Ghostly Creatures

Shi Xuan didn't speak. He stepped forward, and before the beautiful young girl on Ding Mingde could react, he struck her chest with his Internal Energy-infused left hand, simultaneously chanting an incantation to activate the Soul Sealing Ghost Summoning Curse talismans he had prepared in advance.

The beautiful young girl hadn't expected Shi Xuan to act so ruthlessly without a word. Unable to dodge, she was struck by Shi Xuan's palm, which was full of Internal Energy, and her chest caved in as she fell backward. However, as she fell, black smoke began to rise from the crown of her head, and then her soul emerged.

Before the beautiful young girl's soul could completely leave her body, a talisman flew over and emitted an even thicker black smoke, imprisoning her soul. Her intention to pounce on her opponent and devour their flesh and blood was completely thwarted, and she could only struggle in the black smoke.

Seeing that the Soul Sealing Ghost Summoning Curse had sealed the young girl's ghost, Shi Xuan was about to question her when suddenly a Black Light descended from the sky, striking the black smoke and causing it to sway and thin. It then wrapped around the young girl's ghost, trying to take her away. However, the Black Light seemed to have underestimated the power of the Soul Sealing Ghost Summoning Curse. It tried several times but failed to pull the young girl's ghost out of the black smoke's range. Instead, the struggle damaged the young girl's ghost's Origin. With a terrifying scream, the young girl's ghost dissipated like the one Shi Xuan had killed earlier.

All of this happened before Shi Xuan could activate another Soul Sealing Ghost Summoning Curse. Shi Xuan couldn't stop it and could only sigh, putting away the talismans.

Ding Mingde lay on the ground, first startled by Shi Xuan's intrusion, then dumbfounded by his direct attack on the beautiful young girl. Finally, he was completely stunned by Shi Xuan's use of spell and the battle with the strange thing that emerged from the girl's body.

"Brother Mingde, get up quickly. The ground is very cold," Shi Xuan's words pulled Ding Mingde out of his daze.

Ding Mingde came back to his senses, looked at the female corpse beside him, then at Shi Xuan, and stammered, "B-Brother Zi'ang, w-what is this?"

Shi Xuan pointed at the female corpse: "Brother Mingde, take a closer look."

Ding Mingde hurriedly turned his head and looked carefully, then was disgusted by the rapid decomposition of the female corpse. He scrambled to his feet, retreated far away, and began to vomit.

Shi Xuan shook his head. He didn't need to worry about Yan Jujian's side for the time being; nothing had happened there yet. When something did happen, and the ghostly creatures were entangled with Yan Jujian, he would go over and subdue her while she was unprepared, avoiding the entanglement of the Black Light and interrogating her for information.

Checking that the tea on the table was fine, Shi Xuan poured two cups, drank one in one gulp, and then walked to Ding Mingde's side with the other cup, patting him on the shoulder. Seeing Ding Mingde look up, he handed him the tea: "Drink some water to calm down."

Ding Mingde took the tea, slowly drank two mouthfuls, steadied his mind, stood up, and said to Shi Xuan, "Brother Zi'ang, did your spell cause this?" He pointed at the female corpse with some fear.

"No, this is a relatively rare ghostly creatures. As long as the ghost residing in the body is destroyed, the body will begin to decompose according to its true age at death. As for what kind of ghostly creatures this is, I haven't seen it before, so I can't say." Shi Xuan explained.

Ding Mingde thought for a moment, feeling both afraid and excited: "This, this is really ghostly creatures? And, Brother Zi'ang, that skill of yours, is it immortal family magic?"

Shi Xuan laughed: "How could it be called immortal family magic? These are just some commonly used, low-level spells. With my cultivation, I don't know how long I'll have to cultivate to use real immortal family magic."

"Brother Zi'ang, in my eyes, this is already a true immortal family skill. I never thought there would be such magical skills in this world. Brother Zi'ang, you are much stronger than that Celestial Master who came to our prefecture city before. Now that I think about it, that Celestial Master was probably just performing tricks to fool people. But these ghostly creatures, I never imagined they were ghostly creatures before." Ding Mingde's face flushed slightly with excitement, and his words were a bit chaotic. After all, in an atmosphere of widespread Taoist worship, seeing real magic was a very shocking and exciting thing.

"Hehe, Brother Mingde, I didn't realize you were so fond of beautiful women. If I had come later, you might have achieved something good." Shi Xuan joked, but he didn't relax his guard. Two female ghosts had died in a row. The first one was fine, but the second one had involved the Black Light. The matter had definitely alarmed the people, uh, or ghosts, here. So, someone even more powerful would soon come to deal with it.

Shi Xuan had originally planned to rescue Ding Mingde and then escape from the manor, find a place to settle him down, and then come back alone to investigate. Unfortunately, he had clearly alarmed others. If he couldn't catch the ghostly creatures on Yan Jujian's side later, then he would have to stay here first.

Because staying here would be better than blindly rushing out. After all, there might be many ambushes or trap formations on the road, and he wasn't familiar with the terrain. Staying here, at least he was familiar with the place, and he had checked that there were no trap formations. He could wait for the enemy to move and conserve his strength. Once he caught one or two prisoners and had guides, it wouldn't be too late to break out.

Hearing Shi Xuan's joke, Ding Mingde hurriedly shook his head: "I was just planning to explain to this young lady the principle of men and women not touching hands, and I didn't have any lustful thoughts. I would never do anything like that." As he spoke, he turned his head and glanced at the female corpse. Thinking about doing something with such a thing, he started to gag again.

"Alright, Brother Mingde, let's go find Hero Yan. There might be other ghostly creatures attacking later. It's better for everyone to gather together and take care of each other." Shi Xuan explained the situation to Ding Mingde.

"S-still more! What should we do? Brother Zi'ang, I don't have the strength to truss a chicken." After hearing this, Ding Mingde's face turned pale with fright, and he looked at Shi Xuan with pleading eyes.

Just as Shi Xuan was about to speak, he suddenly noticed that a fight had broken out in Yan Jujian's room. So, he said to Ding Mingde, "Hero Yan has made a move. I have to go take a look. Brother Ding, stick close to me. Don't stay alone."

After speaking, Shi Xuan turned around, opened the door, and ran toward Yan Jujian's room. Ding Mingde, with a pale face, followed closely behind.

Yan Jujian was in a sorry state. He, who was inherently confident in his martial arts, was now fleeing east and west at the hands of a weak woman, and this woman didn't even know any martial arts.

Originally, Yan Jujian had taken the initiative and grabbed the woman's pulse gate, but in a situation where victory was assured, this young girl actually didn't care about anything. At the same time that he crushed her pulse gate, she also used her left hand, with its suddenly elongated nails, to scratch his chest.

After being scratched, Yan Jujian only felt dizzy and his whole body began to feel numb. It was even more violent than all the poisons he had seen in the first half of his life. Dazed, he could only barely dodge and had no strength to fight back. Fortunately, this woman also had no martial arts skills, only a nimble body, so he could still barely hold on.

Seeing that she was always just a little short of catching Yan Jujian, and that he managed to escape every time, the woman was annoyed. She stopped moving, opened her lips, and let out a piercing scream.

Under this scream, Yan Jujian only felt as if his head had been struck heavily. He could no longer suppress the poison and slowly fell to the ground.

When Shi Xuan rushed in, he happened to hear this scream and see Yan Jujian fall. Because the scream was not directed at Shi Xuan, and Shi Xuan had cultivation, he didn't feel any discomfort. However, Ding Mingde behind him swayed like a drunkard, as if someone had hit him on the head with a club.

Yan Jujian had boasted that his martial arts were superb, but he had been taken down by the time he arrived. It was a miscalculation. Shi Xuan didn't dare to delay any longer. Taking advantage of the woman's inaction after screaming, he used his lightness skill to rush behind her.

Although the woman was agile, she couldn't compare to someone who practiced martial arts. Shi Xuan easily grabbed the back of her neck, but she didn't care at all. She reached back with her intact left hand, and the long nails on her hand presented a terrifying blue-black color.

Shi Xuan didn't plan to keep this woman's body, because he didn't know any way to effectively restrain her physical body. Acupressure and bone-breaking techniques would definitely be useless. He hadn't tried whether he could use a body-immobilization spell to immobilize this ghostly creatures, and it would be too troublesome to try now. Binding her would allow the other party to directly escape with her soul. So, it would be better to directly force out her soul and use the Soul Sealing Ghost Summoning Curse to treat the symptoms, but he had to be wary of the Black Light.

Without hesitation, after grabbing the back of the woman's neck, Shi Xuan directly snapped her neck bones. The woman's outstretched left hand drooped weakly halfway. Then, as before, her soul quickly jumped out of the crown of her head, but it was unfortunately imprisoned by Shi Xuan's Soul Sealing Ghost Summoning Curse's black smoke.

It seemed that only when the soul was captured could the Black Light sense it. So, it was not until this time that the Black Light flew in from outside the house, flying toward the woman's ghost.

Shi Xuan was prepared. A Qi Induction Thunder Talisman was ready. As soon as the Black Light appeared, he immediately activated it. The azure Thunder Light seemed to be the Black Light's nemesis. With just one strike, it scattered the Black Light like a meteor.

After this Black Light, no other Black Light attacked. But suddenly, the imprisoned ghost let out a desperate scream. Shi Xuan looked over and saw the ghost expanding and contracting in bursts. In her vaguely visible eyes was a resolute look, but deep within that look were indescribable despair, hatred, pain, and unwillingness.

Shi Xuan sensed great danger and hurriedly threw the black smoke out of the window. A moment later, with a loud bang, the ghost exploded, and the power was quite considerable, breaking a small tree in the middle of the courtyard.

He was very fortunate to have thrown it out decisively. Although this self-destruct wouldn't kill Shi Xuan, if he was injured, he would have one less chance of winning when danger came. Among the spells he knew at this stage, there were only some that could treat minor injuries.

Shi Xuan regained his thoughts, walked to Yan Jujian's side, and looked carefully. It was a fairly obvious symptom of corpse poison. Fortunately, this was a relatively common injury, so Shi Xuan knew the spell to remove corpse poison, and he also had two or three talismans prepared for emergencies.