Just A Daoist Who Occasionally Kicks Ass-Chapter 459: Ultra-Large Locator! Starving Ghost! Yin Kui Old Woman! Save Me!

Chapter 459: Ultra-Large Locator! Starving Ghost! Yin Kui Old Woman! Save Me!

While Cuihua protected him as he took the Blood-Qi Pill, Li Yanchu also ordered the Jiaoslayer to protect her. With that, he strode out of Qingyun Temple.

In his hand, the Eight Trigrams Mirror could reveal the locations of all yin qi and evil auras in the city. He planned to cleanse each of these places one by one.

In a rundown house somewhere in the city, plaster peeled from the walls, and weeds overran the yard. Inside, the air reeked of mildew, and paper offerings were scattered across the floor alongside a fire basin.

A man with a huge belly but a thin neck held a white incense stick in his hands while gnawing at it ravenously. This starving ghost’s eyes glowed red, its eating habits feral and terrifying. No one knew where this yin spirit had emerged from.

The room was otherwise silent, save for the grinding of teeth and gnawing sounds, enough to make anyone’s scalp crawl. Ordinary people entering this room would see nothing of the starving ghost. Only those with exceptionally bad luck, whose life force was nearly extinguished, could sense it. With their yang-fire almost gone, it was as if they had half a foot already in the coffin.

Creak!

At this time, the door opened. A gust of wind blew in with mottled sunlight spilling across the room, and the starving ghost’s blood-red eyes snapped toward the intruder with a feral and brutal look. Any normal person witnessing this would likely die of fright and become its next meal, for most of the time, these things consumed the organs of living humans.

A young Daoist pushed the door open, stepping inside with a trace of curiosity on his face, like a neighbor who accidentally walked into the wrong house.

The starving ghost’s aura instantly turned icy, and the paper offerings began to swirl, as if moved by invisible hands.

Seeing this, the young Daoist smiled faintly. “Got you!”

As if he were the real villain, he stepped forward, reaching directly in front of the starving ghost and seizing it. From his palm burst a surge of intense blood-qi, a wave of overwhelming blood and qi that flashed past instantly reduced the vicious starving ghost to ash. With that, a red dot disappeared from the Eight Trigrams Mirror.

Li Yanchu treated it as a trivial task and moved on, leaving the cold, sinister house behind.

Elsewhere, in a brothel, a popular courtesan[1] with a supple, alluring figure and delicate skin attended to a wealthy young master, bowing her head as she recounted her tragic past, “I was originally from an official family, but my parents died when I was young. I drifted into the mortal world and was taken in by a kind aunt... only to find she was obsessed with money. She sold me to this brothel... my... my life has been so hard!”

Then, the famed courtesan sobbed quietly as the wealthy young master gently rubbed her back.

What followed was almost inevitable, and the young master’s vital energy steadily drained during the act; his aura wilted in an instant. Yet his face flushed, his eyes gleaming as if he were experiencing the utmost pleasure.

Suddenly, a young Daoist appeared. His posture was upright, his features sharp and refined, and he was astonishingly handsome.

The famed courtesan froze, then licked her lips with her tiny, seductive tongue. What a handsome young Daoist... could he be here to subdue me?

But Li Yanchu’s gaze was not caught up in any salacious scene. Instead, he saw an old woman with elaborate, flashy hair ornaments and dressed seductively, entwined with a young gentleman.

The sight made him frown slightly.

“You evil demonic cultivator! Not only are you stealing life essence, you’re out here terrifying people!” Li Yanchu snorted coldly.

He swung his palm, and blazing yang-fire instantly incinerated the old witch practicing forbidden arts. This Yin Kui old woman[2] had been steeped in resentment and had taken countless lives.

Downstairs, a burly young man looked up in shock, barely able to believe his eyes.

“The Yin Kui old woman... is dead!?” He ripped off his headscarf, revealing a shining bald head with a row of scar rings.

With a powerful leap, he landed silently on the second floor.

This was Master Zhiqing, who had been tracking the Yin Kui old woman and finally located her, only to find her aura suddenly vanished.

He rushed to a room, then... BANG! A single kick shattered the door with astounding force.

Inside, only a young wealthy master sat, his energy depleted. The Yin Kui old woman, who had been absorbing life essence, was nowhere to be seen.

No. Monk Zhiqing’s eyes gleamed with golden light as he scanned the room.

“What overwhelming blood-qi... like a furnace! In an instant, it killed the Yin Kui old woman without a single trace left!?”

He was stunned; suddenly, he recalled a tale spreading through Wei City that day, and he was flabbergasted.

“It was that third-realm young Daoist!?”

The same thing had occurred across Wei City. The city, once calm, had drawn many wandering heroes, strange talents, and martial oddities due to the frequent emergence of Blissful Lands.

Among them were righteous disciples of both Buddhist and Daoist sects, as well as independent mystics and heretical practitioners. Some were good, some evil, with varying conduct. Many couldn’t resist committing crimes in Wei City, only to all be found by a young Daoist, and bloodshed erupted across the city. One by one, the evil cultists, dark spirits, and demonic freaks vanished mysteriously. They disappeared from the mortal world without explanation, and only a scorching and intense trace of blood-qi remained at the scene.

With Li Yanchu’s current abilities, and wielding three sentient treasures tonight, eradicating these evil cultists and demonic fiends barely caused a ripple; it was eerily calm.

The Eight Trigrams Mirror, a hundred-thousand-merit-points treasure, required only a glance. No matter how powerful the demon, its soul would instantly scatter. They didn’t even have a chance to manifest their primordial spirit forms!

His method of slaughter was horrifyingly efficient, and in a single night, Wei City was completely purged. More accurately, it took just half a night, earning him 43,000 merit points in that time.

Back at the temple, Li Yanchu felt a twinge of fatigue. After all, he had been working continuously for a long time, night shift included. So, it was normal that he was tired.

He glanced at the neighboring room and saw the Jiaoslayer standing guard at the door, impressively diligent, as if ready to strike the moment someone approached. When it saw Li Yanchu, the saber joyfully flew up.

“Go, go, go, stay over there!” Li Yanchu scolded.

It wasn’t that he disliked the saber’s sentience, but before, it had been fierce and domineering like a killing machine, merciless and sharp!

Now, its puppy-like behavior was too much to handle. What kind of personality is this?!

The Jiaoslayer, with its simple sentience, obediently returned to its sheath after hearing him, performing a smooth, fluid motion to hang itself at Li Yanchu’s waist as if it was trying to say, hug me.

“I still prefer your cold, aloof self. Snap back to that!” Li Yanchu said.

Whether the saber didn’t understand or was simply too mischievous, it continued nuzzling him.

“Help me... save me!” a sudden, low voice echoed.

In the dead of night, it was genuinely frightening.

Li Yanchu paused. This place is haunted!?

The corner of his mouth twitched slightly. Well... this is perfect!

1. The term ‘Red Card Girl’ meant ‘the most popular girl.’ Where does this come from? In the past, at the brothel district in Shek Tong Tsui, behind the manager’s desk at the entrance, there was a large wooden board covered with bamboo nameplates, each bearing the stage name of a girl, humorously called the ‘Gallery of Beauties.’ When a girl was chosen by a client to accompany them or serve drinks, the brothel manager would mark her bamboo nameplate with a dot of cinnabar ink to keep a record.

Thus, a ‘Red Card Girl’ came to signify a girl with good business. ☜

2. I think the Yin Kui here refers to the Yin Kui Sect is the largest demonic faction in Huang Yi’s wuxia novels, first appearing in Shattered Void and described in detail in Twin Dragons of the Tang Dynasty. ☜