"What ghost? Why didn't I see it when I came back?" Xu Taiping's heart jolted. He picked up Ping'an and asked.
"It had already left when you arrived." Bai Yu flapped up onto Xu Taiping's shoulder. "It was an evil ghost nine feet tall, with long, fiery-red hair, a pair of emerald-green eyes, and a long saber on its back."
Bai Yu described it in great detail.
"Tall, red hair, green eyes, and carrying a saber... could it be the Red-Haired Blade Ghost?!" Xu Taiping's heart lurched. He grabbed Bai Yu off his shoulder and asked:
"When did that evil ghost leave?"
"When it was nearly dark, he was already standing on the Rainbow Bridge on Evening Drum Mountain. After it grew a little darker, he appeared outside the courtyard gate. Then he stood guard there without moving, until half an incense stick ago, when a cultivator flew overhead on a sword. Only then did he disappear."
Bai Yu recalled.
"If you didn't mistake what you saw, that evil ghost was very likely the Red-Haired Blade Ghost of the Azure Profound Sect's rumors. My Fourth Senior Brother was wounded by him just last night."
Xu Taiping's tone was somewhat grave.
"Now that you mention it, I think I remember something too. My father seemed to have told me rumors about this Red-Haired Blade Ghost."
Hearing Xu Taiping mention the name "Red-Haired Blade Ghost," Bai Yu seemed to recall something as well.
"What did Uncle White Rainbow tell you back then?"
Xu Taiping asked curiously.
"Back then, because I liked running all over the place, my father used the Red-Haired Blade Ghost to scare me. He said there was an evil ghost on Cloud Cottage Mountain, transformed from a cultivator of the Azure Profound Sect who had once been obsessed with