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Chapter 45: End of the Festival
Wu Chang looked at the attribute bar and repeatedly confirmed the side quest.

"Hidden side quest: Find the source of the evil spirit in Huaigu Village."

Although when the hidden mission was triggered, Chi Yuan gave him the Soul-Cleansing Flag, asking him to find and eliminate the source of the evil spirit.

But it is not written in the side quest.

Just like what Gao Xuezhong, the third roommate in the dormitory, said when he secretly ate fried chicken while losing weight, if you don’t say it, it means zero calories!

If the conditions for completing the task are not written, then there are none!
In other words, the main quest and hidden side quests should be able to coexist.

"Main Mission 2: Protect Huaigu Village and complete the New Year's Eve ceremony."

The main quest requires you to protect Huaigu Village and complete the New Year's Eve ceremony.

There are many ways to interpret the requirement of protecting Huaigu Village.

Is it to protect the continuation of the village and the safety of the villagers, or just to protect this piece of land?

It would be easy to just protect the land and buildings.

The evil spirit's abilities are all directed at humans, with little impact on buildings and terrain. The only thing that needs to be guarded against is starting a fire during the battle, which would burn Huaigu Village to the ground.

However, the Sifang Suihuo Lantern has the ability to control fire, so there is no need to worry too much.

If what he wants to protect is the villagers or the continuation of the village, he also has an idea.

After a brief hesitation, he did not further attack the evil spirit, but raised his gun and aimed it at the huge eternal lamp above the open space.

Gunshots rang out, the eternal lamp shattered, and the dungeon fell into darkness.

Without the light, the forty-nine locust trees that surrounded and sealed the evil spirit began to creak, making rotten and bending sounds.

Wu Chang raised the torch and saw the locust trees quickly wither, die, decay, and finally turn into ashes.

He whispered to the evil spirit that had freed itself from the restraint of the Elimination of the Year Formation and was now free from its suppression:
"Go ahead. When will the cycle of revenge end? Remember to uproot the grass at its roots."

There was a rumbling sound of thunder in the red cloud, as if responding to Wu Chang, and then it rushed to the surface.

In the darkness, Wu Chang waved the torch and asked behind him:
"If I continue to perform salvation on it, what will you do?"

"I will do whatever it takes to stop you."

A thin figure walked out of the darkness. It was the village guard of Huaigu Village.

To be precise, he is the only villager from Huaigu Village in the valley at this moment.

The village defender was surrounded by several dark shadows, which were the mountain guardian beasts that escaped in the chaos.

Wu Chang shook his head and said, "This is not your turn to do. If I were you, I would run away immediately without looking back."

"I heard you tell Liu Wu that you can communicate with wronged spirits. I believe you are a good person and will stand on our side." The young village guard said seriously.

Wu Chang: "I remember we agreed that you wouldn't peek at what I was doing in Ghost Crying Forest. Good kids don't lie."

The young village guard gave a sly smile and said, "I have been a liar since I was young. I have never been a good kid."

Wu Chang walked up to the village guard, touched his head, and said in a deep voice:
"Don't worry, after tonight, everything will be over."

The village guard was stunned. He seemed to understand something and tears couldn't stop falling from the corners of his eyes.

Feeling the tears, his body subconsciously trembled. He wiped his face with his hands while forcing a silly smile.

Wu Chang grabbed the village guard's hands, shook his head, and said, "It's no longer necessary."

After a brief silence, heart-wrenching cries echoed throughout the dungeon.

The sudden release of emotions that have been suppressed for a long time will surely be an explosion like a tsunami.

It took a long time for the young village guard to regain control of his emotions.

Wu Chang saw that the young village guard was in a stable mood, so he asked, "You can enter the crypt, do you know other ways to the surface?"

The young village guard nodded and took out a pangolin from his pocket. "It can lead us out."

"Let's go, we should go upstairs. We still have a debt to settle."

The formation of the bottomless cave in Hollow Mountain was due to the dragon turning over five years ago.

The underground cave is so complicated and intricate, like a natural maze, that it is difficult for ordinary people to find the exit.

But because the route to the underground cave is complicated, as long as you can identify the underground route, you can go directly to the underground cave from any mountain around Huaigu Village.

Wu Chang followed the young mountain guard all the way. They came out of a cave, peeled away the weeds surrounding the cave entrance, and found that outside was Chunlai Mountain.

He took out a small package from his space backpack and stuffed it into the mountain guard, saying:
"The village is too dangerous. No matter what the outcome today, you should not stay here any longer. I have parked Liu Wei and Liu Wu's horses outside the village. You will see them if you walk east for a while."

"This is the spice I had left over from the other day. If you find someone who knows its value, you can exchange it for an equal amount of gold. Take it, you will need it in the future." The young mountain keeper held the package, not knowing what to say for a moment.

Wu Chang smiled and said, "Among the people I know, those who can pretend to be crazy and stupid for years and endure humiliation for revenge have all become famous figures that attract worldwide attention. I believe you will not be worse than them! Go ahead."

The young mountain guard wanted to say a lot, but didn't know how to express it, so he fell to the ground and kowtowed heavily.

"Hero Wu, please take care of yourself."

After seeing off the young mountain guard, Wu Chang extinguished the torch and sneaked back to Huaigu Village.

He found a high ground and spied on the current situation of Huaigu Village.

Soon he found Liu Shan.

After a surprise attack and knocking him into a cave, Lao Deng stopped pretending at all.

At this moment, Liu Shan seemed to be twenty years younger. He was wearing black leather armor and silver claw gloves on his hands. He moved as fast as the wind, and his palms could break stones and split rocks.

The former big boss took action again, making the bandits excited.

One of the two New Year's lucky charms controlled by evil spirits has died, with his head twisted off by Liu Shan.

The other man was also dying. The scales on his body that could withstand ordinary swords and knives were like nothing under Liu Shan's eagle claws.

There were seven or eight fist-sized bloody holes on the chest and lower abdomen of the lucky charm recipient, with his bones and internal organs clearly visible. His defeat was only a matter of time.

Liu Shan only used one hand to fight the two New Year's Eve winners.

His other hand was in a position of holding up the sky, holding up the four-sided New Year fire lamp. Under the illumination of the blazing New Year fire, the evil red cloud that had escaped from the predicament was firmly suppressed.

Liu Shan used his fingers like a knife to pierce the chest of the last person who received a New Year's gift. He took out his heart and stuffed it into the four-sided New Year's lamp, converting it into lamp oil.

The lucky charm had been removed. Liu Shan looked up at the red cloud above his head and said with a grim look on his face:

"I offered you up as mountain gods, but you refused and turned into evil ghosts to bite me to death! In that case, today I will turn you into lamp oil and destroy your souls, so that you will never be reincarnated again!"

The evil spirit divided part of its power into the bodies of the three lucky people, and was severely injured by Wu Chang's Soul-Cleansing Flag. It is now in a weak state.

Liu Shan transformed the evil spirits of the two New Year's lucky charms into lamp oil, and the New Year's lamps were burning brightly in all directions.

As one grows stronger, the other shrinks. The sky-high fire sweeps up the blood clouds, and it actually has the potential to refine the evil spirits.

Just when the evil spirit was about to be unable to withstand the burning of the fire of the year, the gate of Huaigu Village was knocked open by a huge force, and three monsters roared and ran into the village.

The three monsters are all old acquaintances. They have all appeared in the resentment of the dead in Chenjia Village.

One is a monkey with a ghost face and its body is shining with yellow light; one is a tree demon with roots like feet and branches like swords; one is a snake demon with its body made of fine iron, and its scales make metallic friction sounds when it swims.

The three monsters rushed into Huaigu Village and started killing people just like they did when they attacked Chenjia Village.

The most capable mandrill among them immediately set its sights on Liu Shan.

A man and a monster fought together.

Liu Shan's claws are sharp enough to easily penetrate scales and leather armor, and are extremely lethal to humans and humanoid monsters.

But the disadvantage of claw skills is that the killing distance and range are short.

An inch shorter, an inch more dangerous. The claws, which are dangerous and unpredictable when used on humans, seem a little humorous when facing a four-meter-tall mandrill.

Not to mention that his claw skills cannot break the mandrill's armor. Even if he inserted his entire palm into the mandrill's body, how much damage can it cause to the mandrill's huge body?
Liu Shan's iron claws were just like scraping the mandrill, but the mandrill's fists would kill Liu Shan if it touched him, and would injure him if it just rubbed against him.

After a few rounds, Liu Shan realized that he had no chance of winning, so he turned around and fled.

The title of Feiyunying is not undeserved. When he displays his agility, even a mandrill cannot catch up with him.

With a few jumps, he shook off the mandrill and escaped into the mountains.

Seeing that it was difficult to catch up, the mandrill had to give up the chase unwillingly, roared helplessly at Liu Shan's back twice, and turned around to kill back to Huaigu Village.

Inside the mountain, the mandrill could no longer be seen.

Liu Shan got rid of the mandrill and was about to stop to catch his breath when suddenly a loud noise came from the side.

boom!
Liu Shan's body shook. He lowered his head and saw a bloody hole in his abdomen.

He only felt that all his strength was rapidly flowing away through the hole, and no matter how he covered the wound, it was irreversible.

Just as he took out the golden medicine from his pocket and wanted to stop the bleeding of the wound, he heard a voice that he shouldn't have heard.

"Please listen to the question. As a villain, how can you smile in a way that fits your character?"

(End of this chapter)