Ways to handle this little demon

"Corpses are coming back to life! "

"Run... run as far as possible from this village if you still value your own life. "

"Help..... Help.... someone help us. My daughter... A disgusting creature just caught her!!..... "

"Help me.... Help me, please.... this monster is trying to rip my body apart. Please help me before it kills m.... arghhhhh....!!!!! "

"Gods loathe us. Our village is being cursed.... run as far as you can from this village..."

Zhang Long Wei was yet to made it to lotus village. But he could already hear screams and wails of villagers.

Finally arriving to his destination , Zhang Long Wei landed on top of the roof of the biggest mansion in the village. Glancing around, he could see how terrible the situation was.

Demonic puppets were everywhere. Terrified villagers were running to and fro. Other disciples and sect elders were yet to come down the mountain and land them a hand, so it's safe to say things were really getting out of control. With just a dozen of little disciples who were in charge of guarding villages tonight, it was just so utterly impossible to handle the situation properly. 

Leaping into the sky and landing next to a smelly puppet which was lifting a woman with its hand on her throat, Zhang Long Wei unsheathed deadly ice blade. Just a swish and in the next second, the puppet's head was already cut off from its body. 

Twisting his head to look at the woman who was panting heavily after being choked by the creature, Zhang Long Wei frowned. He couldn't leave this woman alone just because he had already saved her from an evil puppet. If he left her here, she would definitely encounter other puppets and could get herself into further danger.

But to take her till the perimeters of the village, it would take a lot of time. There were still other villagers who needed his help. He couldn't waste his time just by saving a single life. What was he supposed to do? 

"Junior Li, is that you? "

Swaying his sword with a clean move, Zhang Long Wei stabbed a puppet, that sneakily tried to attack him from behind, in its stomach before raising his line of sight to see a senior who was wrestling with three puppets on the roof of a nearby pavilion. 

"What is it, senior? "

"What took you so long? You came late.

Anyway, just take that madam to a big spiritual array we formed in the centre of the village. Bringing one by one of the villagers to the outside of the village takes too much time. 

Save as many people as you can on your way and let them stay in that array. It's safer than nothing. I'm gonna scold you later. "

This senior was one of the head disciples of Jianyu Sect. The two of them didn't know each other that much. Zhang Long Wei had only seen him once or twice by the side of immortal Wang. The demon didn't even had any idea how this senior could recognize him or even knew his surname. Was Li Zian that popular amongst seniors?... Zhang Long Wei didn't know.

But he had no interest about that. Now was the time to save villagers as much as he could and do his best until other disciples came down from snowy-light peak to land them a hand. 

"Yeah, senior. Then, this junior will be going."

Supporting the woman whose leg was injured due to the puppet earlier, Zhang Long Wei headed to the centre of lotus village. Puppets were everywhere and he didn't even get to rest for a moment before one after another of demonic puppets came forward to charge him. 

The demonic aura of these puppets were really familiar to him, yet unfamiliar at the same time. To tell the truth, as to why Zhang Long Wei said he felt familiar to these puppets was because.....

They looked extremely similar to puppets created by his puppet general. A puppet creating puppets... this might sound a bit strange. But that's it. His puppet general was a bit unique and it had many special abilities other puppets didn't have . 

Their techniques and moves, their evil aura and essence... All of these overly resembled those of puppets created by his general but were not similar at the same time.

It was as if someone had imitated his general's techniques and tried to create similar ones. That one person Zhang Long Wei's suspicious the most right now was Ye Hu. It's been decades that old man had been trying to surpass skills of his general. But he always lagged behind. And when he couldn't create anything that's worth competing his general's creations, that old man would always try to imitate his general. 

If his hunch was right and puppets here really were creations of Ye Hu after imitating his general's techniques, then it meant there were subordinates of Ye Hu in this village. To be exact, they should be called subordinates of He Tengfei. 

But would why that tyrannical old man want to harm this little village? Why would he even send his men to such a desolate place in the first place? There must be something that He Tengfei wanted from this village, so just what could it be? 

Fighting and killing hundreds of puppets, Zhang Long Wei had already saved a bunch of villagers and already taken them to the spiritual array. Since Zhang Long Wei was familiar with all weak and strong points of these puppets, he was quick in finishing these creatures compared to other juniors and seniors. But it was still far from enough.

The enemy had outnumbered them and if they couldn't get any help in next to no time, they were going to run out of spiritual powers. And if that really happened, things would undoubtedly get worse much more than they had expected. 

This circular spiritual array might have a radius of fifteen feet. But when they kept bringing all the villagers into this array, there's no space in the array to stuff more people. They needed to create another array or bring all the people here to the exit of the village. A couple of seniors were already starting an incantation to create another array nearby. But when Zhang Long Wei walked over to them to give a hand, they immediately drive him away. They'd already seen how much Zhang Long Wei was good at handling and slaying these puppets, so they only made him go back into the village and save more people. 

As he went into the village to help remaining trapped villagers, Zhang Long Wei tried to grasp the situation. There must be a reason for He Tengfei's subordinates to summon these puppets into this village. There's no way their motive was simply to destroy this petty little village. There must be a reason. But what could it be? 

All puppets he encountered didn't seem like they were up to something other than killing people and destroying the village. Or could it be that these creatures were just trying to distract them whilst the mastermind behind was handling the real deal? It was very likely to be. 

Zhang Long Wei had just given a couple of puppets a peaceful death when he heard a deafening scream of a lady at a not-so-far distance. 

"Please help!...Help!..... Save my son...my child is too young to die in the hands of these monsters..... Help!..... No!.....No...Don't... Xiaobo!!!!.... don't touch my son!... Don't touch my son... you monster! "

Riding on his deadly ice blade, Zhang Long Wei quickly flew over to the place where the scream came from. Just in a matter of seconds, the demon had already land onto the ground near that place.

Looking around to see where the scream exactly came from, Zhang Long Wei soon spotted a lady in her pearl white robes... to be exact, they were inner robes.... It seemed like this lady had just woken up to this chaotic incident when her kid was dragged away by one of the puppets. 

The lady was still screaming like crazy as she tried to climb onto the roof of a building where evil puppets were standing with her poor son in their hands. 

Such a brave and caring mom, isn't she? 

She didn't even seem to value her own life anymore.

Attempting to climb onto the roof and confront those puppets with a mortal body of hers....

If only Zhang Long Wei's mom was still there and were to witness this scene, she would definitely call this lady "an idiot. "

The kid of this lady was just too lucky.... 

Shaking his head, Zhang Long Wei brushed aside those thoughts before leaping onto the roof and fight those puppets. The demon didn't found anything suspicious till he recognized those puppets didn't make any harm to the kid other than restraining him and not letting him run away.

And what aroused Zhang Long Wei's suspicions the most was that all the puppets around here kept coming to attack him. They all came forward to charge him, instead of harming other running villagers around. Something was really strange with this situation. 

With the keen blade of deadly ice blade, Zhang Long Wei cut a puppet's body, which was blocking his way, into two halves. Now he could finally confront that giant puppet which had the kid in its hands.

Earlier, Zhang Long Wei didn't realize it because he was in an intense fight with other puppets or....maybe it was due to the dim moonlight.

But now, he could clearly see the kid. The boy was about five years old and there's nothing that looked special about him other than that small piece of black clothing which was covering his eyes. There's no way these puppets would know how to blindfold a kid, so there's only one possibility.

The kid was blind...... or was he?