Chapter 263: Chapter 231: Siblings United

Sang Que made his way back home, noticing shadows of wandering souls and evil spirits appearing throughout the city.

Awakened people climbed out from the collapsed houses, sitting despairingly on the roadside crying, while some immediately turned back to dig through the ruins, trying to rescue their family members.

Seeing the malicious wandering souls and evil spirits, Sang Que couldn’t bother with other matters. He spread the Evil Mist to its fullest, covering a radius of ten miles, and directly released the Yin Child, commanding it to deal with them.

Within the area covered by the Evil Mist, the Yin Child could instantly teleport to any spot. With a mere lift of its hand, the evil spirits and wandering souls turned to ashes, its efficiency high.

However, the sudden appearance of the Yin Child provoked terrified screams. Even when people saw the Yin Child helping them by eliminating evil spirits, they still kept their distance.

The common folk had no idea that this was the same Yin Child that had annihilated the entire Fengning City; otherwise, everyone would have immediately fled Wangshan City, leaving no one to rescue.

Seeing Kou Yushan’s house collapse, weak calls and knocking from Yun Niang could be heard inside.

Meow~

Xuan Yu jumped off Sang Que’s shoulder, quickly ran to a gap, indicating the people were there.

Sang Que immediately channeled the Evil Mist into the gap in the collapse. Feeling the people inside, he enveloped and pulled them out with the mist.

In the courtyard fell two adults and two children. Yun Niang and the smaller girl seemed alright, with only minor scrapes, but the older boy and Kou Yushan were unconscious.

“Yushan! Xing’er! Wake up, don’t scare me!”

“Brother, sob sob…”

Covered in dirt, Yun Niang struggled to crawl to the boy and Kou Yushan’s side to check on them. Kou Yushan’s head was covered in blood, staining his whole face red and mixing with the dust.

The older boy had a broken wooden spike piercing his abdomen, with half his body bloodied.

Sang Que checked on them. The boy’s body was already cold and stiff, beyond help, while Kou Yushan’s body was warm. Sang Que felt for his breath but found none, and his pulse was nearly imperceptible.

“Don’t move him yet.”

Sang Que made Yun Niang back away, opened Kou Yushan’s shirt, and bent down to listen. He could still hear a faint heartbeat.

He initially thought of performing CPR, but then remembered this was the Deceit Dynasty. Raising his right hand, the Yin Child was still dealing with the sprouting evil spirits and wandering souls. The imprint of the Yansheng coin was gradually recovering, though still a bit short of a complete Geng Trigram.

As Sang Que was devising a method, the Geng Trigram in his palm suddenly emerged quickly, as the Yin Child infused its power into the Yansheng coin.

Since it last saw Cheng Ge, this was the second time it had proactively assisted her.

Without overthinking, Sang Que swiftly placed his hand over Kou Yushan’s head wound, using the life-giving power of the Geng Trigram to aid in his recovery.

Cough!

Kou Yushan took a breath, with his heartbeat and pulse beginning to return to normal, though he remained unconscious.

“Yushan!”

Yun Niang burst into tears of joy, immediately kneeling with the little girl beside her to kowtow to Sang Que.

“Thank you, thank you.”

Sang Que pulled out all the Exorcism Talismans from his bag, a total of six, stuffing them into Yun Niang’s hand, stating, “His life is only temporarily upheld. Dress his wounds and find other people; try to stay in a place with many people.”

Just about to leave, Sang Que paused and admonished, “Keep the Exorcism Talismans well. Don’t easily trust anyone, be alert, watch over your daughter.”

Having spoken, Sang Que departed with Xuan Yu, heading to his yard to fetch the arrows and firecrackers buried underground, then using the Evil Mist Instant Teleportation to leave for Yu Da’s place.

After Sang Que left, Yun Niang shed her strong facade, looking at the ruins of her home, cradling her son’s cold body and crying out in despair, unleashing her fears and sorrow.

But she only wept for a moment before decisively setting down her son’s corpse, wiping away the tears from her and her daughter’s faces, and distributing the Exorcism Talismans among the three of them, using her not-so-strong body to support the half-conscious Kou Yushan, carrying him on her back.

“Er Niang, hold onto mom’s clothes tightly, don’t let go. We can make it through this, believe in mom!”

“Mhmm!”

*

Yu Da’s place was just a street over, and Sang Que managed to help and save where he could without losing time.

Each appearance of the Yin Child among the surviving populace incited chaos and screams.

The Yin Child even tapped into the power of the village resentment, exuding black threads from its chest, swiftly dispersing to shred and absorb the evil spirits and wandering souls emerging from the ruins.

When Sang Que found Yu Da, he was disheveled, having just crawled out from a collapsed house, with one leg seemingly broken, looking very pale.

“Are you managing okay?” Sang Que asked.

Yu Da’s face was covered in cold sweat, enduring something intensely.

Xuan Yu let out a low whine on Sang Que’s shoulder, as if it sensed something unsettling from Yu Da.

Leaning against the fallen wall, Yu Da smiled at Sang Que, “It’s nothing major, hurry and check out Cui Liu Lane. My leg, hisses… I can handle.”

Cui Liu Lane’s situation was unknown, so Sang Que just nodded and left on his own.

Yu Da certainly had some issue, but given the urgency, as long as Yu Da showed no ill intent or aggression, Sang Que had to leave him there and look for He Buning and Xia Chan.

*

Cui Liu Lane.

The alley’s entrance was sealed with white filaments, and inside, narrow alleyways were filled with sticky white threads, like a spider’s lair.

A fierce battle waged inside, with He Buning wielding a Yin Fire Long Saber, sweeping a green flame line through, repelling a puppet with a human head and dramatic mask, spider body, and eight legs made of sharp blades, assembled from flesh and wooden parts.

This belonged to the sinister methods of the Corpse Nourishing Skill combined with the Yunzhou Gu Technique, requiring the making of such puppets while the person was still alive, extremely cruel.

The spider puppet, failing to land a hit, retreated into the darkness, swiftly moving toward Xia Chan amidst the sounds of mechanical clicks and scraping.

Xia Chan’s black hair was unevenly cut short. Feeling a gust headed her way, she suppressed her hunger to fling strands of her scant hair, trying to entangle the spider puppet.

Alas, the puppet was deceitful, with two blade-like forelegs slashing to inch by inch shear off Xia Chan’s hair.

“Ouch! That hurts!”

Xia Chan retreated in fear, bumping into He Buning, who pulled her aside and chopped fiercely down with his Yin Fire Long Saber.

At his feet lay a shattered puppet with its head blasted away, accomplished with his flintlock gun at the start.

Unfortunately, reloading the flintlock gun took time, and he was now overwhelmed.

The puppeteer remained hidden, and the puppet almost completely countered Xia Chan’s hair, being extremely agile. Battling it for ages, He Buning hadn’t found an opening to ignite it with Yin Fire.

Amid the clashing of metal and showers of sparks, the puppet never engaged him head-on, retreating once more into the dark.

Just then, the sound of wind slicing through came from the alley’s entrance. He Buning’s pupils quivered as he leaned back, a flying arrow gliding past his eyes.

Bang!

A dull thud followed by sparks flaring from the darkness, the arrow hit the spider puppet, penetrating deep, demonstrating vast force.

Immediately after, arrow after arrow followed in rapid succession, all striking the spider puppet with precision, their Ten Victory Stone Arrowheads razor-sharp and infused with anti-evil power, effortlessly breaching the puppet’s solid shell and igniting with sparks.

The spider puppet was pushed back step by step, thrashing before being pinned to the wall.

Meow!

A black cat tore through the alley’s web. He Buning turned his head to see the black-robed girl, bow in hand, eyes fierce, drawing the long knife across her face with a decisive slash to break the webs.

“Sang Que!”

Xia Chan exclaimed with fear in her voice, spotting the girl in black approach confidently. With the spider puppet pinned to the wall, He Buning sliced his wrist, swung his arm to splatter blood, and moved in to snap the puppet’s neck.

Boom!

The Yin Fire blazed fiercely, instantly engulfing the spider puppet, with its neck twisted by He Buning’s thrust.

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