Académie des Surnaturels 3

Chapitre 15

Wu Yun opened his eyes and found that his yellow Taoist robe was also riddled with countless holes like a honeycomb, scorched by the terrifying demonic sound. Fortunately, he had quickly recited a protective incantation in time, otherwise he would have been riddled with millions of bloody holes and died as if he had been shot by a machine gun! Good heavens, only then did Wu Yun realize that this hospital demon was even more powerful than he had imagined!

"Ahhh..." Amidst the blood rain and mist, terrifying cries echoed faintly. From the cracks in the rubble all around, countless enormous, hairy, green-haired spiders, each as big as a crab, emerged. They writhed their disgusting bodies, appearing everywhere from all directions of the ruins, and surged towards the Bagua Liujia formation located within them. Good heavens! These swarms of green-haired spiders, appearing from nowhere like ants, were about to launch a terrifying and devastating attack on Wu Yun's altar formation!

Having just recovered from a near-death experience, Wu Yun steadied himself and looked around. He couldn't help but gasp in horror. Although obscured by the blood rain and mist, he could still see swarms of large, hairy, eight-legged spiders covering the ground all around the formation. They had completely surrounded him, charging towards him along the gravel and crumbling walls, braving the blood rain. It was clear that these spiders were extremely venomous and incredibly ferocious!

Wu Yun, enduring the pain, clasped his hands together in the Sword God Seal and shouted, "Heaven and earth clasp, boundless killing intent! Peach wood divine sword, rush to my hand! Supreme Lord Laozi, hasten as the law commands, rise!" As he finished chanting, he lifted his left foot and stomped hard on the ground, and with a "whoosh," the peach wood sword, which had fallen to the ground, inexplicably spun straight into the air and landed back in Wu Yun's hand without veering off course.

Wu Yun immediately held the sword upright in front of his chest with his right hand, while his left thumb and middle finger quickly formed a lotus mudra. At the same time, he chanted the lotus mantra "Prajna dana!" Then, with a "whoosh," he exhaled a cloud of white smoke, which flashed onto the wooden sword. Instantly, with a "whoosh whoosh whoosh" sound, the entire five-section seven-star peach wood sword miraculously burst into flames, instantly transforming into a fire sword with yellow and red flames, illuminating Wu Yun's face in a bright yellow light!

The fire sword shone with rainbow light, flashing with astonishing brilliance, divine fire, and murderous aura. The invisible sword light and divine energy of the fire sword instantly scattered, its power overwhelming. This was the unique skill of the Maoshan Fengyun Sect - Lotus Fire Sword!

The dozen or so large green spiders that were the first to quickly climb onto the altar tablecloth couldn't withstand the powerful sword energy emanating from Wu Yun's Lotus Fire Sword. They were instantly blasted into a dozen or so rotten spiders, scattering and smoking as they fell to the ground, completely annihilated on the spot!

With a loud bang, a huge swarm of hundreds of large green-haired spiders suddenly flew up from the ground like a swarm of bees, making a dense and terrifying buzzing sound as they pounced on Wu Yun like wolves and tigers. It was absolutely terrifying!

Wu Yun was quick-witted and nimble-fingered. He turned eastward with lightning speed, pointed his fire peach wood sword eastward, and shouted "Boom!" In an instant, the group of green-haired spiders that had been flying through the air like sand were struck by the huge invisible divine power of the fire sword and immediately burst into a huge fireball!

With a deafening roar, the fireball exploded into a dazzling white light. In an instant, the flying spiders were blasted to pieces in the white light. After the white light faded, millions of fiery debris and countless spider hairs flying in the air fell like rain from mid-air. The Lotus Fire Sword was indeed incredibly powerful!

"The eerie groans of the demon Aaan echoed terrifyingly in the surrounding red mist, like weeping, extremely eerie and frightening!"

Meanwhile, even larger swarms of spiders continued to crawl out from all over the ruins. They flew into the air in droves, circling the Bagua Liujia formation that Wu Yun had set up. They danced wildly in the red mist surrounding the ruins like flying sand, emitting a terrifying buzzing sound as they flew and a dense, frightening squeaking sound in the air. However, fearing the terrifying power of the fire sword Wu Yun had just unleashed, they dared not attack rashly, but merely circled the altar formation around the ruins, searching for an opportunity to strike—an incredibly frightening sight!

---Magpie Bridge Fairy

Reply [60]: "With a loud bang, followed by a thunderous roar, a terrifying, blood-red serpentine lightning bolt, flashing with blinding and soul-shaking light, flew straight from the night sky into the ruins and struck the top of the Wuyun Altar formation. It was frightening and terrifying!"

Wu Yun roared, and the peach wood fire sword in his hand flew out automatically, spinning to strike the red lightning bolt that was slashing towards him. With a loud bang, the fire sword and the lightning collided in mid-air, instantly producing a deafening roar. The point of impact exploded into a huge white fireball with a diameter of two meters, illuminating the surrounding red mist ruins and causing the earth to tremble. A strange, demonic scream echoed in mid-air.

After the fireball, sparks and lightning fell like snowflakes. With a "whoosh," the peach wood fire sword also automatically somersaulted backward in mid-air and flew back to Wu Yun's hand. Despite the amazing explosive power of the fireball, the peach wood fire sword was incredibly undamaged and still burned with terrifying flames, flashing with a piercing sword aura!

With a whoosh, a beam of white light shot down from the sky above the north side of the ruins. The terrifying white light landed directly on the ground, and at the same time, it burst into a strange, glowing white smoke. After the smoke cleared, a hideous and sinister figure appeared, and it let out a series of terrifying and sinister laughs.

Master Wuyun focused his gaze and saw that the terrifying figure in the white smoke was none other than the deceased Dean Bai Wen. His face was deathly pale, and his eyes flashed with intense blood-red light, clearly indicating that he had transformed into a vicious ghost. He opened his blood-soaked mouth, which looked incredibly terrifying in the blood rain and red mist. With a horrifying cry, he opened his sharp teeth and flew up from the ground, soaring through the air like a flying ghost and rushing straight towards Master Wuyun. With a whoosh, a dazzling white light shot out from his mouth and struck directly at Master Wuyun's face.

Wu Yun, quick as a flash, turned sharply to the side and dodged. The white light flew past his face less than an inch through the air and struck the gravel behind the altar formation. With a "boom," it exploded into a burst of fire and scattered debris!

At the same time, Wu Yun shouted and swung his fire sword at the altar. Several yellow paper exorcism talismans, as if receiving an invisible command, spun up from the table and flew straight at the white ghost that was rushing towards him!

With a "whoosh," the white-robed ghost that pounced forward was instantly struck by the talisman, letting out a strange scream. At the same time, it turned into a wisp of white smoke and fled into the air. The yellow paper talismans that had injured the evil ghost fell from mid-air, burning with flames!

Wu Yun sneered and hurriedly recited the Eye-Opening Mantra. In an instant, he saw Bai Wen's ghost, who had fled, appear viciously in mid-air more than ten meters behind him. It silently and maliciously pounced over, trying to launch a surprise attack!

"Where do you think you're going, you demon?" Master Wuyun swiftly turned, his fiery sword pointing behind him. Instantly, with a "whoosh," an incredible wall of fire erupted from the gravel ground of the altar behind him, instantly blocking the demon's path! The fire, like a raging torrent, surged forth, blocking the demon's way.

With a deafening crash, countless pebbles from the ruins in front of Wu Yun's formation miraculously flew into the air and coalesced into a terrifying stone monster four meters long. "Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho!" With a terrifying, enormous breathing sound, the monster fully materialized. Its head was shaped like three horrifying pig heads, while its body was that of a giant dog. This colossal, three-headed, dog-bodied stone behemoth let out a chilling howl, its three stone pig faces flashing with blood-red eyes. Opening its three blood-red stone mouths, it charged straight at Wu Yun with a thunderous roar!

At the same time, with a "whoosh," Bai Dewen, who was flying and spinning in mid-air, also let out a fierce howl and retaliated by flying back from the night sky once again!

Wu Yun, despite being attacked from both sides by the giant gravel beast and Bai Dewen, remained calm and composed. With a "whoosh," the fire sword automatically spun out of his hand, flying through the air as fast as lightning, and slashed at Bai Dewen, who was flying towards him.

At the same time, without turning his head, he formed the Vajra Tathagata Five-Hand Mudra with his right hand and struck at the giant gravel beast that had rushed to the altar. It turned out that he saw in his enlightened eyes that this giant gravel beast, which seemed to come from hell, was just a monster composed of some pig spirits controlled by demons. It only had the form but not the power. It was just terrifying in appearance but had very little magic power. On the contrary, the evil ghost Bai Wen was very powerful and needed to be dealt with with the peach wood fire sword.

With a deafening roar, the giant boulder struck by Master Wuyun's Vajra Finger divine power immediately let out a strange scream. In an instant, it was shattered by the invisible divine power of the hand seal, collapsing into countless fragments of stone that crumbled back to the ground like scattered sand. The strange pig spirits that had been fleeing in all directions, their cries heard but not seen, quickly disappeared into the red mist!

Almost simultaneously, the peach wood fire sword that had shot into the air struck the white-robed ghost who was rushing towards him with lightning speed.

"The ghost of Bai Wen in mid-air let out a ferocious and eerie scream. With a loud bang, it instantly exploded into a dazzling white light, scattering light in all directions, blasting the evil ghost to annihilation in the white light!"

After the white light, the fire sword, still burning in mid-air, automatically somersaulted again, trying to fly back to Wu Yun's hand. Suddenly, with several earth-shattering thunderclaps that almost collapsed the altar formation, three or four terrifying, blood-red forked lightning bolts shot out simultaneously from the misty sky in the four directions of east, west, south, and north. In an instant, these four lightning bolts, which illuminated the entire ruins red, struck the peach wood fire sword that was somersaulting in mid-air.

---Magpie Bridge Fairy

Reply [61]: Immediately, "with a loud bang, the fire sword was instantly blasted into a large ball of bloody fire by lightning. In an instant, the wooden sword was blasted to pieces in the bloody light, its form and spirit completely destroyed."

"Hahaha!" At the same time, the eerie laughter of demons echoed all around in the night fog.

"No!" Wu Yun was shocked and immediately understood what was happening. It turned out that the demon had used the demon's transformed ghost, Bai Wen, to fight him, luring him into a trap. The demon had tricked Wu Yun into unleashing its most treasured artifact—the Big Dipper Peach Wood Sword. Although the fire sword destroyed Bai Wen's ghost, it was destroyed by lightning unleashed by the demon. This caused Master Wu Yun to lose the most important magical artifact in this exorcism ritual!

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! In an instant, the wind around them blew even stronger and fiercer, causing Wu Yun's robes to flutter wildly. Blood rained down on his face and body in large, indiscriminate splatter. At the same time, swarms of large, green-haired spiders flying and circling in the air around them let out triumphant "squeaks" and squeaks, preparing to launch a terrifying attack on Master Wu Yun.

What a clever Master Wuyun! Ignoring the fact that his face and eyes were blurred by the blood rain, he decided to strike first. He raised his hands, formed a mudra, and stepped forward with the Kui Gang Step, stomping his right foot on the six small white jade Buddha statues on either side, shouting, "Six Buddha statues, grant me spiritual power to destroy demons and monsters! So be it! Rise!"

With a loud "boom," the six small white jade Buddha statues on the tables on both sides instantly exploded. Six beams of red light shot out from the heads of the exploded Buddha statues and soared straight into the air where blood was raining down. With a series of "boom boom boom," countless red halos exploded in the night sky, instantly illuminating the ruins below!

With a whoosh, the red halo instantly transformed into forty-eight fire bats dancing in the air. As they swirled wildly, they emitted a series of powerful and deafening roars. "Da da da da, bang bang bang!" Accompanied by bursts of dense and terrifying electric explosions, wherever the fire bats flew, the spiders dancing wildly in the air around them inexplicably exploded one after another into countless bolts of lightning. In an instant, these flying spiders were attacked by the invisible divine power of the fire bat spirits, exploding into a rain of electric sparks that fell everywhere, creating a truly spectacular sight!

Flying above the ruins, large swarms of large, hairy green spiders emitted dense, pitiful "squeaks" as they slowly descended to the ground. Clearly, they were no match for the fire bat sprites.

"Hahaha!" Seeing this scene, Master Wuyun couldn't help but burst into wild laughter. "Demon Spirit! You're finished, hahaha!"

With a deafening boom, a massive, glowing red cloud of smoke suddenly erupted from a crumbling wall about twenty meters to the left of the Wuyun Altar Formation. As the smoke rose, a gigantic, red-glowing spider, as large as a taxi and shimmering with beautiful stripes, slowly materialized within the dissipating smoke. "Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho," it hissed, emitting terrifying breaths. The spider's ferocious head flashed two enormous, lantern-like white eyes, staring viciously at Wuyun. Its terrifying, glowing pincers writhed slowly beneath those eyes, exhaling eerie white smoke. Eight hairy, terrifying giant legs stood erect and writhed slowly!

The terrifying demon of the New Conley Hospital finally revealed its true form. Wu Yun stared at it, never in his wildest dreams could he have imagined that the spider demon's true form would be so huge and terrifying, utterly horrifying! It was far beyond his imagination, and he couldn't help but feel his scalp tingle and his whole body go cold.

With a "whoosh," the terrifying, hairy, and horrifying giant red spider suddenly let out a horrifying and eerie howl, flew up from the ground, and bared its venomous fangs, lunging straight at Master Wuyun.

With a loud shout, Wu Yun commanded, "Six Jia and Six Ding, reunite the divine mirror, hasten as the law commands, rise!" With a whoosh, the shattered protective demon-revealing mirror on the battlefield automatically spun and flew into the air. With a "thud," it miraculously reunited with the ground and fell straight back into Wu Yun's hand, transforming back into a complete Bagua demon-revealing mirror.

At the same time, with a sharp whoosh, a beam of white light shot out from the mirror, swift as lightning, and struck the demon!

"The spider demon immediately let out a strange scream and groan, and with a 'boom,' it turned into a cloud of white smoke, disappearing without a trace in the smoke, its whereabouts unknown."

Meanwhile, Master Wuyun held a mirror in one hand and frantically formed protective hand seals with the other, chanting incantations to empower the forty-eight fire bats flying in the surrounding night sky. However, having lost his peach wood fire sword, he found it extremely difficult to use his magic, his entire body and face covered in beads of cold sweat, which mingled with the blood rain, making him look exceptionally ferocious!

Before he could finish chanting the incantation, a series of piercingly sharp thunderclaps resounded in the blood-mist-filled night sky. Suddenly, more than a dozen long, blood-red, eerie lightning bolts, resembling fiery swords from hell, flashed out from the rolling black clouds above the ruins and struck down fiercely into the air above the ruins with immense force!

With a deafening roar, over a dozen long bolts of lightning crisscrossed in mid-air like a spiderweb, instantly engulfing the forty-eight fire bats flying in the air. These bat spirits were blasted apart amidst the thunder and lightning, their bodies and spirits utterly annihilated by the blinding flashes of light! The intense fire and lightning illuminated the ruins as if it were daytime!

As soon as Master Wuyun felt a sharp pain in his forehead, he involuntarily screamed and bent over. With a loud bang, four or five more bolts of lightning, flashing with terrifying red light, transformed into several beautiful and horrifying arcs, falling straight into the Bagua Liujia formation in the ruins. One of them struck Master Wuyun's demon-revealing mirror directly. With a "boom," a large, terrifying burst of scattered sparks and lightning erupted in front of Wuyun's chest. Wuyun let out a shrill scream, his straw hat blasted dozens of meters into the air by the immense, invisible force! He was also blasted backward by the force of the lightning-exploded mirror, landing seven or eight meters away on the gravel with a loud "thud!"

Several other bolts of lightning, flashing with intense light, struck the Bagua Liujia altar formation, composed of sixteen ritual tables, from different locations. Instantly, a massive fireball, five meters high, exploded with deafening roars. The entire altar formation, along with the sixteen ritual tables, was blasted into countless terrifying, flaming fragments of wood in the white light of the fireball, raining down like a torrential downpour! In an instant, the entire Bagua Liujia formation was reduced to dust, utterly destroyed!

---Magpie Bridge Fairy

Reply [62]: That's way too long!

---alen008

Reply [63]: "Wu Yun, who had fallen heavily to the ground, screamed as he climbed up from the gravel. A huge mass of terrifying black blood gushed out from his eyes, ears, nose and mouth, which was extremely horrifying! The flames and wood fragments that flew by from the explosion, along with the terrible wind and heat waves, hit or flew over his head!"

"No! No!" Wu Yun screamed, bleeding profusely from his internal injuries. Before he could recover, a deafening roar and a terrifying clap of thunder were followed by a blinding white lightning bolt that traced a terrifying yet beautiful arc in the air. It struck Wu Yun squarely on the left shoulder as he was trying to stand up. Instantly, with a deafening boom, Wu Yun's left arm flew off his body amidst a burst of terrifying lightning, bouncing into the air before crashing back to the ground with a thud.

With a "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh," the bloody severed arm fell onto the gravel ground and miraculously burst into flames. Master Wuyun, who had lost his left arm, screamed in agony and collapsed to the ground unconscious!

A sinister, demonic laugh echoed through the surrounding mist and air. The large, green-haired spiders on the gravel ground began to move away, and the wind slowed. The blood rain ceased, and with a series of triumphant laughs echoing in the air, the red mist gradually dissipated, and a strange black cloud slowly drifted away from the ruins under a sky filled with dark clouds!

Part Thirteen

In the dilapidated villa at No. 733, Dalong Village, Qiqishan.

Inside a brightly lit Tantric Buddhist temple, Master Fali and his six disciples were meditating before the Hundred-Hand Vajra Subduing Demon Buddha statue, chanting the mantras of the Vajra Subduing Demon Sutra with tense expressions. They were all sweating profusely, and white smoke rose from their heads as they chanted, showing how focused they were. They dared not be distracted even for a moment!

Suddenly, with a "crackling" sound, the string of prayer beads that the magic master was turning with his right hand inexplicably broke off automatically. One by one, the prayer beads slid off the broken string and fell to the ground, making a crisp crackling sound, and rolled away in all directions.

"Oh no!" Master Fali exclaimed, opening his eyes in alarm. He threw down the wooden fish and prayer beads with his left hand, an ominous sign. Could it be that something had happened to his senior brother Wuyun?

Before the magic master could calm down and think it over, with a "whoosh," all the lights inside and outside the villa went out automatically, leaving only the oil lamps and candles in the main hall still burning for illumination.

With a loud "thud," the locked wooden gate to the villa's courtyard suddenly flung open automatically, as if struck by an invisible force! The gate, which had been locked, suddenly opened with a terrifying roar, its contents swung wildly. The sound was deafening.

At the same time, as a strange, eerie wind and sand swept in, the 499 candles on the long tables on both sides of the hall exploded one after another with a series of eerie and terrifying sounds, "crack, crack, crack..." In an instant, flames erupted one after another. In less than ten seconds, all the candles had been reduced to ashes in the flames, and dust and ash were flying everywhere, which was extremely terrifying!

At the same time, with a "crack," the meditation cushion next to the magic master was torn apart as if by an invisible giant claw. An incredible gaping hole appeared on the surface of the cushion, and a large clump of white cotton inside was blasted apart with a "snap" and shot straight up to the ceiling by an invisible force. It slowly fell down like cotton balls, which was extremely terrifying and frightening. Everyone felt as if they had just had a nightmare.

With a deafening roar, a blinding white lightning bolt streaked across the dark, dust-filled courtyard in an instant, illuminating the entire dilapidated 733 villa in a blinding white light, as if it were daytime!

At the same time, with a loud "bang," a huge and terrifying invisible force, in the instant the lightning illuminated the courtyard, lifted the entire bronze incense burner in the open space of the courtyard into the air. With a "boom," it flew through the air and crashed into the corner wall of the villa, instantly exploding into dozens of pieces that fell to the ground. Then, incredibly, it spontaneously burst into flames with a "bang," and the bright flames illuminated dozens of radial cracks on the wall where it hit the ground, demonstrating the immense and terrifying force of the impact!

"Beware of demons!" The magic master, terrified by the scene, shouted loudly. He now realized that the demonic spirit from the hospital had come straight to his door!

"Boom!" Another clap of thunder, another bolt of lightning, instantly illuminated the entire villa. Before the magic master could finish his shout, suddenly, "A monk clutched his head and let out a shrill scream. Before anyone could react, with a 'thud,' the monk's entire body was automatically propelled into the air, crashing heavily into the left wall. With a 'whoosh,' he slid down the wall. "The monk, now sitting on the ground, let out a final scream. Instantly, a large gust of terrifying black blood gushed from his mouth and nose. Then, his eyes rolled back, his head lolled to one side, and he lay dead in a pool of blood."

"Hahaha!" Almost simultaneously, terrifying laughter from demons echoed throughout the surrounding air!

Immediately afterward, with a series of deafening booms, the Hundred-Armed Vajra Subduing Demon Buddha statue in the center of the hall was also struck by an invisible force. The head and hundreds of arms of the bronze statue exploded automatically in the flames, followed by a series of deafening booms as the entire statue exploded from top to bottom like a waterfall of bullets, shattering into countless sharp fragments that flew in all directions like a raging storm! The magic master and the four monks reacted quickly, leaping to the ground, but another monk, reacting slower, was struck on the spot by a sharp, bowl-sized piece of bronze, losing half his face. He couldn't even utter a final scream; blood splattered everywhere! The bloodied corpse, missing half its face, was blasted out of the hall by the force of the explosion, landing in the courtyard and dying instantly! A straight path of blood was left from inside the hall to the courtyard floor—a truly horrifying sight!

At the same time, a fierce wind arose all around, and then the fruits, food, flowers, oil lamps, and other offerings in front of the Buddha statue altar all exploded one after another, with fragments flying everywhere. Talismans, scriptures, and strings of copper bells also flew and exploded in all directions. The huge Vajra Lotus Dharma Treasury Map behind the Buddha statue also suddenly exploded with a "bang," as if it had been blown by a terrifying demonic force of extreme hatred. The entire map shattered into countless fragments, which fell slowly from mid-air like swan feathers. It was extremely ferocious!

---Magpie Bridge Fairy

Reply [64]: At this moment, Master Fali and the remaining four disciples struggled to get up from the ground. "Don't panic, stay calm!" Before Master Fali could finish speaking, suddenly, "Ahhhhh!" Four screams rang out behind him at the same time. Before Master Fali could turn around, with a "crack", the heads of the four monk disciples behind him exploded automatically, flying straight into the air, blood splattering everywhere, extremely frightening! The four headless corpses also instantly gushed blood from their necks like fountains, and fell down automatically at the same time. The four monk heads, with blood flying everywhere, also fell back to the ground like four rubber balls, rolling in all directions. My God, the ground was covered with flying blood. The four disciples of Master Fali had died on the spot!

"No!" the magic master roared. At the same time, he felt a gust of cold wind blowing past the right wall of the hall. He immediately shouted angrily and quickly formed a hand seal with both hands, striking a fireball from the right side of the sky with a "boom." The fireball passed through the air and struck the right wall with a "boom," instantly exploding into a burst of fire. After the fireball subsided, a blackened, smoky hole was left in the wall, demonstrating the immense power of the fireball the magic master had unleashed!

However, the eerie laughter of demons still echoed throughout the hall, and a cold wind still rose, with sand and stones flying everywhere!

A huge talisman that was dancing in the air suddenly burst into flames with a "whoosh" sound, instantly turning into a burning paper in the wind. Before the magic master could understand what was happening, the burning paper flew like lightning from the back of the magic master's head and "whoosh"ed as it automatically enveloped the magic master's entire head.

"Master Ammonia let out a chilling scream. The fire paper covering his head and his head instantly burst into flames. Before he could even grab the fire paper off his head, with a 'boom,' the burning fire paper and the head covering it exploded automatically, turning into a ball of blood-red flames. Master Ammonia let out a final scream on the spot. His brain had been blasted to ashes by the demonic fire, and he fell straight backward to the ground, dead."

"Hahaha..." Eerie, demonic laughter echoed all around, and the flying sand and stones and the eerie wind quickly dispersed with the laughter... Above the villa, a strange black cloud flying very low also slowly left the villa.

Half an hour later, with a whoosh, a police car with its headlights flashing brightly pulled up in front of villa number 733 and stopped. The headlights were turned off, and Zhang Wen and his assistant Zhu Mingshi got out of the car.

Zhang Wen glanced at his watch; it was already 1:30 a.m. He was a full hour and a half late, all because of the traffic jam in the city!

"Brother Wen, why is there not a single light in there?" Zhu Mingshi noticed that the dilapidated villa was in a mess, and the inside was dark and lifeless, which was obviously very wrong!

"I don't know, let's go in!" Zhang Wen subconsciously touched the exorcism knife hanging at his waist.

As the two ran past the courtyard gate, Zhang Wen noticed something was wrong. The two large wooden doors seemed to have been pushed open by a huge force and were broken on both sides!

The courtyard was in complete disarray. Two Arhat statues were upside down and stuck in the ground, and a large bronze incense burner was smashed to pieces and charred against the wall. The ground was littered with tree and stone debris. Good heavens, they also saw a monk's body, half-faced and covered in blood, lying in a large pool of blood. Instantly, Zhang Wen and Zhu Mingshi felt a deep chill run down their spines. Clearly, something terrible had happened!

"Master! Master of Magic!" Zhang Wen screamed as he rushed into the dark villa. He found his voice completely distorted, his whole body trembling uncontrollably, and his legs feeling weak as if they wouldn't obey him! His heart was pounding wildly!

Under the starlight outside, Zhang Wen, his eyes adjusting to the light inside, discovered the entire hall was in complete disarray, as if it had been ransacked! Scattered fragments of tables and chairs littered the entire hall! Suddenly, Zhang Wen and Zhu Mingshi saw several monks lying in pools of blood—headless, gruesome corpses, their deaths extremely horrifying and terrifying. Dried blood had spread, staining the entire hall floor red! And, to their horror, four more monks' heads, their expressions contorted in agony before death, lay in the same pool of blood!

"My God, Brother Wen, what's going on?" Even Zhu Mingshi, a policeman for many years, was trembling with fear at the sight.

Zhang Wen, trembling, sat down next to a blood-soaked corpse of a dead monk sitting against the wall on the left. Although the body was not decapitated, dried blood flowed from its seven orifices, covering its entire body and the ground, making it extremely terrifying!

"What's wrong with you, Master!" Zhang Wen nudged the monk's corpse, but it remained motionless and unresponsive. Zhang Wen then put his hand to the monk's nostrils, but it was already lifeless. Zhang Wen sighed. He had hoped that the monk would still have a breath left and could tell him something, but now, the monk had been dead for some time!

Zhang Wen turned to Zhu Mingshi, who was standing in the hall, and said, "Ashi, hurry up and call the brothers over!"

Zhu Mingshi was so frightened that he stood there dumbfounded, muttering to himself, "This is terrifying! What's going on?"

Unfortunately, neither of them noticed that in the pool of blood, a monk's pale severed head suddenly opened its eyes incredulously, revealing a sinister and eerie smile. It opened its blood-red mouth full of sharp teeth and stared fiercely at Zhang Wen and Zhu Mingshi in the hall!

Zhu Mingshi gasped, about to reach for his phone to make a call, when suddenly, a grotesque, demonic laugh erupted from the ground. Good heavens! The four monk heads in the pool of blood simultaneously opened their eyes, staring viciously at Zhu Mingshi. The chilling laughter made Zhu Mingshi scream and freeze. But before he could react, a swift wind swept through, and the four resurrected monk heads, grinning maliciously, flew up from the blood-soaked ground, incredibly soaring through the air. They pounced on Zhu Mingshi's neck, wrists, and temples, biting and howling horribly. Good heavens! They were sucking his blood!

"Zhu Mingshi let out a terrifying, piercing scream on the spot. He struggled wildly and fell to the ground, rolling and yelling as he tried to tear off the heads of the four vampire-like monks. But the four hideous heads held tightly to Zhu Mingshi's body, frantically sucking his blood. Large splatters of blood gushed out from where Zhu Mingshi was being sucked and bitten! It was extremely terrifying!"

---Magpie Bridge Fairy

Reply [65]: "Ashi, what's wrong with you!" As soon as Zhang Wen heard Zhu Mingshi scream, he immediately turned around and looked towards the center of the hall. He was so frightened by the terrible scene of Zhu Mingshi that he was stunned! Unfortunately, he did not notice that the dead monk sitting on the wall behind him suddenly opened his eyes automatically and revealed a hideous and terrible smile. He stared at Zhang Wen fiercely and slowly raised his bloody, terrible, stiff hands and stretched them towards Zhang Wen's back.