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“This man is depressed and troubled by love; he’s a reckless fool and not the kind of person we’re looking for,” the Hakka woman said.

"Master, do we have to listen to every single household?" Shen Caihua seemed a little tired of it.

The Hakka grandmother said softly, "Child, your master is training your listening skills. Alright, it's getting late, and it's time for that 'Worm-Headed Barbarian' to start its activities. Let's go find it now."

“Master, so you knew where that ‘wriggling ghost’ was?” Shen Caihua said in a sudden realization.

The Hakka woman nodded, grabbed Chen Caihua, and left the house. Then she headed straight for the earthen house of Old Master Li Dihuo in the north of the village.

Dudu, which was hovering in mid-air, flapped its wings and followed.

"The 'Wriggling Ghost' is in our own home?" Shen Caihua asked, puzzled, as he walked.

The old woman gave a cold laugh and said, "You'll find out soon enough."

In the north of the village, inside the three mud houses of old man Li Dihuo, it was dark. The cool moonlight slanted through the window and shone into the room. Hakka nanny and Shen Caihua tiptoed to the windowsill and peeked into the heated kang bed inside.

The pale moonlight shone on the kang (a heated brick bed). Ge Lao Er lay on his side at the head of the kang, a quilt wrapped around his waist, revealing two round, white buttocks. In the rural areas of Northeast China, people are used to sleeping naked, believing that this is the only way to relieve fatigue.

Grandpa Li lay quietly on the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed), fully clothed, snoring softly.

"Don't worry about Ge Lao Er's talent. Listen carefully to Old Master Li's snoring. It has all five notes, and the rhythm is perfect. Think about it, where in the world can you find someone who can snore with such intonation and perfect mastery of all five notes? As the saying goes, 'Trying to cover up only makes things worse.' The 'Worm Head Barbarian' tried to imitate human vocalization so perfectly, but it only gave itself away." The Hakka nanny whispered.

"When will that 'wriggling ghost' finally appear?" Shen Caihua asked anxiously.

"Don't worry, midnight is a rare time, it will definitely come out," the Hakka nanny comforted her.

As they were talking, Old Master Li, who was sitting on the heated kang (a traditional Chinese bed-stove), suddenly straightened up and then slowly got up...

The pale moonlight shone on Old Master Li Dihuo, who was seen hunching over, straining his neck. A series of cracking sounds came from his cervical vertebrae. Then, his neck gradually stretched out... longer and longer. The wrinkled skin on his neck became thinner and thinner, until it was like a semi-transparent membrane, through which the blue veins and red muscles could be clearly seen. At this moment, the old man's neck had stretched to nearly two meters!

Although Shen Caihua was just a child, he had followed Han Sheng around the world since he was young and had seen many strange and bizarre things. Even so, he was still terrified and dumbfounded.

The Hakka nanny observed Shen Caihua's reaction and silently praised him. This child's courage far exceeded that of ordinary people. He was truly a rare talent.

Under the moonlight, the old man slowly turned his head, his bald head reflecting a bluish light. His two triangular eyes glared fiercely at the window, then he nimbly jumped off the kang (a heated brick bed), went around the kitchen, and pushed open the wooden door of the earthen house. With a creak, a long head peeked out from the crack in the door, its eyes gleaming as it stared at the Hakka nanny and Shen Caihua...

"Sister-in-law, what are you trying to do?" Although the words were still in Li Dihuo's tone, the quality of his voice was much richer.

Shen Caihua quietly hid behind the Hakka nanny, and Dudu landed on the roof with a "whoosh," tilting her head and staring at the strange man in surprise.

"Hmph," the Hakka old woman sneered, "I've heard that the 'Ruotou Barbarians' have always lived in the Central Plains, so why are they venturing into the Northeast?"

"This is the ancestral home of the Li family. I, Li Dihuo, have lived in Yaowopu for generations. What business is it of yours, Sister-in-law?" The old man pushed open the door and walked out. With a series of cracking sounds, his long neck slowly retracted, and his triangular eyes became round, just like a normal person.

The Hakka woman's face was as cold as ice as she said, "This old woman has traveled a long way to this place just to send her deceased husband's ashes home. Why did you give birth in the catfish, intending to harm us?"

Old Master Li chuckled sinisterly, "Back then, Di Huo, heeding my elder brother's instigation, mistakenly entered the Hedong Earthly Navel, resulting in him having only an empty shell for a lifetime, extinguishing the Li family's lineage... Hmph, I sensed my elder brother's approach the other day, thinking that the two brothers should become the same kind, so I prepared catfish. Alas, man proposes, God disposes. Only after seeing my sister-in-law and elder brother's ashes did I realize that he had long been dead. Helpless, I could only ask my sister-in-law to take my brother's place..."

The Hakka woman smiled slightly and said, "Do you want this old woman to become another host of the 'Worm-Headed Barbarian'?"

“This is revenge,” Li Dihuo said hoarsely, raising his neck.

“There’s something I don’t understand. Was it your late husband, Di Shui, who told you to go to ‘Hedong Diqi’? He never mentioned anything about that,” the Hakka old woman said, puzzled.

"Of course he wouldn't tell anyone outside the family, including his own wife. What is a wife anyway? She's just a piece of clothing. You can take this one off and put on that one." Li Dihuo said with a lewd and vulgar laugh.

The Hakka woman wasn't angry. Instead, she asked softly, "I still don't believe you, little brother. Where is this 'Hedong Earth Navel' you mentioned?"

"On the banks of the Yellow River in Ruicheng, Shanxi," Li Dihuo replied.

"What are you going to do inside the navel?" The Hakka nanny's voice became even gentler.

"Find the 'Ghost Pot'..." Li Dihuo was saying when he suddenly became alert and quickly stopped talking.

"'Ghost Pot'? What is that?" the Hakka old woman pressed.

Li Dihuo glared fiercely at the Hakka woman and said, "Sister-in-law, why are you asking this?"

The Hakka woman's face hardened, and she said sternly, "Since my late husband has kept this a secret from us for decades, I really want to know what it is."

Li Dihuo's face was gloomy, and he remained silent for a long time.

At this moment, in front of the earthen house, the moonlight was hazy, and the murderous aura grew stronger.

Chapter Seventy-Six of the Main Text

Old Master Li's eyes gradually narrowed, turning into triangles, his sclera turned red, and his neck bones made a slight "crackling" sound.

The Hakka woman watched coldly and said disdainfully, "Uncle, as the saying goes, 'a rabbit doesn't eat the grass near its burrow,' why did you kill Wang Laonian from this village?"

“Hehe…” Li Dihuo said disdainfully, “Of course it’s for the corpse souls. You’re almost home, so I need to stock up on some fresh seven-soul corpse energy beforehand, just in case. Although people died in the Demon Den, no one will guess that it was Old Master Li, who has been paralyzed for decades, who did it.”

The Hakka woman nodded: "Indeed, no one would suspect an elderly man with high-level paraplegia. My uncle could have easily cleared himself of suspicion, but why did you give birth inside Wang Laonian's corpse?"

"Once we leave the earth's navel, this is the only way to reproduce. The children are buried underground with the coffin, where they have food and water and no natural enemies. It is truly an ideal place," the old man replied.

“Uncle, so you mean your ‘Worm-headed Barbarian’ is hermaphroditic?” the Hakka old woman said. “This old woman asks you, after the September 18 Incident, when the Japanese army occupied Northeast China, you had already started to reproduce, right? Officer Qi said that in the past fifty years, there have been more than a hundred similar cases, and you must have committed them all.”

"Hmph, I only target muscular men. I never kill the elderly, women, children, or disabled. I still have that much social morality." Li Dihuo raised his head, looking rather sanctimonious.

"Then why did you still attack the old woman and the apprentice, who are women and children?" the Hakka old woman said calmly.

Li Dihuo was stunned for a moment, then his triangular eyes widened, gleaming with a fierce light that looked particularly menacing in the moonlight. He said viciously, "Enough nonsense. I'll send my sister-in-law to the underworld tonight to reunite with my brother. Isn't that doing you two a favor? As for the child, 'there are no young or old on the road to the underworld,' so he can keep you company."

The Hakka woman said quietly, "Uncle, I'm afraid you don't have that ability."

"Crack crack crack..." Suddenly, a series of loud noises rang out, and Li Dihuo's neck suddenly stretched out two meters, his bald head almost touching the old woman's face. His blood-red mouth opened wide and "pop" spat out a large milky white bubble, as big as a pot lid, and a stench of rotting corpse hit the face.

"Hehena, jajie tingtingpo..." The Hakka nanny had already begun chanting the first move of the Zhuyou Divine Skill, "Ghost Wall," while her palms moved horizontally in front of her chest.

The huge bubble kept churning and swirling above the old woman's head and in front of her face, but it was like hitting a wall of air, and it just wouldn't stick to her body.

Li Dihuo was shocked. He then spat out seven or eight more bubbles in a row, like the soap bubbles that children like to blow, which gathered from all directions.

“Talent, danger!” Dudu shouted from the rooftop.

Shen Caihua suddenly appeared, raising his hands and waving them back and forth while chanting a witchcraft incantation: "Hehena, Zhajietangtangpo..."

The Hakka nanny nodded happily; the child had already learned practical combat skills. Under the moonlight, a group of milky-white, foul-smelling corpse bubbles tumbled and rolled around the Hakka nanny and Shen Caihua, searching for an opening to cling to them. The nanny's expression gradually hardened. Although the "ghost wall" technique could prevent the corpse bubbles from falling, this prolonged delay was not a solution. If there was any carelessness, especially since her apprentice Shen Caihua was still a child, and he mispronounced a few words, the consequences would be unimaginable. The nanny concluded that there must be something special about those corpse bubbles.

At this moment, Li Dihuo stretched out his two-meter-long neck and blinked his triangular eyes, still quite surprised. He never expected that the old woman and the child could withstand the attack of the corpse bubble... Thinking of this, he suddenly let out a strange "squeak," the sound of which was extremely eerie and no longer a human voice.

Instantly, the large bubbles burst open, and tens of thousands of pink, wriggling-like "worm-headed" sperm worms, swaying their thin tails, swarmed down, each one desperately trying to burrow into the human body...

The Hakka woman was horrified when she saw the densely packed sperm falling from the ground. She could easily escape the circle in an instant, but Chen Cai would be in danger. She hesitated for only a moment, and her chance to escape vanished in an instant...

The air was filled with a stench that made people want to vomit. Shen Cai hurriedly stuffed his fingers into his nostrils, but in his nervousness, the incantation he was making went off-key and he completely mispronounced it.

In the darkness, Shen Caihua unconsciously uttered a few unfamiliar incantations: "Kill, kill, cucu cucu cucu cucu... cucu cucu cucu... cucu cucu cucu... cucu cucu... cucu cucu... cucu cucu... cucu cucu... cucu cucu... cucu cucu... cucu cucu... kill, kill, kill!" At the same time, his hands involuntarily made a limb dance-like motion resembling back and forth slicing.

This is the tenth move of the Zhuyou Divine Skill, "No poison, no hero".

Six years ago, Shen Caihua used this move in Mid-Levels, Hong Kong, to bite off half of the penis of "Unmelting Bone" Mao Yishi. This technique is specifically designed to attack the reproductive system of the opponent's private parts. It kills all reproductive organs, whether male or female, or sperm and eggs inside the body. Therefore, Guo Pu named this vicious move "No poison, no man".

"Beep beep pop..." A white static electricity suddenly flashed in mid-air, and the tens of thousands of "wriggling barbarian" sperm were instantly burned in mid-air, turning into a cloud of ash powder that drifted down to the ground.

Upon seeing this, Li Dihuo was suddenly overcome with anger and rage. He coughed up several mouthfuls of white fluid, realizing that his tens of thousands of sperm had been instantly destroyed, turning to ashes. That was the essence of his life force accumulated over decades.

"Crack crack crack..." Li Di Huo pulled his neck back, gritting his teeth as he said, "Sister-in-law, you are so cruel! You actually slaughtered my descendants! If I don't avenge this, I swear I will not be a human being!"

The Hakka nanny was also puzzled. How could the situation suddenly reverse? Where did that white light come from? She heard Xiao Caihua muttering some strange notes. These were not the incantations she had taught him, because she was hearing them for the first time. Could it be that there was a master hiding here secretly helping them?

"Kill, kill, kill..." Shen Caihua's hands moved back and forth like a saw, as if cutting meat, while he continued to mutter viciously to himself.

"Hmph, Uncle, this is your own fault for disregarding brotherly affection and committing evil first," the Hakka nanny sneered. Although she didn't know who was secretly helping her, she still had to be righteous in front of Li Dihuo.

Li Dihuo knew he was no match for this old woman and that there was no chance of winning if he continued to fight. However, he was unwilling to accept the loss of so many "Worm-Headed Barbarian" sperm. He couldn't swallow this insult. He had killed over a hundred people in the past fifty years, and tonight was the only time he had failed.

“Sister-in-law, if you have the guts, come find me at ‘Hedong Earth Navel.’ Don’t you want to know why my brother kept the truth from you? Once you get there, you’ll know what the ‘Ghost Pot’ is. So, dare to come?” Li Di Huo provoked him.

"Once the old woman has arranged her late husband's funeral, she will definitely make a trip to 'Hedong Earth Navel'," the Hakka old woman said with a calm expression but a very gentle tone. "However, I must ask my brother-in-law to tell the old woman where exactly that Earth Navel is?"

“Go to Fengling Temple in Hedong. Di Huo will definitely come to meet you then,” Li Di Huo said resentfully.

“It’s a deal,” the Hakka woman replied.

Yes, what exactly is her husband, Li Dishui, hiding from her? If she doesn't get to the bottom of this, she'll never be able to eat or sleep properly again, she thought.

"Alright, I'll take my leave of my sister-in-law and go ahead." Old Master Li lowered his body, put his limbs on the ground, and kicked out with alternating legs, silently darting several feet south of the village, and then disappeared in a few "whoosh" sounds.

"That was close..." said Dudu, the big parrot, wiping away sweat from his brow on the roof.

"Caihua, what were you muttering to yourself just now?" the Hakka old woman asked Caihua, looking down at him.

"I..." Shen Caihua blinked and thought for a moment, then said in confusion, "No, I was so anxious just now, I think I was shouting 'kill kill kill' the whole time."

"What else did you say in the middle of the 'kill, kill, kill'?" the Hakka old woman pressed.

“No… I don’t remember anything at all?” Shen Caihua scratched his head. At this moment, his mind relaxed, and he completely forgot what he had said.

The Hakka woman nodded. Anyone capable of eliminating those "wriggling barbarian" sperm with a mere flick of the wrist must be a rare and unparalleled martial arts master. Thinking this, she gathered her strength and spoke in a very low voice, "Which master secretly helped me just now? This old woman is deeply grateful. May I come out and meet them?"

In nature, the lower the frequency of sound, the farther it travels and the stronger its penetrating power. In ancient times, the martial arts world of the Central Plains possessed a superior skill called "transmitting sound secretly," which involved emitting sound at extremely low frequencies. Theoretically, the range of sound frequencies audible to the average person is between 20Hz and 2000Hz. Infrasound (below 20Hz) and ultrasound (above 2000Hz) are inaudible to the human ear. The lowest frequency that an average person can hear is 85Hz, while martial arts masters with extremely refined internal energy can hear up to 52Hz.

The Hakka grandmother's voice is generally between 52 and 60 Hz. If the other party is a top master in the martial arts world, then he can definitely hear her voice.

After a long while, the night sky remained silent, and the master did not respond.

"Alas," the Hakka woman sighed, "'A dragon appears but not its tail,' truly embodies the magnanimity and demeanor of a wise and reclusive master..."

Chapter Seventy-Seven

The next morning, the village chief arrived at the door of the mud house early in the morning and shouted at the top of his lungs, "Something's happened..."

The Hakka woman stepped out of the room and calmly asked, "What happened?"

"Do you remember Officer Qi from yesterday?" the village chief asked hurriedly.

"I remember," the old woman replied.

"The village committee received a call from the county public security bureau early this morning, requesting that you, Sister-in-law Li, go to the county town as soon as possible. After I pressed them repeatedly, they finally told me privately that it was because..." The village chief lowered his voice and said mysteriously, "Officer Qi has gone mad..."

"Crazy? You mean mentally unstable?" the Hakka old woman asked.

"Yeah, he was perfectly normal when he came to the village yesterday. How did he suddenly go crazy? Maybe it's because spring has arrived and he's obsessed with peach blossoms and apricot blossoms? In my opinion, Officer Qi doesn't seem like a 'pervert'..." the village chief muttered to himself.

Hearing this, the Hakka woman already had a pretty good idea of what was going on, so she said, "Village Chief, after my late husband Li Dishui is buried today, this old woman can go to the county town immediately..."

“Okay,” the village chief nodded, and as he walked into the house, he shouted, “Grandpa Li, you’re not feeling well, so I’ll take your wife to the forest belt.”

After pushing open the door, the village chief exclaimed in surprise, "Where's the old man?" He turned to look at the kang (a heated brick bed) and saw Ge Lao Er sleeping soundly with his bare bottom covered by a quilt, a puddle of drool on his pillow.

"Hey, Second Brother, wake up!" The village chief shook Ge Lao Er vigorously.