Ma Chunhua sidled up to Ruan Bei, pretending to grab him while giving him meaningful glances, her eyes practically twitching from blinking so much.
Ruan Bei whispered to Mao Xiaoqian to help him block the attack. Mao Xiaoqian didn't understand why, but having heard him shout earlier, he cooperated and blocked the other attacking evil spirits.
Ruan Bei opened the Yu'an umbrella to let Ma Chunhua in, while blocking the view of the other ghosts.
Ma Chunhua didn't dare to delay and quickly began to speak: "Although Chen Baogen is my younger brother's son, I don't know his family at all, and I didn't ask Chen Baogen to harm your father..."
“I know, just tell me directly, who contacted Chen Baogen?” Ruan Bei asked anxiously.
"It's a woman! Although she's not a Taoist master, I feel she's a cultivator as well."
Ma Chunhua tried hard to recall the person's appearance: "They looked quite old, probably in their forties or fifties. They were of average appearance and didn't seem to care much about their appearance; they weren't even wearing lipstick, and their complexion was poor..."
"Get to the point!" Ruan Bei's temples throbbed with veins: "Just describe what she looks like, without adding your subjective opinions."
Ma Chunhua shrank her neck and muttered under her breath, "That's what I was going to say... Appearance... Oval face, double eyelids, fairly big eyes, straight eyebrows, very ordinary mouth and nose, just like an average person..."
Ruan Bei felt a headache coming on; how was he supposed to find someone?
"Do you have dimples? Do you have a mole? Do you have any distinctive features?" Ruan Bei asked as she took out her phone and flipped through the photos of Lu Sibai in the trash can that she had saved in her album.
Unfortunately, it was dark, and Lu Sibai's face was bruised and swollen. He managed to find the clearest picture of his face to show Ma Chunhua: "Do you think he looks like him?"
"No dimples or moles..." Ma Chunhua muttered, peeking at Ruan Bei's phone. After seeing it clearly, she immediately looked disgusted: "Who is this? Why is he sleeping in the trash can? It's so filthy..."
"Okay, don't look at me, I just looked... Hey, it really does look a bit like them, especially the eyebrows and eyes, they really do look alike..."
Ruan Bei casually slapped a lightning talisman onto a ghost that had bypassed Mao Xiaoqian and was rushing towards him. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw that the ghost had been blown in half, and the remaining half was snatched up by its ghost companions.
His hands kept moving, but his mind was on Ma Chunhua's words. He and Qin Gu had guessed before that his father was being targeted because of Lu Sibai, and now it was confirmed.
The problem is that just identifying the person isn't enough; they still haven't found out who Lu Sibai's biological parents are. After the hospital ghost extermination incident, there has been no further news about Lu Sibai and his biological parents.
"Is there really no distinguishing mark? Or name?" Ruan Bei asked as he spoke, his short sword flashing as he thrust it out, each strike landing on a severely wounded ghost.
"Let me think... Oh right, that woman had a deep scar on her right palm, stretching almost from the base of her thumb to her wrist."
This injury looks like you've grabbed a sharp blade with your bare hands.
Finally, some useful information arrived, and Ruan Bei quickly noted it down.
"Is there anything else?" Ruan Bei couldn't help but ask.
Ma Chunhua racked her brains, but there was really nothing more she could reveal, so she simply described the scene to Ruan Bei.
Back then, she followed Chen Baogen and unexpectedly discovered that someone was paying a lot of money to get Chen Baogen to help them with things, so Ma Chunhua couldn't stand seeing her younger brother doing well.
Her brother Ma Chunsheng was dead, and her nephew Chen Baogen was a scoundrel, which pleased her. But wouldn't a scoundrel turn his life around with money?
Ma Chunhua wanted to see which fool had come to Chen Baogen, and hoped she could ruin the whole thing for him.
Chen Baogen wouldn't act until he saw the money; he insisted on cash before doing anything. When the man was about to pay, he managed to avoid Chen Baogen, but he couldn't avoid Ma Chunhua.
Ma Chunhua chased after the woman and found the one who contacted Chen Baogen and asked him to stab Ruan Bei's father to death.
"At first glance, I knew he was a cultivator, but probably not a Celestial Master. I didn't sense he was very powerful, so I didn't dare get close and just looked at him from a distance outside the window."
Ma Chunhua said, "I also heard her on the phone, yelling so loudly. She said something like, 'You owe me. If I fall, you won't get away with it either,' or something like that."
She has accomplices!
If this woman is Lu Sibai's mother, she doesn't sound like Lu Sibai's father on the phone. Otherwise, she wouldn't have said anything about owing or not. She could have just said that her son is also hers and she can't just ignore him.
Is there anything else?
"It's all gone, it's really all gone..."
"Xiao Bei, stop nagging and come help! We can't hold on any longer!" Mao Xiaoqian cleaved through the endless stream of attacking ghosts with his sword, his wrist trembling slightly as he held the sword.
Ruan Bei rushed over to help him, and called out to Ma Chunhua, "Why don't you come with me?" It would be best if she could help him identify Lu Sibai's mother.
Ma Chunhua's heart fluttered for a moment. This guy was so easy to bully back then, and he's good-looking and very kind and gentle to girls. She wouldn't be at a loss if she followed him.
However, before this thought could take hold, a figure flashed through her mind, and her arm started to hurt again.
The physical injury had actually healed long ago; her trauma was psychological!
Forget it, forget it, I can't afford to mess with them.
Ma Chunhua waved her hands repeatedly: "Let me go, I've told you everything I know."
She was really unlucky; she heard from an acquaintance that the Ghost General had a mission: to kill a few human brats.
Ma Chunhua thought to herself, "They've brought hundreds of ghosts. Those few little brats wouldn't even be enough for one ghost to eat. I'll just mingle among them and get some benefits afterward. I'm so happy."
As a result, a bunch of ferocious enemy ghosts are blocking the way, and if they lose, they will be eaten.
Behind them were Ruan Bei and his group of "easy-to-deal-with" brats, each one ruthless in killing ghosts, even the fair-skinned little girl was quite fierce.
Ma Chunhua felt that she was in a very difficult situation. Fortunately, she had some connections with Ruan Bei, and she had said everything she could. She asked Ruan Bei to spare her life.
Ruan Bei was somewhat unwilling and hesitated whether to forcibly arrest Ma Chunhua.
Ma Chunhua was quite adept at bullying the weak and fearing the strong. Seeing that Ruan Bei's expression was not right, she immediately pledged her loyalty, saying, "I'll be your undercover agent. If there's any news in the future, I'll definitely keep an eye out for you and then tell you."
Ruan Bei was tempted. Although he could command ghosts, he would directly destroy evil ghosts, and he couldn't bear to let the ghosts he could befriend do anything particularly dangerous.
The previous incident led back to the Underworld Ghost King. Although he fled, his territory remains, and most of his subordinates are still in the Ghost King Forest. Ma Chunhua's presence among them might have a surprising effect.
"Fine then." Ruan Bei saw through her and threatened fiercely, "Let me tell you, if you dare to lie to me, I'll... that Celestial Master who avenged me last time, if he can find you once, he can find you a second time. Also, I've joined a particularly powerful sect. My senior brother is the director of the Special Affairs Bureau. Do you know the Special Affairs Bureau?"
"I know, I know..." How could she not know? He's a high-ranking official! Ma Chunhua was already starting to regret not agreeing to follow Ruan Bei.
"So if I find out you're hiding something from me, even if you're hiding in Ghost King Forest, I can still find you, believe me?"
"I believe you..." Ma Chunhua said with a mournful face. She had just lied to Ruan Bei by saying that she was going to be an undercover agent for him. She had shot herself in the foot. She had already said it. If she didn't do anything practical and Ruan Bei thought she was lying to him, how could she be okay?
"Alright, that's settled then," Ruan Bei said. "I'll block the way, you find a chance to slip away from the side."
As he spoke, he opened the Yu'an umbrella, and the ghosts who had suffered losses all hid. Ma Chunhua took the opportunity to run behind Ruan Bei, but was blocked by Ruan Bei and his group, and slipped into the woods next to them.
Having released Ma Chunhua, Ruan Bei focused on dealing with the ghosts when a faint voice suddenly came from beside him: "So your senior brother is the director of the Special Affairs Bureau..."
Ruan Bei was startled. He turned his head and saw Mao Xiaoqian looking mournful.
Ruan Bei chuckled twice, and seeing that Jiao Yan's team wasn't very close to him, he whispered, "Otherwise, where do you think I got my information from?"
Mao Xiaoqian choked. He had originally wanted to take this opportunity to cause trouble, but now it seemed that they had already benefited from it.
On second thought, what kind of kid did he just pick up? He's not only awesome himself, but his background is also so awesome. So, he must have had incredibly good luck and foresight to have picked up Ruan Bei.
That's right, that's exactly it.
Mao Xiaoqian praised himself, and his mind suddenly became clear.
The battle was incredibly long; the ghosts were difficult to kill in one go. Severed arms and legs would grow back in no time as long as there was replenishment of yin energy.
This group of outside ghosts is numerous, and most of them are extremely vicious and powerful. Ma Chunhua, a scoundrel, is a minority. Who knew that she would still be a useless ghost after being a ghost for decades?
The group of ghosts sent by Jiao Xun later was probably a temporary assembly, and their numbers were smaller than those of the outsiders. They only had the advantage of being local, and local ghosts would occasionally intervene to help them and even block the ghosts.
Ruan Bei and his group used every means at their disposal, but their spiritual energy was drained several times, and in the end they could only take turns fighting.
They wanted to run, but how could they outrun ghosts? If the ghosts sent by Jiao Xun failed to catch up, they would have to face the pursuing ghost horde alone again. It would be better to cooperate and fight a great battle here.
Ruan Bei had also taken several rounds of rest, and he couldn't wait for his spiritual energy to fully recover before he had to go back into battle. He had the Yu'an Umbrella and various talismans, and he could last longer than his companions in each round.
Even so, when Ruan Bei reached into his waist pouch again and found nothing, he paused and activated the talisman on Yu'an Umbrella.
The Thunder Talisman Formation was used twice more: once when Zhou Xin fell and a group of evil spirits pounced on him, and once when Lao Bai was injured and Yin Kai went to save him.
Ruan Bei once again experienced the feeling of his spiritual energy being completely drained, leaving his meridians with a dull ache.
Not only were they fighting, but the two ghost generals were also engaged in a fierce battle. At the beginning, they were evenly matched, but Jiao Xun, taking advantage of the terrain, grew stronger and stronger, and dominated Liu Hai, the ghost general.
Strangely, even after being beaten like this, Liu Hai still stubbornly held on.
Ruan Bei and the others were all hoping that Jiao Xun would win the battle soon, so that the remaining ghosts would have no choice but to retreat with their ghost general.
After fighting for an unknown amount of time, the horde of ghosts in front of him seemed to have dwindled. Just as Ruan Bei relaxed slightly, a huge ghostly figure suddenly appeared in the distance.
Jiao Yan's face turned pale, and Ruan Bei also sensed something was wrong; these were not the two ghost generals they had just seen.
So, is this newly arrived ghost general friend or foe...?
The answer to this question came quickly, as Jiao Xun, the Ghost General, roared deafeningly: "Liu Hai, you cheated!"
Liu Hai, the Ghost General, laughed heartily: "Weng Xing, you've come at the right time! Come and give your brother a hand... Bye-bye..."
"Holy crap..." Mao Xiaoqian was so shocked he almost dropped his peach wood sword, and Ruan Bei and the others also looked up.
Behind the ghostly figure that had just appeared, there was an even larger ghostly figure, tens of meters tall, that blotted out the sky.
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