Terrifying Heavens: I Slay Demons by Painting Faces

Chen Hengyi returned to Fude Palace, greeted everyone, and then went into his room and never came out again.

It wasn't until after noon that deafening firecrackers went off outside.

Outside, there was a crackling sound and cheers that rose like a tidal wave.

"It's almost time..."

Chen Hengyi put on a Zhong Kui mask, bowed to his ancestral master, and whispered, "Disciple is going now, may the ancestral master bless me."

After he stepped outside, he saw that Master Along had narrowed his eyes, a cigarette holder dangling from his mouth, and a solemn expression.

Lin Junkai was shirtless, his black tiger tattoo was so lifelike it seemed about to leap out of his skin. His expression was calm and he remained silent, yet he exuded a tiger-like aura.

Chen Hengyi walked over and said softly, "Master A Long..."

Master Along looked at the mask on Chen Hengyi's face and was slightly taken aback, but still quickly said, "You should set off now and be back before midnight tonight."

Upon hearing this, Chen Hengyi immediately said, "Let's go!"

He left through the back door and got into the car. At the same time, Lin Junkai also got into the back seat. Instead of sitting upright like a human, he coiled up like a tiger.

"So it turns out Tiger never left."

Seeing this, Chen Hengyi felt relieved; things were settled now!

Turn on the navigation, start the car engine!

The car drove smoothly along the winding mountain road, with the trees on both sides rushing past. Chen Hengyi would occasionally glance at the back seat.

Hmm, Tiger is pretending to sleep.

The village of Chenjia, where the Great Black Buddha Mother resides, is not far from the Fude Palace; it's only a 40-minute drive at a fast pace.

Soon, the vehicle entered a deserted mountain road, overgrown with weeds, as if no one had been here for many years.

The trees on the surrounding mountains were so dense that sunlight couldn't penetrate them. It seemed that only this mountain path was illuminated by the sun, while the rest of the path was shrouded in darkness.

Suddenly, Lin Junkai, who was curled up like a tiger in the back seat of the car, opened his eyes abruptly.

Clang!

The vehicle jolted violently, as if it had hit something, and then became immobile.

In an instant, Chen Hengyi suddenly realized that there seemed to be many pairs of eyes staring at the car from the surrounding mountains and forests.

"Is it here?" he muttered, trying to start the car, but the engine only made a "scratching" sound.

He got out of the car and saw that there was a stone Buddha head stuck under the car!

"A Buddha head!?"

Chen Hengyi looked down and saw that the Buddha head had directly broken the chassis axle.

It's impossible to tell which Buddha or Bodhisattva this Buddha head represents; not only is its face covered in a thick layer of dirt, but the carved lines are also blurry and indistinct.

He looked at it, and suddenly something came to mind: in the original plot of "The Curse".

When Li Ruonan and her group headed to Chenjia Village, it seemed that a statue was stuck in their tires.

He couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

"Is this a warning or a provocation from the Great Black Buddha Mother?"

Chen Hengyi removed the Buddha head, looked at the blurry face, and said, "If it's a divine intervention, my mind is made up and I have nothing to worry about. If it's an evil spirit, Great Black Buddha Mother, you just wait, I'll definitely kill you!!"

He placed the Buddha head aside, but the car wouldn't start.

Chen Hengyi looked ahead and could vaguely see a group of buildings hidden in the mountains.

He turned to look into the car and said, "Master Tiger, would you mind taking a ride?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Junkai suddenly leaped to the ground, and at the same time, a faint tiger phantom appeared on his body, and his figure began to change into the shape of a tiger.

The other party turned around and glanced at Chen Hengyi, nodded in acknowledgment, and let out a deep tiger roar from his throat.

"┗|｀O′|┛Aww~~"

In the next instant, Lin Junkai charged away like a tiger!

He covered dozens of meters in just two seconds, which is incredibly fast!

"Hey, Tiger, wait for me!"

Chen Hengyi hurriedly followed, but two feet obviously couldn't outrun four.

In less than half a minute, Tiger had disappeared at the village entrance.

"No way, is Tiger going to take this on alone?!"

Chen Hengyi had prepared for so long, not to be a driver. He hurriedly ran into Chenjia Village.

As soon as he entered, he sensed that something was wrong.

I suddenly felt an itchy sensation in my nasal cavity, as if dust was hitting my nose, or as if an invisible spider web had brushed against my face. It was very uncomfortable.

But he was clearly wearing a mask.

Looking up, a dark cloud drifted by, perfectly blocking the scorching sunlight.

Chen Hengyi continued walking forward, passing a stilted wooden house from which came a burnt smell.

He glanced to the side and saw more than a dozen charred corpses tightly huddled together, like a black lotus flower.

"These must be villagers who were cursed by the Great Black Buddha Mother and immolated themselves."

Chen Hengyi ignored the corpses and continued walking forward. He knew that the location of the Great Black Buddha Mother was inside a tomb passage on the mountain behind the village.

As they walked, suddenly, a tiger's roar came from the depths of Chenjia Village.

Chen Hengyi suddenly jolted awake: "Tiger Lord, has the fight already started?"

He ran quickly toward the back, just as he rounded a bend.

A naked woman covered in black scribbles suddenly crashed into us.

At the same time, the woman roared, "Fire Buddha Rest One, Heart Sa Wu Mou!!"

Chen Hengyi's pupils dilated, and he instinctively thrust the Demon-Suppressing Golden Spear forward!

Pfft!

"You scared me to death!"

Chen Hengyi gritted his teeth and brandished his golden spear, instantly engulfing the man in flames, turning him into a human torch.

Even so, this person actually opened her arms and hugged him along with the golden spear. Even though her mouth was burned through by flames, she was still shouting: "Fire Buddha Xiu Yi, Heart Sa Wu Mou".

Upon seeing this, Chen Hengyi took a step back, and the Zhong Kui Demon-Slaying Sword instantly appeared in his hand.

"Witch, slay her!"

The Demon-Slaying Sword showed no mercy and beheaded him on the spot.

As soon as the other person's head flew up, a caterpillar the size of an arm crawled out and replaced the woman's head.

It spews out a foul-smelling sap that can extinguish the flames on its body!

"Fire Buddha Rest One, Heart Sa Wu Mou!!" The insect emitted a strange hiss, as if its purpose in appearing was to shout this curse.

Chen Hengyi raised an eyebrow, and the Ghost-Slaying Sword returned in mid-air, instantly slicing the worm in two.

With a thud, the naked woman's body fell heavily to the ground.

The moment she landed, the woman's corpse dissolved into black water.

"What's going on? Their combat strength is so weak."

Chen Hengyi was unclear about the purpose of the Great Black Buddha Mother's arrangement. Holding his sword and spear, he continued towards the back mountain.

Tiger's roar echoed throughout Chenjia Village, but Chen Hengyi had no idea what was happening on the back mountain.

He had no choice but to hurry there.

But before he could take more than a few steps, the charred corpses in the wooden houses suddenly began to tremble, and a cracking sound reached Chen Hengyi's ears.

Suddenly, the charred corpses collapsed, turning into a layer of black charcoal, and nothing else remained.

"Again?"

Just as Chen Hengyi had this thought, a sudden, fierce gust of cold wind blew in.

The next instant, my arm suddenly went numb, and my sleeve felt like it was being torn and bitten by something.

Tear--!

His sleeve was blown into the air by the cold wind and torn into dozens of pieces in the blink of an eye.

It wasn't just my arms; the same sensation spread throughout my body, and my exposed skin felt a burning pain.

At the same time, the flames within him surged, and Chen Hengyi did not hesitate.

He gathered fire in his hand and then suddenly touched the Zhong Kui mask on his face.

At the same time, he swayed and instantly switched into his Zhong Kui costume.

"Waaaaah—Zhong Kui is here! Who dares to be so insolent!"

In the instant he was playing Zhong Kui, the scene before Chen Hengyi suddenly changed. The yin wind materialized, and dozens of fierce ghosts, their bodies ablaze with sparks, with hideous faces, tried to devour him.