A strong tornado swept in from the outside, directly twirling around Bai Xiya. I exhaled in relief. I felt lucky that I had made the right bet!

Bai Xiya looked as though she was afraid of the tornado. Her face paled, and she couldn’t utter a word. In the end, the tornado turned into the form of Xiao Li’s ancestor. She stood next to me.

“I’m warning you! Do not put your nose in someone’s business!” Bai Xiya said through gritted teeth. However, she didn’t sound confident.

“I want to put my nose in this. Do you have any opinion against it?” Xiao Li’s ancestor sneered.

“You…”

Bai Xiya was speechless. She angrily pointed her blood-red fingernails and tried to scratch my chest.

I couldn't react in time.

Fortunately, when her fingernails were around ten centimeters away from my chest, Xiao Li’s ancestor caught her hand. Then, she hurled the ghost to the bed.

Bai Xiya tried to attack me several times after that. However, her attacks were all blocked. In the end, she begrudgingly sat on the bed and quietly looked at me. Her eyes had no trace of fear and were full of contempt.

Xiao Li’s ancestor might have known that I couldn’t deal with this ghost. She didn’t disappear and just stayed and watched.

“Thank you, Senior!” I gratefully thanked the shadow. After she nodded to me, I turned to Bai Xiya.

I knew it was time to finish this case. I asked her, “Why are you smiling?”

“Since all of you are held back here, my General should be safe…” answered Bai Xiya.

Looking at her infatuated appearance, I felt a little sad. I asked, “Do you really love Zhang Xuecheng?”

“Do you need to ask?”

“Is it real love or selfish love?” I pushed further.

She looked at me, not understanding. “Are they different?”

“Of course they are different. If you really love him, you should give up and reincarnate. That’s how Zhang Xuecheng will gradually be able to let go. Everybody would have a nice life.”

“No, I don’t want that! I don’t want to be parted from him!” After listening to me, Bai Xiya shook her head.

My heart ached a little bit. However, I had to keep an indifferent face. “I see... You have chosen selfish love. In that case, I’ll have to destroy your soul and make you perish. Then, Zhang Xuecheng will come to take revenge for you, and I’ll have to kill him as well. As a result, you two will never be able to reincarnate.”

Bai Xiya looked aggrieved. A moment later, she mumbled, “Has my obsession harmed him?”

“That’s right. As it’s come to this, you have two choices. The first is to leave this mundane world and reincarnate. The second is to die and never reincarnate again.” After I said that, I turned around and discreetly wiped my tears.

I admit that I cried that day. Although it had been half a century and they were already ghosts, they still thought of each other first.

If I said they hadn’t touched me, I would be a liar!

However, everything should follow the rule. If there were no rules, how could things continue to progress?

In the end, Bai Xiya accepted my help and chose to leave. Before she went away, she left Zhang Xuecheng a letter. Although I didn’t see the content, I knew it was full of her wishes and love for him.

Yuan Datou woke up the next morning. He looked much better. After Xiao Li told him the whole story, he repeatedly thanked us.

“You don’t need to thank us. However, you should do more good deeds from now on and stop being a criminal.”

“I will, I will. I will definitely turn over a new leaf!” Yuan Datou promised.

Li Mazi secretly asked if I believed Yuan Datou’s words.

I said with a smile, “I believe he can do it to some extent.”

Even if people weren’t watching, the heavens were!

It seemed everything went well in the end. Now, we needed to help Zhang Xuecheng ascend. With the letter Bai Xiya had left him, I believed I could solve things easily.

That night, I asked Yuan Datou and his wife to hide in the toilet. Then, I brought Li Mazi to the bedroom on the second floor. I peeled the spirit talismans on the window and opened it a bit.

Everything was ready. Now, we just had to wait! At around midnight, a cold wind came from the window. It seemed he was coming!

I prepared to welcome him. I guessed that he would look for Bai Xiya first. Since Bai Xiya was gone, he would ask me for her whereabouts, and maybe even fight with me.

This was within what I could handle. As long as I could talk to Zhang Xuechang, this case could be solved.

Then, I would show him the letter and use Bai Xiya’s love to awaken him. I was certain that I could subdue him.

However, as soon as he entered the room, he started to attack me as if he had gone crazy!

“You two, you’ll pay with your lives for what you did to Bai Xiya!”

My heart skipped a beat. How did he know that Bai Xiya was gone?

Zhang Xuecheng had come with the intention to kill us. This situation was beyond my expectation.

Li Mazi and I didn’t stand a chance. Except for a few talismans we peeled off the window, we had no other tool to defend ourselves.

Luckily, Li Mazi was quick-witted. While I was wrestling with Zhang Xuecheng, he ran downstairs to ask Xiao Li’s ancestor to save me.

It was also when I understood the real power of Xiao Li’s ancestor. When she appeared, the temperature in the room dropped sharply, and even Zhang Xuecheng was startled.

However, he still stormed forward. This was beyond my prediction. There weren’t many ghosts that were bold enough to continue attacking an enemy stronger than them.

Fortunately, after Zhang Xuecheng recognized that he couldn’t win this battle, he left.

I stood aside and observed the fight the whole time. I noticed that there were many instances when he wanted to flee. However, a second later, he would lose his mind and attack as though he wanted to die together with the other party.

Moreover, his attacks were mainly aimed at me, and he did not pay much attention to the other two.

Although he had left, I was still worried. I remembered his bloodshot eyes. If Xiao Li’s ancestor hadn’t helped us, I thought I would have been torn apart.

“It’s freaking strange. Little Brother Zhang, do you have any idea why that ghost kept aiming for you?” Li Mazi asked worriedly while patting my shoulder.

When he asked that, I suddenly recognized that someone might be controlling Zhang Xuecheng.

The one that wanted to take my life might be someone hiding in the dark!

Still, who was it? 

I racked my brain but couldn’t remember whom I had offended. In the end, a name popped up in my head. The Longquan Villa!

Ever since I had entered this business, only the people from the Longquan Villa had consistently tried their best to mess with me.

With that thought, I clenched my teeth in anger. I tried to ask Xiao Li’s ancestor if she knew the location of the one trying to kill me.

There was a distance restriction when controlling ghosts. That person had to be hiding in the area.

With Xiao Li’s ancestor’s assistance, I was sure we could easily find his location. However, she didn’t answer. Her shadow flashed, then disappeared.

I was bewildered. However, I soon understood it. What I did was taboo.

She had saved me because I had risked my life to protect her descendant. But now, as our karma was settled. It was too much to ask more of her.

I sighed, not knowing what to do.

Li Mazi suddenly pointed at the ground. “Little Brother Zhang, take a look at this. What is it?”

I followed the direction of his finger. There were two words written in ashes on the floor, ‘discarded material.’

There was no doubt that Xiao Li’s ancestor had a soft side. She gave me an important clue. I looked at the two words for a long time. Suddenly, I remembered there was a waste collection station near this villa.

The person who wanted to kill me was there!

“Today, you’re going to regret everything you’ve done!” I cursed loudly and carried the Sirius Whip with me as I ran toward the waste collection station.

Li Mazi followed behind me. In a worried voice, he asked, “Why haven’t you prepared anything?”

“There’s no need. We’re going to deal with a person, not a ghost!” I panted. “That person is controlling the ghost and has fought against Xiao Li’s ancestor for quite a long time. I’m sure he’s injured. We should rush in now and go for the kill!”

“Ah, nice! I’ve been pretty annoyed lately. I need a place to vent it out.”

As soon as Li Mazi knew that there wouldn’t be anything dangerous, he got in the mood to fight and balled his hands into fists.

It was later than 1:00 AM, and the surroundings were completely dark. Since it was autumn, a cold wind blew through our clothes.

When I saw the door to the waste collection station, the anger inside me subsided. I began to worry. Li Mazi noticed my actions. He stopped smiling and asked, “Do you still want to get in there?”

“What are you talking about?” I lowered my voice then blew some warm air into my palms and rubbed them together to warm myself up. Then, I loomed to pick up a steel pipe from a pile of trash and made my way toward the small wooden cabin inside the waste collection station.

That person was hurt, and I was sure he wouldn’t be able to walk far. That cabin was a good place for him to recover!

Li Mazi also picked up a wooden stick from the ground. As he walked, he weighed the stick in his hand.

When we were around one hundred meters away from the cabin, Li Mazi suddenly threw the stick. The stick flew out and fell onto a pile of glass bottles.

The glass bottles clattered and scattered on the ground. The sharp noise immediately broke the silence of the night.

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