The Infant Spirit Is Stunned

Ghosts possessed all kinds of methods, but when it came down to any particular ghost, its repertoire might be rather sparse.

Methods like Illusion Technique were something ghosts large and small might know a little of, but put plainly, they were merely tricks to blind the eye. Using illusions to kill people was still somewhat difficult.

Only high-ranking ghosts mastered those terrifying and bizarre arts that made people tremble at the very mention of them. Most ordinary ghosts still had to use spiritual power to manifest their incorporeal forms into physical bodies before they could attack humans.

For weak ghosts, their spiritual power was insufficient to manifest their entire bodies, so they could only first materialize part of themselves.

Like the Vengeful Spirit little girl from Xia Liu Village before, whose manifested form had been a pair of ghost claws.

As for these five Child Ghosts, they had been ghosts for only a short time and were not very diligent about absorbing Yin Qi, so their cultivation was weak.

The only part they had manifested was their teeth.

And that was merely to make eating more convenient...

But after today, it might no longer be so convenient.

Li Chu had originally intended to follow the Yin Qi and slay these Little Ghosts. Since this Yin Qi was truly not strong—roughly equivalent to fifteen Lantern Monsters—he had not taken it too seriously.

Who would have thought these Little Ghosts would be so courageous? They actually charged straight at him, bared their big buck teeth, and bit down on him together.

With five crisp cracks sounding almost simultaneously, the Little Ghosts let go.

They clutched their teeth, stepped back, and incredulously felt the wounds where their teeth had broken off, then...

"Waaah—"

They actually sat down on the floor and began crying together.

Watching the Little Ghosts cry as though their hearts were being torn apart, Li Chu blinked. A thought flashed through his mind.

Trying to scam me?

I didn't even lay a finger on you.

The little girl covered her mouth and sobbed. "You... why are you so hard?"

The Boys around her nodded together.

When their teeth landed on Li Chu, not only could they not bite through him, they also felt something suddenly rebound the force of their bite several times over. Their teeth shattered and flew away in an instant.

Although it did not hurt as much after becoming ghosts, thinking of how inconvenient eating would become in the future—and how they would have to waste several years before manifesting new teeth—they still cried bitterly.

Seeing that their Resentful Qi was not heavy and that they seemed quite intelligent, Li Chu wanted to ask about their origins.

So he said, "Stop crying."

The little ones turned a deaf ear. How could Children stop crying so easily? Especially when other Children around them were crying too—so easily influenced by one another that it only grew more intense.

Li Chu had no choice but to say it again. "Stop crying."

He had always disliked shouting and yelling, so his tone remained mild. Naturally, it had no effect on these Children.

Wang Longqi was cowering behind him, just about to come over and watch the excitement.

Then he suddenly felt movement beneath his feet. An abrupt change erupted!

Boom—

A dense blaze of heat burst up from beneath the bed board, and with it came a pair of terrifying arms!

Those arms were covered in bright red scars tinged with smoky black. Their flesh was grotesque, completely stripped of skin, and carried a nauseating stench of char and rot.

"So hot—"

Crying out like that, it suddenly stretched a hand out from beneath the bed board and seized Wang Longqi's ankle!

Wang Longqi immediately shouted, "Li Chu, save me!"

Before he could even cry out, Li Chu had already turned around, sensing the sudden eruption of dense Yin Qi behind him.

The Fire Scarred Ghost's left hand gripped Wang Longqi's ankle and actually began to sizzle. Like teppanyaki meat, Wang Longqi began screaming miserably, though it was impossible to tell whether he had been scalded or simply frightened.

Behind those hands was the ugliest face Wang Longqi had ever seen in his life.

He had seen ghosts before—not merely seen them—but the Ghost Bride had wanted to deceive people, so she had naturally taken on a beautiful appearance in his eyes. The five Little Ghosts from before, though dripping with Yin Qi, were chubby and not frightening.

But this Fire Scarred Ghost's face could no longer be called a face. It was simply a chunk of rotting flesh, dried out after being roasted by fire. Even its Eye Sockets had been burned dry; no one knew what it used to see the road.

"So hot—"

It continued its strange shrieks. After poking its face out, it even wanted to crawl its entire body out!

The five Little Ghosts' six little braids all sprang up at once as they shouted in unison, "A ghost!"

The other four Children immediately crowded around the little girl, trying to huddle together for warmth.

But the little girl quickly remembered something and shoved them away in disgust. "We're ghosts too. Why should we be afraid of it?"

"Huh?"

While they were doubting their ghostly existence, something even more terrifying happened.

The Young Daoist Priest before them suddenly drew the Iron Sword from his back, then slashed out with it.

Sword Rises, sword falls.

Sword light flashed past.

It was as though the entire world trembled.

The Fire Scarred Ghost, which had not yet completely crawled out, vanished in an instant.

It disappeared utterly and completely.

That sword strike robbed the five Little Ghosts of all sound. Their six little braids stood straight up toward the sky.

Sure enough, ghosts were not frightening. People were the frightening ones!

"Ow."

Wang Longqi, at the center of the storm, had not even seen what happened. He only saw a flash of white light before his eyes, and the hand gripping his ankle released him. He immediately fell to the floor.

Looking closely at his ankle, it was as though it had been scalded by a branding iron. A ring of his trousers and socks had been burned into his flesh.

But he had no time to care about that. He hurriedly raised his head, crawled over to Li Chu's side, and asked in terror, "What happened?"

"I don't know. This room is a little strange."

Li Chu looked at the large hole slashed through the bed board, through which the room downstairs was already visible. It showed that it did not lead anywhere else.

But then what had that ghost, which had appeared without warning just now, been?

After pondering for a moment, he suddenly remembered that there were still five Child Ghosts behind him.

Turning around, he saw that the five Little Ghosts who had ignored everything he said earlier were now sitting neatly in a row, looking up at him with large pitch-black eyes.

Well-behaved.

Obedient.

"Ah!"

Just as Li Chu was about to ask something, he suddenly heard a scream coming from the room next door!

The five Little Ghosts looked at one another. One, two, three, four, five, eh?

Who was next door?

Hearing Wang Longqi's successive miserable screams from that room, Zhao Liangcai, crouching in the corner, was thrilled. He could not help secretly praising those Little Ghosts for being reliable.

After waiting a little longer, sure enough, just as the sounds in that room settled down, a woman's scream came from next door!

The time had come!

Zhao Liangcai turned back and looked at his cousin, receiving an encouraging glance. Then he immediately shot out in a swift stride, shouting, "Gongsun Girl, I'm coming!"

Bang—

He flew forward and kicked open the door to Gongsun Rou and Zhao Xiaomiao's room, only to see the two girls running out in panic.

"Little Sister, Gongsun Girl, what happened?" he asked with feigned concern.

"There, there's a ghost!" Zhao Xiaomiao cried, pointing beneath the bed board.

Zhao Liangcai glanced over and saw a little doll's hand reaching out from beneath the bed board, seeming to grope for something.

"Mother—"

"Mother—"

"Mother, don't kill me—"

In the gloomy room, those childish cries inspired no pity at all. Instead, they made one feel horrified.

Heh heh, they're pretty good at setting the mood.

Zhao Liangcai smiled almost imperceptibly, then immediately put on a face of righteous indignation and shouted, "Hey! You ghost, how dare you frighten Gongsun Girl? You are truly hateful!"

With that, he actually strode forward in great steps and grabbed that chubby little arm!

"Brother!" Zhao Xiaomiao cried out, her expression stunned.

Gongsun Rou looked much the same. "Young Master Zhao?"

Neither of them had expected Zhao Liangcai to be so bold that he would dare grab a ghost with his bare hands!

"Come out!"

Zhao Liangcai felt he had never had such an overbearing moment in his life. He roared, held his head high and chest out, sank his Qi into his Dantian, shifted his step and twisted his waist, his shoulder following his elbow.

Whoosh—

He yanked the ghost beneath the bed board out in one pull, holding it up in his hand.

It turned out to be an entirely crimson infant.

It did not look very large. Fresh blood flowed all over its body as it dangled from the arm he held. On its wrinkled ugly face was what seemed to be a confused expression.

"Huh?"

Zhao Liangcai frowned, somewhat puzzled. There did not seem to have been one this small among those five Little Ghosts just now?

The infant's brows were furrowed too. It was also wondering what exactly was wrong with the person in front of it.

As an Infant Spirit that was relatively fierce among ghosts, this was the first time in its long ghostly life that it had encountered a moment when its dignity was trampled upon so thoroughly.

The person before it had such an arrogant bearing that for a moment, it did not quite dare act rashly.

To be honest, it was a bit confused.