Chapter 17: The Family of Onmyodo

  I stood at the entrance of the stairs, gazing at the entire passageway filled with murderous aura, and spoke in a cold tone: "Why are you impersonating Mr. Zhuo?"

  My voice wasn't very loud, but it still echoed in the secret passage. I closed my eyes and relied solely on my intuition to observe the situation below.

  Below is still a piece of evil spirit lingering around, I saw a shadow slowly moving in the evil spirit, and I recognized that person was the one who disguised as Mr. Zhuo.

  He heard what I said and didn't stop in his tracks, but continued walking forward at a steady pace.

  I snorted coldly, thinking that he must be trying to lure me down, and continued to stand at the entrance shouting: "Your scheme has been seen through by me!"

  That figure paused for a moment, and then a yellow thing flew out of the secret passage. I caught that yellow thing in one hand, only to find it was a human skin mask.

  "Who are you?!" I roared, with a rather ominous premonition in my heart.

  That person chuckled and stopped at the bottom of the secret passage, his voice full of disdain: "Who I am, you'll know when you come down."

  "Where is Mr. Zhuo?!" My emotions were somewhat out of control, and I was itching to rush down and punch that person hard.

  That person's tone of disdain was even more apparent as he said: "Why didn't you just come down and ask me?"

  I know that if I don't go down, this person will definitely not tell me what happened, but the key is that I don't even know when this person and Mr. Zhuo switched places, nor do I know what's below, so I can't easily go down.

  My mind was racing back to when I last parted ways with Mr. Zhuo.

  Mr. Zhuo and I were together when we eliminated the female ghost. Afterwards, Mr. Zhuo lay on the bed to rest, while I unknowingly fell asleep for a while.

  Was it at that time?

  I snorted coldly and felt that this kind of sneaky person wouldn't hurt me, besides my Heavenly Eye didn't see anything suspicious.

  Just as I was letting my guard down, the sky eye suddenly closed, and a clear picture emerged in my mind, the content of which is about the secret passage below.

  Inside the stone gate below the secret passage, Mr. Zhuo sat calmly and unhurriedly, talking to a group of men wearing black Taoist robes.

  Those men were obviously very nervous, with smiles on their faces but constantly being on guard against Mr. Zhuo.

  I suddenly realized something and took a few strides to his side. All I could see was his dark brown short hair, nothing else.

  "My voice was icy as I said: 'Mr. Zhuo is behind this stone gate!'"

  The brown-haired man looked surprised, staring into my eyes and said: "Does your eyes have the ability to see through? That's really convenient..." As he spoke, a hint of an inexplicable smile flashed across his face.

  I don't want to say anything more to him. Looking at the stone 'door' surrounded by a suffocating aura, I asked: "What kind of people are you? Why did you kidnap Mr. Zhuo?"

  A figure flashed in my mind, a group of people wearing black Taoist robes. I remembered that Ano was also wearing a black Taoist robe before, and asked: "You guys shouldn't be the Yin Yang Master family, right?"

  The brown-haired man said in greater surprise: "Your eyes can not only see through but also predict our identities?"

  "You tell me first, what does your Yin-Yang Master family want to do?" I'm too lazy to talk to him, always feeling that communicating with this person is not easy.

  The brown-haired man spread his hands and said with a sly expression: "What's up? You'll know once you go in, won't you?"

  I really wanted to punch him in the face, but I finally restrained myself and stretched out my hand to push against the stone gate.

  But Shi 'door' was as if rooted to the ground, unable to move at all.

  I glared at the brown-haired man in anger and said, "What kind of trick are you playing?"

  The brown-haired man smiled helplessly, lightly drew a formation on the stone gate, and muttered an incantation. The stone gate then opened with a loud "rumble".

  The men who were sitting in the house and talking to Mr. Zhuo suddenly turned their heads towards me, with eyes that were both suspicious and surprised.

  A brown-haired man grinned and waved at the people inside the house, saying "Hey! I've brought Han Dong here!"

  Everyone's mouth twitched slightly, and the man who was in charge slammed his hand on the table and stood up, saying: "He Yun, who allowed you to bring him here!"

  The brown-haired man called He Yun rubbed his head and smiled apologetically: "Ano asked me to bring it over."

  The leading man was obviously infuriated, his face turned iron-green, and he let He Yun back down, still muttering that he must make Anuo look good.

  I stood there, expecting a big battle, but it turned out to be a farce. I was left standing there awkwardly, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

  Mr. Zhuo smiled and waved at me, signaling me to go over.

  I had just stood firm beside Mr. Zhuo when the man who was the leader of the Yin Yang masters spoke again, "Mr. Zhuo, I hope you will consider what we have discussed."

  "No need, Mr. Chu." Mr. Zhuo flatly refused, "We've always been on opposite sides, I'm not used to suddenly cooperating."

  Mr. Chu is the title for the leader of the men.

  Although Mr. Zhuo was still quite polite to him, I understood that Mr. Chu couldn't beat Mr. Zhuo because when Mr. Chu heard that Mr. Zhuo had refused himself, his face turned iron-green and he didn't take any further action.

  I was puzzled, why such a powerful Mr. Zhuo would be injured by two extremely "yin" and "evil" female ghosts, nor did I understand why Mr. Zhuo would be kidnapped.

  It wasn't until later that I realized Mr. Zhuo's spiritual power would weaken on the 16th of every lunar month, and sometimes he couldn't even use simple magic spells.

  I calculated it, and the day those two female ghosts hurt Mr. Zhuo was indeed the 16th of the lunar calendar.

  Whether it's a Yin Yang Master or a breeder, they can't avoid becoming ordinary people on specific days of each month.

  At this moment, Mr. Zhuo has fully recovered his magical powers and even all the 'yin' yang masters here are no match for him.

  Mr. Chu continued to persuade Mr. Zhuo with some reluctance, but Mr. Zhuo just lowered his head and didn't speak, with a hint of impatience in his expression.

  "Mr. Zhuo! You wouldn't think that Han Dong will be considered an enemy by us in the future, would you? You should also know that Han Dong is not our opponent."

  Mr. Chu saw that he could not persuade Mr. Zhuo, so he switched to intimidation.

  Mr. Zhuo slowly stood up, shielding me behind him, his eyes coldly staring at Mr. Chu as he said word by word: "I call you Mr. Chu out of respect for you, we both know each other's strength, if you dare to move a single hair on Han Dong's head, I can make the 'Yin' Yang family extinct!"

  After finishing speaking, Mr. Zhuo swung his sleeves and was about to turn around and walk out of the room.

  All the 'yin' and yang masters in the house stood up, they quickly moved to the front of me and Mr. Zhuo, holding this talisman in their hands, staring at us two with piercing eyes.

  "It seems you really don't want a peaceful resolution!" Mr. Zhuo sneered, his hands beginning to form a seal.

  Several 'yin' yang masters seemed to know Mr. Zhuo's move in advance, scattered around him, muttering incantations, and the talismans in their arms flew out one by one, forming a wall of talismans around Mr. Zhuo's body.

  Mr. Zhuo seemed to be completely unbothered by all this, calmly and unhurriedly finishing his incantation, finally pointing his finger at the talisman wall, whereupon the talismans suddenly flew open in all directions.

  I was feeling proud of myself when I saw those people taking advantage of the talisman flying away and attacking Mr. Zhuo.

  And those talismans flew to their sides, actually covering their bodies! It turned out that the talisman wall was an obstacle they used earlier!

  However, Mr. Zhuo couldn't see the group of people at all and continued to attack with his hands clasped together in a seal.

  "Beware! They're all hiding behind the talismans!" Despite being unaware of why my Heavenly Eye had gained X-ray vision, I couldn't help but warn Mr. Zhuo.

  Mr. Zhuo heard what I said and immediately closed his eyes, saying to me: "Now remind me where those people are, and I'll attack!"

  "At a 45-degree angle on the left side, a man is going to attack with a talisman!" I said.

  Mr. Zhuo turned his head and waved his hand casually, and the man who was about to attack was struck by Mr. Zhuo and fell to the ground.

  "Right in front of him, a man is about to attack with his 'legs'!"

  Mr. Zhuo took a big step forward and punched the man's head, causing him to roll his eyes back and fall to the ground.

  Others who originally wanted to attack saw Mr. Zhuo continuously hit two people under my command and stopped, not daring to attack easily.

  Mr. Chu looked at me with a mixture of surprise and delight in his eyes, as if he was looking at a precious treasure.

  I moved towards Mr. Zhuo's position, and suddenly a black shadow blocked my way. Before I could react, "swish swish swish" talismans were stuck all over my body.

  I just wanted to say I'm not a monster, talismans don't work on me, but I feel those talismans burning!

  "You're despicable!" Mr. Zhuo exclaimed.

  It was then that I also saw clearly that it was Ano who had stuck the talisman on me!

  I glared at Arno wanting to speak, but my throat was blocked as if by something, and I couldn't make a sound.

  I feel like my body is getting hotter and hotter, and many ghosts are entwining around me and flying towards me!

  I saw one of the ghosts suddenly open its bloody big mouth and pounce on me!

  I wanted to shout but couldn't, I wanted to move but couldn't budge. The most tragic thing is that Mr. Zhuo can't see these ghosts at all!

  I closed my eyes, but the heavenly eye saw that the ghostly creature had bitten my arm and injected black poisonous liquid into my body!

  I feel like the blood in my body is surging non-stop, as if it's about to burst out of my skin!

  This feeling is unbearable, but it's still not over!

  Then countless ghosts and monsters bit into my body, as if they wanted to tear me apart and swallow me whole!

  My consciousness gradually became blurred and my brain started to get confused.

  There is only one thought in my mind, this time I am really going crazy