"You little shrew," Feng Ruoxing gritted through her teeth as she lectured me, "I know you're not afraid of them. Even if you offend everyone, at worst, you can just kill your way out of the provincial capital."

"But you have to think about others! You don't just represent yourself anymore, you also represent Liangjie Tang! Five or six people are relying on you for a living. If you offend too many people, they'll have trouble too!"

I hung my head, unable to look up as Feng Ruoxing scolded me. What she said was right, but I also felt that what I did wasn't wrong.

I didn't know who taught Feng Ruoxing, but I was taught by nine notorious Jiangyang bandits! When they taught me, they never mentioned the word "compromise."

Their guiding principle was: don't back down when trouble comes. Be ruthless. If you can win, settle it with your blades. If you can't, run away and come back to fight again, sticking to them like a haunting ghost.

Wasn't my behavior just now the standard style of the Nine Ghosts? I coughed twice and said, "Don't be like this, there's an outsider here! It's not good!"

Feng Ruoxing was about to explode with anger, "Who's your 'insider'? You, you..."

"We'll talk about it at home!" I said with a serious face, "Let's talk business first, Brother Zhao. What's this 'Chasing Bai Xin'?"

I had already steered the conversation back to Zhao Ci. No matter how angry Feng Ruoxing was, she could only focus on the business at hand.

Before Zhao Ci spoke, he gave Feng Ruoxing a meaningful look, his eyes full of relief, which almost infuriated Feng Ruoxing even more.

She reached around me from behind, and I used voice transmission to say, "Don't pinch my lower back, that action is too ambiguous. Be careful, Brother Zhao might call me his brother-in-law later."

Feng Ruoxing was so angry that she was panting behind me, but she really didn't dare to pinch me. I spoke to Zhao Ci about the business in a serious manner.

Zhao Ci said, "This 'Chasing Bai Xin' business has been talked about in the provincial capital for three years. At least five top-notch sorcerers have tried to chase Bai Xin, but none of them have returned."

"Those five were about the same level as Ruoxing. All the Feng Shui masters in the province are watching the 'Chasing Bai Xin' business. Whoever can catch Bai Xin will be recognized as the best in the provincial capital, but no one dares to act rashly because they're afraid they won't come back alive."

As Zhao Ci spoke, he paid special attention to my expression. Seeing that I was just listening to him, he continued:

"People in the martial world talk about 'Chasing Bai Xin,' but no one knows who Bai Xin is."

"Bai Xin is just a pen name. No one knows if he's a man or a woman, a human or a ghost. All they know is that he publishes a ghost story in a local tabloid every once in a while."

"Bai Xin's stories are all written in red ink, which stands out on the black newspaper, and many people buy that tabloid just to read Bai Xin's stories."

"After Bai Xin's story is published, one person in the editorial department will always inexplicably claim to be Bai Xin."

"That person who calls himself 'Bai Xin' will die mysteriously within a few days, and his body will always be clutching a newspaper. Bai Xin's story will definitely be stuck in the corpse's hand."

"The strange thing is that no one at the newspaper has ever used the pen name 'Bai Xin'."

"External submissions are reviewed and laid out by people, and no one has ever seen Bai Xin's submission, nor has anyone laid it out for him, yet Bai Xin's story can still be published."

"No one knows why Bai Xin's story is published in the newspaper."

"All they know is that someone will die within seven days of the story being published."

"The editor-in-chief of the newspaper has reported it to the police, hired private investigators, and even sought out Feng Shui masters."

"The final result was that the police couldn't find any clues, the private investigator died mysteriously, and all five well-known Feng Shui masters disappeared."

When I heard this, I asked, "How did Bai Xin's matter get involved with your daughter?"

Zhao Ci said, "My daughter is currently doing her graduation internship, and she was assigned to the Evening City Newspaper. That's where Bai Xin publishes his articles."

Zhao Ci said, "At first, I didn't know that Yuezhu would be interning at the newspaper. When I realized something was wrong, she already had the aura of death around her. She was entangled by Bai Xin."

I pressed, "When did this happen?"

"Half a month ago!" Zhao Ci said, "Yuezhu wasn't the only student interning at the Evening City Newspaper. There were others. Two of those interns have already died. Yuezhu should also be entangled by Bai Xin."

"That's why I'm looking for someone to save Yuezhu."

I nodded after hearing this, "What's with this urgent seven-nine business?"

Zhao Ci said, "I had no choice but to issue a seven-nine business. Bai Xin only takes seven days to kill, and if the business isn't completed within seven days, Yuezhu will die. I can only issue such a urgent task."

Zhao Ci also instructed, "Yuezhu is extremely disgusted with sorcerers. If you appear by her side as sorcerers, she won't just refuse to cooperate, she'll even create trouble for you. So, you have to change your identities."

I couldn't help but ask, "Why is your daughter disgusted with sorcerers? Isn't she afraid of death?"

Zhao Ci was silent for a moment before saying, "The reason why Yuezhu is disgusted with sorcerers is a family scandal! You shouldn't ask about it. As for whether she's afraid of death..."

Zhao Ci stopped again, as if thinking about how to explain it to us.