Chapter 55: The Ghost That Eats Ghosts

The female ghost sensed the intense fluctuation of spiritual energy; she had already discovered Li Lin. If she possessed the body of a maiden born in a Yin year, she could appear before the latter in the blink of an eye and strike him down.

However, the problem was that she was currently in a spirit form, restricted by the Spiritual Altar, able to move only within the confines of Qin Fu, utterly unable to appear outside.

Yet she was not afraid; the techniques of a mere Ninth-Rank Spirit Hunter were trivial for her to withstand, and this was her home ground.

Black resentful qi wrapped around her, and she looked at Li Lin with a poisonous gaze.

Now she understood: the one who had killed her two direct descendants was not, as previously suspected, the Wang family or the Ding family, but this young man before her eyes.

Liu Zhe's lover!

It must have been Liu Zhe's instruction.

She looked at Li Lin with a cruel smile.

Green and red lightning split the night sky, striking the rockery in the backyard of Qin Fu.

Amidst a deafening roar, the rockery was blasted into fragments, with stones flying everywhere.

The female ghost froze, slowly turning her head to look behind her.

"You actually..."

An invisible barrier vanished; this barrier had no effect on living people, yet it seemed to be protecting something.

Her pupils shifted from withered gray-black toward a chilling cyan-white.

At the same time, her resentful qi grew heavier, and her form rapidly expanded.

But Li Lin did not run; he simply watched silently.

Once the female ghost expanded to a certain extent, even ordinary people could see her.

The servants of Qin Fu let out screams of terror.

Panic spread; the area surrounding Qin Fu was a relatively lively district, and even late at night, many people were active.

Now, seeing a terrifying female ghost floating above Qin Fu, they fled home in fright, shut their gates tight, and trembled uncontrollably.

Some prayed to gods and Buddhas; others collapsed in weeping.

Li Lin's smile became even more obvious.

Just as the female ghost looked at Li Lin, seemingly about to strike, a larger 'Ghost' appeared.

More precisely, it was a Taowu Zhenjun.

This was a massive, pitch-black humanoid figure, like swirling black mist; its face was indistinct, but its eyes were two blazing orbs of golden light, hence its name.

The moment Jin Guang Taowu Zhenjun appeared, a giant black hand seized the female ghost, then immediately opened its mouth to swallow her into its belly without hesitation; the process was so fast it was almost instantaneous.

This was also the reason Li Lin remained so calm.

No matter how powerful the female ghost of Qin Fu was, or how brazenly she acted under the Taowu Zhenjun's nose, she possessed a fatal weakness.

She could not be discovered by the guardian of this place.

And that altar, while restricting the female ghost's range of movement, also concealed her traces.

Now that the altar was destroyed, the female ghost naturally had to reveal herself.

The indistinct face of Jin Guang Taowu Zhenjun moved slightly, as if chewing twice, and then the figure of Jin Guang Taowu Zhenjun vanished.

At that moment, a voice of shock and anger came from nearby: "Grandmother, who did this!"

Li Lin, currently on the rooftop, saw that Qin Feng had returned, immediately leaped backward into the shadows, and slipped away.

Qin Feng's angry gaze searched the surroundings for a while, found no suspicious person, and his complexion grew even darker.

At this moment, a woman rushed out of Qin Fu; she was quite beautiful. She cried out, "Husband, a great disaster has occurred; the altar of our Great-Great-Grandmother has been destroyed."

Qin Feng had already guessed this; he asked, "What are the specific details? Who did it!"

"I do not know; I only saw a bolt of lightning descend from the sky."

It was indeed talisman art.

In fact, he had seen that lightning bolt himself; that was why he had abandoned the thief Wang Tianyou and rushed back.

Because of that lightning, he could tell it had struck right above his own home.

"Few people know how to wield green-red lightning; as long as we investigate the surroundings, we will surely find who did it." Qin Feng's eyes were filled with red veins: "By then, I will make him unable to live and unable to die."

The woman was somewhat worried: "Then what should we do about Zhu Laosan? Should we let him continue staying here, or send him to Yuecheng?"

"Send him to Yuecheng?" Qin Feng said while walking toward the house: "Do you believe that if Zhu Laosan dares to take even a single step out of the house, someone will come to assassinate him?"

The woman's eyebrows shot up: "Who would dare?"

"Why wouldn't they dare?" Qin Feng's smile was bleak: "If the eldest and second brothers dare to kill, why wouldn't they dare to kill the third? Now even our family's Great-Grandmother has been taken down by thieves; they are after the lives of every single one of us; not a single one will be spared."

Hearing this, the woman finally became afraid.

"Then what should we do?"

Qin Feng's eyes were full of venom: "They killed my two sons and plotted against the lives of my ancestors; I will not spare Wang Tianyou or that bastard hiding in the gutter. I will find him, deal with him using the most cruel methods, and make him unable to live and unable to die. His relatives and friends, not one shall escape."

"Go to your room; I will use the Soul-Attracting and Criminal-Tracking Art!"

Hearing this, the woman's face changed drastically: "Husband, spare my life!"

Qin Feng looked on coldly, grabbing the other's arm with his right hand: "You do not want Zhu Laosan, your own biological son, to live in constant terror, with the possibility of being killed at any moment, do you?"

The beautiful woman's face turned deathly pale, her eyes filled with struggle.

On the other side, Li Lin slipped back to the brothel.

Sitting in the shadows, he took two more Life-Returning Pills.

Simply consuming Life-Returning Pills without refining them is actually very wasteful; less than thirty percent of the primordial qi can be obtained.

But this method has one benefit: it causes no fluctuation in spiritual energy, so the Taowu Zhenjun here will not sense the primordial qi; even if they see Li Lin taking medicine, they will simply think he is just taking medicine to treat his injuries.

The Life-Returning Pills released primordial qi very slowly, and the yin qi Li Lin had consumed gradually began to replenish.

Li Lin had no sleepiness for the moment, so he picked up the book "Detailed Account of the Dao Gong" and began to read.

【Talisman Art +1】

【Paper-Stitching Art +1】

【Ghost-Nurturing +1】

Tsk, I must say, the folk shamans of the countryside have wild paths indeed.

In this thin secret manual, there are actually introductory tutorials for three arts.

Li Lin originally thought that talisman art should be very strong; this thought wasn't bad, but based on what he has learned now, Paper-Stitching Art is the most practical.

Moreover, very quickly, he learned a basic Paper-Stitching Art.

'Golden Boy and Jade Girl'.

These are the two paper doll figures of a young boy and a young girl most common in funeral rites.

In the eyes of ordinary people, these two paper dolls are merely symbols.

But in the hands of a Spirit Hunter, these two paper dolls can move.

Unfortunately, it is inconvenient to move now, and he cannot get enough materials; otherwise, he could stitch out a few small paper dolls right then and there to do some things for him.

Talisman art requires many materials, yellow paper, cinnabar, and so on... these are also temporarily unusable.

As for Ghost-Nurturing Art!

It requires catching a ghost oneself, conducting various trainings, and then turning it into one's right-hand man, always by one's side.

Catch a ghost?

Li Lin's first reaction was the Tree Immortal Lady.

Afterwards, he cast that thought aside.

He cannot tell how powerful the Tree Immortal Lady is, but he can be certain that if the Tree Immortal Lady truly gets angry, she will absolutely whip him to death with her tail.

Very quickly, he finished reading the entire "Dao Gong's Account", gaining much from it.

It was just that afterwards, he suddenly felt a strange chill appear around him, and it grew colder and colder.

His first reaction was to immediately crouch down and enter a stealth state.

(End of this chapter)