Chapter Fifty-Nine: Exorcising the Demon

  Under the gaze of the crowd, Liu Daolang slowly and deliberately washed his hands with hot water, rummaged through a pile of tools for half a day, found a few yellow papers, took out a brush pen, and used rooster blood to draw something on it.

  Qing'er sat there, seemingly unaware of the attention on her, lost in thought. Dongfang Xue and I exchanged a surprised glance, both seeing the astonishment in each other's eyes. After Liuyi Daozhang finished writing something on that ordinary yellow paper, Dongfang Xue and I somehow sensed a power fluctuation emanating from it, although not strong, but indeed a strange power fluctuation.

  "It seems to be a Taoist symbol from China!" Dongfang Xue frowned, staring intently at the yellow paper in Liu Daozhang's hand. As a loose cultivator of the Cultivation Realm, she naturally didn't have much affection for Taoism.

  Liu Daochang was unaware of the disgust in Dongfang Xue's heart. With a beauty by his side, he became even more pleased with himself, muttering mysterious incantations and waving yellow paper to draw various trajectories in the air. The power fluctuations emitted by the yellow paper on his hand also grew stronger with his movements.

  "Tai Shang Lao Jun, hurry up like a law enforcement order, evil spirits and monsters quickly appear in shape..." Liu Daozhang's hands moved even faster, walking around the bed of Xiaonan, Xiaonan's parents watched his every move with tension.

  "Currently..."

  Liu Daochang suddenly let out a loud shout, slapping the yellow paper onto Xiaonan's forehead. I immediately sensed the strange power on the yellow paper, and as soon as it came into contact with Xiaonan, it surged entirely into his body.

  Xiaonan, who had been unconscious for a long time, suddenly groaned and began to convulse, twisting into all sorts of strange postures.

  Xiao Nan's parents thought their daughter had woken up and were overjoyed, about to rush over, but Liu Daochang stretched out his hand to stop them, saying: "Don't go over, it's not her moving now, but the possessed demon controlling her body."

  Xiao Nan twisted for a moment and finally calmed down.

  Just then, the yellow paper stuck to her forehead suddenly burst with a loud noise, and immediately afterwards, threads of dark green smoke emerged from her seven orifices. These wisps of smoke did not dissipate but instead lingered above the bed, gradually gathering together to form the shape of a man.

  "Good fellow, quite a capable one indeed." Liu Daozhang was on high alert and retrieved a wooden sword and a small bell from his tools.

  Having done all this, he turned around and shouted to the others: "You guys get out of here quickly, this guy is fierce, I'm afraid that if we fight him later, you'll be implicated."

  Xiao Nan's parents suddenly came back to their senses and rushed towards the door of the house in a daze.

  Dongfang Snow curled her lips and didn't move at all.

  And I smiled and sat there, staring at Liu Daochang. As for Qing'er, it's even more unnecessary to mention. A dignified fairy from the divine realm, would she be afraid of a small monster?

  At this time, Dongfang Xue was about to speak when the smoke suddenly emitted a piercingly sharp scream. The sound was like hundreds of people scratching their fingernails on the wall at the same time, or countless people screaming in agony simultaneously. Along with this shrill cry, the porcelain and glass in the room suddenly let out a loud crash, shattering into powder. The parents of the Zi family, who had already rushed to the door, were knocked unconscious by that scream.

  Dongfang Xue furrowed her brow, flicked her hand, and a pale white protective shield instantly appeared on the bodies of Zi Yun's parents. It seems that Dongfang Xue's cultivation isn't so bad after all.

  "Let them sleep for a while, there are fewer people and it's easier to do things." Dongfang Xue suddenly smiled. Although her voice was not loud, it still clearly reached my ears amidst the piercing whistling sounds.

  I could only silently nod in agreement.

  Dongfang Xue stretched out her hands and gestured in the air for a moment, and the person lying on the ground seemed to be lifted up by an invisible hand, floating at a height of about half a meter above the ground, slowly flying out of the door.

  "I just moved them to the side, so they won't get in the way later." Dongfang Xue shrugged, seeing my puzzled gaze.

  At this time, the ear-piercing whistling sound from the smoke cluster had stopped. The small room was filled with dark greenish-black smoke everywhere. In just a short minute, the originally warm temperature had dropped by more than ten degrees, becoming somewhat icy and bone-chilling.

  On the other hand, Liu Daochang, who was concentrating and being vigilant, didn't have it as easy as us. Although the indoor temperature had suddenly dropped, his forehead was covered in sweat. He held a bell in his left hand and a wooden sword in his right hand, staring intently at the smoke that was about to take shape on the horse.

  Confronting the smoke, he was extremely tense. The power of that possessed demon was beyond his imagination, and it could actually completely destroy the Ghost-Sealing Symbol passed down by his master. The power on that symbol was nearly half of his own power, and even he needed to use all his strength to break that symbol.

  Although he was fully focused on the swirling smoke in front of him, he still noticed that the annoying man behind him hadn't left, but instead pulled two beautiful women aside to whisper something, and the woman occasionally let out a soft laugh, which surprised him.

  As soon as they met, he had already probed them, and there was no fluctuation of spiritual power on their bodies, just like ordinary people. But now, these three seemingly ordinary people were standing behind him, with a relaxed expression, as if they were on an outing, not putting the chilling temperature in the room or that eerie smoke in their eyes at all, which is simply not something that ordinary people can do.

  He muttered to himself, could it be that these two men were pretending to be pigs eating tigers, and were actually extremely skilled masters? No, no way. He quickly dismissed this ridiculous idea, how could those three people possibly be top-notch masters, how could they possibly be stronger than the number one master of Maoshan, himself? This was absolutely impossible.

  Unfortunately, he didn't know that his guess just now was actually correct. The three people behind him were indeed powerful masters who kept a low profile. One of them was a loose cultivator from the Cultivation Realm who had been cultivating for hundreds of years, another was a top-notch expert among the heavenly sons and daughters of the Heavenly Realm, and the last one was even a reincarnation of the Carefree God, a supreme expert among the heavenly immortals.

  "Hey, it's taking shape, the show is on." Dongfang Xue called out in a low voice, somehow producing a bag of popcorn and sitting down to watch the smoke take shape as if watching a movie.

  "Hiss..."

  As soon as the Eastern Snow's voice fell, a shrill whistle that was a hundred times more piercing than before suddenly sounded, instantly sweeping the entire scene. Fortunately, Xiaonan's parents had already been knocked unconscious and sent out, otherwise they would have been driven to mental collapse by this sharp sound.

  Compared to our ease, Liu Daochang looked much more disheveled. As soon as the sharp whistle sounded, he was caught off guard and stumbled backward, his hands and feet going limp, the wooden sword in his hand falling to the ground. His face, which had already been somewhat pale, turned even whiter in the face of this sonic attack, making one worry that he might collapse at any moment.

  Qing'er suddenly furrowed his brow, quietly stretched out his hand and snapped his fingers. The sharp whistling sound of the smoke transmission stopped abruptly, just like a rooster that was originally crying loudly had its neck pinched shut.

  Liu Daochang felt as if a weight had been lifted off his shoulders, picked up the wooden sword on the ground, took a few quick breaths, and only then did his complexion slightly improve.

  "Who? Who is it? Who broke my Wan Yao Magic Sound?" A dark green smoke cluster transmitted a shocked and angry voice, with an indistinguishable male or female tone, the voice was sharp and high-pitched.

  The demon's name was Bai Xie, the former deputy king of the demon world. Due to the collusion between the elder of the demon world and the magic realm, he was severely injured and his cultivation was almost completely destroyed. However, with his powerful demonic voice, he trapped the elders and successfully escaped.

  A month ago, a certain link in the demon world went wrong, and Bai Xie was inexplicably sent to the human world. Although he was somewhat bewildered, he was still delighted to return to the mortal world after billions of years. After wandering around the mortal world for a while, he occupied the body of a young girl, planning to absorb her yang energy and occupy her body to restore his own cultivation.

  Today, he was still asleep, but was awakened by a strange power. To him, that power was nothing, yet it gave him an instinctive sense of disgust and revulsion. So, he destroyed the source of that power - a yellow paper, then he crawled out of the possessed body, wanting to give the person who disturbed his sleep a good look.

  Just condensed into shape, Bai Hui made a move and used his ultimate technique, Wan Yao Magic Sound. This was his proud magic in the demon world, which could amplify the wailing sounds of the demon creatures and transmit them into others' ears. Even if it were a great elder from the demon world who heard it, they would be paralyzed for a moment, let alone ordinary people.

  Although Bai Huan's cultivation was almost depleted, the title of Demon King was not obtained easily. This time, coming to the mortal world, he also had confidence that he could rely on this move to dominate the world and restore his cultivation. Think about it, even a great elder-like figure couldn't withstand the sonic attack, how could those ordinary people in the mortal world possibly resist?

  However, what he didn't expect was that as soon as his Devil's Voice sounded out, it immediately attracted a powerful interference that made him tremble. That power actually forcibly interrupted his Devil's Voice and even formed a vacuum layer around him, making it impossible for him to cast another spell.

  Although the white scorpion looked fierce, he had already made up his mind that if someone acknowledged breaking his million demon sound, he would immediately think of a way to escape. Because the powerful and terrifying power just now was not something he could contend with, he would rather slowly recover his cultivation in the mortal world than fight against that mysterious person, he did not want to be pinched like an ant, having his soul scattered and never being able to transcend.

  There was an awkward silence in the room, with no one responding to his previous question.

  The white scorpion calmed down a bit, and his frightened heart slightly cooled. Only then did he begin to size up the people in the room. As he took a closer look, he discovered that there were three people in the room: In front of him was a middle-aged man, from whom the power that made him feel instinctively repelled was emanating. Behind this middle-aged man, there was one man and two women, but he didn't sense any power from them, apparently they were just ordinary people.

  Finding no one in the house who could threaten him, Bai Xie let out a sigh of relief, and this was truly putting his mind at ease. After moving his body constructed from demonic energy, he fiercely asked Liu Daozhang: "Was it you who broke my Myriad Demonic Melody just now?"

  The white scorpion naturally knew that the man in front of him couldn't possibly be the one who broke his spell, because the power on the opponent's body was less than half of his own. Compared to the terrifying power from earlier, it was like a small grain of rice. He asked this question simply based on the psychology of saving face and remembering to find a soft persimmon to pinch, otherwise he would be pinched back, which would be really ridiculous.

  "Daring evil spirit! How dare you harm the world, come quickly to meet your death!" Liu Daozhang's face was pale, but he also had a few points of bone energy, pointing at Bai Xie who was crying and shouting loudly.

  The white scorpion was taken aback, but instead of getting angry, he smiled and said: "Alright, I'll come to send myself to death right away, you just wait."

  His body suddenly changed, Bai Xie's body, which was completely composed of demonic energy, suddenly transformed into a cloud of light mist, gently yet quickly flying towards Liu Daozhang.

  Liu Daochang was shocked, the wooden sword in his hand had not been raised yet, but it was already wrapped in a thin mist. Immediately, he looked like a fish that had left the water, his eyes were wide open and staring, his mouth was opened as wide as possible, and even his face turned pale.

  "What the...! What's on your body?" Just as Liu Daozhang was about to faint, Qingwu suddenly trembled and let go of him, transforming back into human form and cursing.

  The white scorpion originally wanted to use its own demonic energy to surround the opponent, completely draining the yang energy from his body. However, he did not expect that there was something on the opponent's body that, as soon as they came into contact, felt a wave of heat, as if he had wrapped himself around a ball of fire rather than a person, and so he had no choice but to release him.

  "This is the Qiankun Lihuo Pao passed down by my master, you know how formidable it is, you monster?"

  Liu Daochang's soul was still unsettled, and seeing Bai E's fearful expression, he couldn't help but feel a bit proud again. He patted the yellow horse jacket on his body and smiled complacently.

  "Pffft! Isn't it just that you used some trick to barely stick the Thunderfire on top? It's not even Divine Fire, do you think I'd be afraid?" White Scorpion cursed loudly. The so-called Thunderfire refers to the large fire ignited by lightning striking a tree, which has special lethal power against demonic creatures formed from evil energy, but its power is far inferior to that of Divine Fire, and can't even compare to the Three Flavors True Fire cultivated by Daoists.

  Although Bai Xie scolded like this, when he pounced forward, he didn't dare get too close to Liu Daochang. He kept a certain distance from the latter, condensing his demonic energy into a ball and throwing it at his opponent like a hidden projectile.

  At this time, in my and Qing'er's view, the power of that demon energy ball was really pitifully small. However, for Liu Daozhang, he didn't dare to be hit by these things that absorbed yang energy, and for a while, he couldn't even counterattack, and could only dodge around, jumping up and down. It was quite difficult for him at his age, and before long, he was already panting heavily.

  "I can't watch this anymore." Dongfang Xue, who was sitting beside him eating popcorn, rubbed his forehead in frustration.

  She had long known that the Taoist priests of Maoshan were not very capable, but she didn't expect them to be so incompetent. Is this still a duel? The ordinary fight between cultivators is more intense and exciting than this.

  "I think we should put an end to this farce ourselves." Dongfang Xue tossed the popcorn, stood up and said to me and Qing'er.

  Qing'er and I both nodded in deep agreement. In fact, Xue'er and I also wanted to see how the cultivators of the mortal world would fight, and when we first met Liu Daozhang, his arrogance had given us some expectations; if you have skills, you will be proud, right? But he didn't expect that this battle in front of him was really unbearable.

  Actually, Ao Tian thought this way, which was unfair to Liu Daozhang. In fact, with Liu Daozhang's strength, compared to ordinary people, he is indeed a superior person, but the enemy he encountered at this time was a bit too strong. The enemy being strong refers to ordinary people, while for Ao Tian and others, Bai Xie is still weak like an infant. Of course, this refers to the current Bai Xie, if it were in the past, the current Ao Tian would not be his opponent yet. As for Dongfang Xue, there's no need to mention him at all.

  Just then, Liu Daochang finally exhausted his physical strength, and his movements slowed down. He was hit in the chest by a dark energy ball that came flying towards him, let out a miserable cry, and fainted with his eyes rolled back; it seemed that if no one came to his rescue, he would probably not live for long.

  "Hmph... now you know my prowess?" The White Scorpion let out a strange laugh, and with one breath, released so many demonic energy orbs that even he was somewhat overwhelmed. His body, composed of demonic energy, shrunk down by a circle. "Draining the yang energy from these two or three people should be enough to recover from the exhaustion earlier." He gazed at Dongfang Xue, who had stood up, and pounced on her with malice, letting out a strange cry: "Darling, come be my snack."

  "Darling?" Dongfang Xue raised an eyebrow, and a mischievous smile suddenly appeared on her lovely face. "Were you calling me?" As soon as she finished speaking, she quietly released all of her yuanqi, which burst forth with a loud crash, radiating outward from her in all directions like a typhoon, leaving the entire room in disarray. The only exception was the area around Xiaonan, which remained unaffected.

  I shook my head, I don't know what to say about her mischievous psychology. If you don't like the look of this monster in front of you, just beat him until his soul flies away, why bother releasing all your energy to scare him.

  "Ah..." Bai Xie almost got scared to death by the demonic aura released by Dongfang Xue, let out a strange cry and suddenly changed direction flying towards the window, wanting to escape this room.

  "Where to go?" Dongfang Xue's eyes flashed with a cold glint, and she let out a sharp rebuke. She stretched out her right hand and grasped at the air, causing the entire building to shake violently, as if it had been slapped by an invisible giant hand.

  The white scorpion let out a strange cry and flew back, but judging from its gestures, it was clearly not voluntary, but rather being pulled by some invisible force, unable to fly back.

  Although Bai Xie's body was made of demonic energy and should have been intangible, somehow Dongfang Xue had used some sort of magic to firmly grasp his neck, holding him up like a pet in front of her.

  "Was the 'baby' you just called referring to me?" Dongfang Xue leaned her face close to Bai Xiao's, asking with a friendly expression, her four sharp canine teeth gleaming.

  "Spare my life, immortal!"

  Although Dongfang Xue's expression on his face is absolutely kind and gentle, Bai Xiao is actually terrified.

  The enormous yuan energy emanating from Dongfang Snow was constantly oppressing him, and his demonic energy had shrunk under the pressure of this yuan energy, looking like it was only as big as a five or six year old child.

  "Huh? Spare my life? Weren't you just going to devour me as a snack earlier?" Dongfang Xue gazed at him with an evil grin, sticking out her tongue to lick her bright red lips, making a drooling expression. "I heard that the demonic aura of a demon is also a top-grade supplement for us cultivators. You look quite delicious, why don't you sacrifice yourself to satisfy me?"

  "Spare my life, noble sir! I was just momentarily confused. I'll never dare to do it again!" Bai Xie loudly pleaded, and indeed squeezed out a few tears condensed from her demonic energy from the corners of her eyes.

  "I suppose you wouldn't dare." Dongfang Xue's tone suddenly changed, and he said nonchalantly: "It's just that I've been short of a servant to do chores lately, and the economy is not doing well either. I don't have money to pay wages. What do you think we should do about this?"

  At this moment, I couldn't bear to look at her anymore and was just about to tell her that humans have dignity, demons also have dignity, and the principle of being able to kill but not humiliate. Just then, Bai Xie shouted loudly: "Your Majesty the Queen, from now on I will be your most loyal servant, please use me!"