Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, but Thunderbolt Taoist Sect

Ling silently went through the story of "The Wolf" in her mind. Then, as she walked forward, she reached out and pulled out the whisk from her back. Before the two wolves could see the situation behind them and were eyeing the man menacingly, she used the whisk to drive them away.

Watching the two wolves, who had been slapped by each other with their whisks, tuck their tails between their legs and whimper away, and seeing the two wolves acting like dogs, the butcher, knife in hand, still in a defensive stance, felt a mix of emotions.

He had seen the little girl in the pink dress early on, because the fabric of this color was not cheap, and it was rare to see someone in the village wearing this color, especially in such a gorgeous style.

Moreover, since it was evening, everyone was going home, and there was basically no one on the road except for this little girl.

When the butcher caught a glimpse of a young girl behind the wolves, his heart skipped a beat. He had a knife and was quite strong from years of butchering livestock, which was why he could hold his own against the two wolves. But this suddenly appearing girl was a different story.

Even worse, he couldn't shout to warn the other side to run. The two wolves were right in the middle of them, and they hadn't yet noticed the young girl behind them who was easier to bully. If he shouted, the wolves would realize that someone else had moved on to their target, and he wouldn't be able to help them. The girl would likely be bitten to death on the spot.

While keeping an eye on the two wolves, the butcher tried to signal to Ling Ziling, who was getting closer. The little girl was acting strangely; instead of being afraid of the two wolves, she strode towards them.

It was only evening, and it wasn't dark enough to mistake a wolf for a dog. The butcher found the girl in the pink dress rather frighteningly bold. As he got closer, he saw the expensive ornaments on her and guessed that she was probably a young lady from a wealthy family who had run away. She was spoiled and pampered, so she was fearless even when she saw a wolf.

A normal person, upon seeing wolves, would run if possible, and hide if not. If he hadn't been targeted by these two vicious wolves from the start and hadn't been unable to escape, he wouldn't have stayed here with a knife, stubbornly trying to fight the wolves.

Because of the tension of confronting the wolves, the butcher overlooked another unusual thing: Ling Ziling walked straight towards him without any intention of concealing herself. Even though they were so close, the two wolves remained unmoved, as if they couldn't sense that there was someone behind them at all.

As Ling Ziling approached, the butcher gripped his knife, ready to fight the two wolves. He nervously watched the girl who walked behind the wolves, and saw her reach behind her and take out a whisk wrapped with pink ribbons.

Then an unbelievable scene unfolded: this seemingly weak and frail girl, who was probably only fifteen or sixteen years old, swiftly and decisively sent the two wolves blocking her way flying with two quick swipes.

It wasn't an exaggeration; it was a real "flicking" that sent the wolves flying. The whisk was flicked across the wolves' bodies, sending them flying. From the butcher's perspective, he could almost see the bewildered expressions on the two wolves' faces as they were flung into the air.

"..."

Butcher: A young girl, with a whisk, single-handedly knocked down two wolves. How strange, why would I have such a dream?

Ling Ziling knew that the two wolves wanted to eat the butcher, so she used a bit of force when she hit him. After taking such a blow, the two wolves knew that they couldn't mess with the newcomer. After all, they often suffered bites and scratches, but being thrown away like this was a first for them. Startled and injured, what else could they do but run away?

"Uncle, are you alright?"

"...It's alright, it's alright."

The scene was so absurd that the butcher felt he might have already gone home and was currently having a nightmare.

"This wolf actually followed people into the village; it's incredibly bold."

"……Oh, yes."

After pinching his thigh to realize this wasn't a dream, the butcher re-examined Ling Ziling, who was holding a whisk. Because of the height difference between them, the first thing he noticed was Ling Ziling's headdress.

The butcher felt that they looked like two yin-yang symbols. He went to the city to sell meat every day and had seen many fortune tellers in the market. He recognized these kinds of things, but why were these two yin-yang symbols pink?

With the wolf driven away and the danger averted, the butcher had a chance to recall the various unusual occurrences that had occurred earlier. The girl before him seemed completely unlike anyone who lived in the village. Take her clothes, for example: wide robes with long sleeves, layers of lace, and an extremely long skirt. To walk through the fields in such attire, not only was she incredibly agile, but she also remained completely free of dust. Something was definitely amiss.

And just now she walked right behind the wolves, so close that she could easily kick their rear ends, why didn't the two wolves feel anything? When he was being followed by the wolves, he kept throwing bones to restrain them, but they still followed him all the way. These two wolves can't be that blind, can they?

The butcher had seen a bit of the world and knew that monsters and ghosts weren't just rumors; there were even real-life examples in his village. As it was getting dark, he felt that this girl wasn't human.

"Little girl, you're really something! You chased the wolf away. Consider it a life-saving favor."

But regardless of whether the other party is a demon or a ghost, the fact remains that they helped me, so I should still express my gratitude.

"It's nothing, I just slapped them a couple of times. I was just helping out when I saw injustice. And it's thanks to you, Uncle, that I had the attention, otherwise it would have been much harder to fight them."

The reason why the wolves didn't notice Ling Ziling's approach is quite simple. Ling Ziling has innate cultivation, so it's easy for her to hide her footsteps when she walks. The two wolves only had eyes for the butcher under the haystack, and they could easily ambush him with a little trickery.

She was so bold because she was afraid that if she made too much noise, the wolves would notice. She wasn't sure if the beast was smart enough to tell which one was easier to bully just by looking at them. She was afraid that if the two wolves got provoked, they would go straight for the butcher.

So just now, both Ling Ziling and the butcher were worried that they would implicate the other side, so neither of them spoke up and they unexpectedly reached a cooperation, achieving a perfect ending where only the wolf was injured.

"Young lady, where do you live? It's getting late, you should go home soon."

Listening to the spirited female knight's words, the butcher chuckled inwardly. This girl still had a dream of wandering the martial world. If she really was a demon, having such a dream wasn't bad. At least she wouldn't become a monster that harmed people.

If it's a ghost... to become a ghost at this age...

"No need to go home. I came out to travel, Master Lingling, to slay demons and eliminate evil!"

Going home? Her current behavior is the same as running away from home. Even if her family comes to take her back, she won't go back.

"Even so, it's getting dark and you still... Daoist Master?"

The butcher had intended to persuade the unidentified girl to leave, as it was getting late and being out alone at night was dangerous for anyone. However, when he heard the girl claim to be a Taoist priest, his words of persuasion suddenly stopped.

So this little girl isn't some non-human being, but a Taoist priest with cultivation and real skills? But apart from those few Tai Chi moves, she doesn't seem to have much to do with the Taoist priests who set up fortune-telling stalls in the market.

Rather than believing the other party was a Taoist priest, he was more inclined to believe that the other party was a spirit or monster. Even if he really was a Taoist priest, it was impossible for someone his age to knock away a wolf with a whisk.

Unfortunately, the butcher didn't know that the little girl in front of him, who looked like she had run away from a rich family and was spoiled and powerless, had knocked down five robbers with a tree branch before coming here. Even earlier, she had overturned several thugs with a whisk and could also send down several lightning talismans to strike people down in justice.

The fighting power of innate beings is truly top-notch.

"That's right, I am a cultivator of the Dao Ling lineage. Exorcising demons and monsters is my duty. It doesn't matter if it gets dark. Those monsters all avoid me when they see me."

"LOL, really."

Finally, the butcher chatted briefly for a bit before going home. While the people across the street weren't afraid of the dark, he, an ordinary person, was. He was being watched by two wolves in the evening, and he dared not wander around outside once it was completely dark.

During their conversation, he learned that the girl with the extraordinary fighting skills was named Ling Ziling, and she seemed to be a Taoist priest. The butcher had very little literacy, and the words he knew were mainly used for calculating money when selling meat and bargaining when buying wine and rice. Ling Ziling's name seemed strangely cultured to him.

There's a title before his name, something like "Bi Xian," which sounds nice to the butcher, but he can't write it down at all.

"Something strange has been happening lately."

Back home, the butcher was finally able to rest for a while, but before he could sit down for long, there was a knock on the door.

It was already dark. Who would be looking for him at this hour? The butcher opened the door in confusion and saw a woman standing in front of him. She looked perfectly normal except that her waist and abdomen were much larger than usual. She was clutching her stomach and looked very uncomfortable.

"Oh, it's you! You scared me."

Seeing that it was someone he knew, the butcher breathed a sigh of relief. Before opening the door, he had imagined that the two wolves that had run away had come to take revenge because he didn't have many friends in the village and few people would look for him late at night.

Upon seeing the woman, he remembered this incident. For some reason, someone would actually come looking for him at night, and that was the woman in front of him.

"I came here once when the sun was setting, why are you so late today?"

"Don't even mention it. I was followed by two wolves. Those two beasts wanted to eat me. I almost didn't make it back."

It was an evening incident that made the butcher forget that he was supposed to meet the woman that night. He went back to pack his things, gathered his tools, and headed out.

"Shall we go to the usual spot?"

"Yes, the usual place, let's get going, I feel awful..."

The butcher and the woman left under the cover of night, followed by a furtive figure. If they were to see him now, they would recognize him as the village's notorious good-for-nothing scoundrel.

The woman had come out earlier, but because of her health, she hadn't paid attention to what was behind her and hadn't realized that she had been discovered sneaking out. This rascal, who was good at nothing but stirring up trouble and making wild guesses, saw her leaving while avoiding people and knew that something was going on inside, so he followed her.

As it turned out, something really happened. When he saw the other person arrive at the village butcher's house, and the two of them walking together out of the village, Lai Zi concluded that the two were having an affair and decided to play the righteous man and expose them.

It was already night, and there were no lights on the village road. The butcher and the woman were indeed walking furtively, so they didn't carry lanterns and had no idea that someone was following them.

"I also met a young girl today. She's supposedly a Taoist priest, and she seems to have some skills. She sent two wolves flying with a flick of her whisk. If you see a girl in a pink dress, stay as far away from her as possible."

The butcher and the woman didn't have a very good relationship. They just had an agreement: the butcher would help, and the woman would pay. But considering that she was also from the village, and out of a sense of kinship, he still offered a few words of advice.

The three of them walked out of the village one after the other. The butcher and the woman stopped in front of a dilapidated house. The house had been in disrepair for many years and was unattended. Three of the four walls were broken and there was a large hole in the roof.

Apart from beggars, this place was rarely visited, so it became the "old haunt" agreed upon by the butcher and the woman.

The butcher put the package he was carrying on the ground, found a spot to light a lamp, and because of the distance, Lai Zi couldn't see what the butcher was carrying, but he could hear him talking as he tidied up.

"It hasn't been that long since last time, why are you acting like this again?"

"You think I want this? Ugh, this is so uncomfortable."

The table used to hold the lamp was barely usable. The woman was holding onto the edge of the table and clutching her stomach. She did look somewhat pregnant, but her swollen waist and abdomen were quite different in shape from a pregnant woman's belly.

The woman looked as if something had been stuffed under her skin around her waist and abdomen, making her appearance completely disproportionate to her actual figure.

The butcher had heard the wailing behind him countless times. The first few times the butcher came to him, he was nervous and scared, but now that it happened so often, he had gotten used to it.

Thanks to his "worldly experience," he wasn't too panicked when he got home and found himself being targeted by two wolves. He was able to calmly deal with them with a knife, and he didn't react too strangely when he saw a little girl who didn't look human.

Ling sneezed, feeling like she'd been insulted.

The butcher was packing up his things, and the woman was clutching her stomach and crying out in pain. Lai Zi didn't think the two of them were going to have an affair, but a man and a woman running to this abandoned house at the edge of the village late at night, and the woman was someone else's wife, he couldn't think of any other option but a secret rendezvous.

Anyway, he had already seen the two of them come out at night, and that alone was enough for Lai Zi to have a hold over them. It was against the rules for a man and a woman to go out together. He was hiding behind the broken wall now, just to see what the two of them were up to.

The butcher straightened up after packing his things, and a flash of cold light caught Lai Zi's eye. What the butcher was holding was none other than the knife he used to slaughter livestock.

Seeing the knife in the butcher's hand, Lai Zi frowned. He had originally wanted to expose the two men on the spot and show off his power, but now that he saw the knife in the butcher's hand and compared the size of the two men, he felt that he had to think twice.

Unlike Lai Zi's fear, the woman was overjoyed to see the butcher tidy up and take out his knife. She quickly took off her top, revealing her swollen waist and abdomen.

The next moment, the butcher used his knife to cut open the woman's stomach and pulled out her intestines like he was taking out an animal's internal organs. In this bloody scene, the butcher's hands kept moving, pulling the intestines out. The bloody intestines seemed endless, getting longer and longer with the butcher's movements, and piling up on the ground.

Who would have thought that the man and woman leaving the village at night weren't for a secret rendezvous, but rather to disembowel themselves?