Chapter 182: Strange to Ordinary People
A moment later, Lin Fan entered the bedroom, where he saw Madam Su unconscious.
Lin Fan's expression shifted slightly, and he immediately said in a deep voice, "Go."
The moment his voice fell, a shadow vanished from the room.
Madam Su's brows were tightly furrowed, as though she had fallen into some terrifying dream. Beads of cold sweat seeped from her smooth forehead.
A thread of Origin Energy entered her body, and the ghostly energy coiling within her vanished in an instant. The furrow between Madam Su's brows slowly relaxed as well.
Ten li outside the city, at a farmhouse.
Blood had dyed the floor red. Several corpses lay in grotesque states of death. On the ritual altar beside them, a red effigy was covered in cracks before finally exploding with a bang under the man's gaze.
The man was disheveled and bearded, his eyes cold and deep. He muttered, "Strange."
"The Crimson Ghost is brimming with resentment and has devoured the vital essence of more than a hundred cultivators. In theory, dealing with a minor County Office official should have been more than easy."
"It seems that person has something strange about him."
He stroked his beard. After pondering for a moment, he opened a black clay jar!
The disheveled man muttered to himself. Then, with a single slash of his sword, he severed his index finger. His bloodied finger sank into the clay jar, from which came a horrifying sound of chewing.
"Rise!"
With a sharp shout from the disheveled man, the clay jar suddenly exploded, and black smoke surged out.
A cold, sinister aura spread through the air. A hideous, ugly ghost face could vaguely be seen within it.
The black smoke roiled and surged out through the door.
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