The Lord of Void and Real

Chapter 221: Chapter 219: Soul Hook Horse Face

However, they were a beat too late. One of the ghost emissaries attempted to obstruct the black light with his water-fire staff, only to have it snapped in half. The black light pierced straight through his chest. Another person was hit directly in their head by the black light, and like the previous person, they transformed into a white paper silhouette and spontaneously combusted.

In just a few moments, out of four ghost emissaries, two were dead and one was injured. The remaining one had no control over the water ghost, who broke the chain restraint and escaped.

Just when Shen Luo thought the water ghost was rescued, the water beast suddenly rushed forward, violently opening its mouth to inhale.

From its pitch-black maw, an invisible force of attraction was ignited, sucking in the water ghost and swallowing it in one gulp. Just like consuming some tonic, a layer of black light emanated from its body.

After swallowing the water ghost, it wasn’t sated. Opening its mouth to inhale once again, it dragged the injured ghost emissary in and gulped them down, making the black light on its body even brighter and radiating a strong wave of evil omens.

“Bold ghost, daring to devour ghost emissaries. You’re seeking death.” The white-faced scholar was infuriated, shouting explosively.

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Before his words even fell, his body had already flown over, with his feet stomping down heavily like a mountain landslide, landing on the back of the river guardian beast.

A “boom” resounded!

The river guardian beast was struck by a huge force, and its limbs instantly buckled, falling flat on the ground.

Standing on its back, the white-faced scholar’s hand suddenly reached out from his sleeve, in his palm, he astonishingly held a black writing brush about a foot long.

When Shen Luo’s gaze fell on the black brush, he thought it looked incredibly familiar. In the midst of his confusion, he heard the white-faced scholar yell out: “Ghost He subdues demons, and the Soul Hook fetches souls!”

The moment his words fell, his scholar’s robe began to change, alight with green flames, as if it was on fire.

Beyond places where the flame had been, his robe was replaced with the judicial constable uniform similar to that of the ghost emissaries. The distinct factor was a copper plate the size of a hand at his waist, engraved with the two characters, “Yin Bureau.”

Simultaneously, the white-faced scholar’s face also started to change. As it elongated vertically, it turned increasingly red, surprisingly transforming into a crimson horse face.

“Soul Hook Horse Face, it’s you!” As soon as Shen Luo distinguished his face, he could not help but exclaim in shock.

The volume of his cry was not small, evidently reaching the ears of Ma Mian.

The latter couldn’t help but divert his attention a little. He hesitated in his movements and glanced in Shen Luo’s direction.

However, right at this moment, the water beast underneath him, like a ground beetle turning over, suddenly arched its back, throwing Ma Mian off. After twisting its body, it started to gallop towards the bridgehead, looking to escape.

“Evil beast, where are you going!” Seeing this, Soul Hook Horse Face hastily formed hand signs, pointed with his brush in the empty air and yelled out loud.

The next moment, a red flash was seen on the back of the river guardian beast, showing an other shore flower mark, is transformed into an octagonal light formation of charm patterns, encasing the head of the water beast.

The light formation carried a restraining force, rendering the galloping beast seemingly stuck in place.

Ma Mian hastily caught up, arriving in front of the river guardian beast. Holding the brush with one hand, he continuously drew in the empty air. Numerous dark red charm patterns surfaced, forming a circular charm pattern formation in mid-air.

“Phew…once I imprison this wicked creature inside the evocation bottle, everything will be settled,” Ma Mian sighed in relief and said after he was done with all the preparations.

As he spoke, he explored his waist with his hand. A moment of rummaging later, a gleam of suspicion appeared in his eyes.

Immediately after, he checked both of his sleeve pockets and slowly, his facial expression became more and more difficult to read, and his horse face appeared even more elongated.

In the end, Ma Mian, trembling, pulled a gourd with a thick black sheen from his sleeve, and sighed mournfully.

“Damn, I was so focused on bringing the wine gourd, I forgot the Evocation Bottle…”

As his words faded, the situation suddenly changed dramatically!

The River Guardian Beast suddenly opened its mouth and inhaled, instantly triggering massive waves in the Qinhuai River.

Unknown strands of black qi, enveloping gruesome or ruined ghostly specters, emerged from the river bottom and were swallowed into the beast’s pitch-black maw.

The aura of the River Guardian Beast started to rise violently. Its flesh began to pulsate, and the black fog covering its body spread rapidly, breaking the glowing charm patterns above its head.

Seeing the River Guardian Beast on the verge of breaking out of the formation, Ma Mian could not afford to delay, and the iron pen in his hand jabbed forward again.

The glowing charm pattern he had just drawn immediately advanced forward. Like a lasso, it attempted to land on the beast’s head.

However, before the charm pattern could get close, a black light burst out of the beast’s horn. Just as it drew near the charm pattern, a loud “bang” echoed as it exploded.

In front of Ma Mian, the qi wave surged. A tremendous impact force spread out, hitting him so hard that he spat out a mouthful of blood, was again thrown back several meters, and a section of the white stone railings on the Zhenhuai Bridge was instantly shattered.

After the River Guardian Beast broke free, its ferocity increased. Covered in black fog, its blood-filled eyes were as big as copper bells. From the high altitude, it uncoiled and swooped toward Ma Mian.

Ma Mian, who had just suffered a heavy blow, had dropped his iron pen. In a hurry, he could only perform a hand seal with his bare hands, immediately causing a billowing white fog to wrap around his body.

As the River Guardian Beast was about to swoop down, the black fog surrounding its body suddenly spread out, engulfing Ma Mian, who was wrapped in white fog, completely.

The lone ghost emissary left, transformed from a piece of white paper, attempted to help. However, as he approached, a strand of black fog hit him. His red light instantly dispersed, his body caught fire, and he became ashes within moments.

Ma Mian could only feel darkness before his eyes and the surrounding things became extremely blurred. A hard to describe bitterness entered his mouth and nose. Black fog was tearing open his white protective fog trying to invade his body.

As this feeling intensified, Ma Mian’s entire body was hardening as if stone skin was growing on him and as if he was about to become petrified right there.

Suddenly, a loud “boom” echoed.

A bright lightning thundered from mid-air and ripped open a hole in the chaotic black fog.

Ma Mian saw a silhouette holding a yellow paper charm in the brief bright light, charging towards him at a rapid pace.

“Eh, isn’t that the human youngster!” Ma Mian found that the approached one was Shen Luo, who he had just dismissed not long ago, and he was extremely surprised.

After only a few moments, the light vanished. But soon after, there was another rumble of thunder.

The black fog was once again illuminated by brilliant light.

At a high speed, Shen Luo darted through, bending over to pick up the Soul Hooking Pen on the ground. However, a black light shot straight at his forehead from the chaotic black fog.

With a thought, mana within his body started revving, the Slanting Moon Steps was activated instantly. As if moonlight was falling beneath him, his figure became a bit illusory.

With a slight lean to one side and without changing his forward momentum, he narrowly avoided the black light. Like a moon drawn from the bottom of the sea, he picked up the iron pen on the ground and dashed towards Ma Mian.