I changed the world.

Following behind the swaying paper crane, like a giant bat, she silently darted across the treetops. It was already late at night, and there weren't many people still outdoors, so An Huiling wasn't worried about being noticed. Even if someone saw her, they would only see a fleeting shadow and probably think they were seeing things.

Compared to ordinary pedestrians, An Huiling is more concerned about the cameras that appear from time to time in the city. Therefore, she mostly chooses relatively secluded building rooftops or urban woodlands.

Because of the magical constraints, she didn't need to follow closely. In fact, even if the paper crane was out of sight for a short time, she could still sense its approximate location, so she wasn't worried about losing it.

Thus, the person and the crane gradually headed towards the north of the city. After a while, they left the urban area, the buildings gradually decreased, and the surrounding area was a large area of ​​dense forest. An Huiling's speed also increased once again.

Even in the darkness, Qingfeng Mountain in the distance appeared exceptionally clear thanks to the moonlight. Just then, An Huiling suddenly stopped what she was doing, standing on a treetop and looking towards the foot of Qingfeng Mountain not far away. With her senses, she could feel that the balance there was being broken, as if something bad or something was going to happen...

Although, given her cultivation level, she couldn't be as perceptive as her senior brother in discerning certain details, she could still sense the changes that made her uncomfortable.

As the Xuanmen (Taoist school) believes, everything in the universe is in balance; the waxing and waning of things, the yin and yang, should not be neglected on one side. However, as her senior brother once reminded her, sometimes when you find that the balance on certain levels has been broken, you need to observe carefully, because that usually means that something unusual has happened.

An Huiling sensed the direction the paper crane was flying again, and unsurprisingly, it was in the direction she had discovered. Clearly, there was probably some problem here...

An Huiling no longer hesitated and decided to go and see...

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A monster, larger than the two ghost infants and the size of an adult, emerged from the corpse like a cicada shedding its skin. Its spine was exposed, with bone spurs standing upright on it. Its long, strong arms resembled coiled tree roots, and its claws were as sharp as blades.

It was clear that it was resisting some force trying to pull it back, struggling to crawl out of the shell. The monster's face was skeletal, its eyes fixed on Xu Hanzhang not far away, and it clearly showed an aggressive tendency, its mouth wide open in a ferocious manner as if it wanted to bite.

Xu Hanzhang's face twisted with a mixture of joy and despair. He brought the sharp blade close to his palm and, with trembling hands, slashed his palm open, creating a wound...

The sharp blade sliced ​​through, and blood instantly flowed out. Xu Hanzhang frowned slightly, chanting an incantation. Taking advantage of the moment when the monster was still bound and unable to completely break free, he dripped blood onto the corpse...

Just as Xu Hanzhang dripped blood onto the corpse, behind him, Yu Huai raised his gaze to the increasingly chaotic sky, and secretly reached for his own neck, where a small golden baby statue hung...

Just then, a muffled rumble suddenly came from not far away, as if a vehicle had collided at close range!

The collision seemed to make the entire altar tremble, as if the space within the altar itself was shaken by the impact...

Yu Huai and Xu Hanzhang turned around at the same time, looking in the direction from which the impact had come...

"Bang!!!"

Then another impact was heard. At this moment, it could be seen that the ropes between the four wooden pillars on the outermost edge of the altar were shaking due to some kind of impact. At the same time, ripples like water appeared in the void.

"Teacher... what is that?" Xu Hanzhang looked nervously at Yu Huai beside him. In his eyes, the area outside the altar had been covered with mist, and something seemed to be hidden in the mist, but it was unclear.

Volume Two: The Truth Hidden Behind History: Chapter 773 Underworld Officials of Jin'an, Solving Cases with Underworld Messengers!!!

"Don't worry for now, the altar is protected by a barrier..." Yu Huai had clearly never encountered such an event before, and he was also uneasy, but at this moment, he could only reassure Xu Hanzhang.

Before he could finish speaking, a third loud impact rang out, accompanied by a piercing sound of wind breaking through the air!

"Whoosh...whoosh...bang!!!" A piercing and muffled shattering sound came from the void, as if something had been broken.

"Crack...crack..."

Suddenly, the gray flame that had been burning suspended in mid-air on the pillar in the northwest corner of the altar became chaotic, then slumped down, teetering precariously in the wind...

"Waaaaah...waaaah...waaaah..."

To the astonishment of the master and disciple, a sharp whistling sound rang out as two thick iron chains lashed out from the thick fog outside the altar, piercing through the void barrier formed by the enchantment and striking the rope between the two pillars. The rope between the pillars was unexpectedly strong; although it looked like an ordinary hemp rope, the thick iron chains did not immediately break it when they struck it!

However, this was clearly not without its price. Just as the chain struck the rope, the talismans attached to the rope suddenly shattered! And the flame on the northwest corner pillar, which was already on the verge of extinction, flickered even more violently, like a candle in the wind, and finally went out with a "whoosh"!

At the same time, after the two chains struck the rope, the immense centrifugal force caused them to quickly wrap around the rope several times, firmly binding it. Then, the chains were pulled backward by some enormous force, quickly becoming taut and straight!

The chain was as thick as a forearm, its details indistinct in the darkness of the night. Yet, simply looking at it evoked a chilling, oppressive feeling that sent shivers down one's spine, as if some kind of fear lurking deep within the soul was stirring within one's being...

On the taut iron chain, the iron rings clanged together, and in just a moment, the rope was stretched into an exaggerated arc...

"Snap..." A bundle of fibers on the rope broke first under the immense tension...

Then came the second rope snapping, the third snapping… In less than a few seconds, the entire rope was violently torn apart, and the two chains rolled back, retreating into the thick fog. Following this, the two wooden pillars in the northeast and northwest corners collapsed in a chain reaction, and the gray flames floating above them were extinguished simultaneously.

From within the mist outside the altar, faint, elusive sounds could be heard...

The sound seemed both far away and near...

"Underworld officials solving cases..."

"...Underworld messengers solving cases...Underworld messengers solving cases..."

"Teacher, what...what is that?" Xu Hanzhang felt his heart pounding. He swallowed hard, turned to Yu Huai with a look of fear, and asked the "professional" in his mind.

However, Yu Huai had never encountered this situation before, and his face was filled with surprise and uncertainty. For a moment, he didn't know how to answer, so he shouted loudly:

"Who's playing tricks there!"

At this very moment, in mid-air, three hideous ghosts, one large and two small, were flying around while wailing as if crying. At the same time, they also began to turn their gaze to the location of the breach in the barrier, baring their teeth and showing a hostile attitude.

Meanwhile, they were flapping their wings in the opposite direction, seemingly trying to get away from this place, but they were bound by some unknown force and could not leave the location of the altar.

At that very moment, right above everyone's heads, above the altar, a dark cloud suddenly gathered, and dozens of meters in the air, a figure more than two meters tall appeared.

The man was slender but with strong, muscular bones. His face was dark and bluish-black. He held a vermilion brush in one hand and a scroll in the other. He wore a classic-style black robe and a gauze hat. His chest was embroidered with the two ancient seal characters "Patrol at Night".

“Gentlemen, these are the two sorcerers who use living people as sacrifices to practice evil arts!”

As the voice faded in the sky, three enormous figures, each nearly three meters tall, appeared in the direction where the two chains had just retracted. Simultaneously, a thunderous shout accompanied by a gust of cold wind swept across the land.

"Please inform us that we have arrived. Now that we have arrived, leave this place to us."

Then they saw the person in the air write something on the scroll in his hand, and then disappear into the dark clouds.

"The underworld officials are investigating! You demons, why don't you surrender!"

These three men, who called themselves "underworld messengers," all had faces as white as paper, unlike ordinary people. They wore strangely styled cylindrical hats with faint writing on them, and were burly in build. They wore simple, ancient-style black robes, and heavy iron chains were crisscrossed around their bodies, one end of which dragged on the ground. The two chains they had just seen were clearly the ones they had swung out...

“Who are you?!!”

Yu Huai frowned, his eyes darting around, glancing at the sky and then at the front. He felt uneasy and his eyes were filled with doubt as he looked at these people who were clearly not ordinary.

Yinchai? What is Yinchai?

Every person from the Great Zhao Kingdom knows this, but it's a concept that only exists in mythology!

In the myths and legends of the Great Zhao, there has always been a tradition of treating the dead as if they were alive. It is believed that after a person dies, just as when they were alive, there is a complete system of government to manage the soul of the deceased.

Throughout history, this gradually led to the legend of the underworld officials, and eventually the city god temples found in various places are representative of this system.

The so-called underworld messengers, in the legends of the Great Zhao Dynasty, are ghost messengers who escort the souls of the dead after they die. But... but... isn't that just a legend?!

Even though Yu Huai had experienced extraordinary encounters and even gained superhuman strength, he had never encountered any information about underworld officials in his decades of life, which made him feel unreal at this moment!

Is someone trying to scam me?!

As soon as he finished speaking, the first Yin official, who was half a head taller than his two companions and resembled a giant, looked at Yu Huai and Xu Hanzhang with a grim expression and said in a low voice, word by word:

"Under the command of the Jin'an Underworld Bureau, underworld officials investigate cases!!!"

"You wicked demons, using living people as sacrifices to practice evil arts, bringing chaos to the world!!!"

"This crime is unforgivable! Arrest him according to the law!!!"

"Teacher... what... what's going on?!"

Volume Two: The Truth Hidden Behind History Books: Chapter 774 We're in Big Trouble!

At this moment, behind Yu Huai, Xu Hanzhang's forehead was covered in cold sweat. His previous joy had vanished, and he stared at the underworld official before him, his voice even trembling with sobs...

His mind was in turmoil. He had entered a new world and gained extraordinary powers, but he hadn't expected that this new world would also be governed by others!

Why didn't the teacher tell me?!

Yu Huai's face was stiff. He cursed inwardly:

M!

How would I know what happened?!

I'm confused too!

Why would setting up an altar or practicing a spell require the intervention of underworld officials?!

"Gentlemen... could there be some mistake?"

Yu Er ⒉ Huai Jiu ⊙ This* Bell Shi Ba Wu Xin Zhong ⑸ 氵 Tong Ba )( 样^ Ji Qi Ming Wei) Hun Jiu (Luan San, Yi Nao ⒍ Zhong) Jiu San Shan Qun Guo Qun Da Liang Liao Luan: Seven or eight chaotic thoughts. Even though he had been making a living in Southeast Asia for a long time, as a native of Da Zhao, those myths and legends about the underworld that he had heard since childhood, or that had been regarded as stories or as nonsense, were now like a switch had been triggered in his brain, and they began to flash through his mind one after another...

The more I thought about it, the more frightened I became. If the other party really was some kind of underworld official, then I was afraid I couldn't possibly defeat them...

"If you are willing to leave, please feel free to make any requests. I am willing to offer three sacrificial animals..."

Yu Huai mumbled incoherently, his mind racing as he searched for a way to escape. He suddenly realized that he had done the same thing in Southeast Asia, using people to practice magic, but hadn't attracted this underworld official. Could it be that the underworld's reach didn't extend to Southeast Asia?

Thinking about it that way, it's not entirely impossible...

"Bribing underworld officials is an even more serious crime!"

Before Yu Huai could say anything more, the underworld official shouted in a deep voice, and at the same time, two chains whistled and lashed out at Yu Huai and Xu Hanzhang!

The next moment, Xu Hanzhang, his face filled with panic, was struck by the chain without any resistance, followed by a scream that seemed to pierce to the bone.

After striking Xu Hanzhang, the chain, propelled by inertia, wrapped around his body twice, securing him tightly, and then dragged him back with great force...

Under the immense force, Xu Hanzhang slipped and lost his balance, being dragged like a dead dog towards the underworld official who had thrown out the chains...

"Ah!!! Ah!!! No!!!!"

"Teacher!!! Teacher, save me!!! What is going on!!!" Xu Hanzhang cried out, his face filled with fear. Clearly, although his teacher hadn't told him about this beforehand, he could guess what these underworld officials were here for...