"Damn it! Is this your reason for harming an innocent fetus? Just for fun?"
Chen Xiao's eyes blazed with anger, almost spitting out from his sockets.
"Otherwise? I was just bored anyway. My work here is quite monotonous, so why not find something to do?"
Abe Bu Liang shrugged, saying indifferently.
"What is your work here?"
Chen Xiao's pupils constricted.
What Abe Bu Liang's purpose was in coming to Jiangcheng from afar was the main point for Chen Xiao.
"My work is just..."
Abe Bu Liang stopped mid-sentence, then chuckled, "Why should I tell you? You're just my captive now. If anyone should be asking questions, it should be me!"
"I'm asking you, why did you buy out the entire Shanhai Yipin? What is your objective?"
Abe Bu Liang suddenly demanded sternly.
"I think you've got something wrong."
Chen Xiao sneered, "I've never been your captive!"
"A mere small formation can trap a Nascent Soul cultivator, but it can't trap me!"
With that, Chen Xiao struggled slightly, and the chains binding him clattered and fell apart. They whipped towards the little ghosts, making them yelp in pain.
The little ghosts were still defiant and tried to grab the chains to re-bind Chen Xiao.
Chen Xiao had also had enough. He formed his fingers into a sword, and a flame appeared on his fingertip.
He lightly touched one end of the chains with his fingertip, and the flame snaked along the chains.
It burned all the way to the end, reaching the little ghosts. They didn't let go.
Their stubbornness resulted in them all being burned into small paper figures.
This so-called formation was also realized through Shikigami.
It seemed the Onmyoji only had these tricks!
However, Abe Bu Liang was not overly surprised. He merely said calmly, "Oh? It seems I underestimated your strength."
Then he licked his lips and smiled sinisterly.
"Things are starting to get interesting..."
Chen Xiao looked at him calmly, "You still have a final chance. Honestly tell me what you're doing here, and I might consider letting you live."
"Hahahaha, what kind of foolish talk are you spouting? You haven't seen my true power!"
Saying this, Abe Bu Liang gritted his teeth, his expression suddenly turning somewhat pained, and a hint of ferocity appeared on his face.
Immediately after, his fair face became covered with several dark markings, like tattoos, or as if drawn with a brush.
These dark markings started from his forehead, extending down to his neck, and even his slender fingers bore the dark patterns.
This meant that these dark markings had spread all over his body.
"Master, what is that?"
Gu Yu Tong asked with a frown, "I feel a very evil aura from it."
Originally, Abe Bu Liang, like those Shikigami, had almost no discernible aura. However, after the dark markings appeared, his entire being suddenly exuded an evil presence.
Chen Xiao also noticed this, but he wasn't entirely sure what it was, and his divine sense couldn't detect it at all.
"I'm not too sure either. Let's observe for now!"
Chen Xiao narrowed his eyes and said faintly.
At this moment, Abe Bu Liang bit his finger, and a blood, so dark it was almost black, oozed from his fingertip.
Swish, swish, swish—
After a dazzling display of movements, Abe Bu Liang used the dark red blood to draw a tadpole-like curse seal on the ground.
"Eclipse. Night Demon Sky Cover!"
Abe Bu Liang chanted, and with a palm strike, he pressed down on the tadpole-like curse seal.
Immediately, the scenery around Chen Xiao and Gu Yu Tong began to change rapidly.
From a room to a road, from a road to a mountain, from a mountain to a lake, from a lake to a grassland, from a grassland to a snow-capped mountain...
Space shifted constantly, time flew by.
When everything settled and the spatial flow stopped, Chen Xiao and Gu Yu Tong found themselves in a dark night space.
The ground looked like a void of black shadows, but stepping on it felt as solid as walking on solid ground.
Looking around, it was a starlit night sky, like a giant, dark blue gem, but there was no moon.
"Wow, Master, it's so beautiful!"
Looking at the night sky, as magnificent as a sapphire, Gu Yu Tong's first reaction was not fear, but rather that it was beautiful and romantic.
Of course, it was romantic because her Master was by her side.
This space appeared vast and boundless, entirely covered by the night sky, but Chen Xiao knew that the entire space was not even as large as a football field.
This was because the range covered by his divine sense was the size of a football field.
And this entire space was fully covered by his divine sense.
However, this space was isolated from the outside world; Chen Xiao's divine sense could not reach what was beyond it.
"Beautiful? Little girl, next, I'll show you what terror is!"
Abe Bu Liang formed seals again.
"Eclipse. Hundred Ghosts Night Parade!"
With a roar, Abe Bu Liang scattered a thick stack of white paper figures on the ground.
These white paper figures were all Shikigami. When they landed, they transformed into all sorts of demons and monsters.
Some had green faces and fangs, some were as strong as mountains, some held their heads in their hands, some flew in the sky, and some burrowed underground... In short, they were strange, bizarre, and countless.
It was called the Hundred Ghosts Night Parade, but Chen Xiao looked around and saw that the number of monsters here was far more than a hundred.
Instantly, a chilling and terrifying aura filled the entire space.
They let out fearful shrieks, and with great momentum, they moved towards Chen Xiao and Gu Yu Tong.
Gu Yu Tong, frightened, grabbed Chen Xiao's arm, her teeth chattering.
The scene before her made her feel as if she were in hell.
"What, scared? Doesn't it look beautiful anymore?"
Chen Xiao teased.
"I'm not scared! It's just that they're too ugly, I'm repulsed by their ugliness!"
To avoid being looked down upon by her Master, Gu Yu Tong shook her little head, her face full of disdain.
Chen Xiao was taken aback. Indeed, in the eyes of women, appearance was justice.
"Leave these little monsters to you. Consider it your after-class practice for today!"
Chen Xiao said casually.
Although the Hundred Ghosts Night Parade looked terrifying and had a grand momentum, their actual strength was not that great.
Therefore, Chen Xiao decided to let Gu Yu Tong practice, to see if she had learned what he had taught her that morning.
"Yes, Master!"
Gu Yu Tong nodded seriously, like an obedient student.
Then, she formed hand seals, chanted words, and a flowing white spiritual energy, shimmering with light, enveloped her fingertips.
Pushing out her hand seals, Gu Yu Tong's sharp gaze fixed upon the hundred ghosts!