Chapter 132: Five Little Ghosts

Shui Miao’s unexpected boldness gave Lin Xue a sudden jolt of excitement.

Ling Xue had had boyfriends before, and had even kissed men, but all those men disgusted her. To put it bluntly, she found them dirty and smelly! But Shui Miao was different. There was an irresistible mysterious aura about him. His breath was sweet like morning dew. Kissing him felt like a person dying of thirst in a desert finally finding an oasis, hungrily drinking in every drop, craving more.

It was an irresistible magical desire.

Why she reacted this way, Shui Miao himself didn’t understand. He didn’t realize that his immortal energy could awaken such longing in a woman.

But to Lin Xue’s disappointment, Shui Miao only shook his head in front of her, always keeping a distance of two or three centimeters.

Teasing!

To Lin Xue, this was definitely teasing!

Unintentionally, Lin Xue caught sight of a dark shadow moving slowly northward more than twenty meters away…

“Now, can you shoot him?” Shui Miao suddenly whispered softly into Lin Xue’s ear.

So close, of course she could hit him!

But Lin Xue gently shook her head. “Not yet. Let him go a bit further. Otherwise, he’ll escape into the water again.”

Lin Xue reached out to touch Shui Miao, but he dodged…

“Lin Xue jie, you’re not serious, are you? I can’t handle you anymore.” Shui Miao wasn’t really unable to handle her; he just noticed his immortal energy was being drained and quickly pulled back.

Right now, his immortal energy was the most important thing for Shui Miao.

Seeing that Shui Miao wasn’t really interested in her, Lin Xue couldn’t help feeling a bit disappointed. After calming down, she stubbornly said, “You’re really pathetic. It’s just acting. Did you actually think I was serious?”

“Uh…”

Shui Miao hesitated as he looked at Lin Xue, thinking to himself, weren’t you being serious?

“Alright, we’re almost there. Let go of my hand. I didn’t expect you to be so thin but still have such strength. Now, hold me and slowly lie down on the ground…”

“Lie down on the ground for what?” Shui Miao felt his scalp tingling.

“Tsk! You really thought I wanted to take advantage of you?” Lin Xue had already calmed down. She urged him seriously, “Alright, no more talking. Do it quickly as I said…”

“…”

Shui Miao thought to himself, who knows what a girl like you might do?

So, Shui Miao lay down holding Lin Xue, but she turned over and lay on top of him, gripping the gun tightly in both hands, aiming at the dark figure’s butt. With a “Bang!” the shadow fell!

“Ha! Got him!”

Lin Xue was thrilled, quickly rolling to the side to avoid any counterattack from An Pei Chuan Lang.

Through his spiritual sense, Shui Miao felt blood gushing from An Pei Chuan Lang’s thigh. In desperation, An Pei Chuan Lang quickly dragged his injured leg and hid in a low-lying area, taking a medicine bottle from his body, pouring out a handful of medicinal powder into his palm, and pressing it tightly onto the wound, which immediately began to clot. Then An Pei Chuan Lang held his gun cautiously, trying to locate the person who had shot him from the shadows.

An Pei Chuan Lang instinctively looked toward Shui Miao’s position.

Shui Miao secretly felt relieved that Lin Xue had experience and had already lain down in cover.

Lin Xue crawled forward on her stomach to a low-lying area to hide, and Shui Miao followed her example, crawling to another low-lying spot nearby.

After observing for a while and seeing no one, An Pei Chuan Lang turned and started crawling toward the riverside…

Just then, Xiao Liu and the others heard the gunshot and came out from the yard together with miner’s lamps.

In a situation like this, they couldn’t afford to drag Xiao Liu and the others into it.

Shui Miao quickly took out his phone and called Xiao Liu.

An Pei Chuan Lang turned his body sideways, pressing his ear to the ground to listen and locate the sound, then fired two shots toward Shui Miao’s direction. Shui Miao felt two whizzing sounds above his head as the bullets flew past his scalp! Startled, Shui Miao quickly lowered his head.

Xiao Liu and the others, upon receiving the call, immediately retreated.

“Xiao Shui, you said you could sense him. Check how many bullets he has left on him?” Lin Xue whispered to Shui Miao.

They were about five meters apart.

“Peng peng!”

As soon as Lin Xue finished speaking, An Pei Chuan Lang fired two more shots. These two bullets landed near Lin Xue, scaring her into quickly lowering her head and secretly cursing, “Damn little Jap, how did he figure out where I’m hiding?”

“He’s a cultivator. It seems he cultivates earth-element energy and can locate by sound.”

Shui Miao sent a text message to Lin Xue via his phone. After sending it, he sent another one: “Stay hidden and let me deal with him.”

“How are you going to fight him?”

Lin Xue looked puzzled at Shui Miao, watching him put down his phone and sit cross-legged in the ditch…

Shui Miao wanted to use his immortal energy to fight An Pei Chuan Lang, but just as he closed his eyes, a familiar voice suddenly sounded in his ear: “Senior apprentice-brother, Master sent us to help you. This small matter doesn’t require you to expend your immortal energy. Watch us…”

Shui Miao opened his eyes in surprise to see the five ghost apprentices he had encountered the last time while searching for Lingyin Temple at night!

They smiled at Shui Miao and then burrowed into the ground one by one…

Shui Miao quickly closed his eyes to sense them, feeling the five ghost apprentices transform into five streams of negative energy that slithered underground toward An Pei Chuan Lang’s position. In an instant, they all surged upward, entering his ears that were pressed against the ground. The pain was so intense that An Pei Chuan Lang clutched his head and screamed in agony, even throwing his gun into the bushes.

“Opportunity! Let’s go!”

Shui Miao quickly climbed out of the ditch and rushed toward An Pei Chuan Lang.

“Ahh! Are you trying to get yourself killed!” Lin Xue was startled and quickly followed him.

Shui Miao quickly picked up the gun An Pei Chuan Lang had thrown into the grass, while Lin Xue took out handcuffs and cuffed An Pei Chuan Lang. Then she called Chu Miaoyi to inform her that An Pei Chuan Lang had already been captured by Shui Miao. After finishing the call, Lin Xue patted Shui Miao’s shoulder and gave him a thumbs-up: “Wow, Shui Miao! Your cultivation is really amazing! How about I become your disciple tomorrow?”

“Sis, you misunderstood. That wasn’t my doing just now. It was my five little ghost apprentices who helped!”

Shui Miao pointed at An Pei Chuan Lang.

Upon hearing this, the five little ghost apprentices quickly emerged from An Pei Chuan Lang’s seven orifices. Immediately afterward, blood began to flow from An Pei Chuan Lang’s seven orifices. After being tormented by the five little ghosts, An Pei Chuan Lang had suffered a severe loss of vitality, was completely exhausted, and lay on the ground, struggling to even breathe.

“Haha! Brother, we’ve already blocked his seven orifices. From now on, his vitality will be gone, and any wandering soul or stray ghost can possess him. This is our punishment for him.”

“Yeah! Who told him to shoot at our brother and even knock off some of our brother’s hair!”

Two of the little ghost apprentices spoke in succession.

Shui Miao instinctively touched his head and indeed found two missing strands of hair.

Seeing An Pei Chuan Lang bleeding from his seven orifices and recalling her previous experience with evil ghosts, Lin Xue had no choice but to believe Shui Miao’s words, which scared her so much she dared not utter a sound.

At this moment, another little ghost apprentice, who was smaller in stature, smiled at Shui Miao and said, “Oh, Brother, Master wants you to come immediately. You don’t seem to like this big sister very much, so why don’t you come with us now? Master has something very important to discuss with you.”

“Okay, I’ll go with you right now!”

The “Master” mentioned by the five little ghost apprentices was definitely the eldest Taoist priest in Lingyin Temple. He was highly respected and possessed extraordinary cultivation skills, so Shui Miao dared not delay. He quickly turned to Lin Xue and said, “Lin Xue jie, I have something urgent to attend to, so I’ll go with these five apprentices to see Master Shun first.”

“Alright, alright, go on, go on, don’t worry about me…” Lin Xue couldn’t see the spirits, but she did notice small whirlwinds swirling on the ground. When she counted, there were exactly five of them.

“Great! I’ll ask Xiao Liu and the others to come help you carry this old guy.”

Shui Miao nodded to Lin Xue and followed the five little ghosts, walking north along the wall…