Hu Kuangming froze on the spot. Once he recovered, he rushed to the table and looked again. What had just shone was the original manuscript of the Treatise on Strange Epidemics.
Outside the room, the Tan Residence's servants and martial experts had already fallen into chaos. The ghost seemed to have taken solid form, then suddenly began rampaging as if it had gone mad.
Wherever it passed, a foul, bloody stench and gusts of chilling wind followed, while blood continually seeped from its body.
But this blood was unlike ordinary human blood. It vanished before it even reached the ground.
"Waaah-ooooo-waaaah-"
The ghost howled as it darted wildly about. Just then, Tan Yuanshang arrived with several others, and the sight of the apparition outside the room sent a shock through them.
Two martial experts immediately engaged the ghost, but its body was uncanny and its movements lightning-fast. Their blades struck it repeatedly without inflicting any fatal wounds, merely making it bleed more.
"Aaargh!"
Someone was clawed by the ghost. The pain tore at his heart and lungs, forcing even a martial expert to scream.
"Surround it, surround it!" "Careful! Don't let it hurt you-"
"Torches! Use the torches!"
Tan Yuanshang approached and pulled something from his robes: an ancient-looking copper coin. With no time to worry about anything else, he handed it straight to the man guarding him.
"Hit it with this!"
The man took the copper coin without questioning him and, seizing a gap in the fight, hurled it with a hidden-weapon technique.
Whoosh!
The copper coin struck the ghost square in the chest. Another burst of white light exploded, and the ghost shrieked as it was hurled into the sky.
But at that moment, it seemed to escape the Tan Residence's restraints. It instantly turned toward the distant