Roar~ I'm Out

Meanwhile, it was already midnight where Lin Yu was. With his clothes bulging at the chest, he crouched outside, keeping watch over Old Master Ren.

He had checked the coffin that day. It had been corroded and rotted through by corpse Qi. Old Master Ren should be able to get out with just a couple of casual struggles.

"Why isn't he out yet? Even the flowers have wilted while I've been waiting." Lin Yu had grown impatient from waiting and kept muttering to himself.

"After all that hospitality, you can still stand staying in there? If it were me, I'd have flipped the table." Lin Yu grumbled about Old Master Ren.

Sure enough, as soon as Lin Yu finished grumbling, Ren Weiyong burst straight out of the coffin.

Whoa! As expected of the newbie boss. He's already at the peak of White Jiangshi as soon as he comes out. If he sucked the blood of a close relative, wouldn't he reach the peak of Green Jiangshi? That's terrifying.

After observing him for a moment, Lin Yu hurriedly lowered himself. In a head-on fight, with his little frame, wouldn't a single swipe of those claws finish him off? His head wasn't made of iron.

Lin Yu searched furtively for a chance to launch a sneak attack.

Ren Weiyong, meanwhile, sensed what seemed to be a familiar presence nearby. He tilted his head back, his nose twitching slightly.

Hmph! It's that dog thief's scent!

Ren Weiyong recognized it. It was the scent of the person who had been throwing glutinous rice at him every day for the past few days.

Old Master Ren furiously hopped in Lin Yu's direction.

"Holy shit! No way. Do you have to hold such a grudge?"

Lin Yu grumbled as he watched Ren Weiyong hop toward him without even looking for his own blood relatives first.

"Three Pure Ones and Three Luminaries, aid the profound mystery; banish the evil that brings calamity, drive it from this body-dispel evil!" Lin Yu pulled out a supreme-grade yellow Evil-Dispelling Talisman and threw it at Old Master Ren.

He didn't dare throw anything too powerful. The thing had only just come out, and Lin Yu was afraid he would kill him in one hit and get no points.

The moment the talisman struck Ren Weiyong, it was as if firecrackers had exploded against him. A crackling sound rang out, and he fell backward.

At that moment, Uncle Nine, who had initially thought Wen Cai was making the noise again, realized something was wrong. He hurriedly got up and ran out of his room.

As soon as he came out, he saw Lin Yu fighting a jiangshi.

"Xiao Yu, careful! Don't get too close!" Uncle Nine's heart tightened. He hurried toward Lin Yu, calling for him to back away as he ran.

Old Master Ren had barely gotten out before taking a beating. When he saw someone else coming, he hastily leaped over the wall and fled.

"Are you all right, Xiao Yu?" Uncle Nine checked him from head to toe.

"I'm fine. Master, hurry after him, or it'll be too late!" Lin Yu said, pointing at Ren Weiyong, who had already fled some distance.

"All right, I'll go first. You go get the gear." Seeing how urgent the situation was, Uncle Nine gave a few instructions and hurried off in pursuit.

"Master, take these with you." Lin Yu handed Uncle Nine several blue Five Thunder Talismans, then ran off to fetch the gear.

"Where... did he get these?" Uncle Nine stared blankly at the Five Thunder Talismans in his hand. Even he couldn't draw them.

Coming to his senses, Uncle Nine realized this was no time to think about that. He hurried toward the Ren home.

"Senior brother, wake up~" Lin Yu gathered all the equipment, but felt he couldn't carry it all, so he decided to wake Wen Cai and ask for help.

But Lin Yu shook him for ages without waking him. Wen Cai turned over and went right back to sleep.

As for Qiu Sheng, ever since Uncle Nine had loosened his watch over them again, the kid had gone back home every day.

"Senior brother, Sister Tingting is here! If you don't get up now, she'll look down on you when she sees you!" Lin Yu took a deep breath and shouted.

"Tingting? Tingting, you're here!" Wen Cai hurriedly scrambled up, bleary-eyed, with an ingratiating smile all over his face.

But when he looked around, he saw only his junior brother standing by the bed. Tingting was nowhere in sight.

"Oh, come on, junior brother. Why are you disturbing my sweet dreams?" Seeing that the person he wanted to see wasn't there, Wen Cai prepared to go back and meet her in his dreams.

"Senior brother, hurry! Your Ren Tingting is in danger! The jiangshi got out, and Master told you to bring the gear and back him up. If you're late, both Master and Sister Tingting will be gone!"

With the situation so urgent, Lin Yu explained everything in one breath.

Then, without waiting to see whether Wen Cai had understood, he stuffed everything into his arms and pushed him as they ran outside.

Uncle Nine, meanwhile, had taken a shortcut and reached the Ren Mansion.

Ren Fa, who was still going over the accounts late at night, had yet to realize that danger was approaching.

Hearing a commotion outside, he got up to see what was happening.

"Uncle Nine? What brings you here?" Ren Fa looked at the person at the door in confusion.

"Master Ren, it's urgent. Quickly, have someone wake Miss Ren, or the consequences will be too dreadful to imagine." There was no time to explain, so Uncle Nine hurriedly urged Ren Fa to send someone to wake Ren Tingting.

"Ah~!"

But it was too late. A scream from Ren Tingting suddenly rang out from the second floor.

This is bad, Uncle Nine thought when he heard it.

"Tingting! Hurry, let's see what's going on!" Ren Fa and Uncle Nine hurried upstairs to check on Ren Tingting.

Ren Tingting had already changed into her nightclothes and was preparing for bed when she suddenly saw her grandfather smash through the window.

With Old Master Ren's terrifying face on top of that, the sight frightened her so badly that her legs went weak. For a moment, she even forgot to run.

Guided by their bloodline, Ren Weiyong sprang in front of Ren Tingting and was just about to plunge all ten fingers into her.

Ren Tingting came to her senses, but by then the chance to escape had passed. All she could do was close her eyes and let out a piercing scream.

But after screaming for some time, she still felt no pain. She slowly opened her eyes and saw Ren Weiyong being hurled backward by the Protection Talisman Lin Yu had given her, which hung around her neck.

Her heart pounding, Ren Tingting stroked the Protection Talisman, then hurriedly turned, opened the door, and ran outside.

"Tingting, what's going on? What happened?" She ran straight into Ren Fa and Uncle Nine as they came up the stairs.

Ren Fa looked at the unharmed Ren Tingting and asked worriedly.

"Grandpa... Grandpa..." Ren Tingting was so frightened she could barely speak. All she could do was point fearfully at the room behind her.

"Father!"

Ren Fa had also spotted Ren Weiyong hopping out of the room and cried out in alarm.

"Master Ren, take Tingting downstairs and hide for now. Old Master Ren has undergone corpse transformation. The first people he'll harm are his closest blood relatives." Uncle Nine watched the jiangshi before him gravely as he slowly backed away with the two of them.

Ren Weiyong felt terribly frustrated. He had thought that once he got out, he could take revenge on the person who had tormented him, only to find he couldn't beat him.

Now he had come to get some blood from his descendants, but even though one was right in front of him, he couldn't touch her no matter what he did.

"Roar~!" Ren Weiyong could no longer contain his frustration. With a great roar, he charged at the three of them.

"Careful!" Seeing this, Uncle Nine kicked Ren Weiyong down from the second floor, then jumped down after him.

"Ah! There's a jiangshi~!"

The Ren family's servants had also heard the commotion and come to investigate, only to see a monster standing in the middle of the Ren family's main hall.

"Everyone, quiet~ Uncle Nine, what do we do now?" Ren Fa quickly brought the situation under control and called down to Uncle Nine, who was fighting the jiangshi below.

"Stay up there, and whatever you do, don't come down! And tell the servants not to let the jiangshi scratch them or suck any blood!"

Because Ren Weiyong had only just emerged from the coffin and had yet to reach his peak, Uncle Nine could handle him even without magical implements. He even had time to give Ren Fa instructions.