Chapter 82: The Goat Herder's Life

Outside Xinyang Town, near Luohe City, Li Yanbing and several Silver-Badge Divine Catchers beside her were waiting anxiously.

Ever since she received the news yesterday that the people of several surrounding villages had all disappeared inexplicably, she had rushed here in a hurry.

After a careful investigation, she did indeed discover some residual eerie power, but the Ghost Owl was unable to find where those eerie entities had gone.

The only explanation was that the existence that left the eerie residue had a status far exceeding that of the Ghost Owl, to the point where the Ghost Owl could not find it or dared not look for it.

Facing this situation, there were really not many methods she could think of, and it was even more impossible to invite that senior over for such a matter.

However, just when she felt at her wit's end, an old Daoist from the Su family appeared before her.

Only, that Daoist had already left for more than half the night, and he still hadn't returned.

"My Lady, according to the Daoist's instructions, if he hasn't returned by daybreak, we must evacuate all the people in the surrounding area..."

Li He, who was beside Li Yanbing, saw that the situation was somewhat ominous and began to remind her.

"Wait a little longer!"

Li Yanbing took a deep breath, though her gaze remained relatively firm.

"Yes."

Hearing her say this, Li He could only drop the matter, but he had already signaled the other Silver-Badge Divine Catchers beside him to be prepared.

In case of any change, they could evacuate the people at any time. After all, the "Livestock-Creating Thief" mentioned by that Daoist Su was not an easy character to deal with.

"Cough, cough, which one of you come and support this old Daoist? I've been busy all night and my old bones are about to break!"

Suddenly, an aged figure appeared quietly in the distance, and the old Daoist's slightly weary voice soon reached the ears of those around him.

"He's back!"

"Daoist, are you alright?"

The group from the Ghost Suppression Division saw the person arrive and immediately let out a long sigh of relief, then immediately stepped forward to support him.

"Cough, cough, I'm not dead yet!"

The old Daoist, Su Fangzhi, had a pale complexion at this moment, and his whole person was shrouded in a deathly gray, looking exceptionally haggard.

This was the consequence of him forcibly summoning the Dao Venerable to act. That level of eeriness simply could not be summoned easily.

"Daoist, how are those villagers?"

"Yes, Daoist!"

Seeming to see that he was not in any major trouble, someone immediately couldn't help but ask him.

"Sigh, this old Daoist is incompetent. Those villagers had already been marked by the pawnshop by that Livestock-Creating Thief, and from now on, they can never be free from the pawnshop until death!"

Hearing this question, the old Daoist shook his head and sighed directly. There was no one in the world who could snatch things away from that pawnshop.

Even if he had barely managed to suppress the pawnshop by a fraction with the help of the Dao Venerable at the end, he could not erase the marks on the villagers who had turned into cattle and sheep.

Those marks were eerie, and even more so, a curse—and it belonged to the most terrifying Calamity Ghost curse.

"Alright! Take the Daoist back to rest first!"

"Li He, prepare to relocate the people!"

Seeing the old Daoist's sorrowful expression, Li Yanbing directly stopped the others from continuing to ask. It was already not easy for the other party to risk their efforts to deal with the eerie; how could they let people feel cold-hearted at this time?

"Cough, cough, little girl, there's no need to relocate the people. I've already watched that Livestock-Creating Thief get taken down!"

Hearing Li Yanbing's order, the old Daoist coughed again, but this time, what he said was good news.

"Really!?"

Hearing this, everyone around was shocked instantly. They had clearly heard before that the Livestock-Creating Thief had the level of a Supreme Human!

"Thanks to some madman who ran out from who knows where. If it weren't for him, this old Daoist's old bones would probably have been left in that Ghost Market~"

The old Daoist recalled his encounter in the Ghost Market and felt relatively good, and he couldn't help but crack a joke in his words.

"Daoist Su, who was that person? Did you ask for his name?"

Hearing the old Daoist say this, Li Yanbing's eyes lit up instantly. Nothing interested her more than encountering an expert.

"I did not. When I first saw that person, I only thought he was a dangerous madman in the Ghost Market, actually daring to dig graves on the yellow mud road outside the Ghost Market."

"By the way, that person had a monkey mask painted on his face. I even thought he was someone from the east performing in a play, but he said he is currently cultivating in Xinglong Ling."

The old Daoist had a decent memory, and after thinking about it, he said what he knew.

If these juniors could find the other party, that would also be a stroke of fortune.

"Could it be the senior Great Sage Equaling Heaven!?"

Just after hearing his description, the expressions of the Ghost Suppression Division members present instantly became strange.

"It should be that senior. But I didn't expect that senior to have entered the Ghost Market too. Maybe he heard about the matter here and took action!"

"That senior is worthy of being a Supreme Human expert; he is truly a role model for us!"

"..."

Immediately, a series of flattery was showered upon him, leaving the old Daoist stunned.

Why didn't he feel the other party was a high-level expert at the time? He had even asked the other party for benefits to help out?

Of course, Lin Feng did not know about the matters here. At this time, he had already returned to the Gravedigger's small courtyard.

"Bang! Bang!"

"Hoo~"

Taking advantage of the early hour, Lin Feng directly buried the corpse of the Livestock-Creating Thief goat herder.

This thing gave him a very bad feeling; it was completely unclear whether it was a human or a Ghost.

If you say it's a human, it has no fatal points. No matter how Lin Feng destroyed the other party's flesh, it could still struggle and resist.

If you say it's not a human, it has a clear living human body, will bleed, will feel pain, will speak, and will also feel fear—these reactions are not something Ghosts have.

"Clatter~"

However, as Lin Feng forcibly buried this corpse, the *Corpse-Planting and Ghost-Raising Scripture* before his eyes flipped open, and the secrets on the goat herder would be presented to Lin Feng without reservation.

First, Lin Feng saw a peasant's thatched cottage that was poor to the extreme.

The goat herder was born here as a child; the house leaked wind everywhere, and there was only a little thatch to block the rain.

As he grew older, the goat herder, like the children of other servants, began to herd cattle and sheep and do labor for the landlord.

Growing up in a daze until his teens, he became the dirty and smelly goat herder in everyone's eyes.

One time, two of his cattle went missing inexplicably. He ran through several mountains in the dark but couldn't find them.

Finally, he was found by the landlord, dragged back, and hung from the rafters for a brutal beating.

The screams could be heard throughout the entire village. His blind old mother couldn't bear to see her son suffer, so she brought the copper coins she had saved over the years to beg for mercy.

Unfortunately, her few coins couldn't compensate for the landlord's cattle, and she could only be forcibly pulled aside, listening to her son scream and wail all night.

This beating cost the goat herder half his life, and the remaining half would require even more work every day to pay off.

In order to let the goat herder recover his body as quickly as possible, his blind mother worked from dawn until dark, and she couldn't bear to eat any of the food she brought back.

By the time the goat herder could move, his blind mother had literally starved herself to death.

After this incident, the goat herder went mad. He wailed in the middle of the night, ran around during the day, cursed everyone he saw, and claimed every cow or sheep he saw was his.

Finally, in the middle of the night, he walked onto a yellow mud road, followed the yellow mud road into the Ghost Market, and there, not only did he not die, but he accidentally entered the "Youjian Pawnshop."

Living people pawn death, dead people pawn life.

The mad goat herder was sentenced to a death pawn, only he only pawned half a life; the remaining half was still his.

The half-life that was pawned earned him an eerie ability, and from then on, there was one more Livestock-Creating Thief in the world who could turn living people into livestock. ===== CHAPTER 83 =====