Under One Person: The Seeker of the Dao in the Lü Family

Chapter 248 Things of Life and Death, Monsters

"boom!"

Inside Tongtian Valley, Lü Qian descended from the sky with his sword in hand, his body flipping in mid-air, and as his robes fluttered, a large number of the Three Calamities descended.

"Since you have come to my Eastern Xuanmen, we will naturally have a wonderful way to entertain you."

Blinding lightning, scorching flames, and fierce winds surged like a raging flood, rushing towards the expedition team below.

In the blink of an eye, the jungle below had been submerged by the Three Calamities. These destructive forces disregarded the rocks and trees, and as they surged and raged, they transformed into shackles that entangled the foreign supernatural beings with their various methods.

"Click click click..."

The shackles formed by the three calamities collided with each other, and the friction between thunder, fire and wind was like the sound of metal, but rather like the thunderous roar of drums resounding from the bottom of one's heart.

"Bang bang bang..."

Elijah, who was in charge of leading the Inhumans, had a gloomy face. He kept firing his alchemical revolver, and the various colored light bullets almost formed a continuous line, sweeping away the Three Calamities Shackles that were closing in from all around.

He was the guardian of the sacred tree on Nathan Island, which was isolated from the world and did not allow its inhabitants to leave the island at will.

Their presence here at this moment is certainly not simply to protect a hastily assembled expedition team.

He had his own agenda and also made deals with Qu Tong behind the scenes.

But nowadays, whether it's for one's own purposes or in transactions with others, one must live a normal life in order to continue.

"Liu, you didn't mention such a person before we came."

Elijah relied on his physical skills to navigate through the three calamities. Although he didn't know much about Eastern methods, the aura emanating from the shackles of the three calamities made him instinctively sense something was wrong.

If you get even a little bit of it, you might never be able to get rid of it in your entire life.

In the brief moment between dodging, he saw Lü Qian strolling leisurely amidst the turbulent waves of the Three Calamities. The other man, carrying a whisk and a wooden sword, was slowly walking towards them.

Those crimson-gold pupils were fixed on them, filled with a deep, pure killing intent, as cold as a biting wind.

"Elijah, things are never predictable, are they?"

The bald, middle-aged man surnamed Liu was protecting the puppet behind him, but in the next instant he was devoured by the Three Calamities, surrounded by lightning, fire, and wind, and his flesh and bones gradually dissipated.

"Oh dear, looks like I'll have to go off the field first."

His eyes gleamed with a deep blue light as he calmly watched his gradually dissolving body, seemingly oblivious to the pain.

The lightning instantly cleaved his skin, and in the dazzling light, the pungent smell of blood evaporated instantly, revealing the mangled flesh and veins.

Fire then followed, and the blazing flames swept through, turning flesh and blood into nothingness, leaving only a skeleton with the remaining internal organs.

The blue-glowing eyes remained calm and expressionless, while the skull turned strangely, looking in Elijah's direction.

"Giggle..."

As the bones shifted, without the cushioning of flesh and blood, the ear-piercing, chilling friction sound made Elijah's pupils tremble violently.

"monster!"

Faced with the pain of flesh and blood being torn apart, a normal person would never be so calm, as if they were a machine stripped of all emotions and desires.

At that moment, the monster Elijah spoke of stared straight at him.

"Hehehe... Elijah, remember... protect... Judy."

Two rows of teeth trembled against the backdrop of stark white bone, and amidst the clinking of teeth, the rigid words, like machine commands, were repeated endlessly to Elijah.

"Protect...Judy, hehehe...Protect...Judy..."

Amidst the chilling friction sounds, a gentle breeze followed closely behind. Though subtle, the wind was swift and fierce, vanishing in an instant, and the stark white bones also disappeared with the breeze.

The stark white bone fragments were blown about by the wind, drifting like snowflakes and willow catkins, but these visible snowflakes and willow catkins vanished in the next instant.

"A monster that's as rigid as an inanimate object, yet undeniably alive, existing somewhere between life and death?"

Elijah watched the man surnamed Liu disappear, the shock in his eyes subsiding. He glanced to the side and looked at Judy, whom the man surnamed Liu had tried to protect.

The other party was Qu Tong's puppet body, the woman with an East Asian face.

At this moment, she also exuded that eerie aura that was between life and death. She was calm and rigid like an inanimate object, yet she possessed the vitality of a living person.

From the moment the three calamities descended, Judy seemed to be specially chosen, as the cage formed by the shackles of the three calamities immediately trapped her.

At this moment, Judy sat quietly inside the cage of the three calamities, calmly looking back at Elijah without responding or turning her head to look away.

An eerie silence filled Elijah and Judy. At that moment, Elijah felt as if he had chosen the wrong partner and gone in the wrong direction.

"You monsters."

He stared at Qu Tong's puppet-like body, cursed loudly in a pure cowboy accent, and then turned to look behind him.

"Hey buddy, I should have diplomatic immunity, right?"

Elijah watched the young Taoist priest approaching with a sword; at this distance, he could clearly see the other's cold and stern face.

"Isn't it a pleasure to have friends coming from afar? But isn't it worthy of killing a thief coming from afar?"

"How about I send you down to ask the guardian of the sacred tree, who smuggled himself in from Nathan Island?"

Hearing the seemingly teasing words of the Western stranger in front of him, Lü Qian did not stop walking, smiled and asked in return.

"Honestly, you Easterners are still so boring."

"In that case, I can only try to protect myself."

Upon hearing the other party reveal his identity and the nature of this operation, Elijah scratched his head in apparent distress.

Just as he raised his wrist, a fierce gunshot suddenly rang out.

"Bang!"

"Clang!"

The instant the gunshot rang out, a dazzling sword light flashed and disappeared, and the crisp sound of metal clashing drowned out the fierce gunshot.

The light flashed and disappeared in an instant; the light bullet that had just left the barrel was annihilated by a flash of sword light, and then the Three Calamities Shackles surrounded it from all directions.

The shackles intertwined and shifted, and a huge cage instantly took shape, trapping Elijah inside.

"Click click click..."

The shackles tightened, and the huge cage slowly contracted, completely imprisoning the other party in that three-foot space.

"You cowards are nothing but opportunists; how dare you run wild on this land of China?"

Lu Qian's figure, wielding his sword, seemed to shrink the distance to an inch, instantly appearing behind Elijah. He stepped over Elijah and looked at Qu Tong's puppet body.

"Hi, we meet again. Should I call you Doctor Duanmu from Jishetang, or President Qu Tong from Yaoxing Society?"

"Or, I'll just call you a monster!"

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