"Boom...!"
No sooner had Gu Changming finished speaking than another tremendous crash rang out, and the Red-Faced Evil Ghost's body and aura swelled once again.
"Boom!!"
It was not just the Red-Faced Evil Ghost. After sensing the aura of Xu Taiping's long scroll, the Qingmian Evil Ghost's body and aura swelled as well.
In the blink of an eye, the two evil ghosts' auras grew several times stronger, if not more.
At this sight, Gu Changmian's expression immediately grew stern, and he said:
"Just as the Heavenly Net Sword Sect's elders divined, as long as the Netherworld Edict over Three Paths Village remains, the evil ghosts within will grow stronger against stronger opponents. There's simply no upper limit to their combat strength."
This was also why Dao Integration Realm cultivators could not enter Three Paths Village.
"Boom!!!"
Suddenly, both evil ghosts struck together, slashing their ghostly weapons, which seethed with sky-high killing intent, down onto the long scroll formed by the eight swords.
"Bang!"
Amid the tremendous crash, the long scroll remained completely unharmed.
Gu Changming let out a long breath of relief and said:
"Fortunately, this treasure Brother Taiping inherited, which bears a Netherworld Edict, isn't of a particularly low rank either."
Then he raised his head toward Xu Taiping, who hovered in the air looking down at the long scroll, and said:
"Brother Taiping, there's no need to get entangled with these two mountain bandits. Just save Cuicui! They wouldn't dare enter the village!"
Xu Taiping naturally knew this as well.
But he had no intention of simply letting these two mountain bandits return.
For one, he feared beating the grass and startling the snake, exposing his presence to the Green Sand Gang ahead of time.
For another, he wanted to test whether the Book of Life and