Days without classes always pass quickly. After dinner, Li Muhao sat in the living room, staring at the clock on the wall.
As the time approached 10:30, Li Muhao's heart clenched, and he became restless, his palms sweating as he wrote spell incantations on the paper in his hand.
At that moment, the originally bright and clear night sky was suddenly obscured by thick, dark clouds. A few minutes later, gusts of wind blew, causing the branches of trees outside the window to sway and crack from time to time, as if they were about to break at any moment.
Lightning flashed intermittently across the dark sky, and bursts of thunder seemed to drive away the crowds strolling on the streets. Soon, a gale-force wind mixed with raindrops howled down onto the earth, and within seconds, the entire city was shrouded in a curtain of rain.
"Brother, that little girl has never used lightning magic before, has she?"
His concerns were not unfounded, because most wandering ghosts fear lightning the most, and the power of lightning magic is greatly enhanced during thunderstorms.
The elder brother in the duo looked at the flashes of lightning and became somewhat worried. At the same time, the four vengeful spirits hidden in the copper coin seemed to sense the change in the weather outside and became restless.
One of the skeletal ghosts, with its hair disheveled, grabbed two wild ghosts and swallowed them whole, as if only in this way could she feel at ease.
The only saving grace was that the more than three hundred wild ghosts seemed unable to sense the thunderstorm outside through the copper coin space and did not panic.
"I don't think so. She only relied on that powerful magic artifact and freezing spells, otherwise we would have taken her down last time."
Indeed, Xiao Yanbao had not used any lightning-attribute spells in front of them, but the two of them were unaware of it.
It's not that Xiao Yanbao doesn't know lightning-attribute spells, but rather that he hasn't had the opportunity to use them. After all, under Jiang Li's tutelage, almost all three thousand Daoist techniques already exist in Xiao Yanbao's mind.
Upon hearing his elder brother mention ice magic, the younger brother, who had been extremely worried, breathed a slight sigh of relief. Although ice magic was enhanced in rainy weather, it was fine as long as it wasn't lightning-based, since lightning magic was the only nemesis of ghosts.
With only ten minutes left until midnight, the two brothers immediately got out of the car, not even bothering to put on their raincoats, and went straight to the grove of trees where they had taken shelter earlier in the heavy rain.
Fortunately, the forest was in a low-lying area with tall trees nearby; otherwise, the two brothers would probably have been struck by lightning before they even released the wild ghost from the copper coin.
Meanwhile, in the living room of Li Qirui's villa at the Li family home.
Li Muxing, the eldest brother who was watching TV in the living room, noticed that his third brother was looking around and his mind was clearly not on the TV. He thought that his brother had gotten into some trouble, so he frowned and asked him.
"What's wrong? You look so nervous. Did you do something bad?"
Li Muhao had no time to answer his older brother's question. The time Xiao Yanbao had mentioned was fast approaching, and Xiao Yanbao hadn't arrived yet. If a ghost came later, would he have to go catch it all by himself?
But I haven't learned anything yet, so how can I take a piece of paper full of formulas like a speech draft and give a speech to a ghost?
When Li Muxing saw that his third brother did not answer him, he was about to speak again when the living room door was pushed open from the outside.
"Hello, big brother and third brother!"
The person who arrived was none other than Xiao Yanbao, whom Li Muhao had been longing for. The moment he saw Xiao Yanbao, Li Muhao felt as if he had seen a savior. He was truly afraid that Xiao Yanbao would not come and that he would have to face those wild ghosts.
Just as Xiao Yanbao opened the door, it was midnight. As Ye Ming, who was standing in front of the Li family patriarch's window gazing into the distance, gently snapped his fingers, the Li family manor and the nearby residents all fell asleep.
When Li Muhao, who was standing with Xiao Yanbao, saw his older brother Li Muxing suddenly lower his head, he quickly went over and gently pushed Li Muxing's body.
"It's alright, he's just asleep. Otherwise, it would be hard to explain if someone saw you catching ghosts!"
Upon hearing Xiao Yanbao's explanation, Li Muhao seemed to understand. He then carefully approached Xiao Yanbao, holding a piece of white paper covered with pinyin in one hand and pointing to the rain outside the door with the other.
"A ghost has arrived?"
"Yes, the ghost you were pointing at is now looking at you."
Xiao Yanbao thought her third brother, Li Muhao, would be scared again, but to her surprise, Li Muhao perked up immediately when he heard that a ghost was watching him, and raised the white paper in his hand as if to threaten the ghost.
"retreat!"
Xiao Yanbao raised his hand to his forehead, looking as if he didn't recognize the other person. Meanwhile, the duo who were using the copper coin magic artifact to observe the situation inside the Li family manor discovered that most of the Li family members had fallen into a deep sleep.
Before they could figure out what was going on, they saw a boy who looked like a middle school student holding a piece of white paper and scolding the skeletal female ghost that had just entered the manor. The two of them immediately became serious.
This child is a bit older than the one from yesterday. Instead of being afraid when he saw the skeletal ghost, he shouted at it. Could this boy be the senior brother of the little girl from last night?
"Brother, we might be in trouble now. What if the other side is even stronger than the little girl from yesterday?"
Another man in black pondered for a moment, and his previously worried gaze suddenly relaxed.
"We're not going to kill them today. At worst, we'll let these ghosts die at their hands. We can go back and say whatever we want. We don't have to worry about being punished anyway."
The two brothers exchanged a smile, then stopped hiding and watching the Li family's situation. Instead, they returned to the motorcycle, took two raincoats, put them on, and strode towards the Li family compound, since most of the Li family members were already fast asleep.
"Yanbao, how was my aura just now? Did the other party get scared?"
This is what Li Muhao imagined ghost-catching to be like. After all, he had never seen the real ghost-catching process. That day in the library, he was only protected by Xiao Yanbao and even fell into a coma halfway through.
Seeing that Xiao Yanbao didn't answer him immediately, Li Muhao took out his phone and took a selfie with his back to the glass door. He wanted to have a group photo of his spoils.
"Snap!"
While taking the photo, Li Muhao even made a shutter sound with his mouth.
When Li Muhao looked through the photos, he was startled and even threw his phone away.
"A ghost!"
On the phone screen lying on the ground, a ghost resembling a skeleton stood behind Li Muhao, its long, flowing hair resembling nimble venomous snakes.
"Third brother, she's the ghost staring at you. Your mission today is to eliminate her."
Li Muhao turned around and found that he did not see any ghosts, nor was there anything unusual in the rain. It turned out that these ghosts did not show their bodies. Xiao Yanbao gently made a hand seal and then flicked two drops of yellow liquid that had gathered at his fingertips into Li Muhao's eyes.
End of this chapter
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