Terrifying Heavens: I'll directly worship the Black Law of Fengdu!

Chapter 33: Gathering Strength
The two men discovered that the triangular talisman Li Xuan had recently given them to hang around their necks had shattered. With the shattering of this talisman, they felt utterly exhausted, their legs as heavy as lead, unable to move an inch.

Liu Zhuobin had no strength left to cry. He collapsed to the ground, his arms trembling as he propped himself up. He said, "Didi, I suddenly have no strength left. You...you run first. Teacher Li should be able to help you..."

Seeing this effeminate man with long hair suddenly become so loyal, Di Zhiheng gritted his teeth and said, "You look down on me?"

He himself was also exhausted, but when he tried to help Liu Zhuobin up, he struggled for a long time and ended up falling down beside him.

Just then, footsteps sounded...

Di Zhiheng was torn between two options: run alone or run together. If he ran alone, he would have a chance to survive, but if he ran together, they would likely die here together.

Oh well, he'll be a hero again in eighteen years!
If I'm dead, why would I be afraid of that old discipline chief?
Ghosts fight ghosts, ghosts pinch ghosts.

Can a ghost die again?
Dry!
Di Zhiheng stood up shakily, picked up half a brick, and stared intently in the direction from which the sound came.

Suddenly, fate was gripped by the back of its neck once more...

He felt utterly hopeless.

But I felt better the next second.

It was Li Xuan's voice coming from behind: "You deserve praise for persevering this far."

But Di Zhiheng dared not turn back. He still remembered what Li Xuan had said on his phone: no matter what happens, never look back...

I'm afraid it's some kind of disgusting scheme.

Li Xuan felt gratified; the rebellious student simply needed good guidance.

He walked forward, laughed, and flicked Di Zhiheng on the head as a reward, saying, "Alright, it's me!"

"Zhuo Bin, how long are you going to lie here?"

"I'm out of strength, Teacher Li."

Liu Zhuobin looked weak and short of breath. He leaned against the wall to stand up and said, "Teacher Li, we ran out as you said, but as soon as we left the school gate, I don't know what happened, we suddenly lost our strength and collapsed here."

Li Xuan said, "You just overexerted your physical strength and energy to save your lives."

He pointed to the ropes hanging around their necks and said, "The triangular talismans I gave you a few days ago are connected to the paper figures I hid outside the school. When you are about to be fatally attacked, the paper figures will shield you! Of course, the price is that they will consume a lot of your vital energy. If you cannot escape immediately, then all is lost..."

Di Zhiheng and Liu Zhuobin suddenly realized that Li Xuan was so amazing.

Li Xuan placed his palms together, formed a hand seal, and peered out from the edge of the wall of the Lanzhou Ramen Restaurant towards the main gate of Nalan Mude Middle School.

A faint green light flickered in his eyes.

After cultivating his magical power, he was able to use many minor spells from the Eastern Peak Earth Deity Law.

Spells come in different levels of power, and even the weakest cultivator can use them, but one's dantian must never be empty of mana...

It proves the saying, "I may not use it, but you cannot refuse to give it to me."

At the school gate, Ruan Shiyin lingered, occasionally stamping her feet on a patch of ground as if something on it was making her extremely angry.

Then I tried to walk out of the door...

But as soon as she touched the door, as if due to a network delay, she would reappear from a few seconds earlier, repeating the same pattern over and over.

Li Xuan felt relieved. So that's how it is. Although Ruan Shiyin is powerful, she is trapped in the school area like a bound spirit and cannot escape.

Alright, alright, you're finished!

He turned around and looked at the sickly Liu Zhuobin and Di Zhiheng. They were truly two good students who helped test Ruan Shiyin's activity range.

Li Xuan escorted the two students back to his rented room. Looking at the students, who were like mud, he said, "Rest well. I'll prepare some qi-tonifying Chinese medicine for you to drink tomorrow. You'll recover in seven days."

The rented house has three bedrooms and one living room. In the north, there are shrines for the Great Emperor of Fengdu in the North Yin, the Great Emperor of the North Pole Ziwei, and the Great Marshal Tianpeng. In the east, there is also a shrine for the Great Emperor of the Eastern Peak. Incense and candles are lit in the early morning according to the lunar calendar, and that is considered a simple offering.

The ancestral tablets of three great emperors and one grand marshal have some effect.

He offered incense to the four bigwigs, while thinking to himself: Principal Song Fen called during the day, saying that the Education Bureau had retrieved the file of the deceased Ruan Shiyin from the archives, and that the process of removing her from the position and destroying the information would be completed in the next two days.

Ruan Shiyin's time of reckoning is almost up...

The next day, Li Xuan went to school as if nothing had happened.

As soon as he entered the classroom, he asked in confusion, "Why are there only two people? Where are Liu Zhuobin and Di Zhiheng?"

Gao Hanqiang, the most handsome of the four boys, raised his hand and said, "Teacher, they didn't return to the dormitory last night. We kept calling their cell phones but no one answered. We called again this morning, but their phones were off. We were just about to tell Teacher Fang about it later."

Li Xuan said "Oh," and then said, "I will pass this on to you. Just be good students and don't break the school rules."

In the world of "The School Cemetery," ghosts are not afraid of night or day and can appear at any time. Ruan Shiyin may be monitoring the entire school's movements in real time.

He wouldn't directly reveal that Di Zhiheng and Liu Zhuobin violated school rules and that he had hidden them in a rented room.

Only by keeping Ruan Shiyin in the dark can we take her down in one fell swoop!

Li Xuan suddenly said, "The school rules are strict and cannot be ignored. If you don't understand the importance of these rules, you will only regret it."

At this point, Charlie said, "Teacher, how dare we disobey? Now we don't even dare to talk to girls, they'll think we're crazy..."

Gao Hanqiang also looked troubled and said, "Yeah, last night some girls invited us to a social gathering in the woods behind the mountain. We didn't dare go, but Zhuo Bin and Didi couldn't resist the temptation and went. They said they'd be back before eleven! Didi may be a bit of a slacker, but he always keeps his word. They haven't come back yet, and I suspect they might be..."

That’s it.

Li Xuan raised his hand to stop him, saying, "You don't need to say the rest, Gao Hanqiang."

Gao Hanqiang was shocked. He saw the answer in Teacher Li Xuan's eyes, which clearly said, "That's right, it's exactly what you think."

He felt a chill down his spine and a tingling sensation on his scalp.

The empty three-person classroom suddenly seemed to be filled with unseen vengeful ghosts, glaring menacingly, ready to claim lives at any moment.

This lousy school is better off not staying here.

He even considered running away with the bucket after school and never coming back, but he was afraid of violating the school rule that he should not return to the dormitory by 11 o'clock, so he was very conflicted.

After school.

At a Lanzhou noodle restaurant, Li Xuan met with teacher Fang Xiaoyi and got straight to the point: he wanted to get a drop of blood from her aunt (the former principal's wife).

He knew that Fang Xiaoyi had also been a student at this school before.

Having witnessed the strange occurrences at the school administration office, she resolved to investigate thoroughly, break the curse, and prevent further harm to anyone else.

Li Xuan got straight to the point, explaining his identity and purpose.

Fang Xiaoyi was initially skeptical, because while it wasn't uncommon for Taoist priests and monks to perform rituals at the school, none of them had any effect...

Li Xuan then took her to the rented room to see the two students who were on the verge of death.

Fang Xiaoyi was utterly shocked to learn that the two of them had violated the school rule that they must return to their dormitories by 11 p.m. last night and were still alive!
In her mind, violating school rules would be punished quickly, and no student had ever escaped punishment.

(End of this chapter)