In Zongman, the evil spirits are eliminated physically.

Since this is where monsters live and even fight, it is definitely not a river near human settlements. This is a river on the edge of the city. It is so sparsely populated that the government doesn't even install a single street light. It is pitch black and it is the environment where monsters and demons appear in movies and TV.

Even though the city in the distance is brightly lit and bustling with people, it does not affect the loud drums and gongs here at all.

The heavy object hit the water, not only causing huge waves, but also making a loud noise. The sound spread even faster in the empty but uninhabited area. At least when Ouyang Sun and the other two were still two kilometers away from the river, they heard the sound of water and the screams of the hippopotamus.

"It seems that the situation over there is urgent. We have to speed up." Qinzi said seriously.

Without telling Ouyang Xuan in advance, Qinzi used the hand holding Ouyang Xuan's arm as support, pushed off the ground with her feet and jumped directly.

The weight of Kotoko's small body was as light as a feather to Ouyang Xuan. He stretched out his arms and picked up Kotoko in a princess hug. Kotoko, lying in Ouyang Xuan's arms, twisted her body comfortably to make her body fit better with the Ouyang brand backrest.

This princess hug was not an ordinary one. In an ordinary princess hug, one hand supported the back and the other hand supported the legs. It took two hands to support the weight of dozens of kilograms. However, Ouyang Xuan held Qinzi with one hand as if he was holding a baby. This was possible thanks to Qinzi's petite figure.

Since Ouyang Xuan only needs one hand to hold Qinzi in his arms, what is he doing with the other hand?

He grabbed Rongrong's collar and lifted her up as if she were holding a big plastic bag.

Woo~~ I still want a two-handed princess hug.

Qinzi looked at Rongrong who was being carried up happily with resentment.

Rongrong didn't see the look in Qinzi's eyes. As the rabbit spell accelerated, Rongrong saw an unprecedented scenery. Everything was passing by quickly behind her. The wind hitting her face was a little painful, but it was more of a thrilling feeling. This was something that could not be seen on TV in Tushan or Tokyo.

Under the extremely fast speed of the rabbit talisman, the two kilometers disappeared in an instant. When Rongrong put her feet, which were flying in the air, back on the ground, her body still had a strange feeling of weightlessness, and it felt a little unreal to step on the ground.

The two hippos in the river were fighting fiercely. Their mouths, more than half a meter wide, were colliding and biting each other's teeth. The four teeth rubbed and collided, making a sound similar to scratching a blackboard, which made Qinzi cover her ears in discomfort.

"The princess is here! The princess is here!" Seeing Kotoko coming, the monsters hiding by the river immediately shouted at the top of their lungs, trying to make the two hippos stop.

"Dalangjiro! Stop it now, the princess is coming."

"Damn it, these two outsiders aren't even afraid of the princess. This is no longer an ordinary conflict. We must use our full strength to deal a heavy blow!"

A green-skinned monster ran towards them as soon as he saw Kotoko coming. Only when he got closer could we see his appearance clearly. He turned out to be a kappa.

"Princess." Kappa took a deep breath and said, "It's so kind of you to take a moment out of your busy schedule to come here."

"This is my duty, village chief."

"Ouyang, this is the village chief of this monster village, Kappa." Qinzi introduced the Kappa in front of her to Ouyang Shun.

"Village?"

Ouyang Xuan glanced at both sides of the river and did not see any buildings hidden by magic or demonic power. There were only some containers scattered along the river. Looking carefully, he found some clothes hanging on the edge of the containers, and there were traces of cooking fires at the open doors of the containers.

"Are you living here?" Ouyang Xuan asked.

"In reply to Lord Ou." Kappa spoke respectfully to Kotoko, and with awe to Ouyang Falcon. "We are all weak monsters, or monsters that have just arrived in Edo from other places. If we rashly enter the city, we might be killed by the miko or onmyoji, so we settled down here by the remote river."

"However, as time passed, although we were able to enter the city, we got used to living here and did not leave. We continued to stay here. Our original wooden house was washed away in the flood. Thanks to the princess, she found these iron houses for us, so we can continue to live here."

"After all, with more and more Tokyo residents enjoying the suburbs, a house by the river would undoubtedly draw curiosity. If it were posted online and became an inexplicably popular online attraction, it would have a huge impact on them," Kotoko explained. "But the container house is different. This river once served as a transportation hub, so it's not surprising to see some old containers scattered around."

"Also, most of the people living in the containers are homeless, so most people wouldn't want to get close to them. This is like killing two birds with one stone. They hide during the day and come out at night. Most people wouldn't want to get close to a container area with a group of homeless people gathered in the middle of the night."

Qinzi raised her chin proudly, showing off her intelligence in front of Ouyang Xuan, which always made Qinzi feel very happy. This feeling of showing off in front of her "lover" made Qinzi unable to stop.

"Great, great." Ouyang Xuan patted Qinzi's head lightly.

"Hmm~~"

"Um, I'm extremely sorry to bother you two. Could you please settle the matter between Taro and Jiro first?"

"Ahem, business is important, business is important." Qinzi coughed lightly a few times.

The people on the shore had just turned their attention back to the river, and the battle between the two hippos had entered a white-hot stage.

"Jiro! I'm usually so nice to you! You actually hurt me at this crucial moment when I was about to conquer Hippoko's heart!"

"Is a hippopotamus that can be conquered by a watermelon still a real hippopotamus? And that hippopotamus bitch was planning to give the watermelon to that human gigolo, didn't you know that?"

"So what? Why didn't Hippo ask someone else instead of asking me to get a watermelon? Doesn't this prove that Hippo believes in me and trusts me? This is the precursor to love!"

"I'm so angry! How could our Hippo clan give birth to a fool like you?!"

Hippo Jiro was irritated by Hippo Taro's licking-dog language. The teeth that were originally playing fencing with Hippo Taro turned the sword tip, broke away from the wrestling mouth, tilted his head, and the four teeth hit Hippo Taro's body like hammers.

The blunt teeth could not penetrate the hippopotamus's hard skin, but they could still scrape off a layer of keratin and make Hippo Taro feel pain.

"You traitor, you are betraying the fighting skills passed down from generation to generation by the Hippo Clan."

"So all those old guys are dead!"

Seeing that the fight between the two brothers was about to turn from a fistfight into a fight with weapons, Ouyang Jun silently walked to the river under Qinzi's instructions and put his hand into the water.

"Thunder curse, hurry up and obey the command."

In an instant, blue and white lightning filled the entire river surface. The lightning, as thick as an arm, was enough to scare people at a glance, and even from a distance it made people feel as if they were being scorched. However, the two hippos in the river did not have such concerns because they were already scorched.

Hippos can dance, monkeys can climb trees, and giraffes can do somersaults.

At the same moment when Ouyang Sun discharged electricity into the river, the two hippos suddenly stopped and then started dancing in the river with their hands and feet. The name of this dance was probably "Help, we are almost being electrocuted".

A second later, two thick-skinned hippos fell into the river with foam at the mouth, their heads buried in the water. Their charred bodies exuded bursts of meaty aroma, and they twitched from time to time, and bubbles emerged from the water, telling the monsters still by the river, look, we are still alive.

"Thank you for your hard work." Qinzi used a handkerchief to wipe the river water off Ouyang Xuan's hands.

"Please go and pull them both ashore."

"Yes, princess!"

Under Kotoko's command, the monsters were about to go down to the river to pull back the two hippos. Perhaps as soon as their feet touched the river water, the residual electricity made their hands and feet twitch and they fell down with their eyes rolled back. The electricity remaining in the river water was enough to make the monsters stay away.

These island monsters had long known about Ouyang Falcon's fighting ability and were mentally prepared to be in a miserable state due to the remnants of his magic, but Rongrong was not.

Rongrong was young and inexperienced, so unlike other big monsters, she could not recognize Ouyang Xuan's fighting ability at a glance. So in Rongrong's eyes, Ouyang Xuan was a Taoist priest who knew magic and seemed to be quite powerful. She had no idea how strong he was until Rongrong saw that the entire river was rolling with Ouyang Xuan's lightning. Standing next to Qinzi, Rongrong instinctively felt fear for the thunder magic used to exorcise demons in the river.

However, after seeing that after the lightning dissipated, the monsters were still electrocuted by touching the river water, Rongrong became curious. She squatted by the river and was about to reach out and touch the river water, which seemed to no longer be scary.

"Huh? Have I grown taller?" Rongrong looked at her hand curiously as it was getting farther and farther away from the river.

"There are still a lot of my thunder magic remnants in the river water. Your current demonic power has been sealed by me. Touching it will hurt you."

With the power of the chicken spell, Ouyang Sun gently pulled Rongrong up, and at the same time, the two hippos, which had already slid along the river for a distance, suddenly emerged from the river like onions pulled out of dry land by a fisherman's fishing rod, causing a lot of splashes of water and drawing a perfect arc in the air. Moreover, because there was so much water, a rainbow was created in the night sky.

The two hippos' stomachs were filled with water, bulging high like a pregnant hippopotamus that was smashed to the ground, and a small dent was pressed out on the soft ground. Because of the impact from their backs, the two hippos opened their mouths and spit out a lot of water.

But it was not enough to just spit out the water, as there was still a lot of water in their stomachs. Several monsters jumped onto their stomachs, jumping hard and squeezing the hippopotamus' stomachs to squeeze out all the water inside.

Qinzi was directing the monsters to squeeze water for the two hippos, and Ouyang Xuan was watching Qinzi. Rongrong couldn't find anything to do for a while. The monsters who had been clamoring to come and see quickly lost interest after seeing them, because they looked similar to the monsters in her own home, and were even a lot uglier.

While Ouyang Xuan and Qinzi were working, Rongrong found a place to rest. She found a cleaner piece of grass on the river bank and sat down on it, supporting her chin with her hands and looking at the adults busy at work by the river below.

"Try harder. The water inside hasn't been squeezed out yet. If that doesn't work, find a big rock and hit him in the stomach."

"Go pee on their faces and wake these two guys up first. Don't let the princess wait here in vain."

"Why don't you go find a rope first? They were just in a rage. It wouldn't matter if they died fighting each other, but offending the princess is a serious and unforgivable sin."

"What's the point of having a rope? Don't you see that Lord Ou is by the princess's side? Even with Lord Ou here, these two idiots still want to hurt the princess. Are they some kind of ultimate monsters?"

Children get bored quickly and go to bed early. Rongrong's head drooped in the boredom and quietness in a short while.

Rongrong's own demonic power has been sealed by Ouyang Xuan. When ordinary Yin-Yang masters or exorcists see Rongrong, they will just treat her as an ordinary human girl. But it is only the demonic power that is suppressed and sealed. Rongrong's own instinct as a monster still exists, and she can feel some things in the other world. It's just that because of her young age, except for very strong and very familiar demonic power, Rongrong cannot discover other things that want to be deliberately hidden.

While half asleep and half awake, an extremely familiar demonic power, like a bright spot in the dark night, suddenly flashed in Rongrong's vision.

The sleepiness disappeared in an instant, and Rongrong jumped up from the ground with a happy face. It was too familiar. Even if Rongrong was given another thousand years, she would never forget this magic power. This was the magic power of her sister Tushan Honghong. Although this magic power was countless times stronger than she had imagined, there was no doubt that it was the magic power of her sister.

"Sister...Sister!"

The joy of finding her lost sister immediately overwhelmed Rongrong's little head. Without saying a word to Ouyang Sunqinzi below, she ran towards Honghong.

Chapter 22 Insulating Claws

"Sister, sister, sister!"

Rongrong called her sister and ran into the darkness. The riverside without street lights did not affect Rongrong's search at all. She was not relying on her eyesight to find Honghong, but relying on something like a bond derived from her blood. Only by relying on the weak demonic power that flashed by could she find Honghong's location.

Even in the pitch-black environment, Honghong, with her red dress and orange-yellow hair, stood out, as if she were a signpost, standing there waiting for Rongrong to find her.

"Rong Rong?"

Honghong's voice reached Rongrong's ears, making Rongrong run faster. Finally, she saw her sister.

"Sister! It's Rongrong, Rongrong finally found you!"

"I finally found you, Rongrong."

Walking barefoot on the ground, the bells on the red ankles made a crisp sound, which sounded particularly clear in the empty riverside.

After jumping over a bush, Rongrong was now only one step away from Honghong. With the help of the moonlight and the excellent eyesight of a fox demon, Rongrong could clearly see Honghong's face. They had only been separated for a few years, but it felt like more than ten years or even decades. When they separated, the two sisters looked almost the same, but now when they met again, Rongrong still looked like a child, while Honghong had become a graceful young lady.

The power of the Tushan fox demon comes from love. As long as the power is enhanced by understanding love, it is not strange for a three-year-old child to turn into a twenty-year-old graceful girl overnight. Rongrong has seen it many times when she was in Tushan. She can fully understand the huge change in Honghong's appearance.

"Rongrong..."

Honghong bent down and opened her arms, as if waiting for a swallow to return to its nest.

Honghong's beautiful red cheeks looked particularly beautiful under the moonlight. Even though she was now in an open space by the river covered with weeds and garbage, it did not conceal her charm at all. However, she was overwhelmed by the joy of reuniting with her sister and did not see the beauty in front of her at all. Her eyes were full of mockery and tyranny, and she did not see the joy of her departed sister at all.

"Sister—ah!"

Before she could even finish saying the word "sister", Rongrong's sweet call turned into a scream that burst out of her throat, and her body flew uncontrollably into the sky. It felt like she was at the riverside and wanted to touch the water, but was pulled up by Ouyang Jun with the chicken talisman.

The sister who was originally so close to her became smaller and farther away in Rongrong's sight again. Rongrong, who was in the air, wanted to reach out her hand and get closer to Honghong.

At the same time that Rongrong was pulled up, the firing pin ignited the light of gunpowder, and with a deafening sound, a bullet containing Ouyang Sun's magic power spun and accelerated out of the barrel, rushing towards Honghong at a speed that ordinary people could not see.

"Ha~~"

With a wave of his hand, Ouyang Xuan's bullet, which could penetrate most monsters, was deflected by Honghong's white little hand and shot into the river beside him. Although it was only a bullet as big as a peanut, it made a noise in the river that was no less than that of a falling cannonball.

"As expected, you discovered me. You are worthy of being called Brother Taoist. I just arrived in this city and I met you. Our fate is destined by heaven."

"You gave me such a strong response the first time we met after such a long separation. Is this the love of Taoist Brother?"

Honghong smiled, but that smile made people's hair stand on end. Her grinning mouth made people doubt Honghong's mental state. A pair of emerald green eyes looked at Ouyang Sun through the darkness.

In previous battles, when Ouyang Sun fired, he would choose to use the maximum possible firepower in a short period of time, which is commonly known as emptying the magazine. He would use dense bullets in a short period of time to cause maximum damage to the enemy, forcing him to either die or lose his combat effectiveness.

But when facing Honghong, Ouyang Jun only fired one shot. It was not because he couldn't bear to shoot because Honghong was beautiful, but because he knew it would be useless.

"Just now, when my bullet touched your hand, the magic power I attached to it disappeared. An ordinary bullet can make such a big noise. Your hand is very strong." Ouyang Jun's gun was still pointing at Honghong.

"My hands have a physical condition called Insulation Claws. Whether it's demonic power, magic power, or spiritual power, they are all meaningless in front of my hands. This includes the magic weapons of those guys in this country, as well as your magic power, Taoist brother."

"Oh, what a dangerous weapon!" Ouyang Falcon continued. "If you were to encounter an ordinary cultivator with your skills, the fight would probably be one-sided. They would be wondering why their spells were ineffective against you, and then die at your hands."

"That's not possible." Honghong raised her hand, put the back of her hand under her nose and sniffed, "I haven't killed many humans, so there's no stench on my body that Taoist brother hates. Taoist brother, do you want to smell it? My body is still fragrant."

"I haven't seen you for a few years, and you've grown up a lot." Although Ouyang Xuan couldn't tell at a glance that the current Honghong was the little fox he had seen before, he could remember her from her demonic power and aura.

In order to save her life that year, Ouyang Xuan held her under the tree for a long time. Although Honghong's magic power was not so much as to be engraved into his DNA, he still had some memories of it.

"Sister... Sister..." Rongrong was confused as she watched Honghong gradually becoming unfamiliar. The evil aura emanating from Honghong reminded her all the time that this was really her sister, but her expression just now was as if she was another person.

The small body pulled up by the chicken talisman fell to the ground and was quickly held in Kotoko's arms. Kotoko also looked at Honghong vigilantly.

Very strong, this monster is not just ordinary strong.

In Kotoko's vision, Honghong's overflowing demonic power was like an erupting volcano, demonstrating its power all the time. And like a volcano, the eruption only took a moment. Before Ouyang Sun fired, Kotoko thought she was an ordinary monster.

The demonic power emanating from Honghong had scared the weak monsters that followed her to the ground. They had only wanted to follow the princess to support her, but they had not expected that the person opposite them would be such a killer-like guy. It was just that Honghong had killed very few monsters and humans, so she only had the pressure of powerful demonic power, and did not have that kind of terrifying evil spirit.

Not every monster was frightened by the red evil aura. The two hippopotamus brothers who had just been fighting in the river were an exception. When the princess saw their companions falling to the ground, she felt as if they were facing a formidable enemy. The two brothers, who had made a mistake, immediately felt that the opportunity to redeem themselves had come.

"Don't be afraid, Princess! It's just a fox demon. Look how we two demon brothers will win for you!"

"If I can defeat a big monster, Hippo will definitely like me!"

Of course, Hippo Taro and Hippo Jiro don't think they can defeat Honghong. This is just a way of showing their loyalty. They may not be able to solve the problem, but at least they have to write a solution. They may not be able to defeat the enemy, but they must shout slogans loudly and charge quickly. As long as they quickly leave the battlefield after taking action and let Ouyang Sun fight, it will show that they have tried their best.

"For the princess!"

"For Hippopotamus!"

The two hippos shouted their own slogans and rushed towards Honghong. Dalang the hippo swung his fist, and Jilang opened his bloody mouth, looking ready to give Honghong a good beating.

"Don't get in the way of me looking at the Taoist brother."

The tone was cold, and Honghong's speed of attack was extremely fast. With the huge demonic power as support, Honghong's simple punch was extremely powerful. Compared with Hippo Taro's, her slender fist was several times smaller, but facing Honghong's small fist, Hippo Taro's arm and fist were like a car hitting a semi-trailer.

With a creepy crunching sound, the blood vessels in Hippo Taro's arm burst, and bright red blood spurted out from the broken skin. His straight arm also bent, and the whole arm was easily broken in the fist fight with Honghong.

"Woo——"