The pale blue Ghost Smoke drifted slowly, beginning to envelop the tombstone. Everyone's eyes fixed intently on the Ghost Smoke, hoping to glean some information from it.
There's an old saying: nothing stays hidden forever. Wherever there is a crack, Ghost Smoke can seep through. And wherever the Ghost Smoke penetrates, Pang Ling shares its vision.
Soon, she saw the smoke seeping into the soil, slipping through tiny cracks, penetrating deeper. Suddenly, she spotted a coffin buried beneath the earth. It appeared to be a simple wooden coffin.
Her thoughts flickered, and the Ghost Smoke followed the seams of the coffin, infiltrating inside. The seemingly tight-fitting coffin lid could not stop her Ghost Smoke.
In just moments, the smoke passed through the coffin lid and entered inside.
"What?" Pang Ling's face changed dramatically as she glimpsed the inside of the coffin, exclaiming in shock.
"What did you see?" Xue Qian quickly asked.
"There's a mummified corpse inside—no, it seems to be moving—and it's surrounded by a gray mist," Pang Ling's eyes turned completely white, looking extremely chilling.
"Not good, that's Qin Long's ghost mist. That's his Ghost Domain," Xue Qian's expression darkened. Unexpectedly, Qin Long really was inside.
Qin Long's codename was "Ghost Blade," and Xue Qian knew that his second Malevolent Ghost was the Ghost Mist, a presence similar to a Ghost Domain.
"What do we do now? Rescue him?" Pang Ling asked, still with her eyes white.
"Wait, I see many vines around him… They are continuously corroding his body. I want to try to—"
Before she could finish, the vines suddenly sprang to life, charging directly at her Ghost Smoke.
Pang Ling's Ghost Tamer instincts screamed at her to retreat.
Just as she severed her mental link with that part of the Ghost Smoke, she faintly saw a terrifying scene—the vines absorbed the Ghost Smoke itself.
"No!" Pang Ling said in a terrified tone, "These graves are not simple. We can't touch them."
"I almost got attacked by those vines," she added.
"Vines?" Xue Qian's face flickered. "Let's get out of here first. This place is too dangerous."
Everyone nodded, preparing to leave.
But after only a few steps, they noticed two team members standing still, motionless.
"Wu Hai, Zhao Jinguang, why are you still here? Hurry up and leave!" the team leader shouted.
However, the two didn't seem to hear him and remained frozen.
The leader approached to check, but just a few steps away, both suddenly collapsed to the ground—no visible wounds, simply lifeless.
"Two Ghost Tamers just died like that?" someone whispered.
"We don't even know how they died!" another said, fear spreading among them.
The unknown was the greatest terror. Seeing two Ghost Tamers die mysteriously like this left everyone unsettled.
But what came next was even more horrifying.
The villagers who had been burning paper suddenly stood up and walked toward the two dead Ghost Tamers.
No one dared to stop them.
They silently watched as the villagers lifted the bodies and carried them toward the banyan tree behind.
There, two tombstones already had candles lit and people weeping.
Everything seemed prearranged.
They saw the two Ghost Tamers placed into the freshly dug graves, which contained bright vermilion coffins.
As their forms sank into the coffins, Xue Qian suddenly shouted angrily, breaking his silence.
"Act quickly! They aren't dead yet!"
"What? Not dead?" someone asked in disbelief.
"Yes. If they were dead, the Malevolent Ghost would have already started to revive. This place must be using the Ghost Domain to keep them suspended. If we wait until burial, it will be too late."
Saying this, Xue Qian stepped forward, coughing violently.
With a spurt, he spat a mouthful of blood at the villagers burying the two.
Consumptive Ghosts—once infected with his blood—would cause living people to become afflicted and die, and Malevolent Ghosts would be suppressed.
Hearing this, the others wasted no time and unleashed their Malevolent Ghost powers to deal with the situation.
…
Elsewhere, after an unknown amount of time, Chen Xuan sat on his apartment sofa soaking in the sun.
His brow furrowed lightly.
"A whole day and night… and that girl still hasn't moved?"
These past two days, he had been roaming Xiadu City's major parks, draining all the artificial lakes one by one.
Now his Ghost Domain could cover a radius of twenty kilometers.
This was no longer just Ghost Blood and Ghost Domain—it was a Blood Lake Domain.
But that wasn't Chen Xuan's ultimate goal; he wanted to create a sea of blood.
He might not have been able to do this before, but with his Ghost Domain expanded this far, even standing in the river, he could control the Corpse Water, preventing it from flowing out.
However, he had no news from his sister and was growing worried.
Because of the Malevolent Ghost's influence, Chen Xuan had become colder and more indifferent, but his fundamental determination remained unshaken: his sister.
Just then, before moving forward, he checked the date—and saw that the weekly check in task had appeared again.
Better to check in first before going.
[Ding! Check in complete. Congratulations, host has received reward: S-rank Malevolent Ghost, Straw Ghost, and matching S-rank Malevolent Ghost, The Reaper's Scythe.]
[Straw Ghost]: Once an ordinary straw ghost, but after some special events, it became fierce and eerie. Since then, its role is no longer just to scare birds away in the fields.
[The Reaper's Scythe]: Originally called the Ghost Scythe, but due to its exaggerated nature, it's been dubbed the Reaper's Scythe. Its only trait is extreme sharpness—very sharp indeed.
Note: Mysteriously bound with Straw Ghost, cannot be separated.
"Hm? Double rewards?" Chen Xuan's pupils contracted, a look of delight flashing across his face.
He hadn't expected this weekly check in to grant not only an S-rank Malevolent Ghost but also an S-rank Malevolent Ghost weapon.
Together, these boosted his strength significantly.
Now his chances at Fengmen Village were even better.
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