Chapter 1729: Chapter 1760: Three Sticks of Incense on the Head, Revealing Yin and Yang in the Dissipating Mists
“What is this slime? It doesn’t seem like the blood of any creature.”
Li Xiaobai sniffed carefully, his brow furrowing.
The smell was strange, somewhat familiar—sticky liquid, clear in color, with a certain stench, he felt he had smelled it somewhere before.
Baihe Boy had no reaction, always staring ahead; the problem should be here.
The walls are problematic, the Liu Family left in haste, and Granny Liu didn’t clean up, leaving traces.
Looking closely, the wall had none of that white powder; all four walls were covered in this thick liquid, sticky to the touch.
“Photinia!”
“It’s the smell of Photinia!”
Li Xiaobai was taken aback as he suddenly realized what the smell was.
The smell of Photinia is full of stench, identical to a certain bodily fluid.
This is some kind of indescribable liquid.
Someone has done something indescribable in this room and stained the walls with bodily fluids.
Judging by the amount, it’s not something a single creature can produce. There are bodily fluids from at least dozens of people; it’s a collective activity that might have lasted more than one day.
It’s too strange, and too disgusting, to imagine dozens of men gathered in a room doing indescribable things. Were there any women present?
If there were women, the nature would be very different. It wouldn’t be a weird hobby of the cultivators in the Liu Family, but a place of debauchery dedicated to clandestine acts.
Then the question arises: if there were women present, how many? Were they willing or forced?
The room was too disgusting; Li Xiaobai felt uncomfortable either standing or sitting, feeling everything was unclean wherever he stepped.
However, his mood was quite pleasant; Granny Liu was careless, letting them enter this room and uncover the unspeakable secret.
“Baihe Elder, I suspect the Liu Family daughter-in-law is involved in this matter. It must be settled tonight; we need to find out the truth.”
Li Xiaobai said to Baihe Boy.
Attacking the Liu Family daughter-in-law at night requires Baihe Boy to take action; otherwise, facing Netherworld Messengers alone is futile.
Alas, the elder was unmoved.
That night, Li Xiaobai lay flat.
The words had been conveyed; Baihe wouldn’t act, nor would he, as it was the great figure investigating the case, he wouldn’t be the one on the frontline.
The Liu Family Mansion was very calm; since they entered this outer room, no one disturbed them again. There were no footsteps heard from outside, but Li Xiaobai knew that the Netherworld wouldn’t simply leave them unchecked; surely, there would be strict precautions, loose outside, tight within.
At the hour of midnight.
Baihe Boy moved, standing up and slowly walking out the door, turning to look at Li Xiaobai at the door as a sign to follow.
Li Xiaobai’s lips curled up slightly, following him; it seemed even a great figure could be impatient at times, ultimately choosing to act in person.
Baihe Boy walked to the center of the courtyard, faintly seeing the flickering candlelight within Granny Liu’s room; she hadn’t rested, figures moving, probing outside.
“Baihe…”
Li Xiaobai was about to say something, but a thick smoke enveloped him.
“Swish!”
Baihe Boy shuddered slightly, stepping with a mystical gait, slowly moving towards the Liu Family Mansion.
Under the moonlight, the black and white mask on his face seemed to come to life.
His movements were light, hands forming sword fingers, dancing gracefully under the moon, changing direction and leaping, although he was heading towards Granny Liu’s mansion, he stepped one step back three steps, progressing very slowly.
Li Xiaobai couldn’t comprehend what he was doing, but noticed the incense on Baihe Boy’s official hat burning at some point.
And those sharp eagle eyes, the pupils turning into vertical slits!
A chill rose from the heart; he remembered the fourth senior brother’s warning—when the incense on Baihe Boy’s head was lit and the eyes turned into vertical pupils, it meant he was going to kill!
“Little Junior Brother, stay away from him, make sure you don’t get caught up in it!”
In his mind, Yang Chen’s voice conveyed after a long absence.
“Fourth Senior Brother, where have you been all this time? I thought I couldn’t reach you!”
Li Xiaobai slowly backed away, calling out in his heart.
“Just pondering some things, and indeed the signal was poor on your side. Little Junior Brother, don’t leave the courtyard, find a corner to observe covertly.”
“Senior Brother, what is Baihe Boy doing? Isn’t he supposed to be exorcising demons? Why doesn’t he go in, instead dancing in the courtyard?”
“This is called taking the starlight steps, similar to the ghostly patrol seen outside Ghost Gate—he’s summoning divine descent, preparing to kill the ghost!”
“Is there truly a ghost?”
“I see the traces in the Liu Family don’t seem to be the work of demons; rather it appears human-made.”
Li Xiaobai asked doubtfully.
“Of course there are ghosts; the Netherworld is full of them. All the beings you saw entering the gate are spirits, including the Asura King and the King of Underworld. From what I see, this isn’t a mere scandal but a kind of conspiracy vortex; don’t get involved.”
Yang Chen reminded, although Baihe Boy hadn’t shown malice, it didn’t mean he was a good person; the reason for accompanying him was inescapability, never fostering the idea of lending a hand.
This is the Netherworld; nothing and no one should be trusted lightly, or there will be consequences.
Li Xiaobai nodded, hiding behind a large rock, silently observing the changes in the scene.
Baihe Boy continued to dance, very engrossed, as he got closer, a sudden mournful howling erupted from the lit room, a black smoke flew out, forming the shape of a woman, quickly escaping past Baihe.
Baihe Boy ignored it entirely, continuing his meticulous starlight steps, and the woman scatteringly turned into smoke and began to burn in the air.
“The evils within the mansion couldn’t hold; what came out just now was ghost qi, very dense, embodying human form contained equivalent energy to a normal person, enough to confuse a Netherworld Messenger.”
“To casually release ghost qi of this magnitude, the Liu Family’s evil spirits are formidable.”
Yang Chen said with a serious tone; such quality and quantity of ghost qi isn’t something a mere little ghost can possess. What resides on the Liu Family daughter-in-law is likely a ghost king-level evil spirit.
Li Xiaobai: “The evil spirits can’t hold; if they have dealings with the Netherworld officials, someone by now should have stepped in to stop it.”
Just as he spoke.
Another black shadow flew out from the house, like a bat, forming a chain of order in mid-air, stabbing towards Baihe Boy, aiming to pierce him. It was Black Impermanence, always guarding the Liu Family Mansion.
In the darkness, a black and white shadow confronted each other; Black Impermanence threw countless chains, each chain sparkling with eerie brilliance, deathly gray breath pervasive. Baihe Boy calmly and unhurriedly avoided all the gray chains with a hair’s breadth during his starlight step.
At the same time, those gray breaths floated, agitated, blazing flames ablaze, burning countless souls’ terrified faces.
“Three sticks of daylight incense on the head, disperse the fog to reveal Yin and Yang!”
“Baihe Boy moved with murderous intent; today Black Impermanence is likely to fall.”