“Goodbye, Boss!”
“Alright, see you tomorrow!”
“Bye-bye, Boss!”
“Wait, Xiao Qian, this is for you. You worked hard today entertaining those two Southeast Asian fellows.”
“Wow, is this the urban legend core? Thank you, Boss!”
“Don’t ntion it, it’s just so scraps from the kitchen.”
After seeing the last waiter leave, Boss Hu skillfully extinguished the last lamp in the tavern hall. Using the dim yellow candlelight on the counter for illumination, he slowly walked back to the long bench behind the counter and sat down, letting out a silent sigh.
“They’re all gone!”
Looking at the empty tavern shrouded in shadow, Boss Hu’s mind inexplicably recalled the scene when he first took over the Liao Zhai Tavern.
At that ti, there was no Black nor Grandma, nor were there staff like Ying Ningning and Xiao Qian, let alone the helpers in the back kitchen.
There was only a dilapidated thatched cottage that could easily be mistaken for a Black shop, a dirt-packed stove, a few jars of cloudy wine, and him, the poor and shabby Boss, for company. Guests were few and far between, sotis not even a handful in a year.
Ti flies like a shuttle, and a thousand years have passed in the blink of an eye. The Liao Zhai Tavern has unknowingly beco what it is today, and all of this was built by him, brick by brick, with his own hands.
“Heh, this is strange. What’s wrong today? Why am I suddenly thinking about things from the past? Have I also reached the age where I like to reminisce?”
Boss Hu chuckled self-deprecatingly, got up, and unsealed a jar of wine. Uncharacteristically, he poured himself a cup and filled a clay bowl.
The wine was an ancient fernted wine brewed from grains. The liquor was cloudy and contained so impurities, but the aroma was exceptionally sweet and llow.
“Hoo—!” After drinking, Boss Hu let out a long, turbid breath and sighed, “Although winemaking technology is advancing with each passing day, I still prefer this taste.”
When he was still young, the first bowl of wine the scholar gave him was this kind of wine. He could never forget that taste. Even after drinking so many good wines, famous wines, and Spiritual Energy wines later, none could compare to that bowl of cloudy wine.
It was also strange that the scholar’s family was so poor they couldn’t even afford food, yet he still spent money on wine and generously shared it with a Little Freak who was on the verge of starvation.
“Clang!”
Casually throwing the clay bowl onto the counter, Boss Hu sat back on the long bench. As soon as he lay down, he frowned.
As if hallucinating, he felt the entire tavern vibrating.
That shouldn't be!
With my alcohol tolerance, I might not be immune to a thousand cups, but I can’t be drunk by this ordinary cloudy wine.
How could this be...
Boss Hu pondered for a mont. It wasn’t until he sensed the plaster on the ceiling falling and the wine jars and dishes on the counter gently clinking and rattling that he suddenly realized the tavern was really vibrating.
“This feeling, could it be...”
He muttered to himself, imdiately held his breath, and activated his Power to communicate with the fleeting life like寄. His expression then changed, first with shock, then with growing joy.
fleeting life like寄 was a tool he had used when brewing that jar of Human Fireworks, and it had a subtle connection to his Power.
At this mont, through that subtle connection, he clearly felt a sense of cheering and excitent from fleeting life like寄.
That state was like the legend where, when a divine weapon is forged, the weapons within a hundred li radius will vibrate along with it, emitting an excited hum.
Soone has cooked Human Fireworks!
There’s no mistake, the two tis before were like this too!
Who could it be? Could it be the Disaster?
Thinking this, Boss Hu suddenly stood up and looked out the window through the tavern hall.
Outside the window, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse. He could vaguely see the outlines of ordinary buildings that could be seen in most cities.
Staring at the outlines of those buildings, Boss Hu’s eyes deepened, as if he was seeing Hua City itself.
“Perhaps I should set off and et the Disaster,” Boss Hu murmured.
“Do you think this looks a bit strange?”
Looking at Hua Xieyu lying flat on a pile of white stead buns, Lu Yibei always felt that this scene was a bit eerie.
If you added a circle of chrysanthemums, lit two white candles, and scattered so yellow paper money...
“To be honest, it does look a bit strange, and I feel like I’ve seen a similar scene sowhere before,” Ju ng nodded, lost in thought.
“Does it look like a mourning hall?” Lu Yibei asked expressionlessly.
“No, it’s not,” Ju ng thought for a mont and said, “It should be sowhere else, but I can’t rember it right now.”
“Hmph, useless!” Lu Yibei spat and walked forward, preparing to set up sealing Spells around Hua Xieyu.
Although Lu Yibei had long ago figured out how to deal with the stead buns that had absorbed the Parasitic Kindred Abomination’s Power.
After the Parasitic Kindred Abomination’s Power had all entered the stead buns and its activity had decreased, first, let Little White Dog explode them a few tis, then use the okin rod to turn all of them into gold. That way, it would likely be impossible for them to revive.
However, according to Chatterbox Girl, it would take a considerable amount of ti to attract all the Parasitic Kind in Hua Xieyu’s body using these stead buns.
During this process, there was still a risk of the detached Parasitic Kindred Abomination spreading, so preparations had to be made in advance.
“Wait!”
Lu Yibei had just cast the sealing Spell numbered thirty-eight seventeen tis when she suddenly heard Ju ng’s soft cry from behind. Her body imdiately stiffened, ➤ NоvеⅠight ➤ (Read more on our source) and a slight sweat appeared on her forehead.
“W-what’s wrong?”
“I rember where I saw this scene!” Ju ng pointed at Hua Xieyu and the pile of stead buns, her face serious. “Before, when the citizens of Taoyuan offered sacrifices to Sister , the roasted suckling pigs were placed like this!”
“However, when we offered sacrifices there, the roasted suckling pigs were placed on longevity peach bean paste buns.”
Lu Yibei was silent for a few seconds, then said expressionlessly, “That’s it? Can you be a little more reliable? You suddenly yelled, and I thought sothing went wrong and the Parasitic Kindred Abomination ran out early!”
“Pfft!” Ju ng stuck out her tongue at Lu Yibei, a little unconvinced, but she didn’t speak again. Instead, she quietly retreated to the side and silently watched Lu Yibei set up the sealing Spells until...
Until the light woven by dozens of Spells completely enveloped Hua Xieyu, leaving only a blurred outline.
It felt even more ominous, like lying in a crystal coffin, waiting for the body to be viewed.
With preparations complete, Lu Yibei wiped the beads of sweat from her forehead, let out a long sigh, turned around, and gave Ju ng a look. “It’s almost done. Should we release the suppression on the Parasitic Kind?”
This ti, she used sealing Spells starting from number thirty. After amplification and stacking, it was absolutely impossible for anything below Calamity level to break through, which could be considered relatively stable.
After all, although the Parasitic Kind’s innate abilities were mysterious and unpredictable, their Spiritual Energy fluctuation level was always not too strong. As long as they were separated from the host, they were not particularly difficult to control.
However, using an intercontinental missile to shoot a bird is fine as long as it hits!
“Not now,” Ju ng shook her head.
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“Why?”
“You have to move further away,” Ju ng glanced sideways at Lu Yibei and said faintly, “Of course, if you want to be a stepmother, you can pretend I didn’t say anything.”
She achieved suppression by making the Parasitic Kind “not give birth.” Now, to release the suppression, she naturally had to let it “give birth.”
During this process, if Lu Yibei was too close, it was not impossible for her to be affected.
Be a stepmother? Lu Yibei was stunned for a mont, then her body trembled slightly, and she quickly ran back. She didn’t run far before turning back and picking up Wang Yingying, who was so greedy that she had already chewed all ten of her fingernails.
By the ti Ju ng ca back to her senses, Lu Yibei was gone. The next mont, her phone rang. After answering the call, a familiar voice ca from the other end of the line.
“We can start now!”
“No, where did you run off to?”
“The rooftop!”
“...” Ju ng’s mouth twitched. “Actually, you didn’t have to run that far.”
“You didn’t say how far was a safe distance,” Lu Yibei retorted. “If conditions allowed, I would even want to leave the city.”
Ju ng:
Although she did have the ability to make her Power’s influence cover the entire city, if it was just Spiritual Energy leakage, she could still control it within a two or three-ter radius.
“Damn dog! How scared are you?”
Saying this, she rolled her eyes, hung up the phone, put away her phone, looked at Hua Xieyu, took a deep breath, and softly chanted the description of her Power, activating it.
“The great fruit born from the Fusang Divine Tree of the past, the king of myriad magpies...”
“The great fruit born from the Fusang Divine Tree of the past, the king of myriad magpies, the contender who refutes misfortune with money, the monarch of the Eight Hundred Li Peach Garden, the master of marriage and offspring...”
As Ju ng chanted the description of her Power twice, a faint crimson glow imdiately appeared on her body.
With a shift of thought, a srizing red light burst forth.
Suppression, release!
In just an instant, the Parasitic Kindred Abomination, having lost its suppression, was like a bloodthirsty monster that had slled blood. It surged out from Hua Xieyu’s chest and pounced towards the expanse of pure white beneath her.
“—Zzz—!”
As if a wild beast was using its body to crash against its cage, intense collision sounds were incessant. Dozens of sealing Spells vibrated in unison, emitting dazzling bright light.
Through the cage woven by the sealing Spells, one could see fountain-like translucent Black gas seeping out from every pore beneath Hua Xieyu, gushing outwards.
As more and more of the Parasitic Kind’s Power surged out of her body, the Black gas beca denser, condensing into mist, and then transforming into a state that flowed like a viscous liquid.
The outlines of countless distorted organs and eyes and repulsive colors erged from within, and ignorant, resentful, and fanatical Spiritual Energy fluctuations surged and rolled beneath the cage.
Viscous, restless, and repulsive bizarre substances filled the entire cage.
“Screech...
Hiss!”
As the Black mist swept past, there were intermittent, teeth-grinding friction sounds, as if sharp claws were scratching.
The sound was like invisible insects crawling, drilling into the eardrums, ravaging the internal organs and bones.
The Parasitic Kind, detached from Hua Xieyu’s body, displayed their terrifying nature to the fullest.
It was as if they were reminding the onlookers that once they escaped, they would imdiately transform into terrifying behemoths.
Just like the demons in legends, imprisoned in crystal bottles.
This made the observing Ju ng unable to help but recall the urban legend she had once imprisoned in bottles and jars, among which were terrifying existences whose Spiritual Energy fluctuation levels were infinitely close to Calamity.
However, those Parasitic Kind, detached from Hua Xieyu’s body, despite their horrifying appearance, had a dying feeling because they were imprisoned in the cage constructed by the sealing Spells.
It was as if they were death row inmates in prison, waiting to be executed.
They no longer had their forr arrogance, nor the strength to resist stubbornly. They could only resentfully and unwillingly look at this beautiful world one last ti through that small window, and then bury their heads and eat the sumptuous last al.
After realizing they could not escape, those Parasitic Kindred Abominations began to invade the stead buns beneath Hua Xieyu, as if that was their last retreat.
As countless viscous fluids poured in, the white stead buns imdiately let out a “sizzling” sound, as if they had been drenched in hot oil.
Along with the soft sound, radiant flowing light appeared. As the flowing light danced, faint illusions vaguely erged, but everything was a dream bubble, and as the erosion deepened, it began to rapidly decay.
When the beautiful dream collapses and turns into an abyss, countless “souls” wander, suffer, and are confused, finally burning out and welcoming destruction.
It was like watching the world descend into hell with one’s own eyes.
Seeing such a scene, Ju ng turned her face away with so reluctance.
Although she knew that those illusions were just fragnted mories remaining in the Human Fireworks, she couldn’t help but recall the scene when Baiyang stubbornly insisted on his own way, and the creatures in Taoyuan suffered.
Finally, just like fungi absorbing nutrients from parasites and gradually growing, the stead buns began to rot and grow mold.
In just a few breaths, only a Black mud-like mass remained, resembling highly decomposed flesh.
So people compare a culture dish full of fungal strains to a miniature wondrous world. In a sense, the stead buns containing the aura of Human Fireworks are also like this.
And now, this world is being destroyed, giving birth to an eternal nightmare.
In the nightmare, there is desolation and silence.
Jingyi Apartnt Building 3, rooftop.
“It’s so slow. In a little while, the Elder brothers of the Special Operations Team will notice the anomaly and co to investigate...”
Lu Yibei held Wang Yingying in her arms, looked up at the sky, and frowned.
Affected by the Spiritual Energy fluctuations emitted by the Parasitic Kindred Abomination devouring Human Fireworks, dark clouds accumulated in the sky, emitting a dark red glow, forming a vortex, twisting like a nightmare.
Just as Lu Yibei was staring at the sky, lost in thought, a figure appeared out of thin air at the entrance of the rooftop, slowly walked over, and stopped beside her.
“You succeeded in making Human Fireworks, right?”
Lu Yibei glanced back from the corner of her eye and saw that the person was Boss Hu, so she replied, “Probably? I’m not too sure either.”
Getting a positive answer, Boss Hu said happily, “That’s great! Where is it? Let see?”
“That’s not quite right. You ca late. I already fed it to the Parasitic Kind,” Lu Yibei shrugged.
Boss Hu:
“???”
Fed, fed it to the Parasitic Kindred Abomination?
That’s Human Fireworks!
How could you feed it to that kind of ghost thing? That’s too wasteful!
Suddenly, he had the feeling of a father looking at a prodigal son, his heart aching and his blood pressure soaring.
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