Horii had never known that being dragged away was such a painful thing. After receiving Haruko's request to dig out the Demon Sealing Seal at the entrance of the village. Mao quickly pulled her towards the back of the village. The wind whistled in her ears, making her feel a little uncomfortable, but she could not refuse it. Haruko was still waiting for their reinforcement, so she could not lag behind. If it was too late, it would be bad. Hurry up, hurry up! Horii prayed silently, trying her best to keep up with Mao.

“When the issue is finished, I definitely exercise properly.” she thought. Her eyes narrowed when she accidentally skimmed through the woods beside the village while she was running. Akiko! Save her first? But the seal …

Thousands of thoughts flashed through her mind, but she grabbed Mao's sleeve first. "What's wrong? Haruko is still waiting for us" Mao turned her head in confusion, her tone filled with doubt and dissatisfaction.

Horii shook her head and didn't say anything. She pointed at the forest. Mao looked in the direction Horii was pointing at and could vaguely see the white kimono flashing through the bushes corner.

"Akiko?" She'll be here soon anyway. Harii nodded.

Horii knew that they shouldn't be distracted from doing anything else at this time, but she couldn't let Akiko die. She believed that Mao thought the same. Sure enough, Mao hesitated for a moment and quickly made the decision. "Let's go take a look. Hurry up."

There was no moonlight in the pitch-black bushes. Only a quiet and uneasy atmosphere pervaded the air. Mao looked around vigilantly. She didn't know why she had been separated from Horii after entering the forest. The horrible phenomenon made her worry about Horii's situation. Suddenly, a dead branch being trampled off from behind her. That was an originally soft sound, but she still caught it.

Mao quickly turned around, only to see something red flashing through the forest and disappearing very quickly. "Lord Witch, what are you looking for?" An old voice sounded really close to her. Mao suddenly turned around and saw the village chief standing a few steps away. There was no moonlight in the forest. Apart from his scarlet eyes, she was completely unable to see the village chief's expression. However, her intuition warned that the eyes owner must be filled with malice.

" Village Chief?" She shouted suspiciously. "Haha, Mistress Witch, it's so late, why are you here?" The old village chief asked with an evil smile. Mao was shocked and suddenly felt that something was wrong.

This Village Chief seemed to be no longer the Village Chief they had met at the beginning, and that pair of strange red eyes was the best proof.

Mao kept silent and the village chief did not care as well. He said to "Is Lord Witch looking for something? For example …" He grabbed something from behind him, "For example, this child?"

Child? Mao narrowed eyes and looked carefully. She pretty believed that the child was Akiko. "What do you want to do?" She asked coldly. Yamashita grinned and said, "What are you doing? Little girls at this age are delicious. What do you think I'm going to do?"

Mao's eyes turned cold. She raised her hand and drew an arrow. The tip of the arrow pointed straight at the village chief. "Let her go."

"Don't point an arrow at me, witch!" Yamashita laughed maliciously, "Otherwise, I might have strangled her to death by accident." Mao stared at the scarlet eyes and slowly put down her hand.

"You are trying to drag me." She broke the plot without any politeness. There was no answer from Yamashita. He looked in the direction of the sealed area and said to himself, "Do you feel it? The evil dragon's power has already surged out, and the seal is about to be undone." "I wish Reiko is here. This feeling of hopelessness must be great … If she hadn't hurt Master, why would Master need it … If it wasn't for her …" he said with a glance at Mao.

Mentioning Reiko, the expression on Yamashita instantly became ferocious. The hatred in his scarlet eyes burned like flames. "If it was Lord Reiko, you would have been sent to your last life. How could you still be standing here?"

"Mistress Witch, do you want to stop the seal from opening, or do you want to save this child?" He lifted Akiko up. Akiko's thin figure swayed along with his movements twice. Her lifeless little face made people worried if she was still alive.

Just as Mao was hesitating about whether or not to shot him, the sealed area suddenly shone with a bright red light. The seal was undone. The thought flashed through her mind. Yamashita laughed twice and suddenly threw Akiko into Mao's embrace. "Here you go!"

Mao responded reflexively, but she did not notice the malicious intentions hidden in his scarlet eyes. Very quickly, a burst of stinging pain. She lowered her head in astonishment and saw “Akiko” piercing her chest with tentacles. Then, she slowly raised her face and smiled strangely.

Mao endured the pain and grabbed Akiko and threw her out. Flames ignited. “Akiko”, who was laughing craftily, was instantly engulfed by the azure-blue flames and quickly dissipated into the air as a Spirit Child.

"Cough cough cough …" Mao half knelt on the ground, covered her chest and coughed a few times. Her angry gaze landed on the village chief, "That's not Akiko. Where is the real Akiko?"

"I never said that it was Akiko. However, Lady Witch, you are so eager to save the child that you can't even distinguish between Yokai and humans." Yamashita Village Chief said mockingly, "Although Reiko is powerful, the witch she taught is too weak to withstand a single blow." "Shut up!"

"Haha, are you angry from embarrassment? Forget it, let me send you on your way." As he spoke, he walked to Mao and said, "Master's plan must not go wrong …"

"Do you know why there is a saying called Evil Invincible Righteousness?" Mao suddenly revealed an unfathomable smile. "What, what--ah!--" A demon-shattering arrow shot silently from the back of the mountain, and then fiercely pierced through the back of his head. Yamashita immediately let out a miserable scream. "Because they talk too much."

Mao landed on the ground and stood up. She took out a white arrow from the bazooka and placed it on the bow. Then, she loosened the bowstring at Yamashita. Arrow whistled and drew a graceful arc in the air before piercing into the eyes of Yamashita.

Few monsters could resist two demon-shattering arrows, and the mountain was no exception. Therefore, he died, and his venomous gaze turned into a Spirit Child. "Hu, I'm exhausted." Mao immediately fell to the ground when she kill Yamashita.

She's really tired. Previously, she said that she was stalling at the foot of the mountain. She could tell that the strength Yamashita was higher than her, so she tried to drag him out until Horii found her. For this reason, she didn't hesitate to endure the monster's plot.

This was a deadly gamble of her life. If Horii did not arrive on time, she would only die. Fortunately, she won. Thinking of this, she raised her head and smiled at Horii, who had just walked out of the forest with the longbow on her back. She praised, "It's rare for you to have such good accuracy. You actually shot his in the back of the head with one arrow … It's just a little bit inferior to me."

"Occasionally, there would be times when you were lucky and felt good". Horii thought silently, then rolled her eyes at Zhen Yang, walked to her side, and wrote in her palm, "Are you alright?"

"I’m fine, just a slight injury." The tentacle seemed to be deeply pierced, but in fact, it was only slightly pierced. It was not serious at all. After receiving a positive answer, Horii nodded and continued to write, "I've already found Akiko, but her brother has already been … let's hurry to the sealed area. The seal has been opened, and now we must stop that Yokai from gaining the power of the evil dragon!"

Mao nodded and grabbed the longbow and stood up from the ground. "Hiss … It’s really hurt …"She muttered softly, then ignored the chaos all over her body and pulled Horii to the place where the evil dragon was buried .