The fat child's heart pounded with fear, and his eyes grew colder still.
Beneath his blue clothes, bellybands bearing Fortune Characters dropped down, forming a circle.
Ripples spread outward in layer after layer in every direction.
The fat child said slowly, "I don't know what you are, but if you trouble me again, my parents won't let you get away with it!"
As soon as he finished speaking, his body abruptly stiffened.
A familiar figure approached from directly ahead, holding a twelve-section Green Bamboo Strip.
"Don't come any closer!" The fat child stared at the Green Bamboo Strip in terror. Even his parents could only use ten-section Green Bamboo Strips. Anyone who held a twelve-section Green Bamboo Strip was a major figure in the Eerie Realm.
The Li Qingxian holding the Green Bamboo Strip strode swiftly up to the fat child, swung the strip, and lashed down hard.
The bellybands beneath the fat child's feet remained motionless.
Crack!
"Ah..." The fat child screamed. Looking down, he saw blood spattered across his left shoulder and a pitch-black wound.
"You... you're bullying me..." the fat child wailed.
The Li Qingxian holding the Green Bamboo Strip backed away and vanished into the darkness.
Suddenly, his parents' voices rang out beside the fat child's ears.
"We're going on a long trip, very, very far away. You'll have to take good care of yourself while we're gone."
The fat child looked around, shouting for his father and mother.
Then intestines surged from every direction, like a swarm of snakes, like ocean waves, hurtling straight toward him.
Terrified, the fat child repeatedly cried for his parents while frantically flinging out the eerie artifacts around him. But the intestines passed through the artifacts without resistance and lunged toward his mouth.
As the intestines lunged closer, their open