Put away your magical powers now!.

Chapter 104 [Haunted Building] (7700 words)
Chapter 7700 [Haunted Building] ( words)
The streets were quiet and deserted late at night - if you go further north into Kowloon Tong, it's not a bustling area.

In addition, the municipal facilities in the port city were already aging, and the original streets were relatively narrow.

In the middle of the night, on the quiet and slightly shabby streets, Chen Yan and Chu Keqing passed by quickly.

In front of me, the paper figure in mid-air fluttered gently in the wind, moving forward...

The paper man was not flying very fast. Chen Yan used the escape technique at the beginning, but later found that it was not necessary at all. He even stopped halfway and cast a [Light Body Talisman] on himself.

Chu Keqing understood and took out a talisman from his pocket and slapped it on himself.

"This is my Yun Sect's [Speed Running Talisman]. It has no other use after using it, except that it can make people run faster." Chu Keqing explained in a low voice.

Chen Yan nodded. He originally wanted to cast another lightness talisman on Chu Keqing, but since she had her own way, forget it. However, Chen Yan still asked Chu Keqing for another speed-running talisman and put it in his pocket.

Yun Zong actually has quite a few skills in the art of talismans. Chen Yan was excited to see the treasure and planned to take it back to study.

The two of them just followed the paper man and ran along in pursuit.

After about forty minutes...

The streets here are becoming increasingly remote and desolate, and there are fewer buildings around.

The depression in front was actually a dumping ground for abandoned cars.

After passing the pile of paper, the paper figure flew faster and faster, heading down a small path...

A few minutes later, the road came to an end, and in front of it was a dilapidated yard...

The paper man slowly flew to the gate of the yard, then quickly turned into a flame and burned up!

Chen Yan exhaled: "We're here!"

He turned his head to look at Chu Keqing. The woman was slightly out of breath, and her face was flushed from running for a long distance. Her speed talisman was obviously far less effective than the light body talisman.

Chu Keqing squinted her eyes and looked towards the yard...

There was a rusty iron fence on the mast base, and half of the two original courtyard gates had fallen crookedly to the ground, leaving only the other half still intact. It was just swaying gently in the night wind, rhythmically opening and closing, and making a clicking sound from time to time.

In the yard, there is a three-story building with walls covered with stains and very mottled.

Chen Yan took out his cell phone, turned on the flashlight mode and shone it, and saw several clearly visible cracks on the wall.

I don’t know how many years this building is, but judging from its architectural style, it has some strong colonial influences.

Looking from the outside, the glass of the windows on the building is mostly broken. There should have been some paint and decoration on the walls, but they are so tattered that the original patterns can no longer be seen. Instead, there are some graffiti left at the base of the wall that came from nowhere.

The yard was empty, but the original cement floor was damaged and cracked in some places. In the cracks and gaps in the cement floor, some tenacious weeds grew.

From a distance, there were some ivy vines growing wildly on the wall - but for some reason, their growth momentum was very poor, and most of them looked a little withered and yellow.

The two men stood outside the dilapidated iron gate and could just see the first floor of the small building and the main gate of the building.

A double wooden door inlaid with glass. The glass on it was broken, but the door was still tightly closed.

Chen Yan shook his head: "This shabby place is a great place to shoot a horror movie."

He used his Qi-gazing technique to carefully examine the courtyard and the building, but could not discern any clues... He saw no signs of any abnormalities, such as evil spirits. He looked at Chu Keqing, who also shook her head.

Chen Yan frowned, but became a little more alert!
There will be no problem with the soul tracking technique! Under the guidance, Huang Mingyi's soul should be in this courtyard.

But there's no fluctuation of vital energy here? That proves that something is strange!

Chen Yan didn't rush into the yard, but made some quick preparations first.

As a placebo, take a picture of the [Amulet for Bringing Good Luck and Turning Bad Luck] for yourself first!
Then he put a thick stack of [Six Yang Righteousness Talisman] into his left pocket first - this thing has average killing power against monsters and the like, but if the opponent is the kind of evil spirit that uses ghost magic, it should be very effective!

In the right pocket is a powerful weapon, the last one [Mother's Sword].

Finally, the trump card to save his life was the [God-summoning Talisman] given by Gu Qingyi this time, which he put in his sleeve.

"We can't separate after we go in, remember! No matter what happens, we can't get separated." Chen Yan instructed Chu Keqing.

Chu Keqing nodded immediately and smiled, "Don't worry, senior. I've seen horror movies too. In movies, as soon as you get separated, people are doomed."

As he spoke, Chu Keqing also took out his cell phone and turned on the flashlight mode.

The two walked side by side into the courtyard and crossed the collapsed iron gate on the ground. After entering the courtyard and standing in front of the main gate on the first floor, Chen Yan suddenly took a deep breath and shouted out loudly!
"Yun Sect's leader Chu Keqing is here to pay his respects!!! The master inside, please come out and greet her immediately!"

Chu Keqing was stunned and suddenly turned her head to look at Chen Yan with an extremely wonderful expression on her face.

Chen Yan curled his lips and said, "If there are any cultivators in the building, they would have noticed us by now if we had reached the gate. It would have been impossible for us to hide our tracks. If we shouted first, what if we could lure them out and then deal with them openly?"

Chu Keqing swallowed her saliva and said, "That's true, but Senior... why did you say my name?"

"You are the leader of a sect, and I am just a casual cultivator."

As Chen Yan spoke, he shouted loudly twice, "Yun Sect Leader Chu Keqing is here to pay his respects," but the courtyard and the building were silent, with no response.

"First the courtesy, then the force. Then we won't be polite." Chen Yan took a deep breath, raised his foot and kicked the first-floor door in front of him!

With a bang, the door panel and door frame were immediately kicked open by Chen Yan - he had been nourishing his body with vital energy for so long that his strength was much greater than that of an ordinary person. With one kick, the door on the first floor was shattered into pieces.

Chu Keqing was stunned. Seeing that Chen Yan had already walked into the corridor, she hurriedly followed him.

This senior...is he investigating a case? Or is he raiding a house?
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There was a corridor behind the door, which was pitch black.

Chen Yan waved the flashlight around and saw that there was a lot of dust around and many tiles on the wall had fallen off.

I could see the light switch on the wall, but I pressed it hoping for a lucky break—and sure enough, there was no response.

The ceiling above my head was lit by those old-fashioned fluorescent lights that were hanging down, but the light tubes were all damaged and the light frames had fallen off in many places.

The ground beneath my feet was covered with a thick layer of dust because no one had been there for so long, and it felt strangely slippery when I stepped on it.

The air wasn't too bad, though. I guess it was because many of the windows had been broken for a long time, so the ventilation wasn't too bad. The smell wasn't pleasant, though. There was a whiff of decay and mildew, and a faint, inexplicable smell of urine. I wondered if there were any stray dogs or cats nearby who might have used it as a nest.

After entering the corridor, there is a horizontal corridor with rooms on both sides - half of the door panels are broken.

Chen Yan and Chu Keqing walked slowly through the corridor, passing by a common room with an open door. They shone the flashlight of their mobile phones inside and saw old and damaged furniture... Only the iron bed frame and the broken wooden cabinets were left.

Walking slowly through this corridor, I found that almost every room on this floor had the same layout and furnishings.

Although the furniture inside is already broken, it can be seen that they are all of uniform style.

"This place looks like an abandoned hospital?" Chu Keqing whispered.

"It doesn't look like a hospital." Chen Yan shook his head. "It's probably an old-fashioned apartment, or an abandoned nursing home. That's why the layout of each room and even the remaining furniture are the same."

"Should we... search each room carefully?" Chu Keqing whispered.

Chen Yan glanced at the woman and said, "In which horror movie have you seen the villain put the props for passing the level on the first floor? Either in the deepest underground or on the top floor of the tower."

After a pause, he smiled and said, "Go straight to the third floor!"

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The stairwell looked a little cleaner than the corridor on the first floor, with less clutter, but the air was much more turbid.

Chen Yan and Chu Keqing went upstairs without even entering the corridor on the second floor. They went straight to the third floor without stopping.

Chu Keqing followed Chen Yan closely, the flashlight in her hand shining behind her all the time - the woman's face was slightly pale, and she was obviously quite nervous.

But just as they reached the third floor, Chen Yan in front of them suddenly stopped and sneered, "Huh?"

Chu Keqing: "What's wrong?"

Chen Yan raised the flashlight and shone it on the wall on the third floor.

On the wall, there was a round frame with a big "2" inside.

Chu Keqing's expression changed: "Why is it still on the second floor?"

Chen Yan pondered for a moment and said coldly, "Hmph, a ghost wall? A confusing spell... No wonder I couldn't tell the fate and vitality of this place from the outside. It turns out someone has set up a magic array to deceive people."

Magic array? Chu Keqing took a deep breath. Magic array was beyond her ability.

"So... the other party wants to force us to go to the second floor?" Chu Keqing asked.

"Hmm." Chen Yan sneered, and then a strange smile appeared on his face: "Okay, okay, you want to play this trick on me, right?"

He strode to the second-floor corridor and glanced at the base of the wall. There happened to be a collapsed wooden ladder on the ground. Chen Yan stepped forward and kicked it to pieces. Then, after picking and choosing, he broke off an arm-length wooden stick and waved it in the air a few times.

Well, it’s quite handy.

"Okay, okay, you like playing hide-and-seek, right? Then let's see if I can find you!"

Chen Yan sneered and said loudly, then he strode into the corridor with his stick in hand, shouting with a strange smile: "The guy in there! As you wished, I'm coming to find you! You'd better hide better!"

boom! !

Chen Yan kicked open a door next to him, then stuck his head inside to take a look, shook his head and sneered, then came out and smashed the wall of the corridor with a stick.

He walked down the corridor step by step, knocking on the wall with the stick in his hand, making the corridor full of ping-pong noises.

Chu Keqing's expression was extremely wonderful. Following behind Chen Yan, she felt a little dazed for a moment.

Why does it feel like... this senior is a little excited?
A few minutes later, Chen Yan reached the end of the corridor, a trace of anger on his face. He shouted, "Are you kidding me? You set up a ghost wall formation to trick me into coming to the second floor! And there's nothing? Even if you can conjure up some starving ghost or hanged ghost, it would be fine. Do you think being a ghost can defeat the empty city plan?"

At this moment, he turned his head and saw Chu Keqing staring at him with a stiff expression!

No, to be precise, he widened his eyes and stared nervously behind him?
Chen Yan's heart moved, and he turned around quickly...

The flashlight flickered past, and he saw the previously empty second-floor corridor, in the direction he and Chu Keqing had walked all the way...

In that corridor, a shadow was floating in the air! It was just swaying...

Chen Yan immediately shone the flashlight on his mobile phone over there. As the light passed by, he saw a piece of rope falling from the ceiling at the end of the corridor near the stairs!
On the rope, a figure was hanging by the neck, and a pair of feet seemed to be struggling, twisting and turning slightly!

What made Chu Keqing gasp was...

The figure hanging from the ceiling was wearing a blood-red dress! !

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Although Chu Keqing also had some cultivation, she was a woman after all. In the middle of the night, in this dilapidated, deserted building, in such an atmosphere, she saw a female ghost in a red dress hanging in the corridor?

Even though Chu Keqing had some skills, at this moment, her heartbeat subconsciously slowed down.

But before she could come to her senses, Chen Yan had already strode over with a stick in hand!

"Senior?" Chu Keqing called out.

Without looking back, Chen Yan strode to the front of the female ghost in red, stopped about one meter away, and looked up.

The red-clothed female ghost's legs were twitching faintly, and her body was twisting and turning while being hung. Her messy hair covered her entire face, and only the area below her nose could be seen.

In the light of the flashlight, one could vaguely see that the ghost's face was pale, as white as the white putty used to smear the wall! And her mouth, which seemed red as if smeared with blood, slowly opened.

Slowly, a scarlet tongue came out of her mouth!

Chen Yan stared at her for two seconds...

Suddenly, he raised his hand, raised the stick and thrust it forward!
puff!
One end of the stick went straight into the ghost girl's mouth!

Chu Keqing behind him: "......"

Chen Yan thrust his stick hard, and the female ghost seemed to be stunned for a moment. Then she twisted her head hard, trying to get rid of the stick. Then she opened her mouth and let out a shrill roar at Chen Yan!
Beneath those bright red lips, sharp fangs were revealed, and a scarlet tongue hung down like a snake...

Chen Yan had a blank expression on his face. After staring for a second, he suddenly swung the stick in his hand!

boom!
The stick hit the female ghost hard on the head!

The female ghost's head tilted after being hit!
Slowly, she turned her head back again and roared at Chen Yan again...

boom!
Chen Yan jumped up and hit with another stick!
With this blow, the ghost's head tilted to the other side again, and she struggled as if trying to turn her head back...

Bang bang! Bang bang bang!

Chen Yan suddenly started swinging the stick in his hand! He swung it left and right, hitting the ghost girl's head with all his strength!
After a few blows, the stick in his hand snapped with a crack! Without a second thought, Chen Yan thrust the broken tip of the stick into the ghost girl's body!

“…Ah…Ahhh!!!!!!”

At this moment, the female ghost raised her head and let out a shrill scream.

Chen Yan had already pulled Chu Keqing back quickly! It turned out that he had already pasted a [Six Yang Righteousness Talisman] on the stick without knowing when!
The tip of the stick, along with the talisman paper, was inserted into the ghost girl's belly.

The ghost girl's scream suddenly changed from shrill and angry to a scream!
Suddenly, a golden flame ignited in her abdomen. The flame spread rapidly, and the ghost girl's body suddenly broke free from the rope! Her body turned into a ball of black smoke in mid-air and rushed towards Chen Yan!
Chen Yan sneered, quickly made a finger seal with his hand, and shouted: "Law Break!!"

hum!
A golden light spread out, and the whistling black smoke suddenly dissipated! !
The female ghost in red hanging on the ceiling fell to the ground in the flames and turned into a piece of wreckage.

The air was filled with the smell of something burning. Chen Yan squatted down with a calm expression, reached out and touched the ground, picked up something, then gently squeezed it into a ball in his hand and threw it to the ground.

Chu Keqing looked nervous. She walked up to him and whispered, "Senior?"

"Look for yourself, this female ghost in red...what a joke." Chen Yan curled his lips.

Chu Keqing shone her flashlight on the ground, then picked up the broken stick and tugged at it. A look of surprise crossed her face. "Is it... a paper figure?"

"Hmm." Chen Yan curled his lips. "It's just a small spell, similar to the one I used to create people out of paper. But the opponent must be an evil cultivator, possessing this paper ghost girl. It must have suffered a lot from my stick blows."

As he spoke, he shook his head and said, "His cultivation isn't very high, but he has quite a few tricks up his sleeve."

As Chen Yan spoke, he looked around and found another piece of stick from the wooden ladder in the corner that he had kicked to pieces. After waving it twice in his hand, he nodded with satisfaction.

"Let's go to the third floor! I've broken through the wall of ghosts."

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There are no corridors or rooms on the third floor.

The entire third floor is empty, as if the original walls of the room have been demolished, leaving a huge empty floor, which looks quite spacious.

As soon as the two of them walked up the stairs, they immediately noticed something strikingly visible right in the middle of the third floor! In the darkness, illuminated by the flashlight from their cell phone, they could see something that appeared to be circular in outline, yet stood more than half a person's height...

Chu Keqing frowned: "It seems... a big jar?"

"More than that." Chen Yan took a deep breath and waved his phone around. He saw that the corners of the walls around the third floor were filled with...

Paper-made people!

There were men and women, old and young. They were painted with colorful paints, but when viewed under the light of a flashlight in the dark, they looked even more eerie!
Chen Yan narrowed his eyes, took two steps forward, and looked at the thing in the middle that looked like a big jar.

"Hey!"

Chen Yan shouted loudly.

Then his eyes followed the light of the flashlight and swept across the other side's paper figures in the corners of the walls.

"That jar in the middle... is your training altar, right? If you don't show up, I'll smash it!"

There was silence all around.

Chen Yan sneered, stood in place, and extended his little finger towards the jar...

The finger sword was urged out, and a stream of energy shot out...

when! !

With a crisp sound, the Yuanqi finger sword hit the jar, making a crisp sound.

Chen Yan's heart moved... That thing seemed to be very solid, it should not be a fired material, and the sound it made was more like some kind of metal?
Iron jar?
Finally, in the corner of the left wall, a paper-made figure slowly moved, then took a stiff step forward.

This paper-made figure doesn't look tall, with a ponytail on his head and two red blushes painted on his face, making him look like a rather festive boy.

"We are all cultivators, so we should keep to ourselves! Why did you two come and invade my temple?!"

A difficult voice came from the paper man.

Chen Yan frowned and said, "Of course you came here to find Huang Mingyi's soul. Why are you still pretending to be so with me now?"

The paper-made boy chuckled, "You have some cultivation experience... The name you were shouting downstairs... was it Yun Zong? I've heard of the name Yun Zong before. But do you really think I'm afraid of you?"

As soon as the words fell, rustling sounds were heard all around the empty third floor. Then the paper figures placed in the corners of the walls appeared, a colorful mass of men, women, young and old, more than a dozen figures in total, all began to move slowly!

"I can transform into a thousand forms! One can become ten thousand! Now that you have entered, stay here and serve as sustenance for my altar!"

The boy's hoarse voice was accompanied by a vicious grin.

Chen Yan curled his lips.

One for ten thousand? What a boast...

The third floor is so small, why don’t you cram ten thousand paper figures in for me to see?
Do you dare to boast that a dozen paper figures can turn into ten thousand?

Chen Yan glanced at Chu Keqing. This woman was not afraid at all. She just took a deep breath, stretched out her hands, and pinched a few talismans between her fingers.

"You left, I'll be right." Chen Yan whispered, "If you can't bear it, call for help."

"Okay! Don't worry, senior. I'm not someone who hasn't seen a lot of things before." Chu Keqing took a deep breath.

Chen Yan nodded, picked up the stick and headed to the right!

As Chen Yan took a few quick steps, a tall paper-made man came towards him. Suddenly, a gust of cold wind came and grabbed Chen Yan's throat with both hands.

Chen Yan swung the stick in his hand and smashed it down. Suddenly, the paper figure's head caved in! Chen Yan knocked it to the ground with one blow of the stick!
Another paper-made man had also rushed over, but was hit by Chen Yan's stick and flew back immediately.

But there were at least five or six paper-made figures rushing towards him. Chen Yan swung his stick back and forth, but suddenly his feet tightened. One of the paper-made figures he had knocked over on the ground had already grabbed his calf.

Chen Yan snorted, raised his stick and poked the ground, piercing the paper man's head.

However, no one knew what kind of magic these paper figures used, but they were surprisingly strong. Although they moved slowly, after being hit by a few sticks from Chen Yan, their bodies would at most be twisted and deformed, but they were not afraid at all. Even if their bodies were torn apart, they could still rush towards Chen Yan.

After Chen Yan finished beating the man with a few sticks, he simply threw the stick away and took out a stack of Six Yang Righteousness Talismans.

Snapped!
A paper figure in front of him was hit by the talisman, and suddenly a flame appeared on his body! The paper figure collapsed rapidly in the blazing fire!

Chen Yan moved swiftly, and with the help of the escape technique, those paper figures could not even touch his shadow. After he advanced and retreated a few times, he cast a few more [Six Yang Righteousness Talismans] at them, and the five or six paper figures around him fell down in the flames, and turned into burnt paper debris and woven bamboo frames on the spot.

He turned his head to look at Chu Keqing. This woman didn't seem to be moving fast, but she used a peculiar pace to advance and retreat in a measured manner under the siege of several paper figures - it seemed that she had practiced and had some skills?
Chu Keqing suddenly reached out and cast a spell, freezing the paper figures she touched in place. Using the immobilized figures as support, she circled around, her nimble steps, running and dodging. After two more circles, she had immobilized three more.

In a moment, the six paper figures besieging Chu Keqing were all frozen in place.

Chen Yan stood there watching, and at this moment he also recognized it: the talisman that Chu Keqing used was the [Talisman: Unmovable as a Mountain] that this woman used to try to immobilize him when they first met.

After all, the head of the Yun Sect was no idler; his subordinates were also capable. After dealing with the paper figurines, Chu Keqing took a deep breath, turned her head to glance at Chen Yan, and nodded to him.

The two men, one on the left and one on the right, surrounded the paper-made boy in the middle.

The paper-made boy was obviously annoyed: "Wait, wait a minute!"

Chen Yan picked up the stick on the ground and said with a smile, "Huh? Since you can't win, are you planning to negotiate terms?"

"What do you two want in exchange for letting this go?" the paper-made boy said helplessly, "Why don't you make an offer?"

Chen Yan looked at the paper-made boy and asked, "Any conditions are acceptable?"

The paper-made boy said angrily, "Fellow Daoist, please tell me something."

"I want..." Chen Yan thought for a moment and took two steps closer: "I want to be the President of the United States. Can you help me realize it?"

"..."

Chen Yan raised his eyebrows: "No? No, what the hell are you talking about?"

"Fellow Daoist, please stop talking nonsense!" The paper-made boy said helplessly, "I... can give you money."

"Give me money?" Chen Yan smiled and said, "It's not impossible. How much money can you give me?"

The paper-made boy was silent for a moment, then slowly said, "Thirty million! How about this? Thirty million to buy the two Taoist friends to let go of what happened today!"

The smile on Chen Yan's face immediately disappeared. He tapped the ground with the stick in his hand twice, then slowly shook his head, saying in a disapproving tone, "Only 30 million? It seems that even if you are a ghost, you don't have much money. You are a poor ghost."

Suddenly, a smile appeared on Chen Yan's face and he waved his hand!
The stick flew out of his hand and shot towards the paper-made boy!
The paper figure twisted its body and dodged to the side, but Chen Yan had already pointed a finger at it!
flutter!
After a burst of energy shot out, the paper-made boy's body was split into two!
Chen Yan walked over and gently kicked the paper figures scattered on the ground: "Not only are you poor, but you're also a little weak."

"..." The paper-made boy on the ground stared at Chen Yan and uttered an angry voice, "You're breaking into my dojo and destroying my paper slaves! Just wait!"

"Okay, I'll wait for you." Chen Yan nodded, stepped on the paper-made boy's head, flattened it, and rolled it back and forth a few times with his feet.

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In a mansion on the Hilltop Road, on a large bed in a magnificent bedroom, an old man suddenly sat up straight!
Then, his face twisted, he opened his mouth, and a mouthful of blood spurted onto the bed sheet!
After struggling to roll off the bed, the old man managed to stand up tremblingly, then limped and moved his body by holding on to the furniture, and finally walked to a small door at the innermost part of the bedroom. After opening it, there was a small shrine inside!

On the shrine, there was a black stone like a crystal.

The old man slowly knelt down beside the shrine and whispered, "Your Majesty...someone has stolen the ghost body altar I prepared for you!"

The black stone trembled a few times, and a ball of black gas rushed up and whizzed into the old man's mouth and nose!
A few seconds later, a trace of black air flashed across the old man's face, and then slowly disappeared.

After he stood up again from the ground, his originally staggering steps became agile, and his limping appearance turned into a brisk walk!

The old man walked out of the room quickly and went downstairs. His disciples hurriedly came forward to greet him and said, "Master Zhong? It's so late, you..."

The old man ignored her and just opened the door and left.

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(End of this chapter)