Killing Dao Fruit
Chapter 58 - 56: Hand in Hand, Four-finger Print

Chapter 58: Chapter 56: Hand in Hand, Four-finger Print

Whoosh—!

An abnormal power of immense strength erupted within him, and Wang Yuan was swept onto the rooftop like a gust of wind.

As soon as he discerned the scene on the road in front of the door, his pupils instantly shrank violently.

"This is... weird!"

In the night, shrouded by a faint bloodlight that touched everything, a line of exactly seven people stood in a row.

They were walking down the main village road toward Beimang Mountain, dancing as they went.

Stomping feet, twisting hips, clapping hands, turning left, turning right, moving forward a step...

They resembled puppets on strings, bound together by the same cord, their movements uniform as if part of a single entity.

Even the stiff expressions on their faces were identically grim smiles, and the angle of the curl in their lips was exactly alike.

A originally solemn sacrificial dance, combined with these rigid expressions and movements, suddenly filled the atmosphere with an intense sense of eeriness.

Gradually.

The sound of their footsteps became louder as they walked, carrying far into the night.

It was as if nothing could stop their advancing dance.

And in Wang Yuan’s vision, which allowed for "Unsightly Observation," the situation was even clearer.

Moldy black threads, one end connected to their bodies, the other reaching toward Beimang Mountain, seemed to be pulling the strings like puppet masters.

Specially those five bandits who had just come from the tomb today.

Whether on their wrists or ankles, there appeared to be blood-red marks, identical to the "Soul-Locking Bracelet" locations on the "Heavenly Facing Household."

It was just too far to see what the marks specifically looked like.

Seeing that they were about to pass by the door of the small courtyard.

Wang Yuan was about to shoot a rope dart to try and grasp one person for a closer look.

Suddenly, his body stiffened.

It was as if he had been struck by a nightmare, from skin, muscle, meridians to bones, turning him gradually into a puppet only capable of dancing along with the strings, about to become one of them.

"This weird Nightmare Suppressing Power is much stronger than the ’Righteous Wealth’ I killed three days ago.

Moreover.

The dance they perform looks like a mix of ’Four Tribes Music’ and ’Heavenly Music’, which was also performed once by the Luoyang King’s lineage ten years ago during the centennial rites for the Yili King.

This shouldn’t be, today the Ma Brothers, Fan Zhang and others had just broken through the ceremonial place and claimed to have killed the tomb’s master in exchange for the life and injury of three ’Integrated Force’ experts?

How could there be weird forces that came back to the village along with this group of bandits?"

Roar—!

Silently forming the instinctual "Ghost King Altar Sealing Seal" within him, a low roar echoed inside, and the Nightmare Suppressing Power immediately shattered.

The feeling of rust inside him also dissipated completely.

But as Wang Yuan realized the peculiarities associated with his role as a ’Book Master B’,

He looked at the three ghost god images on the ’Small Book of Life and Death’ and instantly felt a sense of unfamiliarity.

There may still be a great secret hidden behind this artifact.

If there is a ’Book Master B’, it is highly likely there is also a ’Book Master A’, and that ’Heavenly Book’ is likely in the hands of ’Book Master A’.

Wang Yuan also had some guesses about the identity of ’Book Master A’, but was not yet able to fully confirm them.

Or rather, he found it difficult to accept that after one reincarnation, what he obtained was, in fact, a ’Public Golden Finger’, such a tragic truth!

But now was not the time to think about these things.

He had just seen in this alley, another household had heard the commotion.

The man of the house, donning clothes, had climbed onto the wall to look out.

But after just one glance, he jumped down from the wall and, limping, caught up with the procession performing the sacrificial dance.

Even if his ankle was bleeding, his movements did not change in the slightest.

Seeing this, Wang Yuan immediately understood:

"The pattern of this weird killing seems to be ’visual assimilation’; as long as one sees those sacrificial dance steps, they will gradually become assimilated.

Ordinary people have no resistance in front of this dance."

Shortly after,

Other village Tomb Guardians responsible for patrolling also heard the commotion here, leaping across courtyard walls and roof ridges to arrive.

Shriek—!

At the same time, the sharp sound of a Sound Arrow was finally successfully launched by the Tomb Guardians from behind.

Then...

The night-watch Tomb Guardians, upon seeing this sacrificial dance, began twisting their limbs and transformed into one of the dancers.

Wang Yuan did not spare the lives of these past enemies, as their sacrifice could provide him with additional information, making it entirely worthwhile.

"Brother Cui!"

Wang Yuan turned his head to meet Lady Peach Fairy’s eyes in the courtyard and immediately understood her intentions.

Although they had made an enemy of Master Ge, it was certain that Wang Yunhu could not possibly stand with them.

But it was far from the moment when everything would come to light, and these cannon fodder still had their uses.

The remaining three accompanying tombs, and the day of the grand sacrifice, would inevitably require many more lives to fill them.

They too were part of the "Killing Banquet"!

Thus, he took a deep breath and bellowed:

"Weirdness is attacking, anyone who sees it with their eyes will fall victim, only magicians can barely resist, no one else can withstand.

Everyone stay in your homes, lock your doors and windows, and no matter what sounds you hear, do not come out!"

However, by the time they issued the warning,

apart from the original five Jianghu people,

three villagers who came out to investigate after sensing something odd, and the four pairs of tomb guardians on duty that night, had all joined the dance team.

They had become "puppets on strings" with extremely stiff expressions.

Immediately after, Wang Yunhu’s furious roar echoed throughout Daling Village:

"Everyone obey Mr. Cui’s orders!"

In the end, no one laid a hand on this procession.

Only Wang Yunhu, Lady Peach Fairy, Lang Qi, the Ma Brothers, Fan Zhang, and Wang Yuan – these seven people followed from a distance.

Armed with Daoist skills, they relied on their resilience far superior to ordinary humans, observing these people from outside the range of the abnormal power, and could not help but shake their heads.

There was no saving them.

Wang Yunhu clenched his teeth so hard they made a grinding noise.

"Weird, weird! How can the weirdness that has already been killed still come out to haunt us? And not even a shadow can be seen."

Within these sixteen people, almost half were skilled masters of "Integrated Force", yet they were wiped out in less time than it took to eat a meal.

And they died utterly without any value.

Wang Yunhu’s heart was virtually bleeding.

Beside him, Fan Zhang and the Ma Brothers, responsible for stealthily excavating the "Ceremonial Place" accompanying tombs, were struggling to keep face – this "Sacrificial Dance" weirdness clearly originated from the "Ceremonial Place" they were in charge of.

Yet they had not noticed it at all.

In fact, since they had inadvertently released the "Righteous Wealth" on the first day and suffered a significant loss due to the reanimated corpses, they had been extremely cautious.

They would purify the bandits of the tombs every day with talismans.

If any medicine gatherers or locals approached to spy, they would be immediately executed to prevent any leaks of information.

Nevertheless, something eventually went wrong.

Which made them realize once again.

"Chaotic and disordered is called ’weird’, extraordinary is known as ’strange’."

If relying solely on caution and the patterns they believed to have discovered meant that they underestimated these forces, then it was indeed the beginning of a tragedy.

Wang Yuan’s brows were tightly knitted.

Among these people, perhaps only he saw the essence of the matter.

Under the blood-colored moonlight, his eyes that could "Unsightly Observation" swept over everyone, seeing everything clearly.

Whether they were tomb guardians, bandits, or magicians, as long as they had gone down into the tomb and returned safely,

a bloody handprint appeared on either their wrist or ankle.

Invisible during the day, but under tonight’s blood-colored moonlight, it could be distinctly seen.

At first glance, the mark resembled a human hand, but upon closer examination, the handprint, like that of a bird’s claw, had only four fingers.

And it was in the exact same location as the "Soul-Locking Bracelets" on the wrists of those Heavenly Facing Householders.

"This is clearly the Owl God Tomb not hurried to consume lives but releasing ’knowledge’ to continuously corrupt new henchmen, targeting tomb raiders."

After understanding the secret of the "Killing Banquet," Wang Yuan looked anew at the world’s practice of human sacrifice with burials.

He suddenly realized everything seemed natural.

Burial with the dead was merely one basic form of "killing."

War, famine, plague, pit killing, sacrificial rites, drowning in pig cages, ghost marriages, river god weddings, human blood buns... these were all reflections of this essence.

Although in these four days, they had already destroyed six accompanying tombs and nailed all the "Heavenly Facing Householders" inside,

who said the Owl God Tomb’s henchmen could only be those dead people?

On Beimang Mountain, the act of "tomb raiding" itself could potentially have violated some "Precept Taboo."

Regardless of who the tomb raider was, a price had to be paid.

"Strategist Bei" Lang Qi’s divination said, "Blood will shoot to the sky for eighteen days; one goes down the tomb, two shall return."

This time, the marks that appeared on everyone’s bodies,

seemed like a "person," or some entity, in the tomb was reaching out and coming back up with those who went down.

Then hand in hand, more people are led back to the tomb!

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