PD -Chapter 35 The Giant Skeleton

These yin bones were not the remains left behind after human corpses decayed. Rather, they were a phenomenon that appeared in places of extreme yin energy, where resentment had permeated the environment over a long period of time.

As the saying goes, sow melons and you reap melons; sow beans and you reap beans. It was a philosophical law of cause and effect. If someone planted an immeasurable amount of resentment here, then naturally it would eventually bear fruit.

And these yin bones were the crystallization of yin energy and resentment.

The yin bones appearing in the garden were formed from the countless spirits of victims trapped here, unable to dissipate. Over years upon years, they fused together and crystallized. They carried the grievances the victims had suffered in life and the resentment born from their deaths.

At that moment, the pile of black yin bones slowly assembled itself under the guidance of that resentment, piecing together into a bizarre black skeletal body.

The skeleton was enormous. Three black skulls rested upon its shoulders, each facing a different direction. Six arms were crossed diagonally over its ribcage, while its legs were formed from several elongated chains of leg bones strung together. It crawled half a meter forward through the muddy pit before slowly beginning to rise to its feet.

“Back up!” I shouted without taking my eyes off the yin-bone skeleton monster.

Old Luo’s men, along with Li Zi and the others, immediately retreated several steps.

Truthfully, I had been prepared for this. Although I was still a little surprised when the yin bones first appeared, it was broad daylight, when yang energy was at its strongest. I was fully confident that I could destroy the thing.

I glanced up at the sky and noticed that the sun was still hidden behind a cloud, as though it had deliberately concealed itself to watch the battle between me and the skeleton.

Let’s end this quickly, I thought.

I immediately pulled out a stack of prepared talismans from my pocket. Activating them with spiritual energy, the talismans began to glow with golden light and shot toward the yin-bone skeleton one after another, surrounding the creature that had only managed to raise half its body from the pit.

The skeleton seemed to be suffering from osteoporosis. It took forever just to stand up. When it saw my talismans flying toward it, it actually stretched out three of its arms and grabbed at them, trying to use them as support to pull itself upright.

At that moment, I couldn’t help but think how fortunate it was that this was happening during the day. If it had been nighttime, facing a fully mobile yin-bone skeleton would have been far more troublesome.

The instant its bony fingers seized one of my talismans, I stepped forward in a Gang Step and formed a hand seal.

Then I chanted the Demon-Burning Incantation.

The talismans surrounding the skeleton immediately erupted into blue flames.

The blue fire raced along the skeleton’s black arm bones and spread upward. The black smoke connecting its arm joints to its ribcage was instantly burned away by the Demon-Burning Fire.

The two black arms immediately detached and fell from the skeleton’s body.

I took another step forward. Spiritual energy surged from my body into the talismans. One by one, the talismans burned away completely, transforming into several independent blue flames. They landed upon the various joints of the black skeleton, targeting all the black yin energy that held its body together.

At that exact moment, the dark cloud finally drifted away.

Brilliant sunlight once again poured down upon the world, illuminating the entire garden pit.

The black bones began making the same sizzling sounds they had produced when they were first unearthed, like eggs frying in a pan.

But this time, no black mist emerged.

The smoky tendrils connecting its joints had already been completely vaporized by my Demon-Burning Fire.

Without the black yin energy holding it together, the pile of black bones immediately collapsed. The three skulls rolled through the mud first, followed by the rest of the skeleton scattering across the pit.

I sighed inwardly.

There was no longer any way to refine this thing using the Spirit Refinement Art.

“Now! Hurry!” I shouted to the people beside me.

Old Luo immediately led the workers forward. They brought out the large sacks of sea salt we had prepared beforehand and began dumping the white salt into the pit, burying the yin bones as thoroughly as possible.

Sea salt, formed after seawater endured long periods of exposure beneath the sun, was saturated with yang energy and thus an extremely yang substance. It was perfectly suited for suppressing yin entities.

The moment the extremely yin bones came into contact with the extremely yang sea salt, the white salt crystals began melting rapidly into clear brine.

At the same time, the black yin bones started melting like ice cream, turning into sticky black sludge within the muddy pit.

I instructed everyone to continue pouring in salt until the black substance became nearly transparent and newly added salt no longer dissolved. Only then did I tell them to stop.

“Good grief, we dumped a hundred or two hundred pounds of salt in there!” Li Zi exclaimed, staring wide-eyed at the now peaceful pit.

Seeing that nothing else was happening, I finally relaxed and joked, “What? Are you worried about the salt or the money? If you’re having second thoughts, maybe you should just return the haunted house.”

“Don’t! Please don’t!” Li Zi replied hurriedly.

“I was just completely stunned by what happened. I honestly didn’t know what to say.”

“Big Brother, those moves you just pulled off left us speechless,” said Er Leng, the friend Li Zi often called by that nickname, giving me a thumbs-up.

“A true master hidden among ordinary people… no, wait, a real expert who keeps a low profile!”

“See?” Li Zi laughed as well.

“The guy I found was never going to disappoint!”

The other friend they jokingly called Monkey immediately joined in with his own praise.

“I really regret not starting the livestream in time. We should’ve shown that scene to all those trolls in our stream chat. Let them see your real skills and stop claiming we’re faking everything.”

There were still injuries visible on Monkey’s face. Apparently, he had been the one who had nearly been knocked unconscious by the car’s airbag a few days earlier.

The workers had been laboring nonstop for hours and were exhausted. They found patches of shorter grass along the wall and sat down to rest.

Once the excavated soil piled in the front yard had dried sufficiently, I had them refill the pit in the garden.

Then, using sea salt, I set up a massive Purification of the Land Formation at the appropriate positions corresponding to the villa’s astrological layout. Talismans painted with cinnabar were soaked in oil and buried at the formation’s core.

With that, the cleanup work outside the villa was finally complete.

Next came the most troublesome task:

The cleansing of the villa’s interior.

As evening gradually approached, I decided to play it safe. I told Old Luo to take the workers and head back with Li Zi’s group to rest.

With Liu Xiaopeng absent, I would have to investigate the villa’s interior and that eerie basement on my own.

However, no matter how much I tried to persuade them, Li Zi and his two friends absolutely refused to leave.

They insisted on accompanying me inside.

According to them, missing the livestream during the afternoon battle had been a huge waste.

Tonight, they wanted to start a livestream and broadcast my exorcism of the villa in real time.