Chapter 18: Your Territory, I'm in Charge (Part 1)

  The moon sets, the crow caws, and frost fills the sky.

  Yunyang Town was shrouded in a cold and dark silence, except for the occasional howling of the night wind, as if all things had fallen into a deep sleep.

  Only the old man who kept watch at night was knocking on the wooden clapper, walking alone on the deserted street, his hoarse voice echoing far away in the night sky: "All is well——"

  Suddenly, his shouting paused, and he was puzzled to find that three white lanterns were rising from the Hongfu Inn. The lampshades were painted with many colorful strange things, which made people feel eerie in the dark night.

  Perhaps it was just an illusion, but in the low sky, one after another, large black birds that had never been seen before flew by, disappearing behind the walls of the Hongfu Inn.

  The old man couldn't help but rub his dim eyes with force, and suddenly heard a charming woman's voice beside him say: "Old sir, it's late at night, why haven't you gone to sleep yet?"

  The old man was greatly surprised and hastily turned his head to look in the direction of the sound.

  Under the dim moonlight, a slender woman in yellow stood on the street, smiling brightly at him.

  The old man took a deep breath, subconsciously retreated two steps, swallowed his saliva and asked in a loud voice: "Little girl, are you human or ghost?"

  The woman in yellow smiled and said: "I am not a ghost, nor am I human. I am... a demon!"

  Before her words had fallen, two clusters of emerald flames suddenly burst out from her deep and black eyes, firmly fixing the old man.

  The old man's face was twisted in terror, his mouth open to its widest but unable to utter a sound. In an instant, dark black blood seeped out from his eyes, nostrils, ears and mouth, his body like a lifeless skeleton collapsing limply to the ground.

  The yellow-clad woman's eyes gradually faded, and she casually combed her hair, which was blown by the night wind, and walked elegantly to the door of Hongfu Inn.

  The door creaked open, and a man in black stood inside the door, bowing respectfully to the woman in yellow: "Reporting to Master Huang Wu, the brother ahead has made contact with Master Yi Wu, everything is going smoothly."

  The woman in yellow clothes raised her head carelessly and glanced at the three Kongming lanterns floating above the inn, slightly furrowing her brow: "Where is Leng Wu's master? Why does he always like to fall behind every time he works, but when it comes to climbing onto my bed, he's always the fastest?"

  Suddenly, a cold and low hum came from the depths of darkness: "I've been here for a long time." A thin black-robed monk with two swords on his back slowly stepped out, slightly angry, saying: "When did I ever get into your bed, Huang Si Niang? You'd better not spout nonsense!"

  Huang Si Niang chuckled and grasped the arm of the black-robed monk, saying intimately: "Leng He Shang, why don't we borrow a piece of land from Lao Yi tonight and let me break your invincible Tong Zi Gong?"

  The two of them walked together in low voices, with their arms around each other, and came to the cross courtyard where Xiao Si and others were spending the night.

  In front of the temple gate, more than a dozen companions from the Twelve Linked Ring Fort were already standing. One of them, a burly man in red robes, glanced at Huang Si Niang's small hand hooked on Leng Qing's arm and grumbled discontentedly: "Stop being so affectionate here, you're delaying important matters. You all know about Master Lan's temper."

  Huang Si Niang tightened her grip on Leng Heshang's arm and said with a smirk, "Lei Zhenzi, who are you trying to scare? I've been on Master Lan's bed before."

  Cold Monk asked: "Strange, why didn't we see a single night watchman who understands the signal all the way here?"

  At this time, a young man dressed as a shopkeeper standing beside Leizhenzi said: "Report to Lord Lengwu, those sentries have all been cleared by Yiwu Master one step ahead."

  "Huang Si Niang said: 'Not bad, Old Yi has finally learned how to get things done.'"

  She let go of Cold and walked up to the young shopkeeper, reached out to pinch his cheek and said: "Young man, you're brave and clever, why don't you follow me?"

  The shopkeeper hastily retreated two steps to avoid Huang Si's hand and hid behind Lei Zhenzi, saying: "Master Yi has gone to the backyard to deal with some trivial matters and should be back soon."

  "Wait no more!" Lei Zhenzi grunted, seemingly directing his anger more towards Huang Siniang.

  He snapped his fingers, and two bright red fireballs shot out from his fingertips, "popping" through the windows of Xiao Si's and Wan'er's rooms, entering the house.

  "Boom——" Two earth-shaking explosions shattered the tranquility of Yunyang Town's night sky.

  Two dazzling red lights burst out of the house like a surging tide, rolling with swirling black smoke and shooting straight up into the sky.

  Doors and windows were shattered by the powerful blast, walls cracked like a spider web, the entire roof was blown off like a startled night bird, debris flew everywhere and smoke filled the air.

  The cries of killing erupted around him, and the twelve linked ring killers in other courtyards also launched a surprise attack.

  "Hahaha——" Behind Leizhenzi, a row of bow and arrow hands had been waiting to be released. Thousands of poisonous feather arrows shot into the house like a swarm of locusts, filling the thousands of holes in the shaky and about-to-collapse building.

  The monk suddenly raised his eyebrows and said, "No!"

  He heard wails and cries coming from all directions, but most of them seemed to be his own people.

  Lei Zhenzi stepped into the left room without a word, took a glance around the room, waved away the gunpowder smell and dust in the air, and shouted: "The house is empty!"

  Huang Si Niang turned her head and asked the shopkeeper: "Where's Yi Bo? Didn't he say that Chu Lie and Yu Linglong were already asleep?"

  Who would have thought that the shopkeeper took advantage of everyone's attention being focused on the house being bombed, and quietly slipped out of the courtyard.

  "Not good, I've been deceived!" Huang Si Niang's eyebrows condensed with a fierce aura, and from her sleeves suddenly shot out two colorful streams of flowers.

  Thousands of petals in a riot of colors gathered together, like two five-colored dragons pouncing on the shopkeeper, was her secretly refined ultimate poisonous technique "Man Creek Flower" after more than 40 years.

  That shop Xiao Er was actually Chai Shao in disguise, seeing two bundles of dazzling light coming over, the air filled with floral fragrance and floating pink mist, he immediately knew it was poisonous.

  He held his breath and didn't dare to harden, quickly pulling out a talisman from his sleeve, without needing to ignite it, the pure yang true energy in his palm burst forth, "whoosh" the talisman paper ignited and scattered into the air, transforming into a swirling white light.

  Only to see Huang Siniang's two streams of Man Creek flowers flowing endlessly like a mud cow entering the sea, merging into the white light. In an instant, the white light changed color constantly, and five-colored six-colored speckled lights emerged, but like an iron wall copper wall, it firmly guarded in front of Chai Shao, blocking the advance of Man Creek flowers.

  Lenghe Shang suddenly let out a loud whistle and leapt up, the twin swords behind him flying in intersecting arcs as he pounced on Chai Shao.

  But just as he was about to step over the gate, the space around him suddenly fluctuated for no reason, and it felt like being in a turbulent sea.

  Lenghe Shang was shocked to see that the distance between himself and the courtyard gate was rapidly increasing due to some kind of invisible force, and Chai Shao became even more unreachable. At the same time, the surrounding scenery suddenly blurred, and a cluster of eerie and dazzling flames emerged from nowhere.

  Two of the Twelve-Linked Rings' smaller heads were slightly careless and were swept away by Guangying, immediately bursting into flames and letting out a mournful howl as they frantically rolled around on the ground to put out the fire.

  "Damn it, isn't this the 'Kongming Liyan Formation' of Bozhouzi?" Leizhenzi's face twisted in a fierce grimace as he leapt out of the room on the verge of collapse, shouting: "How could it be like this!"

  Huang Si Niang's face turned pale, and Lei Zhenzi's voice was loud, but it seemed to come from afar, echoing eerily in her ears.

  She gritted her teeth and said, "Someone has broken through the Qimen Dunjia formation of Bu Suanzi! The wind is tight and the call is urgent!" She put away the Man Creek Flower and pulled out a pair of Fen Shui Emei Stabs, rushing towards the direction of the backyard.

  Surrounded by raging flames, the scene was desolate and confusing. She could no longer see clearly with her naked eye, so she had to stretch out her spiritual awareness with all her might. Relying on a woman's unique intuition, she sensed that there was still a faintly discernible gap in the seal array to her left front.

  The people around her had all disappeared, and a chill that she hadn't felt in years surged up from the bottom of Huang Siniang's heart.

  She could hear the angry roars of Lei Zhengzi, Leng He Shang and others, as well as the boiling shouts and screams of killing in the entire inn, but she couldn't see the figures of these people at all.

  She rushed out of the side gate of the courtyard, and suddenly everything became quiet.

  In front of me was a long corridor by the water, with fourteen lanterns emitting a hazy glow in the dark night.

  Huang Si Niang's face turned increasingly unsightly, it was too quiet here, as if it were another world far away from the guest house.

  She waited and waited, but neither did she see the enemy appear nor Cold Peak and Lei Zhengzi catch up.

  "Seven stars tread on the moon, four images lock the sun." Huang Si Niang stared at the long corridor, hesitating several times before daring to step in.

  Before tonight's raid, Bu Suanzi, one of the Twelve Ring Fortresses, had already revealed to Huang Si Niang and others the various formations he had set up in the Hongfu Inn. Therefore, she was very clear that once this long corridor was launched, it would mean something.

  She didn't need to worry about these things, because whether it was the Seven Stars Stepping on the Moon or the Four Symbols Locking the Sun, all sorts of changes were clear in her mind. However, in the opponent's camp, there was clearly a master of the mysterious gate who was not inferior to Bozhanzi, and he quietly moved the old blind man's proud Empty Ming Liuyan Array, replacing it with a new one without leaving any traces.

  Huang Si Niang didn't believe it, this long corridor's formation would remain intact.

  She couldn't help but turn her head and gaze at the open side door, behind which was an unusually calm darkness.

  Huang Si Niang gripped the Fen Shui E Mei dagger tightly in her hand, feeling cold sweat on her palm, and hesitated to say: "Why don't I return to Kua Yuan to devise a plan with Leng He Shang and Lei Zhen Zi? It's better than fighting alone here."

  But the thought only flashed through her mind, and she steeled herself to think: "These two are ruthless and cunning, it's hard to guarantee they won't use me as a scapegoat. Rather than relying on them, I'd rather take a gamble - if luck is on my side, once I pass this long corridor, I'll be able to find the exit from the inn!"

  She slowly adjusted her breath and walked step by step towards the corridor by the water.

  One step, two steps, three steps...

  Huang Si Niang felt her heart was already in her throat. She wasn't one to be timid or afraid of death, and she had always been the type to kill without batting an eye.

  But she was very aware of Bozhan's cruel means, and the strange door hiding array he laid out had always been a dead end.

  Unconsciously, Huang Si Niang had already walked nearly half of the long corridor, and still nothing happened.

  She suddenly remembered something and swiftly flew towards the end of the corridor like a whirlwind!

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