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Chapter 43 Sending Buddha to the West

Wu Chang returned to Huaigu Village, pretended nothing had happened, and continued to wait outside the villagers' residential area.

The shouting and screaming coming from the direction of the New Year's Eve ceremony gradually weakened, and the result should be coming soon.

After the New Year's Eve celebration, how can we convince Liu Shan to complete the side quest?
Before he could come up with a suitable explanation, he saw a villager running towards the residential area, shouting, "Hero Wu!"

The villager was shouting with great enthusiasm, but suddenly a voice came from behind him, which frightened him so much that he shivered.

"what's up?"

The villager turned around and said anxiously, "Mr. Wu, the village chief wants you to come over."

Wu Chang followed the villagers to the ceremony site and immediately saw Liu Shan standing on the altar holding a square fire lamp.

When Liu Shan saw Wu Chang, he felt like he had seen a savior. He hurriedly came forward and introduced the current situation.

As the battle continued, the casualties increased, and the villagers' fear of evil grew.

The increased fear makes the evil spirit more likely to break free from the seal.

The light black evil spirit overflowed from the hollow mountain and penetrated into the bodies of the two people who were controlled by the evil spirit.

The evil energy in the bodies of the people who received New Year's gifts surged, causing them to not only stir up evil thoughts in the villagers' hearts, but also bring disease and plague.

The villagers who were fighting with the New Year's lucky charmers began to show obvious symptoms. Fever, colds, tinnitus, dizziness, and weakness in the limbs were just the basics.

The villagers who were injured by the New Year's lucky charmers would become seriously ill and collapse on the ground, their foreheads would be as hot as red charcoal, and they would cough up blood five times after speaking three sentences.

Under the medical conditions in the ancient context, let alone continuing to fight, ordinary doctors would just utter the three consecutive words of Bian Que when they met him: "I can't cure you," "Wait to die," and "Goodbye."

The villagers not only have to assign people to take care of the wounded, but they also have to be vigilant at all times to see if the people taking care of the wounded are being controlled by evil thoughts and killing the wounded.

As a result of all these things, even though Liu Wei killed a lucky charmer, the villagers were still at a great disadvantage.

Liu Shan asked anxiously, "Master Wu, what should we do?"

Wu Chang's mind raced. The seal in the Hollow Mountain had loosened. Wasn't this the best opportunity to see the source of the evil?
He lowered his eyes, not wanting Liu Shan to see what he was thinking, and said in a serious tone:
"The situation is complicated right now. I want to go to the New Year's Eve formation in the Hollow Mountain to see if there is a way to break the impasse there."

Liu Shan hesitated for a moment and then agreed to Wu Chang's request.

Liu Shan held a square fire lamp, and the light of the fire allowed the two of them to easily move through the pervasive evil spirit.

They soon arrived at the Hollow Mountain. As the seal was loose, the cave was filled with evil spirits.

The two villagers guarding the cave were already cold.

They stood straight, drew the machetes from their waists, and swung them at each other resolutely.

The force of the knife swing was so great that the blunt knife, which was not maintained well, could tear the flesh and embed itself into the opponent's neck.

They watched the blood gushing from each other's necks quietly with happy smiles on their faces.

The two villagers who died together transformed into an archway in front of the cave in this strange posture, welcoming Wu Chang and Liu Shan to enter.

Liu Shan shone the four-sided fire lamp on the two men to purify the evil spirits in them. The two villagers then collapsed and made way.

The situation inside the cave was even worse.

All the villagers who stayed in the cave to maintain the formation were killed. They died in the same way as the two guards, killed by each other, with smiles on their faces.

The animal pens that kept the mountain guardian beasts were also destroyed in the chaos, and the beasts inside disappeared. They must have escaped during the chaos.

Liu Shan looked at the mess in front of him, not knowing whether it was because the stimulation was too great, but he fell into a strange state of numbness.

He turned to look at Wu Chang and asked, "Master Wu, where should we start investigating this?"

Wu Chang pretended to look around, counting on his hands.

He walked around the spot twice, then suddenly stopped and looked at the Stone Buddha.

"According to my observation, the evil spirit is coming out from underground. I wonder if there is still a passage leading to the underground cave in the village. Maybe we can find something there." Liu Shan frowned and shook his head, saying, "Master Wu, the underground is dangerous. Several heroes have entered before, but none of them returned. If you go..."

Wu Chang stretched out his hand to stop Liu Shan from saying anything else.

"It's okay. There are so many tragedies happening in the village right now. How can we, as practitioners, just sit there and watch? Village chief, please don't try to persuade me. I'm ready to fight the evil spirit to the death."

Liu Shan sighed and asked, "Does Wu Daxia really want to go?"

Wu Chang nodded.

"Well, follow me, hero."

Liu Shan brought Wu Chang to the stone Buddha. He put out his hand and pressed on the stone Buddha. Unexpectedly, a secret door appeared in the belly of the stone Buddha.

Wu Chang came to the secret door holding a torch and looked down.

Just as Liu Shan said, there was a bottomless cave under the mountain, which was pitch black and bottomless.

He was about to turn around and ask Liu Shan how to get down when he suddenly heard a strong wind behind him.

From the corner of his eye, he saw that the thin and old Liu Shan was like a vulture at this moment, his body was as fast as a low flying bird. He was five meters away from him just now, but in an instant he was behind him.

The bony hands with distinct joints bent into claws and grabbed his back with one claw.

Under the huge force, he flew into the secret door uncontrollably and fell into the bottomless cave.

Fortunately, although the cave seems bottomless, there is actually a pool of water formed by an underground river thirty or forty meters below.

Thanks to this underground river, he was not killed as soon as he landed.

Relying on his strong physique, Wu Chang used a dog paddle to get out of the pool. He spat out the water in his mouth, his eyes full of surprise.

Liu Shan, the old man, usually looks very old. When the lucky charm changed, he kept hiding behind everyone, looking terrified.

Unexpectedly, he is the strongest fighter in Huaigu Village, and his real strength is even better than Liu Wei.

As expected, a dog that bites doesn’t bark. What a good old dog.

He looked up and saw Liu Shan holding a square fire lantern, looking down at him from the secret door.

"Village Chief Liushan, what do you mean?" Wu Chang shouted at the top of his voice.

"Master Wu, can you still speak? I am really old. When I was roaming the martial arts world, my peers called me Flying Cloud Eagle. At that time, one strike with my claws should have been enough to break half of your bones. I haven't used it for a long time, so my skills are not so good anymore."

Liu Shan, who had taken off his disguise, stood straight with his shoulders stretched and his body relaxed.

His hunched body now looked somewhat sturdy.

"The evil spirits concern the lives of the whole village, young and old, but we trust the talented people from outside the mountain and dare to let them do what they want. Do you know why, Mr. Wu?"

"Why?"

Liu Shan said slowly: "Because the evil spirit is no different from livestock, it is a fool who only has instincts. As long as you feed it, it will calm down and fall asleep again."

"My hero, I will help you to see the Buddha to the west. Since you said you are ready to die, please help Huaigu Village one last time."

After saying this, Liu Shan burst into wild laughter, his laughter was hoarse and piercing, like an old crow.

"Village Chief Liu Shan, wait a minute!" Wu Chang shouted, stopping Liu Shan who was about to leave.

"If Mr. Wu has any last words, please keep them brief. The village is waiting for me to return." Liu Shan said coldly.

"It's nothing serious, just a suggestion."

"What."

Wu Chang cleared his throat and said:
"As a villain, you don't need to laugh so loudly. It doesn't sound right. Go back and practice. I'll test you next time we meet."

(End of this chapter)