Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 781

The blinding flashes of light gradually faded, leaving behind a pungent smell of burnt flesh mixed with ozone and the stench of burning flesh.

The entire Pengjia Village looked as if it had been ruthlessly turned over by an invisible giant plow. Radial blackened lines remained on the ground, and the campfires had long since gone out, with only a few embers flickering among the charred remains.

Those venomous snakes and insects that were just moments ago thrashing about have now all turned into a pile of curled, smoking charcoal, with occasional limbs crackling softly in the night wind.

This scene shocked Xiao Zhenye, who was standing not far away, so much that his mouth dropped open. It took him a moment to come to his senses: "Where did this old guy learn the Five Thunder Technique? Wasn't his master a talisman Taoist? He's stopped using talismans and started practicing thunder magic instead?"

As everyone knows, although the Talisman Taoist is a Taoist with a lineage, he is ultimately a wild Maoshan Taoist. He is proficient in talismans and Qimen Dunjia, but thunder magic is the ultimate skill of Taoism. The Talisman Taoist would never have such a skill. Otherwise, when he dealt with Li Jingqi, a few thunder spells would have been too much for Li Jingqi to handle.

Zhao Qingming shook his head upon hearing this, while Zhou Shang shrugged and said, "Don't ask me, I don't know either."

"Why don't we just go down and ask?" Zhao Qingming said, and strode down.

Seeing this, Xiao Zhenye and Zhou Shang followed closely behind.

At this moment, the village was filled with smoke and clouds, but the fog from before had disappeared by more than half and become extremely thin.

The Miao woman collapsed several feet away, while the giant python in front of her had already been blasted into several charred pieces.

Most of her silver ornaments were melted and deformed, half of her body was charred black from being grazed by electric snakes, and her only remaining right arm was firmly supporting her on the ground. Her eyes were filled with horror as she looked at Li Qing.

They were clearly incredulous at the thunder magic unleashed by Li Qing.

Li Qing took off his sunglasses, blinked, and thought to himself, "They're too bright. I'll wear thicker sunglasses next time."

After tucking his sunglasses into his shoulder bag, Li Qing walked up to the woman and asked, "Do you submit?"

A fierce glint flashed in the woman's eyes, and her last remaining hand pressed down hard on the other scarlet bone whistle shaped like a scorpion's tail at her waist!

However, just as her fingertips were about to touch the bone whistle, a marble hit his finger.

"Crack!"

The woman's slender fingers twisted violently, revealing the stark white bone beneath the ripped flesh.

Li Qing's expression suddenly turned cold, and with a flick of his finger, he launched another marble.

This time, the blow landed on the woman's arm, which was supporting her body. The intense pain caused her to lose her balance and fall heavily to the ground.

“Child, I’m old. I don’t have much patience, and I won’t show any mercy to women. If you don’t hand over the Gu Mother, I’ll start smashing you from your ankles until all the bones in your body are broken. If you still don’t talk by then, I won’t ask anymore.”

As he spoke, Li Qing slowly took out two marbles from his bag.

No, this can no longer be called a marble; it should be a steel ball, about the size of the health balls that people usually hold in their hands.

Li Qing casually tossed the steel ball, which whistled through the air and smashed into the wooden door beside him. The light impact produced a loud "bang" and smashed a hole the size of a bowl into the door.

With another wave of his hand, the steel ball bounced back and was caught lightly in Li Qing's hand.

"So, are you going to tell me or not?"

Seeing this, beads of sweat appeared on the woman's forehead. She gritted her teeth and glared fiercely at Li Qing: "The Gu Mother is in the hands of the Priest King. If you kill me, the Priest King will make you wish you were dead. The Priest King has twelve priests like me under his command. You old fool, you've messed with the wrong person."

"Oh!"

Li Qing nodded, glanced back, and saw that Zhao Qingming and the other two had already entered the village.

Li Qing pointed to the three old men behind him: "Hey, don't worry, these three are even better fighters than me."

The woman turned around to look, but before she could see the three people clearly, she heard a whooshing sound and then felt a sharp pain in her forehead.

"Crack!"

Like the sound of a potato chip being smashed, the woman's forehead caved in instantly, brain matter splattered everywhere, and blood gushed out.

Li Qing waved his hand, retrieved the blood-stained iron ball, took out a disinfectant spray, sprayed it a few times, and then took out two pieces of paper to wipe the iron ball clean.

Xiao Zhenye walked over at this moment, glanced at the corpse lying on the ground, and asked, "Did you get the information?"

"Hmm, it's not with her. There's some kind of Priest King behind her, and I guess the Gu Mother is in her hands."

Li Qing wiped the iron ball clean and prepared to put it in his bag.

At this moment, Zhao Qingming took the iron ball, weighed it in his hand for a few moments, glanced down at Li Qing's bag, and immediately curled his lip: "I said you walk like a duck, wagging your tail back and forth, and all you've got in your bag is so much junk?!"

"Hey!"

Li Qing glared at Zhao Qingming, annoyed: "You two have it easy, one of you is a ghost, and the other has transformed yourself into a spirit, both of you are traveling light, saving on food, drink and sanitation along the way. My second brother and I are still mortals, we can't go out without our full gear, we can only stare at each other helplessly when we fight."

"Hahaha."

Xiao Zhenye laughed a few times and pressed on, "Third brother, you're really something, you've even mastered the Five Thunder Technique?"

"What Five Thunder Technique? Take a closer look. If you can't see it, you deserve your bad luck."

Li Qing tilted his head back with feigned profundity, refusing to reveal the secret.

Zhou Shang picked up the scattered metal pellets from the ground, examined them carefully in his hand for a while, and then roughly understood what was going on.

He looked at Li Qing and said, "A lightning-summoning array? Aren't you afraid of striking yourself to death?"

It turns out that the lightning was summoned by Li Qing, but he used a lightning-summoning array, which is quite famous. It is especially well-known in Wild Mao Mountain, but not for a good reason.

Because the lightning summoned by this formation is out of control and only strikes itself.

The Wild Maoshan who created this formation killed himself in full view of everyone.

However, this formation has been passed down.

Li Qing used this formation to summon lightning, but the old man used the marbles he had previously shot out to forcibly split the lightning into countless currents, forming a large net.

Zhou Shang picked up the marble in his hand and could see that it was engraved with a very delicate texture, which were small lightning-attracting spells.

Therefore, it appeared that Li Qing had unleashed a thunder spell.

In reality, they used an array to carry out an extremely complex operation. If they made even the slightest mistake, Li Qing would be reduced to ashes.

Upon hearing Zhou Shang's words, Xiao Zhenye couldn't help but give him a thumbs up: "No wonder people in the martial arts world call you guys 'Wild Maoshan,' you guys are the ones who do it best."

Li Qing sighed: "I can't compare to you guys. Since ancient times, those who have learned unorthodox methods have all succeeded by risking their lives."

At this moment, Zhao Qingming's figure suddenly flashed several times, and a few screams were heard from the village. A moment later, Zhao Qingming returned.

With a flick of his sleeve, the marbles that Li Qing had previously shot out were all thrown back into Li Qing's bag.

"It's almost dawn, let's go."

Zhao Qingming wasn't afraid of dawn; he possessed the body of a celestial being and didn't care about that.

But the fourth one is no good. This guy is on the path of ghosts, and he's only half-baked. If he's exposed to the sun, it will severely damage his vital energy.

Since there was no Gu Mother in this village, they didn't linger and immediately set off to leave.

Before leaving, Zhou Shang thought for a moment and hid two paper figures at the entrance of the village.

As dawn approached, the four of them had already returned to Amei's house, and Xiao Zhenye and Zhao Qingming went back into the jar.

As for Zhou Shang and Li Qing, they lay down in the bedroom on the second floor of Amei's house and had a good sleep. After all, they were getting old and had been up all night. They fell fast asleep soon after lying down.

Wait until noon.

The two then heard a series of urgent shouts coming from outside the house.

However, the two didn't pay any attention and just went to sleep.

The gate of Pengjia Village was already crowded with pedestrians, but no one dared to go in.

Even the local police rushed over and set up a cordon outside the village.

A delivery truck from "None Delivery" was parked far away nearby.

However, the police officers did not enter the village; they simply stood outside and waited, because the matter was beyond the capabilities of ordinary police officers.

It should be company personnel involved, but given the special nature of this village, the company wouldn't directly intervene.

Inside the village, an old woman squatted down, her fingers slowly tracing the radiating, charred lines on the ground.

Feeling the lingering tingling sensation and the subtle gritty feeling coming from my fingertips.

Her eyes were cloudy yet sharp, as if they could pierce through the charcoal ash on the ground. She said, "Such domineering thunder magic, are you a Taoist?"

"High Priest, we've always kept to ourselves and the Taoists, so why would we suddenly provoke them into attacking us?"

A girl in her early twenties stood beside the old woman. Looking at the marks on the ground, she was more inclined to believe that the other person was a beginner.

"Well water doesn't interfere with river water?" The old woman let out a low, hoarse laugh, like the rubbing of withered leaves. "The true Taoists certainly love tranquility, but in this world, it's not only famous mountains like Longhu and Wudang that produce Taoists."

Her cloudy gaze swept over the large number of curled-up, smoking, charred insect corpses on the ground, then turned to the charred remains of several giant pythons in the distance, no longer resembling snakes. The muscles on her face twitched involuntarily.

"The High Priest!"

At this moment, two young men wearing "None Delivery" uniforms walked over.

"High Priest, we agreed beforehand that the company can investigate this matter, but we won't tell you the results. If we find any information, we can help you mediate. What do you think?"

"Not much."

The old woman snorted coldly and then said, "I understand the rules. Matters of the martial world should be settled within the martial world. Don't worry, we won't involve the innocent. But whoever the other party is, they will not escape death."

"Yes Yes Yes."

The two company employees didn't argue with the other party; they were just there to go through the motions, mainly to prevent these people from causing trouble and implicating innocent people.

As for who did it and what their purpose was, the company doesn't really care.

Of course, even if we don't care, we still need to investigate. After all, such a powerful expert suddenly appeared and killed more than a hundred people in an entire village. Even if the villagers weren't from this world, we can't just kill innocent people like that.

The two got into the car, and the young man in the driver's seat fastened his seatbelt: "Let's go, we'll go back and prepare to investigate the surrounding villages, focusing on people with accents from other places."

(End of this chapter)