Because I chanted the incantation three seconds earlier than she activated the magic circle, I had control of the situation. Her black venomous snakes appeared to be biting me, but the one standing in front of Meiying was no longer me.

When Meiying activated the magic circle, the yin energy that had been scurrying around the villa suddenly had a direction, flowing into Meiying's body according to the path she had drawn. This sudden shift would inevitably cause fluctuations in the entire villa's aura. At that moment, the senses of both humans and ghosts were essentially useless. Not only would human vision and hearing be distorted, but the information detected by ghosts would also become a blur.

In other words, in that instant when the yin energy suddenly shifted, Meiying was both deaf and blind. No matter what I did, she wouldn't be able to detect it.

So, I used the fake body I had just formed with the incantation to replace myself. Meiying thought her venomous snakes had bitten me, but they had only bitten a phantom composed of talismans. That phantom was a trap I had set, containing a baleful aura far more ferocious than yin energy.

After the venomous snakes bit the phantom, not only did they fail to allow yin energy to enter my body, but they also caused baleful aura to enter their own bodies. Moreover, once this baleful aura invaded their bodies, it would uncontrollably flow backward, directly reversing into Meiying's body. This was why Meiying suddenly aged so rapidly.

Ghosts are formed from condensed yin energy. Now that the yin energy that constituted her body was scattered by my baleful aura, how could she possibly feel good? But a mere talisman phantom alone was clearly not enough to completely destroy a powerful ghost like Meiying.

Meiying looked at me with a ferocious expression, extended her right hand with its long, scarlet nails, and suddenly plunged it into her own chest. Her ghostly hand pierced through her body, directly grasping her heart. Strings of talismans spread from her chest, covering her entire ghostly form with a layer of pale red light, like a faint blood glow in the dim villa room.

Then, the speed at which Meiying's appearance aged stopped, and even slowly recovered a little. However, she only recovered to the appearance of a sixty or seventy-year-old. She was no longer as beautiful and young as when she had first appeared, and a row of sharp fangs had grown in her mouth, making her look even more terrifying.

The black hair in the room had decreased a lot, but what remained was even more turbulent. Meiying seemed to want to vent her anger at her failure through this black hair.

She had meticulously planned and carefully arranged everything, but in the end, she had still fallen for my tricks. How could this not make her angry? Especially seeing me standing in front of her with my arms crossed, leisurely watching her disheveled appearance.

Meiying's furious black hair lashed out at me, but I chopped it off neatly with a hand blade. The black hair coiled around again, and I chopped it off again.

Meiying's face was twisted with hatred, but she couldn't do anything to me. Her enraged hair flailed wildly, and a large rat in the next room met with misfortune. It was directly pulled into her mouth, and the sound of her chewing echoed with splattering blood.

I looked at Meiying with some sympathy, thinking to myself: They say unlucky ghosts are unlucky, and today you are a truly unlucky ghost. What couldn't you have eaten in this house? You had to eat a rat, and such a big one at that. Now it's all over. Even if I were willing to let you go, the rats wouldn't let you go.

Before Meiying could finish chewing the rat in her mouth, she suddenly screamed miserably, and her ghostly form began to convulse. She vomited violently, spitting out the large rat that had been chewed to pieces but not yet swallowed.

Then, an unbelievable scene occurred. Those pieces of meat were actually as alive as could be, slowly wriggling on the ground, clump by clump, reforming into the shape of a large rat. However, the rat's eyeballs seemed to have been chewed too finely and had not recovered properly. When it reformed its body, it hadn't been able to get the colors and front and back right. Some of the fur was right-side out, but some of it was inside out, with the long-haired side facing in and the bloody rat skin exposed on the outside. There was even a section of intestine dangling from its neck, like it was wearing a scarf.

But it was this strange-looking rat, like a spilled paint can, that scared Meiying into retreating repeatedly, and even her turbulent black hair drooped down obediently.

"A… a corpse-eating rat?"

I looked at Meiying with a face full of sympathy: "This is not only a corpse-eating rat, but also the Rat King among corpse-eating rats. You chewed him up. Do you think you can still get out of this house today?"

"No, impossible? How could there be a corpse-eating rat here? She didn't tell me, impossible."

I rolled my eyes at Meiying helplessly: "If she told you everything, you wouldn't have come to this place. Besides, Bai Tingting doesn't often deal with evil creatures, so perhaps she really doesn't know there are corpse-eating rats here. In short, you've offended the corpse-eating rats, so just admit your bad luck. They don't just eat corpses, they also eat ghosts. You're about to be served, on the rats' dining table."

"You… you discovered they were corpse-eating rats a long time ago, but you didn't tell me, watching me put the Rat King in my mouth. I hate you!" Meiying said through gritted teeth, as if I had really done something to her.

But I didn't understand. It was my business that I discovered there were corpse-eating rats here. Why should I tell you? Who are you to me? You're my enemy, okay? You came to kill me, would I tell you what dangerous creatures there are here? Am I stupid?

You came here early in the morning to set up this layout, and you must have looked at these rats hundreds of times, but you didn't see that they were any different. Your eyes are really blind. Especially after I burned incense, they acted like they couldn't see you, enjoying the incense in a grand manner. You still didn't feel that something was wrong. I really don't know what to say about you.

Clearly, your cultivation is pretty good, and the magic circle you set up is also quite skillful, but your brain just doesn't work.

You didn't think about it. Can ordinary rats eat incense? They should prefer peanuts, right? Since they are rats that can eat incense, they must have cultivated some ability. How could they not feel your powerful ghostly energy?

With a powerful ghost like you here, would they be able to eat incense when I burned it? But they completely ignored your existence, not leaving you a single bite. Naturally, that meant they were more powerful than you and didn't need to be polite to you at all.

As a result, you foolishly treated their Rat King as a tool to vent your anger on and put it directly in your mouth.

Forget it, go on. After a ghost is eaten, there's nothing left. I don't even need to chant the Rebirth Mantra for you. Even if I chanted it, you wouldn't be able to be reborn.

The multicolored rat didn't stand on ceremony either. It stretched its body, then pounced towards Meiying, opening its mouth to bite. Meiying's ghostly form immediately faded by half, but the big rat didn't seem to have gotten much out of it either. It suddenly jumped down from Meiying's body, its huge rat body twisting into a ball in pain.