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

On the armchair sat a middle-aged man dressed in a black Tang suit.

He was still holding a drumstick in his hand, and was idly tapping a large, dark yellow drum in front of him.

And this man was none other than Second Uncle, Chen Qingguo!

Behind him stood a woman dressed in Miao ethnic clothing.

This woman felt very unfamiliar to me; she wasn't the Miao woman I had met that night.

Her face was covered by a black veil, her figure was alluring, and she was playing with a small, bright red snake in her hand, coldly watching the villagers kneeling below the stage.

"Goodness..."

Li Qing, standing beside him, gasped, muttering to himself, "This is a human sacrifice! He wants to use the lifeblood of the entire village to force-feed that Gu King!"

At this moment, the second uncle on the stage seemed to realize something, and suddenly stopped playing the drumsticks.

He slowly raised his head, his gaze passing through the crowd in the square and landing precisely on the low wall where we were hiding.

At that moment, a smile appeared on his face.

"Nephew, now that you're back, why hide?"

His voice was hoarse and grating, echoing in the deathly silent square. "Your second uncle has prepared a big gift for you, and he's waiting for you to come and accept it."

As soon as he finished speaking, the villagers who had been kneeling motionless on the ground suddenly turned their heads in unison.

Hundreds of eyes, with only the whites showing, stared intently at us.

"roar--"

A non-human roar erupted from their throats, and hundreds of people sprang to their feet at the same time, like a pack of mad beasts, rushing towards the low wall!

My second uncle made a decisive decision, giving us no chance to react even for a second.

Li Qing and I didn't even know how we were discovered.

However, there's no time to think about that now.

As I watched those familiar faces rush towards me, I clenched my fists and then relaxed them.

Erhu, the village chief, and even the old shaman were among them.

With a slight twitch of my sleeve, I had already gripped the scalpel tightly in my hand.

Just as I was preparing to force my way through the villagers' blockade and strike at the heart of the enemy's lair, a loud shout suddenly came from behind me.

"Get out of the way!"

Unbeknownst to me, two tiny worms had flown right in front of me, no more than three inches from my eyeballs!

I swung the willow-leaf knife in my hand completely subconsciously, directly severing the Gu worm.

Before I could even feel relieved, the villagers had already rushed in front of me.

Just then, I heard a crisp "click," the sound of a spring snapping open.

A vast and upright aura instantly erupted from behind me.

I rolled to the side, narrowly avoiding the villagers' attack.

Looking back, I saw that the black box that Li Qing had brought was fully opened and lying flat on the ground.

The box contained five small, palm-sized, apricot-yellow flags, each with intricate and obscure runes drawn in vermilion, their surfaces shimmering with a faint light.

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

Li Qing formed hand seals and stepped into the Seven Star Step. His originally handsome face now displayed a solemn and dignified appearance. "Five Directions of Ghosts and Gods, heed my command! Suppress!"

As he uttered the last word "town," the five apricot-yellow flags rose without wind, transforming into five streams of light that accurately shot towards the five directions of the square: east, west, south, north, and center.

Om-!

A visible ripple suddenly spread through the air.

The next second, an unbelievable scene unfolded.

The villagers who had been frantically attacking and biting were frozen in place, like a movie scene that had been paused.

The entire square fell into a deathly silence.

"Chen Yang!!"

Li Qing's face was deathly pale, and veins bulged on his forehead, clearly indicating that maintaining this formation was extremely taxing on him.

He gritted his teeth and roared, "I can only hold them in place for one minute! If you don't want to collect the corpses of the whole village, go and kill that bastard who's banging the drum!"

Thanks!

Without uttering a single word, I pushed off the ground with both feet and shot forward instantly.

One minute!

Time was tight, but it was enough.

I weaved through the stiff crowd like a fish, surrounded by familiar yet distorted faces.

Twenty meters!

Fifteen meters!

The second uncle, sitting on the armchair, clearly hadn't expected Li Qing to have such methods, capable of suppressing a riot involving hundreds of people in one fell swoop.

A flicker of panic crossed his sinister face, which quickly turned into an even deeper ferocity.

"Impressive tactics! I underestimated you!"

Uncle snorted coldly, and suddenly changed the rhythm of the bone mallet in his hand.

It was no longer that slow, muffled sound, but a series of rapid, torrential drumbeats.

Thump thump thump thump—!

The drumbeats no longer spread to control the villagers, but instead coalesced into a single beam, like an invisible hammer that slammed down hard on my chest.

"puff!"

As the drumbeats entered my ears, I felt as if my heart had been squeezed hard, and a sweet taste rose in my throat, almost causing me to spit out a mouthful of blood.

The voice was filled with intense resentment and malevolence, piercing straight to my brain, and even causing my vision to blur.

If an ordinary person were to be struck like that, they would probably die from a broken heart.

However, I have already pushed the evil energy within me to its limit!

I felt as if there was a fire burning inside my body, and the evil energy that had invaded my body was forcibly refined by the evil energy within me.

Ten meters!

Five meters!

I could clearly see the look of terror on my second uncle's face, and even the strange patterns on the drum.

In the blink of an eye, only ten seconds had passed.

"How is that possible?!"

My second uncle cried out in shock, "He's still moving after being hit by the Soul-Severing Drum?!"

I had no desire to waste words. I stepped onto the platform and soared into the air.

Meanwhile, the scalpel in my hand flashed a cold light in the air, aiming straight for my second uncle's right hand that was holding the drumstick!

However, at this moment, the Miao woman who seemed to be watching from the sidelines finally made a move.

With a gentle lift of my hand, the small, crimson snake lunged at my face.

Before the snake's tongue even reached its tongue, that chilling aura had already swept over.

Faced with such a deadly threat, the instinctive reaction of an ordinary person would be to dodge or defend.

But I didn't, because time was of the essence.

"die!"

I let out a low growl, and just as the red snake was about to bite my neck, my left wrist suddenly jerked.

Who says a corpse stitcher only has one knife?

Another thin, willow-leaf-shaped scalpel slid from my sleeve to my fingertips.

A flash of cold light, so fast it sliced ​​through the air.

"hiss--!"

Before the red snake could even let out a scream, I neatly sliced ​​it in half in mid-air!

Snake blood splattered, seemingly about to land on my face, but at that moment, my aura surged, and the snake blood was repelled by my aura before it could even get close.

At the same time, the momentum of the scalpel in my right hand did not diminish in the slightest.

My second uncle was clearly surprised that I could deal with attacks from both sides in such a flash. His eyes were filled with fear, and he subconsciously raised the drumstick in his hand to try to block.

"Snap!"

A muffled thud was heard.

My scalpel cut through tofu like a knife, first severing the drumstick my second uncle was trying to use to block, and then, with the momentum still strong, slashing hard at his wrist!