was kind-hearted and wanted to take him in as a village guardian to protect him from disasters. But he is so unlucky that he can survive by eating grass roots and drinking dew when he got lost in the mountains. Instead, he brings unrest to the whole village."

"He can still make trouble at this time. I'm afraid he's an evil undercover agent. If anything happens to Xiao Ning, I'll cut off his tongue."

When the two arrived at their residence on the top of the mountain, the atmosphere around them was very depressing. They knew without asking that something had happened.

Passing through the silent crowd, a strong man with a big beard and dressed as a hunter was confronting Liu Shan in the house.

"Uncle Shan, can't you face reality? We can't stand it anymore! In order to avoid the next Xiao Ning, we must start the New Year's Eve Festival in advance!"

"If you can't make this decision, then let me be the village chief and I'll do it!"

Liu Shan was so angry that his lips trembled. He pointed at the strong man and shouted:

"How dare you say that, you bastard? Are you hoping that something bad will happen to Xiao Ning so that you can force me to agree to hold the New Year's Eve celebration in advance?"

Strong man: "I didn't..."

Seeing that the conflict was developing in a more intense direction, Wu Chang interrupted their quarrel with a dry cough.

"Are you here to rescue people or to quarrel? Where are the people? Let me see."

Liu Shan threw away his hand that was pointing at the sturdy man, snorted coldly, turned around and forced a smile, and said to Wu Chang:

"Please follow me to the inner room, hero."

Entering the inner room, Wu Chang saw Liu Ning, whom everyone was talking about.

His first impression of Liu Ning was not as good as Liu Jinfu described.

It’s not about how Liu Ning looked, but that she did not die peacefully.

The girl was possessed by an evil spirit in her sleep. The messy bed showed signs of her struggle. The girl's face was pale and terrified. She struggled all the way from the bed to the ground. During the struggle, she frantically tore her hair, pulling her black hair into bloody patches. Her slender neck was covered with ten dark blue fingerprints. Judging from her posture and fingerprints, she pinched herself to make them.

Once possessed by an evil spirit, there will be residual evil power in the body, and anyone who touches it will soon be attracted by the evil spirit. The deceased must be exposed to the sun for a whole day before the body can be buried, so Liu Ning was still lying on the ground in the posture of his last struggle.

Liu Shan couldn't bear to look at his granddaughter on the ground, so he turned his head away. Even though he was once the toughest man in the village, he could hardly maintain the composure that a village chief should have after being so sad and angry.

Wu Chang was just about to say his condolences when he suddenly had an idea and went forward to examine Liu Ning's body.

This action instantly caused the villagers behind him to explode.

"Master, you can't do that. Xiaoning still has evil spirit in him. Don't touch him easily!" The person who spoke was Liu Shan.

"Stop, what are you going to do to Xiaoning's body!" This was the burly man who had quarreled with Liu Shan before.

"Hurry up and stay away, otherwise this outsider might go crazy and hurt everyone!" These were the villagers who were watching the fun.

Wu Chang ignored the noise behind him. After briefly checking Liu Ning's condition, he slowly turned around and said, "She is just temporarily frightened. She can still be saved."

"Really?" Liu Shan's eyes showed joy.

Wu Chang nodded.

If Liu Ning can be saved, he will be able to maintain his previous character and gain the support of Huaigu Village.

By the time of the New Year's Eve festival, the whole village will be his home ground.

He pretended to recite a mantra, then shouted "Flag!" and the Soul-Cleansing Flag in his portable space appeared in his hand.

This act of reaching out to grab treasure really shocked the villagers present. The scene instantly fell silent and everyone looked towards Wu Chang.

Wu Chang held the command flag and walked around Liu Ning with special steps, muttering something.

Under normal circumstances, Wu Chang, who has obtained the right to use the Soul-Cleansing Flag, can use his own energy to drive the flag without having to make too much preparation.

However, in order to maximize the utilization of the attributes, he did not allocate the attributes to energy. As a result, if he wanted to drive the command flag, he had to use the method taught by Chi Yuan, using special steps and formulas to drive it.

But because the steps became more complicated, the villagers felt that he had real skills and their eyes were filled with awe.

The command flag was waved three times, accompanied by a faint white light, and the world in front of Wu Chang turned into black and white.

The living are white and the dead are black.

Liu Ning, lying on the ground, looked like a ash between life and death.

Part of the body had turned black, and a white line was running along the body and floating out of the window.

This white thread is Liu Ning's soul.

The evil spirit possessed her and caused her soul to leave her body. If the soul was returned to her body in time, she could still be saved.

Wu Chang held the Soul-Cleansing Flag in his hand and stood in place. With just a thought, his vision extended along the white line inside Liu Ning's body.

His gaze passed through the window, through the safety zone at the top of the mountain, down the mountain to the foot of the mountain.

It was not until he was about to leave the valley that he saw Liu Ning's white soul.

Liu Ning's soul had a confused look on his face as he moved along with a crimson light.

Wu Chang was very familiar with that deep red light spot; it was the resentment with bloody last words.

He first waved the soul-cleansing flag, cutting off the connection between Liu Ning's soul and the crimson light spot, and guiding Liu Ning's soul back to his body.

Then his eyes locked onto the crimson light, his eyes filled with curiosity.

This was the first time he had seen a resentment that was not dependent on others and could act on its own.

Let me see what you are.

(End of this chapter)