Du Yu took Chi Ghost down the mountain. All along the way, Chi Ghost kept asking what this was about, but Du Yu hemmed and hawed and refused to say.
When they reached the entrance to the Legend Management Bureau, Chi Ghost stopped. He first looked over the rebuilt bureau, then said casually, "Du Yu, if you don't tell me what happened, I'm not going in today."
"Oh, come on!" Du Yu said anxiously. "It's really nothing major..."
"Are you going to tell me or not?"
"If I tell you, you'll help, right?"
"Not necessarily." Chi Ghost shook his head. "The old woman told me to help you, but I could always 'slip up' and fail."
Du Yu could only grit his teeth and whisper, "Brother Chi Ghost... here's what happened..."
"Hahahahaha!"
Chi Ghost laughed awkwardly toward the sky as he headed back up the mountain. "Now that was something truly shameful to hear!"
"Brother Chi Ghost! Brother Chi Ghost!" Du Yu clung desperately to his thigh, refusing to let him leave. But Chi Ghost possessed boundless strength and strode briskly onward as though Du Yu hanging from his leg weighed nothing.
"Have a heart and help me out!"
"No, no, no." Chi Ghost shook his head. "This is where our paths part. Now get lost."
"Brother Chi Ghost, you're just saving someone! It's no trouble!"
"Du Yu!" Chi Ghost said angrily. "I'm an evil ghost! An evil ghost! Everyone says we 'eat people'! And you want me to 'save someone'?! In front of 'all the gods,' no less?! And that someone is 'Zhan Qisheng'?! I've lived with Yingning for hundreds of years! I know all about those two!"
"Oh, come on..." Du Yu had guessed this would happen, which was why he had kept hesitating to tell him.