Stop it, Taoist, Your Fight almost Ruins the DAO!
Chapter 1069 - 568: Midnight Vampire, Nocturnal Council, Li Shiran's Doubts: Could He Really Be a Genius? The Transformation of Spear._2

"I'll give you a chance. I'm counting to ten, and if anyone isn't hidden, you'll be eaten by me, ooh."

Dawn's faint light spread across the sky, ushering the day but not yet bright, as if a glowing glass bowl had been inverted over the earth.

The bowl shimmered with light but cast a dark gloom within.

Within the enclosure of a mansion with red walls and green tiles, a chubby little boy gazed in terror at the fierce Blood Shadow, whose back was turned to him.

As the Blood Shadow's countdown began, he immediately scrambled in panic towards a hidden vegetable cellar of his own residence.

He had every reason to be scared, for at this moment, the head of his father was in the grasp of the Blood Shadow, and from the neck of the headless corpse, a fountain of blood sprang forth like a waterfall, flowing directly into the mouth of the fearsome Blood Shadow.

"Hide! Hide! Hide!"

"Survive! I must survive! Certainly, the Night Patrol Bureau of Great Qian won't let these Ghostly Beings rampage unchecked. Just need to hold on a bit longer, just a tiny bit longer."

The chubby boy muttered to himself as he stumbled toward the vegetable cellar.

In the corner of his eye, he witnessed the family servants attempting to flee the mansion grounds, only to seem to encounter an invisible barrier at the gate, unable to push it open no matter how hard they tried.

No, it wasn't that they couldn't push it open; they couldn't touch it at all!

Only now did the servants and maids want to turn back, but by then it was already too late.

"Nine!"

"Ten!"

"I'm coming to catch you now!"

The ghastly Blood Shadow turned, morphing into a dwarf-like monster with an unbelievably large head and a short, stout body, resembling a small pickling jar, as it began scanning for the scattered servants with bloodthirsty eyes.

The chubby boy, with eyes tightly shut in the vegetable cellar, listened to the occasional screams of despair coming from above, trembling more violently than ever.

I'm going to die, I'm going to die!

With the chilling screams quieting down above, the boy felt his heart rising to his throat.

He didn't know when the night would end.

Drip, drop, drip, drop.

Water droplets condensed above the cellar kept falling onto the stone tiles, their dripping sound especially ear-piercing in the darkness.

The chubby boy buried himself amongst the thick vegetables, and using the dim light filtering through the air vents, he noticed that the fierce Blood Shadow hadn't entered. His terror-stricken heart finally eased a little.

After the fear subsided, a tide of worries flooded in – he had no idea how the rest of his family was doing.

Time trickled by slowly. Not knowing how much time had passed, the boy only knew that the light coming in through the air holes was growing brighter. After silently counting to a thousand in his head, he shakily crawled out from under the pile of vegetables.

Drip, drop, drip, drop.

A drop of cool, foul-smelling liquid suddenly fell onto the chubby boy's face.

"Water?"

"No, this isn't right. Why does the water have such a strong scent of blood!"

The chubby boy looked up, only to see a dwarf Blood Shadow clinging to the ceiling of the cellar, grinning viciously at him.

In an instant, the mouth of the dwarf Blood Shadow split widely open, expanding to a width of one meter, revealing two rows of sharp, triangular teeth, snapping together like a trap and flashing a chilling white light in the air.

"Found you, oh, I thought you could hide longer, how amusing!"

A terrifying, gigantic face suddenly loomed large in the chubby boy's eyes!

"Ahh!"

Yang City, night.

With the moon shining sparsely among the stars and the crows heading south in flight.

In the darkness, Young Master Guo let out a scream, suddenly sitting bolt upright on his bed, drenched in sweat and feeling as if he had been pulled out from cold water.

Below, a warm sensation welled up.

"Damn it, why would I have such a nightmare! It's so terrifying!"

Young Master Guo tried to get up to light the candle, to dispel the darkness and push away the fear within his heart, but facing the thick darkness in his room that seemed impenetrable, he hesitated.

He tried calling out a few times, but after a long wait, no servant responded, as if everyone in the Guo Family mansion had fallen into a deep sleep.

"No good, I've got to get up. If word gets out that I, who am soon to be married, wet the bed in the middle of the night, I wouldn't be able to show my face again."

"Those servants have no discretion at all. If this gets out, I won't be able to join the adults' table when I go out for drinks anymore..."

Thinking of the embarrassing situation he might face, Young Master Guo, who had retrieved a Jade Coin from within his sock for Yi Chen during the day, suddenly found an inexplicable courage surging within him – a courage that conquered his inner fears!

He struggled to rise, fumbling to light the candle, intending to change his pants and dispose of the wet ones.

Click!

With the Fire Stick igniting the candle on the desk, the room was instantly filled with a dim but warm light. The illumination made Young Master Guo's fear subside a bit, and he couldn't help but start ridiculing himself while looking at his damp nether regions,

"Eh, scaring myself over nothing. Yang City has been peaceful for a long time; how could there be ghosts, let alone such vicious ones."

"Now that it's come to this, better change my pants first!"

"Eh, how did the Voodoo Doll that Mother left on the bed fall down, and the string's broken too? Which careless servant did this? Seems like I've been too lenient on them usually."

After changing his pants, Young Master Guo felt much bolder. He suddenly noticed the white cloth legs of the doll peeking out from under the bed, and his face showed a flash of anger.

This doll was a family heirloom given to him by his dying mother, said to ward off disasters and protect against evil,