Chapter 1732: Chapter 1763: Baihe Effect
Li Xiaobai was at a loss for words; he couldn’t count on his fourth senior brother and was contemplating an opportunity to escape.
A sudden sound of suona blared out, echoing across the heavens and the earth.
The piercing, loud music overwhelmed the senses, and the nearby underworld agents’ bodies trembled violently, showing signs of collapsing.
This instrument was specifically aimed at underworld cultivators; when the suona played, ghosts and monsters were terrified.
Accompanying it was the deafening sound of marching; only a well-trained team could produce such an effect. A unit was approaching the Liu family, either from the Asura King Lineage or the King of Underworld Lineage.
Baihe Boy was undisturbed, his figure blending into the darkness of the house. In just a few breaths, he would reach the side room where Granny Liu was.
More black ghostly aura seeped out from the flickering candle-lit window, not resulting from an evil entity trying to escape using the Blinding Technique, but from an aura dispersed due to increasing pressure.
The closer Baihe got, the more the ghost fetus in the Liu family’s daughter-in-law’s belly began to collapse.
“Prince, save me!”
“The Netherworld’s Supreme Deity is slaughtering the innocent, King of the Underworld, please do justice for this old woman!”
Granny Liu’s piercing screams resonated through the Liu Family Mansion, and the sound of the suona became clearer as footsteps approached swiftly. Outside the mansion, a large group of underworld agents was quickly arriving.
Amidst the crowd, a jet-black sedan chair was particularly conspicuous.
The top of the chair bore the character “Yama,” and it was carried by four burly men, led by an extraordinary individual.
Cowering in the corner, Black Impermanence rolled and crawled towards the entourage, looking as if he had encountered a savior.
“Lord of the Underworld, Baihe disregards the principles and has started killing!”
“Please, Five Emperor Lord of the Underworld, take action, and suppress him!”
Black Impermanence didn’t dare approach the sedan chair, stopping in front of the five carrying it, speaking weakly.
“Lord Impermanence, you’ve suffered; quickly step aside and rest. Leave the upheaval at the Liu family to us brothers!”
The leading man’s face flushed; his eyes bulging like copper bells, and with fan-sized palms, he pushed Black Impermanence aside, commanding the large troop to advance into the Liu Family Mansion!
Li Xiaobai quietly observed; each of the five men carrying the sedan had faces painted with different colors. The lead man had a red face, the two in front of the sedan had black and green faces, respectively, and the two behind had green and yellow faces.
As for the underworld agents, they seemed no different from those in Liu Dalang’s yamen.
The one sitting in the sedan chair was the King of Underworld himself, and this team was his personal guard. It was uncertain if Baihe Boy could withstand such a formidable army.
“Lord Baihe, causing turmoil at Ghost Gate and slaughtering the innocent, what is your intent?”
The red-faced man roared furiously, his fierce words cracking like thunder at Li Xiaobai’s ears, making his head buzz.
Baihe Boy ignored it and continued to slowly but steadily approach the Liu family’s daughter-in-law. He had already reached the loft, now only separated by a wall.
“Attack!”
The red-faced man roared, his hands turning into fiery blades, slashing down at the loft, splitting it in an instant, precisely separating Baihe Boy from the Liu family’s daughter-in-law.
“Swift!”
The green-faced man spread his arms, transforming into a bat, swiftly charging at the now-exposed Baihe Boy.
“Apologies, Supreme Deity, your disruption at Ghost Gate angered King of Underworld, leaving me no choice but to strike!”
The Green-winged Bat shrieked sharply, its wings rolling as they enveloped him in dense corpse qi.
Baihe Boy landed as if unaffected by the incoming attack, continuing to walk toward the room where the Liu family’s daughter-in-law was, and the bat swooping down from above was suddenly hit by a stroke of pitch-black ghostly aura, wailing as it tumbled dozens of meters away.
That was the ghostly aura erupting from the ghost fetus in the Liu family’s daughter-in-law’s womb. As Baihe began treading the unique steps, the ghost fetus started to collapse, and one of its collapsing auras coincidentally hit the green-faced man.
“Fourth Brother, what’s wrong with you, eyes not checking the surroundings?”
“Don’t lose your head, Baihe isn’t a simple character to suppress.”
The sedan bearers looked at the green-faced man’s sorry state with some anger.
“Be cautious; our brothers will act together to take him down!”
The red-faced man casually unleashed two blazing blades while cautiously advancing, aiming to strike when Baihe exposed a flaw. Yet, before they could approach Baihe Boy, several ghostly auras shooting out from the window extinguished them.
“This…”
The five were at a loss—the fetus’s ghostly aura was that powerful?
Moreover, it coincidentally neutralized their attack.
Could it be luck?
“Continue, pay more attention to the ghostly aura shooting out from inside the window.”
The five spread out into formation, pressing towards Baihe Boy in a semi-circular manner.
Baihe paid no mind, treading his unique steps diligently, getting closer to the Liu family’s daughter-in-law’s room.
“Fire Buddha!”
The red face clapped his hands together with a roaring shout. From underground, massive fiery hands shot up, the wrists twisting fiercely to smash Baihe Boy into paste.
Meanwhile, the yellow-faced man punched the ground, with the soil beneath Baihe’s feet twisting, an earthen giant hand emerging and gripping him.
Baihe Boy was enveloped in the earthen giant hand as the converging fiery palm and the earthen hand collided, setting off a terrifying wave that the underworld agents retreated from, unable to withstand such a shock.
The giant stone in front of Li Xiaobai was turned into dust by the shockwave at that moment.
“Damn, when gods fight, it’s the spectators who suffer.”
Li Xiaobai took off running, fleeing to a further corner, surrounded by underworld agents outside. He could only hope that Baihe Boy could hold everything down.
In the scene.
As the dust settled, Baihe Boy emerged unscathed, methodically advancing on the ghost fetus, from which more ghostly aura poured out, subtly accompanied by a wail.
“Fifth Brother, what in the world are you doing? I was attacking, and without your interference, he’d at least be seriously injured!”
The red-faced man was furious. His Fire Buddha and the yellow-faced man’s rock hand had collided and canceled each other out, creating much commotion, but Baihe Boy remained unharmed.
“Big Brother, how was I to know you would also attack? At this range, my rock hand was most suitable; this guy is too cunning!”
The yellow-faced man grimaced. His decisive strike was turned into an embarrassing mistake, leaving him somewhat ashamed.
“Don’t worry about that, just a minor hiccup. With the King of Underworld overseeing, we brothers just need to strike at will.”
The black-faced man, shrouded in surging ghost qi, flickered, rushing out, slamming his hands fiercely at Baihe Boy’s head. The other four followed closely, attacking from all sides to block any retreat.
Baihe appeared undefended. Just as they were about to touch his body, the room within the loft suddenly burst with countless ghostly auras, flowing like a river, once again sending the five flying away.
“What’s going on?”
“Another coincidence?”
“But aren’t there too many coincidences?”
The Five Emperor Lord of the Underworld finally sensed something amiss. The ghost fetus couldn’t possibly be assisting Baihe Boy against them, so why was it that the emitted ghostly aura repeatedly blocked their actions?
“Stand down!”
“You’re not his match.”
The sedan chair in front of the mansion shattered into pieces, a graceful figure walking through the air, eyes void of any emotion.
“I’ve always just heard of it but never thought it truly existed—is this the Baihe Effect?”
“A brother had a son born yesterday, congratulations are due. I just happen to be writing a plot about childbirth lately, and though this child isn’t that child, it still makes for a wonderful story.”