My happy life in a courtyard house with triplets.

Chapter 556: The Dark Child Wreaks Havoc on Cloud Peak

Soon, the piercing sirens of police cars shattered the tranquility of the night, echoing throughout the construction site. Two police cars sped to a stop on the outskirts of the scene. Seven or eight police officers quickly opened the car doors and rushed towards the bloody scene.

A young officer rushed to the edge of the bushes, but upon seeing the gruesome scene before him, his stomach churned, and he could no longer hold it in, bending over and vomiting violently. The other officers stared at the scene, their brows furrowed, their expressions grave. Such a horrific, bloody, and bizarre crime scene was something they had never encountered before in their careers.

The situation was serious, and the police immediately reported to their superiors. Soon after, more officers arrived as reinforcements. The police quickly cordoned off the area, sealing off the crime scene. All people in the vicinity of the food street were also detained and questioned one by one, their statements taken into account. The entire area was instantly enveloped in a tense and solemn atmosphere of investigation.

Zhou Zhengxian, who was fast asleep, suddenly sat up in bed. He rubbed his throbbing head and looked out at the dark night. He thought to himself that he had just had a terrible nightmare because he had been working too hard for days.

As he was trying to reassure himself, the shrill ring of the telephone shattered the silence. Zhou Zhengxian's heart tightened, and he hurriedly answered the phone. On the other end of the line, the police's urgent and somber report struck him like a thunderbolt—dead! Seven or eight more people had died at the Genting Highlands!

At the same time, Xuan Yangzi, who was staying at the hotel, suddenly felt a sense of alarm. He looked up towards the direction of the Cloud Top Building and saw black mist surging there, obscuring the sky. He didn't bother to use the main entrance, but instead jumped out of the third-floor window. With his clothes fluttering, he quickly ran towards the Cloud Top Building.

As soon as he reached the outer perimeter of the building, the glaring police lights and the surging crowd came into view. Xuan Yangzi quickly crossed the police cordon and arrived at the crime scene. Looking down at the several corpses lying on the ground, his brows instantly furrowed. He noticed that wisps of black, malevolent energy swirled around the wounds of each corpse, chilling to the bone.

Just as a forensic doctor was about to touch the body to examine the wounds, Xuan Yangzi shouted to stop him: "Stop!"

The police officers standing by turned around upon hearing the voice and saw that the one speaking was a Taoist priest in a Taoist robe. The team leader stepped forward, frowned, and questioned, "Who are you? What right do you have to obstruct the investigation?"

"These people were killed by evil spirits; their wounds are tainted with deadly evil energy." Xuan Yangzi's gaze swept solemnly over the corpses. "Touching them with bare hands will at best deplete their souls, and at worst cause their flesh to rot and their lives to be in danger!"

The police captain, dismissing it as mere alarmism, said impatiently, "Stop spreading rumors here!"

Before he could finish speaking, the forensic doctor had already reached out and touched the corpse's wound. The next second, the forensic doctor let out a piercing scream, fell straight to the ground, and convulsed all over.

Those around who witnessed this bizarre scene gasped in horror, their faces filled with terror.

Xuan Yangzi said no more, rapidly chanting incantations. He raised his hand, pinched a yellow talisman, and slapped it directly onto the corpse. The moment the talisman touched the body, the corpse suddenly burst into a ghostly green flame, crackling loudly.

"Stop! How dare you burn a corpse in public!" The police were shocked and shouted at the scene.

"These corpses are tainted by evil energy. If they are not burned, they will soon breed evil spirits, and then it will be even more difficult to deal with them!" Xuan Yangzi said in a serious tone.

The forensic doctor, who had just collapsed, now had hands as black as ink, as if he had been poisoned. He cried out in agony, "My hands! My hands!"

Seeing this, Xuan Yangzi quickly grabbed a handful of glutinous rice from his cloth bag and sprinkled it all onto the forensic doctor's blackened palm. The moment the glutinous rice touched his skin, the black mist dissipated, and the forensic doctor's palm turned from black to red, returning to its normal color after a short while.

Having witnessed this scene firsthand, all the police officers present no longer had any doubts, and their eyes were filled with awe and fear as they looked at Xuan Yangzi.

Xuan Yangzi looked around at everyone and said in a deep voice, "This is no ordinary murder case; it is the work of evil spirits in the dark."

Just then, Zhou Zhengxian and his daughter Zhou Weiran drove up in a hurry. The two of them pushed through the crowd and spotted Xuan Yangzi at a glance. As if grasping at a lifeline, they quickly ran over to him.

After Xuan Yangzi briefly explained the situation, Zhou Zhengxian immediately turned to the group of police officers and identified himself: "This is Master Xuan Yangzi, whom I specially invited from Qingxuan Temple. He specializes in exorcising evil spirits and suppressing malevolent forces."

Although the police officers still had reservations, the bizarre scene they had just witnessed made them dare not be careless in the slightest.

Zhou Weiran looked anxious and asked Xuan Yangzi, "Master, what should we do now?"

Xuan Yangzi took out a compass, his fingertips rapidly forming hand seals and chanting incantations. The compass needle spun rapidly, finally pointing steadily to the southeast. He raised his hand and pointed in that direction, saying in a deep voice, "The evil spirit hasn't left yet; it's over there!"

Upon hearing this, everyone's hearts jumped into their throats, and their expressions became even more tense.

Xuan Yangzi gripped his peach wood sword tightly and quickly followed the trail of black energy. Several policemen exchanged glances, then quickly assigned four officers to follow him, and they all gave chase.

The group quickly arrived at the under-construction platform on the second floor of the Yuling Building. In the dim light, a palm-sized, entirely black baby stood prominently in the center of the platform, humming a nursery rhyme: "Little ball, kick it with your feet, two eights, two nines, thirty-one..."

The doll had a ferocious appearance and was surrounded by a thick black aura, which made everyone's scalp tingle and they retreated one after another.

Xuan Yangzi stared at the black doll, his expression solemn as he uttered four words: "Dark Spirit Child."

The police officer who had caught up with them looked puzzled and quickly asked, "Master, what is a Dark Spirit Child?"

"The so-called Dark Spirit Child is created by forcibly removing the fetus from the womb, soaking it in a specially made medicinal jar, and then feeding it with forty-nine living human hearts and livers." Xuan Yangzi said in a heavy tone, "It never sees the light of day, is tainted by the poison, and is completely black. Once it has absorbed forty-nine human hearts, it will become extremely ferocious and cruel. It is an extremely yin and evil creature."

These words sent chills down everyone's spines, and their hearts leaped into their throats.

The police captain suppressed his fear and quickly asked, "Master, what should we do now?"

Xuan Yangzi sighed deeply, "This is our destiny."

Having said that, he quickly took out a simple altar, placed a bronze incense burner on it, and inserted three sticks of incense. As the smoke curled upwards, Xuan Yangzi chanted an exorcism incantation, bit his index finger with his left hand, and smeared the blood on the peach wood sword. In an instant, the peach wood sword shone with golden light, exceptionally dazzling on the dimly lit platform.

Sensing the threat, the dark spirit child suddenly rang out in a hoarse, grating voice: "You stinking Taoist priest, mind your own business!"

"You were born an evil being, defying the heavens, and should never have existed in this world." Xuan Yangzi's gaze was sharp. "Today, I will send you into reincarnation, sparing you the torment of sin!"

"You're courting death!" Dark Spirit Child roared in fury, his small body enveloped in towering black energy as he charged straight at Xuan Yangzi.

Holding a golden peach wood sword, Xuan Yangzi lightly tapped the ground three times with his left foot, his figure moving forward like an arrow released from a bow, slashing with his sword.

"Ping! Pong!"

A piercing clang of metal rang out as the peach wood sword struck the spirit child, but it was as if it had struck refined iron, failing to inflict the slightest damage. Their physical bodies were evenly matched in hardness. During their struggle, the dark spirit child found an opening and delivered a powerful punch to Xuan Yangzi's abdomen.

Xuan Yangzi groaned, his whole body flying three meters away like a kite with a broken string before crashing heavily to the ground.

The accompanying police officers were shocked by what they saw and immediately raised their guns to fire at the dark spirit child. However, the bullets struck the spirit child's dark body, producing only a series of crisp sounds, as if hitting steel, and could not penetrate its defenses at all.