Five Spirits Demon-Slaying Formation

"Ah! What do we do, then? How about we run, quick, and find someone to save us?" When Wen Cai heard that, he immediately wanted to grab Xiao Yu and run.

After seeing the female ghost, Wen Cai trembled all over, his face pale and his legs weak. He was just short of dropping to his knees before her.

"Oh, come on, who are we supposed to find? Aren't you a Daoist priest? Who else would we ask?" Qiu Sheng sounded thoroughly exasperated.

"I... I can't do it. Let's hurry and get out of here."

"Trying to leave? None of you are leaving today!" Just as Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng were arguing, the female ghost finally recovered. With a shout, she sent the door behind the three of them slamming shut.

"What do we do? What do we do? This is all your fault! Otherwise, we'd have left ages ago." Wen Cai pounded on the tightly shut door behind him, his voice anxious.

"Hahaha! None of you are leaving today!" The female ghost burst out laughing as she looked at the group with nowhere to run. Their barrage of talisman water had infuriated her just now, but at last it was her turn.

Why do villains always talk so much? Lin Yu thought helplessly, watching the female ghost trap them and then stand there laughing.

"Big Sister Ghost, we didn't provoke you, did we? Why do you want to kill us?" After thinking it over for a long time, Lin Yu finally asked the question on his mind.

"Didn't provoke me? Then take a look at who this is. Aren't you coming out yet?" The female ghost stopped laughing and looked at Lin Yu as she spoke.

"There's another one? We're doomed," Qiu Sheng murmured, resigned to his fate.

"Brat, do you still remember me?" A hoarse voice, neither quite human nor inhuman, came from behind the female ghost.

Slowly, a short, scrawny weasel with wrinkles on its face like tree bark emerged from behind her.

"So it's you." Lin Yu would never forget this newbie boss. If not for Uncle Nine, he would have died at its hands.

"You were lucky enough to survive an encounter with my master, so how dare you come back?" Lin Yu hadn't expected it to show its face before him again.

When he had later asked his master why he hadn't killed the weasel, even Uncle Nine had remarked on its good luck.

At the time, he had brought only a peachwood sword to examine the feng shui, and after driving the weasel off, he hadn't pursued it. After all, once a weasel became a spirit, there was bound to be a whole den of them, and they wouldn't be easy for him to deal with.

After that, finding it again was impossible. He could only hope in his heart that the weasel would turn over a new leaf and mend its ways.

He hadn't expected it to come knocking on his door now. Wasn't that exactly what he wanted? When he had first transmigrated a month ago, he hadn't had the strength to truss a chicken and could do nothing to it. Now things were different. This was the perfect chance for revenge.

"Hehe, since you're here, none of you are leaving." Lin Yu curled his lips to one side, copying the Dragon King's wicked, charming smile.

"Whoa, Junior Brother, who taught you that? That's pretty gross." When Qiu Sheng realized the monster had come for revenge, he had been watching the weasel spirit warily to keep it from hurting Xiao Yu. But when he saw Lin Yu's crooked smile, he couldn't help speaking up.

"Senior Brother, don't butt in. You've ruined the whole mood." Lin Yu rolled his eyes at Qiu Sheng irritably.

"You're at death's door and still talking tough. That stinking Daoist Lin Jiu isn't here today. Why don't you little Daoists surrender without a fight?" The weasel gnashed its teeth and flexed its fists, looking smug as it slowly approached the three of them.

The female ghost followed behind it, ready to back it up.

"Hmph, like I'm afraid of you! Worst comes to worst, twenty years from now I'll be a fine hero again." Seeing there was no chance left, Qiu Sheng put on a brave front.

"Yeah, like we're afraid of you!" Wen Cai plucked up his courage and chimed in.

Lin Yu: No, I'm not ready yet. I have to stall a little longer.

"Wait! I really want to know how you persuaded this female ghost to help you." An idea struck Lin Yu, and he asked the question.

"Ever since Lin Jiu destroyed my foundation with that sword strike, and with the end of my life drawing near, I knew I had no hope of making it through. But my great vengeance was still unfulfilled, so I offered her the demon core I'd leave behind after my death as payment for her help." The weasel gnashed its teeth as it mentioned Uncle Nine's name.

"I didn't expect you to have that kind of resolve. But even with this little ghost you hired, you're still not qualified to kill me."

"Die!" Lin Yu took a step forward, and a tremendous pressure suddenly erupted from all around the house, enveloping the two monsters.

"What?! You... how is this possible?!" The weasel was pinned down, unable to move.

Back when Lin Yu had told Qiu Sheng to brew the talisman tea, he had already been sneaking around the house to set up the Five Spirits Demon-Slaying Formation he had comprehended over the past few days.

Yes, he had come up with the name himself, too. As for the formation, Lin Yu had felt that simply using talismans alone couldn't bring out their full effect, so he had wanted to see what would happen if he combined different talismans.

He hadn't spent the whole week lying flat. He had been reading, and by combining what he learned from the books with his comprehension, he had succeeded in creating this formation.

As long as he placed Spirit-Binding Talismans at the positions corresponding to the Four Symbols around the area, then activated his spiritual power from his position as the formation's core, he could suppress or even kill ghosts and monsters at roughly the same realm as him, or even one realm higher.

Lin Yu had just opened the chat group and checked the two creatures' realms. The female ghost's realm was a little lower, only at Peak Gray-Heart Ghost, not even as high as his.

The weasel was a little harder to deal with. It had nearly fifty years of cultivation, and its strength was on par with his.

(A monster's cultivation was measured in years. The more years it had, the stronger it was.)

Even so, it fell just within the range the Five Spirits Demon-Slaying Formation could handle.

Just looking at the two ghosts pinned flat on the ground was enough to tell the effect was pretty good.

"Wow, Xiao Yu, I didn't know you had that trick up your sleeve!" Seeing Lin Yu pin the two creatures down with a single sentence, Qiu Sheng squatted and looked at him in amazement.

"Oh, it's easy. I just had to toss a few talismans over there." Lin Yu waved a hand and "modestly" lifted his chin.

With that, Lin Yu prepared to use the formation to crush the two creatures to death.

"Hey! Wait, Junior Brother! Let your senior brother have a go too. Those two scared me so badly just now. Watch me beat them to death!" Seeing that the two monsters could no longer resist, Wen Cai instantly grew bold as well.

"Let me try too." Qiu Sheng picked up a cup from the table and tentatively threw it at them.

"It really works!" Seeing that the two creatures couldn't move at all, Qiu Sheng joined Wen Cai in tormenting them, as if they wanted to pay them back for the fright they'd just suffered.

"Be careful. Don't damage the formation. If you let them out, you'll be the first ones they kill."

Lin Yu was in no hurry to kill them now. This weasel had had its eye on him ever since he transmigrated. Since you dared scheme against me, you'd better be ready to pay the price.

"This is all your fault! Didn't you say there was just a little brat and a good-for-nothing? What's going on now?" Enduring the humiliation, the female ghost viciously questioned the weasel beside her.

"I don't know either." The weasel's hate-filled eyes never left Lin Yu.

It had never imagined things would turn out this way. It had only asked to be bestowed a title, yet it had lost its foundation. Now it had come for revenge and was about to lose its life as well.

It was all the little brat in front of it's fault. If it could move now, it would leap up and bite through Lin Yu's throat.

"Still saying none of us can what today? Can't leave, huh? Can't leave!" Qiu Sheng viciously vented his anger on the female ghost.

"Are you two ever going to stop? How can you bully someone like this?" Worn out by Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng's torment, the female ghost was exhausted.

"All right, all right, Senior Brothers, you've had your fun. Let me do it. You haven't learned a single bit of the Daoist arts Master taught you, have you?" Lin Yu spoke helplessly as he watched the two of them fool around, completely unable to kill the creatures.

"Xiao Yu, you do it. We can't do anything to them." The two were drenched in sweat from exhaustion, but the monsters only looked a little worse for wear.

"Bye-bye, you two."

"Wait! This has nothing to do with me. I didn't do anything. Don't kill me!" Sensing that she was about to die, the female ghost hurriedly begged for mercy.

"Little Daoist Master, please spare me. As long as you don't kill me, I'll be your ox or your horse. I'm begging you, please!"

But Lin Yu turned a deaf ear. She was so ugly that he wouldn't take her even if she were given to him for free. He pulled a Five Thunder Talisman (blue) from his robes, activated his spiritual power, and threw it at the two monsters.

The instant the talisman left his hand, a huge bolt of lightning appeared out of thin air and struck the two monsters.

"Ah! I can't accept this! Why?!" the weasel roared in unwillingness.

The female ghost howled as the lightning struck her too.

Gulp. "Junior Brother's a bit fierce." Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng hid behind Lin Yu, staring at the scene in astonishment.

This is a fucking eight-year-old?!