Finally, I Can Be Free!

Mirror Ghost Wu Jianyuan was bewildered. Why couldn't I get out? Fear Points +56!

Mirror Ghost Wu Jianyuan grew even more terrified. That person had trapped me without killing me. Did he want to turn me into a ghost slave? Fear Points +89!

Help! Won't some ghost save me? I don't want to be a ghost slave! Fear Points +...

Listening to the system notifications that chimed in his ear from time to time, Lu Siye waited until Shi Yimin had returned to his room.

At last, he couldn't hold back the smile spreading across his face. He raised a hand to cover it, then lowered his voice and let out a cackling laugh.

The sinister laughter reached the Mirror Ghost's ears, making him even more afraid and panicked.

Lu Siye gazed at the Mirror Ghost, who was careening around inside the mirror like a headless fly, as if he were looking at a treasure.

At that moment, Wu Jianyuan was no longer an Evil Ghost guilty of every atrocity. In Lu Siye's eyes, he was a ghost-shaped oil field with a rich yield.

That was why Lu Siye hadn't killed Wu Jianyuan right away. He'd accidentally discovered a good way to squeeze out Fear Points.

After more than half an hour, the Mirror Ghost gradually calmed down and stopped giving Lu Siye Fear Points.

Lu Siye furrowed his brow. This wouldn't do.

He gripped the hilt again and channeled his qi and blood through the Blazing Blood Blade into the mirror.

"Ah~"

The Mirror Ghost Wu Jianyuan let out another piercing scream. Afraid of dying, he began producing Fear Points again.

From then on, whenever Mirror Ghost Wu Jianyuan stopped producing Fear Points, Lu Siye would immediately channel qi and blood into the mirror, making it look as though he was about to destroy him.

Then, terrified of dying, Wu Jianyuan would start producing Fear Points again.

After being put through this over and over all night, and tortured dozens of times, Wu Jianyuan lay sprawled in a corner of the mirror like a dead dog.

No matter how much qi and blood Lu Siye poured into the mirror, he didn't react.

It was as if his actions were telling Lu Siye:

I'm tired! I'm numb!

Just destroy me already!

Lu Siye looked at the oil field he'd completely drained and felt a little disappointed.

"Brother, it's only been a little while. How are you already out of juice? Come on, you've gotta get back on your feet!" Lu Siye patted the mirror and said, exasperated.

Wu Jianyuan stiffly raised his head. His numb eyes fixed on the devil outside the mirror, wearing human skin.

Still, not a single Fear Point appeared. He'd been tortured into numbness.

After confirming once more that Wu Jianyuan had no value left, Lu Siye took out his phone. He planned to report the Mirror Ghost to the Town Demon Suppression Division and earn himself another batch of points.

Tsk, tsk, tsk! He suddenly felt even more despicable than those wicked capitalists.

As soon as he opened the Town Watch APP, he received a message from the backend.

The points for the Kidney-Harvesting Ghost who'd been selling bootleg discs and the two Bound Spirits he'd dealt with earlier had come through. The bonus of more than twenty thousand yuan had also been deposited into his account in the early hours of that morning.

To protect its members while they were on missions, the Town Demon Suppression Division made sure these messages wouldn't pop up until they opened the Town Watch APP.

After reading the message, Lu Siye tapped his profile.

Name: Lu Siye

Identity: Ordinary member of the Tianhai City Town Demon Suppression Division

Strength: Night Patrol Envoy, Third Realm

Record: Killed Evil Ghosts four times

Points: 240

The Town Demon Suppression Division divided each cultivation realm into three stages: early, middle, and late.

Since Lu Siye had killed a Bound Spirit judged by the Town Demon Suppression Division to be a top-tier Evil Ghost, his strength had naturally been updated to Night Patrol Envoy, Third Realm.

After glancing over his profile, Lu Siye opened the mission submission page.

The mission submission page let members submit not only completed missions but also reports of ghosts the Town Demon Suppression Division hadn't discovered yet.

Whether they killed a ghost or reported its whereabouts, they could earn points.

The Town Demon Suppression Division had specifically added this feature to encourage its members to hunt ghosts.

Holding up his phone, Lu Siye found a good angle and snapped a photo.

Then, for the... He'd lost count of how many times, he gripped the hilt and poured his blazing qi and blood into the mirror.

The flames of qi and blood surged inside the mirror, turning into a sea of fire in the blink of an eye and engulfing the Mirror Ghost Wu Jianyuan.

Lu Siye watched Wu Jianyuan slowly close his eyes in the sea of fire, a faint smile gradually appearing on his lips.

Finally, I can be free!

Then his body turned to ash, inch by inch, in the flames.

Ding~ Mirror Ghost Wu Jianyuan (Evil Ghost) has died. Fear Points +100!

At the notification, Lu Siye eagerly opened the system panel.

Host: Lu Siye

Fear Points: 2361

Cultivation Power: 155 years

Martial Arts: "Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill" Third Layer; "Body-Tempering Art"; "Five Tiger Soul Severing Blade Technique" Proficient

Special Items: Evil-Exorcising Fruit Knife; Blazing Blood Blade +1; "Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill"; "Five Tiger Soul Severing Blade Technique"

This Mirror Ghost had been a fine oil field, contributing more than two thousand Fear Points all by himself.

That was almost as much as Lu Siye had gained last time from painstakingly killing three Evil Ghosts.

After the Mirror Ghost died, Lu Siye withdrew all his qi and blood.

When the sea of flames died down, Lu Siye was astonished to find that the cursed skeleton inside the mirror hadn't turned to ash.

The cracks left by the flames were slowly mending under the influence of Yin energy.

"What's going on?" Lu Siye was baffled.

He didn't pull out the Blazing Blood Blade in haste. Instead, he searched the Town Watch APP for similar cases.

After searching for more than ten minutes, he finally found the answer.

This usually only happened with ghosts that had killed others of their kind.

What's more, the ghost killed by its own kind had to possess a special ability.

In that case, after it was killed by another ghost, its special ability would remain in some unique form, such as a mask, a bracelet, a head, or a skeleton.

The Town Demon Suppression Division called these things Ghost Relics!

Once preserved, a Ghost Relic became exclusive to the ghost that had killed its former owner. Other ghosts couldn't use it.

Ghost Relics had no intelligence. After the ghost controlling one died, it would automatically absorb the surrounding Yin energy.

Once the Yin energy exceeded the Relic's capacity, it would erupt, indiscriminately affecting nearby living things.

The solution wasn't difficult. All he had to do was drain the Yin energy contained in the Ghost Relic in one go, and it would naturally disappear.

After realizing the Ghost Relic in the mirror wasn't an immediate threat, Lu Siye pulled the Blazing Blood Blade free without worry.

Then he took another photo of the mirror after the Mirror Ghost's death, briefly described the ghost's strength and type, and uploaded it.

Once the report was uploaded, customer service staff at the Town Demon Suppression Division, working in three shifts, would review it right away.

After the review, the Division would send the nearest auxiliary personnel to verify the report.

While waiting for the specialists to arrive, Lu Siye opened Tianhai City's news channel to see if anything strange had happened recently.

{Shocking! Tianhai City's Seventh Jumping Death—Every Victim Landed Feet-First.}

After tapping the story, Lu Siye saw several crime-scene photos with the details pixelated.

He read the article and the comments below. They were mostly speculation about the victims, with nothing useful.

After leaving the story, Lu Siye saw another news item.

{Utterly Heinous! Family of Three Found Dead at Home in Tianhai City, Revenge Suspected!}

Just as Lu Siye was about to open it, he heard several steady footsteps outside the door.

He went to the door and opened it before the person outside could knock.

"Huh? Officer Zheng, it's you!" Lu Siye exclaimed in surprise at the person standing outside.

It was Zheng Hai, the criminal public security officer who'd taken Lu Siye's emergency call and handcuffed him before.

Zheng Hai was taken aback too.

On his way over, when he saw Tongjiang Residential Complex, he'd wondered if it might be that young man from before.

He hadn't expected to be right!