Resolution

"This carriage was as hard to shake as a ghost!"

Lin Chan frowned.

The carriage's owner had yet to show any telltale sign, so Lin Chan could not make a move directly.

Faced with this situation, Lin Chan began to hesitate over whether he should return home first.

But he had already traveled several hundred li. Going back now would only waste time.

He could only rest and adjust for a while first. Lin Chan switched back into his body, took out some food, and slowly began eating.

The carriage ahead seemed to notice Lin Chan's situation and also came to a stop.

Lin Chan wolfed down meat while keeping a close watch on the movements over there.

A tortoiseshell cat with a yin-yang face climbed down from the carriage. Lin Chan recognized it—it was one of his cat subordinates that had disappeared several days ago.

Yet there was not a trace of life on the tortoiseshell cat's face, and its eyes were vacant.

Lin Chan realized something. With a sweep of [Karma Eye], he saw gloomy black qi rising from it, its Bad Karma profound.

"Damn it!"

Lin Chan understood. The owner of that carriage was likely the Sorcerer who had committed evil in Yulin City before.

This was the Cat Ghost raised by that Evil Sorcerer.

"Little Li, get up!"

Lin Chan yanked awake the sleeping Little Li.

Little Li, exhausted all over, was still groggy after Lin Chan woke him, only to receive another slap from Lin Chan.

"Go deal with that cat!"

Lin Chan pointed at the tortoiseshell cat walking toward them.

Little Li was somewhat reluctant, but beneath Lin Chan's tyrannical pressure, he had no choice but to face his former subordinate.

After cultivating for several months, Little Li's intelligence was no longer what it had once been. He had already sensed the strangeness of the tortoiseshell cat before him. He arched his back, extended his paw claws, and entered battle mode.

The tortoiseshell cat and Little Li clashed, with no victor yet decided, but Little Li grew frightened and immediately fled backward.

All the previous brawls and the subjugation of subordinates had been done by Lin Chan while controlling Little Li's body. Little Li had never fought on his own before. Though he possessed Moonlight Essence, he fled in defeat at the very first encounter.

"Coward!"

Lin Chan drew his blade, thoroughly angered by Little Li's actions.

However, Lin Chan had already seen that this tortoiseshell Cat Ghost was far weaker than the previous one. He alone was more than enough to handle it.

But Little Li and the Cat Ghost were darting about wildly, throwing off Lin Chan's rhythm. Afraid of hurting Little Li, he could not conveniently strike with his blade.

Little Li instinctively hid inside the Custom Carriage, and the tortoiseshell Cat Ghost immediately gave chase.

With one swipe and one scratch, a huge gash split open the fine wood of the Small Carriage.

The tortoiseshell Cat Ghost and Little Li continued chasing one another around their Small Carriage.

"Bastard!"

Lin Chan seized the moment, gathered strength, and slashed out a blade qi, shearing off the tortoiseshell Cat Ghost's head in one stroke.

Despite its head being severed from its body, the Cat Ghost's head continued to twitch.

At the same time, inside the carriage ahead, a gaunt Old Man spat out a mouthful of black blood.

"My lord! What's wrong?"

The Coachman noticed the commotion inside and entered the carriage to ask.

"Go! Go now!"

The white-haired Old Man roared.

The Old Man had never expected that in merely half a month, Lin Chan would improve so quickly.

He had thought victory was in the bag this time, only to lift a stone and smash his own foot again.

At the City Lord's Mansion, the Cat Ghost he had painstakingly nurtured for over ten years should have easily killed Luo Jingxing. Instead, Luo Jingxing had held on until reinforcements arrived.

And that Confucian Cultivator in the city had been exceedingly troublesome as well.

Not only had he failed to kill Luo Jingxing, he had also lost the Cat Ghost he had nurtured for more than a decade.

He had been left with no choice but to raise another one.

Though he now looked like a man with one foot in the grave, he was actually only around thirty.

The cause of it all was this technique of nurturing Cat Ghosts.

To nurture a Cat Ghost into a fighting force, one had to consume one's own qi, blood, and vital essence before it could take shape.

Evil cultivator techniques cared neither for talent and bone nor for Spiritual Root aptitude. They all worked like this, consuming oneself in exchange for extraordinary power.

Moreover, the Cat Ghost technique the Old Man practiced had a flaw. Once the Cat Ghost was released, it became difficult to control.

But to avenge his elder sister, he had no choice but to cultivate this Evil Cultivation Technique. He had originally planned to destroy Luo Jingxing's family during the New Year, when the whole family was reunited.

In the end, he had cultivated himself into this ghostly state, yet still failed to avenge his great hatred.

Afterward, City Lord Luo had searched the city for Sorcerers. Had he not been overlooked because he looked like someone on the verge of death, he would not have been able to leave the city safely.

When he left the city, he encountered Lin Chan, who was also leaving. Knowing that this was one of the people who had saved Luo Jingxing, he had wanted revenge.

And so he had ended up in this predicament.

Fortunately, he had been far away, and Lin Chan had been unable to catch up. He had narrowly escaped disaster.

Looking at Lin Chan sitting on the ground behind him, the Old Man sighed again.

Even if he was still alive now, what use was there in it?

He had less than five years left to live. Even if he raised another Cat Ghost, he would hardly succeed in taking revenge.

A ten-year Cat Ghost had been unable to kill Luo Jingxing, let alone a five-year one.

Yet after setting aside this sorrow, he found himself incomparably unwilling to accept it.

If Luo Jingxing had not abandoned his sister back then, she would not have died.

The Old Man's family had originally made tofu. The entire family had relied on his eldest sister selling tofu to support them, and he had loved his sister most of all.

But good times did not last. Somehow, his sister became involved with Luo Jingxing.

However, Luo Jingxing's wife was extremely forceful and would not allow him to take a concubine, so she often sent people to humiliate his family.

In the end, unable to endure it any longer, his sister left them some money and hanged herself from a southeast branch.

Afterward, the Old Man swore to make Luo Jingxing pay the price. He began cultivating the Cat Ghost Evil Art, an Evil Cultivation Technique exceedingly common in Rong Country.

Even now, the Old Man could still recall how his sister had looked before her death—so tragically beautiful.

"Even if I only have five years left, I swear I will kill you!"

A vicious light rose in the Old Man's eyes. His entire life had been born for revenge.

Just as the Old Man was considering which Evil Cultivator Market to visit next, a disturbance came from the carriage, as though something had jumped aboard.

"Ah!"

After a scream, something else fell off, and the carriage slowly came to a halt.

The Old Man held his breath. He had no idea what was happening outside. Since cultivating the Cat Ghost Evil Art, he had never been so afraid.

The air outside was still as death. The Old Man widened his eyes, sensing his surroundings.

At that moment, a tricolor cat silently entered the carriage and coldly raised its head to glance at the Old Man.

Then the tricolor cat leaped up, pounced onto the Old Man, and used its sharp teeth to bite open his throat.

At that moment, the Old Man suddenly felt released.

All his fear and resentment completely scattered in that instant.

After Lin Chan, controlling Little Li's body, confirmed that the Old Man before him was dead, he returned to his own body.

"I never expected him to be just an Old Man."

Lin Chan felt somewhat moved. Who could have guessed that it was a white-haired Old Man, one who looked ready to die at any moment, who had controlled those Cat Ghosts to harm people?

But Lin Chan had no intention of sparing the Old Man. That Cat Ghost at the City Lord's Mansion had killed dozens of people, including Lin Chan's sister.

Though he lacked the Speed of One Horse and could hardly catch the carriage, Little Li, after several months of cultivation and with the aid of that wisp of Moonlight Essence, could barely catch up.

Combined with Lin Chan's many years of combat experience as a cat, he easily dealt with the Coachman and that Old Man with one foot in the grave.

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