“Something's happened?”

Hu Ma also sensed the strong bloody smell and baleful aura at that moment. He quickly gathered the scrolls on the table, stuffed them into his arms, and stepped out the door.

Looking ahead, he saw several figures near the entrance of the inn, hustling Miao Shan Xiangu, the leader of the One Coin Sect who had just changed into plain clothes, and Bai Shanzi (White Fan) towards the west side of town, their eyes glancing in his direction.

It was more like hustling, because the One Coin Sect leader and Bai Shanzi didn't seem too willing. As they moved forward, they kept looking back at the inn.

“I only just smelled the blood, and so many experts have already appeared. The One Coin Sect truly has experts everywhere…”

Seeing this scene, even Hu Ma couldn't help but praise inwardly, “Especially that Miao Shan Xiangu and Bai Shanzi. They were just at the residence on the east side of town, and in the blink of an eye, they're here?”

“But the thing that's coming…”

“…”

His mind flickered, and he looked at the neighboring room, vaguely hearing Lao Suanpan (Old Abacus) inside shouting for his pants.

“What are you looking for pants for?”

Hu Ma scolded angrily, “Just wrap yourself in a blanket and come out and take a look…”

“How can an old man like me go out in a blanket? Don't I have any dignity?”

Lao Suanpan also shouted back in the room, rummaging through boxes and cabinets, mixed with the girls' exclamations and Lao Suanpan's lewd laughter. Soon, the window of the room was pushed open.

Lao Suanpan poked half his body out, but he wasn't wrapped in a blanket. Instead, he was wearing a pink dress, and behind him, he could vaguely see two heavily made-up heads, with a red *dudou* (traditional Chinese undergarment).

“What exactly is it? This is the One Coin Sect's main stronghold. Could evil spirits really cause trouble here?”

Lao Suanpan also anxiously looked towards the west side of town, sniffing the air. But he seemed to have something stuck to his nose, wiped it hard a couple of times, and then took another deep breath. His expression immediately became even more panicked:

“Besides, besides this… this aura is like…”

“…”

“Familiar, isn't it?”

Hu Ma nodded and said in a low voice, “I also think so. Could it really be that thing that escaped from our mine?”

The Yin General!

Hu Ma also sensed the familiar baleful aura and bloody smell, but it seemed even stronger than when he had seen it in the mine.

But he felt strange. After this thing escaped from the mine, they organized so many people and searched so many times, but they couldn't find a trace of it, as if it had disappeared into thin air. How could it suddenly appear in this Shima Town?

“If it really is that thing, it makes sense that it ran here…”

Lao Suanpan's eyelids twitched a few times, and he said in a low voice, “This is the place with the most living people in the mountains…”

“Whether it's that thing or not, we'll go and take a look.”

Hu Ma weighed it in his mind and nodded to Lao Suanpan.

If it really was the thing that escaped from the mine, it was somewhat related to his own blood food mine. He couldn't stay out of it, and he had to be prepared for unexpected things.

If it wasn't that thing, and it was just causing trouble in the town, he was a guest here and had received benefits. If something happened to the One Coin Sect's main stronghold, while he didn't have to be the first to arrive, it wouldn't be good if he didn't even show his face.

“You go first…”

Lao Suanpan was a little confused and said hastily, “I'll find my pants and come right away…”

Hu Ma sighed, his eyebrows slightly furrowed. He identified the direction and was about to step out when he saw Bai Shanzi suddenly jump over the wall from one end of the inn and walk lightly towards him.

He had clearly been hustled towards the west side of town with the One Coin Sect leader, but now he had returned. And it seemed like he was also in a difficult position, hesitant, as if he had something to say to him.

At the same time, using the Shou Suiren's (Night Watchman) enhanced hearing, Hu Ma vaguely heard the commotion in the west side of town. It seemed like people were already fighting.

“Brother Wu, don't worry. Since we've encountered something like this, you don't even need to ask. I was planning to go over and see if I could lend a hand.”

Hu Ma said to Bai Shanzi before he could reach him, his words very polite. After all, the method he had given him hadn't shown any major problems yet, so he could only treat it as a real method…

Since he had given him a real method, then he was a great benefactor. Hu Ma wasn't one to be impolite. He gave him such a precious method, and now that there was trouble in his territory, shouldn't he hurry over to help?

Moreover, it was so urgent over there, so why did Bai Shanzi turn around and come to find him?

Clearly, he was here to ask for help…

Saving people was like putting out a fire. Without further ado, as he spoke, he used the Ghost Climbing Stairs skill, and his figure instantly shot onto the roof.

Lightly and quietly, like a ghost, his figure was light and didn't touch the ground. He flipped over houses and crossed ridges, stepping on vertical walls as if they were flat ground. In the blink of an eye, he disappeared from sight, heading west.

“I…”

Bai Shanzi finally broke away from the crowd and ran back to find Hu Ma alone to tell him about that matter, but before he could reach him, he saw Hu Ma swoop onto the roof.

In the blink of an eye, the person was already gone…

“You're really too kind…”

He was stunned, stomped his foot angrily, and could only wave the fan in his hand vigorously, using a gust of wind to hurriedly chase after him, feeling extremely helpless in his heart, “The Night Watchman's skills aren't pretty, but damn, they're fast!”

“Huff…”

Hu Ma was quick with both his hands and feet. In an instant, he arrived at the west end of town. From afar, he saw scattered torches and lanterns, like fire dragons, converging. When he focused his eyes on the center, he was shocked.

He had just heard loud noises here, but now that he was closer, he found that countless people had died, lying scattered in disarray, like a slaughterhouse.

Chunks of corpses lay on the ground, intestines scattered everywhere. They looked like people who had been torn apart. There were also dried, charred corpses, as if the blood in their bodies had been sucked out. The ground was wet, as if it had been washed by a torrential rain of blood.

In the west end of town, a row of houses had collapsed. There were both One Coin Sect disciples wearing mourning clothes patrolling and guarding, and a large group of merchants who lived in the west end of town and did business. Now, they had all turned into dried corpses or minced meat on the ground.

And in this scene of carnage, there was a creature with rotten flesh all over its body, dripping with fresh blood, wearing tattered talisman armor, with a fierce aura that made people's hearts jump with fear from afar.

With just one glance, Hu Ma was certain that it was indeed the Yin General that had escaped from the mine.

It had been missing for so long, and now it had come to this Shima Town?

In the arena, two figures were fighting fiercely around this ferocious and violent creature. One was Grandpa Sun, and the other was wearing a gray robe, and was the old altar master of the Da Shan Bao (Great Kindness Treasure), an old Shou Suiren surnamed Tang.

They used the skills of the Shou Suiren, sandwiching the ferocious creature in the middle, fists, feet, and weapons, all striking at its body. But the Yin General stood straight, charging left and right, and Grandpa Sun and Altar Master Tang couldn't suppress it at all.

“Quick, quick, capture it…”

Two teams of patrolling disciples wearing mourning clothes mustered their courage and rushed forward, holding several red threads, with copper coins strung on them.

They jumped and dodged, two people in a group, pulling the red threads straight, and the copper coins strung on them vibrated constantly, emitting a strange spirituality, trying to bind the ferocious creature.

But as soon as they got close, they cried out, and blood seeped out of their orifices and skin. From a distance, it looked like a strange blood mist, floating towards the Yin General in patches, and they were immediately frightened and retreated quickly.

They only stopped after retreating seven or eight *zhang*.

On the other side, some people were busy casting spells to subdue this thing.

Like the son-in-law of Wu Laolao (Old Woman Wu), he took a bowl from a black-faced and strong-bodied maid next to him, turned it around in his hand a few times, and then suddenly slammed it hard on the ground.

He shouted, “Hurry!”

Then, the bowl shattered with a *pa la* sound, and the eyes of the people around him suddenly looked strange.

The son-in-law's face immediately turned red, and he shouted, “Damn it, this thing doesn't have a spirit. My ghost-controlling spell can't subdue it.”

On the other side, the tall and sturdy Great Shopkeeper of the Wan Ma Gang (Ten Thousand Horse Gang) stood in the crowd, silently took out a white paper doll, chanted a spell in a low voice, bit his finger, drew eyes and a mouth on the doll's blank face, and shone it on the demonic corpse.

Suddenly, the doll shook its head and swayed its body, actually came to life, opened its sharp fangs, and bit his tiger's mouth. The pain made him shiver, and he hurriedly threw the doll on the ground. When he looked again, the doll had returned to its original form, but it was invisibly more demonic.

This unexpected scene made him gasp, and he hurriedly stepped on it, crushing it, thinking in his heart, “What exactly is this thing? How can it be so evil and violent?”

……

……

“No wonder Bai Shanzi was so eager to call me over to help…”

Hu Ma stood on the roof and had already taken in everything. Suddenly, he understood.

This Yin General was an extremely evil existence. Ordinary people, or people in the know without special methods, would have their blood energy sucked away by it from a distance as soon as they approached it.

And some strange techniques that worked on the three souls and seven spirits were ineffective against it, so when this thing rushed into the town and went berserk, the only ones who could temporarily suppress it were the Shou Suiren who had entered the gate of *fu* (referring to a higher level of cultivation).

The Shou Suiren could transform their entire bodies into a state of death, preventing their blood from being sucked away.

As he was thinking, Miao Zhen Xiangu of the One Coin Sect, who was standing next to him with a worried face, looked up and saw Hu Ma.

She immediately rushed over anxiously and shouted, “I was just looking for you…”

“I know!”

Hu Ma didn't need her to remind him. He agreed in a low voice, but his figure didn't stop for a moment and rushed straight over. He jumped from the roof directly into the battle circle, his figure unfolding like a divine soldier descending from heaven.

He was a reasonable person. You gave me good things, so helping you solve a demon corpse was the right thing to do. Why did you need to ask three or four times?

(End of Chapter)