r cheeks, like one side was a bit swollen."Hey, were you beaten up" I asked in surprise. "Who dared to hit you!"She raised her hand to touch her cheek and smiled bitterly: "...My mom hit me. This is t...My brother took out two differently shaped lanterns and grinned, "Since there's still corpse qi here, it means something happened recently. Let's try using these soul-attracting lamps to see if we can summon the spirits."

"What if we're already in the underworld" I was curious too, taking the lamp my brother handed me. "If it were a murder case, there should be police tape here by now. I guess it must be an accident, that's why everything's normal and they're still renting it out."

"Why don't you give it a try" My brother flicked on the light in the stairwell and went up the stairs first.

I went to check the first floor, but there wasn't any smell of alcohol or cigarettes, and all the appliances were running normally. It didn't feel "desolate" at all.

Under the bright lights, it doesn't feel like there's anything to be afraid of.

The first floor consists of a large living room, dining room, kitchen, and bathroom. The bedrooms are located on the second and third floors.

The fridge in the kitchen was stocked with drinks, instant hot pot ingredients, instant noodles, and a small sign that read "feel free to take, no charge".

I looked at the lamp in my hand. Where should I put it

According to the Yin-Yang school of thought, ancient times considered northwest as the Heavenly Gate, southeast as the Earth's Door, southwest as the Human Gate, and northeast as the Ghost Gate.

Therefore, later generations of Feng Shui often considered the northeast direction as the "Ghost Gate," with evil spirits and negative energy entering primarily from that direction. In old times, many traditional houses or ancient cities would have a structure designed to ward off evil in the northeast corner.

So I took out my compass and looked at the direction. The northeast direction was a sofa side cabinet, so I put the lamp there.

This is the lamp we retrieved from the elevator shaft. At the time, many burnt ghosts, chained together, were horrifyingly gathered around this soul lamp.

I feel like this lamp is more likely to be a soul-calling lamp.

As soon as I put down the lantern, I sensed a chill creep through the oppressive stench of death.

My older brother ran down the stairs

and Jiang Qiyun appeared in the room at the same time.

“......All the movement was scared away by you.” I said helplessly.

"No, someone's coming!" My brother just saw a cleaning lady working at night from the second floor and walked into our yard.

As soon as he finished speaking, the doorbell rang.

My brother pulled open two doors and asked through the security door, "What's up"

Aunt Fat tiptoed inside and looked around, frowning. "Just the two of you young people"

"Does this still require checking the room" My brother asked.

The plump aunt waved her hand and said, "I just saw that there was a light on here, so I came to take a look... There was an old man who died of a heart attack here before. They really don't care about anything for money, they even rented it out again!"

"Ah...This old man passed away unexpectedly, it's not a scary thing..." My brother pretended to be nonchalant.

Aunt Fat snorted: "You young people are fearless, but I'm scared! The elderly person's children and grandchildren are all playing at the hot spring amusement park, nobody looks after him! They don't even know when he died exactly. He lay in the room for half a day, and after the doctor arrived, he lay for another half day. Until someone from the hospital came to take him away... I dare not come into this room where the body has been laid out to clean!"

"Heh heh, it's nothing, nothing. We young people have strong tempers, we're not afraid." My brother sent the plump aunt away. The plump aunt muttered, "You young people, one by one, you all look for stimulation and don't care about your lives! There's another rich second generation over at 3A, who's happily slaughtering chickens and fish in his villa, making the whole house smell strange! He's here again today! It's so annoying!"

My brother's ears perked up, and he quickly asked, "What Can't we kill chickens and fish in the villa Can't we cook for ourselves"

"Yes, you can! But don't splash the blood everywhere, okay It would be so much work to clean up!"

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"3A… I'll keep this number in mind. "

Jiang Qiyun suddenly reached out and grabbed my shoulder, motioning for me to turn around.

A plume of white smoke suddenly emerged from the lamp on the northeast corner of the house.

My brother quickly sent the fat aunt away. We carefully gathered around the lamp, the white smoke was faint and thin, like a cigarette about to go out.

"Hold your aura in check, don't let this wisp of ghostly energy get severed." I said to Jiang Qiyun.

He glared at me: "I've already covered it with a barrier, or not even this thread would have gotten through."

This wisp of ghostly energy was tantalizing, but frustratingly elusive. It just wouldn't solidify into a form we could see.

"Jiang Qiyun frowned slightly, his face icy.

He is the revered deity of the underworld. If his aura is too strong, or if he summons too many Yin officials and ghosts, the yin-yang balance of the entire area will be temporarily disrupted.

If there were anything with cultivation, or spirituality, nearby, that sensed this strangeness, it would probably flee in terror.

This is not helpful for us in finding the female ghost or her boyfriend, Chang Jing.

Holding my breath for a long time, that wisp of ghostly energy finally settled on top of the soul-calling lamp. This lamp truly can summon spirits.

The white smoke grew steadier, gradually twisting into a human face. It resembled ink being drawn into a vortex, contorted beyond recognition.

"This way, communication is impossible," Jiang Qiyun said in a deep voice, "His soul isn't whole."

"Can you ask anything This lamp really seems to gather souls…" I felt a bit comforted inside, this must be the real thing!

"If you cannot ask, ordinary people without cultivation, once their souls scatter and spirits fly away, if their Yin souls are so incomplete, even if they enter the Underworld, they will be unable to reincarnate. Even if they waste away in the City of Damned Souls, they will be unable to ascend." Jiang Qiyun stated coldly.

Were those vengeful spirits consumed Such things happen often.

In our eyes, life is precious, but the extinction of a soul is more terrifying than death. It is utter annihilation.

Perhaps because the soul lamp attracted this wisp of ghost, the entire house became somewhat gloomy. A surge of malice, like a powerful vortex, seemed to "tear" this wisp of ghost from the soul-attracting lamp.

"Oh no! Where did it go" My brother hurried to the window.

Outside the window, under the heavy night curtain, a mass of dark clouds gathered in the sky. The faint wisps of spirits were drawn up into the heavens and disappeared.

Jiang Qiyun looked at the changes outside with a calm expression, and turned to me, saying: "Tonight, there will definitely be some strange events here. If you want to find someone, hurry up. The black clouds won't form a barrier for a while. If you wait until the energy field forms, even I will have to spend a lot of effort to break through the barrier from the outside."

This is serious!

My brother frowned and said, "The cleaner just mentioned 3A. I'm going to check it out!"

"Wait, I'll go with you." I adjusted my small handbag and ran after him.

Jiang Qiyun's stance differs from ours. He wants to wait for the karmic consequences to appear and refrain from interfering with human affairs.

And perhaps, we are all just pawns in the game of fate.

The mountains were already cool in the evening. As we walked, we encountered a few people returning to their villas after soaking in the hot springs. They were mostly middle-aged people accompanied by younger individuals, and it was clear they were enjoying themselves.

The black clouds in the sky gradually covered the moonlight, but no one around noticed this change in celestial phenomena.

Night, for humans, is commonplace.

For malevolent spirits and demons, it was commonplace... destroyed the zombie village, I created a hole in the spell formations of the Mekong River Basin.It's like building a wall around Mu Wanchen's house.As a result, Jiang Qiyun didn't offer to help with...