After that thing got into the room, I held the Sirius Whip tightly and came out of my hiding spot. I saw a lanky shadow raise a dark iron whip. The whip was aimed at the paper doll’s head.

Before the shadow found me, I carefully assessed him. He was wearing the official uniform of the Tang Dynasty. From the official hat and the gorgeous patterns embroidered on his clothes, I guessed he had a relatively high position when he was alive. However, he stood with his back to me, so I couldn’t see his face.

“Argh!” When the iron whip hit the paper stand-in, I heard Jiang Teng’s scream from downstairs.

I was surprised. I knew it wasn’t good.

I had sprinkled a few drops of Jiang Teng’s blood on the stand-in to increase its Yang energy. However, I hadn’t expected the spirit to be strong enough to affect even Jiang Teng’s real body.

This development was beyond my expectation. I knew I couldn’t wait anymore. I immediately lashed my Sirius Whip.

The spirit blocked my Sirius Whip with his iron whip without even turning his head around. Immediately, all the magic power of the Sirius Whip was used up! The shadow then emitted thick murderous energy, which made me feel breathless.

As soon as I was about to read the sacred text of Daoism to stop the murderous energy, the spirit halted. Then, his sky-reaching murderous energy subsided.

“Hmph!” The spirit snorted and jumped through the window. It disappeared into thin air.

After he left, I slumped on my butt and wiped the sweat off my forehead. I was still shocked. What position did that spirit have when it was alive? I couldn’t even attack him once!

At this moment, someone banged on the door. I got a hold of myself and opened the door. The bodyguard was standing outside. He was looking at me with an expectant face.

I shook my head and sounded somewhat dispirited. “Don’t ask me if I got the spirit. I didn’t even see his face. I only saw that he wore a black official uniform from the Tang Dynasty. He’s got excellent martial art skills as well.”

The bodyguard sighed. Then, he remembered that he had to take me to see Jiang Teng. I ran downstairs and found Jiang Teng clutching his head on the sofa. His facial features were twisted in pain.

I went to check him. He was all right. “Don’t worry. You’re all right.”

Jiang Teng exhaled in relief, then asked the bodyguard to support him to his room. After he left, I sat on the sofa and replayed the recent incident in my head. I didn’t know why the spirit had spared me at that moment.

His murderous energy wasn’t fake, and I felt scared when I recalled that suffocating feeling. However, at the critical moment, he left.

After thinking about it for a long time, I still hadn’t figured anything out. My head became heavy. I had to wobble upstairs. As I was about to enter the guest room, I found something strange in Jiang Guanguan’s bedroom.

I came closer. I was aghast to see a line of words, which seemed to be written with blood. The blood was still oozing. First, beat the incapable ruler; second, beat the evil citizens! The words were emitting resentful energy!

I was stunned. Now, I knew Jiang Guanguan had offended someone. I decided to ignore my sleepy head and dashed downstairs to find Jiang Teng. I needed him to investigate what had happened during the night before his son’s death.

When he heard the words, ‘First, beat the incapable ruler; second, beat the evil citizens,’ his face changed drastically. He said, “I’m going to investigate this as fast as possible.”

I nodded. “As soon as you get the result, you must tell me.” Then, I went back to the guest room to sleep.

When I woke up the next day, Jiang Teng and his bodyguards weren’t in the villa. The maid in the villa told me that they had hurriedly left the house early this morning after receiving a call.

What happened? I mumbled to myself. I didn’t want to see another body with an exploded head.

I had waited for the whole morning in the villa, but they hadn’t called me yet. I decided to call them. Both of them had their mobile phones turned off.

I felt even more worried. Determinedly, I left the villa and walked along the street while thinking about how to lure the spirit out one more time. This spirit was so terrifying and intimidating that the stand-in could only trick it once!

With many thoughts in my head, I had inadvertently walked far away. When I recognized my surroundings, I found myself in front of a public cemetery.

I cursed under my breath. After taking a quick scan of the public cemetery, I decided to go back. All of a sudden, I saw the old man who had burned paper money in front of Jiang Teng’s villa. He was carrying an empty basket. With a crooked gait, he slowly walked out of the cemetery.

It seemed he had just finished making offerings to a deceased person. I still had an impression of him from the previous night, which made me look at him longer than required. I recognized something: He had gray hair that made him appear to look like a sixty-year-old old man, but his face, which was covered in sorrow and grief, was that of a man in his forties.

This contrast made my heart jump. A vague thought popped up in my head. However, it was gone before I could catch it…

When the old man walked past me, he shot me an indifferent glance as though he was looking at an enemy!

Instinctively, I took a step back. I wanted to look at him again, but the man had walked farther away. I shook my head, thinking that it could be just a hallucination of mine.

When I returned to the villa, it was around twilight. Jiang Teng and his bodyguard hadn’t come home yet.

I ate something for dinner then went to Jiang Guanguan’s room and laid on his bed. Closing my eyes, I tried to imagine the situation before his death. He was drunk and wobbled to his room. He fell on his bed and blacked out at that instant. Then, a cold wind swept into the room. Jiang Guanguan woke up because it was cold. He went to close the window. At that moment, the iron whip that carried the power of one thousand catties hit him and directly blasted his head.

While in thought, my heart sank. I sat up all of a sudden. While I was imagining the moment of Jiang Guanguan’s death, I felt a thick murderous aura. Here it comes again!

I gathered my courage and looked in the direction of the murderous aura. I saw a man standing by the window with his back facing me. He held the iron whip and didn’t make a move for quite a long time.

I wanted to move and see his face. However, as soon as I got off the bed, the man jumped through the window!

It looked like he wanted to take me somewhere. After hesitating for a while, I grabbed the Sirius Whip and jumped through the window as well. Indeed, he was waiting for me not far from where I had landed.

I gritted my teeth and walked behind him. Eventually, I found that the spirit had maintained a proper distance from me so that I would neither lose track of him nor be able to see his face.

To shorten the distance, I thought about using a spell to invite a spirit to carry me. However, when the ghosts arrived and saw the shadow ahead of me, they were scared and scattered immediately.

I became even more curious about this spirit. After walking for a long time, I recognized that we were heading to the South of the city.

After walking for around three hours, the man suddenly accelerated and made a turn. I paced up after him. However, he’d disappeared.

There was a stone stele in front of me with some words carved on it. I couldn’t read them from where I was standing, but I knew they were important. I strode faster. Unexpectedly, right as I was about to see the words, I heard the bodyguard call me from behind. I was about to turn around, but then I realized that it was impossible for the bodyguard to be there!

A thunderclap suddenly echoed. It boomed so loud that it could pierce through people’s eardrums. My eyes shot open! I was on Jiang Guanguan’s bed!

A chill arose in my heart. The spirit almost got me in my dream. I was lucky that the bodyguard had woken me up. Otherwise, I couldn’t imagine the consequence!

The bodyguard waited until my face had more color. “Mr. Zhang, another person’s head exploded.”

“What?!” I opened my eyes wide. The bodyguard nodded and started to tell me the details.