When Yu Daohan arrived at the studio on the fourth floor, the mirror ghost and the shadowy figure were nowhere to be seen.
*Beep~ Beep~ Beep.*
As Yu Daohan was thinking, his phone suddenly rang. He pulled out his phone and saw it was Old Xu calling.
As soon as Yu Daohan answered, he heard Old Xu's panting voice: "Master Yu, what's the situation on your end?"
"Nothing much on my end. Did you encounter something on your end?" Yu Daohan sensed something was wrong.
Xu Gensheng looked at the backpack on the ground and said, "I ran into someone from our line of work, but he got away."
Upon hearing this, Yu Daohan thought of the man in black: "Old Xu, where are you now? I'll come find you."
"No need, I'm coming to the teaching building," Xu Gensheng replied.
Yu Daohan nodded. When he got downstairs, he realized it was already dawn. He took out his phone and saw it was already 5:30 in the morning.
Li Bi, seeing Yu Daohan come down so late, breathed a sigh of relief. The three of them had thought something had happened to Yu Daohan.
"Master Yu, how was that ghost?" Li Bi couldn't help but ask.
"Although that ghost hasn't completely dissipated, it won't be able to harm anyone again."
Yu Daohan nodded. The ghost, after taking a blow from the Kanglong Jian, would be severely injured even if not killed. It was unlikely to have the strength to cause trouble again.
Li Bi, Guo Hongyuan, and Zhang He all breathed a sigh of relief, their hanging hearts finally settling.
Just as Yu Daohan was wondering why Old Xu hadn't returned yet, he saw Xu Gensheng walking over with a backpack.
Yu Daohan looked at the backpack Xu Gensheng was carrying, feeling a bit puzzled: "Old Xu, why do you have a trophy with you?"
Xu Gensheng waved his hand: "I didn't expect that kid to have a trick up his sleeve. He released two Gu Tou Xie, and I wasn't paying attention, so he escaped."
At three o'clock in the morning yesterday, Xu Gensheng saw that Yu Daohan still hadn't come down and prepared to go up to check the situation. But as soon as he reached the stairs, he saw a figure walking out.
When the figure saw Xu Gensheng, it turned and ran. Xu Gensheng didn't bother with anything else and chased after it.
Xu Gensheng chased the figure all the way to a small grove next to the abandoned teaching building. Seeing that he couldn't escape, the figure engaged Xu Gensheng in a fight. However, after three moves, Xu Gensheng had the upper hand, forcing him to retreat. In the end, he only managed to escape by releasing two small ghosts.
When Yu Daohan heard "Gu Tou Xie," he knew it was the person he had encountered last night.
The so-called Gu Tou Xie was the small ghost, about the size of a normal person's head, released by that person last night.
These Gu Tou Xie were refined from the souls of fetuses that died in the womb and survived by feeding on human hearts. They were extremely sinister. Their bodies were about the size of an ordinary person's head, hence the name Gu Tou Xie.
"However, even though that kid got away, all his belongings were left behind," Xu Gensheng said, kicking the backpack with his foot, making the sound of glass bottles colliding.
Yu Daohan looked at the backpack with curiosity. He assumed this backpack contained all the ghosts the ghost breeder had raised.
Yu Daohan picked up the backpack and looked at Li Bi and the other two: "Since this matter is over, we'll take our leave."
Li Bi wanted to invite them to stay for lunch, but Yu Daohan declined.
Yu Daohan and Xu Gensheng climbed over the school wall under the cover of darkness and walked towards the shop.
The two of them took a taxi, and by the time they arrived at Old Street, it was already 8:30 in the morning.
They got out of the car at the entrance to Old Street and walked towards the shop.
There were already more pedestrians on the road. Yu Daohan weighed the backpack in his hand; there were at least ten to twenty glass bottles.
"Old Xu, what kind of ghosts do you think are in here?"
Yu Daohan was quite curious. According to rumors, ghost breeders raised all sorts of ghosts, such as wealth ghosts, romance ghosts, and disaster ghosts. He wondered what kind of ghosts the owner of this backpack raised.
Xu Gensheng shook his head, unsure: "Ghost breeders raise all sorts of ghosts. The more common ones are wealth ghosts and romance ghosts, but some also raise evil ghosts, like the Gu Tou Xie, which is one of them."
Yu Daohan looked down at the backpack in his hand. He had heard of people raising evil ghosts, but he wondered if all these glass bottles contained the same kind of ghost.
"Don't think about it. Look ahead, Master Yu!" Xu Gensheng said, his expression turning serious, his hand already reaching for the dagger at his waist.
Yu Daohan looked up in the direction of the shop and saw three figures standing at the shop entrance, with an expensive Rolls-Royce parked nearby.
Meng Dalong, ranked twelfth on the Black List; Cheng Shixiang, ranked twenty-second on the Heaven List; and the patriarch of the ghost-breeding family, Ta Youqian.
Yu Daohan couldn't help but be a little surprised. He didn't expect these renowned experts in the martial world to come to his shop together.
"Oh, Master Meng, Master Cheng, and Patriarch Ta, these renowned figures from the martial world have graced my humble shop." Yu Daohan chuckled and walked forward, completely unfazed.
If it were anywhere else, Yu Daohan might have been afraid. But in Jiangdu, he was the heaven and the law. No matter who you were, whether you were ranked twelfth on the Black List or the patriarch of some family, in Jiangdu, dragons had to coil and tigers had to lie down.