The blood mist in the ghost town seemed to have faded a lot, and even the dark and gloomy sky was bright again, gradually becoming clearer.

There was a dull pain in his chest. The side effect of using his own body to inject the Curse Fire Talisman into Bai Xiaozhu's body came back.

Ren Qiao herself is a ghost, and her soul can restore Jin Banwei's body that was scratched by ghosts again and again, but the damage caused by the talisman paper is different. Fortunately, the pain is not unbearable.

Jin Banwei felt that she must have changed, become braver, and not so afraid of pain. This was all as it should be. She couldn't continue to be cowardly, as this would not allow her to protect Ren Qiao.

The more he learned about her past, the more he realized that although Ren Qiao was powerful, he was too kind and too easily deceived.

Jin Banwei could probably understand it. In Bai Xiaozhu's story, Yu Li had lived in the mountains since she was a child. The only person she had contact with was her grandmother. Naturally, her grandmother would not have any ill will towards her. She probably thought that everyone was as good as her grandmother.

It doesn’t matter. If Ren Qiao’s world is pure white, she will try her best not to let any other colors mix into it.

Jin Banwei has a soft personality, but she has been exposed to darkness and pain, and she knows how to hate.

The lost memories of Ren Qiao contained more pain than she had imagined. Just thinking about the pain made her feel as if her heart was being cut by a knife.

She probably really loved Ren Qiao, so much so that she felt a suffocating pain in her heart when she heard that she was deceived.

Nightmare, monk...

For a nightmare to be born, many people must die, and their deaths must be miserable enough, with resentment gathering and negative energy running rampant. Only in such a desperate situation can a nightmare be born. There is no doubt that many people died in the old campus of Nanshi City, and their deaths were miserable enough, but the ghosts who died here would be absorbed into the ghost town, which basically eliminated the possibility of the birth of a nightmare, so Ren Qianjing's nightmare was not born here.

Jin Banwei didn't think that the monks would delay their action until Ren Qiao was eighteen years old. Since they had completely broken off relations and took Ren Qiao away by then, they would have taken action immediately to avoid any more trouble. No matter what their plan was, the time limit had expired. If they didn't take action, no one could say whether there would be any accidents. In other words, many people died in another place at almost the same time.

Maybe after she gets out, she can investigate where else many people died during that time period, but how can she investigate? And since they were so ruthless, would they really leave clues for her to investigate?

In Bai Xiaozhu's words, Sheng Changyi is a strange woman with worms crawling out of her body. Sheng Changyi is most likely a Gu Master. When she mentioned Gu Master, she subconsciously thought of Sheng Mao. Sheng Mao had come to plot against Ren Qiao that day. Sheng Changyi's surname is also Sheng. Is there any connection between them?

This reminded Jin Banwei of the establishment of Yungu Village, which was located in a very remote area. They claimed to be the place where orthodox witchcraft was passed down, but according to the world set in the original book, wizards and witch masters were completely two different things.

A wizard borrows spirits and signs contracts with demons and spirits to invite the spirits to possess him. A powerful wizard can invite seven spirits to possess him at the same time and use the power of seven spirits at the same time. He even has many ways to control ghosts.

A Gu Master plays with insects. He transforms his own body to become immune to all poisons. He uses his body as a habitat for the Gu insects and uses the insects to fight when necessary. There are many kinds of insects that can easily swallow and kill ghosts.

The two are completely two different inheritances, but Yungu Village merged these two forces into one force two thousand years ago. The insects of the Gu Master love to devour the spirits of the wizards, and forcibly integrating them into one Yungu Village is completely contrary to the trend. It can even be said that it is a particularly unfavorable situation for wizards.

Even though Yungu Village considers itself to be the most orthodox inheritor of witchcraft and sorcery, basically only sorcery masters continue to join Yungu Village. All wizards avoid Yungu Village. Except for a few wizards trained internally, wizards in Yungu Village are already very scarce.

The current leader of Yungu Village is Sheng Mao. Sheng Mao was not a good person in the original book. Plus, he has lived long enough, so it would not be surprising if he was also involved in what happened to Ren Qiao.

I don’t know if Jiang Liluo is the wizard of Yungu Village...

Ciwen Temple and Yungu Village are places that can be investigated, but her current ability is not enough.

Perhaps, she could ask Guan Jiyue and Leng Xiangying. Even though she knew the plot of the original book, Leng Xiangying and the others knew more than her.

Get the information first, then consider what to do next.

Although she had already obtained some information, Jin Banwei could not piece it together completely. She took a deep breath and decided to go back to the Ghost Town Palace to find Guan Jiyue.

By the time Jin Banwei found Guan Jiyue, Guan Jiyue had already burned the Ghost Town Palace into ruins, and the Fox Lady had been blasted into pieces by her sword, and she herself was also injured.

Jin Banwei glanced at Guan Jiyue's bloodstained arm, and Guan Jiyue glanced at her embarrassed appearance. The two smiled at each other, and Jin Banwei said, "We can be considered friends in need."

Guan Jiyue's long hair was stained with blood. As the cold wind blew, it stuck to her cheeks. She pushed her hair aside and smiled faintly, "That fox ghost is really hard to deal with."

She spat out a mouthful of blood foam and said, "It's hard for me not to be curious now. What level of ability did your wife have when she was alive? She was so scared that she could be so scared after so many years. Just seeing a trace of residual soul can scare her like this."

"Ahem... I don't really know either." As Jin Banwei coughed, a thin streak of blood flowed from the corners of her lips. Her body was somewhat beyond its endurance range. If she had not temporarily possessed the ghost's recovery ability, she would have collapsed long ago.

Killing Bai Xiaozhu almost exhausted her strength and also emptied her talisman papers. In a blink of an eye, only the life-saving talisman on her chest and two high-level talisman papers - the purple thunder talisman - were left of the talisman papers Guan Jiyue gave her. She also folded the bamboo sword she had just drawn into them.

I hope that the system upgrade can strengthen her body and improve her close combat ability, so that she won’t lose Ren Qiao’s power and her talismans will be useless.

Thinking of those talismans, Jin Banwei said awkwardly: "Guan Jiyue, can you give me two more talisman papers?"

Although it's a bit difficult to say, all the techniques she uses as a paper-making artist need to be prepared in advance, and those that she could prepare as a second-level artist have long been used up.

Guan Jiyue asked: "Where is the talisman paper I gave you?"

"When you're done, give me another piece of clothing." Jin Banwei touched her shoulder. The fabric there had been torn when Bai Xiaozhu scratched her shoulder. The clothes on her back should be almost torn as well.

This job not only costs blood, but also some clothes.

"I met a ghost king and almost couldn't come back."

She briefly told Guan Jiyue about what happened with Bai Xiaozhu. The more Guan Jiyue listened, the more surprised she became. "You can actually kill the Ghost King. I underestimated your strength. Although the Red Ghost is only one level lower than the Ghost King, the difference is huge. How about you follow me and be my thug in the future? If you take the job, we can split the profit 60% to 70%. I can also provide you with talisman paper for free."

Of course, a Ghost King at the very least has the power of a low-level Yin Messenger, and a Yin Messenger can completely defeat the Red Evil Ghost. It seems that there is only a little difference, but how can it be just a little difference?

What's more, there are differences between Ghost Kings, and Bai Xiaozhu is not the weakest Ghost King.

If Jin Banwei understood correctly, Guan Jiyue was recruiting her.

The Guan family is the oldest family of ghost hunters. Although only Guan Jiyue is left, their reputation spreads far and wide, and many old customers still trust the descendants of the Guan family. But in the book, Guan Jiyue has always been a loner, and the business she can take on one person is limited. Even if some monsters in Yang Street are willing to help her take some business, it is still very limited, and everyone has their own specialties.

As a result, many of Guan family's old customers were divided up by other families, and the Shen family took the most of Guan family's business.

Although the Hades still thinks that the Guan family is the most powerful ghost-catching family, in fact, in many people's minds, the most powerful ghost-catching family has long become the Shen family. If Jin Banwei remembers correctly, there were also people from the Shen family in this barrier. In the original book, they also besieged the heroine and snatched the bone spirit lamp.

She probably understood why Guan Jiyue wanted to recruit her, and she didn't want to take back the title of number one, but she couldn't bear to see old customers return disappointed. After all, those people took the risk to come to Yang Street to find her out of trust.

After all, although Guan Jiyue's attitude towards ghosts is a little extreme, cold and paranoid, she is actually a very righteous and upright person.

Jin Banwei didn't agree right away. Guan Jiyue thought she couldn't bear to kill the ghosts. She looked at her deeply and handed her the new clothes. "Don't feel burdened. Warlocks don't kill ghosts anymore. Are they going to let those ghosts run rampant? There are still more evil ghosts than good ghosts in this world."

It is undeniable that Guan Jiyue was telling the truth.

Since stepping into this place, Jin Banwei's mentality has quietly changed.

She took the clothes, curved her eyebrows, and stretched out her hand to Guan Jiyue: "Boss, give me the talisman!"

Guan Jiyue's expression froze, and she handed Jin Banwei three fire curse talismans: "I don't have many talismans left, luckily I used the Four Symbols Eight Trigrams Formation. If I really listened to Li Guichu and used the Four Symbols Yin-Yang Formation, I wouldn't be able to withstand these demons' torture even if I had seven lives."

Jin Banwei put the talisman paper in her pocket, stole a glance at Guan Jiyue, and said secretly: "Don't be too modest. Your life not only withstood the torment of ghosts, but also withstood the torment of your peers. Although you escaped in a rather embarrassing way, you survived."

Guan Jiyue didn't know what Jin Banwei was thinking. She thought for a moment and said, "You don't have to call me boss. We are friends."

When she carefully considered the word "friend", she realized that friendship is priceless.

After going through so much, she felt that Jin Banwei was worthy of being called a friend. However, when Jin Banwei heard the word friend, she almost subconsciously sneered: "Friend?"

"Hmm?" Guan Jiyue obviously felt that Jin Banwei was a little strange.

Jin Banwei only felt that these two words were a bit ironic for a moment. She learned from Li Jin that Ren Qiao had three friends before his death, and when she learned that Ren Qiao's friends were used as substitutes by her to be eaten by the fox lady, she was angry. But what happened in the end? There were only three friends in total, two of whom deceived her for two whole years, tricked her and plotted against her, and the last one might be one of the real murderers.

This is Ren Qiao’s friend.

For a moment, she didn't know whether to say that people are evil or whether to feel sorry for Ren Qiao for meeting the wrong person.

However, neither she nor Guan Jiyue are likely to be the same type as Bai Xiaozhu.

She breathed a sigh of relief and no longer objected to the title. As she and Guan Jiyue walked toward the outside of the Ghost City Palace, she asked Guan Jiyue, "Guan Jiyue, do you know what kind of fate makes people want to be noticed, and that you have to live in the mountains until you are eighteen?"

Guan Jiyue frowned, her expression becoming more and more solemn: "In fact, there are many people with good fates in the world who will be coveted by others. Everyone wants a good fate, but there are not many good fates. Moreover, taking away someone's fate will damage one's virtue. Generally, only evil people will do it. But people with good fates are destined to be coveted. Especially some people with full fates. Once such people practice, they will make rapid progress. But the better the fate, the greater the flaws. My fate is that I cannot touch yin and yang before I was six years old, and I cannot touch too much evil spirits, otherwise it will break my fate. So I didn't learn yin and yang before I was six years old, and I didn't have the ability to kill ghosts. So when a ghost entered my house twenty years ago, Guan Xue..."

She didn't say anything else, but her expression became uglier and uglier, she clenched her palms tightly, and finally said, "Idiot!"

To be honest, there aren't many chapters about her and Guan Xue in the book. Jin Banwei didn't even know that Guan Xue was not Guan Jiyue's biological aunt. She only knew about her family's guardian deity through Leng Xiangying, not to mention how she survived in the first place.

She was not the kind of person who would make things difficult for others, so since Guan Jiyue didn't say anything, she tactfully didn't ask.

Seeing that Guan Jiyue's face was not looking good, Jin Banwei changed the subject. Her attention was gradually attracted to Guan Jiyue's arm, where there was a long claw mark, but the wound was healing little by little. Although not as good as Jin Banwei who now has the ghost recovery ability, it is obviously much better than ordinary people. If she was not mistaken, Guan Jiyue didn't even do any bleeding control.

She exclaimed: "Guan Jiyue, your physical fitness is so good, your wound heals so quickly."

Jin Banwei's sincere sigh made Guan Jiyue pale. She seemed to have touched some hidden pain point and quickly changed the subject.

"Regarding your question just now, I really don't know what kind of fate requires one to not leave the mountains before the age of eighteen, but there are many kinds of fates in the world, and there may be some that have not been recorded. It is normal for Ren Qiao to have a special fate because he is so strong."

She guessed that Jin Banwei was asking questions related to Ren Qiao, and Jin Banwei was not too surprised, after all, Guan Jiyue was a smart person.

Guan Jiyue suddenly stopped and pulled Jin Banwei: "Jin Banwei, that fox lady said something very interesting when she was mocking me just now. It might be useful to you."

"What?"

"She said that the girl, an ordinary person who had nothing to do with Yin and Yang, could beat them without any resistance, but I had so much talismans on my body that it was so difficult to even hurt her."

Jin Banwei was startled. She stared at Guan Jiyue in disbelief. Guan Jiyue also thought of the same thing as her: "In other words, your wife was an ordinary person when she was alive, not a Yin-Yang sorcerer."

A person who had never practiced martial arts defeated all the ghost kings in the ghost town and left them with an indelible psychological trauma, so that even someone as powerful as the Fox Lady would tremble in fear at the sight of a wisp of Ren Qiao's remaining soul.

This, how is this possible!

When Jin Banwei listened to Bai Xiaozhu's story, and heard that her branches could scare away evil wolves and suppress the ghost town alone, she almost assumed that although she had lived in the mountains for many years, she had practiced cultivation.

But it seems that is not the case.

If the power of ghosts can be said to come from resentment, then where does Yu Li, as a human being, get her power from if she has not practiced at all?

I can't understand it at all.

This was destined not to be a result that could be obtained by thinking alone, so Jin Banwei had no choice but to give up. After she and Guan Jiyue reunited with the ghost soldiers in the ghost town, they found that after the disappearance of Lady Fox and Bai Xiaozhu, the resistance consciousness of the ghosts in the city became weaker, and they even showed some expressions of joy and excitement.

They were not sad about the fox lady's death, and were even a little happy that the evil spirits that bullied them had disappeared.

Seeing them like this, Guan Jiyue was too lazy to disperse them. Her mentality had changed a lot. She no longer killed ghosts when she saw them. Of course, part of the reason was that there were at least thousands of ghosts in this city. It would take too long and too much energy to disperse all these ghosts. They also had to deal with the ghost king at the gate of life. Guan Jiyue was unwilling to waste time on this.

Because they were wounded, they needed time and place to recuperate. Besides, with the help of the Yin soldiers, they didn't need to travel by themselves. However, the exquisite sedan chair was blown up, so Jin Banwei could only fold a sedan chair out of paper, and then use the Yin Qi to make the palm-sized paper sedan chair able to accommodate two people.

However, this paper sedan is not painted, only pale white, which looks a bit unlucky, but since they have all experienced yin and yang, they don’t mind this bad luck.

When the ghost soldiers carried the sedan chair away, many weak ghosts in the ghost town actually bowed to them. Jin Banwei found it strange: "They seem to be very grateful to us."

"The fox lady marries once a year, and that evil ghost eats ghosts every day to increase his strength. We saved them, so they are naturally grateful to us."

Guan Jiyue's tone was still so cold, but it was rare that her attitude towards ghosts was the same as her attitude towards people. Jin Banwei looked at her with a smile: "Guan Jiyue, you are not going to kill ghosts?"

"I don't have a hobby of massacring a city."

Jin Banwei smiled. She leaned her head out of the sedan window and looked at the ghosts who were still pious and grateful. Suddenly she thought of something.

Although the system went into upgrade and became mute, she could still see the lottery panel. Jin Banwei looked at the ever-increasing good karma value on the panel...

Who knows! She seems to be getting rich!

——

They have been waiting for a long time.

Opposite them was a female ghost trapped in a white light curtain. The circular light curtain was holding black and red chains out of thin air. The chains precisely locked onto each of her bones, binding her tightly.

The restraints that penetrated her flesh made the female ghost scream in agony. Her palace dress was stained with blood, and there was a hideous scar on the tip of her eyebrow, which ran across her left eye. Her relatively good skin was also destroyed.

She only had one eye, but the black water that kept oozing out of that right eye and the black bugs that crawled out of it revealed her uniqueness and terror. Those eyes stared straight at the seven people standing outside the light curtain, as if she wanted to memorize the faces of each of them one by one.

Jiang Liluo had no doubt that once the female ghost broke free from the chains, she would kill them at all costs. It was a pity that she was destined to fail.

Jiang Liluo calmly shook the bell hanging on his waist and looked at the trapped female ghost with a smile: "What are you looking at? Believe it or not, I will kill you right now!"

"Your name." The female ghost raised her fingertips slightly, and a blade of light emerged from her fingertips, as if it was going to penetrate the light curtain and kill Jiang Liluo.

However, the light blade was still blocked by the light curtain. She sneered and didn't care, but still stared at Jiang Liluo.

Such a dangerous look made Jiang Liluo feel a little scared. She subconsciously stroked the bell hanging around her waist. The faint spiritual power from the bell penetrated into her body. Her heart slowly calmed down. She smiled a little colder: "My name is Jiang Liluo, what's your name?"

The female ghost stopped talking. She secretly memorized Jiang Liluo's name and closed her eyes silently.

Above her head was a hole emitting white light, which was the way out.

This female ghost is the ghost king trapped in the Qinglong Daosheng Gate.

She was ignored.

The pattern on Jiang Liluo's face darkened a little: "Let me ask you, your name!"

No matter how angry she was, the female ghost still ignored her. Jiang Liluo took a step forward unwillingly, but was grabbed by the arm by the person next to her: "Don't be impulsive, she might be the Ghost Emperor."

The person who grabbed Jiang Liluo was in her early twenties, had a sweet look, and was wearing a goose yellow long skirt with some bloodstains on the hem.

She was very thin, but very strong. Jiang Li Luo was dragged and couldn't move a step.

Jiang Liluo was a little impatient: "Chen Yitao, don't be so timid. How could she be the Ghost Emperor? The Ghost Emperor should appear on the road of Niutou. No matter how strong Lu Tong is, can he be stronger than Niutou?"

This girl is the daughter of the Shen family, the most powerful ghost catcher family. She is calmer and more sober than Jiang Liluo. She still holds Jiang Liluo tightly: "But Niutou gave his power to the other two ghost messengers. Have you forgotten? That ghost said that the Ghost Emperor is an old woman with charm. The most obvious sign is that she has only one eye. The Ghost King has already caused us to lose three people. Don't forget that we are not really here to kill ghosts. We can't lose people for killing ghosts. She is now tied up by the sky lock of the Four Symbols and Eight Diagrams Formation, but if you get close to the light curtain, the sky lock will disappear, and then we will all die."

Jiang Liluo was stunned for a moment, but she still broke free from Shen Yitao's hand, but she did not get closer to the light curtain.

"There's no point in waiting like this, right? Sooner or later we have to deal with this ghost, otherwise how are we going to get out?"

"It's okay. We still have Sister Ji Yue in Qinglong Dao."

Jiang Liluo felt even more unhappy after hearing her words: "You believe in her ability, but she hasn't come for so long, maybe she died in the hands of their main ghost king."

Shen Yitao shook her head disapprovingly. Her voice was soft but firm: "Sister Ji Yue is very strong."

Her words were full of praise for Guan Jiyue, which made the other six people including Jiang Liluo feel uncomfortable. The man standing behind her suddenly raised his voice sharply and piercingly: "She is strong, but she has a burden with her."

The burden he was referring to was naturally Jin Banwei.

Shen Yitao ignored him, but turned his head and looked at the young man who was tossing the palm spirit paper, and asked curiously: "Brother Lin, the girl who followed Sister Ji Yue into the main gate of Qinglong seems to be a paper-making master. Do you also think she is weak?"

"A nameless person, not worth mentioning." Lin Jinpeng flipped his ten fingers, and soon he folded the spiritual paper into a bunch of paper roses. Blood beads appeared on his fingertips, and the blood beads covered the roses, and the paper roses turned red. He eagerly held it to Shen Yitao: "Sister Yitao, this is for you to defend yourself."

"Flashy." Jiang Liluo's sarcastic tone made Lin Jinpeng frown. He glanced at the pattern on Jiang Liluo's face with interest, and slowly lowered his eyes.

However, a bamboo sword belonging to the paper-making master had appeared in the palm of his hand, and a faint black gas was coming out of the tip of the bamboo sword, as if it was poisoned.

The people here are very thoughtful. In the original book, they were able to unite against the same enemy simply because Guan Jiyue fell into a desperate situation, which made everyone see the opportunity to plunder wealth. But now they have not formed a united front and they all have their own thoughts and calculations.

Jiang Liluo naturally saw his little action, she just calmly touched the pattern on her face, her smile becoming brighter and brighter.

Suddenly, the sound of orderly footsteps was heard.

One sound overlapped another, like a well-trained army marching. This was definitely not a sound that could be made by just two people.

Jiang Liluo narrowed his eyes and looked towards the main gate of Qinglong. The soul-shaking sound came from there.

"Ghost soldiers!" Shen Yitao was the first to see the situation clearly, and his round eyes quickly found something wrong: "There are also ghost generals. Those ghost generals seem to have paper bodies. This is the method of the paper-making master."

As the hundreds of ghost soldiers moved forward, they finally saw the sedan chair carried by the ghost soldiers, in which sat Jin Banwei and Guan Jiyue.

The one who led the way for them was a Yin general with three ghost patterns.

Jiang Liluo glanced at Lin Jinpeng with a sarcastic smile: "Is this what you call a waste? A nobody? Do you have the ability to control so many ghost soldiers and generals? If I remember correctly, someone almost exhausted himself after summoning two ghost soldiers just now."

Lin Jinpeng was a little embarrassed, and more of it was confusion: "This doesn't make sense, her aura is clearly very weak, how could she mobilize so many ghost soldiers and generals!"

"Look at her eyes." They all looked in the direction Shen Yitao was pointing. Jin Banwei's eyes were no longer as black as before, but turned blood red, so bright red that it seemed as if blood would flow out at the next moment.

Those are the eyes of a ghost.

"No wonder, she is a ghost." Lin Jinpeng felt that he had regained his dignity. He rushed towards Guan Jiyue and the others: "Guan Jiyue, you actually associated with ghosts, I will teach you a lesson!"

Guan Jiyue didn't even raise her eyelids. Jin Banwei nodded her forehead in surprise and shouted with a headache: "General Yin, listen to my orders!"

Just as Lin Jinpeng rushed to the sedan, a pair of hands grabbed his ankles and pulled him hard, throwing him out. He fell heavily to the ground, and the one who did it was the Yin general with three ghost patterns.

Jiang Liluo curled his lips in contempt: "Idiot, you don't have the foresight to see this. It's obvious that the ghost king who was with her lent her the power."

Lin Jinpeng covered his leg and wailed in pain, "How is this possible? How can a ghost lend its power to a human? Unless they are connected by blood, and the ghost voluntarily gives its soul to a living person, even if she is the ghost king, she can't just lend her soul to anyone!"

No matter how shocked he was, most people obviously agreed with Jiang Liluo's statement. After all, how could Jin Banwei, who was still a human on the ground just now, turn into a ghost next to Guan Jiyue.

Shen Yitao rushed to the front of the sedan even faster. Seeing that she had no ill intentions, Jin Banwei did not let General Yin block her.

Shen Yitao came to them smoothly, blinking her big black and white eyes, looking at Jin Banwei with envy: "Oh, sister can actually let the ghost king lend you his power, how did you do that? Is it a new type of soul-stealing technique? Can you teach me? I also want to have the power of a ghost."

"This is not soul-controlling." Jin Banwei's face looked a little ugly. Although the girl in front of him had a sweet smile on her face, it was not difficult to hear from her words that ghosts were just tools in her eyes. She was the ghost catcher who could control ghosts as Guan Jiyue mentioned.

It's not surprising. After all, in the original book, she was also part of a group that used all means to kill the heroine. She was so cruel to humans, let alone ghosts.

Guan Jiyue was more indifferent than her. She grabbed Shen Yitao by the collar and threw her out: "Don't come near me."

Shen Yitao is not Lin Jinpeng. Although she was thrown out by Guan Jiyue, she just turned beautifully in the air and landed steadily on the ground. Even her smile did not disappear. She said in a sweet and soft voice: "Sister Jiyue is so ruthless. I have always liked you and wanted to be friends with you."