"What are you panicking for? Could Yun Niang possibly give us away?"
The woman who looked pregnant shot the young girl a glare.
Then, supported by the girl, the woman walked off into the distance.
After wandering about for several months, Lin Chan had recorded nine ninth-grade Merits in the Lesser Merit Record, all from killing ghosts and monsters in the cities he had passed through.
This surprised Lin Chan somewhat. He had never expected there to be so many ghosts and monsters within the cities.
He had not discovered them when passing through before simply because he had not deliberately searched for them.
When people died and became ghosts, even ordinary people had a chance of turning into ghostly creatures.
With such an enormous base, the total number of ghostly creatures naturally would not be small.
Moreover, if an ordinary ghost spirit did not absorb other forms of energy, it would quickly dissipate.
In order to survive and cultivate, ghosts would inevitably rack their brains to find such things.
The baleful energy of places steeped in yin and Baleful Intent, the vital essence in human bodies—of course, spiritual energy between heaven and earth would do as well, but ghosts found it difficult to absorb spiritual energy from heaven and earth.
For ghosts, the easiest energy to absorb was naturally human vital essence.
Thus, wherever there were people, ghosts were correspondingly common. Those ghosts usually hid among the crowds and were not easy to find.
Fortunately, Lin Chan possessed the Karma Eye. If he looked at enough people, he could always find traces of those ghosts.
And after constantly absorbing human vital essence, ghosts grew accustomed to it. It was thus exceedingly common for them to injure and kill people.
As long as evil ghosts harmed people, they always left