Chapter 4

Time passed by unnoticed, and it was already 7 p.m.

Lingxi haphazardly stuffed a few bites of the food that Grandma Lin had brought over. Lin Fengjuan's cooking skills were quite good, but unfortunately, her sense of taste had become more sensitive. Ordinary ingredients had too many impurities, making them taste very strong and difficult to swallow.

Furthermore, consuming too much ordinary food can generate impurities that clog the meridians, making the already difficult cultivation process even more challenging.

Grandma Lin's cooking was made with ingredients from Linxi Cave, which had absorbed some of the village's spiritual energy, making it barely edible.

However, this can't last forever.

This is something that can't be rushed.

Now we need to see if the water chestnut can grow before we can plan the next step.

Otherwise, if one cannot enjoy delicious food, wouldn't that be missing out on one of life's greatest pleasures? Lingxi shook her head; that wouldn't do.

Today is April 13th, which happens to be a full moon.

The moonlight is faint at this moment, which doesn't seem like a good time for cultivation. We should wait a little longer. Besides, the sun is shining brightly today, and there are few clouds in the sky, so they probably won't block out the starry sky.

I just don't know if we can utilize stellar energy.

After practicing, I still need to visit Grandma Lin's house. Although she has divine consciousness, she can only control her divine thoughts for a maximum of half a meter, and she gets dizzy after only a few minutes.

We still need to go to the scene to find out the situation and, incidentally, identify the culprit.

Lingxi laid out a cushion and came to the courtyard early. Sensing that the time was right, she quickly sat cross-legged, assumed the correct posture, closed her eyes, and began to circulate her internal energy.

As the cultivation technique was activated, the moonlight and starlight from the sky descended in a misty haze, slowly flowing into the dantian with each breath, then into the jade pendant for further processing, until it condensed into a transparent mass.

Having witnessed the terrifying attraction of Su Yuan, and with her meager strength, the moonlight and starlight she attracted were only as thick as a finger, barely worth mentioning.

When the dantian transforms into chaotic spiritual energy, there are only a few more strands.

Lingxi was quite satisfied.

It was already past midnight when I finished my cultivation.

Lingxi dressed up, feeling inexplicably nervous about her first nighttime visit to someone else's house.

Moreover, she still possesses cultivation but lacks any means of attack or self-defense, making her very uncertain.

When she rented the apartment the day before yesterday, she didn't notice whether the Jin family had security cameras. Just in case, it's better to stay outside the Jin family's house. If she gets caught inside, it will be hard to explain.

...

The night in Linxi Cave is very peaceful. Moonlight spills across the earth outside, and the chirping of insects rises and falls in the night, creating a joyful atmosphere.

However, the Jin family's place was rather unusual. It was as if the surrounding liveliness had all abandoned this place, and it was eerily quiet.

Jin Moli slept for too long in the afternoon and was not sleepy at all at the moment.

Holding her father's photo in her hand, her eyes were filled with tears, and an unspeakable sense of grievance washed over her.

After she had cried enough, she wiped her tears away with the back of her hand, got up and put the photos away. Only then did she realize how quiet the house was, with no sound at all.

Even the faint snoring of Grandma in the next room seemed to have disappeared.

She pulled the blanket tighter in fear, her large, slightly red and swollen eyes peering out the window. The curtains had just been taken down to wash, and the moonlight streamed in, so bright that even from her bed, she could see everything happening in the courtyard below.

The quieter the time, the more unusual sounds you can hear.

Even seeing things you shouldn't see.

In the previously deserted courtyard, a dark, indistinct figure silently appeared, standing motionless without moving.

A natural intuition told Jin Moli that he was watching her.

The temperature had dropped without her noticing, and she huddled uneasily under the covers. The intense fear made her body tremble uncontrollably, but her eyes were wide open, staring at the movements in the yard, afraid that if she wasn't careful, the strange thing would enter the house.

It's definitely not a person, but the kind of unclean thing that Grandma talked about.

Otherwise, what kind of good person would be standing in someone else's yard in the middle of the night, even surrounded by an unbridled black mist that was about to cover the entire yard and showed signs of spreading towards her? Jin Moli's mind flashed back to a terrifying scene from a horror movie she had seen, and a chill ran down her spine. She couldn't help but close her eyes in fear.

When she opened her eyes again, she found that the dark figure seemed to be coming towards her room, and the black mist began to wrap around her shoulders without restraint.

A chilling sensation gradually seeped down from her shoulders, and within moments, her entire body felt as if it had sunk into an ice cave, icy and bone-chilling. Before she could move, Jin Moli felt her eyelids growing heavier and heavier.

Just as she was about to fall asleep, the chill on her shoulder suddenly dissipated, her body felt light, and she felt as if she had ascended from hell to heaven and come back to life.

...

"Do I really have to climb the wall?" Lingxi felt a bit unlucky; how could she be getting worse as she got older?

She'll never do that again!

Lingxi walked miserably to the wall, and just as she was about to jump up, the black dog not far away suddenly barked.

"Woof woof, woof..."

In the quiet night, a series of fierce barks came from the dogs. It seemed that there was more than one dog. However, the black dog closest to her barked particularly fiercely, so fiercely that it almost deafened Lingxi.

If it's her dog, she feels completely safe, but... if it's not her dog, it's a bit of a nightmare.

She quickly moved away from the wall and took a few steps back, only then realizing that it had been barking with its tail facing her and its head towards the Jin family the whole time.

Phew, at least it wasn't her.

"Woof, woof..."

"Big Black, if you keep yelling, you won't get any food tomorrow!" a male voice shouted from the opposite room.

"Woof~ woof... Hmm~ hmph..."

A ferocious dog, like a burly man from Northeast China who had his life choked, instantly drooped its tail and whimpered softly, but its ears remained erect, keeping alert to the person opposite it.

Good dog!

Lingxi couldn't help but praise it in her heart. The next second, she suddenly felt something was wrong. The fact that the black dog was so wary meant that a ghost had probably already appeared.

Lingxi quickly leaped onto the wall.

Separated by only a wall, the temperature was worlds apart. The courtyard was filled with black mist, and in the middle was a thick, indistinct black shadow that continuously emitted yin energy. She no longer needed to use her spiritual eyes to search the courtyard.

It's always accurate at a glance; isn't it because the spiritual energy is insufficient?

How could such a powerful ghost appear out of nowhere!

As soon as Lingxi squatted on the wall, she kept rubbing her arms. The bone-chilling cold was affecting even her, let alone Lin Fengjuan and Jin Moli.

A swift victory was necessary. Lingxi tentatively converted her true energy into the essence of the sun. Fearing that her attack might miss, she gritted her teeth, converted two-thirds of her spiritual power into a beam of light, and with a flick of her finger, hurled the beam at the dark figure in the center of the courtyard.

When the black mist collided with the golden light, the yin energy was continuously dissolved by the golden light layer by layer. In the blink of an eye, the yin energy around it was completely consumed, leaving only the black shadow standing there alone. It did not resist, and apart from looking a little weak, there was nothing unusual about it.

Seeing this, Lingxi circulated her spiritual power, preparing to prepare another dish.

Yin and Yang are the way of Heaven and Earth; when Yin is excessive, it is cold, and when Yang is excessive, it is hot; using Yang to overcome Yin is twice as effective with half the effort.

Our ancestors were right!

Unexpectedly, before she could make a move, the ghostly thing, just as it had come silently, also vanished from the Jin family home without a trace.

"Huh? Where did it go?" Lingxi, who was in high spirits after winning a great victory and was preparing for a second attack, was greatly disappointed when she found that her target was gone.

They really left cleanly; I couldn't find a trace of them even with my spiritual eyes.

"Run away when you can't win? Who taught you that?!"

Lingxi pursed her lips, jumped down from the wall, and thoroughly searched the courtyard, but found no trace. However, she was somewhat surprised by the tall, aged locust tree nearby.

The growth is truly astonishing; it has almost completely covered most of the sky above the courtyard.

I looked around again, but still there was no sign of a ghost.

"Wow, they really know how to hide!"

It seemed she had no choice but to put it aside for the time being. Lingxi sighed, feeling somewhat indignant. She looked up unintentionally and met a pair of burning eyes.

Big and round.

Lingxi: !!!

When did she wake up?

Oh no!

Jasmine couldn't see ghosts. To those who hadn't cultivated, she appeared to be the only one dancing wildly in someone else's house in the middle of the night. How could this be explained?

ah! ! !

Lingxi screamed inwardly.

No one spoke in the courtyard. The two women, one tall and one short, one inside and one outside, stood side by side. In such a spacious courtyard, the constant gazes from above felt like knives cutting into her. Could Jasmine be thinking that Sister Ling was a thief?

"Ling... Sister," Jin Moli called softly.

I recognized him!

"Sigh," Lingxi replied weakly.

Or perhaps it's best to leave? We can discuss the details tomorrow.

That's it, she was really a bit scared.

Lingxi dared not look up. Facing Lin Fengjuan and Jin Moli, she condensed two beams of sunlight, then leaped over the red wall in a few quick movements without looking back and fled.

The black dog opposite: "...?...Woof..."

Jin Moli: ? ? ?

Why did Sister Ling leave?

She watched as two pale golden lights rose from the courtyard, slowly approaching her and her grandmother.

Jin Moli's eyes lit up immediately, and she did not resist letting the light enter her body. Soon, the remaining chill in her body was also dispelled.

I felt warm and gentle all over, like a spring breeze, and my whole body felt light and refreshed.

She looked up in the direction where the runner had disappeared, her eyes sparkling with stars.

It wasn't until a large tree in the corner of the yard seemed to be swaying precariously in the strong wind that Jin Moli quietly returned to her bed, savoring every frame of Ling Jie's appearance.

It's truly mysterious and alluring.

hey-hey……

...

After fleeing back into the house, Lingxi quickly closed the door and turned on the TV to watch several episodes of cartoons to calm herself down.

Depend on!

She's not suited for this kind of work, and she'll never do it again.

How embarrassing! Lingxi buried her head in the pillow as she recalled the incident, trying to escape reality.

The sky outside the window slowly faded from the night, donning a blue coat. Perhaps the blue coat was a bit monotonous, but it was tinged with a touch of warm pink.

The day begins in the morning!

After calming down, Lingxi grabbed her yoga mat and began her daily practice.

Over there, the Jin family

When Lin Fengjuan got up, she felt something was wrong. She casually waved her arms and moved her body, and felt a surge of energy and vitality throughout her body.

"Hey, looks like I really didn't sleep well the day before yesterday."

Lin Fengjuan arrived at the compound in high spirits, only to be dumbfounded.

The yard, which was neat and tidy before I went to bed, now looks like it's been hit by a strong wind. Fallen leaves and withered leaves are scattered all over the ground, like a layer of uneven green paint on a cement floor.

Seeing this made her feel better again; her eyes hurt, and her hands hurt too.

Lin Fengjuan frowned as she walked to the locust tree. This locust tree was planted shortly after her son was born. She said it had a bad omen, but her family wouldn't listen. Later, when the locust flowers bloomed, she had more food, and gradually she stopped talking about it. So the tree was left there.

However, as Lin Fengjuan got older, she became even more averse to those things.

She brought up the idea of ​​cutting down the tree again, but this time no one objected. However, she couldn't find anyone to cut it down, so it's been left standing ever since.

She looked at the leaves above, which were bright green and crisp, scattered about. It seemed that there had been a strong wind last night, otherwise they wouldn't have fallen off the leaves if they weren't sick or infested with insects.

"Jasmine, when your dad comes back, tell him to cut down the tree."

"Look, the wind is picking up again, and the leaves are falling." Lin Fengjuan said impatiently, sweeping away the fallen leaves.

wind?

Jin Moli wondered, "Did the wind just stir?"