I also think there's something wrong with Zhang Fang. His later behavior was reasonable, but at first, it didn't seem like his own father had died.

How can someone keep staring at a girl when his father just died? At least, I couldn't see how sad he was.

Besides, the things Zhang Fang told me sounded quite strange, but they weren't of much value. It was like giving me a puzzle and also keeping me tied to Zhang Fang's side. This business feels a bit passive.

As I was pondering, I suddenly heard the sound of glass breaking, followed by the sound of glass falling to the ground from the next room.

In the next moment, the sound of glass shattering came one after another from different rooms, and the entire mansion was filled with the sound of breaking glass.

"Mirror!" My expression changed slightly, and I pushed open the door and rushed into the guest room. When I got to the room, Zhang Fang was squatting in the corner, holding his head: "The mirror...the mirror is broken!"

I looked at the mirror in the room, where only a dark frame remained.

The moment my gaze fell on the frame, I suddenly felt a trance, as if I was looking at a bottomless black hole. I couldn't help but walk towards the frame hanging on the wall.

Ye Yang gently pressed my shoulder: "Wait!"

I then realized: "Didn't you see anything just now?"

Ye Yang shook his head slightly, and the frame on the wall fell to the ground. Pieces of plaster also fell from behind the mirror, and wisps of yin qi (ghostly energy)溢四from the cracks in the wall.

It was as if someone was buried in the wall, blowing air through the cracks, and forcibly blowing off the plaster.

I gestured to Ye Yang and slowly walked towards the wall. I slapped the wall with my palm. When the bricks fell to the ground, a female corpse in a cheongsam was revealed inside.

"Old Liu! What's going on?" When I called Old Liu, the female corpse in the wall suddenly opened her eyes wide, and resentful blood shot out from her eyes.

The dazzling blood纹纹纹expanded from the female corpse to the surrounding walls. In the blink of an eye, a blood-colored picture appeared on the wall.

The female corpse seemed to be lying in a blood-colored thicket, a demon trying to claim lives, her eyes like knives meeting mine.

I subconsciously wanted to take a step back to see what was going on with the corpse, but my feet suddenly tightened, and the pressure of being strangled by ropes came over me.

There was less than a meter between me and the female corpse. Unable to move, I could only push my palm towards her.

As soon as the thunder fire in my palm rose, the female corpse's hands reached towards my chest first. I felt a cold aura penetrate my clothes and stab into my skin, and I knew I was too late.

If I couldn't stop her ghost hands, I would only have my chest ripped open and my heart taken out!

In a flash of lightning, I felt a burst of burning heat from the back of my heart. When I looked again, two sword qi (sword energy) had already burst out in front of me, hitting the female corpse's palms with unparalleled precision.

Before the female corpse could cry out, her hands were blasted to pieces by the sword qi. The two sword qi still did not lose momentum and passed through the female corpse's body.

Under the collision of sword qi and yin qi, raging fire broke out around the female corpse, and the raging fire spread along the blood lines beside the female corpse, towards the wall. The blood纹纹纹that were originally printed on the wall turned into dancing flames in an instant.

Ye Yang also grabbed me and retreated two meters: "You were stupid just now. The dead person raised her hand. Why didn't you attack?"

"I did!" I subconsciously looked at my hands and realized something was wrong—the Gang Qi (internal energy) on my hands hadn't dissipated yet.

In other words, I had just gathered my qi (internal energy) in my palms when Ye Yang pulled me away.

My mind and arms were not synchronized just now. I thought about attacking, but the timing was a little off.

Although it was only a short second, for experts, a second is enough to be fatal.

If Ye Yang hadn't used the "隔山打牛" (隔山打牛 – gé shān dǎ niú, striking a cow across the mountain - using internal force to strike from a distance) technique to kill the female corpse with sword qi, I would probably be dead by now.

Before the cold sweat on my head could fall, Old Liu rushed over anxiously: "Li Po, did you call me just now?"

I was stunned: I clearly remembered that Old Liu followed me into the room. Why did he only run over now?

I looked at Ye Yang and said, "Didn't Old Liu come in with us just now?"

"Just now, only the two of us entered the room. Old Liu and the others didn't come down from the reception hall." Ye Yang's expression also changed as he spoke.

Gui Sui Shen (ghost follows)!

Ye Yang and I are both术士(shù shì - Daoist practitioners), how could we not have noticed a ghost following us?

The so-called Gui Sui Shen (ghost follows) in the术(shù - Daoist arts) world does not mean that a ghost is following you. It means that when a person is walking in a certain place, they must pay attention to the people around them.

If the other person leaves briefly and then reappears near you, you must find out who the person who came back is.

Maybe it's a dead person who found a time difference and pretended to be your partner walking with you. Your real partner has already died somewhere behind you, watching the dead person replace him and walk with you.