A vicious, baleful evil ghost clung to Fan Wu's shoulder. Its huge mouth, bristling with sharp fangs, was just about to swallow Fan Wu's entire head!
Its pair of savage eyes held not the slightest trace of reason or emotion. It only wanted to tear Fan Wu into pieces.
However, just as it was about to bite down, a broad palm slapped onto its head.
The evil ghost's head, as large as a bushel basket, looked like nothing more than a slightly oversized toy before that hand.
That huge hand was clearly just flesh, without the slightest trace of magical power.
Yet it clamped down firmly on the evil ghost's head!
It kept the evil ghost, its mouth agape, from advancing even a single step.
The muscles in Fan Wu's arm tensed as he exerted his strength, each bulging vein winding around his arm like a flood dragon or python.
A trace of pain actually appeared on the evil ghost's ferocious face!
As Fan Wu's palm continued to exert force, his five fingers brutally pierced through the evil ghost's soul-body. The first joints of all five fingers sank completely into the evil ghost's head!
Just like that, Fan Wu tore it bodily from his shoulder.
His arm exerted force once more!
Splurt—
The evil ghost's head caved in like a deflated ball, and it let out an unbearably agonized howl.
In the next moment, Fan Wu casually flung it away. The entire ghost slammed into the inn's wall, its soul-body nearly scattering on the spot!
Fan Wu's other hand had not been idle either. With a single sword thrust, he pierced through another evil ghost's body!
In the blink of an eye, he sent its soul flying and spirit scattering!
Fan Wu shifted to a two-handed grip and stepped forward with a slash. Several evil ghosts were severed at the waist.
One of them might have had especially thick blood, so before it could fall from midair, Fan Wu gave it another sword strike.
He let it enjoy having its soul fly apart right then and there!
Fan Wu seized an opening and hurled the Demon-Slaying Sword from his hand like a trump card. A full five evil ghosts were instantly pierced by the blade, all of them turning to ash in a single moment.
Even without the Demon-Slaying Sword in hand, he was no one who could be kneaded at will. He remained immensely formidable!
Fan Wu seized one evil ghost by the shoulder with one hand and gripped its opposite shoulder with the other.
The muscles in both his arms bulged high, tearing straight through the lining beneath his clothes!
Shreds of fabric flew everywhere!
Revealing the exaggerated muscles of his upper body!
Looking at the evil ghost struggling incessantly in his grasp, Fan Wu did not care in the slightest that he was bare-chested. A kind smile spread across his lips as his arms suddenly wrenched outward!
The evil ghost let out a shrill scream!
It was torn cleanly in half!
"Is... is he really human?" This was what Xie Jiuyi had witnessed in that brief span of time, leaving him utterly dumbfounded.
He had never seen anyone chase down and hack apart a great horde of ferocious evil ghosts as casually as chopping vegetables.
Nor had he ever seen anyone tear an evil ghost in half alive with his bare hands!
Just... what terrifying strength would that require?
Was this Fellow Daoist Fan of the Dragon-Imprisoning Monastery really not a demon wearing human skin?
In Xie Jiuyi's impression, only man-eating demons possessed such terrifying strength.
Could a human...
Really reach this level of purity?
Moreover, the knotted muscles covering Fan Wu's body, each one sculpted like a statue, were something Xie Jiuyi had never seen before. They looked more like the work of some grandmaster painstakingly carving a masterpiece.
They did not look like muscles a human could train!
"Too savage!!"
After being stunned into silence for quite a while, Xie Jiuyi found that the thousands of words in his mind could not be spoken.
In the end, he could only force out those four words.
Xie Jiuyi was even more shocked to discover that hardly any evil ghosts remained inside the enormous ghost inn.
He had not counted exactly how many evil ghosts had been in the inn before.
But judging by the rough number, there should have been several dozen, right?
Several dozen evil ghosts were about to be slaughtered clean just like this? And he, Xie Jiuyi, seemed not to have contributed any strength at all.
Or rather, he had not had time to contribute any strength...
Ah, this!
Meanwhile, Fan Wu on the other side felt that the bones, muscles, and sinews throughout his body had all loosened up.
He could feel the blood inside him boiling and surging!
That violent factor filled every inch of his body!
Even every drop of blood!
A faint white mist rose around him. It twisted his entire figure, making his bearing look more like an evil ghost than an evil ghost's!
Fan Wu had already pulled the Demon-Slaying Sword from the wall. With a casual slap, he sent an evil ghost that was not afraid of dying a second time flying.
He rested the Demon-Slaying Sword on his shoulder, his eyes fixed on the black, monstrous shadow ahead.
When he had just been fighting the evil ghosts,
that fellow seemed not to have moved at all, nor had it attacked from the shadows.
Could these strange entities actually be more particular about martial virtue than humans?
Just as this thought flashed through his mind, the few surviving evil ghosts in the inn all shuddered in unison.
The frenzied savagery on the faces of the few surviving evil ghosts quickly faded away.
In its place came overwhelming fear and panic!
They were so terrified that they tried to fly out in every direction, but the inn's doors and windows seemed to have been firmly locked by some force. The few evil ghosts could only shriek and scurry around like headless flies.
The stark contrast made Fan Wu thoughtful.
He clearly remembered that these fellows had been utterly unafraid of death earlier.
Suddenly!
A sense of crisis swept over him!
Fan Wu sidestepped. A spike formed from a black shadow flew past, almost scraping his skin!
Even though it passed only a few inches away, Fan Wu still felt as if someone had placed an ice cube against his skin.
That meant the sinister, freezing yin energy radiating from his opponent was already as bone-chillingly cold as ice!
The monstrous shadow had attacked!
Fan Wu understood.
"So that's how it is... Its ability to control these evil ghosts should have certain limitations. For example, perhaps it can't attack while controlling them? Or perhaps it can't move? That's why it didn't ambush me?"
"Now, the reason those last few evil ghosts have become so cowardly is probably that they've broken free of its control."
Fan Wu swung his sword in a slash, but the monstrous shadow seemed to know that the sword in his hand was special and immediately withdrew.
His sword cut through empty air.
"Fellow Daoist Fan, be careful! This strange entity possesses Incense-Fire Power! It must usually pretend to be a local 'Attendant,' fooling the common people into making offerings and paying respects to it. Such an entity is no longer a simple strange entity. It should be a mountain-wild evil god!"
Xie Jiuyi hurriedly warned, "Some extremely yang and extremely hard magical artifacts or incantations are useless against strange entities possessing Incense-Fire Power. Such entities can even travel about in broad daylight!"
"To deal with such a ferocious strange entity, we can only..."
"Huh?!!!"
Before Xie Jiuyi could finish speaking, he suddenly discovered that the aura throughout Fan Wu's body was undergoing a drastic change!
This drastic change...
Made Xie Jiuyi's heart tremble!
What had happened now? Could it be that Fellow Daoist Fan had still been holding back before?
No...
That couldn't be, right?
But what was happening before his eyes could not deceive him.
He could clearly feel the aura radiating from Fan Wu, as well as the field of energy swirling around him...
It was even more terrifying than before!
Xie Jiuyi's heart pounded. He felt as if he were now staring directly at the back of a humanoid demon!!
"Hiss!!!"
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