Chapter 275: A Peaceful Departure

Qin Mu immediately sat up, gazing out the window. Ba Shan Ji Jiu's snoring was deafening, a yin wind blew into the room, yet he remained undisturbed.

A strange chanting sound drifted from outside the window, its rhythm light and heavy, slow and urgent, indistinguishable. Qin Mu was decisive. He immediately sealed his soul with the Zaohua Tianmo Gong, then roused his vital energy. The Shao Bao Sword, hanging at the head of the bed, let out a *zheng* sound as it unsheathed, its silver light illuminating the room.

Outside the window, white shadows floated and swayed. The Shao Bao Sword vibrated with a *zheng* sound, and streaks of sword light shot out like lightning, instantly severing several heads outside the window.

Witchcraft harming people sounded very strange, but it was nothing more than targeting the soul or the physical body.

Though Qin Mu was young, he understood these principles. Targeting the physical body meant using secret methods to enter the room and kill the person, chopping them down.

Targeting the soul involved more inconceivable means, like witchcraft poison, poisoning the enemy's soul. This kind of poison was colorless, tasteless, formless, and traceless, making it impossible to defend against.

For example, stabbing a straw figure and worshiping the soul: one would write the opponent's name, surname, birth date, and eight characters, and continuously worship for ten days, worshipping away one soul each day, seven souls in seven days, and then the three remaining souls.

There was also aversion winning skill, which harmed both soul and body. Using needles or sharp blades to harm the opponent's soul: because the soul and physical body were connected, harming the soul would inflict wounds on the physical body. Stabbing the soul's hands and feet would cause stab wounds on the physical body's hands and feet. Stabbing the center of the brows would confuse the mind, and so on.

To be able to kill someone just by knowing their name was indeed inconceivable, but it shouldn't go beyond these two methods.

Qin Mu sealing his soul and hanging the Shao Bao Sword at the head of the bed was to guard against these two kinds of methods.

Suddenly, strange laughter reached his ears. Qin Mu quickly looked. He saw many strange little people climbing in through the window. One by one, they jumped to the ground, holding knives, axes, and steel forks, riding small horses, arranged in formation like a great army of several hundred.

This army of little people surged forward, bustling, and stood on Ba Shan Ji Jiu's chest. Ba Shan Ji Jiu still hadn't woken up, his snoring like thunder.

The leading little person, holding a long spear and mounted on a steed, stood on Ba Shan Ji Jiu's nose. He raised his spear and pointed it at Qin Mu, who was already sitting up on the bed. A flicker of excitement gleamed in his eyes, and he let out an unclear shout. The other little people immediately rushed towards Qin Mu like a tide!

These little people were abnormally excited, emitting various unclear calls, waving knives, swords, and steel forks, attacking fiercely. Although there were several hundred of them, Qin Mu felt that he could flatten them within two or three feet.

He didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Was this why Butcher had warned him to be cautious and not dare to use his real name?

Qin Mu drew his sword and shook it. Sword light burst forth. Just as he was about to sweep away these little people, he suddenly heard someone calling his name.

This voice came from the yin wind, drawn out and seemingly very far away. Qin Mu didn't say a word, but the voice rapidly approached.

When others called your name, even if you didn't answer, your heart would involuntarily sense it. This voice must have followed this principle to sense his location!

The sword light in Qin Mu's hand was about to cut down the surging army of little people when he suddenly felt a chill invade the center of his brows. Just as he reached out to draw his sword, his soul had already stiffened.

His soul stiffened, his body also stiffened, and the sword light instantly extinguished.

Those little people danced with joy, climbing onto his body one by one, drilling into his body through his mouth, ears, and nose holes.

The next moment, Qin Mu "saw" these little people running quickly while carrying "him." They weren't carrying his physical body, but after drilling into his body, they were carrying his soul!

These little people had actually run into his body, tied his soul securely, held it above their heads, and were chattering in unclear sounds, not knowing what they were saying, and running with scattered legs.

Qin Mu felt unable to move. The scenery before his eyes rapidly changed, then suddenly it went black. All light around disappeared, leaving only darkness.

In the darkness, he saw a light brighten up below him. It was an altar, and he was lying on it.

Those little people put him down and looked up at the sky one by one. The leading little person chattered something towards the darkness. Suddenly, the altar rose up. Looking around, he saw huge faces, like puppet faces, blocking the four sides. These puppet-like faces were extremely large, revealing expressions that seemed to laugh and cry simultaneously.

Then the altar shook again and rose once more. A huge palm held up the four-sided puppets and the altar together. Qin Mu immediately saw blazing light flames in the darkness. It was a huge single eye, appearing behind the four-sided puppets. This single eye was even larger than the puppet faces.

Then, one by one, huge single eyes lit up the darkness, floating in the sky, extremely strange.

"Aversion winning method?"

Seeing this scene, Qin Mu's heart trembled slightly. Ban Gong Cuo was using the aversion winning method, utilizing these little people to invade his body and trap his sealed soul on such an altar within his body!

This kind of method was very strange. Hearing the voice, even if you didn't respond, it would still track you down. It would transform into an altar within your body, and you couldn't defend against it even if you sealed your soul within your body!

However, his soul should still be inside his body. As long as it was inside his body, Qin Mu had hope of turning the tables.

"No matter what witchcraft you use, you must rely on your own magic power. Inside my body, your magic power cannot defeat mine. Then don't even think about killing me!"

Qin Mu flipped his body and shouted, "Sword, come!"

Suddenly, a sword pellet whistled from the darkness and suspended before him with a *shua* sound. This sword pellet was exactly the one Deaf gave him during his return to the village last year. Qin Mu had once used this sword pellet to guide the residual divine power of the god inside the National Teacher's body, and as a result, the sword pellet was quite worn down by the residual divine power, becoming much smaller.

With the sword pellet in his hand, sword energy bloomed from the pellet, sweeping away the little people in all directions, causing people to fall and horses to flip.

Those little people were cut open and disemboweled, yet they didn't die. Their scattered limbs crawled around and pieced themselves back together, continuing to attack Qin Mu. Around the altar, those individual puppet faces revealed strange smiles, stiffly raising their arms and smashing towards Qin Mu on the altar. *Peng peng peng*, they smashed, sending sparks flying.

Qin Mu urged the sword pellet to resist these strange puppets, only feeling that these puppets had strangely great strength. Every strike almost made him unable to bear it.

Some of those little people were hit by the puppets and smashed like paper, but the next moment they inflated like drums and continued to wave knives and swords, attacking Qin Mu.

At this time, the strange eyes in the darkness blazed, and streaks of blazing firelight shot from all directions.

Qin Mu gritted his teeth and resisted with difficulty, almost being hit until his soul flew and scattered. These little people, puppets, and strange eyes seemed able to die and revive, endless. They simply couldn't be killed or exhausted, continuously attacking him, never knowing fatigue.

Meanwhile, Qin Mu was tired to the point of despair, and his heart couldn't help but grow angry: "Senior Brother Ba Shan is still sleeping?"

Unknowingly, a rooster's crow suddenly came, then he vaguely heard the sound of clepsydra beats – it was the fifth watch.

Then, Qin Mu heard Ba Shan Ji Jiu's yawn, seemingly coming from a distant place: "Waiting for a night, Ban Gong Cuo still hasn't come personally. He disappoints me. This boy is very cautious. He didn't personally cast the spell to kill Junior Brother Qin, but let another great witch make a move."

Qin Mu was slightly startled: "Senior Brother Ba Shan knows I'm trapped?"

"Unfortunately, I only caught a Seven Star realm great witch."

Qin Mu heard Ba Shan Ji Jiu's sword drawing sound, the Ba Knife leaving its sheath.

"Golden hilt wrong knife white jade hilt, night wear window door out light. Husband fifty merit not established, lift knife stand alone look eight wilderness!"

Amidst the song, a majestic light suddenly cut open the darkness, coming from outside the sky. One knife fell, fiercely chopping at the altar. Immediately, heaven and earth roared, shook, collapsed, and disintegrated!

This knife seemed to cut open two lines, which slowly separated to the left and right. Those were Qin Mu's eyes, slowly opening, but strangely, he felt his eyelids opening outwards to the left and right.

"This is the aversion winning method of Lou Lan Golden Palace. I just helped you untie it. This kind of aversion winning method reverses your eyeballs by half, so what you see is placed left and right."

Ba Shan Ji Jiu seemed to stand on the wall, appearing before Qin Mu, and said, "You first mobilize the muscles of your eyes and slowly adjust your eyeballs."

Qin Mu followed the instructions and slowly turned his eyeballs. After a moment, his eyeballs returned to normal, and he hurriedly said, "Senior brother, I fell for the trick!"

Ba Shan Ji Jiu nodded, pointing at his front, and said, "This is what made you fall for the trick."

Qin Mu lowered his head and looked, slightly startled. He saw that the altar that had trapped him was not a real altar, but a silver plate. Around the plate were four palm-sized puppets. Those little people who had carried him were grains of yellow beans, and the horses they sat on were bean sprouts.

And the single eyes floating in mid-air were the eyes of a huge spider, strange eyes growing side by side. Below the plate was a yellow weasel.

The spider and the yellow weasel were both chopped in half by one knife, dying instantly.

"I originally thought Ban Gong Cuo would make a move, not expecting that the one who made a move was a Seven Star realm great witch."

Ba Shan Ji Jiu shook his head: "Ban Gong Cuo didn't make a move, letting a Seven Star realm great witch make a move. He's probably worried that I'm by your side. He's really cautious."

Qin Mu got up and leaned out the window. He saw that the heads he had chopped off with his sword light were straw men, draped in white cloth.

Qin Mu asked, "Senior brother, what about that Seven Star realm great witch?"

"Died."

Ba Shan Ji Jiu said, "He cast the spell in a dream, using the aversion winning method to harm you. This knife of mine broke his spell. The knife intent followed his spell into his dream and chopped him to death in the dream. He walked very peacefully."

Qin Mu was half-skeptical and said, "Can knife techniques still be cultivated to this extent?"

Ba Shan Ji Jiu laughed: "Teacher Heaven Knife's knife technique is truly legendary. He can break the void, I cannot."

By morning, the Tai Academy was bustling with discussion. Another envoy from the Barbarian Di Country had died. It was said that he had died violently and suddenly at the fifth watch, blood flowing from all seven orifices, a miserable sight. Before dying, he had screamed three times.

Qin Mu secretly criticized: "Senior Brother Ba Shan didn't say he walked very peacefully?"

Towards noon, a witch master came and bowed, saying, "Prince, please attend the banquet, Qin Sect Master."