eath energy was hovering around it. Seeing these dark energies, he sighed in relief—though dense, they hadn't formed human shapes yet.Xiao Yu realized that this situation meant none of the children ha...Chapter 126: Greatly Malevolent Artifact

Witnessing everything happening to the girl, not only Jin Xianglin and his group were shocked, even the two masters revealed expressions of alarm. What kind of needle technique was this They had seen black magic before; it happened when one of their old friends was fighting against a black-magic sorcerer. Although their friend managed to win that battle, those who fell victim to the black magic could not be saved in time. After dying, the person’s body turned completely dark purple and within moments, his organs were eaten clean by insects.

After eating up the man's internal organs, it seemed like the insects also wanted to break through his skin, causing numerous fist-sized lumps all over the dead body. Their friend from Hong Kong then immediately set fire to the corpse with gasoline. Afterwards, they learned that these creatures were a new breed of zombie-insects bred by Southeast Asian black-magic sorcerers, more sinister than any other venomous insects.

Seeing Xiao Yu’s few golden needles gather all those insects together, both masters could not help but show profound expressions of alarm.

Even though Jin Xianglin and his group did not know what was going on with their daughter's body, seeing these creatures moving like living beings inside her body made every hair on their bodies stand up straight. Chills filled them from the core.

Xiao Yu saw that the large lumps on the girl’s body stopped growing bigger and pulled out a dagger from his medical kit. When he drew this blade, a flash of cold light flickered in the living room, instantly causing a sudden chill to fill the villa's main hall.

The two masters’ originally calm faces changed dramatically, subconsciously stepping back while reaching into their bags and looking at Xiao Yu with caution. The man standing by the corner wearing black Zhongshan suits reacted even more strongly: his muscles instantly tensed up as he rushed forward to shield Jin Xianglin and Xiao Jingru from behind.

The two masters’ palms were sweaty, grasping talismans inside their bags, their eyes flashing with alarm.

A GREATLY MALEVOLENT ARTIFACT!! A DEFINITELY GREATLY MALEVOLENT ARTIFACT!!!

In the eyes of the two masters, as soon as this blade left its scabbard, a sinister aura hidden deep within it instantly enveloped the entire villa’s main hall like solid matter. It even made them feel suffocated.

How many lives and how much blood would it take to turn an ordinary dagger into such a malevolent item

The young man in the black Zhongshan suit, although unaware of what was going on, felt a strong aura of煞氣(presumably 'malevolence' or 'menace') pressing down upon him from where he had been standing at the corner. It was so intense that it left him breathless and drenched in sweat instantly.

Jin Xianglin and others did not feel this way; instead, they noticed a sudden drop in temperature inside the room, as if they had suddenly fallen into an ice cellar during the scorching summer. Their pores opened up immediately, and their scalps tingled with goosebumps covering their entire body.

Jin Xianglin and others saw the black-clad man stand abruptly before them in such a cold room. Despite the chilly environment, beads of sweat as big as beans were trickling down his cheeks, and he seemed slightly out of breath.

They knew this black-clad individual was an elite soldier from a certain military unit who had retired. Jin Xianglin had gone through great lengths and paid a hefty sum to hire him after leveraging various connections.

In M country, Jin Xianglin had offended a local gang; when the latter sent people to assassinate him at his villa, this black-clad man single-handedly eliminated them all. Later on, he even launched a surprise attack against their gang and incapacitated forty-eight of its members.

Back then, this black-clad man had not been as anxious; now, however, faced with such a small dagger, he appeared utterly flustered.

Xiao Yu paid no heed to everyone's reactions but held the dagger in his hand, showing a nostalgic expression. This was one of the legacies left by Xiao Yu’s maternal grandfather. When he first received this dagger recently, he had liked its appearance very much; however, when he drew it out, the malevolent aura emanating from it frightened him. From Zhong Kui's memory, no one besides Bai Qi in legends possessed such a menacing item.

Xiao Yu used the dagger to lightly draw across the large lump on the girl’s body, causing a black, foul-smelling liquid to ooze out of her skin. He quickly caught it with an iron basin; within this dark liquid were white specks that kept moving around ceaselessly.

When the dark fluid had drained completely from inside, the large lump remained raised and continued to move over the girl’s wrinkled skin.

Xiao Yu wielded his dagger to lightly trace a circle around the area where the lump was on her body. The patch of skin along with its lump detached and fell into the basin; instantly after hitting it, the girl's skin peeled off from this area revealing a fist-sized ball made up of white worms rolling and wriggling inside the basin.

Upon seeing the cluster of white worms in the basin, Jin Xianglin, Xiao Jingru, Xiao Jian, and Fang Yuan all turned their heads away to vomit into the corner of the room.

Even the two masters and the black-clad man looked very unhappy, swallowing their nausea as they watched Xiao Yu.

Xiao Yu's heart was also churning, but he suppressed it. Although he had seen such a disgusting scene in Zhong Kui's memories, those were just memories and didn't have the same impact as reality.

Xiao Yu then cut off the large swellings on the girl’s palms and soles, finding these creatures inside each of them. After Xiao Yu removed all the swellings from the girl's body and saw red blood flowing out from where he had cut, he finally stopped. At this point, the insects in the basin were no longer bunched together but spread out thinly across the bottom of the basin.

Xiao Yu poured the bottle of gasoline that the black-clad man had brought into the basin and used a lighter to ignite it before throwing it inside. A loud explosion followed as flames shot up into the sky; at the moment Xiao Yu ignited the basin, there was a series of crackling sounds coming from within.

In the closest villa to the haunted house, in the dark, a black figure sat cross-legged on the ground, and strange syllables were emitted from its mouth.

A muffled groan suddenly came out of the person’s mouth. If there was light here, one would see that this person's face had turned red all of a sudden; another muffled groan followed as black blood flowed out of their mouth and down their chin. The look on the person’s face became vicious.

"Puh…" Unable to endure the churning in his heart any longer, he opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of black blood. As soon as this dark liquid touched the ground, plumes of green smoke rose up from it; looking at the floor, one could see small pits resembling acid burns.

"Who is it Who ruined my magic" A sharp, piercing voice echoed through the spacious villa in the darkness, reverberating off the walls.

The figure roared for a while before gradually quieting down. However, the viciousness and cruelty evident in his eyes and on his face showed that he wouldn't take this lying down.

In the fire raging over the basin, a foul stench rose with the flames. Seeing that no more black blood was flowing from the girl's wounds, Xiao Yu looked into the first aid kit and took out a porcelain bottle, sprinkling some white powder on the wounds.

After pouring the white medicine onto the wound that had been bleeding profusely, the blood stopped flowing and the wound began to dry up. Then Xiao Yu took an antidote pill and said to Xiao Jingru: "Think of a way to make her take this antidote."

Upon receiving the detoxifying pill from Xiao Yu, Xiao Jingju intended to place it in her daughter's mouth, but the girl kept her lips tightly closed, no matter how Xiao Jingju tried, she couldn't put the pill inside. With no other choice, Xiao Jingju picked up a cup of water and chewed the pill into a paste before feeding it to her daughter.

When the piercing sound rang out earlier, Xiao Yu instantly recognized this as the sign of the girl's condition worsening due to the so-called 'black magic'. He knew that the supposed black magic was controlled by the practitioner using such high-pitched sounds, which caused insects within the victim’s body. Now that all the insects inside the girl had been eliminated, the so-called black magic was deemed nullified.

The saying goes, "Everything changes but nothing is truly lost," though this particular form of black magic had undergone drastic alterations and become a malevolent practice, its core still stemmed from sorcery.

Seeing that all toxins within the girl’s body were cleansed by Xiao Yu, both masters felt relieved as they understood what their old friend had mentioned about such black magic. The fundamental basis of these spells was indeed those venomous insects; now that they were gone from the girl's body, there would be no lingering concerns.

Seeing that the girl was out of immediate danger, Xiao Yu sheathed his dagger back into its scabbard. As he did so, the room’s temperature gradually returned to normal levels.

"You...," upon seeing Xiao Yu putting away his dagger, Master Zhang had just opened his mouth to inquire about the knife's origin but was stopped by Grandmaster Li. Glancing at everyone in the room, Master Zhang followed Grandmaster Li's gaze and fell silent once more.

“Young man, where did that sound come from” With no further worries, they needed to confront the black magic practitioner next. This was not only on account of Jin Xianglin but also because foreign occult forces mustn't run rampant in Chinese territory.

"The sound came from over there, in that villa!" Xiao Yu pointed towards the haunted villa and explained.

Upon hearing where the black magic practitioner was located, Xiao Jian's previously composed expression swiftly changed. After a brief moment, he pretended nothing had happened and walked away to one side of the room.

Xiao Jian moved to a corner and looked around cautiously. Seeing no one paying attention to him, he took out his phone and dialed a specific number.thought it over and agreed. He felt that cooking fancy dishes was less appealing than having a canteen-style meal which reminded them of the time when they fought in the Anti-Japanese War, where every...