Chapter 10: 10 Sure enough, the rumors can't be trusted!

10 Sure enough, the rumors can't be trusted!

"Master, I, I... can I go see my father? I, I want..." the female ghost's voice trembled.

She hadn't finished speaking when Tushan Jiu pulled out a nail clipper from her pocket, saying, "Yes, but you have to buy my tools on credit."

The female ghost stared, shocked, looking at Tushan Jiu, "You're a credit knife person!"

Tushan Jiu raised an eyebrow, answering her.

The female ghost was inwardly astonished; she had been dead for several years, drifting in the Yang realm studying ghost arts, so naturally she knew the categories of the various sects within the Mysterious Gate.

Their sects cultivate in different ways, and naturally what they excel at also differs.

Nowadays, the major sects include the All Truth School, Orthodox Unity School, Mount Mao School, Mount Lu School, etc.; these are all well known to the world.

There are many more minor sects, such as the Mount Mei School, Pure Clarity School, Divine Sky School, Gold Mountain School, Great Oneness Way, True Great Dao, etc.; among them are not a few niche professions.

These niche professions are all family‑inherited, and their skills are unique.

For example, the Thieves' Gate, also called Grave‑gold Technicians, operate mainly underground; if any sect of the Mysterious Gate encounters a task requiring tomb‑digging, they would also invite one or two of them to come along.

Another example is the Gu Sect, whose Gu techniques are diverse; the relatively famous one is the Miao‑Xiang Gu Technique.

Besides these, there are Credit Knife Persons, Body Retrievers, Village Guardians, and so on.

But this Credit Knife Person, in the metaphysical world, is like a 'fragile one'.

They are not skilled in mystic arts or martial combat, only famous for their extraordinarily accurate divination.

Yet it is precisely this that makes no one in the metaphysical world dare to provoke them.

Who doesn't have a weak point? If you provoke these Credit Knife Persons, once they divine your weak point, it becomes fatal!

Moreover, they have been passing this down from ancient times; who knows how many people owe them debts, and what identities those debtors have?

Furthermore, she has also heard some sayings.

That is, their credit knife accounts are not limited to the Yang realm alone!

Moreover, she had heard that many officials in various departments of the Underworld bear the surname Tushan!

Just thinking of that, the female ghost instantly shuddered.

However, these are not what surprised her.

What surprised her was, who exactly said that the Credit Knife Person's mystic arts and martial prowess are lacking!

A single slap can stop a car speeding at a hundred and easily shatter her 'ghost technique'; even the masters of the major sects coming might not necessarily be able to do that.

The female ghost quickly glanced at Tushan Jiu.

Sure enough, the rumors can't be trusted!

No, the rumors are downright treacherous!

While thinking, she hastily and respectfully took the nail clipper from Tushan Jiu's hands with both hands, saying, "I'll buy it on credit."

Tushan Jiu curled her lips and nodded, pinching out a talisman and drawing two strokes with her joined fingers toward the female ghost.

The next second, something miraculous happened.

Xie Shiyu and the others' pupils contracted slightly.

Only see, the talisman in Tushan Jiu's hand turned into a visible golden light that shot straight into the female ghost's body.

She lightly opened her red lips and said softly:

"The transaction is preliminarily settled; apologize for faults, repay grudges; by the end of the zi hour, go to the Underworld on your own to confess; those people you frightened into car accidents, though not killed, many are seriously injured—these are your sins; being repeatedly run over by a red sports car for two hundred years is what you deserve."

Before the female ghost disappeared, she left a sentence: "Thank you."

After the female ghost disappeared, her ghost arts naturally ceased as well.

The white mist quickly dispersed.

Everyone's vision gradually cleared.

Tushan Jiu glanced at the time; it was almost the zi hour.

The zi hour is also divided into early zi and night zi.

23:00–00:00 is called night zi, 00:00–01:00 is called early zi.

She set the female ghost's limit as the end of the zi hour—that is, before 1:00 a. m., she must dispel all her obsessions and then go to the Underworld to receive punishment.

And now it's almost eleven o'clock.

When the zi hour arrives, the Ghost Gate opens.

Souls destined for rebirth may not linger in the Yang realm.

Tushan Jiu turned and looked at Zhang Huihui, Huihui, who was still watching the spectacle beside Xie Jingting.

"Zhang Huihui, the midnight hour has come; you should go reincarnate."

Everyone was stunned, all looking at Zhang Huihui.

Zhang Huihui also looked bewildered, pointing at herself and saying, "Me?"

Tushan Jiu calmly took out a small box from her pocket and placed the pink stick of the lollipop inside.

"For ghosts, the feet are bonds to the Yang realm; after death they naturally disappear, becoming a floating state, without shadow or substance."

Xie Jingting's gaze moved downward and finally settled on Zhang Huihui's empty skirt.

Zhang Huihui has no feet and no shadow!

The three of them sucked in a breath of cold air; Xie Jingzhou instinctively pulled Xie Jingting, who was beside Zhang Huihui, and they stepped back several paces.

Xie Shiyu also furrowed his brows.

They seemed not to have noticed this at all.

Zhang Huihui herself also lowered her head to watch her feet disappearing, then showed a terrified expression as if seeing a ghost: "Ah!!! I, I, am I dead?"

Tushan Jiu, "Hmm, fresh out of the oven, still warm."

Zhang Huihui: "...... Then why didn't I know I was dead?"

Tushan Jiu thought, then replied: "Selective amnesia?"

As her words fell, not far away, police cars and ambulances wailed past.

Tushan Jiu lifted her chin toward that side, "Here, your corpse just passed by."

As the words fell, Zhang Huihui was like being doused with sweet dew, everything came back to her.

She is dead.

Killed by being hit by a big truck.

She indeed had an argument with her boyfriend, but it wasn't her boyfriend who abandoned her; rather, she angrily got out of the car without looking at the vehicle behind, and was directly knocked down and run over by a big truck.

The scene was too horrible to bear; she died on the spot.

However, at the moment her soul left her body, she thought, how good it would be if she hadn't been so impulsive.

So, her memory after death subconsciously forgot this segment, completely lacking the scene of her car accident.

Then afterwards, she drifted here for an hour or two, seeing no vehicles pass, finally only seeing the car of Xie Jingting that the female ghost had sat in, because it was stained with yin energy.

"But, sister-in-law, that's not right, she was just pulling me along?" Xie Jingting raised a question.

Tushan Jiu calmly explained: "That female ghost's yin energy was too strong; you were affected, and she also 'borrowed light' to become substantial. Now go touch her and see if you can still feel her?"

Xie Jingting glanced at Zhang Huihui, and Zhang Huihui glanced at him.

"No, no, hehe." Xie Jingting shook both hands and his head together like a rattle, resisting strongly.

Zhang Huihui was like a frost-bitten eggplant, wilted, "But I can't find the ghost gate, what should I do?"

Tushan Jiu helplessly shook her head, didn't answer verbally, pinched out a talisman, flicked her fingers twice quickly, and Zhang Huihui vanished before their eyes.

If you can't find the ghost gate, go to the Underworld's office stationed in the human world.