[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-dark-and-dawn-light-years":3,"chapter-dark-and-dawn-light-years-dark-and-dawn-light-years-chapter-55":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Dark and Dawn Light-Years",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2264655,4420,"Chapter 55: The Wraith That Eats Wraiths","dark-and-dawn-light-years-chapter-55",55,"\u003Cp>The female wraith sensed the intense fluctuation of spiritual energy; she had already spotted Li Lin, and with the body of a virgin girl born in a Yin year, she could appear before him in the blink of an eye and kill him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the problem was, she was currently in a spiritual form, bound by the restrictions of the spiritual altar, unable to leave the Qin household’s grounds at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet she was not afraid—this mere ninth-rank Spirit Hunter’s spell was trivial to withstand; this was her domain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Black malice enveloped her, and she fixed Li Lin with a venomous glare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now she understood: the ones who killed her two direct descendants were not the Wang or Ding families, as she had suspected, but this boy before her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Zhe’s lover!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It must have been Liu Zhe’s orders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She stared at Li Lin, smiling cruelly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crimson and azure lightning split the night sky and struck the rock garden in the Qin household’s rear courtyard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a deafening explosion, the rock garden shattered into fragments, stones flying everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The female wraith froze, slowly turning her head toward the rear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You actually…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An invisible barrier vanished—this barrier had no effect on the living, yet it had seemingly protected something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her pupils shifted from withered gray-black to a chilling pale-blue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simultaneously, her malice intensified, and her form rapidly swelled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Li Lin did not flee; he simply watched calmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the female wraith expanded to a certain size, even ordinary people could see her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Qin household’s retainers screamed in terror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Panic spread—the neighborhood around the Qin household was relatively lively, with many people moving about even at night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, seeing a terrifying female wraith floating above the Qin household, they fled home, slammed their doors shut, and trembled in fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some prayed to gods and Buddhas; others collapsed into hysterical weeping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Lin’s smile grew more pronounced.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as the female wraith turned toward Li Lin, as if to strike, a greater “wraith” appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More precisely—a True Lord.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a massive, pitch-black humanoid shape, like a swirling vortex of darkness; its face was indistinct, but its eyes blazed with brilliant golden light, hence its name.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment the Golden Light True Lord appeared, a colossal black hand seized the female wraith and immediately swallowed her whole, without hesitation—the entire process was so swift it seemed like a blink.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was why Li Lin remained so calm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how powerful the Qin household’s female wraith was, no matter how brazenly she acted under the True Lord’s nose, she had one fatal weakness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She could not be discovered by the local guardian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The altar, though it confined her movement, had also concealed her traces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that the altar was destroyed, the female wraith naturally had to reveal herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Golden Light True Lord’s indistinct face shifted slightly, as if chewing twice, then its form vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, a voice filled with shock and fury rang out: “Grandmother—who did this?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Lin, on the rooftop, saw Qin Feng return and immediately leapt backward into the shadows, slipping away unseen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Feng scanned the surroundings with furious eyes, saw no suspicious figures, and his expression darkened further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, a woman burst out of the Qin household—she was strikingly beautiful, and cried out: “Husband, disaster! The ancestral altar has been destroyed!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Feng had already guessed this; he asked: “What exactly happened? Who did it?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t know—I only saw a bolt of lightning strike from the sky.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed, it was a spell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had seen that bolt of lightning himself—that was precisely why he abandoned Wang Tianyou and sprinted back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because that lightning, he realized, had struck directly above his own home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Few people wield crimson-and-azure lightning spells. If we investigate the surrounding area, we’ll find who it was.” Qin Feng’s eyes were bloodshot: “Then I’ll make him beg for death and be denied it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman looked worried: “What about the third son? Should we keep him here, or send him to Yuecheng?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Send him to Yuecheng?” Qin Feng walked toward the house, saying: “Do you think if the third son steps outside the gate even once, someone won’t come to assassinate him?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman’s eyebrows shot up: “Who dares?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who dares?” Qin Feng’s smile was grim: “The eldest and second sons dared to kill—why wouldn’t they dare kill the third? Now even our ancestral grandmother has been taken by a thief—they mean to kill every last one of us. Not one will be spared.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, the woman finally grew afraid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What do we do?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Feng’s eyes brimmed with venom: “They killed my two sons and plotted against my ancestors—I won’t let Wang Tianyou or that gutter-dwelling bastard escape. I’ll find him, and I’ll make him suffer the cruelest torment—begging for death and denied it. His friends, his family—all will perish.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Go back to your room—I’m performing the Soul-Calling, Killer-Pursuing Spell!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At these words, the woman’s face turned ashen: “Husband, please spare me!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Feng stared coldly, gripping her arm: “You don’t want your own biological son—the third son—to live in constant terror, always fearing he’ll be murdered at any moment, do you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The beautiful woman’s face turned deathly pale, her eyes filled with torment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Li Lin crept back to the brothel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sitting in the shadows, he swallowed two more Life-Restoring Pills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simply ingesting Life-Restoring Pills without cultivation was extremely wasteful—less than thirty percent of the spiritual energy could be absorbed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this method had one advantage: it caused no spiritual energy fluctuations, so the True Lord here wouldn’t sense any spiritual power; even if he saw Li Lin swallowing pills, he’d merely assume the man was taking medicine to heal his wounds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Life-Restoring Pills released spiritual energy extremely slowly, and Li Lin’s depleted Yin energy gradually replenished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Lin had no sleepiness, so he opened the book “The Daoist’s Detailed Accounts.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Spiritual Script +1]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Paper Figurine Craft +1]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Spirit Raising +1]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hmph—admittedly, the folk shamans of the countryside had wild methods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This thin manual contained beginner tutorials for three different spells.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Lin had originally thought Spiritual Script would be the strongest—his assumption wasn’t wrong—but based on what he’d learned so far, Paper Figurine Craft was the most practical.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, he mastered a basic Paper Figurine Craft.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Golden Boy and Jade Girl.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two most common paper figurines used in funeral rites: a boy and a girl.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To ordinary people, these two paper figures were mere symbols.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the hands of a Spirit Hunter, they could move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Too bad he couldn’t act now—he lacked sufficient materials; otherwise, he could’ve crafted several small paper figures on the spot to do his bidding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spiritual Script required many materials—yellow paper, cinnabar, etc.—and he couldn’t use them yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for Spirit Raising!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It required capturing a wraith, taming it through various methods, and turning it into a loyal servant always at one’s side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Capture a wraith?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Lin’s first thought was the Tree Immortal Lady.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He immediately discarded the thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t gauge how powerful the Tree Immortal Lady was, but he was certain—if she truly flew into a rage, she’d snap him in half with one tail.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, he finished reading the entire “The Daoist’s Detailed Accounts,” gaining much insight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, suddenly, he felt an inexplicable chill surrounding him, growing colder by the second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His first reaction was to crouch down and enter stealth mode.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1242,"2026-06-19T19:39:18.782Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","724255e3ffd375c5937af631daa7f84e7713ef9f6b07dfd48e63e9569e3fdb80","dark-and-dawn-light-years-chapter-56","dark-and-dawn-light-years-chapter-54",221,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fdark-and-dawn-light-years-cover.jpg"]