Chapter 266: Chapter 233: Battles Erupt Everywhere (Special Fan Event Thanks — ’Wang Rao’)

“Shut up! Shut up! Shut your filthy mouth!”

Yao Zhen pounded the ground in agony, tears streaming uncontrollably. What she wanted was the feeling of fear, not a lecture!

The deepest fear in her heart was unleashed like a powerful stimulant. The fleeting shadows of the Five Ghosts settled once more. Yao Zhen propped herself up with her sword, standing with a defiant smile, the birthmark on her face burning bright red, like fire.

“Heaven and Earth without limits, destroy evil!”

With a sweep of her sword, the Evil Ghosts retreated. The coffin once again fell into the hands of the Five Ghosts. Yao Zhen tugged at the Five Ghosts, stepping back slowly, carrying the coffin away from Wangshan City.

Oh, Yao Zhen, just hold on for a while, like that time. If you don’t hold on, how could you have met your master and lived the good life?

Just… hold on a little longer, just a little!

*

Inside the city gate.

The sudden appearance of the Ghost Coffin halted the people ready to flee.

The orderly group, organized by several Day Traveling Envoys, instantly descended into chaos, and everyone fled in panic.

The wealthy merchants, who could afford Exorcism Talismans and other anti-evil items, quickly pulled out their belongings.

As soon as the Exorcism Talismans were revealed, those desperately trying to survive reached out to snatch them. Merchants were knocked down, trampled upon, and their life-saving items were seized amid helpless cries.

Accompanying the Ghost Coffin into the city were other Evil Spirits, with strange laughter, crying, and calls of names rising on the wind.

Some were unlucky, suddenly hoisted by a Suicide Rope, while others were fortunate, grabbing someone else’s Exorcism Talisman to fend off a sudden attack from a ghostly woman.

One group of coffin carriers suddenly stopped, lowering the coffin. Four pale-faced ghosts abruptly appeared beside a Day Traveling Envoy who was only focused on self-preservation within the crowd.

With a single slap from the four ghostly hands, the Day Traveling Envoy couldn’t even put up a resistance and was instantly transferred into the coffin. He didn’t even know when he had received the Life-saving Money.

Qin Ze was shielding his wife and children amidst the crowd, surrounded by people pushing and shoving.

“Dad—Dad—”

The two children cried out in fear, clutched tightly in Lian Wan’er’s arms.

In the midst of the fleeing crowd, they were knocked around, tumbling about, while people had already fallen and were being trampled underfoot ahead.

Seeing this, Qin Ze had to ruthlessly unleash the water grass from his body to separate them from others, preventing them from colliding with his wife and children.

In such a moment, in such circumstances, he couldn’t save everyone.

Suddenly, yet another coffin landed, and everyone held their breath in tension.

The coffin carriers surrounding the coffin slowly turned and looked towards the crowd.

Qin Ze froze, a keen sense of the coffin carriers’ gaze recognizing that it was not directed at him, but rather at his youngest son, who was clutching onto his leg.

Qin Ze’s heart trembled with panic, his pupils quivering wide, as he quickly questioned Lian Wan’er and rummaged through the child’s belongings before the coffin carriers could act.

“In the past few days have you received or picked up any kind of valuables?”

Lian Wan’er shook her head continuously, unable to think in this moment.

Qin Ze quickly found a red thread around the neck of his youngest son that wasn’t there before, and hanging on it was a Yansheng coin, which quickly turned ancient and covered in dark red rust, resembling blood, as he touched it.

Lian Wan’er trembled in horror, “It’s the Yansheng coin issued by the Ruyi Building. I thought to give it to Erlang as New Year money, but he wanted it immediately, so I put it on him.”

The water grass Qin Ze was using to shield others shook with his hand, and he clenched the Yansheng coin, squatting down face to face with his son who would just turn four after New Year’s, forcing a kindly smile.

“Erlang, Daddy really likes this coin. Could you give it to Daddy, please?”

The little boy’s face was still streaked with tears. Hearing this, he nodded and replied in a childish voice, “Mama said, Yansheng coin, bless, gift to Daddy, Daddy safe!”

Lian Wan’er was already sobbing uncontrollably, knowing the rules of the Life-saving Money: now that it was in Qin Ze’s hands, unless someone voluntarily took it from him, he would surely be captured by the Ghost Coffin.

The gaze of the coffin carriers shifted from the little boy to Qin Ze himself. Qin Ze stood up and told Lian Wan’er, “I will be fine; protect the children and wait for me!”

Lian Wan’er covered her mouth, nodding tearfully.

The coffin carriers left no time for farewells. The four quickly vanished from the coffin’s side, as Qin Ze spread the water grass around him to push people away, clenching the Life-saving Money and running in the opposite direction of the crowd.

The coffin carriers relentlessly pursued him.

“Dad—”

*

To the north of the city, at the Orphanage.

After waking from his dreams, Liu Tianyou immediately rushed to the Orphanage, rallying nearby residents to help save people.

The Orphanage housed nearly two hundred orphans, but barely over one hundred were rescued in the end.

Those taken by Granny Yin in the dream to be devoured couldn’t wake up again, leaving many buried so deeply they couldn’t be dug out.

Most of the houses nearby maintained their main structures, offering more survival space below. Only the Orphanage was reduced to rubble.

Liu Tianyou gazed at the ruins with anger, swearing to himself that if he ever became an official, he would make sure to punish corrupt officials.

“Don’t be afraid, follow me.”

Liu Tianyou led the children and the surviving townsfolk toward the Evil Suppression Bureau in the west of the city, seeking help.

The children, all understanding beyond their years, showed more endurance than many adults, suppressing their fear and tears, making sure not to fall behind, despite the wounds on their bare feet. They ran desperately to keep up.

Yet fate was against them, and their escape would not be easy.

All of a sudden, something cold and hard latched onto Liu Tianyou’s leg, making his hair stand on end, echoed by terrified screams around him.

Looking down, he saw an infant, blue-black all over, painted with all sorts of colors, with a big head and small body, clinging to his leg.

Many others encountered these infant spirits, desperately shaking their legs, trying to shake them off.

The infants opened their bloodstained mouths filled with dirty, sharp teeth, biting fiercely into people’s legs. Those bitten twitched twice and immediately lost all signs of life.

Liu Tianyou pulled an Exorcism Talisman from his chest, slapping it onto the infant’s face just as it was about to bite him.

Black smoke hissed out, and the infant fled in pain.

“Hehe! So many little dolls here, enough to refine plenty of baby spirits for me, so why don’t you all stay!”

A dwarfish man, daubed with clownish makeup, a tuft of hair on his head pointing upwards, hopped into view, greedily eyeing the children surrounded by numerous baby spirits.

Liu Tianyou swallowed hard, feeling doomed this time, cursing his foolish heroism!

Behind him, all the children closed their eyes, rapidly praying, “Lord Thousand-faced God, save us, save us.”

Liu Tianyou chuckled bitterly, wondering what good it would do to pray to some wild god at a time like this!

“You wretched brat!”

“Who said that?!”

An incoming shoe from afar was caught by the clown dwarf as he raised his hand.

Liu Tianyou and the children turned their heads in unison, seeing Hua Qianmian, looking like a young girl, standing at the street’s entrance with one shoe on her foot. She put her hands on her hips, taking a breath before hurling insults.

“Get lost, you ugly thing, how dare you touch my incense followers! You believe I’ll stomp your head into a dung pit!”

BOOM!

From the direction of the Evil Suppression Bureau came a loud explosion, and the mountain body collapsed again, as the entire sky eerily transformed into the appearance of an ink wash painting.

In the city, battles raged on!

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