At a glance, I saw Master locked in fierce battle with a horde of ghosts in the distant forest.
Even from so far away, I could sense the sinister baleful aura and hear the ghosts' howls and wails.
I had no idea where so many ghosts had come from, but since we had encountered them, we naturally had to wipe them out.
Without hesitation, I gripped the Fish Bone Sword and charged straight over.
Uncle Yu, Aunt Tang, and Tian Yong followed behind me as well.
As I drew closer, I gradually made out their numbers.
There were quite a few—twenty or thirty of them...
Many were powerful vicious ghosts...
Besides them, a middle-aged woman was fighting Master.
I had never seen that woman before. She was of average build, with dark spots on her face, and an exceptionally strong corpse-baleful aura radiated from her.
Her attacks were vicious, and she could use curse arts as well...
She had to be an evil Daoist. Since Carefree Tower had recently been plotting something in our Mountain City, there was a good chance she was one of their people.
"Master! I'm here!"
I shouted in a low voice and charged into battle.
Master turned his head, saw me, and laughed.
"Perfect timing. This bastard is the Nine Corpse Daoist. Enemies really do meet on narrow roads—we've fucking run into him again."
My expression changed drastically upon hearing that.
The Nine Corpse Daoist?
This guy had vanished for some time, yet he had appeared again...
As I stood there in shock, the middle-aged woman spoke.
"Hmph! You're right, enemies really do meet on narrow roads.
"At South Heaven Lake, I could already tell that this brat had an unusual fate.
"Now it seems he truly is special. I really like the evil aura