A desolate mountain.
A figure came from far away, drawing closer. Then the ground suddenly changed. A column of black smoke shot up from the earth, twisting and transforming into a human figure.
"Senior Brother Ling, I've been waiting for you for ages."
The speaker was a woman dressed in black. Her waist was slender and graceful, and beneath her skirt, a pair of jade-white legs appeared and vanished.
She was coquettish and alluring. "How did things go?"
As she spoke, she took the initiative to move toward the figure before her.
Lin Fan was startled, but he quickly reacted. He thrust out his arm and domineeringly wrapped it around that slender waist.
Looking at the beautiful face before him, he imitated Ling Sheng's usual manner and suddenly grinned. "Good sister, the moment I saw you, I felt burning hot."
"Ugh, you're awful..."
The woman giggled coquettishly.
Lin Fan suddenly turned solemn. "I failed."
The woman's smile vanished. She quickly broke free from Lin Fan's embrace. "The Crimson Ghost you refined could sneak into the city and kill people without a trace. How could it have failed?"
"Could someone have been protecting him?"
Lin Fan shook his head. "I'm not sure. In any case, the Crimson Ghost was destroyed."
The woman was shocked upon hearing this.
She knew all too well how great a price Ling Sheng had paid to refine that Crimson Ghost.
At the Ghost Sect, nearly everyone could control and refine Ghostly Creatures. But refining one powerful enough was no simple matter.
Lin Fan continued, "Even if it wasn't someone from the Inspection Office, it was still an extremely troublesome existence."
The woman fell silent for a moment, then suddenly sighed. "Since that's the case, Senior Brother, you should personally return and inform the sect master."
"However,