In Ye Lin's eyes, these things that were neither human nor ghost could no longer be considered truly complete living beings.
"Old man, let go. If your flesh weren't so tough it gets stuck between my teeth, I'd have eaten you long ago. Don't mistake my kindness for weakness."
"My lord, my lord, my daughter is only fourteen! My lord, I beg you, eat me instead, eat me instead, I'm begging you."
Suddenly, a commotion reached him. Ye Lin turned to look and saw, within an alleyway, a tiger-headed humanoid grinning viciously as it threatened an old man before it.
The old man, meanwhile, was desperately shielding a delicate-looking little girl behind him, one who looked pitiful and fragile.
"Hmph. Get lost."
The tiger-headed humanoid seemed to have finally been enraged. It reached out and grabbed at the old man, and that claw was more than enough to crush the old man's skull outright.
Yet in the next instant, the creature's body slowly began to rise, until it was suspended in midair.
"Who? Who is it?"
Terror covered the creature's face as its eyes darted wildly around, trying to drag out the hidden culprit.
It knew that only someone acting in secret could have put it in this state.
"Monsters like you, neither human nor ghost, have no right to live in this world. Die."
An incomparably gentle voice sounded from behind it. Before it could even turn around, its entire body dissolved into nothingness and vanished from the world without a trace.
"Thank you, benefactor. Thank you, benefactor."
The old man did not understand what had happened. He only knew that the person before him had saved him, and saved his pitiful little granddaughter.
He threw himself flat on the ground and kowtowed to Ye Lin again and again,