Mortal Mirror

The sky was filled with a chilling wind, and Li Ergou on the roof was slightly surprised to find that he had somehow left his room and was now on the roof.

He looked into the distance and saw a ghostly aura spreading from outside the village, overwhelming everything. Within that aura, a black-clad female ghost flew towards them.

In the blink of an eye, she arrived in the village.

She bared her fangs and brandished her claws, her black hair flying in the wind, making her look exceptionally sinister and terrifying.

Before she could fly to the center of the village, the yin-yang fish pattern in the middle of the village suddenly flickered with light. Li Ergou was amazed to see this, realizing that it was indeed a great formation.

The great formation seemed to be activated, and the yin-yang fish's formation eyes emitted a black and a white light, respectively, striking towards the female ghost.

The light was overbearing, like two giant light whips, radiating endless power as they lashed out at the female ghost in the air.

The female ghost tried to evade, but the whips struck faster and faster, landing over a dozen blows in the blink of an eye. The female ghost couldn't dodge and was hit several times.

After being struck, the female ghost screamed miserably, her soul dimming. Then, the black and white lights transformed into two chains, wrapping around the female ghost, immobilizing her completely.

The chains shimmered with countless faint golden runes, and flames erupted, scorching the female ghost, causing her to scream incessantly. At this rate, she would soon be annihilated.

The people of Willow Creek were not too surprised by this scene, likely knowing the power of the formation.

They ran towards the female ghost. The burly man leading them, seeing the ghost's appearance, was first surprised, then smirked and said, "So it's you again. You have a road to heaven but you don't take it; you barge into hell when there's no door. Liu Sanniang, why bother?"

"You're dead, so just stay dead. Why come back to haunt us? Luckily, we have the formation left by our ancestors. You want to kill us? Keep dreaming."

Upon hearing this, everyone burst into laughter.

The female ghost said with a ferocious expression, "Wang Daniu, you will die a horrible death! You killed my husband, strangled my child, and all of you humiliated me. You people don't deserve to be called humans; you are all beasts, all murderers!"

"I told you long ago that I would never let you go, even as a ghost. Don't be happy too soon. It won't be long before my lord comes here. No matter how powerful your formation is, it won't be able to stop my lord's advance."

Li Ergou now knew that the leader's name was Wang Daniu. From the female ghost's words, these people were incredibly cruel, even appalling.

The female ghost's words changed the villagers' expressions. Old Li took the lead and said, "Who is your lord? Do you think we're easily scared?"

The female ghost laughed and said, "Who is my lord? He is the mountain god of this Tenfang Mountain, Old Toad!"

Hearing this name, the crowd's faces changed slightly, indicating they knew the name. Old Li's expression changed repeatedly before he said fiercely, "Isn't he just a toad? Don't try to scare us with that. What Old Toad, what mountain god? He's just amusing himself.

"Don't be afraid, everyone. With the ancestral formation here, no monster can enter the village. As long as we don't go out, he can't do anything to us, no matter how powerful he is."

Upon hearing this, the villagers felt that Old Li was right. They were no longer afraid, after all, the ancestral formation had been tested for a long time.

The female ghost shrieked, "You will all die a horrible death! The wronged souls you have harmed will eventually come for you!"

The crowd was not frightened by these ghostly words. Instead, someone suggested, "I heard ghosts are fun to play with. Why don't we give it a try? I don't know what it feels like yet."

As soon as this suggestion came out, everyone became excited and wanted to taste the ghost's flavor.

Li Ergou saw all of this with the help of fireflies. He felt that he had underestimated the evil of human nature. He knew these villagers might be bad, but he didn't expect them to be this bad. At this moment, he was completely enraged.

He naturally didn't go directly to kill people, but quickly came to the formation's eyes, wanting to see what this formation was.

These people are so bad; their ancestors probably weren't good people either. Today, I will eliminate this harm for the people and destroy your formation. Let's see how you deal with the ghost.

At the center of the formation were two giant trees, hundreds of years old. One was a large willow tree, and the other was a large pagoda tree. Each tree was thick enough for four or five people to encircle.

Although Li Ergou didn't understand formations, he knew that the core of the formation was the formation nexus, which was also the key to the formation. As long as the formation nexus was destroyed, the formation would naturally be destroyed.

He looked at the large willow tree in front of him, thinking that the willow tree should only be the outward appearance. After all, the formation nexus was extraordinary, and the willow tree had not become a spirit and could not emit magic power.

Now he understood a little why the spiritual energy here was several times greater than that in Bitter Mountain. It should be that this formation used a special power to confine the spiritual energy, the purpose of which was to maintain the operation of the formation.

He walked around the willow tree several times, and his divine sense spread out, carefully observing the entire willow tree. Soon, he sensed a strong energy fluctuation beneath the willow tree.

He took out the Fish Scale Sword and used it directly as a shovel to dig. If the Fish Scale Sword had a spirit at this moment, it would probably vomit three liters of blood, or it would definitely complain that its master didn't treat it like a sword.

Li Ergou had great strength and speed. The Fish Scale Sword was so sharp that digging soil was just a small matter. Soon, he felt the soil below loosen, revealing a large hole.

The hole was dark, and he didn't know how deep it was. He didn't think much and jumped into it.

To his surprise, the hole was really not small. It was more than ten meters deep and about ten meters wide. What a big pit!

Entering it, he was slightly surprised to see that the surrounding cave walls were built with bluestone slabs. The stone slabs were all covered with mysterious runes and many very complex lines.

In the center of this big pit, there was a circular altar about ten feet in size. The stones on the altar were all a translucent black crystal.

On the altar, there was a light cyan jade stone about a foot in size, covered with dense runes. This was the formation base that had been refined.

Half a foot above the jade stone, a black bead the size of an egg was suspended, emitting a hazy light, with countless runes and mantras engraved on it.

Li Ergou could feel the huge energy emanating from it.

This was the formation nexus, the most core part of a great formation. However, this formation was different from other formations. If it was really as seen outside, there should also be such a formation nexus under the opposite pagoda tree. It seemed that this formation was really not something that could be created by ordinary people.

Outside, the people of Willow Creek were constantly insulting the female ghost. At this moment, the leading man walked to the female ghost with a lewd smile and said, "Smelly woman, aren't you very arrogant? You were humiliated by us when you were alive, and I won't let you have a good time after death. I, Wang Daniu, will taste the flavor of a ghost today."