I left the courtyard.
I then went to the main hall of the courtyard and sat quietly by the table.
Lao Gong hummed a tune and occasionally looked at my face.
"You've also gotten better, sir. Before, you had a dark mark between your eyebrows, but now you look fresh and energetic," Lao Gong said with a smile.
I had no interest in arguing with him.
"Eh..." Lao Gong tilted his head, as if looking in a direction outside the house.
"He muttered, "It hasn't come yet."
It was evident that Lao Gong was sensing Qi Youyou.
It is obvious that Lao Gong, a male ghost of the same level as him, has abilities that are impossible to guess. Particularly after his level increased, I still don't know his exact abilities.
"Qi family's young lady is not as open-minded as Qin family's young lady," Lao Gong whispered.
"Not right... There's still something off... She was definitely here earlier. She was nearby while we were eating. How could she not be here now? Did she go too far? She's never been far away for that long before," Lao Gong continued to mutter in confusion.
"I need to have a divination to see," Lao Gong said, his mouth agitated as he was about to spit out a yellow tooth.
At that moment, my heart suddenly constricted, as if I had been punched hard and had a knife inserted.
With a sound of "puff," I actually spat out a mouthful of blood!
The mouth was filled with a salty-sweet taste, with a hint of sweetness.
Lao Gong's movements came to a halt. He stared at me in shock and suspicion, his ghostly eyes exceptionally alert.
"It's haunted... Sir, you've been played, tricked!"
As I wiped my mouth with my hand, a heavy feeling immediately came over me.
I returned to Qin's family and did not tell many people.
The Central Yellow Temple wouldn't target me, the ghost pavilion definitely wouldn't, and Qin Qi's methods are very tough.
Then who would bother me?
People from Juqu Mountain secretly watching Qin's family?
For a moment, my thoughts were scattered.
"Master's methods?" My voice was slightly hoarse.
"I can't tell. It's coming again, coming again! Not black, it's red. Red like dead blood, which leads to death... Sir, be careful!" Lao Gong shouted in a high-pitched voice.
My heart sank even further. I couldn't put my finger on the exact feeling, but I felt as if something intangible and sharp were about to pierce through my heart.
With a cold snort, I sat cross-legged immediately, held my hands in gestures, steadied my mind, and chanted the Five Purification Mantra simultaneously.
The center of my chest seemed to be struck with a heavy blow.
The blood I had spit out earlier was twisting and evaporating continuously on the ground.
In the end, it became a small imprint of a person.
"Scram!" I bellowed, and instantly swept out with the Gao Tian sword, its tip piercing the imprint of the person!
The ground suddenly sparked with sparks, and the imprint of the person vanished.
The Gao Tian sword pierced the ground tiles and stood steadily.
"Alright, alright, your color looks normal now," Lao Gong shouted again.
I faintly closed my eyes, but I kept looking at that spot on the ground.
"I don't know the methods of Juqu Mountain, but this is a bit strange. It seems to be a bit like yin-yang arts, and a bit like Daoist arts. There is some just death aura, and some uncomfortable qi. ... This qi, if used to hit ghosts or corpses, the ghosts or corpses will definitely die."
"Luckily, you also have a mouth full of true qi in your chest, so you only sustained some hidden injuries. But I don't know what medium the other party used to harm you? Birthday chart, personal items?" Lao Gong asked in rapid succession.
"Uncertain." I shook my head.
At this moment, the outer hall was already surrounded by people, Qin Changzai, Qin Kongtian, and some members of the Qin family, from drowsy-eyed to full of disbelief and alertness.
"Who dares to harm the master? I will never be reconciled with him!" Fan Jie pushed his way out of the crowd, his voice filled with fierce determination.
"The words may sound reasonable, but Fan Laodie, with the master having spat blood, you only came out and shouted that it's useless," Lao Gong said clearly, unable to see the exact situation. He was not in a good mood and arbitrarily retorted to Fan Jie.
"How can I do this? I... " Fan Jie's face turned pale, followed by a fierce glare in his eyes, and he finally said: "No matter who the other party is, they must be nearby. This should be a set-up of a legal platform using mediums. I will find him out!"
Although Fan Jie is not very strong, he is at least a medium with experience in raising corpses and dark arts, so his knowledge is not too little.
"It's true that it's nearby, so why don't you go find it right away? Just wait for the other party to deliver another heavy blow?" Lao Gong rolled his eyes directly.
Fan Jie quickly left the hall, his hands moving a jingle bell, its sound piercing and ear-piercing.
What he was swinging was not the bell of Feng Huai Gu, but the bell he used to command fierce undead.
"How can it be..." As Qiao Changzai and the others entered the house, their faces were all uncertain, with no exception.
"With the enemy, we counter. With water, we cover with earth. No problem."
I stood up and drew the Gao Tian sword.
"It should not be from Jiuqu Mountain. If it were them, they would have surrounded the Qiao family on all sides. Your news of returning hasn't been spread yet, and the Central Yellow Temple wouldn't be so foolish." Lao Gong whispered on my shoulder.
"The Qiao family can also go out to find, digging up every inch of land within a radius of ten li, and we will find that person!"
After saying that in a deep voice, Qiao Changzai suddenly let out a strange sound from his mouth, and a string of fine black shadows crawled out from his pants leg, crawling to the position of the imprint and seeming to bite the ground.
Although the imprint was the blood I had spat out, the other party had forced me to spit blood, which meant that they must have used some kind of medium. They wanted to use this ball of blood to hurt me earlier, but I pressed it down with my Gao Tian sword.
Soon, the weasels summoned by Qiao Changzai surged out of the hall like a wave, heading towards the Qiao family's main gate.
The other members of the Qiao family copied their example, and their eyes were even more fierce, and their anger was even stronger.
It's as if the injury to me has touched the Qiao family's taboo.
Until this moment, a series of urgent footsteps were heard, and it was Qiao Ying entering the hall.
"How can it be..." She had an expression of shock and doubt.
Lao Gong jumped up and landed on Qiao Ying's shoulder, exaggerating the details of what had just happened.
Qiao Ying took a deep breath and said, "I'll inform my younger sister Qing right away, and the Ghost Pavilion should be useful as well."
I actually wanted to say that it doesn't need to be this big of a deal.
At that moment, Lao Gong added: "Indeed, we need to use a thunderous method to kill the little scum who secretly injured you. Otherwise, we cannot be sure what else they may do. They are very evil."
That remark did wake me up.
Indeed, the person who secretly attacked me was able to do so, whether it was my item on my body or my information, actually, it is not well-known to many people.
Then the other party can easily deal with the people of Qiao family, including my parents and Qiao Ying.
"Grandpa, Dad, I'll go rest with Xian Shen first. If there's anything, you can send someone to tell me," Qiao Ying said again, and she directly stepped forward to pull me, dragging me towards the small courtyard.
This sense of urgency and slight tension make me realize that something has happened.
However, Lao Gong had clearly said that Qi You You was not at the Qiao family, so what could there be?
In a flash, we were back in the small courtyard.
"Qi You You didn't come, the drawing of the soul-summoning charm you made was burned earlier, so I hurried to the front yard, but there were also problems there," Qiao Ying pointed to a black scorched mark on the stone table.
The soul-summoning charm was indeed burned to a crisp.
"Strange... Having everything go wrong at once, could it be Juqu Mountain? They really have become powerful?" Lao Gong said in a sinister tone: "Since they are setting up a ritual, it shouldn't be too far. Young lady, hurry up and find Miss Xiao Dà nu, don't let them run away or hide! This Qi family miss must have fallen into their hands. They can't be real people. First catch them, beat their butts hard. What kind of person is Master? Ordering them to kneel down and apologize."
