Chapter 30: A Family Should Be Neatly Together (Part 4)

But if he had to throw out his own peachwood greatsword or the sword rewarded by the mission, he could not bear to do it and was also afraid he would not be able to retrieve it.

After thinking for a moment, Chen Yi had an idea. He circulated the Light Spell and formed a white ball of light in his hand. After carefully feeling it out, he raised his hand and tossed it upward.

It missed.

The ball of light was like a New Year’s firework. After leaving his palm, it flew out with dazzling radiance, but soon burned out. At the final moment, it flew past the mother nest.

The ball of light scorched the mother nest’s blood cloud. The place the light passed through melted open, and for a long time it could not fill itself back in.

This method was clearly correct.

After the Light Spell’s level increased, it also gained the ability to exist briefly after leaving his hands.

With his current ability, using this kind of Light Spell a thousand or eight hundred times should be no problem.

Thud thud thud!!

Light suddenly appeared.

Then dimmed.

Light appeared again.

Then dimmed again.

Thud thud thud!!

The camera could not capture Chen Yi’s figure, nor could it capture the balls of light he threw out, but it faithfully recorded the night sky flickering bright and dark.

Everything was so silent, like a grand and absurd pantomime.

[???]

[Is my phone broken?]

[I can’t hear anything either?]

[Same here.]

[Can’t hear +1]

[Then Dabao’s phone audio must be broken. Maybe it’s better not to hear it. Are they shooting the bodies with guns? I heard guns flash at night.]

[I’m so upset. I’m already crying. Demons are in the human world. This is too cruel.]

[Dabao, Xiao Qiu, Big Fish, rest in peace. We’ve already called the police. We’ll definitely catch the murderer and avenge you.]

[Rest in peace…]

Under Chen Yi’s machine-gun-like barrage of Light Spell projectiles, the riddled mother nest finally could not hold on. With a mournful cry, it shattered and completely collapsed.

Without the corpses of the wronged dead, and without all the energy it had condensed earlier, it was no longer very possible for the aberration here to revive again.

Perhaps on some day in the future, in some other corner of the world, the aberration urban legend, Ghost Bride, would be discovered again.

But it would not appear here again.

Chen Yi watched the last wisp of red cloud in the sky disperse, clapped his hands, and said with satisfaction, “A family really is better when it’s neatly together.”

[?]

[Sound?]

[Demon!!]

[Cruel!!]

[You’re the one whose family should be neatly together! Your whole family should be neatly together!!!]

The next second.

The screen went completely black.

[This livestream room has been banned]

…

When Pang Xiaolei’s call came through, Chen Yi and Captain Sun were each carrying one person on their back, descending the mountain overnight.

Xiao Qiu and Big Fish were both in bad shape.

Xiao Qiu had been kicked to the ground by Dabao. The back of his head had struck the wooden threshold, swelling into a large bump, and he still had not woken up.

Big Fish, meanwhile, had been heavily contaminated by the aberration. He was deeply trapped in a nightmare and unable to wake up, with the possibility of becoming a living ghost. So his hands and feet had been bound, and Captain Sun was carrying him.

After confirming the two people’s condition, they did not hesitate at all and planned to descend the mountain overnight.

The dead were not more important than the living. These two people had to be saved today.

They carried the people along the mountain road, moving swiftly. Chen Yi, walking in the middle, still had a Light Spell above his head. It was much brighter than a flashlight, spinning as it lit up a range of fifty to sixty meters around them.

Dabao walked at the very back, gritting his teeth as he struggled to keep up. He did not dare say a single word, afraid that the two of them would leave him behind, and also afraid that his companions could not be saved.

His gaze occasionally stopped on the ball of light above Chen Yi’s head. Then, with a dark expression, he remembered the scene he had personally witnessed not long ago and walked even faster.

But even at this speed, the two in front still found him a burden.

People who had cultivated had excellent physical constitutions. Their strength and speed had both multiplied several times over. Not to mention, Chen Yi’s Gale Legs had already reached expert level. If he ran at full force, he was comparable to a gale and could compete with cars on domestic highways in terms of speed.

The two people urgently trying to save lives wanted to descend the mountain faster, but Dabao could not keep up, and they could not leave him alone in the village either.

Who knew whether the ghost-related deaths from previous times were caused by these female ghosts, or whether there truly was a thousand-year-old zombie on the cliff with the hanging coffins?

In short, that small mountain village could not have anyone left in it tonight.

When Pang Xiaolei and the other two suddenly sprang up from the dark mountain road, they startled Dabao badly.

Barely able to remain calm, he instinctively rushed to Chen Yi’s side.

Chen Yi thought of that “bold Bao” in the livestream room and told him, “Our people.”

“Oh.” Dabao awkwardly withdrew his finger, his face turning red.

Chen Yi looked at Dabao a couple more times. He had many questions for him, but now was not the time to talk.

“Sect Master.”

“Sect Master.”

The three arrived in front of him and greeted Chen Yi, then moved to take the person on his back.

Chen Yi avoided them.

He said, “Saving lives is like fighting fire. It should be fine to leave Dabao to the three of you for protection. Captain Sun and I will carry them down the mountain first.”

“All right.” That was indeed the logic. Pang Xiaolei did not insist, but he had Captain Liang switch out Captain Sun, saying only that Captain Sun should rest for a bit.

Captain Sun’s complexion was not very good. Even as a cultivator, after a fierce battle and then carrying an adult along the mountain road for almost an hour, he would still get tired.

Before leaving, Chen Yi only looked deeply at Dabao once and instructed Pang Xiaolei, “Keep him here. I have something to ask him later.”

“All right.”

Chen Yi left, and the Light Spell’s ball of light left with him. After he had gone far away, even though every person here had a flashlight in hand, they still felt as if they were being swallowed by the darkness.

…

The Night Watchers, together with the local armed security team, set up checkpoints on all roads leading up and down the mountain outside Little Tanshi Village, forbidding anyone from entering.

No one knew where these three ridiculously bold streamers had gone up the mountain from.

It was already too late to investigate that now. Three people had gone up the mountain, and two of them were hovering between life and death. Who knew whether they regretted it now?

After the two were brought down the mountain, the Night Watchers waiting here fully took over the follow-up work.

Ambulances with flashing warning lights carried the two onto the main road and headed toward the hospital.

Chen Yi stopped in front of the checkpoint and gazed toward the great mountain ahead. In his eyes, double-petaled black flowers rotated, and as golden light flowed, he looked endlessly mysterious beneath the night sky.

With his Delusion-Piercing Eye Technique and Aura Observation Art fully circulating, all the secrets of the entire mountain were gathered into his sight.

Calm and beautiful.

Without the convergence of the bloody moon placenta, the mountain village displayed its unique simplicity and tranquility. The air was fresh, crisp, and sweet, making Chen Yi faintly feel as though he had returned to Lishui Village, back to the hometown he had lived in before transmigrating.

A great mountain blessed with outstanding people and spiritual land would inevitably return blessings as long as people’s hearts remained clear.

A peaceful, leisurely life was the treasure of mountain folk.

And yet.

Little Tanshi Village had turned this blessing into sin.

The missing-person cases spanning more than twenty years would inevitably be solved one after another starting today. As for the villagers of Little Tanshi Village, whether the chief culprits or accomplices who aided the wicked, not a single one would escape. They would inevitably face the punishment of the law.

So the word “retribution” truly was a tag that existed, unseen, on every living human being.

“Consultant Chen.” Captain Zhang of the local Night Watchers came over and asked uncertainly, “Has the harmful aberration been eliminated?”

Chen Yi shook his head. He was not certain.

Although he did not think there would be a second aberration in this mountain, they still had to investigate to know the answer.

Captain Zhang pressed his lips together and said nothing. The hatred and grief hidden in his eyes could not be concealed.

Chen Yi had seen this look many times. Captain Ye, Captain Sun—almost every captain he had met carried bone-deep hatred for aberrations, along with the sorrow of losing comrades.

Among those who had the final accident, there had been a young cultivator dispatched from the sect to stand duty, as well as one member who had originally belonged to the Night Watchers team.

For the former, there was respect and heartache. For the latter, there was grief and mourning.

Chen Yi patted Captain Zhang and said, “How about this? I’ll go back into the mountain today and patrol one more time. Then we should more or less have an answer.”

Captain Zhang held him back. “No need. It’s already so late…”

Chen Yi only said, “This is my job.”

But Chen Yi also had no intention of leaving immediately. He drank some water, then made a cup of instant noodles. After waiting until he finished eating, Pang Xiaolei and the others finally escorted Dabao down.

The moment they met, Pang Xiaolei pulled Chen Yi aside and said, “I heard from Captain Sun. This Dabao is very strange. He seems to have the ability to resist contamination. Maybe his talent is pretty good.”

Chen Yi nodded. Spiritual Energy Revival, the awakening of aberrations—people with talent would also obtain various abilities. The Night Watchers relied precisely on absorbing these talents to slowly gain the ability to fight aberrations.

For example, Wang Xiaosi had also awakened on his own, and his talent had reached the exceptionally outstanding level, only inferior to Captain Ye.

This Little Bao had, at worst, exceptionally outstanding aptitude.

Pang Xiaolei looked expectantly toward Dabao. “Although he’s someone who courts death, he really is bold enough. If we take him back and give him special training for a while, he should become useful.”

“Mm.”

Chen Yi did not say much about this. The state had its own methods for training military talent. He was merely the principal of an advanced training school. As for cultivating character and responsibility, that should be left to more professional people.

“I plan to go back up the mountain and keep watch for the night. If nothing changes, this job will count as complete,” Chen Yi said. “The reward for the next mission is very important, and everyone is watching it. Maybe the problems of your slow cultivation and lack of weapons will be solved too. I still have to go back and cultivate.”

Pang Xiaolei had originally wanted to keep Chen Yi here to rest for the night and go up the mountain again tomorrow, but when he heard Chen Yi say this, he could not help feeling tempted too. With a crooked smile, he pretended to urge him to stay. “There’s no need to rush that much…”

Chen Yi rolled his eyes at him, turned around, and went up the mountain.

This time, without anyone else dragging him down, Chen Yi circulated Gale Legs at full power. The journey down the mountain had taken over eighty minutes, but he returned to the village in just over ten minutes.

He was a little tired. With his hands on his hips, he took two breaths. Amid the village dogs’ barking, Chen Yi finally decided to head toward the cliffside hanging coffins.

If anything was truly going to happen, it would happen there. Rather than passively wait, it was better to take the initiative. Maybe he could even sleep soundly in the latter half of the night.

At night, the area around the cliffside hanging coffins was swept by a biting mountain wind. The wooooing sound of the wind was like ghosts crying and gods howling.

The hanging coffins on the mountain made the terrifying atmosphere absolutely complete, as if in the space of a single daze, something horrifying would leap out of the coffin and devour a person alive.

Chen Yi stood on the cliff wall. The double-petaled flower pupils in his eyes rotated as he raised his head and looked over every hanging coffin. In the end, he even gazed over the forest at the top of the cliff.

Then he left calmly.

This village was safe.

There were no more aberrations.

The legendary thousand-year-old zombie did not exist at all.

The people buried in the cliffside hanging coffins had also entered long sleep and would not wake again.

This was normal too.

The spiritual energy within a region was limited. The buried bones in the back mountain forest had already twisted the spiritual energy over the entire village. In this kind of vacuum environment, it would be very difficult for a second aberration to be born.

Chen Yi returned to the village chief’s house at ease, found a sofa in the living room, and lay down. Then he remembered something and hurriedly looked toward the water mirror.

In the water mirror, as early as when he had killed the aberration mother nest, it had already reminded him that the mission was complete.

[Ding!]

[Slay Demons and Eliminate Evil Spirits (4) complete. Reward: five years of talisman-making experience.]

Chen Yi: “???”

Chen Yi claimed the mission reward, then looked utterly confused.

Where was this five years of talisman-making experience?

He did not feel anything at all.

After thinking about it, could it be because the sect’s Talisman Pavilion had not been opened, and he completely lacked any foundation in talisman-making, so he could not feel the reward?

Tsk!

So mission rewards that could not be cashed out immediately were all trash missions!

Chen Yi thought this unhappily, then glared fiercely at the follow-up mission.

[Chain Mission: Cultivation (5)]

[Reward: For every completed mission, randomly receive pills, talismans, spirit stones, or experience.]

Cultivation: 0/24 hours (Incomplete)

It was very obvious that this cultivation would not be his AFK cultivation, but cultivation he carried out himself, without the slightest bit of padding. A solid twenty-four hours of real cultivation.

This mission was great!

He had planned to cultivate anyway. It was something he could do along the way, and there were rewards to claim. Absolutely delightful.

So right now, he absolutely had to…

Sleep!

Only after sleeping enough could he cultivate properly, right?

Hehe!

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