CH 272

"Too small..." The trembling voice of the shopkeeper instantly enveloped the entire room in an eerie atmosphere.

He was so overwhelmed that he didn't even have time to fasten his belt and knelt on the ground, constantly kowtowing in fear.

"Grandpa Ghost! It's not me who wanted to say it, he forced me to say it! You can punish the guilty, but please don't take my life essence!"

"If you take my life essence, you'll be reincarnated! I won't be able to reincarnate and will become a lonely ghost!"

This frightened Gao Zhijian, who immediately covered his lower body with his hands. Li Huowang also looked down subconsciously.

"Is the ghost who steals people's life essence here?" Li Huowang's face was very ugly as he quickly scanned the entire room again.

With Li Huowang's keen perception, he would definitely be able to sense if there was something watching him in the room.

But he didn't feel anyone's gaze now, which meant two things: either the ghost deliberately avoided looking at him, or it didn't have eyes at all.

"An invisible evil spirit? Is it the one that appears on the 18th of every December?" Faced with this sudden unknown enemy, Li Huowang didn't dare to be careless.

In this ghostly place, Li Huowang didn't believe that an evil spirit that could harm one side could only slowly steal other people's life essence.

Unnoticed by everyone in the room, Li Huowang's colorful phantom and invisible body had already quietly separated, and his right hand had already grasped the hilt of his sword.

The atmosphere in the room gradually became extremely oppressive, just as Li Huowang was focusing his attention on the empty surroundings.

The shopkeeper who was crawling on the ground suddenly stood up and rushed towards the door.

"Can it possess people too?!"

When Li Huowang instinctively raised his sword to stab the shopkeeper from behind, Gao Zhijian beside him raised the stone slab on his chest and blocked Li Huowang's sword with a loud clang.

In the blink of an eye, the shopkeeper had already rushed out of the door.

Li Huowang's eyes, full of killing intent, instantly shifted from the shopkeeper to Gao Zhijian.

"Is this thing so difficult to deal with? It has taken over Gao Zhijian's body so quickly?"

And Gao Zhijian, who was holding the stone slab, looked at Li Huowang's fierce eyes and panicked, waving his hands. "I...I...it's me, I'm Zhijian."

However, Li Huowang didn't completely trust him at this moment and stared at his honest face. "Are you really who you say you are? Regardless of your actions, Gao Zhijian will never be able to block my sword again! Who are you really?"

"L...Li...Li...Senior Brother, that person wasn't...wasn't...possessed by the evil spirit!"

"If he wasn't possessed, why did he suddenly run away?"Li Huowang looked at the clear-eyed Gao Zhijian, thought for a moment, and pointed outside with the sword in his hand. "Alright, since you claim to be the real Gao Zhijian, throw away your Tian Shu and go ahead to find that shopkeeper."

The sudden move of the other party was strange, whether he was possessed by evil spirits or not, Li Huowang had to figure out what was going on.

After Gao Zhijian threw everything on him in the room, he came out of the room under Li Huowang's control to find the shopkeeper who ran away suddenly.

It was easy to find him. He had just been scared by Li Huowang and wet his pants. Just follow the urine stains on the ground.

The urine did not spread far, and he wandered around the inn. Li Huowang finally saw the shopkeeper without pants on the rafters of the inn's kitchen.

A rough hemp rope was tied around his neck, hanging him up. His whole body shook slightly with a creaking sound.

The half slice of winter melon on the ground was obviously moved by himself.

As he was hung to death, the shopkeeper's tongue was stretched long, his face turned purple, and he stared straight at Li Huowang with a terrifying look.

"He... he... he..." Gao Zhijian pointed at the shopkeeper who was swaying in the air with shock on his face, not knowing what to say for a while.

A person who was just fine suddenly died from hanging. It was too sudden.

Li Huowang observed the fear and despair in the shopkeeper's eyes and the only thing he held tightly, then turned to Gao Zhijian. "You're right, he wasn't controlled by evil spirits. This guy decided to reincarnate himself while his life was still in his hands to avoid being unable to be reborn after death."

It was not a ghost who killed him but his own fear.

Li Huowang, holding his sword, slowly turned around in the kitchen, looking for the so-called ghost.

He had encountered many evil spirits before, but he had never been so helpless as this time.

A person had died without even seeing the face of the ghost.

Li Huowang lowered his gaze and stared at the shopkeeper's thing, realizing that it was quite small.

"Taoist, what should we do now? You don't even know where it is. You're in trouble this time!" The monk looked very anxious, as if he was really worried about Li Huowang.

Li Huowang glanced at him and said in a low voice, "Don't panic. Since that thing spreads by speaking, it only targets me and Gao Zhijian for now. Other people are safe for the time being. Besides, with my body, it's still early to suffocate me. As for Gao Zhijian... he's fine."

"Li... Li... Li Shixiong, wha... what should we do?"Even Gao Zhijian, who usually had a slow reaction, seemed a bit panicked at this moment. He pulled down his pants and nervously reached in to grab hold of it, afraid that the thing might accidentally retract into his stomach and disappear.

Standing in place, Li Huowang looked around. The kitchen, which should have been very normal, now appeared extremely frightening in his eyes. Behind every item, such as the chili peppers, kitchen knives, cutting boards, and firewood, seemed to hide danger.

Li Huowang opened his pants and looked inside. He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that there was no change for the time being.

It seemed that this kind of shrinking was not a one-time thing, but a gradual process. He still had time to figure out a solution.

"Don't panic. As long as we know the root cause of this thing and its weaknesses, we can definitely solve it!" Li Huowang inserted the long sword in his hand behind his back and turned to walk towards the inn.

"Gao Zhijian, you keep an eye on the inn! Tell everyone else to stay put and not run around. Don't tell anyone about this. I'll figure out a way to completely pull out the thing that's hiding!"

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"Taoist, where are you going?" The monk, whose half body was stuck in the wall, asked in confusion.

"Now that we know that everyone in the entire Pi County is also a victim, they are on the same side as us. There's no need to hide anything anymore. In order to deal with that thing, I need the County Magistrate of Pi County to help me!"