"Boom!"
At that very moment, Xu Taiping's fist blasted out, carrying ten times his previous fist force and a fist intent that scorned all demons, hurtling straight toward the Ghost King.
Along with his fist came a golden Demon-Subduing hand seal.
Seen from the side, he looked as though he were fighting alongside an Ancient Buddha.
The Ghost King had keen instincts. Almost the instant his arm broke, he had already begun preparing to escape into the ghost pagoda mark beside him.
But the instant the Demon-Subduing Seal appeared, all the ghost pagoda blood seals on the walls vanished.
The Ghost King had nowhere to flee.
Realizing he had reached a dead end, the Ghost King's body suddenly swelled. Then he transformed into an incomparably hideous monster and lunged recklessly at Chu Xiaoxiao nearby.
"Boom!"
But the instant he lunged, Xu Taiping's fist and the Demon-Subduing Seal had already blasted toward him.
"Bang!"
With a tremendous crash, the Ghost King was reduced to dust and ashes beneath Xu Taiping's punch.
At the same time, the ghost pagodas that had still been frantically pounding on the door all collapsed with a thud the instant the Ghost King perished.
Chu Xiaoxiao mustered her courage and opened the door.
The evil ghosts with blue faces and protruding fangs had all returned to human form. Only a few with incomplete ghost pagoda brands on their foreheads still retained their evil ghost forms.
"Amitabha."
Monk Chongde pressed his palms together and intoned the Buddha's name, looking as though he had narrowly survived a catastrophe.
"There aren't many ghost pagodas, but they can draw out the wicked thoughts in people's hearts and turn them into vengeful ghosts. That's one of the trickiest things about dealing with them."
Monk Chongde glanced outside the door, then turned to