Chapter 4: The Female Ghost Parts with Her Pearl (Part 1)

  The night grew deeper, and although the villa was brightly lit, it was quiet to the point of being frightening.

  In the spacious living room, seventy-four candles were arranged in a seven-star pattern. Ouyang Xuan and Zhang Lin sat quietly among them, silent and motionless.

  Zhang Fang sat behind the two of them, his terrified eyes darting back and forth, not a hint of his usual ferocity and cunning.

  All around, many big men in black clothes were tense and on guard outside the living room, and even a slight rustling of leaves could make them break out in a cold sweat.

  With so many people around him, Zhang Fang's tense expression finally calmed down a bit.

  Suddenly, Zhang Lin opened his eyes and looked up: "It's 11:30! Come on, light all the candles."

  Liu Bao immediately instructed two helpers to light the forty-nine candles one by one. In the midst of the blazing candle flames, the room was filled with a flickering candlelight.

  "Master, will this work?!" Zhang Fang suddenly asked anxiously.

  "Don't worry, we're here!" Ouyang Xuan comforted.

  The room fell into a terrible silence again, and even the sound of people's heartbeat could be heard!

  ……

  "Dong dong dong dong..." The midnight bell suddenly rang out, and its clear voice startled everyone.

  "It's time!" Zhang Lin's eyes suddenly lit up.

  "Hiss...hiss..." No one knew what was going on, but suddenly a fierce gust of cold wind swept into the living room, blowing the windows wildly and making the candle shadows flicker, sending shivers down people's spines!

  "What's going on, Master?!" Zhang's teeth were slightly chattering, and the silent terror had already destroyed his mental defenses.

  "She's here!" Zhang Lin suddenly said out of nowhere.

  "Who's there?" Ou Yang Xuan had just asked, when suddenly the indoor lights flickered wildly and electric arcs shot out in all directions.

  "Bang, bang, bang, bang - boom - boom..." After a sudden burst of explosions, dozens of lamps went out, and the entire villa, except for the hall, was instantly plunged into darkness!

  Zhang Fang was suddenly frightened out of his wits and shouted loudly: "Someone come, someone come, quickly protect me!"

  "What's going on? Quick, get the flashlight!" A large group of Tianlong gang members rushed into the living room, surrounding the Seven Star Ghost Fire Array, and the scene was in complete chaos.

  Suddenly, a chilling woman's shrill laughter echoed through the villa: "Hahahaha..."

  Accompanying this terrible laughter was a gust of gloomy and ominous wind!

  "Mother! Ghost!" - an instant burst of soulless screams erupted from the villa, the faces of the Tianlong Guards turned pale, their upper and lower teeth chattering together.

  "Amitabha Buddha! Amitabha Buddha!......" Zhang Fang was so frightened that his body trembled like a sieve, closing his eyes and could only recite the Buddha's name.

  Zhang Lin suddenly stood up and calmly said in a loud voice: "Since the noble guest has arrived, why not show yourself and have a chat!"

  "Hahaha... You young one, how dare you!" A whirlwind of dark energy swept in with the maniacal laughter and landed before the Seven Star Ghost Fire Formation.

  "Peng——" The dark wind dispersed, revealing a beautiful woman with long hair fluttering in the wind, wearing white clothes as white as snow. However, her face was deathly pale and terrifying, her eyes were dull and lifeless, filled with deep resentment and hatred!

  "My goodness, it's really a ghost!" The crowd of Tianlong Guards lost their usual eight-sided prestige, each one scared out of their wits, trembling and crawling to escape behind the Seven Star Ghost Fire Array!

  "It was you who killed seventeen lives of the Tianlong Gang!" At some point, Ouyang Xuan also stood up, his expression solemn.

  "It's me, what can you do? Today, everyone here will die!" The female ghost's face was ferocious, and her dead eyes shot out a fierce light!

  In an instant, the indoor temperature plummeted by several degrees, a chilling and eerie aura!

  "Is that you, Yang Lihua?!" Suddenly, Zhang's face was filled with incredulity as he trembled and pointed at the female ghost: "You...you...aren't you dead?"

  "Hahaha!" The female ghost sneered: "I'm dead, but I'm not reconciled, so I became a vengeful spirit to come and claim your life!"

  Zhang Fang's face changed drastically, his legs softened, and he was immediately frightened to kneel down on the ground, begging bitterly: "Lihua, I, I didn't intentionally want to kill you, spare my life! I'll invite a hundred monks and nuns to help you ascend to the afterlife, will you forgive me?"

  "Spare you? Don't even think about it! I want you to die more miserably than me!" The female ghost cackled loudly, her long hair dancing wildly with the howling dark wind.

  "Wait a minute, you said it was this Zhang Shi who killed you, why?" Zhang Lin suddenly asked.

  "I was his girlfriend, but this bastard cheated on me behind my back! After I found out, he just scolded me a few times and then killed me in a fit of rage, burying my body in the wilderness! You tell me, should I not avenge this injustice?!" The female ghost looked extremely angry and pained, her iron-green face twisted in a terrifying grimace.

  "I didn't mean to, I didn't mean to, it was just a moment of anger and I lost control, spare me!" Zhang Fan was so scared that his soul was about to leave his body, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed desperately for mercy - in the face of instinctual fear, this notorious underworld boss who had been rampant for many years didn't have any of his usual ferocity and cruelty!

  "Yet, humans have their own paths, ghosts have their own roads, the heavens will judge, why are you so stubbornly going against heaven and killing so many lives?!" Ouyang Xuan pretended to be nonchalant and shook his head, but in his heart he was furious, gritting his teeth: Despicable, scum, deserves to die!

  "Fart, I'll kill him with my own hands, destroy everything of his, or else I won't die in peace!" The female ghost sneered, sticking out her blood-red tongue to lick the corner of her mouth, and made a gesture as if she was about to pounce!

  "Hum! You're not that Lihua, she's already gone to the afterlife. Who are you?" Suddenly, Zhang Lin let out a loud shout, his eyes gleaming with intensity, looking extremely tense.

  The female ghost looked surprised, stopped in her tracks, and suddenly laughed: "You little devil have some insight, how did you figure out I'm not that Lihua?"

  After hearing this, Zhang Fang was stunned, and his fearful eyes were filled with confusion!

  "Hmph, ordinary people's souls disperse immediately after death, and it's rare for someone to become a ghost. It's even more impossible for someone to become a fierce ghost like you right after dying! If I'm not mistaken, Yang Lihua died with a grievance that couldn't be released, and transformed into a ghost. However, there was an even more ferocious evil spirit that seized her yin body and swallowed her three souls and seven spirits. And that evil spirit is you! Hmph, what a 'ghost on top of a ghost'!" Zhang Lin sneered.

  "Zhang Ge, what is a yin body?" Ouyang Xuan was puzzled.

  "After a person dies, if the three souls and seven spirits are lucky enough not to disperse, they will condense into a yin body and reside in it to cultivate themselves. Together, this is what people commonly refer to as a 'ghost'! This is similar to how human thoughts also need a physical body to reside in. However, if there is no yin body, but only the empty three souls and seven spirits, then even with the strongest energy, the 'ghost' will quickly disperse!" Zhang Lin explained.

  "Haha!" The female ghost heard this and instead of getting angry, she smiled: "You young one is quite knowledgeable, then can you see who I really am?"

  "Tonight's matter is a bit tricky, be careful!" Zhang Lin's face turned serious, and he suddenly shouted: "Open!"

  Suddenly, Zhang Lin's forehead skin cracked open rapidly, and a pair of golden eyes appeared upside down, startling Ouyang Xuan.

  "Ghost eye!?" The female ghost was shocked and her expression changed.

  "Exactly!" Zhang Lin sneered, and a strand of golden light suddenly shot out from the "ghost eye" on his forehead, shining onto the female ghost's body!

  "You're indeed no ordinary ghost, you have a very deep cultivation, should I call you a ghost immortal or a ghost demon?" A few seconds later, Zhang Lin's expression turned serious and he withdrew the golden light.

  "It's no wonder you're known as 'Ghost Eye', you can even see through my true form!" The female ghost seemed to nod in approval: "I might as well tell you, anyway, you'll all be dead tonight! My real name is Lí Zhū, and I'm a ghost immortal who has been cultivating for many years. Due to a mix-up, I attached myself to Li Hua's yin body after her death, absorbing her three souls and seven spirits. But because of this, I was also affected by her resentment, so I must avenge her before I can fully control her yin body and continue my cultivation! Now do you understand?"

  "Hahaha……!" Zhang Lin sneered: "The ancients said: a kind heart is an immortal, an evil heart is a demon! No matter how strong your powers are, what you have done can only be called 'demon', and you dare to boast of being an 'immortal'?! I think that the reason you killed so many people, avenging Lihua was secondary, the main goal was that you wanted to absorb the souls of the world's people to increase your demonic powers, right?!"

  "Hahaha......" The female ghost, Li Zhu, laughed eerily: "Since you've seen through my true intentions, then you have no choice but to die! I've cultivated for thousands of years, how could I fear your trivial Ghost Eye!? Accept your death!"

  In the midst of a strong gust of wind, the female ghost let out a mournful cry, and her countless strands of hair danced wildly.

  "Ouyang, be careful!" Zhang Lin shouted loudly, ready to make his move.

  Ouyang Xuan was about to make his move when the female ghost suddenly rolled up a gust of dark wind that swept past the Seven Star Ghost Fire Array and charged straight at the poor Heaven Dragon Sect members behind the array!

  "Ghost! Bang bang bang......" Some people were so frightened that they lost their minds and started shooting at the female ghost frantically.

  Unfortunately, the bullets were powerless against this terrible ghost. In an instant, Li Zhu pounced forward, and with a mournful and eerie howl, her long hair suddenly grew thicker and longer, like sharp steel cones that filled the sky and attacked everyone!

  "Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..." The countless long hairs pierced through the bodies of a large group of Tianlong Sect members like sharp blades, bursting out a sky-filled bloody rain and countless shattered internal organs!

  In the hall, there was suddenly a burst of mournful cries! In just a short moment, dozens of Tianlong Gang members had all fallen into a pool of blood, not one survived, each and every one of them died in a tragic manner that was unbearable to behold!

  Looking at the scene of corpses scattered all over the hall, with flesh and blood everywhere, Ouyang Xuan suddenly understood the cause of death of the 17 Tianlong Gang members before - it turned out that they were all killed by being pierced through the body by the long hair of the female ghost Li Zhu. No wonder they couldn't find any trace of a sharp weapon!

  "Hahaha..." The female ghost, Li Zhu, burst out laughing triumphantly, raising her hands as a blue-green glow emanated from the corpses of the deceased Tianlong Sect members, floating up and being absorbed into her mouth!

  "Ah——, spare my life, spare my life!" Witnessing this super terrifying scene, Zhang Fang was so frightened that his liver and gallbladder were splitting apart, and he could only cower on the ground, trembling with fear!