“Thud!”
A dull sound echoed as the feathered arrow shot out rapidly, then heavily struck the large man in front.
However, when the arrow landed on the large man, he didn't move an inch, not even making a sound.
As the large man lowered his head and saw the still-trembling arrow in his chest, he suddenly grinned, then looked up at the people in front of him, and grinned again.
As the large man opened his mouth, a bloody piece of flesh seemed to fall from his mouth.
“Ah! A ghost!”
The boy, who had been hiding behind Ruo Xuan, screamed in terror at this sight, his eyes filled with horror as he looked at the large man in front.
The large man standing at the doorway now looked no different from a malevolent ghost.
The Old Soldier beside him couldn't help but flinch at this sight, immediately drawing the long saber from behind him and stepping forward to shield Ruo Xuan.
“Young Miss, you run first, I’ll hold them off here.”
The Old Soldier swallowed, looking at the creature in front of him that was neither human nor beast.
He didn't know if this thing was still human; a crossbow bolt striking it had no effect at all.
Could it be that there really were ghosts in this world?
The Old Soldier thought this, his face extremely tense.
Ruo Xuan’s heart tightened at his words, “Uncle Wu, this fellow has already chased us all the way here, I’m afraid I can’t escape even if I wanted to.”
Ruo Xuan knew how strange this thing was; at this point, if she still wanted to escape, it was basically impossible.
Thinking this, she reached out and grabbed a piece of firewood from the front, a half-burnt piece of firewood, and directly threw it towards the eerie large man in front.
The large man, however, didn't dodge, his mouth splitting open into an incredibly huge chasm at that moment.
“Roar!”
Accompanied by a furious roar, the large man’s mouth had opened wide enough to swallow a human head, creating an extremely bizarre and terrifying scene.
And with this roar, a strong gust of wind suddenly rose, forming a substantial wall of wind that blew towards the three of them.
Before the strong wind even reached them, countless objects on the ground and all around were already torn to shreds by it, creating an immensely powerful display.
Seeing this, Ruo Xuan and the other two immediately changed their expressions; at this moment, it was too late to find a place to hide.
And just as Ruo Xuan’s face showed despair, a large door flew directly over, shielding the three of them.
“Boom!”
Before the three could react, the strong wind directly hit the large door, instantly producing a deafening roar.
The large door was shattered into pieces by the impact of the strong wind, but it also blocked the gust.
When the surroundings returned to calm, Ruo Xuan instinctively turned to look at He Xiuyuan, her eyes filled with an expression of disbelief.
She clearly hadn't expected to be saved by He Xiuyuan just now.
Although she hadn't seen He Xiuyuan make a move, besides the three of them, the only other person in this house was He Xiuyuan.
There was no one else but He Xiuyuan.
“Oh, I didn’t notice earlier, but I didn’t expect there to be a poor scholar in this house.”
“You, scholar, have quite a bit of strength.”
The large man watched his Spell being broken, but his face remained unhurried, then he opened his mouth, and the sound he made as he opened and closed it was sharp.
As he spoke, the large man turned his head to look at He Xiuyuan.
At this moment, he was also full of surprise.
Because when he had just come in, he had indeed only sensed the Qi of three living people here.
He hadn't even noticed this scholar just now, which was a bit strange.
He Xiuyuan stood up at the sound, patting his hands to remove the dust from his palms.
Things had been a bit urgent just now; he had taken one of the several large doors he kept behind him and used it to block the opponent's Spell.
It had made his hands dusty.
After dusting off his hands, He Xiuyuan began to untie the brush from his waist, frowning as he looked at the extremely strange-looking large man.
“What kind of demon are you, wanting to do what by attacking travelers without reason?”
If this guy had only dealt with the bandits outside just now, He Xiuyuan wouldn't have intervened.
But now, judging by the opponent's appearance, it seemed he wasn't even going to spare the travelers here.
“Boy, aren’t you afraid?”
The large man looked at He Xiuyuan, who was staring at him fearlessly, and was somewhat surprised.
He had chased these three people all the way, and every time he appeared, they were scared out of their wits.
Now, He Xiuyuan was seeing him for the first time and showed no fear on his face, which was quite unusual.
“It’s just a corpse, that’s all. But you… you don’t look like a demon, but rather a malevolent ghost?”
He Xiuyuan carefully scrutinized the large man in front of him.
He Xiuyuan had seen ghosts in Peach Blossom Town and knew the Qi of ghosts.
As for demons, He Xiuyuan had also encountered them.
Looking at the Qi of this large man, with a slight identification, one could distinguish that it should be a malevolent ghost.
Hearing this, the large man was startled; was this guy a bit too calm?
Could it be that this person had some sort of trick?
However, no matter how he looked at He Xiuyuan, he still couldn't detect anything unusual about He Xiuyuan.
He Xiuyuan no longer wasted words looking at the large man; seeing how decisively the opponent killed people outside, he probably had done such things many times before.
Thinking this, He Xiuyuan grasped the untied brush in his hand, and with a gentle flick, the spotless brush instantly transformed into a whisk.
The large man in front was instantly startled, immediately taking a step back, his eyes fixed on He Xiuyuan.
“Who are you?”
At this moment, a warning sign suddenly arose in the large man’s heart, and his expression became tense.
Ruo Xuan, beside him, was even more stunned at this scene; wasn't that the brush hanging on his body? How did it…
…turn into a whisk?
He Xiuyuan looked at the large man in front of him without wasting words, lightly tapping the whisk in mid-air, quickly writing the character 'Slay'.
As the character 'Slay' began to form, a faint golden light appeared at the end of the whisk.
And for the large man, it was as if he had sensed an impending catastrophe.
“Damn it, are you a cultivator of the Dao?”
“How is that possible, in such a small place, where would a cultivator of the Dao come from!?”
The large man looked in horror at the character 'Slay' that He Xiuyuan was writing in the Void Realm, and quickly turned to flee.
It wasn't that he didn't want to fight He Xiuyuan, but rather that the character hadn't even fully formed yet, and he already felt his body trembling.
If he hadn't borrowed this corpse, he feared his entire ghost body wouldn't have been able to maintain itself!
“At this point, still trying to escape?”
He Xiuyuan watched the opponent turn to flee, and with a gentle flick of his whisk, the character 'Slay' was thrown out accordingly.
