I Come to Teach You Cultivation-Chapter 33: Who Doesn’t Have a Heart Demon?

[In the end, they’re just a bunch of...] 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

Before the thought had fully surfaced in his mind, the Celestial Destiny Bone Armor in Li Boyang’s hand abruptly ceased its spinning.

Staring at the upturned bone armor, Li Boyang’s pupils suddenly contracted.

Next, the Flying Sword, which had been speeding through the black mist, came to an abrupt halt without warning, its blade trembling uncontrollably.

"You mere Mountain God, how dare you treat me so!"

A thunderous voice suddenly echoed from within Black Cloud Marsh.

Just as Li Boyang would not wait for the Ghost King of Black Cloud Marsh to fully form,

that strange old man, experienced as he was, would never sit idly by as he himself was being weakened.

—The "timing" that had appeared in earlier divinations was here!

Whr...whr...whr...

In the blink of an eye, the entire black mist of Black Cloud Marsh surged like a raging storm.

Terrifying roars and howls of tigers and wolves rang out for a hundred miles, startling countless mountain people living nearby.

Nearby villagers and townsfolk panicked and leapt from their beds, scrambling to see what was happening outside.

What awaited them, however, was endless darkness, and a beast tide arriving earlier than ever.

"Roar!"

Waves of beastly bellows rolled out from the mountains, drawing ever closer to human settlements at the foot of the range.

In such circumstances, it was inevitable that Li Yu and his wife Chen Yun would be startled awake.

Li Yu hurriedly dressed and grabbed his bow and arrows.

He rushed outside at once, rallying the able-bodied men of the village to prepare for the approaching beast tide.

As for his wife, Chen Yun?

She hadn’t even time to properly dress before she dashed to Li Boyang’s cradle in a panic.

"Son!?"

From Chen Yun’s perspective at this moment, Li Boyang’s three eyes were wide open, flames licking at his brow.

In his hand he gripped a round piece of bone, looking as terrifying as a demonic apparition.

But Chen Yun spared no thought for that, immediately sweeping her son into her arms out of impulse.

"Son, are you alright?"

"Don’t scare mother like that! My heart’s not so strong!"

Feeling the burning heat radiating from Li Boyang’s body, panic-stricken Chen Yun could not keep tears from streaming down her face.

And at that very moment, Li Boyang’s shadow suddenly twisted out of shape without warning.

It was as if a Fierce Ghost was struggling to break free of its bonds.

Li Boyang’s shadow contorted and writhed, gradually taking the ghastly form of a blue-faced, tusked specter.

"Don’t you dare harm my son!"

Seeing the fiendish ghost about to form, the fierce side of Chen Yun’s nature exploded forth once more.

Without a moment’s hesitation, she grabbed a nearby pair of scissors and stabbed fiercely at the blue-faced fiend.

Thunk!

Sadly, not only was her attack useless, it utterly enraged the Evil Ghost.

"You court death!"

A guttural voice issued from the Evil Ghost’s mouth as torrents of Evil Qi surged in from all sides.

"The one courting death is you!"

At the critical moment, Li Boyang, now clear-headed, gave a hoarse shout in his childish but indistinct voice.

Because he had forced himself to speak, his young voice was a little raspy, but it nonetheless stunned the Evil Ghost.

"You..."

The blue-faced, tusked specter stared wide-eyed, incredulous at Li Boyang clutched tightly in Chen Yun’s arms.

"If you are my Heart Demon, then she is your mother too!"

"I thought to see what power you had, but now it seems I cannot let you remain!"

His words had barely fallen when the fiendish ghost let out a miserable shriek.

By the time Chen Yun regained herself, the Evil Ghost who had tried to harm her had already had its wits erased by Li Boyang, reverting to its original shadowy form.

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At the same time, outside Li Family Village.

The young men rallied by Li Yu stood with tense faces, staring warily out beyond the village.

Amid the noisy darkness, pairs of bloodthirsty eyes hid in the shadows as if they might charge out at any moment.

"Big brother, it seems those beasts are deliberately avoiding our village?"

After a long standoff, the sharp-witted Li Chengfeng seemed to have noticed something, quietly pointing toward the village entrance.

"Huh? That does seem to be the case?"

At these words, the rest of the villagers immediately caught on, breaking into startled discussion.

They realized that the beasts lurking in the darkness appeared, intentionally or otherwise, to be avoiding their village.

Or to be more precise, they were avoiding the village’s only exit.

"What are they afraid of?"

Li Yu, with his years of experience with mountain beasts, immediately sensed something was off.

Yet this only deepened his confusion.

The only things that could frighten so many beasts into actively detouring were typically the "Mountain Lords" who ruled a stretch of forest.

But the problem was, there weren’t many Mountain Lords of that level in the entire Hundred Lands Mountain Range.

If such a Mountain Lord truly existed nearby, Li Family Village would have long since relocated elsewhere.

"Did Big Girl and ’Non-crying’ Baby recently go over there?"

As if something had just occurred to him, Li Yu consciously lowered his voice to ask Li Er at his side.

"Uh, the two little ones run all over the village..."

"The village entrance isn’t dangerous—how could they not have gone there?"

Li Er shot a rather peculiar look at Li Yu, clearly not expecting such a question at this time.

Li Chengfeng at the side, however, seemed to catch Li Yu’s underlying meaning.

"Back when we were making bricks and setting up sentry posts, Big Girl and ’Non-crying’ Baby seemed to be lingering around the village entrance..."

"I even asked her about it—Big Girl said she was burying something."

Meeting Li Chengfeng’s gaze, Li Yu fell silent.

He asked nothing further and simply turned his gaze toward the mouth of the village.

"No matter what, things are already turning out better than we’d hoped."

There was no need to fight those beasts and Spirit Monsters to the death—this already far exceeded Li Yu’s wildest hopes.

"What about the other villages?"

Suddenly, someone asked this rather ill-timed question.

This beast tide was unprecedented, and it happened to come at the turn of spring.

Li Family Village’s better fortune meant other villages fared worse.

If this beast tide did not end soon...

Even if the other villages survived this tide, they would surely not make it through the coming winter.

"Let’s see how things play out for now..."

"If this beast tide really bypasses our village, we’ll gather some men to check on the others."

Scanning his surroundings, Li Yu’s words brought another heavy silence among those gathered.

As mountain people living near the forests, the villages had their disputes, but they also shared a relationship of mutual dependence and aid.

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