Ye Qingqing had only asked casually, thinking that Li Wuming was a once-in-a-century feng shui genius and might know something. Who would have thought that she would stumble upon such a lucky coincidence? This guy actually knew.

"The portrait isn't with me. Do you know what this vengeful ghost transference is?"

Li Wuming sneered, "I know this all too well. This is a trick that Yin Laogui often uses. Only he knows it. Your cousin was tricked by this old ghost."

"It really was him. And who is that girl? She has an oval face and willow-leaf eyebrows, and she looks so pitiful. My cousin said that after he came into contact with this girl, he started to lose control of his emotions." Ye Qingqing gritted her teeth, cold sweat seeping from her back, and she felt even more guilty.

She also blamed Sang Liangjie for harming Gu Nianci, but in fact, Sang Liangjie was implicated by her. Yin Laogui must have been unable to do anything to her, so he took his anger out on the people around her!

Li Wuming frowned, uncertainly saying, "It's most likely my senior sister Ji Wuxin, but this woman is skilled at disguise. She always has a new face when she goes on a mission. However, there is one thing she can't hide: a black mole under the corner of her mouth, right here."

He gestured to the corner of his mouth, and Ye Qingqing immediately confirmed it, saying resentfully, "Yes, the woman my cousin met does have a mole. Is she your senior sister?"

Li Wuming sneered, "This woman is nominally the senior sister, but in reality she is Yin Laogui's lover. Yin Laogui's most trusted disciple is her, and she is not young, at least sixty years old."

Ye Qingqing was taken aback. Looking at Sang Liangjie's portrait, the woman looked to be at most in her twenties. How could she be so much younger?

"How old is that Yin Laogui?" Ye Qingqing asked curiously.

Li Wuming shook his head, "I don't know exactly how old he was, but when the Boxers entered Beijing, this old devil was already able to roam all over the city."

Ye Xunmei calculated with her fingers and said, "The Boxers entered Beijing in 1903, which is ninety-three years ago. Even if the old ghost was seven years old at the time, he would be over a hundred years old, quite old."

“He’s much younger than you, head held high, full of energy, at most in his early forties,” Ye Qingqing retorted, leaving Ye Xunmei and Miao Tianxiang both shocked.

“Impossible. This doesn’t conform to the laws of nature. No matter how well a centenarian is maintained, it’s impossible for them to look like they are in their forties.” Ye Xunmei firmly refused to believe it.

He's considered to be well-maintained, but his energy is clearly waning, and it's getting worse year by year. This year he's noticed several gray hairs and a few more wrinkles, and he believes there will be even more next year.

But he's not even seventy yet!

Li Wuming nodded and said, "It is indeed against the laws of nature, so Yin Laogui went against the heavens and borrowed someone else's life to prolong his own!"

"What do you mean by borrowing a life to extend one's life? You can borrow a life?" Ye Qingqing didn't understand.

"This is a long-lost evil art that uses drugs and spells to transfer the lifespan of young adults to oneself, but it will be greatly reduced. Even if the person whose life is borrowed can live another fifty or sixty years, the Yin Old Ghost can only use it for ten years at most, or even less. Moreover, the more times life is borrowed, the more lifespan is lost."

Li Wuming paused for a moment before continuing to explain, "Those whose lives are borrowed suffer endless torment and pain in their lifetime, and become vengeful ghosts after death. They must vent all their resentment before they can be reincarnated. The Yin Old Ghost will then transfer the vengeful ghost to someone else, and remain unharmed himself."

Over the years, the Yin Old Ghost has been borrowing lives more and more often. Each time, he would ask Ji Wuxin to find someone, mostly a young and strong man. After death, the body would be disposed of and the vengeful ghost would be transferred to someone else. He knew of no less than five such people.