This martial arts tournament is time-stopping.

Ye Chu reached out and touched the stone archway, feeling the weight of time that the mountains had accumulated over the years, like a long history book.

However, the traces of erosion on the archway appear sparse, at most a few hundred thousand years old.

So the problem is that he couldn't find the gap where the arch met the mountain rock wall, as if the arch and the mountain were cast as one piece!

"Judging from the degree of erosion over time, this archway was built more than 100,000 years ago! Its offensive and defensive capabilities remain intact to this day!"

Ye Chu's eyes lit up immediately.

In particular, neither he nor his father would be attacked by this legacy.

Anyone who dares to approach, whether it be a bird or beast, a demon wolf, or an evil spirit, will be attacked and reduced to ashes.

This is enough to prove that Ye Chu is the destined person for this ruin!

"What a tremendous opportunity!"

Ye Chu studied the archway for a while longer, but no matter what he tried—whether it was the old trick of dripping blood, exploring mechanisms, or smashing it with stones—he couldn't open the archway.

How to get in became Ye Chu's biggest worry.

The howling wolves echoing across the cliff face gave Ye Chu an even bigger headache.

His original plan was to lure Niu Er and the other wicked servants up the mountain, kill them, and then go to the landlord Yang's house that very night to eliminate them completely, while also looting some valuables and any martial arts manuals that might be there.

Later, I went to the county town, either to learn martial arts or to see Huangtian Temple to see what kind of cultivation method it was.

Although Niu Er and his wicked servants are dead, the evil spirit that controls the wolf pack is blocking the road, so we can't go down the mountain to eliminate it completely overnight.

"The ruins have a concealing effect, which can cover the ghost handprint on my wrist... It seems that this evil spirit is just lingering on the cliff top because it has no target."

"Once the sun rises tomorrow morning, all evil spirits will retreat, and we can descend the mountain!"

"But I need to take advantage of the time before others realize Niu Er and the others are missing and become wary, to quickly eliminate the Yang family and plunder their wealth!"

"Then I'll go to the county town to see how to remove this ghostly handprint on my wrist..."

As for the possibility of being wanted by the authorities for murder?

That landlord Yang was practically begging on his doorstep for this special hidden land.

If Ye Chu doesn't fight back, is he going to stick his neck out and invite someone to chop it off?

Killing must stop killing!

Besides, since they've already nipped the weeds in the bud, why would anyone report Ye Chu to the authorities?

"Sigh~, why force me to turn to evil?"

Ye Chu lay down against the stone archway, using the sky as his blanket and the earth as his mat, to catch up on his sleep.

……

As dawn broke, the chirping insects were devoured by the early birds, their bickering disrupting the peace of the entire forest.

When Ye Chu awoke, he saw the mountain mist dissipate as the sun rose in the east.

Looking up at the cliff top again, the wolves had already vanished.

"The evil spirits are gone; it's time to descend the mountain and wipe out the entire clan!"

As Ye Chu climbed up the cliff face to the top, he saw more than a dozen wolf carcasses lying on the ground, their life force drained and reduced to skin and bones.

Last night, even though he was standing far away, he saw Wang Erdan split the wolf's head open with an axe, but then the big gray wolf, which had lost half of its brains, bit off its neck.

At that time, it would be clear that what they encountered was not a wolf demon, but an even more sinister evil spirit!

Fortunately, evil spirits avoid the daytime and only operate at night.

"These dozen or so wolves have been dead for a long time, and the essence of time has almost completely dissipated from them..."

Ye Chu didn't mind at all, and urged the Spring of Time to take a big breath.

[Base Bone: 10→11]

[Time and Rhythm: 12.3→12.4]

They then ran down the mountain along the sunniest route. When they passed the spot where they had first encountered the pack of wolves the night before, there were still some bloodstains on the ground and leaves, but Wang Erdan's remains were nowhere to be seen.

"It's better that I haven't seen it, so I don't have to destroy it myself."

As we continued down the mountain path, we could see figures moving about and working in the fields in front of the village.

As Ye Chu rushed to the foot of the mountain, he suddenly stopped. The village behind was too quiet!

There were no crickets chirping, no birds chattering, no mosquitoes buzzing, and no children playing with a yellow dog!

All was silent, eerily so!

And the ghostly handprint on his wrist exuded a chilling coldness!

"After that evil spirit left from the cliff top last night, it won't have entered the village, will it?"

Ye Chu didn't dare to enter the village directly. Instead, he ran towards the front of the village along the dividing line between the quietness of the village and the noise of the mountains and forests.

"Brother Ye, why are you running in the woods? Why aren't you going back to the village?"

After a moment of mental confusion, Ye Chu saw Wang Erdan, with his head tilted, standing by the shaded wall of Wu Hunter's house, happily greeting him.

At the same moment, Ye Chu felt his mouth, hands, legs, feet and other parts of his body begin to move out of control. He raised his hand to greet them as he walked toward Wang Erdan in the shadows.

"Erdan, I..."

Ye Chu suddenly bit his tongue, a sharp pain shooting into his brain, instantly clearing his confused mind.

"The Japanese devils have really invaded the village!"

Stop time for me!

Ye Chu manipulated a bit of the Daoist energy of time within the Spring of Time, creating a time-pausing zone with a radius of one meter that enveloped Wang Erdan.

Subsequently, Ye Chu was no longer disturbed by mental interference.

Relying on his ability to stop time, he ran to the wall and moved the time-stopped corpse of Wang Erdan and the evil spirits hidden inside to be exposed to the sunlight in front of the wall.

"No, we're in a time-stopped zone, where even light is frozen!"

"Unless I am something I touch myself, I can't move..."

Ye Chu had no choice but to personally guide a ray of sunlight through the time-stopped area and onto Wang Erdan's corpse. It did cause a slight burning effect, but not much.

So far,

Ye Chu's skills and imagination were completely ineffective against this evil spirit that could possess people and wasn't particularly afraid of sunlight.

He had no choice but to leave two points of time-based Daoist energy to maintain the time-stopping state. He also stopped by the hunter Wu's house to take a look, and found that the whole family had died on the bed after their life essence had been drained.

"Alas, human life is as worthless as grass!"

Ye Chu sighed, took away the two points of Time Dao Aura left by the Wu family, and also took the Three Stone Ox Horn Bow hanging on the wall. He then continued running towards the large area of ​​sunlight in front of the village.

25 seconds later, Ye Chu left the back village and entered the front village, bathed in sunlight.

Meanwhile, birds sang on the branches, insects chirped in the grass, and occasionally a dog barked. Coupled with the carefree laughter of children, the village was full of a vibrant atmosphere of life.

"Luckily, I took a stroll up the mountain last night and lured the evil spirit and wolf demon to the top of the cliff, where they lingered for a while. If the evil spirit had come down the mountain earlier, not only would the people in the back village have died, but the village in front would have been doomed too..."

After walking a couple more steps, we arrived at the Yang family mansion.

However, with the evil spirit Wang Erdan entering the back village, the entire Qingniu Village will be wiped out tonight, and Ye Chu won't need to exterminate the filthy family!

"But I need to get money from the Yang family and leave Qingniu Village as soon as possible, where it will be attacked by evil spirits once it gets dark. Then I need to go to the county town to find a chance to remove the ghost handprint on my wrist!"

Ye Chu used time stop to avoid the servants guarding the back gate of the Yang family and went straight into the back of the Yang family compound.

Niu Da also approached Madam Yang at this moment:

"Madam, news has come from the master that Master Tang Zhou of Huangtian Temple has stated that no matter who it is, he will not accept anyone as a disciple if they cannot learn the 'Yellow Turban Warrior' technique."

"But Master Tang Zhou examined the young master's physique and found it to be of superior quality. He suggested sending him to a martial arts school to learn martial arts, estimating that he could pass the martial arts examination next year... and in a few years, even becoming a martial arts grandmaster would be within his grasp!"

"The master was delighted and sent Yang Yuan back to fetch 50 taels of silver. He also instructed you, Madam, to select five boys aged 12 to 16 from the village who were willing to sign training contracts, and send them to the Dragon Tiger Hall to learn martial arts, thus laying a foundation for the young master's future!"

Madam Yang was also delighted:

"My son can pass the military examination? This scholar's ancestral graves must be emitting smoke of good fortune!"

"However, fifty taels is not a small amount... Here's what we'll do: Niu Da, you go and gather everyone in the village to select people, and then take those people to escort the silver with Yang Yuan!"

Niu Da went out to gather the whole village to select people, while Madam Yang went into the bedroom to get money.

Ye Chu happened to see this scene when he sneaked into the backyard, so when Madam Yang went to get the money, he used time stop to follow her into the bedroom.