Chapter 54: Much Like Boiling a Frog in Warm Water

As Bai Qianzhou opened all of them one by one, the four piles of items placed before them gradually revealed themselves. Everyone's expressions grew increasingly solemn, as if they could physically feel an oppressive weight in the air.

Inside each cloth bundle were various animal bones alongside a pitch-black figurine.

"Zhouzhou, what on earth are these things?" Pei Hexuan turned to look at Bai Qianzhou, his eyes flashing with doubt and unease.

"The Four Symbols and Seven Killings Formation."

"The Four Symbols and Seven Killings Formation? What is that?" Pei Yanlin asked, never hesitating to ask when he didn't understand.

"According to ancient texts, the Four Gods and Seven Killings Formation was originally set up using the four divine beasts. But where could anyone find the four divine beasts nowadays?

Therefore, later generations would soak the figurines of the four divine beasts in the blood of animals resembling them for forty-nine days.

Then, they would bury these figurines and the animal bones in their corresponding directions to form the Seven Killings Formation.

Although this is not a true Four Gods and Seven Killings Formation, anyone living here for a long time will, at the very least, suffer financial ruin, and at worst, easily fall victim to unexpected disasters.

The truly terrifying aspect of this formation is that it does not take effect immediately. It is just like boiling a frog in warm water, slowly draining the life out of people bit by bit!" Her words struck like a thunderclap, shaking the hearts of everyone present.

She looked at the members of the Pei family with profound pity, utterly unable to understand what kind of deep, irreconcilable hatred the person who set up this formation could possibly hold against them!

To actually want to use such a method to slowly drain them to death!

This was simply too vicious!

"Zhouzhou, what do you mean by that?" Pei Hexuan's expression was grave, his eyes revealing a deep, heavy worry.

"I mean exactly what I said."

"Little sister, what kind of animals are similar to the four divine beasts that you mentioned?" Pei Yanlin asked Bai Qianzhou while pinching his nose.

"Snakes, cats, chickens, and turtles." Bai Qianzhou replied, pointing out the remains to them.

"Wait, can these animals possibly represent the four divine beasts?" Pei Yanhui stared in wide-eyed disbelief. No matter how he looked at it, these creatures had nothing to do with the legendary four divine beasts!

"What else do you expect? Did you seriously want me to dig up the four divine beasts for you? What kind of daydreams are you having?" Bai Qianzhou rolled her eyes in resignation.

She would have loved to find the four divine beasts herself, but where on earth was she supposed to look for them?

Therefore, those people had no choice but to find animals with similar shapes; otherwise, how could the effect of this Four Symbols and Seven Killings Formation have been achieved so easily?

"Then how should we deal with these things?" Bai Liu asked as she looked at the items, her face pale.

"Just destroy them." With that said, Bai Qianzhou took out the four figurines, set them aside, and produced a stack of talismans which she pasted onto the statues.

"All of you, move back a bit." Having finished her preparations, Bai Qianzhou looked at the others, and Pei Hexuan and the rest obediently retreated to a further distance.

Bai Qianzhou formed hand seals with both hands and silently recited a spell, whereupon the four figurines instantly shattered with loud, successive pops.

Almost at the same time, Bai Qianzhou saw the souls of various animals drifting out from the broken statues.

"Hey, hey, hey, stop clinging to me, it's so annoying!" Although the others could not see what was happening to Bai Qianzhou, she currently had seven small snakes wrapped around her body.

Seven cats were perched on her shoulders, seven turtles rested by her feet, and seven large roosters were wandering around her in a daze.

"If you all cling to me like this, I can't do anything at all. Get down off me, every single one of you, and line up!" Bai Qianzhou sighed.

The souls were quite obedient; they climbed down from her body and stood neatly in a row before her.

"I'll have people find a place to bury your remains, and as for you lot, I will send you off to reincarnation." Bai Qianzhou placed her hands on her hips and spoke to them.

Without bothering to care whether they would object or not, Bai Qianzhou directly summoned the Gate of Ghosts and drove all of them inside.