A Rabble of Chickens and Dogs-How Could They Stop Me?!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Lightning erupted from the hundred thousand ghost-suppressing talismans, transforming into countless Lightning Dragons that frenziedly bombarded the old man's body, blasting black smoke from him as his soul trembled violently.

Because Xu Changying controlled the force of the lightning strikes, he did not kill the old man. Instead, it was more like torture.

"Ahhh!"

The old man screamed without end, and before long, his true form emerged from the black smoke.

He transformed into a ghostly creature with jagged white bones all over its body, draped in dark-red flesh crawling with maggots.

Faced with Xu Changying's terrifying assault, the old man hurriedly knelt and begged:

"Daoist Master, your might is heaven-shaking. Please spare this lowly one's life!"

Xu Changying said coldly:

"Children have often vanished without reason in the imperial capital over the past few months. Was that your doing?"

The sect under his command was called the Guiyuan Sect, a sect dedicated to catching ghosts, located within this imperial capital.

Over the past three months, children had frequently vanished from the imperial capital for no apparent reason.

The Court of Judicial Review had dispatched large numbers of investigators, officials, and soldiers to the scenes, yet they found nothing.

Such bizarre and terrifying incidents had gone unresolved for so long that many people in the imperial capital were left uneasy and fearful.

Moreover, according to Xu Changying's understanding,

the recent spate of child disappearances was not limited to the imperial capital. They also occurred from time to time in other cities throughout the Xiluo Kingdom.

Since the places where children disappeared were mostly connected to graveyards, Xu Changying had guessed upon learning of this matter that it might be related to ghosts. Thus, he decided to descend the mountain and personally assist in the investigation, searching for