Chapter 36: Three Ghosts

Chapter 36: Three Ghosts

Zhu Chun’an was not particularly worried.

The reinforcements were too powerful. No matter how formidable the fierce ghost was, it could still be pinned to the ground and rubbed against it until the floor shone brightly.

At that moment, Zhu Chun’an noticed that Pei Ye’s gaze had fallen on the spot where those wisps of yin energy remained, and a thoughtful expression appeared on her face.

“Senior, have you discovered something?”

The moment he spoke, Lu Jinzhong snapped back to his senses and hurriedly turned toward Pei Ye.

Although Pei Ye looked younger than Zhu Chun’an, she was a “Senior.” Her strength was certainly far more profound and unfathomable.

“I’d like to ask when exactly the old lady met with her accident.”

Lu Jinzhong was puzzled.

When he contacted the Special Investigation Department, the staff member who received him had asked him to fill in detailed information. There was no way they didn’t know when his mother had passed away.

As a businessman, his first reaction was that Pei Ye had not done her homework properly.

The next second, he kicked that thought out of his mind.

Experts had their own style. They needed to establish their prestige through question-and-answer exchanges with others. It was all part of the routine and process.

So Mr. Lu answered.

Pei Ye calculated the timing, then took out her phone and opened the UC Browser.

Zhu Chun’an reminded her, “Tomorrow will be the old madam’s seventh day after death.”

“No, I’m checking the weather forecast from previous days.”

Zhu Chun’an wore a bewildered expression, looking exactly like Xiao Pangzi the hamster on his shoulder.

“The PM2.5 levels were extremely high throughout the previous week. The entire city was covered in smog.”

Pei Ye showed Zhu Chun’an her phone screen.

The three members of the Lu family were completely baffled.

How had the expert’s topic suddenly become impossible to understand?

What did smog have to do with catching ghosts?

Could smog poison a fierce ghost to death or something?

“With smog this heavy these days, it usually doesn’t start clearing until two or three in the afternoon. Where would enough sunlight come from to bake away the yin energy?”

Zhu Chun’an: “???”

“So I think the lingering yin energy isn’t because that ghost is especially capable. It’s purely because the smog was so severe that the sunlight wasn’t effective enough.”

Zhu Chun’an hesitated. “So...”

“So the chances of that ghost being stronger than you aren’t very high. Don’t panic!”

Unless there were special circumstances!

“This junior has been enlightened.”

The hamster Xiao Pangzi on his shoulder also looked as though a door to a new world had opened.

So smog had this kind of effect?

It seemed that when going out on missions in the future, he would also need to check the weather conditions. It might prove useful someday.

These were all valuable lessons. Memorize them, memorize them!

The three members of the Lu family found their conversation very strange.

Within a completely unscientific setting, they were somehow using scientific methods to explain things.

Then again, ghosts existed in this world. What was left that they couldn’t accept?

“So what does the Master plan to do next?”

Lu Jinzhong asked cautiously.

He was extremely anxious inside, but he did not dare rush them.

Zhu Chun’an said, “I plan to summon the old lady’s soul and ask what happened that day.”

Lu Jinzhong asked, “Then do you need us to prepare anything for the ritual, Master?”

He had heard that soul-summoning rituals required considerable ceremony. Looking at Zhu Chun’an’s casual clothes and the lack of any bag containing Daoist robes, it seemed quite different from what he had imagined.

“No need. Just wait to the side.”

Zhu Chun’an chose the spacious living room for the soul-summoning ritual, while Pei Ye watched with great interest from nearby.

He held a peachwood sword in his hand, stepped through ritual footwork according to the stars, and chanted a soul-summoning incantation. The surrounding temperature seemed to be gradually dropping.

Whether it was an illusion or not, the brightly lit living room had dimmed, exuding a gloomy ghostly atmosphere.

Miss Lu was so frightened that goosebumps erupted all over her body.

“Ah!”

She suddenly let out a short cry.

“Th, there’s wind!”

When the housekeeper had left, all the doors and windows had been locked. How could there be wind in the living room?

“Quiet! Haven’t you watched horror movies? Every ghost makes an entrance like this. Otherwise how would they create a terrifying and sinister atmosphere to scare people?”

Pei Ye spoke calmly, but Miss Lu was nearly in tears.

“That’s my grandmother. She’s just coming back to her own home. She doesn’t need to put on this kind of show, does she?”

The expressions of Mr. and Mrs. Lu also became several degrees uglier.

Although they still appeared calm on the surface, they were already terrified inside, every hair on their bodies standing on end!

Pei Ye glanced at the sinister ghostly energy constantly churning on the second floor and said faintly, “Your grandmother doesn’t need to put on a show when she comes back, but she might not be the only one who came.”

The three members of the Lu family: “???”

Mr. Lu’s breathing began trembling.

As a middle-aged man raised under the national flag, this was the first time he had encountered such an unscientific scene.

If his mother’s ghost had returned, that was fine. Even as a ghost, she was still the mother who had raised him. What was there to fear?

But, but if unfamiliar ghosts had come too, Mr. Lu genuinely could not accept that!!!

Miss Lu tightened her silk pajamas and silently edged a little closer to Pei Ye.

In this ghostly, sinister, cold, and gloomy living room, only this unfathomable Celestial Master expert beside her could provide even a trace of warmth QAQ.

“Master Pei, how many ghosts came?”

Pei Ye looked toward the three ghosts struggling with one another on the staircase and fell silent.

Zhu Chun’an put away his peachwood sword and gazed solemnly at the three ghosts that had appeared one after another.

They were arguing.

They were arguing as though nobody else existed.

Pei Ye could see clearly. The ghost Zhu Chun’an had summoned was only the female ghost, but the female ghost was supporting one of the male ghosts.

The moment the two appeared, another male ghost emerged and began pestering them. The three ghosts argued while fighting.

It was obvious that the first two ghosts were no match for the third.

During the scuffle, the first male ghost was bitten several times by the second male ghost. His already translucent soul body became even weaker.

Pressing his lips together, Zhu Chun’an produced three Ghost Binding Talismans and used one on each ghost to separate them.

“Arguing and making noise like this, what kind of behavior is that!”

The Ghost Binding Talismans attached themselves to the ghosts’ chests, rendering them unable to move.

Among them, when the female ghost saw Zhu Chun’an, Pei Ye, and the three members of the Lu family in the living room, tears nearly welled up in her eyes.

“Xiaozhong, hurry and save your father!”

Naturally, Lu Jinzhong could not hear her. He only stared nervously at the three Ghost Binding Talismans floating in midair.

“Celestial Master, be gentle. My mother can’t withstand rough treatment.”

At that moment, the third male ghost noticed that Zhu Chun’an was a Celestial Master, and his sinister ghostly eyes instantly turned blood-red.

“Are you here to steal my wife?”

Something had clearly triggered the male ghost. The sinister ghostly aura around him surged nearly tenfold.

The black baleful aura took on an ominous red tint. Under the impact of the ghostly energy, the Ghost Binding Talisman restraining him burst into flames.

Zhu Chun’an said, “It went berserk just from being provoked like that?”

A sharp wind howled past as the male ghost locked all his hatred onto Zhu Chun’an.

Just as he was about to raise his peachwood sword to meet the attack, a tremendous force struck his shoulder from behind, and a figure stepped in front of him.

“This thing is somewhat similar to Lan Ying, the fierce ghost from the clubhouse. Leave it to me.”

Zhu Chun’an’s face turned pale.

Did Senior mean...

That this fierce ghost also carried a fragment of that arm?

“Senior, be careful!”

The moment the words left his mouth, the fierce ghost had already rushed in front of them.

His ghostly claw slashed forward, leaving five thick black trails in the air, like ink splashed onto xuan paper. They moved with the agility of spiritual serpents as they struck toward Pei Ye.

“C, Celestial Master... wh, what’s happening?”

As the yin energy from the fierce ghost filled the entire living room, the area was transformed into a ghostly domain suspended between the worlds of yin and yang.

“I, I think I can see... my mother...”