Lao Liu once told me that Gong Fugui was born into the thief's trade.

The hand gesture I made was a secret signal for meeting friends in the thief's trade, meaning: I'm here to ask for your help, not to cause trouble.

If he didn't understand my gesture, it meant he wasn't Gong Fugui.

The words I left behind were to tell him: I won't force you if you don't want to cooperate. But don't stop me from cooperating with others, or else, don't blame me for being impolite.

If Gong Fugui was nearby, he wouldn't have dared to let me leave like that.

Whether a wild ghost has a backer is crucial for their ability to establish themselves in the area. If Liangjie Tang supports other ghosts instead, Gong Fugui could easily be eliminated by others.

I had only taken a few steps when I heard someone behind me shout, "Master Li, please wait!"

I turned around and saw a ghost standing in front of the dilapidated house. "This one is Gong Fugui, greetings, Master Li. I've been in the thief's trade for many years and have developed a cautious habit. I have to be careful in everything I do, please forgive me, Master."

I smiled faintly and walked back into the house. Soon, ghosts had set up tables and chairs for us. After Gong Fugui and I sat down across the table, he asked with a hint of feigned ignorance, "I wonder, what brings Master Li here?"

"I'm here to ask you about the Qulong burial mound," I stated my purpose directly. His expression changed abruptly. "I don't know what Master Li is talking about, farewell!"

Before Gong Fugui could move, I grabbed his wrist and forced him back into his seat. "Friend, before I resort to violence, you should think carefully about what you say."

Gong Fugui sneered, "Master Li, even an exorcist needs a reason to kill a ghost. If you kill me for no reason, I'm afraid you won't be able to explain it to the underworld, right? Brothers, stand up and let Master Li kill to his heart's content!"

At Gong Fugui's command, the outside of the dilapidated house became filled with ghostly figures. Countless ghosts surrounded the entire house, and although they didn't attack, they all looked at me with cold smiles.

They didn't believe that I would dare to extinguish their souls.

Exorcists can kill ghosts, but they can't kill them arbitrarily.

When a ghost is annihilated by an exorcist, it's equivalent to completely erasing him from reincarnation, with no chance of being reborn. In a sense, it disrupts the balance of the natural order.

If exorcists kill ghosts at will, the underworld would see it as no different from mortals slaughtering the innocent, and the underworld would definitely send ghost messengers to arrest the exorcists and bring them to the underworld to answer for their crimes.

Therefore, in a sense, it's much easier for an exorcist to kill a person than to kill a ghost.

A cold smile crept onto my lips. "You want to scare me? Let me tell you, my grandmaster is Hei Bai Wuchang (Black and White Impermanence), even if I kill all the ghosts here today, no ghost messenger would dare to say a word of disapproval, do you believe it?"

Gong Fugui was just sneering, unwilling to say another word to me.

I waved my hand slightly. "Kill!"

With both hands moving in unison, hundreds of spiritual talismans were propelled by Feng Ruoxing's true energy, flying around like snowflakes. As soon as the talismans landed, raging flames erupted, and the ghosts surrounding the dilapidated house were instantly burned into balls of fire, rolling back and forth in the soaring flames, screaming in agony.

Gong Fugui's expression changed drastically, but he sat back down with a sneer. "Is that all?"

He could see that although the fire outside was fierce, it wouldn't kill those ghosts; it was more of a scare tactic.

Feng Ruoxing had indeed controlled her strength, enough to make those ghosts suffer terribly, but not enough to kill them.

I smiled faintly. "This is just the beginning, why are you in such a hurry? You can watch slowly as things progress!"

Gong Fugui said calmly, "I'd like to see how you'll explain it when the ghost messengers arrive?"

Gong Fugui was able to thrive in this area, so he must have been familiar with some ghost messengers. Before long, his subordinate led a ghost messenger over. The ghost messenger wasn't of high rank and naturally didn't know who we were. He opened his mouth and shouted, "How dare you..."

Before the ghost messenger could finish speaking, Feng Ruoxing said coldly, "In this part of Liaodong, there's really nothing that Liangjie Tang (Two Realms Hall) wouldn't dare to do."

"Liangjie Tang!" The ghost messenger was so frightened that he trembled on the spot. "May I ask, which master are you?"

"Feng Ruoxing!" After Feng Ruoxing announced her name, the ghost messenger knelt down on the spot. "Greetings, Third Master."

Feng Ruoxing said indifferently, "You recognize me?"

The ghost messenger hurriedly said, "This humble one once followed my superior to help Liangjie Tang with errands, but I never had the chance to admire the elegance of the masters."

"You know how to talk, so you can live. Go back where you came from." Feng Ruoxing didn't even look at him. "You can report what happened here truthfully."

"This humble one saw nothing!" The ghost messenger stood up and ran away without raising his head. He meant to tell us that he didn't see who was in the house.

I looked at Gong Fugui, whose expression had changed drastically, with a smile that was not quite a smile. "I'll give you another chance to find someone. You can try calling the City God of this area, or even find some hell soldiers, I'll wait for your backer to come."