"Thick mist surged from the two eyes with wild ferocity, flowing out."
My incantation is firm and resolute!
The jade tablet was incredibly hot, as if invisible flames were bursting open and burning!
As the mist approached me, it caused the ice to melt!
The feeling of falling out of place suddenly disappears.
Everything within my line of sight is once again shattered.
When everything around me returned to normal, the bloodstench rushed to the top of my head, as if the entire mountain was surrounded by blood.
All around were mountainsides filled with Diu Kuan Ren, kneeling and bleeding from all orifices, with wide-open eyes. Above them floated various bloodthirsty, terrifying, and eerie ghosts, crazily absorbing white vitality. What diffused from the ghosts were copious amounts of ghost fog.
Eight people sat cross-legged around me, still in their eerie and ominous appearance. Thick green mist oozed from their seven orifices, assimilating the ghost fog released by the ordinary Diu Kuan Ren.
Eight men turning a mountain into a hell and making it into a ghost's head is more accurate, as it's the entire Diu Kuan organization of Da Xiang City putting forth their collective effort to create such immense change.
And of the eight men, six were gasping for breath, looking extremely disheveled.
A very obese person, with their head and body separated.
Also present was Gao Yu, the person who housed the Gou Huan Ghost essence. His head had deformed and exploded, with a high Tianzhu inserted into his left side and his right side directly pierced by a high Tianjian.
A faint white ash was constantly emanating from him, eventually turning into dust.
My hand trembled slightly, and the heat of the Jade Tablet of Female-One was almost as intense as when Gao Tian Immortal was on me, using the Gao Tian staff to cause my hand to rot.
However, I still held it tightly without letting go.
The night sky was roiling with thunder, and the pitch-black clouds occasionally let through a flash of white, revealing the surging lightning within.
The talismans were stuck to different parts of the eight people.
The hellish head of the Diu Kuan organization, though situated on this mountain, depends on these eight people to maintain the critical array nodes.
This is the reason why I broke through the surface and destroyed the Diu Kuan by killing Gao Yu!
The flying thunder talisman I used earlier was intended to destroy the ghostly head, but it was blocked by the overwhelming ghost fog that hid the moon. As a result, the thunder did not fall.
At this moment, several bolts of lightning flashed almost simultaneously!
The entire mountain city became like daylight for an instant, and yet, it was almost blinding to the eyes at the same time!
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
The screams were so insignificant in the midst of the thunder.
A sense of weakness flooded my body as if it had been drained, an unfamiliar yet familiar sensation.
It's been quite a long time since I last depleted my lifespan to provoke heaven's thunder.
As the night darkness returned, the decapitated corpse of the obese man and Gao Yu's corpse had turned into two charred masses.
The Gao Tianzhu and Gao Tianjian that had been inserted into Gao Yu's head fell to the ground, with their copper aura even more prominent.
The other six men looked even more disheveled than before; only part of them retained the eerie appearance, while the rest of their bodies had become normal.
In the first place, they were already possessed by ghosts, covering their bodies, giving them a macabre appearance like corpse ghosts.
It was the heavenly thunder that dispelled their ghostly bodies, which is why they are in their current state.
Fear spread across the faces of the six men.
The dense deathly silence further spread from the ghostly Diu Kuan people who were bleeding from their seven orifices.
The Diu Kuan organization was not killed off by the break, but instead became incredibly weak.
The fear on their faces grew even stronger.
Lao Gong's sharp laughter echoed across the mountain city.
"Do you understand now?"
"Have you gained some insight!?"
"Ah?"
"Ah? The Fourth Rule Mountain's Junior Fellow, Luo Xian Shen is here! Be sensible, kneel down and beg for your parents' forgiveness, and I'll let you be reborn! If you're not sensible, it'll be a real pain for you!"
Silence.
Endless silence.
The ghosts attached to the ordinary Diu Kuan people trembled and then returned to them, disappearing without a trace.
Their bodies seemed to be made of rice husks.
Not only because two top executives of the headquarters died, but also because of the intimidation of the heavenly thunder!
To the Diu Kuan organization, Taoists are their arch-nemesis!
They enjoyed all the conveniences brought by corpse ghosts, just as they had to bear the terrifying force of this thunderous heaven!
The six men tremblingly got to their feet, and the ghostified parts of their bodies returned to normal once again.
They did not engage in a direct fight to the death with me, as I had predicted.
However, I still had the Jade Tablet of Female-One in my hand, and the other hand was still half-circling a spell.
This ensures that I can use a second heavenly thunder at any moment.
"How is it?"
"Will you kneel?"
"There is a person named REN among you, right, the ghostly Diu Kuan leader of Guanyao City. He kneels so quickly, without any experience. The rest of you, still lack experience! You fall into tears only after seeing the coffin!"
"Sir, we can kill them all!" Lao Gong shouted.
The six men reacted with a start, retreating several steps in unison, and their bodies once again emitted ghostly mist, as if they were about to run away at any moment.
I didn't hesitate to step forward and quickly picked up the Gao Tianjian and Gao Tianzhu. I then put away the Jade Tablet of Female-One.
I still have the strength for another battle.
They do not have the ability to kill me, and their top cards should have been used.
But it's difficult for me to keep everyone here.
If these people are disrupted, it might create a mess in Da Xiang City, even affecting the lives of the people around.
"Whoever runs first, will die." I spoke these six simple words with confidence.
In an instant, no one dared to run first.
"Luo Xian Shen! You... what do you intend to do?" A voice filled with horror came from the mouth of a person who looked very disheartening, with a melancholic expression on his face.
He is the one who raised the kill-body ghost, and he also transformed into a Huāyíng, affecting my emotions.
It's probably him who made the heads that popped out of those tongues look like the people related to me.
This kill-body ghost is more like a combination of an emotional ghost and a Gou Huan ghost, though not as extreme as the Gou Huan ghost.
"What do you intend to do? Why not ask the Diu Kuan first?" I spoke in a calm tone.
"We... you..." The man opened his mouth, but then fell silent, while the other five were bold on the outside but timid on the inside, ultimately succumbing to fear and still no one spoke.
I spoke again, "Tian Shou Tao Ren is dead. Tian Shou Tao Guan has been destroyed."
"Whether you believe it or not, the reshuffling of the Yin-Yang world will not happen again. The layout of the Diu Kuan will not change, and I want a part of your soul today. You can let you live a life."
"Arrogant words!" A shocked and furious voice came from the mouth of the person who was thin to the extreme, with an utterly uncompromising expression.
The other five men also glared at me in a sullen manner, with a raging desire for murder.
"Luo Xian Shen, you can't kill us all. If we want to run, we will definitely be able to escape some of us. We six people, you can only kill three of us. And for those disciples, you can only leave one-third of them!" The man who raised the kill-body ghost spoke coldly.
"Yes, I can't kill you all. Three of you are enough. Are you sure, it's you who will die, or someone else?" I lifted up the Gao Tianjian and spoke in a calm tone: "Xuan Chi Jin Xiang Di Ruo Shen, it's not difficult to find out where you are, right? Without your leaders, the ghost-knights led by the ghosts will only be considered a mob. Wherever they stir up trouble, the Daoist observatories will react quickly and completely annihilate them!"
"I'll count to three. This is your last chance. Once the talisman is activated again, there will be no turning back!"
One hand, I formed a spell, and the sword tip slowly moved. I said in a low voice, "Three... two..."
