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Feng Yang's parents and older brother received a call from the police and got into a car accident on their way to the hospital. The car was destroyed, and the entire family died. What made Feng Yang feel it was karmic retribution was that Su Nan's parents had also been in the car.

Su Nan's inexplicable madness had destroyed both the Feng and Su families. After regaining his senses, Feng Yang had wanted nothing more than to kill Su Nan for revenge. The reason he ultimately did not was, first, that he had been too young at the time; no matter how much he hated Su Nan, he had not dared to kill anyone. The other reason was that, after awakening his Yin-Yang Eyes, Feng Yang had personally seen his parents and brother after they became ghosts, as well as Su Nan's parents. The elders from both families had tried their utmost to persuade him not to act rashly. Su Nan's parents had even knelt and begged him.

Feng Yang had been on the verge of collapse, but in the end, he agreed to Su Nan's parents' request. He could spare Su Nan, but he wanted to know why Su Nan had suddenly gone mad. Unfortunately, Su Nan refused to tell the truth no matter what. Later, outsiders saw Feng Yang talking to the elders of both families. Rumors then spread through the hospital that Feng Yang had gone crazy, talking to himself in an empty room. No one believed that Feng Yang could truly see ghosts. Two of Father Feng's business partners had even wanted to send Feng Yang to a sanatorium for treatment. Feng Yang had no way to convince them, so he could only secretly escape on the way to the sanatorium, disappearing from everyone's sight completely.

Having lived another life, Feng Yang finally knew why Su Nan had gone mad for no apparent reason. He did not know whether what Su Nan said was true, nor did he want to argue with Su Nan about whether taking revenge before anything had happened was right. But because of the Heavenly Dao's restrictions on the Vengeful Ghost Talisman, he could not stand by and watch Su Nan die in the haunted house again. Besides—

Feng Yang lowered his head and looked at his right palm. When he had dragged Su Nan out from beneath the prop cabinet earlier, a Merit Golden Light the size of a fist had suddenly emerged from Su Nan and entered the Vengeful Ghost Talisman. Yet in his previous life, Feng Yang had spent more than ten years with the Vengeful Ghost. In the end, he had run around doing good deeds everywhere to merge with the Heavenly Dao, but he had only received Merit Golden Light a few times. Each time, it had only been the size of a millet grain.

Therefore, Feng Yang could be certain that no matter who Su Nan really was, there was no doubt that he was favored by the Heavenly Dao. Harming Su Nan would bring the Heavenly Dao's backlash, while helping him would earn Merit Golden Light. And Merit Golden Light could nourish the Vengeful Ghost Talisman. Even for that reason alone, Feng Yang would keep Su Nan safe.

"Get on!" Feng Yang said in a low voice.

Su Nan came back to his senses and looked at Feng Yang, who was crouching before him, his expression full of conflicting emotions. In the end, he climbed onto Feng Yang's back.

Feng Yang hoisted Su Nan onto his back and ran outside at full speed.

To make it realistic and frightening, the haunted house's layout was exceptionally complicated. The ceiling and surrounding areas were filled with all sorts of ghost props and obstacles used to hide staff members. To ensure visitor safety, however, most of those props and obstacles were made of foam and sponge. They were fine normally, but once they caught fire, they became accelerants. This was an important reason the flames had spread so quickly after the haunted house caught fire, and also the main reason firefighters could not rush in to rescue people in time.

Feng Yang remembered that after waking up in the hospital in his previous life, he had heard medical staff discussing the fire. They said it had killed fifty or sixty people. Aside from the visitors trapped inside the haunted house, more than a dozen firefighters who had rushed in to rescue them had also died. It had been an exceptionally severe fire accident. The reason so many people had died ultimately came down to the haunted house's overly complicated terrain and scenery. There were Maze Ghost Mirrors deliberately designed to mislead visitors, as well as many illegal structures. Visitors unfamiliar with the place could not find the fire exits at all. Those inside could not get out, while those outside got lost once they entered. In the end, the best rescue window had been delayed. Many people had either been trapped and burned to death by exploding dust, or choked to death by thick smoke.

But in this life, Feng Yang had returned at the very moment the haunted house caught fire. While the blaze was still not too intense, he ran blindly toward the exit with Su Nan on his back, all while using the Vengeful Ghost Talisman to search for the living auras around him. He did everything he could to bring more people out of the haunted house.

The youth was tall and lean. Because he loved sports, his muscles were sleekly defined, and his movements were even more agile. Carrying someone on his back, he darted through the fire, gathering together visitors trapped along the escape routes one by one. Then he led them out. Along the way, he ran into several high school classmates—friends from his class who had come to the amusement park together to relax after the college entrance exams. After more than twenty years, Feng Yang could no longer remember what these classmates looked like. But in their eyes, Feng Yang was still that fun-loving, mischievous class monitor who also excelled academically.

When these classmates saw Feng Yang carrying Su Nan, they followed behind him without hesitation. Several boys even took the initiative to carry visitors injured in the fire and unable to move easily. Led by this group of high school students, quite a few uninjured visitors trapped in the fire also voluntarily carried the injured and followed behind Feng Yang.

Protected by the Vengeful Ghost Talisman, Feng Yang was always able to avoid falling beams and props at critical moments, and suppress flames that suddenly surged up in advance. He also destroyed the cameras around the haunted house, making it look as though they had been damaged by the high temperatures. Then he led everyone through the maze without delay and straight toward the main entrance.

The visitors following Feng Yang were focused on escaping for their lives. They had neither the time nor the energy to consider why the routes Feng Yang chose were always the safest. They only watched the youth's back and felt inexplicably reassured.

Feng Yang led everyone out of the haunted house as quickly as possible. On the way, they also encountered firefighters who kept rushing into the blaze to rescue people. Seeing so many visitors escaping together, the firefighters followed alongside the group to escort them out and protect the survivors.

Once everyone had safely escaped the haunted house, Feng Yang, who had saved quite a few people using the Vengeful Ghost Talisman, was gratified to discover barely visible Merit Golden Light continuously drifting from the survivors and entering his right palm. The Vengeful Ghost Talisman, which had expended more than ninety percent of its soul power to send Feng Yang back twenty years, slowly stabilized under the nourishment of the Merit Golden Light.

Feng Yang, who had been worried that the Vengeful Ghost Talisman would completely dissipate under the Heavenly Dao's rejection, finally felt somewhat relieved. Medical staff waiting outside the haunted house rushed over and sent all the injured survivors into ambulances.

Feng Yang handed Su Nan over to an emergency doctor, then walked into a corner and pulled out his phone. He took the initiative to call his parents and tell them he was safe. He also warned them not to drive themselves to the hospital and to take a taxi instead. Thinking of what had happened to Su Nan's parents in his previous life, he added another reminder, telling Su Nan's parents not to drive either, in case something happened on the road.