"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Five consecutive dull sounds fell, the ground shaking five times in response.

The first:

A black giant python, which had no tail, with snake heads at both ends.

Its body coiled in the middle, with each snake head occupying half the position; one had a knife stabbed into it, the other a sword, swaying back and forth, its tongue flicking out, as if ready to devour someone.

The second:

A green ox, with two massive nose rings dangling from its nostrils, its body covered in dense whip marks, wounds exposing flesh and blood as an uncountable number of hands reached out from the torn flesh. These varied in size, color, age, and gender, each hand clenching the one above and the one below, thus forcibly holding the ox's split body together.

The third:

A monkey with entirely crimson flesh, its skin forcibly stripped away, leaving only writhing flesh beneath. Amidst the writhing blood-red mass, chains continuously emerged and submerged, seemingly acting as shackles, fixing the flesh in place to prevent it from falling apart.

The fourth:

An entirely pale centipede, with every antennae being a smaller centipede. As it lifted its body, the densely packed antennae on its underbelly crawled like white maggots over its ruptured abdomen.

The rupture was large, appearing to have been cleaved open by a sharp weapon, creating a wound that could not heal. Some antennae fell away only to quickly crawl back inside, resembling a flowing white waterfall hanging from its abdomen.

The fifth:

Its body was covered with fine yellow fuzz, possessing a human-like trunk, walking upright, but its head was that of a pig, with hands and feet resembling pig hooves, and a pig's tail swirling behind it.

It stood there, opening a huge pig's mouth, snorting with a sinister laugh.

Li Zhiyuan's gaze swept over them one by one.

Five appearing at once was something he hadn't expected.

But it didn't stop him from now memorizing them according to his usual habit.

Their colors, their characteristics, every detail on them, all engraved into his mind.

Once free from the shroud of white mist, these five Corpse Demons seemed to have fewer reservations.

The black python slithered, the green ox scraped its hooves, the monkey beat its chest, the centipede flung its body, and the pig-head grinned wickedly.

Together they advanced towards the house, beginning their oppression, their reckless momentum bringing about a jubilant response from countless evil spirits hidden within the white mist behind them.

If all these years of swarming was merely to torment the sole blood heir passed down by the Qin and Liu Families.

Then now, their real target had shifted to the only legitimate successor of the Qin and Liu Families of the present generation.

Even when the family shrine placements no longer held spirit, just as they thought they could revel without restraint, the boy appeared suddenly.

The boy regarded them as fish raised in a pond, using the lantern as a fishing hook to reel them in, as though each was a destined sacrificial offering on the chopping block of the future.

They were not enraged because their dignity had been offended.

Where would a bunch of things like them even get dignity from?

Only the bygone defeated generals of past Dragon Kings of the Qin and Liu Families gradually realizing that the young boy before them was far too young, yet his brilliance rivaled those Dragon Kings of the past.

A person like this, once grown, once he ascends Jiang Chenggong...

The matters that the Dragon Kings of the Qin and Liu Families across generations couldn't handle due to insufficient strength, he could resolve;

The hidden messes clinging to life and desperately hiding in the gaps and corners he could scrape out cleanly, bit by bit;

He could sweep the past, he could guard the present, and could even look forward into the future.

Such a person, starting his journey at such a young age... who can say for certain whether even the Heavenly Dao is in fear?

Thinking of themselves, as evil spirits, being able to "represent Heavenly Dao" someday, these filthy things laughed even more maliciously.

Li Zhiyuan silently fit the white lantern into a wall crack, turned around, and stepped back over the threshold.

The things outside thought he was scared, intimidated, retreating, and the five Corpse Demons began to press forward, each approaching threateningly.

The fog behind gradually thinned, thinning enough to discern the outlines of figures within.

Li Zhiyuan with his back to them, gazed at the broken plaques on the altar.

If they were still here, it would never be this noisy outside.

Li Zhiyuan knew, Alii actually didn't hate them, but neither did she hold them in much respect.

An ordinary family, even without ancestral fortunes, could at least provide some emotional value, burning incense during holidays so as not to appear lacking.

In Alii's case, it was purely a big pit left by ancestors, full of filth and grime.

Li Zhiyuan with hands tucked into his jacket pockets looked at these plaques.

Behind the boy was chaos and mayhem.

In the end, at this stage, the things behind temporarily won the victory.

Because Li Zhiyuan still had things to do.

He closed his eyes.

Upon opening them again, he had returned to Alii's bedroom.

The girl sat on the bed, arms hugging knees, looking at the boy.

Li Zhiyuan knew, Alii probably foresaw this situation before he did.

Because he was merely a passerby there, whereas Alii was more familiar with that house, that threshold, and the environment beyond it.

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