Chapter 245: The Trio of Human, Ghost, and Demon

Using her divine powers to change her appearance was no difficult task for Shui Miao.

Moreover, Shui Miao had also altered his voice, so naturally they couldn’t tell the difference.

“Uh, sorry, I mistook you for someone else.”

Jiang Zhihao felt puzzled, slightly embarrassed on his face. He didn’t think he had just misseen.

“Strange, the clothes are the same, the height is the same, how could I have mistaken him?”

The developer muttered to himself, whispering.

Shui Miao blinked his eyes. Seeing the two of them didn’t react, he left while making a phone call.

After leaving the residential area, Shui Miao immediately took a taxi back.

Thus, Jiang Zhihao and the others arrived at Building 16. Coincidentally, Xiao Hong and the others had also returned. The developer showed Xiao Hong the photo on his phone, and Xiao Hong immediately confirmed that the person in the photo was her good friend she met on the train. She used to be called Shui Miao, and now she is called Zhang Ling… Xiao Hong’s words instantly left Jiang Zhihao puzzled. His master must have been here before, but his master had been with him all along recently. When had he gone to Miaojian?

To clarify the truth, Jiang Zhihao hurriedly asked someone to check Zhang Ling’s background. He urgently wanted to know what had gone wrong.

Shui Miao took a taxi back to Nanwan and summoned the black snake demon, rushing together to Jing Shui Village.

On the way, the black snake demon asked, “Master, what about the circus leader Wei Sheng? Are we just going to let him go like this?”

“Leave him for now. After dealing with the fake Bai Niang, you can go back and control him to surrender to the police.”

Shui Miao communicated with the black snake demon through telepathy.

Now that circumstances had changed, Shui Miao temporarily decided to change his previous plan. He would no longer tolerate the impostor Bai Niang and would capture her first to clarify the situation.

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Inside the dry well cave

Bai Feng rushed into the treasure chamber and saw the white-robed female ghost who was just about to offer incense and pray to Bai Niang.

“Ahh!” Seeing Bai Feng suddenly burst in, the hidden Five Elements Formation outside was not triggered and showed no reaction. The white-robed female ghost was startled: “Who exactly are you, and how did you get in here?”

“Hmph! I’ve told you several times already, right? Why don’t you remember? I’m the real Bai Niang’s disciple. You’re just an impostor. I’m more familiar with the formations here than you are.”

Bai Feng casually examined the surroundings without drawing her sword or showing any urgency to subdue the white-robed female ghost: “Not bad, it’s been decades, and this place remains unchanged. However, compared to before, the fairy spiritual energy is gone, leaving only yin energy.”

“This, this can’t be true. Our master only took us three sisters as disciples. She never mentioned having any other disciples,” the white-robed female ghost quickly shook her head and suddenly drew her sword, pointing at Bai Feng and demanding, “Who exactly are you?”

“My name is Bai Feng. Have you heard of me?” Bai Feng turned to look at the white-robed female ghost with a slight smile, clearly not taking her crimson sword seriously. Pausing when she saw no reaction from the white-robed female ghost, Bai Feng sat down on a stone bench and sighed softly at her. “Well then, let me ask you a few questions and get things cleared up. No need to guess blindly here.”

“…”

Unsure of the other’s identity, the white-robed female ghost could only warily watch Bai Feng, maintaining a high level of alertness.

“Let me ask you, have you always been in this place? A year ago, ten years ago, a hundred years ago, were you always here?” Bai Feng asked kindly.

“No, I just followed Master here. Before that, Master was always with me,” the white-robed female ghost defiantly countered, “You say you’re really Master’s disciple, so were you always here too?”

“No, I was always in Miaojian. When Master went to Miaojian, she met me. She gave me a bit of Yin Holy Spirit, and I was very grateful. So I took her as my master. That was only a few years after I had become a female ghost. It’s been almost five hundred years now. But in all these years, I’ve only seen her three times.” Bai Feng smiled slightly, “How about you?”

“…”

Feeling that Bai Feng wasn’t lying, the white-robed female ghost slowly lowered her sword. “I’m from the Northeast. I only recently became a ghost and met Master. She also gave me some Yin Holy Spirit, although my cultivation is only three hundred years. But Master has been traveling with us all over the world until recently when she brought us here.” The white-robed female ghost shook her head. “I can’t figure out why Master never mentioned you?”

“Perhaps she never considered me a disciple. I was just a pawn of hers,” Bai Feng sighed with some sadness. “By the way, what did the Master you saw look like?”

Bai Feng activated her Yin powers and transformed into the appearance of Bai Niang.

Looking at Bai Feng, the white-robed female ghost shook her head, “It’s a bit different. My Master isn’t this frail or this quiet. She’s very powerful and commanding.” As she spoke, the white-robed female ghost transformed, taking on the appearance of the Master she had seen.

“I understand!”

Seeing the white-robed female ghost’s transformation of the Master’s appearance, Bai Feng suddenly realized, “Master must have already cultivated a doppelgänger. She left her Tian Hun here while her Di Hun traveled around the world, which is why she was always with you. But I’m puzzled, Master’s Tian Hun went to the Immortal Realm, so where did her Di Hun go? Could her souls have reunited and gone to the Immortal Realm to seek revenge against that heartless man?”

Bai Feng was intentionally testing for information. If she asked directly, she believed the white-robed female ghost would definitely not say.

Hearing this, the white-robed female ghost’s heart stirred and she eagerly responded, “It seems you really are my senior sister. Otherwise, Master wouldn’t have told you about this matter. That heartless man deserved to die. Master gave so much for him, yet after becoming an immortal, he actually forgot about Master.”

Bai Feng guessed correctly!

Bai Feng was slightly excited in her heart, not expecting Master to have truly gone to the Immortal Realm for revenge. Pausing slightly, Bai Feng continued, “I think… Master deliberately didn’t tell me and deliberately sent Xiao Shui away, probably not wanting to drag us into it…”

“Xiao Shui?” The white-robed female ghost sheathed her sword, “Senior sister, the Xiao Shui you mentioned, is that a young man named Shui Miao?”

“Yes! It’s him. How come, Master asked you to impersonate him here, didn’t she tell you something about Xiao Shui? How could you be so foolish as to possess Xiao Shui’s body? He has the protective jade pendant of the Spirit General on him.” Bai Feng continued to extract information.

“But Master said that Shui Miao wouldn’t return for another fifty years. If someone pretended to be him now, we were to kill him. We didn’t expect you to come back so soon. How could I know whether you were really impostors or not? If it weren’t for that Spirit General’s jade pendant on him, I would still suspect that you were the two people Master told us to wait for fifty years.” The white-robed female ghost mistook the five stone tablets on Shui Miao’s body for the Spirit General’s jade pendant.

“…”

After hearing this, Bai Feng was momentarily stunned. Could it be that Master really didn’t want to involve us?

“By the way, why did Master ask you to impersonate Shui Miao here? Why wait fifty years for Shui Miao? Besides going to the Immortal Realm for revenge, does Master have any other plans?” Bai Feng asked eagerly to clarify the truth.

“Ah!”

The white-robed female ghost sat down on the stone bench next to Bai Feng and said urgently, “It’s all because that Shui Miao is a person of great fortune. He needs a lot of incense offerings to buy a fairy mountain in the Immortal Realm. That’s why we’ve been desperately building temples and monasteries for him. Master even told us that fifty years should be enough. She even asked us sisters to support him wholeheartedly. If Master’s revenge failed, she said that Shui Miao would take her place. Who knew you would come back so quickly, causing a misunderstanding and needlessly sacrificing my two sisters!”

The white-robed female ghost was very conflicted and anxious to the point of almost crying.

“It seems we really misunderstood you!”

Bai Feng never expected the situation to be like this. Master had made such arrangements, she was not heartless but instead full of affection and righteousness.

“By the way, senior sister, do you know who Master’s enemy is?” The white-robed female ghost suddenly became mysterious.

Bai Feng shook her head, “Master never said.”

“I’ll tell you. Actually, that person is Ling Shuai from the Immortal Realm.” The white-robed female ghost lowered her voice to a whisper.

Upon hearing this, Bai Feng was instantly stunned, “It’s him! It’s actually him!?”

Seeing Bai Feng’s shock, the white-robed female ghost suddenly revealed a red dagger in her hand. She unexpectedly stabbed it into Bai Feng’s soul body!

“Ahh! Junior sister, why, why are you doing this?”

Bai Feng fell to the ground. The red dagger emitted an eerie red glow, continuously absorbing her Yin power.

“Ha ha ha…”

The white-robed female ghost burst into maniacal laughter, her figure shifting to transform into an old woman dressed in black robes. She glared at Bai Feng with a sinister smile: “Junior sister! Who exactly is your junior sister? I am Hei Shan La Mu, with eight hundred years of cultivation. How dare you claim to be my senior sister? I’ve been concealing my true strength—all along, you didn’t even realize it, did you? I can read your mind. Didn’t you know that? You attempted to extract information from me. How naive of you!”

“Where is my Master? What have you done to her?” Bai Feng’s soul was getting weaker and weaker.

Hei Shan La Mu sneered, “I didn’t expect you to be so loyal and righteous. Well then, since you’re so devoted to your Master, I’ll let you die with a little more peace of mind. I’m not your junior sister. I’m your Master’s younger sister, though she bears the surname Bai and I bear the surname Hei. After she went to the Immortal Realm, she left this place to me. I helped her gather incense offerings and establish a foothold in the Immortal Realm. In return, she provided me with fairy spiritual energy, elixirs, and gems, greatly enhancing my cultivation. As for you and that stinky brat, Shui Miao, you’re merely pawns in our game. Now that you’ve served your purpose, it’s time to send you on your way.”

Hei Shan La Mu waved her blood-red sword, which immediately transformed into a blood-red venomous snake.

Bai Feng quickly raised her hand, “Wait! Why kill me in a hurry? Did you know beforehand about the deaths of your two subordinates? Don’t you feel any grief for them?”

“Hmph! Talking nonsense. I thought it was something important. They were just two pawns of mine. If they’re dead, they’re dead. What’s there to grieve over.” Hei Shan La Mu waved her sleeve dismissively, showing no concern.

Bai Feng shook her head, “But you can’t kill Shui Miao.”

“That’s none of your concern. After I kill you and take your form, I’ll naturally find a way to kill him.” Hei Shan La Mu pointed at Bai Feng, and the blood-red venomous snake shot toward her.

Bai Feng sneered coldly and suddenly raised her hand. A black sword directly sliced the blood-red snake into two.

“This, this is the Lu Sha Duan Hun Jian?”

Hei Shan La Mu was also quite knowledgeable, recognizing that the black sword came from the Lu Sha realm.

“Eight hundred years of cultivation, do you think that’s impressive?”

Bai Feng stood up and reached out to pull out the red dagger but couldn’t pull it out with one tug.

“Ha ha ha…”

Hei Shan La Mu laughed again, “How foolish, how foolish ah ha ha… Did you think you’re the only one with a sword? My red dagger is actually the Soul Devouring Dagger from Hell. Once it pierces your soul, it won’t come out until it has absorbed all your Yin power. I should thank you! Even in death, you’ve given me a great gift—the Lu Sha Duan Hun Jian will now be mine! Ha ha ha…”

“Hmph!”

Unexpectedly, Bai Feng sneered again. Suddenly, she pulled out a black Yin Holy Spirit and swallowed it. Her soul body immediately returned to its prime state. “Hei Shan La Mu, I still have many Yin Holy Spirits on me. If you have the ability, come and take them!” As she spoke, Bai Feng used the Lu Sha Duan Hun Jian to strike the Soul Devouring Dagger, cleaving it in two. With the formation inside the dagger destroyed, the Soul Devouring Dagger instantly lost its soul-devouring function and automatically fell to the ground. Meanwhile, Bai Feng’s injuries rapidly healed due to the replenishment of Yin Holy Spirit: “Hei Shan La Mu, you’re just too old. I only sacrificed a little Yin Holy Spirit to get all your secrets out. Did you really think I was so stupid that I could be so easily pierced by you?”

“How dare you! Without the Soul Devouring Dagger, I can still kill you…”

Hei Shan La Mu finally stopped laughing. Her old face darkened, and the nails on her ten fingers suddenly grew over a meter long, as she rushed toward Bai Feng!

“Hehe, you think you’re practicing the Nine Yin White Bone Claw?”

Shui Miao suddenly appeared behind Hei Shan La Mu, holding the black curved knife in his hand.

“What!”

Hei Shan La Mu was stunned, not expecting Shui Miao to arrive so quickly.

“Ha ha! I’m here too!” The black snake demon also appeared. Licking her lips, the black snake demon stared at Hei Shan La Mu with her green eyes, smilingly said, “Master, finally encountered a demon. This old demon’s demon power must be given to you! I haven’t had a full meal in a long, long time.”

“Good! No problem.”

Shui Miao narrowed his eyes and immediately activated a surge of xian energy, rushing straight toward Hei Shan La Mu.

“Die!”

Bai Feng also launched an attack at the same time!

“Xiu!”

The black snake demon, skilled in dodging techniques, instantly flashed to Hei Shan La Mu’s side. Before she could react, the black snake demon transformed into a black python and tightly coiled around her demon body!

“No, no! How could this happen!?”

In a dangerous situation, her life hanging by a thread, in desperation, Hei Shan La Mu finally lost her composure. She desperately raised her head and screamed, “Sister, come and save me!”

“Not good!”

“Could it be that Bai Niang’s Di Hun is still in the mortal world?”

Shui Miao was startled, immediately withdrawing his immortal energy and becoming fully alert. Bai Feng and the black snake demon were more than capable of handling Hei Shan La Mu.