He started by brutally defeating the demon lady, and the passersby were terrified!

It's an unyielding smile!

Don't get the wrong idea!

That being said, it really is a demon!

Because the Demon-Suppressing Tower, which had been dormant for twenty-two years, finally lit up!

So how do we contain it!

He remembered his mission: capture the first monster to activate the Demon-Suppressing Tower and obtain the reward! Should he just pick up his sword and kill it?!

[Monsters can be categorized into ghosts, monsters, and demons. Among them, those whose souls linger are ghosts, those whose objects are abnormal are monsters, those whose events are abnormal are demons, and those whose phenomena are extreme are demons. The current being is a ghost whose soul lingers; defeating its true form in the well will automatically contain it.]

As expected, he was killed, but the real body in the well had to be cut down.

Meng Yan's hand, gripping the machete, veins bulging, chopped off the rivets sealing the well!

"My lord, since you have saved me, I will serve you well tonight."

Seeing Meng Yan hesitate, the female ghost in the cheongsam was a little worried and was about to cast another spell. However, she did not expect that he would cut off the loose seal the next second. Her graceful figure, like a water snake, coiled around Meng Yan and smiled wickedly.

"Whoosh—"

In an instant, a gust of cold wind swept through the old house, raising dust everywhere.

"call out--"

Suddenly, in the next second, a wood-chopping knife struck the female ghost.

"My lord, what are you doing???"

The female ghost was stunned!

The next instant.

She saw the boy leap into the dry well.

"So, my lord wants to come down here for a secret rendezvous with me? Then let's find out how my body is right here in the well~"

Bottom of the well.

It was a graceful, fair-skinned body. She was wearing a red cheongsam, but the cheongsam was slit up to her waist. Some parts were no longer just faintly visible, but completely exposed. She bent over and a patch of snow-white skin hung down to Meng Yan's ear, blowing on it.

She believed that no man in his prime could resist such temptation, let alone a virgin boy.

"Young lady, is this your original body?"

Meng Yan tilted his head and asked curiously, his lips, which were harder to suppress than an AK, were now completely relaxed, and his blood was surging.

"Hmm~, this is my body, my lord can ravage it as he pleases..."

The woman, striking seductive poses, smiled alluringly; once she ate this blood offering, she would…

"call out--"

However, before she could even utter the word "torture," a wood-chopping knife came crashing down. One strike, two strikes, three strikes—a barrage of blows rained down on the female ghost!

"ah--!"

The female ghost who was slashed was first stunned, and then a mournful scream rang out.

The flesh and blood gradually faded away, turning into a skeleton. The ethereal voice echoed in the well, carrying endless chills, as if it came from the deepest hell, making people's hair stand on end!

"Seventeen years! Do you know how I've spent these seventeen years! I've finally found the real ghost! Don't run! Let me kill you! Hahaha! Hahahaha!!!"

Looking at this skeleton, the female ghost discovered that he was even more excited than the pale, fleshy body he had just seen!

"Bang! Bang bang!!"

The blade cleaved the withered bones—one strike! Two strikes! Three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine—countless strikes…

Demon!

This scene is absolutely horrifying!!

She finally realized that she seemed to have attracted a madman!

She hid!

He chased after him!

She couldn't escape that chilling laughter!

The madman didn't stop for a moment, hacking wildly with a machete. Blood mist swirled around him. She tried her best to run away, but the next second she discovered that the machete in his hand was also glowing.

It even locked onto my body; no matter how I ran, I couldn't escape!

She panicked at that moment.

What kind of monster have I summoned?!

She began to beg for mercy desperately.

She began to recount her grief!

But the frenzied chopping with the machete never stopped, and the laughter grew louder and louder! Until the century-old skeleton was chopped into dust!!

A deserted house by a dry well.

"Gurgle—"

Cheng Yun and Song Wei stared at the scene below the well, listening to the man laughing wildly as he chopped the bones into dust with a knife. They were dumbfounded, their scalps tingling, and they swallowed hard.

They originally thought the blood spirit was doomed and came to rescue it, but who would have thought they would see such a horrifying scene.

"This...this can't be a fugitive serial killer, can it?!"

Song Wei bit her finger.

Although he had only worked for the Bureau of Mysterious Cases for less than three months, he had seen and experienced a great deal.

But the scene before her eyes was something she had only ever seen in horror movies about murder and dismemberment—it was too violent, too insane!

"A demon hunter who escaped from a mental hospital, perhaps..."

Cheng Yun felt numb all over.

On the surface, he's a cute, innocent-looking young man, wearing black glasses and appearing gentle and weak, but in reality... you wouldn't believe he doesn't have schizophrenia! He's incredibly violent and volatile!!

He smashed the female ghost's complete remains into dust with a machete, chopping them like dumpling filling.

This doesn't seem like something someone with this image would do.

This is like a schizophrenic who escaped from a mental hospital; their other personality is a violent maniac!

Especially the way he was laughing while hacking away—compared to this serial killer, he's a complete idiot! A real butcher!!

Most importantly, they arrived early.

He heard the female ghost call him "my husband" with his own ears.

Moreover, they heard the other party call the female ghost "beauty"... This was quite normal at first, a typical scene where a man is seduced by a female ghost, and in a hallucination, he is drained of his yang energy and becomes a monster's blood food. They had encountered something similar before, but the next sentence, "Let me kill you," even made the female ghost's CPU spin.

Especially that swift, decisive strike of the woodcutter's axe!

In the well.

[Contains a demon: the evil spirit of the dry well]

A voice, seemingly emanating from heaven and earth, resonated in my ears!

The Demon-Suppressing Tower, which had been dormant for seventeen years, flew in from afar, spinning in mid-air, and drawing out a wisp of black energy from the shattered bones.

[Successfully contained; the Demon-Suppressing Tower has been activated and its refining function has been awakened.]

[Currently, the Dry Well Demon can be refined.]

Meng Yan felt as if he had entered the inner space of the Demon Suppression Tower.

A beam of light trapped a hideous female ghost, and a large "Refine" icon appeared above it.

In other words, once a demon is captured and placed in the Demon-Suppressing Tower, it can be refined.

Meng Yan was a little curious.

But I decided to give it a try.

[Successfully subdued the evil spirit of the dry well. Congratulations on obtaining the Five Ding Woodcutter's Knife.]

Unfamiliar golden runes lit up inside the tower.

Immediately afterwards, they all released a burst of light and converged, and in an instant, the evil spirits disappeared. An ancient voice, seemingly from the heavens, rang out, and at the same time, characters resembling seal script appeared before Meng Yan's eyes.

Five Ding Chopping Knife!

At this moment, he was searching his mind for folk tales and legends he had read in order to deal with the demons.

He knew about the Five Ding Opening the Mountain, but he was really confused about the Five Ding Woodcutter's Knife. The so-called Five Ding Opening refers to the story of five strongmen from the ancient Shu Kingdom who overcame countless dangers to carve out a passage between Qin and Shu.

Legend has it that the ancient Shu king was incompetent, and the Qin king wanted to take advantage of the situation to attack him. However, the two places were not connected, so he used a fake golden ox to lure the king. The Shu king thought it was a real golden ox and was overjoyed. He then sent five famous strongmen in the country with the strength to move mountains and overturn seas to open up the mountains and build a road, dragging the stone ox all the way back to the capital. This is known as the Five Ding Opening the Mountain.

The road that transported the stone ox was the ancient Jinniu Road, also known as the Jianmen Shu Road.

This is also reflected in Li Bai's poem "The Road to Shu is Hard".

"Alas! How perilous and lofty is the road to Shu, more difficult than ascending to the heavens. Cancong and Yufu, how vague their founding of the state! Forty-eight thousand years have passed since then, and it has not been connected to the Qin region by human habitation. To the west, there is a bird path near Mount Taibai, which can traverse the summit of Mount Emei. The earth collapsed and the mountains crumbled, and brave men died, and then the heavenly ladder and stone plank roads were linked together."

The brave warriors mentioned here refer to the Five Ding. Some historical records also state that the Five Ding were able to open the mountain because they obtained a divine knife. Could this be the Five Ding Woodcutter's Knife?

half an hour.

After successfully refining it, he saw his peach wood knife enveloped in light, then float in mid-air, with many ancient inscriptions appearing on it as if it had been enhanced, and his entire body was inexplicably filled with power.

Brilliant!

Is this the reward for the Demon-Suppressing Tower containing demons?

It was worth it for him to chop that ghost woman into pieces.

As for the other party's pleas for mercy, saying they were miserable, it's just that a ghost is a ghost that harmed people and ate their blood, and no matter how pitiful you were before, you still have to die! It's that simple!!

The only downside is that it would be even better if there were more monsters; the feeling of becoming stronger is truly exhilarating!

Where can I find one? After seventeen years of working on so many things, I've finally come across a real one!

half an hour.

Meng Yan climbed out of the well.

However, Meng Yan, who had just come out, vaguely sensed that a pair of eyes were staring at him from behind.

"snake!!"

He saw it clearly! It was a snake that was entirely yellow with black stripes, and most importantly, its face was somewhat distorted, as if it had a human-like expression.

"call out--"

The opponent was incredibly fast, moving like a blur in the darkness, and was preparing to ambush me!

……