Zhang Yuan stood on the first floor, pondering what to do, when an eerie voice suddenly came from behind him.
"Good morning. Is there anything I can help you with?"
The utterly unexpected voice made Zhang Yuan shudder. He whipped around and saw a girl who was not particularly tall.
Her skin was deathly pale, and her eyes had no pupils, only whites. A thick, clammy yin aura emanated from her, along with a faint trace of death qi. In short, she had none of the air of a living person.
Startled, Zhang Yuan had no thought of showing mercy to a pretty girl. He was about to unleash Dust-Treading Divine Thunder, obliterating the evil ghost before him, body and soul, with a bolt of heavenly thunder.
"Wonderful! To think there are evil ghosts even in the Upper Nether Academy! As an honorary Libationer of the Upper Nether Academy, I shall rid it of your evil presence today!"
Zhang Yuan shouted with righteous conviction.
But in the next instant, no heavenly thunder emerged from his palm. Chi Guanguan had cut off the conceptual image.
Chi Guanguan knocked him on the head and said:
"Oh, Zhang Yuan, how can you be so stupid? She's clearly a living person! Luckily, this immortal reacted quickly, or you would have struck her dead and incurred another karmic debt of killing."
"A living person?"
Zhang Yuan raised an eyebrow and studied the deathly pale girl before him. Sure enough, he sensed the faintest trace of a living person's aura.
Though it was hardly noticeable beside that thick, clammy yin aura, she still counted as alive. In any case, she certainly was not an evil ghost.
He had simply been startled and overreacted.
Her eyes had no pupils, so she was probably blind. Presumably, she had