In the graveyard at night, all the sounds that were ordinary during the day seemed so inconceivable, as if they carried echoes with them.

The strangely shaped branches, like the claws and bodies of monsters, cast terrifying shadows on the ground.

"Where is it?" Li Changzhou asked Yang Qinglan in a low voice, ready to kill with a single blow.

"I don't know."

Li Changzhou turned his head and looked earnestly at Yang Qinglan, who was carefully surveying the graveyard.

"The Shadow Cat tracked it here and then lost contact, but I can still feel its presence." Yang Qinglan answered.

"So, what do we do now?" Li Qianxia, holding the Blood-colored Steel Spear in her left hand and the Desert Eagle in her right, cautiously moved closer to her brother; she was afraid of ghosts.

Li Changzhou looked at Bi: "It's all yours, Your Highness, Princess."

"So we have to dig up a grave..."

Before Li Qianxia could finish, the Czar Princess twirled her tongue around her lollipop, gave a slight suck, and the sweetness intensified in her mouth as she lifted her hands in a gesture.

Boom!

It was as if a mighty gale erupted from beneath the earth, sending everything on the graveyard's surface—branches, dirt, gravestones, glinting stone crosses—into the air.

Bi's golden hair flew about, her forehead completely exposed, her lake-green eyes and youthful face now stern and forbidding.

"Dong!"

"Dong!"

From afar, the grand bell of the church rang out, and dozens of Monks who were in evening prayer rushed over, clad in long robes.

Bi swung her slender right arm to the right.

The sky-full of dirt, branches, gravestones, and crosses became clusters of arrows shooting towards the Monks.

Some of the Monks, skilled in Holy Magic, blocked the attacks.

The others, who had no such skills, were sent flying even by the dirt, moving as fast as arrows, and lay on the ground wailing in agony.

"Hurry up!" Yang Qinglan said in a low voice.

Li Changzhou's gaze settled on a pine tree in the graveyard.

Whoosh! The pine tree caught fire from the Hot Sight, turning into a giant candle, its sparks dancing like fireflies in the night wind.

He raised his hand, and the flames rose into the sky.

Clasping his fingers together suddenly, he made a fist, and the flames burst open like fireworks!

Pit-pat, pit-pat, the rain-like flames scattered, falling towards each unearthed grave.

Soon, each grave was ablaze, crackling noises filled the air, and the four of them stood as if on a piece of coal that spewed fire from every hole.

They waited for a while, but still, no one emerged.

"Not here?" Li Changzhou pondered in confusion before tentatively asking, "Am I handsome?"

"Ah!"

The four turned their heads, as out of a grave behind them crawled a half-rotted corpse, its gums exposed, its whole body ignited by the flames, emitting waves of foul stench.

"Ah!" "Ah!"

Almost half of the graves, bodies were crawling out.

Some were half decayed, some only bones, and some not even complete skeletons; a pile of bones that couldn't even be pieced together into a human shape rolled out clattering.

The flames on these bodies, under the will of Li Changzhou, flowed like liquid, igniting more surrounding pine trees.

An endless fire swept through like a gale rather than flames, blowing away all the rotting corpses and bones, turning them into pitch-black ash.

The king cobra slithered out from beside Li Changzhou, its forked tongue tasting the air to prevent the inhalation of toxic gases released by the burning bodies.

After the flames burned the bodies to death, they fell again on those graves from which no bodies had crawled out.

"Hmm—" Li Changzhou hugged his arms, "Not yet."

"Hehe, who said there were any here." Bi let out a mocking laugh and with a flick of her finger, sent a charging monk flying.

Yang Qinglan too was lost in thought, no, she was sensing the exact location of Shadow Cat.

The flames scorched the air, occasionally interrupted by the crackling sound of explosions.

"In the name of the Master!" from among the monks, a deep and resounding voice called out.

"The lecherous, the ugly toads must gnaw at their skin, and serpents must suck their blood!"

"The miserly will lie stiff as death on an opulent bed with ornamental posts, becoming the prey for a flock of demons, who will snatch the baby-shaped souls from their dying breaths, so they can never reincarnate for eternity!"

"The gluttons shall tear at each other, devouring each other's blood and flesh, entwining nauseatingly into one mass!"

Each time the monk recited a line, he glanced at the four persons, but after three sentences without reaction, anxiety welled up inside him.

"The prideful, a demon perches on their shoulder, using Sharp Claws to gouge out their eyes!"

The monk suddenly felt overjoyed.

Li Changzhou felt a weight on his body, a small demon with goat horns and wings, full of malignity, appeared out of nowhere, perching on his shoulder at some point.

"Heheha!" amid the sinister laughter, the demon's claw-like hands reached for his eyes.

A pungent smell of sulfur filled his nostrils.

"Brother!"

"Changzhou!"

Li Qianxia and Yang Qinglan were about to lend a hand when Li Changzhou's eyes had already turned red...

But someone was faster than them, faster than Li Changzhou; the human-shaped black mist that had long been motionless made its move, grabbing the little demon's head and yanking it off Li Changzhou's back.

"Aah!" the little demon screamed, its legs kicking desperately but ineffectually, like a powerless carrot.

The human-shaped black mist performed a sword-swallowing trick, stuffing the little demon into its "mouth" alive, the action seemingly accompanied by audible gulping noises.

"The slothful..." the monk who continued to chant scripture looked unbelievingly at Li Changzhou.

The demon had disappeared?

The 'Seven Deadly Sins Demon Holy Technique' was not about summoning demons, but about awakening the demons deep inside a person's heart.

The demons would not die as long as the one they were cast upon was alive.

The essence of the curse wasn't to harm people, but to make people realize their flaws, to change themselves, thus making the demon disappear; conversely, the only way to make the demon disappear was to change oneself.

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