Excessive ferocity due to caution

"Having help means you've made preparations."

"That's good."

"But... that's not enough."

With a casual gesture, the mountain god pointed a finger, and the ink rain in the air instantly boiled over!

The raindrops are dancing.

Like countless sprites, they moved and vibrated at an extremely fast frequency!

Briefly, the raindrops burst open!

They burst into even smaller raindrops, and those smaller raindrops also burst apart...

And so these raindrops turned into fog.

Every speck of dust in the fog is a deadly weapon!

The wrath of the mountain god is hidden within!

This fog can slay even a half-step great calamity!

Zhao Yi had nowhere to hide, nowhere to retreat!

A soft murmur.

The soft hand that held his moved slightly, and Zhao Yi's hand also twisted slightly.

The red umbrella then began to spin.

Like a kaleidoscope, the cherry blossoms fluttering all around transformed into butterflies, suddenly closing in to protect Zhao Yi and keep the dark green mist at bay.

"In years to come, I will cherish the deep affection of tailoring clothes, but the iron horses and the clashing of war will never be seen again."

"In my dreams, a long ribbon evokes countless memories, but I see no lonely old man beneath the tree..."

The female ghost protecting Zhao Yi began to sing a mournful and chilling song.

It is an ancient form of opera.

It was cold yet warm, and although it was covered in frost, it didn't freeze your ears.

Its voice possessed magical power, managing to keep the mountain god's wrath outside the cherry blossom array!

Seeing this, the mountain god thrust out with his palm!

The destructive power of the torrent transformed into a demonic face and charged forward!

The buildings along the way were directly weathered into sand.

The female ghost left Zhao Yi's side and exchanged blows with the mountain god.

The beautiful figure flew backwards, then faded away a bit.

But it barely managed to block the torrent's magic.

The mountain god sneered:

"You've got some skills, but how many of my moves can you withstand?"

It turned its palm into a claw and grabbed at the flying female ghost out of thin air. The ghost claw, formed from unclean power, was about to grasp the female ghost in its palm!

At the critical moment, Zhao Yi took three steps forward with his umbrella, and with the scalpel in his hand, he plunged it into the ghost claw carrying unclean power, and pulled it down!

Stab it!

The ghost claw revealed a slight gap.

The female ghost quickly escaped, using her red umbrella to pull Zhao Yi back!

The mountain god's power was too great.

Neither of them can compete.

If we don't retreat now, we're doomed!

Fortunately, Zhao Yi's scalpel had some chaotic damage, otherwise the female ghost would have died. And when the female ghost died, the red umbrella lost its power, and Zhao Yi would have died from the wrath of the mountain god that surrounded him!

Unfortunately, how could the mountain god let these two ants escape from him so easily?

It sneered, and the dark green torrential rain in the air suddenly transformed into countless vengeful spirits, cutting off Zhao Yi's escape route!

"Trying to leave?"

"Too late!"

At this moment, the world was completely shrouded by ink-black rain and vengeful spirits, forming a place resembling a ghost realm.

In this sea of ​​vengeful spirits, Zhao Yi and the umbrella ghost were like a willow leaf, swaying and about to fall and sink!

Seeing that the barrier formed by the red umbrella was about to collapse, Zhao Yi knew that the umbrella ghost had basically reached her limit, so he sent a message to the warehouse ghost through the system.

The next moment, a terrifying aura soared into the sky from not far away!

The crimson mist transformed into a dragon-like creature, roaring deafeningly as it attacked the mountain god!

Purple lightning flashed within the snake's body, and a single arc of electricity instantly killed all the wronged souls around it!

This sudden attack forced the Mountain God to withdraw the pressure he had been applying to Zhao Yi and focus his attention on the peak-level half-step Great Ferocious Beast that was charging towards him.

It was a strange, ghostly creature with a human head and limbs, but its body was made of square iron boxes.

"Interesting... Are there any helpers?"

"Unfortunately, it's still not enough!"

"No matter how many of you come today, I will kill them all!"

"I'll kill you until you're completely convinced!"

...

The entrance to Zili Village.

Chen Fei, leading several hundred ghosts, blocked the village entrance and confronted the villagers head-on.

The atmosphere between the two sides was extremely tense.

The villagers of Zili Village were quite nervous. Although they harbored extreme malice towards outsiders, the group of nearly a thousand people led by Chen Fei were not to be trifled with!

How many of those who risk their lives for money are truly simple-minded?

If you don't have some skills, of course you won't do something reckless.

"We are men of Zhao Yi, the messenger of the mountain god. Let us in immediately!"

Chen Fei stepped forward, his expression stern and his voice fierce.

Seeing how troublesome these guys were, Chen Fei threatened the villagers using the method Zhao Yi had told him.

really.

Upon hearing the name Zhao Yi, a look of fear immediately appeared on the faces of some villagers.

This change caught Chen Fei's attention, and he immediately said:

"The Mountain God has encountered trouble outside. We have been ordered by the Mountain God to retrieve an important item from the Mountain God's temple to help him fight his enemies!"

"If you lot delay the mountain god's important affairs, who will bear the mountain god's wrath later?"

Everyone looked at each other.

The tension had subsided considerably.

At that moment, the crowd suddenly parted to make way.

An old man walked down the road with his hands behind his back.

"What's all the noise about?!"

The visitor was none other than Liao Yun, the village chief of Zili Village.

His presence immediately commanded respect.

Chen Fei felt immense pressure.

On the contrary, the butcher's family in the crowd breathed a sigh of relief.

"father!"

Liao Hongsong called out.

Liao Yun shifted his gaze, frowning as he said:

"You disobedient stray cat, why are you back again?"

Liao Hongsong told Liao Yun a lie.

The butcher handed a letter written by Zhao Yi to Liao Yun.

Liao Yun opened it and glanced at it.

Then he quickly clenched the letter in his palm.

"You should go to my place first. Once I've verified your identities, we can discuss going up the mountain."

Once Liao Yun spoke, the other villagers stopped trying to stop him.

Upon arriving at Liao Yun's residence, everyone else waited in Liao Yun's spacious courtyard, while Chen Fei and the Butcher's family went to Liao Yun's villa.

"Old man..."

Chen Fei stepped forward, wanting to say something, but was stopped by Liao Yun waving his hand.

"No need to say more, it's already written in the letter."

"This matter is of great importance; please allow me a moment to consider it..."

After Liao Yun entered the room, they noticed that her complexion was not quite normal.

Somewhat pale.

The hand holding the letter was gripping it very tightly.

Keep kneading it.

It seemed as if they were trapped in some kind of huge predicament.

The old man paced back and forth in the room. In the quiet room, everyone could even hear his abnormal heartbeat.

Liao Yunlai walked around, occasionally glancing at his daughter and granddaughter.

Sweat beaded on his temples.

Finally, he stopped.

A horizontal line of color inside the eye.

"I can allow you to go up the mountain."

Liao Yun's tone softened.

But it remains serious.

"But the red pine must be kept."

"I have something to say to her."

The butcher and his wife exchanged a glance.

"no problem."

Liao Hongsong held Bai Bai's hand.

"Father, let's stay."

Liao Yunduan brought a candle and burned the letter to ashes on it.

Then they took out a lot of identity tokens.

These identity tags were left behind by the villagers who died when Zhao Yi was indiscriminately killing people in Zili Village.

Liao Yun had originally planned to dispose of these identity tokens at some point, but now it was a good opportunity to give them to the ghosts that Chen Fei had brought.

So Chen Fei and the butcher led hundreds of ghosts up the back mountain with the identity tokens given to them by the village chief.

The remaining ghosts retreated to the entrance of Zili Village and waited in place.

After opening the giant gate at the back of the mountain, the group quickly headed up the mountain, but suddenly a mist rose up halfway up the mountain.

In the mist, a tall figure stood with his hands behind his back.

In the hazy light, it even exudes a certain domineering aura!

"At the end of the mountain road, who stands at the peak?"

"Upon seeing this true form, all paths to enlightenment vanish!"

The figure uttered a domineering line and slowly turned around.

"You ignorant and foolish mortals, how could you... Holy crap!"

The tall, humanoid spirit turned around and was shocked to find itself surrounded by a group of fierce-looking ghosts wielding weapons...

"What?!"

"Say your lines."

Chen Fei held a screwdriver and aimed it at the humanoid monster.

It swallowed hard, the domineering aura it had just exuded completely vanished, and it stammered:

"Sir, are you... getting ready to go up the mountain?"

Chen Fei countered with a question:

What do you think?

The humanoid monster immediately jumped up, patting its right sleeve with its left hand and its left sleeve with its right, its face full of fawning smiles:

"Sir...please come inside!"

...

P.S.: I'll be writing the next chapter soon.

Thank you for reading.