"..."
"When I looked down, I saw seven or eight pairs of eerie green eyes hiding in the landscaped strip beside the first floor."
"Startled, I rushed over to where I kept my talismans and other supplies, grabbed a Bloodlight Talisman, activated it, and wrapped it around the sword's hilt."
"With a flash of my blade, I killed the thing that had just appeared at the window. Watching the black wisps rising from its body, I began to understand something."
"But there were too many of them. I didn't linger to fight, grabbing my things and charging out of the bedroom. Fortunately, Xiao Bai wasn't here, or he would have been in danger."
"The moment I left the bedroom, I saw the things that had broken through the front door. My heart tightened. Scattering peach wood shavings to drive them back, I slapped a Yang-Suppressing Talisman onto myself!"
"Suddenly, the things charging toward me faltered and grew confused."
"I made myself as inconspicuous as possible, took more than a dozen Spirit-Sealing Talismans from the box, and activated them one by one."
"With the Yang-Suppressing Talisman concealing me, I stuck all the Spirit-Sealing Talismans onto those things. Fortunately, I'd stockpiled enough talismans. Just eighteen were enough to freeze every last one of them in place."
"Then, as easily as chopping vegetables, I cut the heads off all eighteen things that looked like zombies but weren't quite zombies. Watching the black qi rising from their bodies, I still felt uneasy, so I sprinkled black dog blood over their corpses."
"After little more than a dozen breaths, nothing remained in the room except the gradually fading black qi and puddles of black water on the floor."
"The matter seemed to be settled, but I couldn't shake a sense of dread. I called Qi