Vicious Ghosts Attack the Village, Crushed with Overwhelming Force!

The middle-aged wife was stunned with fear.

With a tearing sound, the Heart-Eating Ghost

In his field of vision, her husband's mouth gaped open, as if he wanted to say something. The hand he had raised high, as though to strike the vicious ghost, also dropped limply.

Immediately afterward, his body went limp and fell to the ground.

"You killed my husband! I'll fight you to the death!" After a brief moment of stunned disbelief, the middle-aged wife came back to her senses. The decades of love between husband and wife flashed before her eyes. Now, the fear in her heart turned into boundless hatred, and she lunged at the Heart-Eating Ghost.

With a wet squelch, the dry, sharp claw—hard as cast bronze and forged iron—pierced the woman's chest as easily as it would tofu. Another fresh, throbbing heart was clutched in its hand.

"Monster, give me my... husband back!"

"Ghost..."

"I..."

As the middle-aged woman's heart was torn out, the frigid ghostly energy quickly corroded the life force within her. Yet her fierce will kept her from dying immediately. She reached out and grabbed the Heart-Eating Ghost's long hair with all her strength.

A moment later, the middle-aged woman's pupils slowly clouded over, and her life force faded away completely.

Yet her hand remained clenched tight, with several strands of hair still held in her fist.

They were the Heart-Eating Ghost's hair.

Frigid ghostly energy seeped from the strands, corroding a gruesome wound into the woman's palm, but she still clung to them with all her strength.

Even in death, her face bore boundless hatred.

With a thud, the middle-aged woman's body fell to the ground.

Her head lolled to one side, so that she was facing her husband, who lay dead nearby.

A strange sight unfolded. Though the middle-aged woman's life force had already vanished completely, a glistening tear fell from the corner of her eye. The corners of her mouth seemed to lift ever so slightly as she looked at her husband.

"Roar!"

The Heart-Eating Ghost was furious. It seemed unable to understand how a mere mortal could possess such powerful will.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

The Heart-Eating Ghost stomped viciously on the middle-aged woman's head. Half of it was already smashed apart, and a mass of red and white matter spilled onto the ground, but her hand still clutched those few strands of hair steeped in ghostly energy.

The Heart-Eating Ghost raised its foot again, seething with rage.

This mortal woman, as insignificant as an ant, had actually plucked out its hair?

Unforgivable!

Whoosh!

Just as its foot was about to come down, a thunderous shout rang out.

"Wretched beast, die!"

The voice was like that of Yama, ruler of the Nine Hells. Anyone who heard it trembled with fear, while ghosts who heard it were scared out of their wits.

The Heart-Eating Ghost froze and instinctively looked up at the sky.

A streak of light shot over and, in the blink of an eye, pierced its head.

A tearing sound—

A line of blood appeared on the Heart-Eating Ghost's crown, running down its entire body.

"This is..." The Heart-Eating Ghost's pupils contracted. It wanted to say something, but in the next instant, its consciousness vanished completely. The powerful magical force also destroyed the ghostly body from within, leaving nothing behind.

Whoosh!

Fei Luo appeared on the roof like a phantom. His brows furrowed deeply. "I was too late after all."

Then Fei Luo turned to look toward the other side of the village.

There, dozens of vicious ghosts were driving the villagers onward.

The same thing that had happened in this courtyard was unfolding all over the village.

One family had suffered a death, which alerted the neighbors.

The neighbors around them had also risen from their beds, only to discover vicious ghosts attacking.

In an instant, people's cries and screams of terror mingled with the vicious ghosts' roars, making for a truly horrifying scene.

The commotion around Fei Luo drew the vicious ghosts in the distance.

In the blink of an eye, all the ghosts paused in surprise.

They saw Fei Luo standing on a distant rooftop beneath the night sky, and they sized him up as well.

Immediately afterward, two Underworld Envoys drifted over and appeared behind Fei Luo, standing there like guards.

"Hm? A human?" A vicious ghost with a rotting scalp and not a single hair on its head exclaimed in surprise. "Two Underworld Envoys, this isn't the place for you. I suggest you know your place. The ghosts of this world don't answer to the Netherworld."

There were many ghosts in the human world. Apart from strange creatures like zombies, which were outside the Five Elements, ghosts in the human world indeed did not answer to the Netherworld. Since ancient times, they had been the sworn enemies of the demon slayers in this world.

The vicious ghosts had not noticed the scene in which the Heart-Eating Ghost had been killed in an instant.

But none of them could sense the Heart-Eating Ghost's aura, so they all assumed the two Underworld Envoys had killed it.

Fei Luo kept his aura hidden. How could mere vicious ghosts possibly gauge his strength?

"Help! My lord, help us!"

"Please, save us!"

"..."

Fei Luo's appearance also gave the dozen or so panicked villagers a glimmer of hope.

They couldn't see the Underworld Envoys and thought the ghosts were talking to Fei Luo.

Whatever the case, this man couldn't be ordinary if he could show up here.

"We won't interfere, but tonight's affairs are all under our young master's authority. We're merely his attendants," Zhang Wu said in a low voice, explaining to the evil ghost.

"Hm?"

"Hm?"

The ghosts all stared in surprise and looked at Fei Luo again.

How could a mere human make an Underworld Envoy lower himself like that, willingly serving as a guard?

But the next moment, the ghosts' pupils contracted. Fei Luo's figure had vanished from the rooftop.

"Not good." The vicious ghost that had just shouted at the two Underworld Envoys hadn't even finished speaking before it stared in terror at Fei Luo standing before it. Then its consciousness vanished completely.

"Hiss..."

The two Yin Soldiers drew in sharp breaths. They exchanged glances, both seeing the shock in the other's eyes.

What incredible speed!

Fei Luo moved so fast that the ghosts couldn't even see him. He stretched out a hand and crushed the vicious ghost's neck—all in the blink of an eye.

"Roar!" A withered, black-clad vicious ghost, its body seemingly charred, shouted, "Attack together! Kill him!"

As soon as the Burned Ghost finished speaking, the other ghosts stopped worrying about how Fei Luo had killed the hairless ghost. They shrieked and rushed toward him.

"Heavenly Fire Incantation!"

Fei Luo formed a hand seal with one hand. His fingers moved at astonishing speed, and he completed the seal for the Heavenly Fire Incantation in an instant.

His chest swelled, his cheeks puffed out, and he gently blew toward the vicious ghosts rushing at him.

Boom!

As if an ocean of gasoline had caught fire, a wall of flames dozens of yards tall erupted before the ghosts. In an instant, it swallowed them whole. The dazzling blaze lit up the entire night, leaving every surviving villager and even the evil ghosts in the distance who hadn't yet charged forward dumbstruck.

"Ah!"

"No!! It hurts!"

"What kind of demonic art is this?"

"Impossible!"

Amid the flames, the several vicious ghosts in the first wave let out piercing screams. Some even cried out that Fei Luo's magic was demonic art.

Two breaths later, the flames died down, and all the ghosts had vanished, reduced to nothing in the inferno.

"Gulp..."

"Gulp..."

In the silent night, aside from the scorching waves of heat, the countless sounds of people swallowing nervously rang out with striking clarity.