What do you mean by saying that the corpses I sew are all ominous creatures?

Without pausing, I turned around and fixed my gaze on the ghost-faced woman standing on the second-floor roof.

Catch the thief first to catch the king.

This old woman is the core of the Night Parade of a Hundred Ghosts; as long as she is killed, these wronged souls will naturally disperse.

I pushed off with my feet, stepping on the rickety tiles, and charged straight at the ghost-faced woman.

At the same time, a fierce clash of spells came from the direction of the third floor.

Li Qing has already engaged in combat with those Southeast Asian sorcerers.

He wielded his magic sword continuously, and streaks of pale golden sword energy crisscrossed, shattering the poisonous snakes and worms that tried to rush into the building.

"Borrowing the power of Heaven and Earth, let the fiery flames scorch the heavens!"

Li Qing shouted, and more than a dozen talismans exploded in the air, turning into balls of blazing flames that forced the two black-robed sorcerers who were approaching to retreat.

But in such a chaotic situation, there are always more variables than plans.

Just as I was about to rush towards the Ghost-Faced Woman, the cool aura between my brows suddenly contracted into a ball.

An extreme sense of danger came from all directions.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

Several sharp whooshing sounds rang out.

That sound...

It's a crossbow!

I abruptly stopped, tumbling in the air as several crossbow bolts, gleaming with a ghostly blue light, grazed my scalp and pierced deeply into the wooden pillar behind me.

The crossbow bolts were clearly coated with a deadly poison, and the wooden post instantly turned black and rotted.

Immediately afterwards, in the shadows on both sides of the street, the doors and windows that were originally closed were smashed open.

A group of people dressed in various styles rushed out.

There are professional assassins who wear tight-fitting combat suits and wield both cold and hot weapons.

There are folk evil cultivators who exude a cold and sinister aura and control paper figures or little ghosts.

There were even a few desperados who looked like members of a local gang in Jiangcheng, carrying shotguns with their barrels sawed off.

They all had one thing in common: their eyes were filled with greed.

Thirty million.

This huge sum of money is enough to drive these people in the industry, who usually hide in the shadows, completely insane.

"Chen Yang, your head is worth thirty million, we'll take it!"

A masked, burly man laughed wildly and fired a shot at me with his hunting rifle.

"Bang!"

The shotgun exploded in the heavy rain.

Without stopping, I dodged the attack with a swift movement of my killing intent.

But then, attacks from several other evil cultivators arrived.

A dozen or so blood-red talismans flew into the air, transforming into a giant blood net that enveloped me.

Two assassins flanked me from the side, their short knives aimed straight for my waist, abdomen, and throat.

On the other side, Li Qing was also surrounded.

Besides the few sorcerers from Southeast Asia, three more assassins skilled in close combat rushed up to the third floor and engaged him in combat.

Although Li Qing's formation was powerful, it was somewhat stretched thin in the face of so many fearless enemies.

"Damn! These bastards must have planned this!"

Li Qing cursed angrily upstairs, his compass sparking as it was smashed by an assassin's iron rod.

The situation reversed instantly.

The ghost-faced woman stood on high ground and let out a smug, eerie laugh: "Chen Yang, this is the human heart."

In the face of money, all talk of prestigious sects and江湖 (jianghu) rules is utter nonsense! Just leave your lives behind!

I landed in the middle of the street, surrounded by menacing assassins and sorcerers.

The mutated demon also got up again, though it was seriously injured, its ferocity was even greater.

The state of being shrouded in affliction was rapidly depleting my stamina.

Desire hummed incessantly in my mind, tempting me to completely relinquish control over my malevolent energy and transform into a beast that knew only slaughter.

I clenched my teeth, pressed my tongue against the roof of my mouth, and forced myself to stay awake.

"Want money? Then trade your life for it."

I uttered a sentence and placed my right hand on the hilt of the willow-leaf knife.

Just then, a dull thud came from upstairs.

That was the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Li Qing jump off the third floor.

He landed not far behind me, carrying a black box that looked very familiar to me.

Li Qing looked disheveled; her pajamas were torn in several places, and there were several bloody marks on her face.

But his peach blossom eyes were surprisingly bright at that moment.

"Chen Yang, catch!"

He shouted and slammed the black box onto the ground.

A "click" sound.

The box lid popped open.

Five apricot-yellow triangular flags flew out of the box and hovered around Li Qing.

These five flags looked ordinary, but the moment they appeared, the sound of the raging rain seemed to subside.

"Heaven and earth, in their natural order, disperse all impurities!"

Li Qing formed an extremely complex hand seal, and the veins on his forehead bulged.

"Five spirits and deities, heed my command! Suppress!"

This is probably Li Qing's trump card.

Back in the ancestral hall of Huilongzhai, he used this very tactic to forcibly suppress the crowd in the entire square.

"Buzz—"

An invisible wave emanated from Li Qing and spread out instantly.

At that moment, the world seemed to have been paused.

The raindrops that were originally falling were strangely suspended in mid-air.

The assassins who rushed towards me remained motionless, their bodies still in the posture of wielding knives, their eyes still filled with greed and ruthlessness.

The roaring mutated demon's enormous feet were still suspended in the air, and the green poisonous mist spewing from its mouth had solidified into a ball.

Even the ghost-faced old woman standing on the second-floor eaves maintained her strange, laughing expression, like a stiff stone sculpture.

Within a radius of thirty meters, time seemed to stand still.

This is an absolute blockage created by a feng shui master who forcibly distorts the local magnetic field and space by extracting the earth's energy.

But I wasn't affected.

Because the moment Li Qing activated the formation, he spared a wisp of his aura to protect me.

"Quick...only ten seconds...these people are all strong..."

Li Qing's voice was extremely weak, with a slight tremor.

Blood began to seep from his seven orifices, clearly indicating that maintaining this formation was an immense burden for him.

ten seconds.

enough.

Without any hesitation, I transformed into a blur.

I didn't pay much attention to dealing with the ordinary assassins around me; they were just cannon fodder.

Bone needles are enough to deal with them.

With a thought, my brow tingled slightly, and the bone needle flew up instantly under my control.

It pierced through the brows of each assassin, leaving behind clusters of blood.

I have only one main goal.

While distracted by manipulating the bone needles, I stepped on raindrops floating in the air, leaped into the air, and drew a bright arc of light with the willow-leaf knife in my hand.

This strike gathered all the remaining malevolent energy in my body.

The blade pierced the solidified air with a piercing explosion.

The ghost-faced woman's pale mask shattered like paper under the blade.

Beneath the mask was an old face covered in wrinkles and dark spots, as hideous as a demon.

Her pupils shrank to a tiny dot, filled with extreme terror, yet she couldn't even move her eyeballs.

"Pfft!"

The scalpel pierced her forehead with precision, the tip emerging from the back of her head.

The violent baleful energy exploded inside her head in an instant, shattering her head and soul to pieces.

Immediately afterwards, I plummeted downwards, my left hand, in a claw-like shape, gripping the head of the mutated demon below.