This sudden change caught Chen Shi by surprise, making him stick his head out of the cage to look around.
"Feifei can speak, her skills aren't weak!"
He thought to himself, "She probably also reached the Golden Core stage! Earlier, when we surrounded her, if she had fought back, she could have easily defeated us. And Fu Leisheng, he must have appeared in the Eastern Market because he suspects the goose-selling old man is behind the students' disappearances!"
Hu Feifei had mentioned that Fu Leisheng liked money and had sold students' Divine Fetuses.
Now, it seems that was likely just a rumor.
If Fu Leisheng were truly such a person, he wouldn't care about Gu Qingmeng, wouldn't rush to send Gu Qingmeng home.
Nor would he risk his life to sneak into the county office at night.
Fu Leisheng must have used a Heavenly Eye Talisman or something similar to recognize that one of the big white geese was Hu Feifei.
But how did he know Hu Feifei could speak?
Could it be he already knew Hu Feifei was a fox spirit?
Just as he thought of this, he saw the magistrate's wife transform back into a charming woman, with a long centipede body behind her, making a clattering sound as it moved, sparks flying.
"Madam, please wait."
Magistrate Geng suddenly spoke.
The magistrate's wife paused slightly, not attacking Fu Leisheng, and looked at Magistrate Geng.
With an apologetic face, Magistrate Geng said, "Mr. Fu, if I let you take these students, would you spare my wife and me?"
The magistrate's wife, furious, shouted, "Geng Chun, what do you mean by this? How can you let the goose fly away when it's already in our mouth?"
Magistrate Geng shook his head and said, "Ling'er, we've been found out, I can't be a magistrate anymore. This was our mistake from the start, how can we keep making mistakes? Mr. Fu, to be honest, my wife and I aren't evil spirits. We were originally human. My wife Zhai Ling accidentally obtained a technique called the Nine Heavens Encircling Moon Technique. She was delighted and began practicing it, not knowing it required absorbing moonlight to cultivate..."
He stopped here, his face turning gloomy.
The magistrate's wife shouted, "Geng Chun, why are you telling him all this? Let's join forces and kill him."
Magistrate Geng shook his head, "Ling'er, we've already done wrong, harmed many people, how can we keep making mistakes? Mr. Fu, after my wife started practicing this technique, she gradually became strange, her body changed, especially after forming the Golden Core, she became less human."
He continued sadly, "Once she started consuming blood food, she developed a taste for human flesh. Every time the moon rises, she becomes more evil, more like an evil spirit. I love my wife dearly, so I had to satisfy her. Sir..."
Magistrate Geng said, "Please take these students away. I have no face to be the magistrate of New Township County anymore. After you leave, I will resign and hand over my seal, taking my wife to hide in the Heavenly Yang Mountain."
Fu Leisheng was moved, "I didn't expect such a story between the magistrate and his wife. I was presumptuous. I am not someone who forces others. I only wish to take the students back. If you resign, I won't make it public."
Magistrate Geng called the goose-selling old man, "Old Wu, take down the goose cage and send it to the Scholars Academy for Mr. Fu."
The goose-selling old man looked at the magistrate's wife.
The magistrate's wife, helpless, nodded, tears falling, "Geng Chun, today I will listen to you and go into hiding."
With that, she gradually returned to her human form.
Fu Leisheng's eyes turned red, "Madam is also a pitiful person. If not for practicing that technique, you two would still be a pair of celestial lovers, envied by others."
The goose-selling old man, holding a bamboo pole, came to the tree, took down the goose cages, and opened them, releasing the white geese inside.
At that moment, a black dog suddenly appeared, grabbed one of the big white geese, and ran away.
The goose-selling old man couldn't catch up, angrily saying, "Damn dog, why haven't they caught it yet? Are these officers just freeloaders?"
Fu Leisheng picked up the bamboo pole he had dropped, bowed, "Magistrate Geng, Madam, I take my leave."
Magistrate Geng sighed, "I won't see you off."
Fu Leisheng herded the geese with the bamboo pole, leaving the county office's backyard, heading towards the Scholars Academy.
The goose-selling old man quickly said, "I know geese well, I'll help you watch them, so none get lost."
Fu Leisheng agreed, and the two of them guarded the geese as they walked down the street.
The big white goose that the black dog had taken away was now sitting on the dog's back, riding quietly back to the county office's backyard.
Magistrate Geng and his wife sat at the dining table, one sitting, one standing, silent.
The magistrate's wife was still wiping her tears, saddened by her fate.
"Madam, stop crying. Fu Leisheng... really believed it."
Magistrate Geng suddenly laughed.
The magistrate's wife also chuckled, tears streaming down her cheeks, "He actually believed it. He actually thought we accidentally practiced an evil technique and became like this. He didn't even consider that I might really be an evil spirit."
Magistrate Geng and she exchanged glances, laughing heartily, "He naively thought we would really let him go. He came so aggressively, who knows what his skills are? How could we dare to fight him in the county office? Ha ha ha, if we fought here, everyone would know we are evil spirits."
The magistrate's wife laughed so hard her fat jiggled, "Not knowing his background, rashly fighting has no guarantee of success, but now that he has to protect those students turned into geese, we have every chance to get rid of him."
"And do it on the street."
Magistrate Geng's eyes gleamed with excitement, "Even if his skills are high, protecting seventeen students turned into geese, he can't use more than twenty percent of his strength."
"Bring the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner."
The magistrate's wife was thrilled, "Let's make this old scholar take a trip inside the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner."
Magistrate Geng laughed, "Madam is right. Even if the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner of New Township County doesn't have ten thousand souls, it has eight thousand. When shaken, even if he has formed a Nascent Soul, it will kill him. With this treasure, we are well-prepared. I'll go get the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner."
He was about to move when suddenly the sound of a goose came from not far away.
They looked towards the sound and saw a big white goose waddling towards them, shaking its tail as it walked, the very goose the black dog had taken.
The big white goose wasn't afraid of people, not hiding even when it saw them.
"Speaking of which, I'm a bit hungry!"
The magistrate's wife, eyes shining, giggled, "Why not eat this goose first, then go kill the old scholar?"
Meanwhile, Fu Leisheng and the goose-selling old man were herding the geese down the street.
The geese were very obedient, following Fu Leisheng's bamboo pole.
The goose-selling old man sighed, "I was originally a servant of the Geng family, serving the young master. When the young master became an official, I followed. But the madam practiced an evil technique, becoming like this. I followed her in wrongdoing, full of regret and fear, afraid she would eat me."
Fu Leisheng smiled, "Is the magistrate's wife really like this because of practicing an evil technique?"
The goose-selling old man was slightly taken aback, "I don't understand what you mean!"
Fu Leisheng stroked his beard, "I think the magistrate's wife might really be an evil spirit. There are many types of evil spirits, some from the underworld, some born from evil energy in the world, some are resurrected by moonlight after death, and the fourth type is transformed by absorbing moonlight essence. The fifth type is people who practice the wrong path and become evil spirits. I think the magistrate's wife is the fourth type."
The goose-selling old man laughed, "Mr. Fu, I should know this better than you..."
"No, I know better because I have a cultivator of the fourth type by my side."
Fu Leisheng smiled, "So, Old Wu, what's your story? Are you human, or an evil spirit in human skin?"
Before he finished speaking, the goose-selling old man suddenly leaped into the darkness at an incredible speed.
The goose-selling old man's voice came from all directions, "Fu Leisheng, you shouldn't be so smart. Smart people often die young."
Before he finished speaking, a shadow descended from the sky, it was the goose-selling old man.
His body curled up like a big flea, carrying a bag several times larger than himself.
The bag was opened by the wind, falling over Fu Leisheng's head.
The goose-selling old man landed with a thud, closing the bag, laughing, "You'll become a big goose and be obedient."
Before he finished speaking, a bamboo pole pierced out of the bag, with great force, penetrating the goose-selling old man's body, pinning him to the wall, even piercing through it.
Fu Leisheng dropped the bamboo pole, stepped out of the bag, "I've been learning the spear since childhood, for forty-eight years, never used it. I carried this bamboo pole intending to kill you with it."
He pulled out the bamboo pole, letting the goose-selling old man's body fall.
"I'm so smart and lived past fifty, you should know how capable I am."
Fu Leisheng, holding the bamboo pole, turned towards the county office, "Feifei, take them back to the academy, I'll go kill two people."
From the goose group, a girl responded, and with a bang, a bright and beautiful girl appeared among the geese, "Fellow students, let's head back to the academy."
Fu Leisheng, filled with killing intent, quickly arrived at the county office, looked up at the sign, and whispered, "Now that the students are gone, I can fight without worries."
He stepped into the county office.
In the backyard, Magistrate Geng moved swiftly, reaching the big white goose, grabbing its neck with ease, "Let's eat first, then kill Fu Leisheng."
Just as he grabbed the goose's neck, he felt it swell in his hand, forcing his fingers apart, growing larger.
Magistrate Geng was shocked to see the goose transform into a young man before him.
The young man's blood and energy surged, roaring like waves, strengthening his muscles and bones, illuminating his body, his hand like a bear's paw, gripping Magistrate Geng's wrist and elbow.
He heard his arm break.
Then his vision went black, his throat and bones shattered, his heart struck, ribs broken, liver, spleen, and kidneys crushed as if by a heavy blow.
His lower body was in agony, not knowing if it was kneed or kicked seven or eight times in a moment.
At that moment, his spells, his Golden Core, his treasures, all too late to use.
Chen Shi held his face with one hand, wrapped his neck with the other, twisting heavily, bones and tendons snapping.
Dropping the body, he flipped up, a gust of wind rising.
In an instant, he was at the dining table, chopping down with his right leg, smashing the magistrate's wife's thick neck.
The magistrate's wife's large body was knocked down, but she supported herself with her hands, not falling, letting out a deafening roar, trying to stand.
She had just roared halfway when Chen Shi grabbed an axe from the table, chopping her head, then quickly grabbed everything on the table, long chopsticks, short chopsticks, various knives, all stuck into the magistrate's wife's fat face.
The magistrate's wife let out a sharp, ear-piercing scream, not daring to face him, fleeing.
She was so fat, her flesh jiggling, but at this moment, she seemed as light as a swallow, stepping over two yards in one step.
"Fat old woman."
Chen Shi's voice reached her ears clearly.
The magistrate's wife suddenly stopped, a violent evil energy rising from the county office's backyard, growing more terrifying.
"What did you say?"
She turned, her chubby face full of knives, chopsticks, and broken plates.
Chen Shi laughed, "I said, fat old..."
The magistrate's wife's body swelled, revealing her true form, a giant centipede seven or eight yards long, with a beautiful woman's upper body, shrieking as she lunged at him, spitting out a blood-red Golden Core, "Boy, today you die."
The blood-red light from the Golden Core was much deeper than the white-bearded rat elder's at Black Mountain Granny's temple.
The light from the Golden Core dissolved everything in its path, even collapsing a rockery, turning it to dust.
In the pond under the rockery, the water shook violently as if boiling, the fish inside instantly stripped of flesh, leaving only bones sinking to the bottom.
This blood core was different from the Golden Core Chen Shi had encountered before. The white-bearded rat elder's core was blood-red because they harmed and ate people, making the core impure.
This blood core was refined with children's blood and souls, becoming evil energy, a high-level evil cultivation technique.
Its blood light could break a cultivator's righteous energy, shatter righteous techniques, pollute talismans, and treasures, the most sinister.
Chen Shi was thrilled, activating the Three Lights True Qi, stars covering his body, the Golden Core rising within, charging towards the magistrate's wife's massive body.
The light from the blood core was incredibly sharp, piercing his skin, leaving small indentations.
However, before the evil energy could take effect, it was dispersed by his vigorous blood and energy.
His blood and energy were so strong that the evil technique melted like snow in the sun when encountering it.
"Boom..."
Thunder roared in the county office's backyard, startling Fu Leisheng, who had just rushed to the backyard, making him stop and raise his bamboo pole defensively.
Suddenly
Another loud bang.
The magistrate's wife's head smashed through the thick wall, appearing before him, bones broken, unconscious.
Fu Leisheng was shocked, looking towards the backyard.
In the moonlight, a young man's blood and energy surged like a tide, overflowing, forming a divine demon-like phantom behind him, unclear if he was human or an evil spirit.
Chapter ends.