Looking at the unharmed evil ghost, Gu Zhou was speechless. He turned to look at Qi Jing behind him and said, "What's going on? It doesn't make sense at all."

"He carries the destiny of the nation, and the way of heaven is protecting him. He cannot be killed." Qi Jing explained, revealing half of his head to look at the evil ghost. "Well, if you are so powerful, why do you help those evil cultivators to steal the bodies of living people and even exchange their lives for theirs?"

The evil ghost raised an eyebrow, "Come here, I'll tell you."

Qi Jing shook his head. He didn't really want to go over there.

Gu Zhou also refused and hid Qi Jing behind him again, holding a mantra talisman in his hand.

The evil ghost remained calm and said, "Your little bit of Taoism is useless to me."

Gu Zhou glanced at his own mantra talisman and decisively put it away. He then took out a mantra talisman painted by Qi Jing and several thunder talismans, and asked, "How about trying this?"

The evil ghost frowned, and after seeing the talismans clearly, he glared at Qi Jing. He opened his mouth to speak, but then closed it for some reason and turned his gaze to the courtyard on the other side.

Gu Zhou and Qi Jing also looked over. It was still a bit far away, but they couldn't sense anything. On the contrary, the biggest problem was the lack of any aura.

Gu Zhou raised his eyebrows, grabbed the red rope and pulled the evil ghost over, then took out a handful of talismans and gave them to Jiaojiao, "Watch them."

Jiaojiao felt it was too hot, so she threw it directly to Huo Yuanqi, and stayed where she was without chasing after him.

Qi Jing followed behind Gu Zhou, glancing at the evil ghost intentionally or unintentionally. It really looked familiar.

Similarly, the evil ghost would look back at Qi Jing from time to time, with a bit of suspicion, but did not take the initiative to say anything.

Pushing open the door of the outer courtyard, dozens of talismans flew towards him. Gu Zhou raised his hand and swung his sword, easily cutting them down.

Gu Zhou handed the red rope to Qi Jing and said, "Don't let it run away."

Qi Jing nodded, led the evil ghost and followed. As soon as they stepped into the yard, they were trapped in the formation and surrounded by more than a dozen wooden puppets.

Gu Zhou raised his eyebrows, "Puppeteer? He hasn't appeared in the world for two or three hundred years."

Qi Jing looked at the wooden figures and reminded them, "Your cultivation level is quite high."

"Small problem." Gu Zhou's fingers brushed across the blade, and traces of blood were absorbed by the blade.

As a red light suddenly appeared, Gu Zhou stepped forward with his sword, slashing left and right. In just a few minutes, he had reduced all the wooden puppets to ashes.

Gu Zhou put away his knife and turned back, "Do you think I'm so handsome?"

He feels particularly good about himself now. Although it is thanks to Gu Xuanyi, it is still pretty good that he can be so powerful just by relying on his memory.

Qi Jing hesitated for a moment and then immediately clapped his hands and praised, "Amazing! So cool!"

The evil ghost showed a look of disgust, leaned close to Qi Jing's ear and asked, "Don't you feel guilty praising him like that?"

"Why does it hurt?" Qi Jing asked back, "Isn't he handsome and powerful?"

The evil ghost commented, "But he can't beat me. Isn't it because I'm more powerful and handsome? I'm also the prince."

"But you are dead. Although I can't kill you, I can still catch you." Qi Jing analyzed objectively. It was Gu Xuanyi's residual consciousness before, so naturally he couldn't defeat this thousand-year-old evil ghost, which was the kind that protected the country's destiny.

The evil ghost shook his head, "I'm very curious, a being more powerful than Gu Xuanyi, how many years have you lived?"

This sentence made Qi Jing and Gu Zhou alert. Gu Zhou stepped forward and pulled Qi Jing to his side, pointing the blade directly at the evil ghost, "Does the genius understand?"

The evil ghost sneered and looked at Qi Jing meaningfully, "You know whether it is true or not, but you'd better hurry up, otherwise the soul-changing ceremony will begin."

Almost at the moment the words fell, Qi Jing and Gu Zhou both sensed a hint of something unusual.

Gu Zhou didn't have time to do anything else and quickly pulled Qi Jing in.

Qi Jing was still holding the red rope in his hand, and the evil ghost was pulled over along with it.

Kicking open the door of the main house, Gu Zhou saw a middle-aged man sitting cross-legged with his hands clasped together, chanting a spell, and a pale young man lying in front of him.

Gu Zhou immediately let go of Qi Jing and was about to go over to disrupt the ceremony, but the moment he got close, two figures rushed out from the darkness.

There were two old Taoist priests. Qi Jing recognized one of them. He had seen his photo at Qi Jun's place before. His name was Xie Shaoyun.

Qi Jing knew at a glance that the other Taoist priest had his body taken away, but Xie Shaoyun was still Xie Shaoyun.

So was Xie Shaoyun bewitched?

While Qi Jing was doubting, the two Taoists had already started fighting with Gu Zhou. Although they were quite old, their movements were extremely agile.

Qi Jing wanted to go over to help, but after looking at the evil ghost beside him, he gave up. This evil ghost was more troublesome than these three.

Gu Zhou was not struggling against two people at once, but he was unable to free himself to destroy the soul-swapping technique.

Just when Gu Zhou was hesitating whether to use his ultimate move, Xie Shaoyun's move made a 180-degree turn and he killed the other person with a backhand move.

Gu Zhou suddenly retracted the knife he had swung and looked at Xie Shaoyun with a strange look.

Xie Shaoyun ignored him and turned back to attack the person who cast the spell.

With great hatred, Xie Shaoyun chopped down with his peach wood sword, but it bounced away. His body hit the wall heavily and fell down again, spitting out a mouthful of blood. It seemed that he was seriously injured.

Qi Jing took a look and said to Gu Zhou, "It's an anti-injury talisman! You researched it!"

Gu Zhou felt heartbroken again, and suddenly wondered why Gu Xuanyi was studying these messy things for no reason.

He sighed, took out a piece of talisman paper and threw it away.

The talisman paper touched the protective barrier around the man and exploded with a bang. At the same time, the red rope in Qi Jing's hand loosened, and a burst of black mist flew out, wrapping the young man completely and blocking the damage caused by the explosion.

Gu Zhou raised his hand and stepped back, but the middle-aged man fell backwards, supported himself on the ground and spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Your Highness! Kill them all! I can still perform the soul-swapping technique once more!"

The man shouted and hurriedly sat up to cast a spell again, but the evil ghost called His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ignored the man's words, instead grabbed the man's neck and threw him at Qi Jing's feet.

The man was caught off guard and spat out a large mouthful of blood again. He suddenly looked at the evil ghost standing in front of the boy, "You! You..."

"You are so useless." The evil ghost was disgusted and sat down on the ground in a rude manner, his eyes lightly falling on Qi Jing.

The evil ghost said, "I'm easy to talk to. As long as you can exchange Xiao Qi's life for his, and let him live well in this life, I will agree to any request."

Gu Zhou held the knife to the man's neck, half of his body blocking Qi Jing, "What if we don't want to?"

"It's very simple. After you snatched back your fate last time, I released a group of puppets and scattered them all over the place. When the midnight hour comes, without my orders, those puppets will slaughter indiscriminately. How many people Xuanmen can save at that time will not be decided by me."

The evil ghost said lightly, then took out a brocade bag from his waist and said, "If you promise, I will return these souls to you."