Chapter 281

"Hey, I say Fourth, you really are too slow; we've been waiting here for you for quite a while!" When Lingyun arrived at the school gate, his roommates were already waiting for him there.

"Ha, because I was busy with some things, I almost forgot the time!" Lingyun said with some embarrassment.

After taking the spirit soul of the Demon Blade Murasame into his hands, Lingyun had dived straight into the Cloud Realm, wanting to forge a suitable weapon for Busujima Saeko, and as a result, he forgot the time while busy. If it weren't for Ruoxi reminding him, he would probably still be struggling with that Samurai Sword in the Cloud Realm now.

"Alright, everyone's here, so let's go!" Huang Luo patted Lingyun on the shoulder.

Under Huang Luo's lead, the group of four soon arrived in front of a barbecue restaurant. In Lingyun's memory, this place used to be a breakfast shop.

"The original owner of this shop sold it because his son made a lot of money outside and took him back to his hometown to enjoy life. Later, it was taken over by the new owner!" Liu Feng explained to Lingyun.

The four of them walked into the shop, and soon a middle-aged woman came up to greet them, leading them to sit down at an empty table. Lingyun scanned the shop; perhaps because the owner's cooking was quite good, there were quite a few customers inside.

After ordering the skewers in a flash, Han Yu quietly tugged at Lingyun: "See that girl over there? That's the one I was talking about!"

Lingyun's gaze followed the direction Han Yu pointed; in that direction, a girl was holding a rag and wiping a table. That girl was quite beautiful, exuding an aura of youth, and was indeed very eye-catching. Even at Huaxia University, she surely had a place on the campus beauty rankings.

"Mm, she looks very pretty!" Lingyun nodded.

"Damn, as expected of Lingyun; she is a Goddess ranked seventh on the beauty list, yet in your eyes, she's just at the level of 'looks very pretty'!" Han Yu's expression was somewhat exaggerated, but he deliberately lowered his voice. "But then again, you guy are simply a winner in life; not only are your grades excellent, but look at how many beautiful girls surround you—Chen Jing and Su Wanyue from the beauty list, Luo Yexi who calls herself your disciple, and those girls we saw when we went to your place last time—which one of them isn't a top-tier beautiful girl?"

Watching Han Yu's resentful appearance, Lingyun couldn't help but chuckle.

"Hey, I say Fourth, do you have some technique for getting to know beautiful girls? Can you teach me?" Han Yu asked.

"This? Leave it to fate! I can't teach you these things!" Lingyun rubbed his nose.

"Here are the skewers you ordered!" Just as the four were talking, the girl had already brought the grilled meat skewers to their table.

"Thanks!" Liu Feng flashed the girl what he considered his most charming smile.

"This girl is named Chen Lingling, the department beauty of the Medical School," Huang Luo said to Lingyun.

"Hmm, why do I feel a bit cold?" Han Yu suddenly shrank his body, feeling somewhat uncomfortable.

"This girl, something is wrong!" Lingyun looked at the girl's back, a flash of golden light passing through the depths of his eyes.

In his eyes, a wisp of gray airflow was lingering around the girl's body. This wisp of gray airflow seemed to be trying to erode the girl's body, but a faint light emanated from within her body, firmly blocking the gray airflow.

"This is... Ghost Qi?" Lingyun frowned slightly. "Ghost Qi haunting her—this is not a good omen. If it weren't for that faint light protecting her, she would probably have fallen into a serious illness. However, this girl is studying at Huaxia University; how could she be contaminated with Ghost Qi? Unless someone is continuously instilling Ghost Qi into her!"

Thinking of this, Lingyun's Divine Sense swept out rapidly. Huaxia University possesses powerful righteous energy, so the opponent clearly couldn't act there; the only possibility was that the person acting was hiding in this very place.

Under the scan of Lingyun's Divine Sense, he soon discovered an anomaly. It was a Stone Buddha. In Lingyun's perception, that Stone Buddha contained an extremely powerful Yin Energy. Judging by the strength of this Yin Energy, the strength of this ghost had likely reached the Xiantian Ultimate level. Moreover, relying on the special nature of ghosts, it would be harder to deal with than an average Xiantian Ultimate expert. Furthermore, Lingyun also sensed a terrifying Evil Energy from this ghost, which only appears after harming countless people, indicating that this ghost was also an evil spirit.

The Stone Buddha should be a seal; back in the day, someone used the Stone Buddha as a vessel and used great magic power to seal this evil spirit. However, as time passed, the power of the seal had gradually weakened. Even more fatally, the Stone Buddha had chipped at some point, causing the seal to break, which gave the evil spirit inside a chance to breathe.

Lingyun also discovered one point: Chen Lingling was actually a rare Nether Body. This constitution has a fatal attraction to ghosts and is also the best choice for a ghost to possess. It is truly a great stroke of luck that Chen Lingling has been able to live safely until now.

Although he had discovered the whereabouts of the evil spirit, Lingyun had no intention of acting; after all, there were so many people here, and if a fight really broke out, he didn't know what kind of trouble would ensue. However, this ghost was something Lingyun had to eliminate, because he discovered that a wisp of Ghost Qi was actually winding around his and Liu Feng's bodies; it seemed it had targeted both Lingyun and Liu Feng.

However, while he couldn't act, there was no problem with giving this arrogant fellow a lesson. Lingyun mobilized his Divine Sense, rapidly condensing it into a thin needle in the Void, and fiercely stabbed it toward the Stone Buddha.

With a faint "Crack!", the Stone Buddha trembled slightly. But because the movement was so small, no one noticed the incident. However, the Ghost Qi within the Stone Buddha weakened significantly in that instant, and Lingyun could even hear the roar emitted by the evil spirit. Clearly, this attack of Lingyun's made it suffer a significant loss.

Slowly withdrawing his Divine Sense, Lingyun snorted coldly in his heart: I'll come back to deal with you when it's late at night and quiet!

The four of them enjoyed the meal very much; it had to be said that the shop owner's barbecue skills were indeed good, and the price wasn't very expensive either. This made it easy to understand why so many people came here to eat barbecue.