Chapter 275: Ghost Comes

Chapter 275 The Ghost Arrives

"Hahaha, are the people of Pi County all fools? They believe nonsense like shrinking manhood." Gouwa mocked wantonly.

"If you were placed in a situation where you followed the crowd blindly, you wouldn't fare much better either."

Seeing that the streets outside, which should have been desolate, had become bustling, he set down the cup of tea in his hand and walked towards the exit.

"Follow me, bring your weapons. Later, stay on the periphery of the crowd and keep watch for me, so we don't encounter unexpected complications."

Nobody knew what method Yang Hongzhi used to notify them, but the county yamen of Pi County was surrounded by terrified people until it was packed tight; many walls and rooftops were also filled with people.

Thousands of people squeezed together, buzzing like a huge swarm of flies.

Yang Hongzhi secretly approached Li Huowang's side, looking at him with excitement on his face.

"True One, do you think this is enough? Basically, every household sent someone."

He had just gone back to check and found that his son's vital root had indeed not shrunk, so he believed this person's words about seventy or eighty percent.

Looking at the dense heads beside him, Li Huowang nodded, leaped up two or three steps, and landed directly on the stone lion at the entrance of the yamen.

"Fathers and mothers, fellow villagers of Pi County! Do not panic! I am here to tell you that there is absolutely no ghost stealing people's vital roots; you have all been deceived! Shrinking of the yang and yin is fake! This is merely a rumor!"

As soon as Li Huowang spoke these words, it exploded like firecrackers; everyone erupted into discussion with a roar.

"Ding ding ding~!" The piercing bell sound instantly drilled into everyone's ears, causing everyone present to instinctively cover their ears.

After the discussion was suppressed by the ringing, Li Huowang stopped the Daoist bell in his hand and threw it to Chun Xiaoman nearby.

Watching everyone slowly loosen their hands covering their ears, Li Huowang thought for a moment and raised his voice to speak again: "Everyone! That so-called shaman who died from shrinking yang, County Magistrate Yang and I have already inspected! That person was only feigning death and fled somewhere long ago!"

"And think carefully, has anyone among you seen with their own eyes whose yang shrank into their abdomen? Remember, not what someone's son said, not what a neighbor said, but what you saw with your own eyes! Is there anyone!!"

Hearing the question Li Huowang asked, hesitation appeared on the faces of all the people in Pi County.

Just when Li Huowang thought they would next abandon this fear and anxiety, another strange sound emerged on the scene.

"There is!" A woman with half-white hair, holding her child in swaddling clothes, trembled as she walked forward.

She tremblingly opened her clothes layer by layer, held the naked child high in the air, and excitedly displayed him to the others.

"Do you see? My child's vital root has been shrunk! This person is a liar! Do not believe him!"

Li Huowang carefully examined the woman before him, and after confirming she was not disguised by the Zuowang Dao, Li Huowang shifted his gaze to the child in her hands.

"Is this your child? Did that invisible ghost steal its vital root?"

"Yes! Look! Where did his vital root go? It's gone!! Wuuu~ My poor son~~~~" The woman hugged the child and wailed loudly.

"Really shrunk away?" Li Huowang looked at the empty space below, and his head shook violently.

But the next second, Li Huowang reacted instantly, looking at her with a strange expression and asking a very ordinary question.

"Auntie, could it be possible that your child is actually a girl?" It grew too naturally; no matter how you looked at it, it didn't seem achievable through shrinking.

After saying this, the woman seemed frightened, clutching her child and moving closer to the crowd.

"You're talking nonsense! When I was pregnant my belly was pointed! How could I give birth to a money-loser! I gave birth to a son!"

As soon as the woman finished speaking, she knelt directly before an old man while holding the child, explaining anxiously: "Master, do not believe him, this truly cannot be blamed on me, I really gave birth to a big fat boy who can continue the family line! It was that ghost who took the baby's vital root, this truly cannot be blamed on me."

The woman's words caused a trace of unease to appear on everyone's face. The murmur grew louder.

"In order not to suffer humiliation in your husband's house, forcing a daughter to be called a son, why weren't you this clever when facing the Zuowang Dao before?"

Hearing the murmurs below growing louder, just as Li Huowang prepared to stabilize the situation, a scream suddenly erupted from the crowd.

The densely packed people instantly cleared a large space; right in the center stood a beggar wearing tattered clothes, holding a rusty short knife high in his hand.

Amidst a man's wailing, he forcibly cut off the other's vital root and hung it on himself with satisfaction.

The trembling, single-browed beggar stood up, a sinister smile on his face, looking at everyone around him who wore expressions of fear.

"Hehehe~~~ Vital root~ Vital root belongs to me~ With the vital root, I can reincarnate~"

Accompanying the speech, his body actually floated like a ghost spirit, lunging towards another man beside him.

"Ahhh!!" Accompanied by women's screams, everyone present panicked and scrambled to escape in all directions.

Watching as that person was about to be tackled, one of Li Huowang's fingernails shot over.

A crisp "Clang" sounded; the fingernail struck his body, emitting a clear sound of metal colliding.

In the chaotic scene, Li Huowang struggled to rush towards that person, but when he arrived, several men and women were already lying on the ground.

"Clink!" Li Huowang drew his sword and rushed towards that person, slashing directly onto his body.

What Li Huowang did not expect was that the Purple Tassel Sword, a sharp weapon of the military arts, cut against his body but didn't even break the skin, only producing a crisp sound.

Seeing Li Huowang in trouble, others also gathered around.

Gao Zhijian stomped with heavy footsteps towards this side, the spiked mace in his hand whirling wildly.

Under the interlocking blows, Li Huowang fought back and forth evenly with the opponent.

But the more he engaged with the person, the more Li Huowang felt something was wrong; the ghost before him was very wrong.

If this thing was truly a ghost, wasn't this ghost too strange?

Could a ghost be invulnerable to blades and spears? Even the sword that cuts spirits couldn't sever it? And it appeared specifically in broad daylight?

Just as Li Huowang was trying to find a way to eliminate this person, whether it was an illusion or not, he felt the other party blink at him, and for a moment he thought of many things.

Under the gaze of all the commoners of Pi County, they saw this man wearing a copper coin mask fighting back and forth evenly with that ghost.

Their hearts rose and fell along with the battle situation.

After stalling for a quarter of an hour, Li Huowang directly lifted his foot to thrust, stabbing into that person's chest.

Immediately after, he pulled out a yellow talisman from his hand and stuck it onto that person's forehead, and everything finally quieted down.

Panting heavily, Li Huowang held his sword and looked around, speaking firmly: "You are right, there indeed is a ghost that steals vital roots, he is that ghost! Now, he has been killed by me!"