Chapter 175 Corpses

Feng Ruoxing didn't wait for Gong Fugui to react before raising his hand and sending out five spirit talismans.

Like knives, the spirit talismans shot out and instantly adhered to the corpse's limbs and forehead. In the next instant, the raging flames ignited simultaneously from the five talismans, engulfing the corpse in the grave.

Gong Fugui shouted sharply, "Li Po, you won't get away with thi—"

Gong Fugui's words were cut short as he froze – because he hadn't turned to ashes.

It was never a good thing for a ghost to have its corpse found by a sorcerer. The sorcerer could use spells on the corpse to directly attack the ghost's soul. Unless he reached the level of a corpse demon like Gu Bei, with a primordial soul achieving spiritual power, his soul would inevitably scatter upon the corpse being attacked.

Gong Fugui slumped to the ground, muttering to himself with vacant eyes, "That wasn't my corpse? I've been guarding someone else's corpse all these years?"

Gong Fugui turned to look at me, "Hall Master Li, where did my corpse go!"

I took a deep breath and said, "It should still be on this burial mound. Gather everyone and see who's missing."

"Everyone out!" After Gong Fugui's ghostly howl, hundreds of wandering ghosts appeared behind the graves, their shadows densely packed across the mountain.

Gong Fugui shouted hoarsely, "All the managers, get out here! Investigate! Check one by one! See who's missing, quickly!"

As several ghosts quickly counted the numbers, Ye Yang and I both wore grave expressions.

A terrible thought couldn't help but arise in my mind: Could it be that Old Liu was setting me up?

It was Old Liu who guided me to find Gong Fugui, and it was Old Liu who told me the story of the Coiled Dragon Wood. If I believed Gong Fugui and rashly went to Old Baldy Mountain, would there be another trap waiting for me there?

The thought sent a chill down my spine!

I kept asking myself: Am I being too suspicious?

No, this was the most normal way of thinking for someone in the jianghu (martial world). Nine Ghosts once told me that even the closest people could betray you. Servants betraying masters, husbands betraying wives, even sons betraying fathers, were all commonplace in the jianghu.

Betrayal wasn't always for profit, but it was this kind of betrayal, without a motive, that was the most terrifying and the most difficult to guard against.

I didn't believe Old Liu would betray me, but I had to find evidence. Otherwise, even the greatest trust could crack.

As I stood there silently with a gloomy expression, Feng Ruoxing seemed to want to talk to me, but Ye Yang stopped him.

I looked at Ye Yang with a hint of helplessness, but he didn't give me any reaction. He knew that I had to overcome this obstacle myself. Otherwise, it would coil around me like a snake and affect every judgment I made from then on.

Before long, the ghosts who had been sent out all returned. Gong Fugui said with a somber expression, "None of our people are missing."

I looked out at the endless graves, "Open all the graves without ghosts, and search carefully!"

Gong Fugui shouted, "Everyone, dig up the graves! Don't miss a single one, quickly!"

Ghosts on the mountain rushed towards the graves without souls, dust flying everywhere across the hillside.

My eyes, however, remained fixed on Gong Fugui. Gong Fugui was a little unnerved by my gaze: "Hall Master Li, Master Li... don't look at me like that, I really don't know anything!"

Would a ghost not be able to find its own corpse?

I didn't quite believe that!

What if someone deliberately told Gong Fugui how to deal with me?

I didn't dare to kill Gong Fugui before I figured out the truth.

From that point of view, he was actually quite safe. Was the person who set me up counting on this mentality of mine?

Before the truth was found, any speculation was possible!

I paced back and forth in the graveyard, but the more I walked, the more agitated I became!

Ye Yang said in a low voice, "Calm down, think about Weizi Alley!"

"Weizi Alley? What am I thinking about? Old Liu!"

I suddenly woke up. Chen Xiaobei in Weizi Alley was Old Liu's past life's confidante. Chen Xiaobei had encountered danger several times, but Old Liu had remained calm, never disturbing my thinking.

If Old Liu had made the slightest rash move at that time, it might have disrupted my subsequent actions.

Old Liu didn't act because he knew that only calmness could reverse the decline!

Ye Yang was telling me to learn from Old Liu.

As I tried to calm my emotions as much as possible, the ghosts gradually returned. Gong Fugui said with a grave expression, "Hall Master Li, they didn't find anything."

I was sure that Gong Fugui's corpse was still on this mountain. Where could his corpse be?

Gong Fugui said, "Hall Master Li, how about I have people dig down along the original graveyard? Maybe my corpse is deeper underground? Otherwise, why would I be guarding this place without moving?"

I turned to look at Gong Fugui: "Come down the mountain with me!"

I didn't look back as I rushed back to the broken house where I had negotiated with Gong Fugui: "Have your people dig up everything here! Dig three feet into the ground and find any clues."

Gong Fugui gritted his teeth, "Dig! Dig it all up for me!"

I looked at the busy ghosts and couldn't help but mutter to myself, "What if we still can't find it?"