After the bus disappeared at the end of the road, Qin Nuo finally saw who the shadow was.

  It was the er from the sed day at the restaurant, the Burning Ghost whained his memory because of the Tequi Qin Nuo gave him!

  "You've got guts," the Burning Ghost said coldly, shedding his terrifying Ghost Aura.

  Qin Nuo kly what he meant and replied with a bitter smile, "When you're under someone else's roof, you have to follow their rules. I made a mistake and unished by the restaurant to go out and buy ingredients."

  "If you don't plete the task, you'll die just the same."

  Despite his words, Qin Nuo was still shocked inside.

  During the fli the bus, the Burning Ghost had crushed the Water Ghost with one hand, sileng all the ghosts on the bus.

  The Water Ghost could see through Qin Nuo's disguise, indig its strength wasn't low, yet it was wiped out without aan front of the Burning Ghost!

  Qin Nuo couldn't even begin to imagihe Burning Ghost's power.

  "Anyway, thank you!" Qin Nuo sincerely expressed his gratitude.

  The Burning Ghost didn't say mud asked, "What do you o buy?"

  Qin Nuo hahe note directly to the Burning Ghost.

  After reading it, the Burning Ghost's eyes narrowed slightly.

  "What's wrong?" Qin Nuo asked.

  "Ingredient number 8 is only avaible at the Specter Supermarket."

  "That's where I'm headed."

  "The owhere is difficult to deal with, and ingredient number 8 isn't an ordinary ingredient. If you only use Ghost Currency, you probably won't be able to buy it from him," the Burning Ghost said.

  "If Ghost Currency won't work, then what should I use?" Qin Nuo was taken aback.

  The Burning Ghost shook his head slightly, "That's something you'll have to figure out yourself."

  He stepped aside and poio a street behind him, "Walk 100 meters down this street, and at the er, you'll find the Specter Supermarket."

  Qin Nuo khat the Burning Ghost couldn't help much with buying the ingredients. Regardless, the fact that he helped Qin Nuo out of a tight spot was already quite rare fhost.

  So, Qin Nuo thanked him once more.

  "That Tequi you gave me was very important. Also, I don't like owing favors, especially to humans," the Burning Ghost said lightly.

  Qin Nuo smiled slightly, "Uood."

  "Angel's Kiss: You've gained +10 Favorability from the Burning Ghost and obtained Ghost Creature—Meat of Taisui ×2!"

  "Meat of Taisui: A food that ghosts ot resist, often fought over to the point of bloodshed for just a small piece."

  Qin Nuo remembered seeing this item before, also known as Meat Lingzhi, a precious and expensive polymer that humans typically collect as antiques rather than e.

  Iy, the Meat of Taisui seen on the market is fake, as the existence of wild pure Taisui has never been proven in the biological world.

  Legend has it that the elixir of immortality sought by Qin Shi Huang was the so-called wild Meat of Taisui, its mythiature making it elusive and uain.

  "I wonder if the piece I have is real or fake?" Qin Nuo thought to himself.

  After the Burning Ghost left, Qin Nuo didn't dwell on the Meat of Taisui. He anized his thoughts and headed dowreet.

  About five mier, after turning the er, he indeed saw a rge supermarket.

  On the deserted street, neers flew everywhere.

  All the shops were closed, except for this supermarket.

  I seemed quite deserted, the dim atmosphere making one's skin crawl, deterriry.

  Qin Nuo, however, remained posed and stepped forward.

  As he stepped into the supermarket, a system voice echoed in his mind.

  "Ding, passive missiered!"

  "Detected that the host is in an area with hidden mergeable ghost creatures. The host must merge the ghost creatures within 24 hours."

  "The host has automatically acquired the merging ghost physique—Yin-Yang Phantom Body!" ( merge up to 3 A+ level or lhost creatures!)

  "Upon pletion, a level box will be randomly awarded!" (Cssified as Bronze, Silver, Gold, Diamond, Obsidian)

  "Mission failure penalty: fiscation of all ghost creatures!"

  "It trigger passive missions too?" Qin Nuo was stunned.

  Before even officially entering the supermarket, he already had two mandatory tasks!

  The penalty was the fiscation of all ghost creatures.

  For Qin Nuo, who had lost the restaurant's prote, it was akin to losing all life-saving measures.

  "The arrow is already oring, n baow."

  With that thought, Qin Nuo walked into the supermarket.

  The supermarket's business seemed not too good, much worse thaher Springs Restaurant, with a rge amount of goods piled on the shelves and flies buzzing everywhere.

  At the ter, a middle-aged man y on a rattan chair, holding a bottle of alcohol, drunk.

  "Human host?" Qin Nuo couldn't dis the middle-aged man's identity.

  "Boss, I'd like to buy an ingredient."

  The middle-aged man opened his eyes, g Qin Nuo, and suddenly shouted, "Filthy rat, shed yly disguise a out of my shop!"

  Qin Nuo smiled bitterly, suddenly feeling that the killer's raincoat was quite shoddy.

  But having e this far, how could he leave so easily?

  Removing the killer's raincoat, he tinued, "Boss, I'm just here to buy something and then I'll leave."

  "See that empty spot on the shelf? If you say one more word, your head will be hanging there!"

  Qin Nuo frowned.

  No wohe Burning Ghost said this boss was difficult to talk to.

  This was beyond difficult, it was like fag an enemy!

  With such er service, having any ers at all was a miracle!

  Qin Nuo remained unfazed.

  The boss suddenly stood up.

  At that moment, a middle-aged woman suddenly walked over.

  She grabbed a fruit knife from the table and stabbed it directly into the boss's neck, causing him to topple to the ground.

  Qin Nuo was startled.

  What the hell!

  Sutensity right off the bat, what kind e is this?

  "Sorry about that, I'm the Boss Lady here. That old bastard 't speak properly and has scared away tless ers."

  "In our shop, we don't care if you're human host. Once you're in, you're our er."

  The Boss Lady appeared to be around thirty, with a kind fad a friendly tone.

  Of course, if it weren't for that knife earlier, Qin Nuo would have thought she was human, and a normal o that.

  "What do you want to buy?"

  Qin Nuo was about to speak when the boss suddenly stood up, pulled out the fruit knife from his neck, and then stabbed it fiercely into the Boss Lady's head!

  The Boss Lady was unfazed, even maintaining a bright smile on her face.

  "Stupid woman, rebelling?" the boss cursed.

  The Boss Lady turned around, grabbed the boss, and threw him into a dark room.

  Then, she took an axe from uhe ter and followed him into the dark room.

  After a while, intense fighting sounds and some tearing noises came from the room, sending chills down one's spine.

  About two mier.

  The Boss Lady came out, covered in blood, yet still polite, "Sorry for letting you see our family drama."

  "It just proves that if you don't discipline men harshly, they'll never know who's the real head of the household!"

  "…"

  Qin Nuo's mouth twitched slightly, agreeing, "Well said, well said."

  "Alright, tell me what you want to buy."

  Qin Nuo handed over the note.

  Seeing ingredient number 8, the Boss Lady's eyebrows furrowed slightly.