Chapter 1 I Can Help You Catch the Fish

I smiled. "Whether I'm a ghost messenger or not isn't important. What's important is that I can help you get that fish."

I wanted to find Wang Lishi's Earth Soul, and I really needed to get my hands wet. Helping Old Liu Tou was helping myself.

"This..." Old Liu Tou hesitated for a moment before saying, "I can't afford to hire you."

"Someone else has hired me," I replied. "You don't need to pay me. Just do something for me."

"Alright!" Old Liu Tou gritted his teeth. "As long as you can get rid of that fish, I'll even die for you. What else do you want to know?"

I pointed to the door. "When I came in, there were finger marks over there. Can water ghosts climb into your house?"

Old Liu Tou's face changed instantly.

Without saying a word to me, Old Liu Tou turned and ran outside, stumbling several times at the door. "Where's the ghost-repelling nail at my door? Did you take it away?"

I had already searched around the door when I arrived, and I was wondering myself: How could there be no ghost-repelling nail in front of a water warden's house? Wouldn't that be the same as letting ghosts in?

I replied, "I didn't see any ghost-repelling nail when I came."

Old Liu Tou glared at me fiercely, rushed into the house, and lifted the water tank cover. After just glancing inside, he sat down on the ground with a pale face. "It's over! It's all over! The water ghost has entered the village. How many people will die?"

I had just glanced into the water tank when Old Liu Tou suddenly stood up and grabbed my collar. "You let the water ghost into the village, what are you going to do? What are you going to do?"

I gently pushed away Old Liu Tou's hand. "Old man, just because I didn't want to argue with you just now doesn't mean I won't argue with you every time. I'll tell you again, I didn't touch your ghost-repelling nail."

"If you didn't touch it, where did the ghost-repelling nail go?" Old Liu Tou didn't believe me at all. "I placed a restriction near the ghost-repelling nail. Ordinary people can't even see it, so how could they pull it out? It must be you. What are you trying to do?"

I was too lazy to explain anything to Old Liu Tou, and suddenly erupted with true qi. Even the Nine Ghosts wouldn't dare to tug on my collar when I erupted with killing intent. Little Nine said: When your killing intent erupts, tugging on your collar is like pulling a tiger's whiskers.

Old Liu Tou was so frightened by the sudden burst of killing intent that he sat down on the ground. "What... what are you going to do..."

I turned sideways and glanced into the water tank, only to find that the bottom of the tank was hollow, as if something had dug a hole in it.

The thing that had hollowed out the water tank had already left from under the tank.

I put my ear to the mouth of the tank and listened, faintly hearing a sound of water—there should be a waterway under the water tank, and the water was flowing in the direction of Fish Basket Village.

I took out a few wax-sealed balls from my backpack and threw them into the waterway before pulling Old Liu Tou up. "Take me into the village to have a look."

Old Liu Tou gritted his teeth. "No! You're not from a good background. I can't take you into the village."

Old Liu Tou was convinced that I had let the ghost into the village.

I was too lazy to argue with him. "Alright, you can handle the village affairs yourself! I can't be bothered with you."

I went out and walked upstream, but Old Liu Tou didn't even want his luggage. He ran towards the village for dear life.

I deliberately ignored Old Liu Tou and went to a deserted place. I placed a few steamed buns by the water, inserted yellow incense sticks, and took a few steps back. I pointed to the incense sticks from a distance, and the bundles of yellow incense were instantly ignited by my internal force. As the green smoke curled into the air, ripples appeared on the surface of the water.

I was lighting incense to lure ghosts! Unexpectedly, I attracted a stream of river water.

I watched as a stream of water about two fingers thick, like a transparent little snake, bypassed the incense and candles I had placed on the ground and flowed straight towards my feet, stopping abruptly just before it touched my toes.

In the next moment, the stream of river water seemed to be guided by someone, writing a word on the ground: "Scram!"

I sneered, "I won't leave until I've finished my business. Now that you're here, why don't you come out and meet me?"

The stream of water suddenly retreated three feet before flowing again, this time writing the words: "Leave or die!"

Before I could speak, a three-foot-high flame suddenly erupted from the yellow incense, and a bundle of yellow incense looked like a burning torch, casting a red glow on the river bank.

The four large characters written on the side looked as if they had been soaked in blood, glaring red.

The other party was showing me their power.

I smiled faintly, "I've done everything, except die."

As soon as I finished speaking, the fire on the yellow incense went out, the stars and moon in the sky dimmed, and everything within a hundred meters of me became pitch black. Beyond that, however, countless specks of fire appeared.

Clusters of dark green phosphorescent fire, like startled fireflies, swarmed out of the reeds on the bank in an instant, then clung to the reeds and slowly floated upwards.

In just a moment, the reeds on the bank looked like candles lit with green fire, floating with clusters of eerie green light.

Water ghosts invading the shore!

If so many water ghosts were to come ashore at the same time, the consequences would be unimaginable.