The woman was silent for two or three seconds before shouting, "I don't care, I just want to see Bu Huangquan. I won't ask about anything else."

I suppressed my anger and said, "I can't find Bu Huangquan right now, but I can contact his son, Bu Youming. I can..."

The woman interrupted me angrily, "Can't you understand human speech? I said, I only want to see Bu Huangquan."

"No need to ask anymore." Ye Yang took a step forward, his sword flashed from its sheath, and he pierced the woman's left shoulder with a sword, pinning her to the wall.

If our mission wasn't so urgent, it wouldn't hurt to help her contact Bu Youming and inquire about Bu Huangquan's whereabouts. However, we were racing against the Reincarnation Department, and we didn't have time to waste words with her.

As Ye Yang walked forward slowly, I stood opposite the woman: "You won't accept a toast, so you have to drink a forfeit! Xiaochun, devour her!"

Nie Xiaochun had become a ghost deity. Ghost deities can obtain the other party's abilities or memories by devouring spirits. Now, the only way for me to get answers quickly was to let Nie Xiaochun devour her.

As Nie Xiaochun reached out to grab the woman's face, ghostly wails arose in the village, and the sound of stone slabs cracking came frequently, I also heard a scream from a nearby courtyard.

In an instant, screams and cries for help echoed throughout the village.

The ghosts guarding the gate had begun to kill people?

"Lin Zhao, watch Nie Xiaochun!" I shouted, drew my saber, jumped onto the courtyard wall, and rushed towards my neighbor's house.

When I arrived, the family was covered in blood. The male head of the household had been hacked to death by a woman wielding a kitchen knife, and she was covered in blood, searching for someone in the courtyard.

As soon as my feet touched the ground, she threw the kitchen knife at my face. I tilted my head slightly, and the bloody knife whizzed past my ear.

I took the opportunity to point a finger at the center of her brow. The ghost attached to her body was immediately shaken out of her, and her body fell limply to the ground.

My left-hand saber followed, and the ghost I had struck was shattered on the spot.

I also rushed to the woodpile that the ghost was searching. The last survivor of this family should be hiding in the woodpile.

I pulled at the woodpile several times before I saw a small boy covered in blood.

"Child..." I was about to reach out to pull him out, but I didn't expect him to raise a pair of empty, lifeless eyes and stare at me. "You found me? Play with me!"

As the child stretched out his hands towards me, I felt the air around me freeze in an instant. A vortex-like stream of air appeared between the child's hands, pulling my soul towards his hands.

"Open—" The burst of air from my tongue was like a sharp arrow shot at my close opponent. Blood spurted wildly from all seven orifices of the child, and he fell backward.

Only then did I see a half-foot-long gash on the back of his head.

He was probably the first one killed in this family.

The ghosts in the village were not only killing people, but also beginning to occupy the village.

Wandering souls wouldn't play hide-and-seek with people. Only ghosts familiar with the surrounding environment would lead people to find them and, at the moment when people found them and their guard was down, drag away their souls.

If I hadn't shattered the opponent's soul with the tongue-tip arrow in time, I might have capsized in a ditch.

I got up and let out a long whistle: "Ye Yang, be careful, there's an ambush here! Forget about the village, go back!"

I knew it was too late to save anyone.

Ye Yang and I didn't have the ability to be in two places at once, so we could only kill one family at a time. But the ghosts in the village rioted in every house at the same time.

I was already fast when I landed in the yard next door, but I couldn't save anyone in that family.

The only way to save people was to return to the Bu family and find that woman.

I didn't believe that the ghosts would riot for no reason. Either the woman was controlling the ghosts to slaughter the village, or someone had angered the gatekeeping ghosts in some other way, causing them to kill people.

No matter which was the case, the key to breaking the situation lay with that woman.

As Ye Yang and I jumped into the courtyard one after the other, Nie Xiaochun had already pulled half of the woman's soul out of her body, but I saw the resentment swirling around the woman.

I quickly shouted, "Xiaochun, don't eat her!"

The resentment on the woman's body had reached the point where it was as thick as water. Nie Xiaochun herself was not a ghost transformed from resentment, and she couldn't digest such strong resentment.

Once Nie Xiaochun swallowed this woman's soul, although her power would skyrocket in a short time, she herself would go crazy in an instant and become a bloodthirsty resentful ghost.

At that time, how could Ye Yang and I face Nie Xiaochun?

Could we still shatter her soul?

However, Nie Xiaochun seemed unable to hear me and was still desperately dragging the woman's soul.

I rushed to her side in a few steps and drew my twin blades. Lin Zhao shouted, "Don't kill her! Look at Xiaochun's eyes!"