Chapter 920: Chapter 920: Divine Cave Village (Large Chapter) Chapter 920: Chapter 920: Divine Cave Village (Large Chapter) Well, Huang Xiaolong had just spent 888 yuan to buy a bunch of ghosts. There wasn’t much to fight over; everyone with Huang Xiaolong got one, even the two little demons, Qingqing and Xiaohong, were targeted by the ghosts.
“Haha~~” Huang Xiaolong let out a mocking laugh and simply waved his hand.
Whoosh~~~!!!!
Beams of golden light spread out.
The attacking ghosts lted away like ice cream eting a branding iron, hissing as they dissolved, their souls blasted to oblivion.
In the blink of an eye, Huang Xiaolong had wiped out all the ghosts he had purchased.
So much so that the diners in the restaurant hadn’t even had ti to react.
The restaurant’s waitstaff and cashiers, all sorts of employees, looked at Huang Xiaolong with shocked eyes.
As for the ghosts cramd into the cracks in the walls, waiting to be sold, each of them was inexplicably terrified, pressing their heads against the wall and watching Huang Xiaolong with bloodied eyes, filled with fear.
“Little Long, what do we do now? It seems there are quite a few ghosts left in this restaurant.” Ma Chuxia said eagerly, “Why don’t we just wipe them all out in one go?”
“Hmm~~” Huang Xiaolong thought for a mont, “Let it be, those ghosts that haven’t been sold yet, although they are full of resentnt, haven’t actually hard anyone for the ti being. In fact, the reason why these ghosts are so resentful and have turned into vengeful spirits is because, the owner of this restaurant has gone too far.”
“Ah? My lord, what exactly happened?” Qingqing looked at Huang Xiaolong with puzzlent.
“Little Long, are you saying that the owner of this restaurant deliberately kept a lot of ghosts here, then waiting for custors to co to sell them off for money and cause harm?” Ma Chuxia guessed.
“That’s not it, I reckon he doesn’t have the guts for that,” Huang Xiaolong said with a smile, shaking his head, then said to a waiter in the restaurant, “Where’s your boss? Have him co to see .”
“The… the boss… the boss…” The waiter’s expression was sowhat robotic and numb, it seed that working in the restaurant for a while had made him quite influenced by the ghostly energy, to the point where he was a bit out of it.
Huang Xiaolong shook his head helplessly and directly threw out a few talismans.
The talismans ignited mid-air, transforming into streams of golden light that spread to every corner of the restaurant.
The employees of the restaurant, caught in the golden light, all started to vomit.
They vomited a filthy, black, viscous liquid.
The entire restaurant was filled with a foul stench.
After such a spectacle, the diners in the restaurant all cursed and left, settling their bills on the way out.
The large restaurant was left with only Huang Xiaolong and his group, as well as the restaurant staff.
After vomiting for a while, the ghostly, yin, and resentful energies that had been hovering around the employees all dissipated. They all returned to their senses.
They looked at each other with wide eyes, dazed, as if they didn’t understand what had happened in this period of ti.
Huang Xiaolong simply found a stool and sat down, lighting a cigarette, “Hurry up, call your boss over.”
“That… that… please wait~~” A person in charge at the restaurant, having taken stock of Huang Xiaolong’s presence, noticed his extraordinary comportnt and the several stunningly beautiful won accompanying him, surmised that Huang Xiaolong was soone of status and background, possibly so kind of tycoon’s offspring, and didn’t dare to neglect him, imdiately dialing the restaurant owner’s mobile number.
20 minutes later, a Cadillac stopped at the restaurant’s entrance, and a bald man got out, with an impatient look on his face, storming in and clamoring, “What’s the matter? What’s going on? Why call here in the middle of the night? Do you all not want to work anymore?”
“It’s not that, boss, this gentleman asked for you,” the person in charge of the restaurant ekly said.
Turning to see Huang Xiaolong, the restaurant owner, seasoned in judging people, imdiately put on a smile, “Yo, what can I do for you? I am the owner of this modest establishnt, just trying to make a living. If there’s anything that wasn’t up to standard, please forgive us.”
“Save the nonsense,” Huang Xiaolong said with a cold sneer. “Your glabella is darkened, and there are cracks in your misfortune palace; I see that you have been utterly unlucky lately. Nothing you do is going right.”
Hissing with shock, the owner blurted out, “How did you know? Yes, I’ve been losing money in mahjong recently, my wife has cheated on , damn it, it really pisses off, to think she found so college student ten years younger than her online; an old cow eating tender grass, shaless! Also, I went to the hospital last week for a check-up, there’s a shadow in my lung, the biopsy results haven’t co back yet, it scared to death…”
“Heh~~ You’ve done so conscienceless deeds,” Huang Xiaolong said mockingly. “Spill the beans, your restaurant has been haunted, and it’s not just one or two ghosts, but a whole bunch of them. If this goes on, within a year, your family will be ruined, and your lineage cut short, you’ll be undoubtedly dead!”
As soon as he heard this, the owner fell to his knees with a thud, crying, “Save ! Save , please! I…I… I beg you to save , I don’t want to die!”
“Did you use a lot of gravestones and soil from graves when you were building this restaurant?” Huang Xiaolong said, sneering.
“How did you know that?” The restaurant owner asked, looking at Huang Xiaolong with a terrified gaze.
This matter was, after all, illegal, so the restaurant owner had done it stealthily from the beginning, with only a handful of people in the know. He hadn’t expected Huang Xiaolong, this stranger, to reveal the truth in one sentence!
“Behave yourself, damn it!” Huang Xiaolong snorted coldly.
“Yes, yes, I… I… I have gone against my conscience! I deserve to die! I’m not human! I’m a beast!” The owner started bawling. “Back then, in order to save costs when building this restaurant, I secretly went to a graveyard. That graveyard wasn’t managed by any formal organization and was abandoned all year round, so… I… I went there quietly, stole so gravestones, and dug up a lot of dirt. Then, I shattered the headstones to use for the restaurant walls, and also used the mud from those graves… Wuu wuu wuu wuu~~~ I was really possessed…”
“People like you should just die! Stealing materials from graves to build a house, you’re the epito of scum!” Ma Chuxia was furious beyond asure.
Now, everyone finally understood why the restaurant’s walls were cramd with so many resentful spirits and fierce ghosts. It turned out that the restaurant had been built using stones from gravestones and soil from the grave mounds.
How could this not attract ghosts?
These burial ghosts had been resting peacefully in their own yin houses, and you had the nerve to demolish their hos. Who else would these resentful spirits and fierce ghosts co after if not you?
A Taoist from the taphysics Association also roared with anger. “You are utterly heartless! Do you know how many tourists have lost their lives because of what you’ve done? You… You deserve to be shot ten tis over!”
“Forget it, I can’t be bothered to argue with such scum.” Huang Xiaolong gave the owner a disgusted glance, then stood up and walked over to the wall.
The resentful spirits and fierce ghosts in the cracks of the wall trembled in terror, chirping non-stop.
“I see that you are also victims, pitiable indeed. But you shouldn’t hide here and harm others. There is a debtor for every grievance; the innocent people you killed are not few in number.” Huang Xiaolong shook his head. “Enough, don’t stay in the world of the living any longer. I’ll send you to the underworld to be reincarnated.”
With that, Huang Xiaolong took out the ghost capturing jar and collected all the ghosts inside the wall cracks. Then, he affixed a talisman on the wall.
With this, the restaurant’s ominous aura dissipated completely.
Having finished this deed, Huang Xiaolong signaled to a few Taoists from the taphysics Association, “Take care of this, and make it clean.”
“Will do~~~” The Taoists propped up the restaurant owner, who had already been scared limp.
One Taoist whispered softly, “Find a minor ghost later to attach to this guy and let him set up a sky lantern for himself.”
The owner’s eyes rolled back, and he fainted from fright
“Let’s head back to the hotel to sleep.” Huang Xiaolong yawned and led everyone back to the hotel.
That night, of course, Huang Xiaolong shared a room with his little wife Ma Chuxia; the two could be said to be reuniting after a long separation and naturally beca entangled until death.
The next morning, everyone was ready to set out.
Led by a few Taoists from the taphysics Association, Huang Xiaolong and the others started trekking into Lushan on foot.
What they entered was not the so-called scenic area but a completely undeveloped wild land!
Before long, they entered the mountains where miasma billowed with very low visibility. The slopes were steep and rugged, making the path treacherous. Moreover, mosquitoes as big as the palm of a hand and leeches several inches long could be seen everywhere.
Luckily, Huang Xiaolong and the others were not ordinary people, otherwise, they wouldn’t have dared to continue.
Huang Xiaolong took out so talismans and had everyone apply them to their bodies. This way, neither the miasma nor the venomous insects could harm them.
As they walked, a Taoist from the taphysics Association explained, “Mr. Huang, our President, inside Lushan, there are so villages that are very secluded and backward, with almost no contact with the outside world. While not exactly primitive, they are not far off. Several of our taphysics Association mbers who lost contact were last headed to a place called ‘Shendong Village’ and then… then…”
At this point, the Taoist choked up a few tis, his eyes becoming red-rimd.
The other Taoists from the taphysics Association appeared sorrowful as well.
“Shendong Village? That’s a rather strange na for a village.” Huang Xiaolong thought, ‘Could the mysterious black knife with the number three be in Shendong Village?’
“Can’t you be less pessimistic? Your fellow Taoists might just be out of contact. Maybe they’re not dead, right?” Xiaohong the little fox tried to comfort them from the side with kind intentions.
“In any case, we must find them dead or alive!” Chuxia said sternly. “I’m the President, and I have to take responsibility for every mber!”
Along the way, although the environnt turned harsher, they encountered neither demons nor monsters, nor did they run into any mountain spirits or fiends.
Around noon, the sight of smoke rising from cooking fires signaled a peaceful little mountain village coming into view.
In front of the village was a andering stream with a vast mountain as its backdrop.
The village had a few dozen households with ramshackle mud houses. Weeds overgrew the paths, and there seed to be no water or electricity, a typical backward mountain village.
Huang Xiaolong led everyone into the village.
There, so children were playing. When they saw Huang Xiaolong and the others entering the village, these kids didn’t show any signs of panic or shyness. Instead, they looked at Huang Xiaolong and the others with very strange eyes.
These eyes possessed a maturity that didn’t belong to their age, and… a hint of ferocity, coupled with—greed!
Yes, that’s right, Huang Xiaolong had clearly seen “greed” in these children’s eyes!
“More outsiders have co! More outsiders have co!” A child cheered and shouted, “They’ve brought us more fun things!”
“Hm?” Huang Xiaolong glanced over and saw a girl of about six or seven holding an iPhone X!
Good heavens, that phone had just hit the market, selling for around RMB 10,000!
A child in a mountain village actually playing with an iPhone X was simply too absurd! After all, nurous city kids didn’t even own one!
Not just iPhone X, Huang Xiaolong also noticed so children holding iPads or PSP gaming consoles.
“Little Long, this village is pretty strange,” Ma Chuxia also noticed sothing was amiss.
A mystic association Taoist whispered in Huang Xiaolong’s ear, “Mr. Huang, Chairman, we’ve arrived. This is Shendong Village, where those dozen-plus Taoist priests lost contact!”
“Let’s not get nervous yet, let’s look around first,” Huang Xiaolong smiled and said.
At this ti, a few children actually ran over on their own, chattering. “Are you from the big city outside? Are you going to stay in our village?”
Huang Xiaolong chuckled coldly. “Kids, have many people from the big cities outside stayed in your village before?”
The children all gave a mysterious smile and didn’t directly answer Huang Xiaolong’s question.
At this mont, several young and middle-aged villagers ca face-to-face, their faces filled with excited smiles. “Everyone, welco to Shendong Village, welco, welco~~~”
Soon, every household in the village opened their doors, and the villagers ca out to look at Huang Xiaolong and the others, their eyes filled with greed and maliciousness.
It was as if Huang Xiaolong and his party had entered a den of wolves, facing a pack of fierce jackals!
“Little Long, be careful,” Ma Chuxia whispered.
“Hehe, don’t worry, these villagers don’t know ancient martial arts, nor do they know Taoist sorcery, and there are no evil spirits in this village. It’s just an ordinary village,” Huang Xiaolong said with a smile.
“Welco, everyone!” An elderly villager, escorted by the crowd, ca forward. “I am the village head here. Would you like to stay the night?”
“That… I heard that you have a painting here, in which there’s a black knife. I want to have a look,” Huang Xiaolong said nonchalantly.
The village head’s expression froze, and from the depths of his eye sockets erged a sinister look. “You… how do you know about that?”
“Oh, just heard about it,” Huang Xiaolong smiled. “By the way, so friends of mine also ca by your village so ti ago, so Taoist priests. How are they doing? Mr. Village Head, do you rember my Taoist friends?”
“Oh~~ Taoist priests?” The village head’s eyelid muscles twitched a few tis, then he shook his head like a rattle-drum, “I don’t know, haven’t seen any Taoist priests~~ haven’t seen them, really haven’t…”
Ma Chuxia beca furious and was about to erupt.
Huang Xiaolong gestured to her, signaling her not to act rashly.
The village head continued, “The painting of the black knife you ntioned is in my house. Why don’t I take you to have a look. Hehehe~~~”
“Fine, lead the way,” Huang Xiaolong said with composure.
“This way, please, this way, please,” the village head said repeatedly, his eyes also flashing with a hint of ferocity.
As the village head led the way, he signaled to the villagers with his eyes, a look full of murderous intent!
Huang Xiaolong was well aware of these tricks, he simply couldn’t be bothered to call them out.
All in all, this Shendong Village was not simple at all!
Before long, the village head had led Huang Xiaolong and his party to the outside of a few mud houses.
Huang Xiaolong saw sothing at the entrance to the houses; there were patches of dried blood on the ground, splotchy and shocking to behold.
“Heh… what is this?” Huang Xiaolong asked, pointing at the bloodstains on the ground.
“Oh, we butchered a pig a while back, heh heh, butchered a pig, butchered a pig.” The village chief said, rubbing his hands together. “Please co inside, the painting is in the main room, please, please, please.”
At this mont, the killing intent in the eyes of Ma Chuxia and the Taoists from the Xuanxue Society was already sowhat uncontrollable!
The bloodstains in front of the house were most likely not from any pig or cow but—human blood! It’s very possible that it was the blood of those dozen or so missing Taoists!
In other words, those Taoists hadn’t just gone missing, but were—murdered here! Killed in this village!
Qingqing and Xiaohong, the two little demons, also sensed sothing was amiss, a flash of demon light in their eyes.
Xiaohong grumbled, “I especially feel like eating humans today…”
Into the house.
The interior of the mud house was very simple and shabby. However, it was faintly perated with the residual stench of blood.
Sure enough, on the wall of the main room hung an ancient painting with yellowed paper. In the painting, there was a small black knife with an ancient seal character “Three” engraved on it.
An air of ancient desolation, extrely mysterious, flowed through the painting and washed over them!
“The small knife in the painting, do you have it here as well?” Huang Xiaolong asked the village chief.
Suddenly!
“Kekeke~~ kekeke~~~ another group of fat pigs~~~ hahaha~~~~” The village chief suddenly let out a bizarre laugh!
The next mont, his movents beca incredibly agile. He flashed back and retreated outside the house.
Ka-cha~~~!
A tallic sound rang out as an iron gate descended from above the house’s main door, sealing it shut.
The iron gate, made up of dozens of thick iron bars as thick as a child’s arm, trapped Huang Xiaolong and the others inside, as if it were a prison gate.
“Tch~~ A bunch of idiots.” Huang Xiaolong snorted disdainfully.
He didn’t bother with the outside situation and walked straight into the inner room.
Upon entering, he slled a faint odor of blood mixed with a stench.
On a bed, a young girl lay bound. She had dyed blonde, wavy hair, wore tattered clothes, was curled up, with a dirty sock stuffed in her mouth, and her eyes were already swollen from crying, filled with fear, despair, and numbness… much like a puppet.
On the bed, there was also a pile of various items: a Longines watch, cell phones, several travel backpacks, rings, earrings, and stacks of bills of various denominations.
Additionally!
There were several Peach Wood Swords! And a stack of talismans!
“It’s… it’s the Taoist friends’ belongings!!!!!!” a Taoist from the Xuanxue Society let out a heart-wrenching scream.
“Oh, I see now.” A murderous glint flashed in Huang Xiaolong’s eyes as he nodded slightly. “The people in this village are all bandits and thugs. Any backpacker or hiker who passes through gets killed and then robbed of their belongings. Look… this girl, she must have been tied up here and subjected to so very depraved and disgusting humiliation… Damn it! Today, I’m going to slaughter this entire village!”
“Young master, look!” Qingqing pointed outside the window.
Huang Xiaolong lifted his gaze and looked outside.
Outside, dozens of villagers, both n and won, had already surrounded the house. They held homade bows and arrows, crossbows, machetes, and even guns loaded with gun powder, all the while yelling and howling with venomous, greedy, and ferocious looks… as if they were a pack of wolves!
Wolves that wouldn’t spit out bones after eating a person!
“So sotis I say, so people are more disgusting than ghosts, more terrifying than ghosts… Anyway, don’t leave a single one alive in this village,” Huang Xiaolong said casually.
Qingqing licked her lips. “Not even one survivor, young master?”
“No need, we’ll catch their souls later and interrogate them slowly, then scatter them to oblivion,” Huang Xiaolong said with a grin.
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