Chapter 55: Ghosts Devour Ghosts

The female ghost sensed the intense fluctuation in spiritual force.

She had already discovered Li Lin.

If she possessed the body of a young girl born in a yin year, she could appear before him and kill him in the blink of an eye.

But the problem was that she was currently in spirit form.

Restricted by the spiritual altar, she could only move within the bounds of the Qin Residence.

She simply could not appear outside.

However, she was not afraid.

A mere ninth-rank Spirit Hunter’s spell was something she could easily withstand.

This was her home ground.

Black resentment wrapped around her body.

Then she stared at Li Lin with venomous eyes.

Now she understood.

The one who had killed her two direct descendants was not the Wang Family or the Ding Family as she had previously suspected.

It was this brat before her.

Liu Zhe’s lover!

It had to be Liu Zhe’s instruction.

She looked at Li Lin with a cruel smile.

The dual-colored blue and crimson lightning split the night sky and struck the artificial mountain in the rear courtyard of the Qin Residence.

Amid a deafening explosion, the artificial mountain was blasted apart.

Broken stones flew everywhere.

The female ghost froze and slowly turned her head to look behind her.

“You actually...”

An invisible barrier vanished.

This barrier had no effect whatsoever on living people.

Yet it seemed to have been protecting something.

Her pupils shifted from withered gray-black to a ghastly pale green-white.

At the same time, her resentment grew heavier and heavier, and her body rapidly expanded.

But Li Lin did not run.

He merely watched quietly.

After the female ghost expanded to a certain size, even ordinary people could see her.

The servants of the Qin Residence let out terrified screams.

Panic spread rapidly.

The area around the Qin Residence was considered a relatively lively district.

Before deep night, there were still quite a few people moving about.

Now, seeing a terrifying female ghost floating above the Qin Residence, they fled back into their homes, shut their doors, and trembled in fear.

Some prayed to gods and Buddhas.

Others broke down and wept.

Li Lin’s smile became even more obvious.

Just as the female ghost looked toward Li Lin and seemed ready to act, an even larger ghost appeared.

More accurately, a True Lord.

This was a gigantic pitch-black humanoid mass resembling swirling black mist.

Its features were indistinct, but its eyes were two dazzling spheres of golden light.

That was also how it had earned its name.

The moment the Goldlight True Lord appeared, a massive black hand seized the female ghost.

Then it immediately opened its mouth and swallowed her whole without the slightest hesitation.

The process was so fast that it was almost over in the blink of an eye.

This was also why Li Lin had remained so calm.

No matter how powerful the female ghost of the Qin Family was, no matter how arrogantly she acted beneath the True Lord’s gaze, she possessed a fatal weakness.

She could not allow the local guardian to discover her.

And although that altar restricted her range of movement, it also concealed her traces.

Now that the altar had been destroyed, the female ghost naturally had no choice but to reveal herself.

The indistinct face of the Goldlight True Lord moved slightly, as though chewing twice.

Then the figure of the Goldlight True Lord vanished.

At that moment, an angry and shocked voice sounded nearby.

“Grandmother! Who did this?!”

Li Lin was currently atop a rooftop.

Seeing that Qin Feng had returned, he immediately leapt backward into the shadows and departed in stealth.

Qin Feng’s furious gaze searched the surroundings for a while.

Finding no suspicious individuals, his complexion darkened further.

At that moment, a woman rushed out of the Qin Residence.

She was quite beautiful and cried out in alarm,

“Husband, something terrible has happened. Great Grandmother’s altar has been destroyed.”

Qin Feng had already guessed as much.

He asked,

“What exactly happened? Who did it?”

“I don’t know. We only saw a bolt of lightning descend from the sky.”

So it really was a spell.

In truth, he had seen that bolt of lightning as well.

That was why he had abandoned Wang Tianyou and rushed back at full speed.

Because he could tell that the lightning had struck directly above his own residence.

“Not many people can use blue and crimson lightning. If we investigate the surrounding area, we’ll definitely find out who did it.”

Bloodshot veins filled Qin Feng’s eyes.

“When that happens, I’ll make him beg for life and fail to obtain it. Beg for death and fail to obtain it.”

The woman looked worried.

“What about Third Son then? Should he stay here, or should we send him to Yue City?”

“Send him to Yue City?”

As Qin Feng walked deeper into the residence, he said,

“Do you believe that if Third Son takes even one step outside the house, someone will come to assassinate him?”

The woman’s eyebrows shot up.

“Who would dare?”

“Why wouldn’t they?”

Qin Feng’s smile was filled with misery.

“They dared kill the eldest and second sons. Why wouldn’t they dare kill the third? Now even our family grandmother has been taken down by those thieves. They want the lives of everyone in our family. Not a single one of us will be spared.”

Hearing this, the woman finally became afraid.

“What should we do?”

Qin Feng’s eyes overflowed with malice.

“They killed my two sons and plotted against my ancestor’s life. I won’t let Wang Tianyou off, and I won’t let that bastard hiding in the shadows off either. I’ll find him and use the cruelest methods imaginable on him. I’ll make him beg for life and fail to obtain it. Beg for death and fail to obtain it. Not one of his relatives or friends will escape.”

“Go back to the room. I’m going to use the Soul-Guided Murder Tracking Technique.”

Hearing that, the woman’s face changed drastically.

“Husband, have mercy.”

But Qin Feng merely stared at her coldly and grabbed her arm with his right hand.

“You don’t want Third Son, your own flesh and blood, to spend every day living in terror, constantly facing the possibility of being murdered, do you?”

The beautiful woman’s face turned deathly pale.

Conflict filled her eyes.

Meanwhile, Li Lin had returned to the brothel in stealth.

Sitting in the shadows, he swallowed two more Shengxi Pills.

Simply consuming Shengxi Pills without refining them was actually extremely wasteful.

Less than thirty percent of the vitality they contained could be obtained that way.

But there was an advantage.

It would not create any fluctuations in spiritual force.

The local True Lord would not sense the vitality.

Even if it saw Li Lin taking medicine, it would simply assume he was treating injuries.

The Shengxi Pills slowly released vitality.

The yin energy Li Lin had expended gradually began recovering.

For the moment, Li Lin had no desire to sleep.

So he opened Detailed Account of the Daoist Gong and began reading.

[Talisman Arts +1]

[Paper Effigy Crafting +1]

[Ghost Raising +1]

Li Lin clicked his tongue.

It had to be said that the folk shamans of the countryside truly followed wild paths.

Within a thin little secret manual were introductory teachings for three different arts.

Originally, Li Lin had assumed talisman arts would be the strongest.

That idea was not entirely wrong.

But according to what he had learned so far, paper effigy crafting was actually the most practical.

Moreover, he quickly mastered a basic paper effigy technique.

Golden Boy and Jade Maiden.

These were the two paper figures most commonly seen at funerals, a paper boy and a paper girl.

In the eyes of ordinary people, they were merely symbolic objects.

But in the hands of a Spirit Hunter, those two paper figures could move.

Unfortunately, this was not a convenient time to act.

He could not obtain sufficient materials.

Otherwise, he could immediately craft several little paper figures to handle tasks for him.

Talisman arts required many materials, yellow paper, cinnabar, and the like.

They were temporarily unusable as well.

As for ghost raising techniques!

One needed to capture a ghost, subject it to various forms of training and discipline, then transform it into a trusted assistant that remained constantly at one’s side.

Capture a ghost?

Li Lin’s first thought was the Tree Immortal Lady.

He immediately discarded the idea.

He could not tell exactly how powerful the Tree Immortal Lady was.

But he was certain of one thing.

If she truly became angry, she could absolutely kill him with a single sweep of her tail.

Very soon, he finished reading the entire Detailed Account of the Daoist Gong and gained a great deal from it.

But shortly afterward, he suddenly felt an inexplicable chill appear around him.

And it was growing colder and colder.

His first reaction was immediate.

He crouched down and entered a stealth state.