Chapter 38

Chapter 38

At this moment, Hu Wa and Zhang Shun looked completely different in Hua Jiunan’s eyes.

They appeared as a middle-aged couple dressed in ancient clothing, their faces filled with a sinister aura! The female ghost was clad in bright red, while the male ghost wore dark green. Their faces were a ghastly iron-blue, with black blood seeping from the corners of their eyes and mouths.

The male ghost’s face looked incredibly familiar to Hua Jiunan, though he couldn’t quite place where he had seen it before.

Through his Yin-Yang Eyes, Hua Jiunan also saw his other two roommates. They were inside the coffins on either side, pinned beneath the bodies of the male and female ghosts, their bodies tightly wound with black hemp rope.

Hua Jiunan took a deep breath and pulled Chen Daji back, retreating inch by inch. He didn’t know how to deal with filthy things, especially something as wicked as this.

“Daji, I’ll hold them off. You find a way to run.”

“Get to my house as fast as you can and have Grandma ask Brother Chang to come save me!”

Chen Daji was sweating cold beads of tension, but he refused Hua Jiunan’s kindness.

“Big Brother, you run! I’ll cover you!”

“Just bring people back to save me before I bleed out!”

After saying this, Chen Daji delivered another heavy punch to his own nose. Blood sprayed out instantly!

Driven into a corner, the ferocity in his bones was ignited. “Damn it, I’ll fight you to the death!”

Chen Daji smeared the blood all over his hands and threw a punch straight into the male ghost’s face. “Go to hell!”

He was used to brawling in his daily life, so his movements were agile. After hitting the male ghost, he followed up with another punch to the female ghost’s face.

A miracle happened.

No one expected Chen Daji to suddenly attack. Caught off guard, both evil ghosts were struck by him, letting out shrill, piercing shrieks. With a sudden whoosh, they detached from Hu Wa and Zhang Shun’s bodies and flew back into the coffins on either side.

The coffins began to shake violently, emitting plumes of black smoke.

Hua Jiunan was shocked. “Daji, you have a Pure Yang Body!”

Chen Daji hadn’t expected his two punches to be so powerful either. He asked blankly, “Big Brother, what’s a Pure Yang Body? Am I that amazing?!”

The situation was urgent, and Hua Jiunan didn’t have time to explain. He reached out, took some blood from Chen Daji’s face, and dabbed it onto the foreheads of Hu Wa and Zhang Shun. The two of them woke up immediately, standing up unsteadily.

“Ow… where are we? My head hurts so much!”

Hua Jiunan shouted, “Stop talking and help me save the others!”

As he spoke, he ran to one of the coffins and shook it with all his might. Chen Daji and the other two rushed over to help. With their combined effort, the coffin tipped over with a loud thud, and their roommate rolled out onto the ground.

The female ghost’s corpse let out bursts of screams, looking as if she might spring up to attack at any moment. Hua Jiunan pinned her down and roared at Chen Daji, “Smear blood on her forehead! Whatever you do, don’t get it in her mouth!”

“Don’t worry, Big Brother!”

Chen Daji did as he was told, and the corpse indeed stopped moving. Following the same method, the four of them rescued the other roommate.

Hua Jiunan hoisted one unconscious roommate onto his back while Hu Wa took the other. The four of them sprinted toward the exit.

The corpse bugs in the courtyard swarmed toward them like a tide. The sound of their squeaking was enough to make anyone’s skin crawl. Chen Daji pulled out a lighter and set his own down jacket on fire to clear a path. The corpse bugs were afraid of fire and scattered out of the way.

When they reached the gate, the ancient-clothed woman with the rat’s head blocked their path. She reached out with an iron-blue, withered hand to grab Chen Daji.

Hua Jiunan accelerated and slammed heavily into the Guichu.

“Get out of the way!”

The moment the two collided, a flash of light erupted from Hua Jiunan’s body. The phantom images of a Green Pine and a Qiu Dragon emerged. The Guichu was sent flying with a miserable shriek, like a small bird hit by a speeding train.

Chen Daji tossed his burning jacket at the gate to block the corpse bugs, his voice full of awe. “Big Brother, that move just now was so cool! Can you teach me? Fighting filthy things with blood is way too hard on my nose…”

Before Hua Jiunan could respond, the two Human-skin Lanterns hanging at the entrance of the ghost house took flight and began chasing after them. The four of them had no choice but to keep running for their lives.

As they ran, a thick fog suddenly surged around them. They couldn’t even see the path beneath their feet, let alone anything in the distance. Hu Wa, who was in the lead, tripped over something and fell to the ground with a thud.

Chen Daji quickly helped him up and shifted the unconscious roommate onto his own back. “Crap, what do we do now? Those two lanterns are about to catch up!”

Hua Jiunan looked around and saw an old Taoist priest glowing with a faint green light beckoning to him from within the fog ahead.

“Follow me!”

With Hua Jiunan leading the way, the group ran toward the old Taoist.