The City God Was Delighted (2/2)

Xu Feng and Master never saw it. Once they decided to run, they did not even look at the wall. Xu Feng grabbed Master by one arm and bolted!

Stride, drive his hips, burst forward, breathe, push harder!

He ran without a thought for how badly his muscles would ache tomorrow. First he had to survive today!

As they ran, Master pulled a packet of incense ash from his robe and scattered it behind them!

Whether it worked or not, he had tried it.

In the blink of an eye, they cleared that stretch of road and charged into the Qian Family Mansion proper!

But now the Qian Family Mansion seemed to have come alive.

The lanterns had not lit up again, yet everything seemed like a living thing.

Meanwhile...

Beside the wall...

The paper money Old Owl had prepared, which had fallen to the ground, began to whirl into the air. It vanished into someone's mouth.

Not a trace remained.

Even the stones of the Ghost-Trapping Array by the entrance began spinning wildly. The road that ended there crumbled, stone foundation and all.

The incense was swallowed by a wash of moonlight. Like a living snake, the moonlight swept past the little cauldron too.

It snuffed out the flame inside!

Everywhere it passed, life was extinguished!

By then, the delay had bought Xu Feng and Master enough time to reach the spot where Mr. Zhou had been devoured. But Xu Feng could already feel something pressing against them, trying to hold them back.

The trees, flowers, grass, even the wind and shadows around them seemed to have developed different "ideas" about the two of them.

In truth, the county office's report that everyone in the Qian family had died an unnatural death was not entirely accurate. Some bodies had