Chi!

Gong Ruqing who was just screaming at the door earlier got slashed in half again by Lusheng, her severed body parts crashing to the sides.

"Mister Li...Mister Li!! Qingqing hurts so much..."

Li Shunxi's face turned green, quickly catching up to Lusheng with Duan Meng'an and Ning San both drenched in cold sweat following along too.

Striding out of the kitchen doors, Lusheng suddenly felt a gale pouncing over.

He fiercely raised his saber to block before himself.

Dang!!

Amidst the deafening huge collision, Lusheng staggered back multiple steps, astonishingly sent flying unsteadily by a hurtling black figure.

"Another corpse?!" Li Shunxi cried out in shock seeing the figure. This village contained what for two successive emerging corpses. Such ghostly beings were only seen once in his readings.

These ghostly beings had copper skin and iron bones immune to blades or projectiles, only fearing fire. Simply the hardest to deal with. Unimaginable two straight encounters here.

Still hesitating in astonishment, Lusheng and the corpse already clashed in the yard.

The two shadows intensely collided several times before crashing through the right kitchen wall, falling outside.

Duan Meng'an supported Li Shunxi while fleeing outside together with Ning San. Still chased by the crowd of ladies and guards' ghosts from earlier.

These ghosts moved bizarrely fast. One fiercely clawed Duan Meng'an's back, shattering his outer strength and leaving five bloody rents.

"Ahhh!"

Duan Meng'an miserably shrieked, running even faster.

Li Shunxi and Ning San also didn't bother with anything else, hastening their steps towards the exit.

Boom!!

Lusheng's right palm glowed red like blood, heavily pounding the corpse's chest while his stomach also got fiercely kicked, flashing pale. Clearly injured internally.

"Die!!" Lusheng's other hand clutched his long saber, tightly clasping the corpse's neck for a ruthless slit and pull!

Chi!!

Black blood sprayed his body.

Bang bang bang bang!! The struggling corpse continuously punched and kicked Lusheng's body, beating his face to abnormal intermittent flushes.

The Black Tiger Jade Crane Skill already activated for Lusheng, rapidly healing his internal wounds with yin-yang guidance.

The dire situation left no choice but mutual harm for quick resolution lest the village stir up more trouble pinned here.

Although the strikes brought considerable injury, insignificant to Lusheng. The unique Black Tiger Jade Crane effect being hemostasis. For internal injuries, the freshly ruptured blood vessels would be immediately stanched by inner force. Then simply requiring days of recuperation for recovery. No different from skin breaks on fingers.

If not for fear of overconsumption and subsequent fatigue, Lusheng would have utilized Tiger Howl Crane Cry to annihilate the corpse in one saber slash.

"Boss, go!!" Duan Meng'an yelled from afar after taking the chance to flee some distance, circling the houses towards the frontal courtyard.

Lusheng heavily pushed the corpse away. Not waiting for its dissolution, he fiercely stomped the ground, forcefully launching himself up and chasing ahead.

Catching up to the three with a few quick bounds before rushing straight for the exit together.

"Why must the main entrance? Can't we scale the walls directly?" Ning San hurriedly asked.

"No! Ghost formation. Scaling re-enters the cellar kitchen, the core! Destroy trees fast!" Li Shunxi pointed at the central stone bridge's withered one upon reaching the yard.

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Bang!

Duan Meng'an exerted immense strength, fiercely crashing into the fist-thick black withered tree, breaking and tilting it down.

The backlash also left him dizzy and disoriented. Supported by Ning San rushing for the exit.

Lusheng backhandedly slashed down a pursuing ghost guard.

"Ah!!" A sudden shriek came from the yard.

That little girl Song Yunjuan getting chased by a disheveled ghostly being, running this way.

"Save me!!" Song Yunjuan's small face went deathly pale, almost tripping during the escape. Tears and mucus covered her terrified face.

"It's that village girl!" Li Shunxi paused with a reluctant look. Glancing back at the distant ghost then their gap from the girl. Completely ample time to rescue her and flee.

"You guys go first!" He deeply voiced, unable to watch the young girl die here.

Duan Meng'an and Ning San glared at him.

"Boss is faster than us! You get caught then no rescue!"

"Stop blathering, hurry! Before formations collapse!" Li Shunxi resolutely decided. Unable to witness the hapless young one's death.

Duan Meng'an and Ning San looked at the girl, also somewhat hesitant.

"Save...me!! Big brother!!" Song Yunjuan shrieked again after tripping over a sharp rock, falling over with the female ghost pouncing over her back.

"Ah!" She closed her eyes screaming out.

Boom!!

Amidst muffled impact sounds, Lusheng caught up from behind, viciously seizing the female ghost's head. His scorching palm force instantly burned sizzling white fumes out of her head.

Casually flinging it back, smashing the ghostly being away.

Song Yunjuan escaped danger and lifted her head in gratitude towards Lusheng.

"Thanks big br..."

Bang!!

Lusheng directly kicked her away, fiercely smashing into a pillar and bouncing back airborne.

Chi!!

Saber radiance flashed. Song Yunjuan got bisected waist-down in midair. Large eyes still uncomprehending before blood scattered everywhere.

"Boss...!!" Duan Meng'an and Ning San gawked thunderstruck.

Likewise for the gaping Li Shunxi, completely unexpected.

Lusheng ignored them, charging up to the doors in a few steps and slashing them open.

Ka cha!!

The shattered wooden doors allowed Lusheng to firstly sprint out. Li Shunxi's group only reacted now to quickly follow outside.

Just exiting brought astonishment and shock.

The dense crowd of over a hundred men on horses surrounded the village exit.

Lusheng raced ahead, seizing a torch from them. "Burn!" He fiercely yelled back.

"Burn!!" A Black Whale gang leader loudly ordered.

The groups promptly took out torches and ignited arrowheads before aiming at Song Village.

Chi chi chi chi!!

Tens of fiery arrows shot inside. Like dozens of sparks instantly setting the entire village ablaze.

The crimson flames rapidly grew from small to massive. Increasingly scorching red.

Lusheng leapt onto a horse, coldly watching the gradually kindling village without expression, motionless.

The great conflagration increasingly blazed before everyone's eyes.

"Young Master. Kindling from all sides done." A minor leader licked his lips, stepping up to report.

"Keep shooting!" Lusheng coldly instructed.

"Yes!"

The gang crowd swiftly bent their bows unleashing another wave of fiery arrows.

Chi chi chi!!

Viciously dropping inside the village structures.

Roar!!!

Abruptly, a delicate figure shockingly charged out from the greatly flaming doors - the little girl Song Yunjuan!!

Whole body wrapped in fiery burns, releasing astonishingly violent and sinister roars at the crowd rather than human-like. More akin to mysterious vicious beasts.

Amidst the inferno, she suddenly rushed out before bouncing back as if blocked by invisible walls, unable to emerge outside.

Howling at the crowd, the girl's face slowly melted like candle wax. Eyes and mouth liquefying into three large black cavities while continuously bellowing out.

Roar!!!

Boom!!!

A fiercely spinning saber smashed into the girl's face, instantly pounding her back into the blazing village.

Lusheng retracted his hand, sternly yelling out, "Keep shooting till depletion!"

The frightened gang members almost scattered in disarray before Lusheng's loud roar sobered them. Gripping their bows and arrows, they hesitatingly continued endless volleys into the village structures.

After several more rounds, the massive fires finally engulfed all buildings.

Ka cha! Abruptly, a completely charred figure charged out from the flaming doors, rolling several laps with quickly extinguished flames but still emitting sizzling shrieks from its mouth.

The gang members were badly startled. Some bent their bows wanting to shoot it.

"Wait!" Lusheng raised his hand, stopping them.

Striding closer for inspection, the person was shockingly still recognizable as that scholar he saw when initially passing by!

Burnt all over with bloody blisters and scalded face but still discernibly smiling - even broadly.

Seeing Lusheng's approach, the scholar crawled on the ground, shakily writing a few words. I'm human.

"Take him down for injury treatment. He's human, not ghost." Lusheng deeply instructed.

Although commanded, everyone still didn't dare go near.

Only after quite a while did a few bolder members walk up for careful examination.

"Yo yo. This guy's tongue got sliced off. No wonder he can't speak." An older member clicked his tongue.

Lusheng recognized this scholar from his attire when previously glimpsing him at the village.

Able to simply discern ghosts from living men mostly relying on extremely acute senses. Lusheng's three supreme inner force cultivations demanded ordinary men decades of bitter cultivation for just one. Combined together equaled sensorial amplification on a scale demanding over a hundred years of suffering for ordinary folks to perhaps reach.

Thus brings absolutely dreadful boosts to his five senses. Even breathing and heartbeats detectable clear as day within ten meters.

Also the key to uncovering Gong Ruqing's group as ghosts back in the village.

After this discovery then matching with the sole footprints of only himself, Duan Meng'an and Li Shunxi at the main doors. Everyone else completely lacking any signs.

Despite the pitch black darkness, his formidable vision still noticed this minute detail.

Front and back inferences brought suspicions. Followed by meticulous observations of Gong Ruqing's group then detecting their extremely faint odors identical to that little girl Song Yunjuan.

Naturally ending up overwhelmingly probable.