Old Yu Tou babbled, "This white line is the boundary between yin and yang! People walk inside it, ghosts walk outside it. If you cross it, you become a ghost."

A line between yin and yang!

This is an advanced secret technique. Anyone who can separate humans and ghosts with a white line is at least a Di (Earth) level expert.

This Yu Xue Lin might be more complex than he appears.

Old Yu Tou saw that I didn't speak and couldn't help but smile, "I knew you little brat wouldn't believe it. Have your elder sit there, and you walk around the white line twice yourself. But don't step outside! Once you do, you won't be able to come back."

Old Yu Tou sees Lao Liu as the geomancer and me as the assistant?

Makes sense! Lao Liu looks more like a geomancer than I do.

I gave Lao Liu a look, and the latter laughed, "No need. I trust Brother Yu's skills."

Lao Liu found a place to sit down and said, "Brother, is it convenient for you to live here? Such a good house, but half of it is occupied by other things. How can you sleep at night?"

Old Yu Tou said without hesitation, "What other things? Aren't they just ghosts? They occupy my house, and I can't even complain?"

"I'm telling you, after Xue Lin drew the line for me, I've been scolding them a lot. Do they even have any manners?"

"This is my house. They just come and go as they please. Where do they get the nerve?"

Old Yu Tou cursed, "The most shameless ones are the Chen family, the Chen family..."

Old Yu Tou deliberately raised his voice, as if he wanted the Chen family to hear him, "The whole family, except for the little girl, every single one of them is shameless."

Lao Liu said calmly, "Tell me, how are they shameless? If they're really scum, I'll help you deal with them."

Old Yu Tou waved his hand and said, "Forget it. That family is too strange. A geomancer couldn't stand them before and tried to do something about it. But the Chen family didn't give in, and the geomancer failed instead. The Chen family's affairs are not easy to handle!"

Lao Liu said, "I heard that every family in Weizi Alley is haunted. Isn't the Chen family haunted?"

"Bullshit!" Old Yu Tou spat, "That whole family are ghosts. If it weren't for them, there wouldn't be so much trouble."

Old Yu Tou said, "I'm telling you, the Chen family's story starts with their old master."

Old Yu Tou continued without us asking:

"After the Chen family's old master died with resentment, Weizi Alley started to become uneasy, but it wasn't as strange as it is now."

"That year, the Chen family's old master had a sudden cerebral hemorrhage at the age of ninety-seven. Besides the Chen family's children and grandchildren, there were also a few of us old neighbors by his side."

"I was also called over to help back then."

"When I arrived, the Chen family's old master was already unable to speak, but he struggled to hold up three fingers and point them at his son and grandson."

"Anyone with eyes could see that the old master had something important to say."

"According to common sense, the two good-for-nothings from the Chen family should have asked the old man what he couldn't let go of. They should have slowly led the old man to nod or shake his head, and that would have shown their filial piety."

"But those two bastards are no good."

"Old Chen Tou knelt by the bed, desperately clutching Chen Old Master's hand, clasping the three fingers that the old master had stretched out back into his palm, and shaking his head vigorously at the old master."

"The Chen family's little brat was as if he wasn't from the Chen family at all. He stood far away by the wall, squinting his eyes and looking at his family's old master, with an expression like he was looking at an enemy."

"I'm telling you, that little brat is no good. Chen Old Master was a good man, always happy and friendly to the neighbors. How could he be bad to that little brat?"

"At that time, we all felt indignant, but the old master's funeral still had to be handled properly. None of us bothered to talk to that little brat."

"At that time, Chen Old Master used all his strength to say one word, 'You,' and then passed away with his eyes wide open, even bloodshot. Old Chen Tou stroked his eyes several times, but they wouldn't close."

"Chen Old Master clearly had something he couldn't let go of, and Old Chen Tou knew what he wanted, but he didn't agree to it."

"At that time, many people said that Old Chen Tou was unfilial, and some even said that he wasn't Chen Old Master's biological son, which was why he wouldn't even agree to his dying wish."

"After Chen Old Master passed away, the alley started to become uneasy."

"When Chen Old Master was alive, no matter how late we came back from work, we could always see the lanterns lit at Chen Old Master's house. There was light when we entered the alley, and we weren't afraid!"

"After Chen Old Master passed away, when we came back, we would either see someone squatting in the corner or someone standing on the wall!"

"If you weren't careful, you'd easily knock on the wrong door. Not only would you be knocking on someone else's door in the middle of the night, but someone would actually open the door for you!"

"Those who opened the door were all dead people!"

"They were people who had been dead for many years, standing behind the door, opening the door, and leading you into the house!"

"Those who followed them didn't know at first that they were being led by dead people. By the time they realized it, it was already too late."

"They had already walked into the house, and they couldn't run away even if they wanted to!"

Old Yu Tou stopped talking here.

I asked calmly, "Dead people leading living people into the house, is it like you leading us in?"