Unexpectedly, Lin Xi was already prepared.

The moment it emerged from the water, a Five Thunder Talisman was struck down.

"ah--!"

A deafening scream suddenly ripped through the night sky.

The sound was inaudible to ordinary people and wouldn't affect them, but the cats and dogs in the village started barking incessantly.

The ghost was nearly killed by the Five Thunder Talisman and collapsed to the ground. Its gaze toward Lin Xi was no longer arrogant, but filled with boundless fear.

"I was wrong, I was wrong, Master, please forgive me! I'll never do it again, please..."

It clearly realized that Lin Xi could kill it as easily as crushing an ant.

Lin Xi looked expressionlessly at the ghost kneeling at her feet, said nothing, and took it directly back to the Hu family.

At this moment, the ghost dared not say no, and could only endure the pain all over its body and follow Lin Xi back to the Hu family.

Hu Meng and the others inside were waiting anxiously when Lin Xi finally returned.

The group hurried over to Lin Xi and asked if he had found the soul.

Lin Xi nodded, and then granted the three of them temporary Yin-Yang Eyes.

With their Yin-Yang Eyes activated, the three immediately saw the ghost following behind Lin Xi.

The ghost was soaking wet and looked extremely weak, as if it could barely stand.

Even though the ghost looked pitiful at the moment, it was still an enemy that Hu Meng and the other two hated to the bone!

It was this ghost that took over the old man's body and harmed his soul!

The three stared resentfully at the ghost before them, while also trying to discern its identity from its appearance.

After watching for a while, the three of them realized that they had no recollection of the ghost and were certain that none of them had ever seen it before.

Mr. Hu gritted his teeth, his eyes red-rimmed, and questioned the ghost.

"Who are you? Why did you do this to my family?!"

Judging from Hu Meng and the others' conversation with Lin Xi, the ghost already knows why Lin Xi came to find it.

It's all about the Hu family.

But should it tell the truth?

What if Lin Xi only noticed that it had taken over the old man's body, but didn't notice the curse?

Just as it hesitated, Lin Xi didn't hesitate at all and threw another talisman at the ghost.

The ghost was beaten and lay on the ground, howling in pain.

Lin Xi's voice was as cold as ice as he stared at the ghost writhing in pain on the ground.

"If you still don't tell the truth honestly, I don't mind turning you to ashes right now."

The ghost realized from Lin Xi's tone that she was definitely not trying to scare it, but really wanted it to be reduced to ashes. It finally dared not play any more tricks and shouted loudly.

"I'll tell you, I'll tell you everything!"

Then, the ghost revealed all the reasons why it had targeted Old Master Hu and the rest of the Hu family.

......

According to the ghost, it was originally from this village and its real name was Liu Ming.

It had no grudge against the Hu family; it just happened to fall into a puddle not far from their house.

And it was the unlucky guy who fell into that puddle and drowned, as the village elders had said.

After falling into the puddles and drowning, Liu Ming became a ghost.

At first, it wandered around the puddle without any ill intentions.

But later, as time went by, it got bored staying in one place for a long time, and began to wander around like other lonely ghosts.

Later, by accident, it was captured by an evil Taoist priest.

The Taoist priest was practicing a dark art and needed to find some ghosts to experiment on.

When it was captured, it thought it was going to perish there forever, vanish into thin air, and never even have the chance to be reincarnated.

What it didn't expect was that the Taoist priest's experiment ultimately failed.

Not only did the experiment fail, but he himself also suffered a severe backlash from the evil magic, resulting in the rupture of his meridians and his death from vomiting blood.

After the Heavenly Master died, the remaining ghosts tried every means and expended a lot of energy to finally break free. Then they scattered like birds and beasts and fled from the Heavenly Master's residence.

Liu Ming was the only one who wanted to run away quickly, but before he ran, his eyes fell on a secret manual in the hands of the Taoist master.

It remembered that whenever the Celestial Master did something, he would look through that manual, which, if nothing else, should contain some kind of magic or spells.

Originally, Liu Ming knew nothing about these things and had no interest in them.

However, during the time Liu Ming was captured by the Celestial Master, he watched as the Celestial Master used these spells to easily accomplish many things that he had never dared to imagine before, and some ideas began to arise in Liu Ming's mind.

From birth to death, it lived a miserable life and never had a chance to enjoy anything.

Now that they've become ghosts, they don't even have the chance to enjoy anything anymore.

I thought my life would just go on like this, but now, seeing everything the Celestial Master has done, I suddenly feel that even after becoming a ghost, I can still do something.

So Liu Ming, as if possessed, took the manual with him.

Its original intention was to find the spells above and see if there were any suitable ones for it to learn. Once it learned them, it could enslave other ghosts or find a way to live a better and more comfortable life.

Unexpectedly, as it looked around, it discovered several secret techniques that could "bring the dead back to life"!

It didn't have a good life while it was alive, but despite that, it still craved the life of being alive.

After all, living people can do more things than ghosts, especially the ability to truly "enjoy" and "touch" certain things, which are things that ghosts cannot do.

If it could, it would certainly prefer to live!

However, saying it "comes back to life" doesn't mean it can actually be fully revived.

After all, it had been dead for many years and its body had decomposed. Even if it wanted to be resurrected, it would not be possible unless a new body was created for it.

Among the secret techniques it was looking at, there was one that could give it a new body.

That is, directly seizing another person's body.

However, this method has a low success rate.

To seize another person's body, one must either completely expel the body's original soul and monopolize that body.

Alternatively, they can only coexist with the body's owner, with two souls sharing one body.

However, for the latter, its soul must be countless times stronger than the body's owner, suppressing the original owner's soul to the point that it dares not resist and is unable to move.

Otherwise, even if it successfully enters that body, it will be squeezed out very quickly.

Of the two methods, the first one is clearly more difficult than the second.