Bai Ling desperately urged the ghosts to attack, but found it was completely useless.

"Useless trash! If you don't make a move soon, do you want to try the Soul Refining Array again?" Bai Ling was furious. Why did these ghosts suddenly become disobedient?

He Wangyao noticed that the ghosts suddenly clutched their heads and rolled around in pain. When they stopped, their eyes had turned completely black.

"Ah Xu, those ghosts are attacking again!" He trembled with fear.

Gu Xu sighed softly. He couldn't see anything, so he couldn't sense He Wangyao's fear.

He walked to the side, looked at the black jars in the corner that looked like they were for pickling vegetables for a moment, and then kicked one of the jars and broke it.

He disliked the strange, foul smell emanating from these black jars.

He kicked all the jars apart, one by one, and some bones fell out, which crumbled instantly when stepped on.

He Wangyao stared in astonishment at the scene before her. The ghosts began to writhe and wail in agony before disappearing into thin air.

He didn't come to his senses until Gu Xu kicked the jars and came back.

Are there still ghosts?

He Wangyao mechanically shook her head and honestly replied, "No."

"Who are you? How could you kill all the ghosts I raised!" Bai Ling clutched her chest, blood trickling from the corner of her mouth, clearly suffering a backlash.

This person clearly doesn't know magic, yet he was able to break her illusions and kill the ghosts she raised!

This is terrifying! This is absolutely terrifying!

"I'm just an ordinary businessman," Gu Xu said calmly.

Bai Ling attempted to escape by unleashing a magic array, but at that moment, footsteps sounded outside the door.

Then, with a bang, the door was kicked open.

Mingzhuo withdrew his foot, glanced at the situation inside the room, and showed no surprise.

These two don't have the face of someone who will die young, so how could they possibly perish here?

Behind her, Liang Xing stepped in quickly and said excitedly, "It's so good that you two are alright!"

Xia Yuan breathed a sigh of relief. If Gu Xu had gotten into trouble with him, he and the Xia family would have been finished.

"Mr. Gu, what brings you here? Please come out quickly!" Xia Yuan hurriedly went in and personally invited the man out.

Upon seeing that Xia Yuan was the first to enter, Bai Ling had an idea and was about to activate her magic...

Gu Xuqing's voice, clear and cold like a spring rinsing over stones, rang out, "I advise you not to have any wicked thoughts."

Bai Ling seemed to be stunned, completely frozen in place.

Liang Xing realized that this woman was one of the accomplices, and since she was a dangerous person, he quickly stepped forward and grabbed Bai Ling.

Mingzhuo glanced at the time; it was already quite late. "Could you please arrange a room for me so I can go to sleep?"

Xia Yuan couldn't have been happier. He was still feeling uneasy, so of course he hoped that all these capable people would stay. "Okay, it's all arranged. Please follow me."

Mingzhuo took two steps, and seeing that He Wangyao didn't move, he couldn't help but ask in surprise, "Aren't you going to sleep?"

He Wangyao came to her senses. "No, that woman has been caught. Shouldn't she be interrogated?"

"Let the professionals handle the professional matters." Mingzhuo yawned. "I'm still a minor, I need to sleep more to grow."

He Wangyao: "..."

This reason was impeccable, and its seemingly reliable nature often made him forget the other person's age.

The rest of the people urged Mingzhuo to go to sleep, saying they could take care of things here.

After all, this is a minor who put in so much effort, and they are so far behind, they can't just leave without showing any appreciation.

It's embarrassing to admit, but all these adults are not even as capable as one minor.

Xia Yuan arranged the best rooms for the three of them, but He Wangyao was scared and insisted on sharing a room with Gu Xu, even if it meant sleeping on the sofa for one night!

He was completely reckless. Tonight, he witnessed how immune to all evil, which further solidified his idea of ​​clinging to Ah Xu's coattails.

The question is simply that I only want to be an accessory to Ah Xu.

Mingzhuo was somewhat stunned: "Those three ghosts are either dead or have gone to the underworld, what are you still afraid of?"

He Wangyao shook her head vigorously, "That won't do, I'm scared. You have no idea how immune to evil A-Xu is."

Ming Zhuo glanced at Gu Xu and said, "Mr. Gu had a truly wonderful night."

The woman who raised the ghost completely gave up resisting, which shows just how strong the impact this person had on the other person's mind.

He's probably still questioning his life even now, wondering why his painstakingly practiced ghost-controlling skills and superb illusion techniques are completely ineffective against an ordinary person.

"Not at all," Gu Xu said calmly. "Compared to you, my life is nothing special."

He hasn't really experienced anything yet; he's just grabbed a pretentious maid. What's there to make a fuss about?

Mingzhuo shrugged, went into her room and closed the door. After a busy day, all she wanted to do was lie down and sleep.

——

After Liang Xing and others interrogated Bai Ling all night, she finally revealed that she was just a junior administrator in the suicide pact group.

Their goal is to lure more people into suicide, then capture their souls and use a soul-refining array to turn them into vengeful ghosts for them to control.

Bai Ling was originally a rogue cultivator who had no talent in Taoist arts and was very unwilling to live such an ordinary life.

Ever since the group leader shared this method with her, she found that her cultivation level had increased rapidly, which was much easier than the arduous process of cultivating the Dao.

The ability to control corpses was a skill taught to these administrators by the group leader.

However, this method is merely a smokescreen, maintaining the corpse's movement for a brief moment; in reality, it's riddled with flaws. Otherwise, there would probably be corpses wandering around everywhere.

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