Whoosh~~~
Just as Ning Caichen was enjoying his bath, a chill breeze suddenly blew in, stirring the strips of cloth hanging from the beams inside the manor. In an instant, ghostly shadows danced everywhere.
Whoosh~~~
Then a white figure suddenly flashed past the door, swift and fleeting as a ghost.
"Who's there? Are you even human?"
The eerie scene immediately left Ning Caichen trembling with fear. After all, he wasn't the Ning Caichen from the original story, hardened by the battles against the Thousand-Year Tree Demon and the Black Mountain Old Demon.
"Brother Hao~ Daoist Brother Zhi Qiu~~ Wake up! There's a ghost!" Panicking, Ning Caichen hurriedly got dressed and shouted.
"No answer? Did they leave without me~~" When Brother Hao and Zhi Qiu Yiye didn't respond, the terrified Ning Caichen scrambled through a hole in the wall and fled outside.
"A ghost? Where?!" Hearing Ning Caichen's cries, Zhi Qiu Yiye, who had just fallen asleep, woke at once. He sprang up and rushed outside, following the sound of Ning Caichen's voice.
"The show's about to begin!" As soon as Zhi Qiu Yiye left, Hao Shuai appeared in the back courtyard and leisurely followed him out of the manor.
As soon as Zhi Qiu Yiye reached the outside, he saw Ning Caichen, wearing only his underclothes, hanging from a tree by a white sash. Around him, numerous white-clad evil spirits flew back and forth through the woods, their long tongues lolling out.
"Don't come any closer! There are ghosts here!" When kind-hearted Ning Caichen saw Zhi Qiu Yiye come running out, his first instinct wasn't to ask for help, but to tell him to run.
"Ghosts?!" Hearing Ning Caichen, Zhi Qiu Yiye had no time to think. He reached into his cloth bag and pulled out a talisman. "By