Chapter 133: Zhang Xiong Runs Away

"Xiao Rong!"

Seeing Xiao Furong commit suicide, Liang Hui shouted out in agitation.

In that moment, he remembered everything; in his past life, he was a lawyer working for Zhang Xiong, but he was eventually hacked to death by Zhang Xiong and his lackeys.

Even after death, Zhang Xiong used sorcery to bury him in a Three Decays and Seven Failures Grave, cursing him to ten lifetimes of bad luck, while Xiao Furong was still trapped inside a human-skin lantern.

And the human skin on this lantern was Xiao Furong's own.

Liang Hui was filled with grief and indignation, and he could not help but burst into tears.

Da Yanguang asked suspiciously, "Master, what happened to Unlucky Hui?"

Lin Chengying frowned slightly and said, "He must have recalled the memories of his past life. My strength is evenly matched with Zhang Xiong's, and he has helpers by his side, so I don't have a guaranteed chance of victory.

Now, I must go back to find my Martial Uncle and ask for his help."

Hearing Lin Chengying's words, Liang Hui hurriedly pleaded for help: "Master, you must help Xiao Rong! Xiao Rong is still trapped in the human-skin lantern. I beg you, you must save her."

Lin Chengying helped Liang Hui up and said, "Rest assured, I will definitely help you, but I must go find a few helpers first."

Da Yanguang thought that this matter was not something an ordinary person like him should get involved in, so he hurriedly said, "I'll head back to the police station to wait for your news."

Liang Hui hurriedly grabbed Da Yanguang and said, "Don't go! You have to stay and help me."

Da Yanguang said anxiously, "Hey, Unlucky Hui, how much more do you want me to help you with?"

Liang Hui said urgently, "Da Yanguang, have you forgotten what you said when you were a child—that you would definitely repay my kindness?"

Da Yanguang was confused: "When I was a child? That was thirty years ago. Have you lost your mind?"

Liang Hui said urgently, "You forgot? Your mother used to sell things outside the theater, and your father was a night-soil collector. Once, he drank too much while working and drowned in a cesspit.

It was I who gave your mother one hundred yuan so your father could be buried. Later, I even gave your mother money to send you to school."

Da Yanguang said in shock and anger, "You investigated me?"

Liang Hui waved his hands hurriedly: "What investigation? I am the uncle who helped you. Do you still remember the scar on your forehead? You were naughty as a child and accidentally bumped it at the theater entrance; I even paid for your medical expenses, didn't I?"

Da Yanguang said in surprise, "Ah, you are Uncle Tang?"

Lin Chengying said from the side, "That must be it. Officer, there is a karmic connection between you and this gentleman; it is indeed your turn to repay the debt."

Liang Hui added, "Da Yanguang, you promised your mother; telling lies will make your front teeth fall out."

The next second, Da Yanguang felt a sharp pain in his front teeth, as if they were about to fall out.

He hurriedly shouted, "I'll help, I'll help!"

As soon as the words left his mouth, his tooth pain stopped.

Da Yanguang breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Then what should we do next?"

Lin Chengying said, "Follow me for now and come with me to see my Martial Uncle."

Soon, the three of them arrived at Zhong Fabai's grocery store.

Zhong Fabai was sitting in the shop, bored. Seeing Lin Chengying appear, he took a close look and hurriedly said, "Wow, A-Ying, why did you bring back such an unlucky person?"

Lin Chengying hurriedly explained, "Martial Uncle, his name is Liang Hui. In his past life, he had a grudge against Zhang Xiong and was buried by him in a Three Decays and Seven Failures Grave."

Zhong Fabai said righteously, "Zhang Xiong is indeed cruel and heartless to commit such evil deeds. I must purge the sect for Maoshan!"

Liang Hui was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "Master, please save Xiao Furong. She is trapped by Zhang Xiong in a human-skin lantern, never to be reincarnated."

"Ah!"

Zhong Fabai was so angry his face turned red, and he shouted, "How vicious! Unforgivable!"

Lin Chengying hurriedly said, "Martial Uncle, I have already fought Zhang Xiong from a distance, and I suffered a bit of a loss."

Zhong Fabai snorted coldly: "He is decades older than you, so his magic power is naturally deeper. But you don't need to worry; with my Martial Brother and me taking action, we will surely make him submit to the law!"

Having said that, Zhong Fabai immediately picked up the phone and called the police station in Tung Ping Chau.

Soon, Uncle Feng answered the phone and asked, "A-Bai, why are you in such a hurry to find me?"

Zhong Fabai hurriedly said, "It's like this, Martial Brother. That bastard Zhang Xiong has returned. There is a victim here who was buried by Zhang Xiong in a Three Decays and Seven Failures Grave, and there is also a young girl who was turned into a human-skin lantern, never to be reincarnated. This Zhang Xiong is truly vicious and heartless. I want to purge the sect for Maoshan."

Uncle Feng replied, "I understand. I'll grab my things and come to meet you."

More than an hour later, Uncle Feng arrived at the grocery store, travel-worn. As soon as he entered, he said, "Let's go, we're going to Zhang Xiong's dojo."

Liang Hui hurriedly asked, "How will we find it?"

Zhong Fabai smiled: "Just watch, don't worry."

Before the words faded, Uncle Feng took out a spirit talisman and a cup, then cast a spell to burn it and threw the burning talisman into the cup.

He then fumigated a watch with it and aimed it at Liang Hui's nose. Caught off guard, Liang Hui inhaled the white smoke.

In an instant, Liang Hui lost consciousness and closed his eyes.

Uncle Feng immediately lit an incense stick, and Liang Hui, with his eyes closed, began to walk outside as if he were on autopilot.

Uncle Feng said with great poise, "Let's go, follow him."

The group immediately followed Liang Hui to the secret dojo set up by Zhang Xiong.

At this moment, people were standing inside and outside the dojo, as if they were on high alert.

Zhong Fabai snorted coldly, his heart filled with rage.

Uncle Feng and Lin Chengying also frowned.

Da Yanguang asked softly, "What's wrong? Is it hard to get through?"

Lin Chengying nodded slightly: "Yes, Zhang Xiong's men are guarding this place; it is indeed difficult for us to get through."

Da Yanguang asked anxiously, "Then what should we do?"

Uncle Feng did not speak; he took out a divine talisman, folded it into a paper crane, and then consecrated it and released it into the air.

Before long, the paper crane returned. Uncle Feng said, "There are only a dozen or so people inside. When we go in, you handle them, and I will deal with Zhang Xiong first."

"Who's there?"

Zhong Fabai hurriedly looked back and saw Zhang Wei poking his head out.

Zhong Fabai asked in surprise, "A-Wei, why are you here?"

Zhang Wei hurriedly said, "It's all because of Grand Uncle-Master; he is always coming and going like a phantom. An hour ago, he told me to come here."

Following closely, Miao Zhiwei, Jin Maiji, Lin Jiajun, Chen Hui, and several others walked out.

Big Eyes seemed to recall something and realized with a start, "I was wondering why you all looked so familiar; so you are from the Ghost-Catching Unit."

Chen Hui said with some surprise, "So many people know about us? Brother, which department are you from?"

Big Eyes said, "I'm from the Anti-Gang Squad. Since we are all brothers, that makes things easy. When we charge in later, let's look out for each other."

Uncle Feng waved his hand and said, "Alright, let's move."

Big Eyes was the first to charge out. The two lackeys at the door naturally recognized Big Eyes, and he immediately shouted, "Officer, this is a private residence, entry is prohibited."

Big Eyes bellowed, "Zhang Xiong, your affairs have been exposed! Hurry up and hand over Xiao Furong."

Those two lackeys cursed, "Damn it, you dead cop, we were talking to you nicely and you turned a deaf ear, get lost!"

Without another word, Big Eyes punched one of the lackeys down.

The other one saw this and shouted, "Brothers, someone is causing trouble!"

He immediately attacked Big Eyes. Big Eyes retreated to dodge a punch and hurriedly shouted, "Don't just stand there watching."

Jin Maiji immediately charged out and, together with Big Eyes, knocked the other lackey down.

Zhong Fabai stepped forward and kicked the door open directly.

At this moment, Zhang Xiong appeared with a group of lackeys.

Seeing Liang Hui in the crowd, Zhang Xiong sneered, "You actually dare to come and throw your life away? Then I will kill you again."

Liang Hui said agitatedly, "Zhang Xiong, you will meet a bad end!"

Zhong Fabai also shouted, "Zhang Xiong, today we are going to clean up the sect for Maoshan. This time, even if your master shows up, it won't help!"

Zhang Xiong's expression changed, then he laughed, "Heh, let's see how you clean up the sect."

Having said that, he took out a porcelain jar containing a young infant.

Immediately after, everyone felt the surrounding environment become extremely cold. Soon, a female ghost in red appeared.

That was the female ghost controlled by Songcha, now controlled by Zhang Xiong.

As for Songcha, he had long since been killed by Zhang Xiong.

After taking in Songcha that night, he had someone shoot Songcha to death during the day, seized Songcha's porcelain jar, and took control of the fierce ghost.

Seeing the powerful fierce ghost, Uncle Feng hurriedly said, "Everyone, be careful!"

Seeing that fierce ghost, Zhang Wei hurriedly said, "Uncle, I recognize her; she was injured by me in the Shenfeng Cave before."

Seeing Zhang Wei's appearance, Zhang Xiong's heart shook, and he almost lost his focus. He felt that Zhang Wei looked too much like that person.

He immediately said, "No matter who you are, leave now, and I will treat this as if it never happened."

Zhong Fabai bellowed, "Do you think we are afraid just because of this fierce ghost? A-Wei, go!"

Zhong Fabai drew his peach wood sword and charged up, while Uncle Feng took out his gold coin sword, and Lin Chengying also took out his peach wood sword and charged up.

Zhang Wei did not hesitate either; he took out his Eight Trigrams mirror and shot a beam of golden light at the fierce ghost.

This time the fierce ghost had experience and hurriedly used yin energy to block it.

Seeing so many Daoist priests dealing with him, Zhang Xiong hurriedly used the Divine Strike Art, a punch like a gale, knocking back Uncle Feng and the others.

He hurriedly retreated into the main hall, closed the door, and then broke a window to escape.

Uncle Feng broke into the hall and discovered that Zhang Xiong had already fled.

Zhong Fabai said angrily, "Let that dog run away."

Lin Chengying hurriedly said, "Two uncles, I will go help the junior brother outside."

Uncle Feng nodded, and Lin Chengying hurriedly ran out to deal with the fierce ghost.

Meanwhile, the awakened Liang Hui hurriedly ran in and saw the human-skin lantern.

He hurriedly knelt down and said, "Master, please save Xiao Rong."

Zhong Fabai said, "You go up and extinguish the Seven-Star Lamp above, and you can make that female ghost come out."

Liang Hui immediately stood up and extinguished the light above. The next second, Xiao Furong's soul appeared before Liang Hui.

Just as the two were about to embrace, Uncle Feng spoke up, "Wait, one of you is human and the other is a ghost. Humans and ghosts walk different paths; you cannot be together."

Liang Hui asked anxiously, "Why!"

Zhong Fabai said crossly, "She is a ghost with heavy yin energy on her. Once a living person like you is contaminated with yin energy, you will get sick at best, or your life will be in danger at worst."

Upon hearing about such danger, even though she looked at Liang Hui with deep affection, she dared not move an inch closer.

Uncle Feng said, "You can wait for the next life; you will naturally meet again."

Xiao Furong hurriedly knelt down to pay respects, "I beg the masters to help dig up Brother Hui's remains and rebury them."

Zhong Fabai looked at Big Eyes and said, "We are going to chase Zhang Xiong now; this matter is left to you."

Uncle Feng and Zhong Fabai left first.

Liang Hui, Xiao Furong, and Big Eyes walked out of the main hall. Outside, Zhang Wei and Lin Chengying were still dealing with the female fierce ghost, though the female fierce ghost was also struggling in her death throes.

The female fierce ghost shrieked and whipped out countless strands of black hair. Zhang Wei immediately threw out a Divine Fire Talisman, burning away all of the female ghost's black hair.

The female ghost cried out in pain and wanted to attack again, but Lin Chengying appeared from behind and struck the female ghost with a Ghost-Driving Talisman. The yin energy on the female ghost instantly diminished significantly, and even her body became much more ethereal.

The female ghost was severely wounded and her movements became sluggish. Zhang Wei seized the opportunity and drew his Seven-Star Copper Sword to stab at the fierce ghost.

The female fierce ghost had no time to dodge and could only gather all her yin energy to block. However, within three seconds, the Seven-Star Copper Sword pierced into the fierce ghost's body, and she vanished into thin air.

Lin Chengying put away his peach wood sword and said with admiration, "Junior brother has a fine magical treasure."

Zhang Wei smiled, "It's alright, it was all given by Grand Uncle-Master."

Lin Chengying said with envy, "Grand Uncle-Master Duobao really has many magical treasures."

Zhang Wei hurriedly comforted him, "Senior brother, no need to envy; when you meet Grand Uncle-Master, perhaps he will give you a sword too."

Lin Chengying said very happily, "If that's really the case, then that would be great. Junior Brother, my name is Lin Chengying, and my Daoist name is Daoist One-Brow."

Zhang Wei asked in confusion, "That Daoist name of yours?"

Lin Chengying explained, "I inherited it from my grandfather; he was the second senior brother of our grand-uncle-master."

"Oh! I thought it was something else."

Zhang Wei said with a sudden realization.

Big Eyeballs saw that Lin Chengying and Zhang Wei were still chatting about trivial matters, so he immediately stepped forward and said, "Master Lin, those two asked us to find you to retrieve Uncle Tang's remains."

Lin Chengying immediately explained, "Junior Brother Zhang, this person's remains are buried in the Three-Decay Seven-Failure Grave."

Zhang Wei immediately said, "This Zhang Xiong is truly ruthless. Let's go, let's head to the place where the remains are buried."

Very quickly, the group arrived at a wild, outdoor gambling den.

Big Eyeballs said in surprise, "Why is it here? I don't want to go in and gamble; I always lose."

Kim Mak-kee hurriedly said, "What gambling? Just go in and chase the people away."

Having said that, he pulled out his. 38 revolver, kicked open the wooden door, and shouted, "Police raid!"

The people inside went quiet for a moment, then immediately shouted, "It's the cops!"

Someone panicked and ran blindly, crashing straight through a wooden wall to escape, while the rest scattered in a rush and immediately fled.

Kim Mak-kee turned his head and said, "See, how simple. Hurry up and find the remains."

Under the guidance of Little Furong, they arrived at the latrine behind the wooden shack.

Kim Mak-kee covered his nose and said, "I'll wait for you guys outside."

(End of this chapter)