"Uh... did you come to the wrong place?" Lu Xingshi reached out and pinned down a Destiny Ghost that had snuck in.
It was clearly not here for him, but for Ke Lan.
The problem was that Ke Lan was not with him right now. Taking advantage of his intelligence edge, he had gone to lay traps and mislead Mara.
Another trip into the future had previously confirmed for Ke Lan that he had died, rather than having his notebook intercepted halfway through.
Thus, he directly identified Mara as his killer. Since there would soon be another probe, he had gone to arrange countermeasures.
Ke Lan had indeed left, but the Destiny Ghost had come instead.
This Destiny Ghost looked like a jellyfish with a human head. Its strength was only Ferocious-level, not particularly high.
In the eyes of most Arcane Treasure Masters, killing it would probably only make it suitable as a side dish.
However, its ability was rather unusual. It could use optical principles to turn itself invisible.
A Destiny Ghost using optical principles was indeed somewhat absurd, but it had developed its ability quite well.
It had only been discovered because it encountered Lu Xingshi. If it had run into Ke Lan instead, it might not necessarily have been detected.
"Y-you can see me???" Astonishment surfaced on the Jellyfish Life Ghost's human face. Lu Xingshi's words had genuinely startled it.
"I can. You're such a huge lump of jellyfish floating there, swaying right in front of my eyes. You were practically plastered against my face. Wouldn't claiming I couldn't see you be a little too insulting to you?" Lu Xingshi sighed.
"I'm not a jellyfish!!!" The Jellyfish Life Ghost apparently failed to grasp the point, caring only that Lu Xingshi had called it a jellyfish.
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