The enormous Ghost Inn compressed into a heap of rubble before everyone's eyes.
A vast cloud of dust billowed several yards into the air. Seeing the wooden planks flying everywhere, the escorts hurriedly ducked low.
A plank skimmed over Escort Chief Lin's head.
Cold sweat instantly poured across his forehead!
If he had raised his head a little higher just now, half of it would probably have been shaved off.
Looking at the huge heap of inn rubble crashing down in front of him...
Escort Chief Lin secretly swallowed.
He had seen all kinds of situations in his life, but this kind of grand spectacle was still a first for him.
He could not help murmuring in shock, "If I had gone inside with a group of brothers, we'd probably have already been turned into a huge pile of minced meat, right?"
He could not help shivering. The uncanny thing they had encountered tonight was far too fierce!
Even the most formidable martial artists in the martial world...
Would probably not be able to withstand it!
"It's over..." At that moment, Xie Jiuyi, not far from Escort Chief Lin, wore a regretful, gritted-teeth expression. "Who would have thought that I, a dignified Imperial Astronomy Bureau Lieutenant, would be unable to help much at all when encountering an uncanny thing..."
He drew a deep breath, then immediately shouted toward Escort Chief Lin, "Don't just stand there! Hurry and have your men carry the goods away. I'll cover the rear! That uncanny thing will definitely come out. When the time comes..."
Before he could finish speaking.
A shriek brimming with evil and chaos rang out to the heavens!
The remaining words in Xie Jiuyi's throat were abruptly choked off.
There...
A massive black shadow crawled out from the inn's ruins.
Scarlet pupils covered every inch of its body. An ominous aura of death shrouded everyone's hearts!
Dense yin energy spread outward from the monster's body.
Even from more than a dozen paces away, they still felt as though they had fallen into an icy cavern!
The escorts of Huwei Escort Agency all sucked in a cold breath!
It was their first time...
Seeing such a terrifying uncanny thing!
And from such close range!
Some of the younger escorts were also seeing an uncanny thing for the first time!
"This... this kind of monster—are you sure it's something humans can deal with?" one escort asked, his voice trembling. He gripped the white-wax spear in his hand tightly, his palm turning white from the excessive force.
"Escort Chief... what... what should we do?" Another escort looked toward Escort Chief Lin, believing that the experienced Escort Chief Lin would surely have a way to handle this situation.
Escort Chief Lin had his troubles, but nowhere to voice them.
He also wanted to obey the Imperial Astronomy Bureau master Xie Jiuyi's orders and run with the goods as fast as possible.
But they were currently inside the uncanny thing's illusion array...
How would he know how to escape?
As for those men of his asking what they should do now...
The ghosts and monsters he had seen in his life totaled no more than five, and he had merely seen them from afar, never actually fought one.
How could he know how to handle a situation like this?
From the anxious look on the face of the Imperial Astronomy Bureau master, it was clear that even this master was probably having trouble dealing with that terrifying uncanny thing!
Could it be that they would all be ruined here today?
In Escort Chief Lin's heart...
There was nothing but despair!
Suddenly!
Something unexpected happened!
The enormous monster, its entire body densely covered with scarlet pupils, seemed to have been fiercely seized and dragged by someone. It was actually lifted off the ground!
The next moment!
The monster was flung sideways like a torn sack, slamming brutally into the woods and snapping a tree thick enough for several people to encircle clean in half!
Amid the smoke-shrouded ruins of the inn, a sturdy, imposing figure appeared and disappeared.
The figure stood like a pagoda...
Towering there!
Gusts of yin wind scattered the smoke around the inn's ruins.
Only with the aid of the moonlight did everyone discover that Daoist Master Fan Wu, who claimed to come from Dragon-Imprisoning Monastery...
Was standing atop the inn's ruins, completely unharmed!
"It's... it's that Daoist!" an escort exclaimed in utter shock. "Was he... inside the inn just now? But why does he look completely unharmed now?!"
Escort Chief Lin smacked him on the head and said tensely in a lowered voice, "Don't yell so damn loudly! If you draw that uncanny thing over, are you going to deal with it?!"
Escort Chief Lin also turned his gaze toward Fan Wu in the ruins. Having traveled the martial world for many years, he could "see" far more than others!
He sensed an aura like a wild beast radiating from Fan Wu!
That aura made his heart tremble violently!!
"So this Daoist Master is actually that robust... Is he really a cultivator? Even hardened generals in the army don't have such an exaggerated physique, do they?"
Seeing the chunks of iron-forged muscle on Fan Wu's body, each one seeming carved by a master, Escort Chief Lin murmured in shock, "If he punched me, he could probably smash my head into powder, couldn't he?"
Escort Chief Lin shivered!
The uncanny thing was indeed terrifying.
But this Daoist Master Fan...
Was terrifying too!
Nearby, Xie Jiuyi's expression was almost identical to Escort Chief Lin's.
He had not expected Fan Wu to still be alive.
Even less had he expected Fan Wu to have not a single injury anywhere on his body!
As an Imperial Astronomy Bureau Lieutenant, Xie Jiuyi had seen many people with strange arts in the Imperial Astronomy Bureau, but he had never seen a being like Fan Wu, whose physical body was like that of a demon.
In the fixed understanding of ordinary people, the human physique had a limit.
Even if one used certain cultivation methods to temper the body, there was still a limit.
But.
Where exactly was the limit of this Fellow Daoist Fan's physical body?
"The monster just now inexplicably flew away. Could it have been thrown away by Fellow Daoist Fan?" When Xie Jiuyi thought of this possibility, his eyes widened even further.
What kind of monstrous strength was that?
Elsewhere.
Fan Wu drew the Demon-Slaying Sword from the ruins. Its blade remained as bright and pristine as ever, its chilling cold undiminished—in fact, it seemed to have grown even more intimidating!
Being compressed and crushed beneath the entire inn just now had been the most exaggerated situation Fan Wu had ever experienced.
But...
Its power seemed to amount to no more than that.
He only felt as though he had been forced to undergo a full-body massage. Not a single inch of his skin had felt even the slightest pain, and not one muscle had experienced any discomfort.
Fan Wu held the Demon-Slaying Sword.
He took one step forward!
His vigorous figure resembled a horned dragon descending the mountain!!
The monster that had been flung away earlier also climbed to its feet. It seemed completely unaware that the difference in strength between them had become worlds apart, and it seemed entirely devoid of any emotion called "fear" or retreat.
The monster spread open its enormous body, like a black curtain covered in red pupils, attempting to envelop Fan Wu completely!
Yet Fan Wu, when he was still five steps away from it...
Stopped.
Fan Wu stared directly at the shrieking monster as it pounced toward him.
The muscles in both his arms were already trembling wildly.
The Demon-Slaying Sword in his hands seemed to tremble with excitement as well, giving off faint, almost inaudible sword hums.
The muscles in his arms swelled by a full circle, each vein as terrifying as a winding tree root.
At this moment, every muscle in his body was mobilized.
His feet had long since assumed a stance.
A fierce glint flashed through his eyes!
He pivoted on the soles of his feet!
The movement set the muscles and bones of his thighs in motion! It set the muscles and bones of his waist in motion! It set the muscles and bones of both arms in motion!
One sword!
He slashed down through the air!!!
The blade tore through the air with a shrill sonic boom. Although Fan Wu's sword had clearly struck only empty air, he felt an unprecedented resistance, as if something were stopping the blade from falling.
However...
His strength was clearly superior in the end.
The blade of the Demon-Slaying Sword swept downward in a crescent arc, and a terrifying pressure wave plunged forward!
To the naked eye, one could see only a crescent-shaped shock wave flash past in the blink of an eye!!
BOOM!!!!
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