Upon seeing the last member of the Bai family, Bai Sai, enter the dense reed marsh, Li Huowang lifted his foot to chase after her. "Wait!"
A giant hand larger than his own body suddenly grabbed him, but when Li Huowang looked down, he realized there was no giant claw on him.
He turned his head and glared at the Bureau of Heaven's Watchman, who wore a wooden mask, realizing it was just another one of his illusions.
Seeing Li Huowang filled with hostility, the Watchman raised his hands in defense and stepped back. "Brother, I'm just trying to help you."
"Those people know your identity now. If you go in alone, you'll be asking for trouble."
Frustrated, Li Huowang shook his head. He remembered how Bai Lingmiao had described her family to him, portraying them as kind and benevolent people, which contradicted the Watchman's description.
"Could it be... that Bai Lingmiao lied to me? No, she couldn't have!" Li Huowang's hesitant gaze suddenly became resolute.
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From his previous interactions with the Bai family, they did not seem like the type of people the Watchman described.
"There must be some misunderstanding. I need to talk to them face to face!"
With that, Li Huowang threw the masked Watchman to the ground and headed straight into the reed marsh, shouting, "Bai Clan Leader! It's me! Come out and talk to me!"
After shouting for a while with no response, Li Huowang looked at the yellow reeds behind him and then spoke again. "Don't worry, I have a close relationship with Er Yatou! If the Bai family has any secrets, I will help you!"
"I'm on your side! I've never seen that person with the wooden mask before. As long as I'm here, he won't dare to harm you!" Li Huowang's voice echoed through the reed marsh.
Shortly after he spoke, two strong young men from the Bai family jumped out from the reeds in front of him and stared at Li Huowang in silence.
Seeing the men, Li Huowang breathed a sigh of relief and continued, "I know you don't trust me because of the Bureau of Heaven's Watchman, but I'm not as closely related to the organization as you think. How about this? Let's go back to Niu Xin Village first. Er Yatou is there, and she can explain everything to you."
The two men didn't say anything. They simply spread their legs and began to perform a series of movements, chanting, "Gods bestow true divine power, heavenly soldiers and generals show divine abilities. All the gods listen to my command, quickly enter my mortal body!"
The next moment, Li Huowang saw a tall, thin, black-banded figure emerge from the ground and float towards the two men.
"What kind of evil spirit is that?" Li Huowang drew his copper coin sword and prepared to drive it away.
But before he could get closer, the two Bai family men suddenly lifted their heads and stared at Li Huowang with a sinister look.With a shocked expression, Li Huowang stopped in his tracks and looked at the two people in front of him who were completely different from before. "What... is this? Divine intervention? Possessed by evil spirits?"
If Li Huowang had some doubts about the words of the Monitoring Bureau before, seeing the appearance of these two people made his suspicions grow.
"Listen, I really don't want to fight with you. Whatever you did in the past has nothing to do with me. It's the job of other members of the Monitoring Bureau to deal with you!"
With a "swish," the two naked young men moved so fast that their bodies left afterimages and suddenly pounced on Li Huowang.
Possessed by some unknown evil spirits, they were very strange, and every part of their bodies seemed to have its own independent entity.
Their fingers spread apart like twitching snake heads and stabbed towards Li Huowang's neck.
These two people didn't look strong, but Li Huowang didn't fight back because he knew all the killing moves.
If he really fought back, these two people would either die or be injured, and Li Huowang didn't want to do that.
Li Huowang's body tumbled and dodged in the reeds, constantly avoiding the attacks of the two.
He didn't know what evil spirits possessed them, but their agility was beyond imagination, and Li Huowang was very passive for a while.
"Smack!" Li Huowang lost his footing and the two rushed towards him. Instead of attacking him directly, they went to grab the copper coin sword in his hand.
Li Huowang pressed a button, and in the next moment, with a "clang," he felt his back lighten. "Uh-oh!"
Li Huowang turned his head and a cold light flashed. The purple spike sword, emitting a murderous aura, fiercely stabbed towards his face.
He wanted to counterattack or block, but both his hands were grabbed by the two White family youths.
At this critical moment, Li Huowang suddenly shifted his position and moved his body a few inches to the left.
"Azna Lingguang Dasheng!" The copper coin sword in Li Huowang's hand exploded, and with the red traction, it easily cut off the fingers that were close to him.
Then he kicked the man in front of him and quickly distanced himself from the others.
At the same time they faced each other, the man holding the purple spike sword suddenly knelt down with a twisted expression, and the sinister expression on his face quickly disappeared.
As his purple spike sword fell weakly to the ground, he knelt on the ground, roaring frantically.
Looking at the two youths whose fingers he had cut off and the White family person possessed by evil spirits, Li Huowang sighed lightly. "Does it have to be like this? Can't we talk it out?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the reeds around them began to sway, and the eerie faces of men appeared in the wax-yellow reeds.
The faces without any warmth made Li Huowang shiver. Nearly half of the White family members were possessed by evil spirits.
In the crowd, the one-toothed old man supported by Bai Sai appeared, and he began to speak, trembling and swaying. His mouth with only one tooth opened and closed rhythmically as he sang something, and some black, foul-smelling sludge flowed from the corners of his mouth.
"Jing...Tu...Huo..."
As this familiar yet unfamiliar voice sounded, several familiar figures appeared in front of Li Huowang.That was You Lao Ye, although there was no trembling of the bell sound, You Lao Ye's figure was unusually blurred, but since Li Huowang had used You Lao Ye so many times, he could still recognize their appearance.
Looking at You Lao Ye, who was like a ghostly figure in mid-air, Li Huowang remembered the information that Bai Lingmiao had told him when they were in Qingfeng Temple.
Why would an ordinary girl like her know about You Lao Ye, this kind of evil spirit?
Now seeing the scene in front of him, everything became clear, this old man should be her grandfather who told her stories.