Shi Jian watched as the other party found a suitable candidate. He then took Li Xuyan to find an inn in Longquan Town, where they temporarily settled down.
In the blink of an eye, night fell.
"Master, it's so late, why aren't you sleeping?"
Li Xuyan, holding a pillow, slowly walked to Shi Jian's side.
Having grown up on the streets, this was his first time sleeping in a room, and he was so happy that he couldn't fall asleep.
"We killed the Miao疆蛊虫, the witch doctor will definitely come for revenge tonight."
"In the future, you need to learn more experience from me if you want to survive."
Shi Jian patiently explained to Li Xuyan and imparted some of his experience.
"Master..."
Li Xuyan was about to speak when he stopped abruptly, turning to look out the window.
"Master, the蛊虫 are here."
"Speak of the devil, and it appears!"
"I didn't expect the witch doctor to find us so quickly. It seems things aren't going smoothly with the monk."
Shi Jian stood up, his body entwined with blue and white lightning, staring at the window outside.
After a few seconds, a slight movement was heard outside the window, and then a ghastly figure appeared before the two of them.
The ghastly figure twisted its head, grabbed the wooden window with its stiff limbs, its eyes presenting white instead of black.
This sight was quite chilling in the night.
"Corpse蛊, it seems the Miao疆 witch doctor has spared no expense to deal with us, master and disciple."
Shi Jian, looking at the corpse infected by the蛊, did not panic too much.
How many times had he encountered Miao疆蛊 poisons?
He had encountered love蛊, soul-devouring蛊, and poison蛊 at least three or four times each.
However, Miao疆蛊 poisons were troublesome to deal with. Currently, only lightning techniques could eradicate the蛊虫; other methods were unknown.
There was also no known way to break the蛊 poison, only the witch doctor himself knew.
In Maoshan, only records of Miao疆蛊 poisons and the methods Taoist priests used to deal with them were documented.
Corpse蛊 was relatively rare among the various蛊 poisons. Typically, a witch doctor would control a mother蛊 to command the other offspring蛊.
Moreover, Corpse蛊 primarily consumed the brains of living people or entered corpses to achieve control.
"Xuyan, you stand back a bit."
Shi Jian dared not use his lightning techniques indiscriminately in the inn. If he wasn't careful, a large hole would be blasted through the inn.
In that case, he would have to pay compensation to the innkeeper.
Losing money was truly too much of a loss.
"Master, be careful."
Li Xuyan hid in the corner, looking at the ghastly figure outside the window with a calm expression.
The蛊尸 crawled in through the window and quickly lunged at Shi Jian.
"Rushing to your death so eagerly, then this humble Taoist will reluctantly take your head."
Shi Jian dodged the蛊尸's pounce, grabbed its leg, and blue and white lightning surged from his hand, spreading throughout the corpse's body.
After a few seconds, the蛊尸 spat out a mass of black gas from its mouth, and then its body, along with the Corpse蛊, turned to ashes.
"I thought it was a mother蛊, but I didn't expect them to send an offspring蛊 to deal with me."
"Bringing out such a low-level蛊 poison to embarrass themselves, who do they think they are looking down on?"
Having dealt with the蛊尸, Shi Jian lay down on the bed to rest.
However, not long after, cries of agony echoed through the inn.
"Master, there are so many蛊虫 in the inn."
Hearing Li Xuyan's words, Shi Jian shot up and looked at him.
"The Yin-Yang Eyes are so miraculous, able to see the蛊虫 from this far away."
Shi Jian took Li Xuyan out of the room and onto the inn's corridor.
"Wow, so many蛊尸, did we stumble upon a nest of蛊?"
He looked at the inn filled with蛊尸, and using the Tongtian Lu, he drew several lightning divine rune talismans, bombarding the nearby蛊尸.
Upon contact with the lightning divine runes, the蛊尸 were instantly blasted into ashes.
"Daoist, save me!"
A wealthy gentleman was bitten by a蛊尸 and kept calling for help to Shi Jian on the upper floor.
"Beast, take my Lightning Flash Thunderbolt Fist."
Shi Jian gathered white lightning in both hands and blasted it towards the蛊尸 below.
The next moment, the蛊尸 turned to ashes and scattered within the ancestral hall.
The wealthy gentleman, who had been bitten by the蛊尸, had several corpse蛊 appearing on his neck, crawling into the man's body through the wound.
"Help!"
"Xuyan, you stay upstairs first, I'll go deal with those蛊尸."
Shi Jian leaped from the second floor of the inn and landed in front of the man. He used two fingers to pull out three corpse蛊 and then eradicated them with lightning techniques.
"Thank you, thank you, Daoist, for saving my life."
The wealthy gentleman, having narrowly escaped death, cupped his hands in gratitude to Shi Jian.
"Don't dawdle, hurry to the second floor."
Shi Jian, his body radiating blue and white lightning, charged towards the other蛊尸.
Among them, some did not have time to be treated and had their brains consumed by a large number of corpse蛊, turning them into a蛊尸 themselves.
"Why are there so many蛊尸? Shouldn't most of them be with the monk?"
Some蛊尸 spat out corpse蛊 from their mouths, trying to control Shi Jian with them.
As soon as the corpse蛊 approached his body, they were directly electrocuted into dried蛊 by the blue and white lightning, becoming a great tonic.
"Oh, you dare to ambush me again? Today, I'll turn you into dried蛊."
Shi Jian gathered lightning in his hands and continuously bombarded the inn's蛊尸.
A few minutes later, the蛊尸 in the inn were wiped out.
"Master, be careful, there's a蛊尸 behind you."
Li Xuyan, standing on the second floor, shouted loudly to Shi Jian below.
"There's still a蛊尸?"
Just as the蛊尸 was about to bite Shi Jian, a purple lightning bolt appeared on his body, repelling the蛊尸.
"Fighting fair and square is better than ambushing here."
"There's no other way, I can only let you taste another kind of lightning technique."
A flash of purple lightning passed, and the last蛊尸 was completely eliminated, restoring peace to the inn.
The people hiding in the dark saw that the蛊尸 had been eliminated and emerged from the cabinets, looking disheveled.
"They're finally eliminated. What kind of monsters are these? Why do they bite anyone they catch?"
A few timid individuals had already been scared to the point of urinating by the蛊尸, trembling uncontrollably.
Clearly, the previous group of蛊尸 had caused them considerable psychological trauma.
"What sin has our Longquan Town committed to attract such a group of half-human, half-ghost creatures? This is truly unlucky."
The outsiders did not want to linger in the inn and fled outside, fearing that the蛊尸 would return.
"If you don't want to die, don't run around. If I'm not mistaken, there are even more蛊尸 outside than inside the inn."
"It's over. There are still those ghastly things outside. We can't go back now."
The outsiders who had wanted to leave the inn immediately stopped in their tracks and returned to the inn.
"What exactly happened in Longquan Town? Why did you provoke the people of Miao疆?"
Shi Jian looked at the people in front of him and asked the questions in his heart.