The calm water suddenly swelled. Then, I saw Li Mazi’s head protruding from the water.

His face was red, but he still had strength. One of his arms was paddling in the water while his other 

hand was pulling

 Zhang Henshui. 

He slowly

 swam toward me. 

“You 

freaking

 scared me!” I couldn’t help but yell at his face. Then, I looked around to find a stick 

to

 reach Li Mazi with. 

Li Mazi tried to swim a few more meters to grab the stick. I then gritted my teeth and pulled them to the riverbank. 

As soon as they got to the land, Li Mazi crouched and spat water. Then, he pointed at Zhang Henshui

 and scolded,

 “This time, not only 

did he hug

 a big rock, but he also tied his legs together! If I hadn’t swum 

like a fish

, I’m afraid I would have been in 

a

 coffin by now!” 

I turned to check Zhang Henshui’s legs. He had used nylon strings to tie 

them

 together.

 It was n

o wonder Li Mazi had been 

underwater

 for quite a long time. 

“It seems we need to speed things up. Watching him all the time isn’t the right method!” 

It was his good fortune that we 

were

 able to save him twice. However, from his suicidal behavior this time, it seemed the evil spirit couldn’t wait anymore. He wanted to drown the poor man! 

Before we found the 

spirit

, we wouldn’t let Zhang Henshui leave the house alone. Otherwise, no one could ensure that he would be all right. 

I hurriedly untied the nylon ropes 

from

 Zhang Henshui’s legs and used the method my grandpa had taught me to close his chest acupoints 

to

 block the water outside. Then, I started to press on his chest. 

After five or six minutes, Zhang Henshui opened his eyes and vomited water. When he got up, he got on his knees and begged us to save him. Then, while sobbing, he told us what had happened. 

I could guess it without him telling me the story. He was bewitched again by the voice and tied himself to jump into the river. I pulled him up and brought him back to his house. I told him not to leave the house alone anymore. 

On the way back home, Zhang Henshui implored me

.

 “Please do not tell my wife about this.

I don’t want her to be worried about me.”

I 

admired

 him even more now. However, how could we hide 

such an incident

? His wife was a smart woman. I knew she 

would

 be able to 

sense

 something. 

Indeed, when we came back, Zhang Henshui’s wife immediately hugged him and wept. When she finally calmed down, I asked her to take her daughter to the room to rest. As the 

spirit

 had made Zhang Henshui jump into the river twice, I knew it was only aimed at him. However, 

just to be safe

, I gave Zhang Henshui’s wife the Peach Soul Flower. 

Afterward, the three

of us stayed in the living room to finish eating. After dinner, we quietly waited. 

With the moon hung high in the sky, it was bright until midnight. Moreover, this 

spirit

 was different from the 

rest

. It appeared when it wanted to 

control

 Zhang Henshui, so we just needed to watch Zhang Henshui. 

However, I thought about it and knew that waiting wasn’t the right solution. I took out the compass and quietly moved around. It seemed his place was all right, but when I approached the toilet area, the compass hand suddenly lowered. 

We called 

it a “sinking

 point,

”

 which meant 

that a

spirit

 was involved in the case. Moreover, that 

spirit

 had 

experienced

 a tragic death or was someone who 

had 

died young. I put the compass away and wondered if Zhang Henshui had done something evil. 

The sinking-point type of 

spirit

s shared the same characteristics. They didn’t have strong malignant energy

. T

hey didn’t want to meddle with living people, either. It was coincidental if they troubled the living, as they hoped that the person would be able to fulfill the wishes they couldn’t do when they were alive. There weren’t many 

spirit

s 

of

 that type that wanted to kill people. That

 was 

why I 

suspected

 that Zhang Henshui had done something to offen

d

 that 

spirit

. 

If 

that

was the case

, I needed to think about whether or not I should join this 

mess

! Everything in this world ha

d

a

 cause-

effect

 relationship. 

O

therworldly merchants 

c

ouldn’t break the rules. 

I asked Zhang Henshui 

about it

. 

At first, he was bewildered

. Then, 

he said resolutely, “

Up

 until now

,

 I have never offended 

anyone

 so badly, let alone 

do

 something that makes my conscience guilty!

Did you find 

anything

?” He looked scared.  

While he was talking, I looked him in the eyes. 

It

 didn’t look like he was lying. Moreover, when he saw the man 

under

 the shade of the locust tree, he 

hurriedly woke

 him up. From my point of view, he was a nice and honest villager. 

I decided to trust him. I took out the compass and checked again. I thought that the problem 

was

 in his toilet because it was the place where foul things liked to gather. 

I had lingered in the toilet for a long time but hadn’t found anything. However, the compass hand was now shaking and pointing at the wall. 

It seemed the problem la

id 

within the wall. I frowned and asked Zhang Henshui to bring me two shovels. Li Mazi and 

Zhang Henshui

 then followed my order and dug the place. 

While digging, Li Mazi shot me a glance. “Little 

B

rother Zhang, it’s midnight, and we’re digging a toilet chamber. If 

this

spreads

 out, people will laugh at us until their teeth fall off!” 

I didn’t react to his joke

 and 

carefully 

watched

 the compass. I noticed that 

as

 they dug deeper, the hand 

shook

 harder. Around ten minutes later, Li Mazi screamed, “Got it!” 

“What’s that?” At first glance, I saw a 

soot-black

 rock under the bricks of the wall. It was releasing rolling dark air. 

It was the source of the problem! 

I took the shovel from Li Mazi’s hand and dug harder. Eventually, we got the black rock. It was around the size of a washing basin and weighed at least thirty pounds. 

Zhang Henshui dropped his jaw when he saw the rock. “When we renovated the toilet, we used only bricks. Where did that rock come from?” 

“Someone want

s

 to kill you!” I said with a cold face. 

“Zhang Henshui, do you remember who built your toilet?” I became doubtful. What kind of menacing people

 would put something

like this

 in someone’s toilet? 

Zhang Henshui remembered, then said, 

“It’s the newest renovating job 

at

 my house. At that time, I found three migrant workers to work on it.

I’ve 

always been

 nice. How could I have offended those people?” His voice sounded aggrieved. 

I didn’t have time to comfort him

. M

y head was calculating fast. There were three workers, but only one of them 

committed

the

evil deed

. 

As we were in an urgent situation, it was too late to check all of them. I thought, then decided to use the Spirit 

Sensing

 Technique.

The Spirit 

Sensing

 Technique would gather the Yin energy the rock emitted, and we could use that energy to track down the 

origin

 of the rock. After that, we could 

find

 the one that had 

planted

 it here. 

I bit my middle finger and dropped a few drops of blood on the rock. Using a secret spell, I created a short connection with the rock through my blood. When I felt that my 

thoughts

 could be sent to the rock, I used all of my power to call, “Open!” 

After my order, the blood on the rock scattered fast and appeared as an axis system. I hurried to walk around the rock. Soon, a small arrow appeared on the axis system. 

“

Come

 with me!”

I hadn’t expected the Spirit 

Sensing

 Technique 

to be

 that powerful. I called Li Mazi and Zhang Henshui. Then, I grabbed the Sirius Whip

 and ran in

 the direction the arrow was pointing. 

To perform t

he Spirit 

Sensing

 Technique

, one needs 

to 

use

 bloo

d. After the technique

 suck

s

 all the blood, it 

will

 lose effect. That

 wa

s why I had to carry the rock with me and 

move quickly

. When we reached a park in the suburbs, the blood 

had

 dried. I had to drip a few more drops on it. 

This time, the blood didn’t create 

an

 arrow. 

The d

rops 

formed

 a blood bead the size of a soya bean. It hovered above the rock

 and 

gently 

swayed

 as if it was looking for something… 

Before we reacted, the blood bead swooshed and flew into the depths of the park. I was surprised at first. But then, I hurried to run after it.

After around two or three hundred meters of running, two figures appeared in front of me. 

To not alert them, I stopped and hid. When they came closer, I recognized they were a man and a woman. 

Zhang Henshui’s face changed when he saw the 

approaching

 people. He rolled his eyes and wanted to jump out. 

Li Mazi helped me press him down. After the two 

were

 gone, Zhang Henshui scoffed angrily. “That man’s one of the three migrant workers. He

’s the one who

 wants to kill me!”