A wisp of black smoke flew out of the city. Under the red walls and black tiles hidden by the woods and fields, standing in the City God Temple in the suburbs, the statue of a god holding a tablet and a sword hanging from his waist flashed a divine light and walked out of the clay sculpture in the form of a Dharma.
In the tightly closed hall, a flying black shadow passed through the door and fell to the ground, transforming into a ghost in an official robe and a tall hat. Amid the sound of clanking iron chains, he half-knelt and bowed.
"Your Highness, Imperial Master Lu has issued an order that a demon has entered the city and is wreaking havoc."
"demon?"
Under the painted clay sculpture, Ji Xin closed his eyes, his consciousness spread to Chang'an City, then he opened his eyes in confusion and frowned.
"There is no demonic energy in the city, so why would you enter the city? Well, since there is an imperial decree, I will take a look around."
He still trusted Lu Liangsheng, who was not the kind of person who spoke nonsense or liked to tease people. Moreover, the other party had the power to demolish the temple, and he could let the patrol ask for permission first, which was considered giving enough face.
"Chief officers of each department, lead your subordinates to patrol the streets and alleys in the city. Once you discover a demon, immediately notify the other chief clerks and do not act without authorization!"
Soon, divine lights lit up one after another, rushed out of the City God Temple and flew into the city, like dark clouds, covering the silver moonlight, enveloping the streets in the city, and then drifting away to other places.
The shadow of the parade passed over the house with a hole in it below, and the cold moonlight shone in from outside, revealing a bit of eeriness.
Tick-tock…
Drops of blood fell on the ground along the fingertips. The figure standing in the pool of blood raised his head slightly, grinning with bloody fangs. The shadow covering the hole flew away, and silver light fell into the room. There were several corpses lying around, and on their necks, there was a pair of deep tooth holes.
After a moment, the corpse moved, stood up shakily, and let out a low growl. Between its slightly parted lips, on both sides of its front teeth, the teeth became sharp and elongated.
Over there, Chen Fu lowered his head. Several corpses crawled up as if they had received some kind of order. With a few bangs, they broke through the window frames and doors and rushed outside. They found the adjacent buildings and houses and crashed into them. The doors and windows shattered, and in an instant, people screamed "Ah—", "Who are you?", "Don't bite... It hurts, it hurts..."
The old man walked out of the room, jumped onto the roof and stood there, immersed in the moonlight. He listened to the screams as if he was enjoying it, raised his face and slowly twisted his neck.
Wisps of blood flew from all around and penetrated into the body. Suddenly, the black air around the body turned blood-red. The body twitched instantly, and the bones made crisp "cracking" sounds. The nails of the hands hanging at the sides grew and thickened, becoming sharp. At first glance, the arms seemed unusually long and quite strange.
At a certain moment, the skinny body stood up straight, the head turned back to the right position, the white eyes suddenly collapsed inward, revealing empty eye sockets, and the remaining flesh on the old man's face quickly dried up, revealing a skinny face, with dry lips and teeth open, and corpse gas gushing out.
'Uh... huh...'
Amid the rough and low groans, the scattered screams in the surroundings had turned into a series of chaotic shouts, and hideous and gloomy corpses rushed out of the houses and spread to the surrounding neighborhoods.
At this time, Ji Xin, who was on patrol, looked back at a certain place in the city. The shrill screams of people shocked his soul and he waved the tablet in his hand.
"How dare you, a bastard, hurt the people in my city—"
The chief clerks of various departments of the City God who were patrolling everywhere came quickly, followed the City God and used their magic power. In an instant, they approached the neighborhoods where civilians were injured or killed. The streets and houses were full of mad people, biting anyone they saw. Those who were bitten to death stood up again in a moment, the blood color faded from their faces, becoming hideous and terrifying, roaring with gritted teeth, and when they saw that there were still living people, they pounced on them madly, pinned them down, and bit through the flesh of their necks, causing them to struggle and scream in pain, and gradually they became silent.
Then, the cycle repeats itself.
"Not turning bones into flesh... jumping out of reincarnation, not entering the five elements... no wonder I didn't find it when I entered the city!"
"No need to ask questions, just do it!!"
Seeing a figure standing on the top of a building, bathed in the moonlight, Ji Xin raised the magic weapon in his hand, and the heads of various departments behind him appeared and raised their hands.
The Evil-Cutting Pen, the Vajra Umbrella, the Sin-Measuring Ruler, the Soul-Catching Chain… Several different magical instruments suddenly appeared with magical light, and were thrown into the night sky from the hands of the City God and the chief clerks of various departments. Several pale yellow light beams shot out and covered the figure on the roof, like soul-binding iron chains, entangling the limbs, neck, and waist, making a hissing sound, and the boiling corpse gas kept pouring out.
"You are such an evil creature, you have harmed the people in my city. I will not forgive you tonight!"
Looking at the tragic scene on the streets around him, Ji Xin roared in rage, and the tablet in his hand glowed with divine light, like a sharp sword, slashing down angrily.
"cut!"
Golden light struck the old man's head, and his messy hair and beard flew up. His skull-like face suddenly raised up, and a red light flashed in his empty eye sockets. His body slightly bent, and then, with a bang, he stretched outwards, spread his arms, and cold wind and corpse gas surged. The magic weapons hanging in the air around him fell down one after another.
The souls of the heads of various departments floating in the night sky were shocked. They flew backwards one by one, disappeared into the air, and turned into divine light and returned to the clay sculptures in the temple.
Chen Fu opened his Fa Guang restraint, raised his hand and used his claws to tightly grasp Ji Xin.
"I am... invincible in the world. How can a City God like you compare to me?"
With both hands pulling left and right, Ji Xin was forcibly broken into two halves...
…
Scary screams echoed everywhere, chaos spread across the streets, lanterns fell over, flames ignited, and the common people in the city turned into evil spirits, opening their mouths wide and showing their fangs, looking for living people. Soon, hearing some kind of call, they gathered from all directions, crowded together densely, there were tens of thousands of them.
Then... they ran wildly along the long street towards the southeast of the city, the direction the emperor had escaped, roaring in unison.
On another parallel long street, a long dragon of torches marched forward with the sound of galloping horses. Yang Su, Duke of Yue, heard the message from the whistling arrows and rode over with the palace guards. At this time, soldiers from other places were also gathering and heard the message from the scouts.
Rushing to the adjacent streets, they saw a crowd of people as huge as the tide, surging in the darkness of the night. Yang Su picked up a torch and threw it at the crowd in the distance. The light illuminated many hideous and distorted, bloodless faces of men, women, old and young. The torches fell to the ground and were instantly extinguished by bare feet or footsteps, and then people rushed madly along the long street with a rumbling sound.
"The Walking Dead..."
The warhorse let out a deep breath in uneasiness. On the horse's back, Yang Su, who was good at making corpse puppets, recognized at a glance that the things running over there were actually a group of corpses. In his peripheral vision, a black shadow with extremely long arms flew by, its eyelids twitching wildly.
The murderous corpse aura made his entire body slightly numb.
"This is the bone that does not dissolve..."
He immediately reined in his horse, turned around, and shouted to the soldiers behind him: "Don't worry about these things, follow me to Wanshou Temple immediately to protect His Majesty—"
The horse team galloped wildly, spreading across the long street, racing against time with the surging horde of zombies on the other side. At the same time, Yang Su took out a piece of jade and crushed it with a "snap".
"Corpse puppet, find my scent and come quickly!"
at the same time.
Wanshou Temple.
The moths flapped their wings and kept flying against the paper cover of the lantern. Yang Jian sat quietly on a chair, staring at the big toad with webbed feet leaning against the gourd on the table without blinking.
“…Are you really the master of the Imperial Master?”
"snort."
The Toad Taoist didn't care about the emperor. He turned to one direction. On the opposite side, the flickering candlelight cast the shadow of a scholar flipping through a book on the wall.
Lu Liangsheng was looking through the records about corpse demons, trying to find ways to restrain them. On the other side, the Taoist was also flipping through the Taoist book left to him by his master.