Chapter 431: The Unsolvable Murder! Demonic Cults! Crushing With the Flesh!

At that moment, the eerie bell sound rang out again!

Clang! Clang! Clang!

This time, it was even faster and sharper with the murderous intent almost condensing into a tangible force.

“There isn’t even a bell in this place, where is the sound coming from?” Li Yanchu said calmly.

Zhang Wei froze for a moment. He hadn’t thought about that; after all, in a place this cursed, anything strange could happen.

“The bell is inside his stomach.” Li Yanchu’s gaze turned cold as he pointed at the handsome scholar.

His spiritual sense was far stronger than most. Even though it was being suppressed here, he could still perceive things others could not.

Zhang Wei’s expression changed drastically. “That’s impossible! How could the bell be inside his stomach!?”

Hearing this, the handsome scholar let out a chill, mocking laugh. “You filthy Daoist! What nonsense are you spouting?”

At that moment, the main hall was completely swallowed by darkness, and the shadows slowly crept toward the back hall.

Just then, the tall, burly figure began advancing again, step by step. This was no ordinary place; it was inside the Mount Taoyuan Blissful Land. Once a Daoist sanctuary formed by the essence, spirit and qi of a Land Immortal became haunted, it would not be a normal haunting, as ordinary methods that suppressed a living person’s yang qi wouldn’t last long at all!

Clang! Clang! Clang!

The sinister bell rang once more, striking directly at everyone’s spirit, which made it impossible to tell where it came from.

At this time, Zhang Wei felt a twisting, tearing pain throughout his body, as if steel needles were stabbing deep into his brain. He couldn’t understand how Li Yanchu could still discern the handsome scholar’s abnormality in a situation like this.

And with the evil spirit that had escaped from the ceramic jar earlier, there were now four deadly forces present in the room.

“What the hell did those bastards unleash!?” Zhang Wei cursed furiously, wishing he could slap those idiots a few times.

This Daoist temple clearly hid something sinister, and that ceramic jar must have been used to seal away an evil spirit.

Judging by what had happened, the burly young man must have also found something in the front hall, but was killed by the malevolent spirit, and in death, became a new, terrifying existence himself.

“Damn it! To hell with this!” The suffocating tension pushed Zhang Wei’s nerves to the brink, and he could barely stand the pressure anymore!

“Heaven and Earth without bounds, heart of the Dao, exorcize evil!” Zhang Wei shouted, pulling out a Taiji diagram from his robe.

The diagram transformed into purple, white, gold, and blue radiant swords, which shot straight toward the towering shadowy figure. It was a Daoist treasure he’d obtained from a high master, a relic of immense mystical power and deadly strength.

CLANG!

The sound rang through the heavens like a great bell. The hulking figure proved unyielding, forcibly blocking all four swords without budging!

“Break the formation!” Zhang Wei roared, forming a hand seal as the four swords merged into one ancient, heavy blade, which then pierced directly into the dark shadow.

But at that exact moment, the mature, seductive woman with a twisted and eerie smile appeared silently behind Zhang Wei! He instantly felt the chill creeping up his spine, his skin bristling with goosebumps as a wave of cold swept over him. His mind was fully focused on controlling the sword, and in his haste, he could only form a quick defensive hand seal to shield his body.

But the woman’s razor-thin dagger, now empowered by the evil spirit possessing her, sliced effortlessly through his spell, shattering his protective barrier!

“I’m done for!” Zhang Wei’s heart sank. He had never expected the evil spirits haunting this temple to be so terrifying. He was barely holding off two of them, and already he was on the verge of death.

The next instant, Li Yanchu moved! He threw a single punch, and the earth itself trembled. Blazing hot blood and qi burst from his fist, radiating like a roaring furnace of fire.

BOOM!

The mature, alluring woman was instantly torn apart by the sheer force of his strike,

and then dissolved into nothingness. Stunned, Zhang Wei was speechless.

The sheer force and ferocity of that attack clearly shocked the refined, handsome scholar as well. His face twisted into a mix of emotions; he stepped back to the side, unsure what to do or even think.

Zhang Wei, distracted for just a split second, felt the sword in his hand suddenly explode, and a loud

BANG!

echoed through the hall.

At the same moment, the towering, burly shadow raised a rusted cleaver, its movement so fast the eye could barely follow, and swung it straight toward Zhang Wei! That one strike looked as if it could cut through everything in existence!

“Evil fiend! I don’t have time to waste with you!” Li Yanchu’s cold voice thundered through the darkness.

He had already confirmed that this presence was the same type of demon he had encountered in Mount Jinting’s Blissful Land, though its aura was slightly different. Still, it was undoubtedly from the same origin!

Instead of retreating, he advanced, stepping forward in one decisive motion, and the darkness spreading toward the rear hall instantly halted. In the face of such unavoidable, soul-devouring evil, any normal cultivator would have felt a deep, helpless terror. But Li Yanchu once again shattered Zhang Wei’s understanding of power.

His eyes burned sharp as lightning, his expression cold as iron, his muscles coiled with explosive strength. And with a single punch, he smashed straight into the giant’s head. A thunderous

BOOM

rang out as the giant’s skull disintegrated into ashes.

But the headless monster did not stop. It lifted its rusted cleaver again and slashed toward Li Yanchu.

But before the blade could hit, a golden unyielding and indestructible qi shield shimmered around Li Yanchu.

The Primordial Chaos Technique!

It was one of the three martial classics he had mastered, and it was a body-tempering technique that forged invincible qi shield immune to blades and impervious to sorcery.

And this time was no exception. The ghost’s rusted blade barely cleaved through a dozen layers of his qi barrier, but could not break it completely.

Relying on this Primordial Chaos Technique, Li Yanchu withstood the onslaught of a murderous spectre head-on.

Then he struck back, his fist crashing forward with the Divine Astral Hands! His blow burst forth like a cannon, and the punch carried the force of ten thousand catties.

The headless, towering figure was instantly shattered into fragments and blown backward as Li Yanchu’s overwhelming power tore it apart.

From the very first moment of contact, Li Yanchu realized that the burly figure was none other than that young demon monk, he just didn’t know what had possessed or taken control of him. The man’s body was already covered in corpse spots, his skin dull and lifeless, as if he had been dead for a long time.

Even after the headless giant’s shadow vanished, the darkness outside the hall did not recede. It still spread slowly but relentlessly toward the rear chamber, as though trying to drag everything into that sinister dimension.

At this time, Zhang Wei seemed to realize something, and his expression turned cold as he glared at the handsome scholar. “You bastard... it really

is

you behind all this!”

Mysterious as Zhang Wei was, his talent for provoking enemies with his words rivaled even that of an old Celestial Master.

When the handsome scholar ignored him, Zhang Wei sneered coldly, “With a face like that, it’s such a pity that you didn’t go be a gigolo. Such a pity!”

𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

“You! Go to hell!” The scholar’s voice suddenly became shrill and distorted, and corpse spots began to spread rapidly across his body.

Within moments, they had become horrifically pronounced, and his once-handsome face started to rot away, thick, murky fluid dripping continuously down his chin...