Others might not have thought much of it, but Xiaoli noticed something unusual.
These footprints clearly indicate that someone was scouting the area; there might be some interesting things to see tonight.
"Master, you're back? There was a man peeking around at the door just now, and he was swearing all over the place."
Xiao Li seemed to be deep in thought. Who could it be?
"Let's eat dinner early tonight so we can watch the show."
As soon as night fell, Xiaoli turned off the lights and sat quietly on the bed in meditation, her spiritual sense spreading outwards, paying attention to everything around her.
Two hours later, noises came from the path outside the door.
Three men came to the doorway, carrying ropes, knives, and sticks.
One of them was Yao Shuangxi, a notorious troublemaker in the village. He pointed to Xiaoli's courtyard gate, and the three of them understood and walked to the side of the courtyard wall.
Two of them squatted down and used their hands to form a bridge. Yao Shuangxi stepped on it and climbed onto the top of the wall to observe from there.
Xiao Li watched as he touched the top of the wall a few times, then took out a rope and had two people below hold onto it as he slowly slid down.
"Phantom Spirit, go."
The phantom twisted a few times in the air and responded excitedly.
"Yes, Master."
Huanling came to Yao Shuangxi's side and blew air into his ear.
"who?"
Yao Shuangxi shuddered. He remembered that Yao Er and his wife had only died not long ago, and his whole body went weak.
He mustered his courage and looked around, but found nothing.
"Youyou, you go too."
"Okay!"
It drifted by quietly, a small ball of pale blue flame rising and falling in the air, appearing and disappearing intermittently.
"Ah...fire...fire..."
Yao Shuangxi dared not utter that word. He was so frightened that he covered his mouth and ran towards the door. As soon as the door opened, two figures rushed in.
Wang Jin grabbed Yao Shuangxi, "Why are you running? Come over here."
Yao Shuangxi just wants to leave. "I quit. You two can stay if you want to, let me go."
Wang Jin grabbed him and pinched him a few times, but he didn't dare to hit him, afraid of making a sound and attracting the villagers.
He lowered his voice, "If you dare to run, I'll throw you up the mountain to feed the wolves!"
Yao Shuangxi was on the verge of tears, filled with fear. He pointed at Youyou and made the two of them look.
“Look over there.”
It turned dark and disappeared instantly.
Yao Shuangxi rubbed his eyes. Had he just been seeing things?
Wang Jin saw nothing, and then he reached out and pinched it again.
"Don't cause trouble, there's nothing there. Let's tie the girl up first."
He walked toward the main house, with two people following closely behind him.
There was some smoke in the courtyard at some point, and the three of them had only taken a few steps when they found that they could no longer see the road.
"Strange, where did the house go?"
Yao Shuangxi shuddered, recalling the strange thing that had just happened.
"Brother Jin, let's go. Yao and Gang... I think this place is a bit unclean. Let's wait and come back later."
Wang Jin glanced at him sideways, not expecting him to be such a coward.
"I didn't realize you were so bold. What's gotten into you today?"
Yao Shuangxi looked around warily.
Just as Wang Jin was about to say a few more sarcastic remarks, a gust of wind suddenly blew past his ear, and he immediately got goosebumps.
He shook his head, covered his ears, and looked behind him.
When Yao Shuangxi saw this, he quickly covered his ears as well, secretly pleased with himself.
"You laughed at me, now that thing's blowing into your ear too, hasn't it?"
Then, remembering that the thing was nearby, he couldn't laugh anymore.
"Jin-ge, what's wrong with you guys?"
Wang Lai came in with Wang; he was just a follower.
Youyou ran out again, circling around the three of them. Especially Wang Jin, whose hair almost caught fire, so frightened that he quickly squatted down and covered his head.
"Ah...we'll never do it again, we'll leave now."
They ran towards the doorway they remembered, only to find it gone. The surroundings were shrouded in mist, making it impossible to see any direction.
"What do we do? Brother Jin, have we run into that guy who's always trying to break through walls?"
"Who's going to break down the wall?"
Yao Shuangxi almost cried, "It's that...that..."
Wang Jin understood. His heart was pounding. He had never believed in this before; he thought it was all superstition.
Now that he has witnessed such a miraculous scene with his own eyes, he can't help but believe it.
"Shut up, this is a sage, a sage."
He knelt down, chose a direction, and kowtowed, saying, "Great Immortal, I know I was wrong, I will never dare to do it again, please forgive us."
The other two followed suit, with Xiao Li eating a fruit platter while watching the three perform.
Unexpectedly, there was an acquaintance among them, which saved her from having to seek revenge on him.
This Wang Jin was the one who later conspired with Dai Qiuhua to murder the original owner of the body.
The three men kowtowed sincerely, and soon their foreheads turned red and their eyes saw stars.
Seeing that there was no movement around them, the three stopped and looked around, hoping to find the entrance to the courtyard. At this moment, they desperately wanted to get as far away from here as possible.
Phantom Spirit and Ghost Spirit worked together to become a skeleton, with Ghost Spirit splitting into two flowers to form two eyeballs.
The three of them watched the skeleton walk towards them step by step, and they were so frightened that they huddled together tightly.
"Brother Jin, I'm scared!"
Wang Jin wasn't very brave either; he was already scared out of his wits.
"I'm not Brother Jin, don't call me Brother Jin, I'm scared too."
Yao Shuangxi was speechless; the three of them were trembling like leaves.
Xiao Jiu found it fun and came to join in the fun. It transformed into a vine and climbed towards the three of them.
"Ah... there's a monster!"
"Don't eat me, don't come any closer."
The three of them cried and begged for mercy.
The phantom spirit then transformed into various monsters, such as a one-eyed beast, a big-mouthed monster, and the eyeballs that the ghost transformed into were particularly eerie. The three of them quickly fainted.
Xiao Jiu caused the vines to grow long thorns, and after pricking each of them dozens of times, the three of them slowly woke up.
Where is this?
What happened to us?
"Waaaaah..."
Another round of torture began, and the three of them spent the entire night screaming.
Xiao Li glanced at the sky; it was dawn, and it was time to end things.
The phantom transformed into a puppy and ran into the village chief's house.
"Huh? Isn't that Xiaoxiao's dog? What's it doing here?"
The phantom grabbed the village chief's trouser leg and kept pulling it outwards.
"Go and see, this dog is telling you to go find its owner."
The village chief's wife urged him to hurry up and leave.
When the two arrived at Xiao Li's house, they saw the three people who were already on the verge of death.
The three of them perked up immediately when they saw the village chief approaching.
"Uncle Village Chief, you've finally come! If you hadn't come, I would have been gone, waaaaah..."
Yao Shuangxi had never felt so close to the village chief before.
The village chief frowned. What was this brat doing here? And these two outsiders—the three of them appearing in Xiaoxiao's house, it was obvious they were up to no good.
Xiao Li came out of the house and pointed to the knives, ropes, and sticks placed against the wall.
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