I'm just being clever. I'm used to using ghost energy.

Why are you acting like you're going to die heroically just because you listen to me? I won't take the blame for this!

"Old Wei, what do you mean? Are you going to hang yourself?"

"Old man, I suddenly want to give it a try! Perhaps my previous failures were all because I wanted to survive too much, to continue protecting this bureau too much. How can a person who is afraid of death win?"

Old Wei suddenly became bolder and stuffed a chicken leg into his mouth, patting Jiang Chen's shoulder with his greasy hands.

Jiang Chen jumped up and rubbed his clothes distressedly: "What are you doing, old man? This is a Uniqlo item I just changed a few years ago, it's all greasy."

"Hahaha!" Old Wei finally "won" once and laughed heartily.

“…”

"Boy, do you want to hear my story?" After he calmed down, he started talking while stuffing rice into his mouth.

"Not really. I'm only interested in stories about dead people." Jiang Chen refused.

Uncle Wei sat a little further away from him: "You kid is definitely a pervert."

"But in a sense, I, an old man, can also be considered a dead man..."

As soon as these words were spoken.

Jiang Chen immediately looked over with shining eyes.

Old Wei felt a little uncomfortable being stared at by him, but he still spoke with a look of nostalgia in his eyes.

"When I was young, there was war and chaos. My family fled all the way from Nanchuan to Jiangbei. I had a few small things at home, so I didn't suffer too much."

"After coming here, my father and his brothers built up a family business by performing exorcisms and exorcising ghosts for others."

"But one time, he went out to perform a ritual for someone, and came back at night carrying a coffin. A fierce ghost with blood-red clothes wiped out our entire family."

"Someone helped me escape, but I didn't get away in the end."

"My father seemed to have offended that blood-robed ghost. After killing people, it stayed around and waited for my uncles to turn into ghosts before killing them again."

"I didn't want to die willingly either. I just became a ghost and the moment I turned around, I was targeted by that blood-stained creature."

"At that time, a woman came walking down the horse path outside. She was wearing ancient clothes, a green dress."

"I told her to run, but she came towards me with a soft smile. That smile was so warm, just like my mother's."

"The woman waved her hand, and the blood-robed ghost that had left our family stranded and unable to escape death was torn apart."

"She told me that she was Zhao Qingyi."

"I begged her to kill me too. I've been exposed to Taoism since I was a child, and I know that after becoming a ghost, after six or seven days, I'll become a monster completely controlled by obsession!"

"She smiled and said she was a ghost too and that I was pretty good."

"Then she became my master, and I became a ghost cultivator."

"Do you know what a ghost cultivator is?"

"Using the body of a ghost, I cultivate human thoughts."

"In essence, we don't feel like ghosts, we just feel like dead people."

"We use the memories and thoughts of our past lives to suppress the resentment and madness of our potential, thus achieving a certain balance."

"This is very difficult. Many people are completely consumed by resentment the moment they become ghosts."

"I've been with Master for a long time, but I've never seen a ghost cultivator."

"After I had completed my studies, she said she was going to take care of an important matter and entrusted me to the previous King of Chujiang."

"I haven't seen her since."

"I went out to train with the disciples of King Chujiang."

"At that time, the Netherworld was gradually reaching its peak, and the Dao Alliance, once the sole overlord of the Nine Provinces' strange people world, was declining."

"When we arrived in Jiangbei City, we saw the corruption of the Dao League's exorcists. The personnel stationed in a certain place would decide who to exorcise first based on how much money they were paid. Some poor families were even directly abandoned."