An Chen, holding the Laughing Charm, secretly circled behind Wang Zhaoyang, a sense of guilt welling up in his heart.
With a heartless, he pressed the Talisman onto Wang Zhaoyang's back.
As he injected spiritual power, the Talisman began to take effect.
"After today, I might even be your Junior Brother... Ah hahahahahaha!"
As he spoke, Wang Zhaoyang suddenly began to laugh maniacally, as if possessed. He released Chen Sheng's hand, needing to bend over and clutch his stomach.
"Hahahahahahaha! Hahahahahahaha!"
Wang Zhaoyang started rolling on the ground, but he continued to laugh. His expression, due to shortness of breath, changed from surprise to fear, and finally even a hint of ferocity.
But he just couldn't stop.
Wang Zhaoyang rolled from one side of the courtyard to the other, yet he still didn't stop. The laughter not only continued but grew even louder.
Witnessing this bizarre scene, the few people who had remained in the courtyard were now all scared away.
Not only that, but two Gang members who had been knocked unconscious were woken up by the sound. Seeing Wang Zhaoyang laughing desperately, they thought he had encountered something joyful. Turning their heads, they saw Jiang Shixiong holding two Talismans and looking at them.
"Oh, you're awake, just in time, just in time, let's try it together."
The two Talismans were placed perfectly on their foreheads, and then, the two also found themselves unable to stop laughing, as if their laughter points had been triggered.
One person on the ground turned into three, rolling around the courtyard, laughing as they rolled.
The remaining few survivors were dumbfounded.
What is this doing?
Jiang Shixiong took out a bundle of Talismans from his qiankun bag, a harmless expression on his face.
"Come, come, everyone who sees gets a share, everyone who sees gets a share!"
He left these survivors alive for this very purpose.
To help test the new Talismans he had developed.
When Jiang Shixiong first started researching these Talismans, because their names and effects were quite peculiar and they didn't harm people, he even had his fellow disciples help him test them.
However, because the effects were too bizarre, gradually no one dared to help him test the Talismans anymore.
So every time he took on a mission, if he encountered targets with a lower Realm, he would use them to test his Talismans.
Everyone in the courtyard began to roll around, unable to stop laughing. Wang Zhaoyang, who had started laughing first, was already in tears.
This isn't right, the direction of this plot isn't right!
Could this also be one of the tests for joining the Sect?
An Chen used the word "deafening" to describe laughter for the first time, but it was indeed true.
More than a dozen people laughed hysterically, more unstoppable than if they had eaten a Mentos.
Perhaps because he was a Cultivator, the Gang leader was the first to stop, but even that took a full fifteen minutes.
He coughed, his face flushed, and he lay on the ground, unable to get up.
If an ordinary person were to laugh continuously, they would soon be unable to laugh due to lack of breath.
But after sticking on this Talisman, it was very strange; he could still maintain a minimum amount of inhalation. Although it was uncomfortable, he wouldn't die.
This Gang leader felt for the first time that laughter was also a form of torture.
A full fifteen minutes of unstoppable laughter sounds easy, but if you really let someone experience it, you'll know it's more unbearable than killing someone.
He constantly hovered on the brink of suffocation, yet he just wouldn't die, and he endured it.
Moreover, there was another reason he couldn't get up: his stomach hurt.
His abdominal muscles were sore and aching, and it hurt terribly to stretch them.
As for the others, their abs were cramping.
An Chen couldn't bear to watch anymore. He found Wang Zhaoyang among the rolling people, seized him, and then tore off the Talisman on his back.
"Cough, cough, cough... cough, cough, cough!"
Wang Zhaoyang coughed violently, then lay on the ground, hunched over.
An Chen helped him rub his back, assisted him in stretching, and then threw him out the door.
As for the others, they stared at An Chen with hope, wishing he could free them too.
But An Chen walked away in disgust.
"I... I was wrong! Don't torment me... I was wrong!"
The Gang leader started kowtowing on the ground again, but Jiang Shixiong was unmoved and took out another Talisman.
"You are a Cultivator, your reference value is greater, so I need to test a few more on you."
Then, he placed another Talisman on his back.
The Gang leader, who was lying on the ground, suddenly kicked his two hind legs, exerted force with his arms, and did a handstand.
"What did you do?!"
An Chen was startled.
"Senior Brother, what kind of Talisman is this again?"
"Handstand Talisman. This one has been experimented with before, and its effects are pretty clear. Anyway, I have plenty, no use not using them."
For the next fifteen minutes, the Gang leader could only stand on his hands in place. He tried to use his arms to support himself and escape but was caught and dragged back.
His body was completely bound by the Talisman, so he could only stand rigidly on his hands. His hands could move, but moving while on his hands looked too abstract.
After fifteen minutes, he collapsed to the ground again.
But before he could rest, Jiang Shixiong put another Talisman on him.
"Holy crap!"
He then went on all fours and began to crawl and writhe on the ground.
If it were the kind of crawling with his abdomen down, that would be one thing, but when this Gang leader crawled, his abdomen was up, his back was down, his head had to be tilted back, revealing a mouthful of large teeth, his hair was loose, and his movements were very stiff, like an old zombie from several hundred years ago.
Who wouldn't be confused seeing this.
"This is the Crawling Talisman, just like the Handstand Talisman, no use not using it."
Jiang Shixiong looked at the performance of the Gang members with satisfaction, seemingly very pleased with his results.
An Chen was already dumbfounded.
Who exactly is this Jiang Shixiong?!
How could someone spend all day researching such evil things!
An Chen finally understood what "twisting and crawling darkly on the ground" meant.
It turned out that this phrase was not made up but had factual basis!
As for the Gang members who were still rolling around and laughing on the ground, they had already foamed at the mouth and passed out. Even at this point, they would occasionally twitch and let out a couple of laughs.
This scene, no matter how you looked at it, was bizarre.
The Talisman testing was over, and Jiang Shixiong was too lazy to wait for them to wake up, so he decisively ended their lives.
As for the Gang leader, Jiang Shixiong left him to An Chen, wanting to see if he had truly learned to kill.
This time, An Chen did not disappoint him. As he crawled towards the courtyard gate, An Chen struck him with a sword to the back of his neck.
The mission was considered complete at this point.
Perhaps there were still some core Gang members who hadn't returned, but that didn't matter.
The Gang leader and most of the core members of this Gang were dead, so this Gang was considered finished, and the Gang was considered eradicated.