A master of comedy!

Chapter 193 Night Wanderer, Incense Bearer

"Strictly speaking, I didn't entirely scare the woman in red away..."

Even with Zhou Sheng's thick skin, he felt a little embarrassed by the girl's adoring gaze, so he spoke up to explain.

He had encountered a woman in red on the Yin-Yang Road, and she gave him a terrifying feeling. Even though his cultivation has greatly improved, he still has no confidence that he can defeat her.

Only the city lord Hua Jiulang was qualified to frighten the other party away.

"Then you're really amazing!"

Xiao Ning paused, then asked expectantly, "Brother Zhou, you have great magical powers, can you help me find out where my little brother is?"

Zhou Sheng's eyes flashed, and he pretended to calculate with his fingers, but finally shook his head and said, "Sorry, I can't figure it out either."

The little girl's eyes dimmed, but she wisely refrained from pleading any further.

After exchanging a few words, Zhou Sheng turned and left. He didn't speak to Bao Ying again until he was quite a distance away.

Why not tell her that her brother is dead?

"Because I can't say it."

A bitter look appeared in Bao Ying's eyes as she said, "The siblings are orphans who have relied on each other since childhood and grew up in this orphanage. Unfortunately, both of them have been targeted at the same time."

"The older sister was lucky to escape, but her younger brother was not so lucky. His body was found two months ago."

"I'll tell her when she's feeling better."

Zhou Sheng nodded and said in a deep voice, "Perhaps that woman in red will not let her go so easily, and may come again."

"That's what I thought too, so I arranged for someone to protect me secretly."

Bao Ying's eyes flashed, and he said, "She is the first person to survive this kind of murder case, and she is the biggest breakthrough in this case. I found a dream master to enter her dream and successfully recreated the scene at that time. Most importantly, we locked down the identity of the red-clothed ghost."

The Dream Master is also a branch of the Yin Bai School, famous for his dream-entering techniques. He reveres Zhuangzi as his patriarch and is often in a deep sleep, spending most of his life in dreams.

This is different from the Taoist practice of sleeping, which emphasizes a state of being in a state of semi-sleep, as if entering a vacuum, free from all distracting thoughts, let alone dreams. Dream masters, on the other hand, dedicate their lives to dreaming.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Sheng's spirits lifted. Bao Ying was indeed living up to his reputation; he had actually found out the identity of the woman in red.

Although he had seen the red-clad ghost back then, he was blocked by the divine radiance on its body and could not see its appearance clearly. He could only smell the fragrance of the red spider lily.

“If one’s cultivation is insufficient, ordinary people cannot see ghosts and gods clearly, but dream masters are an exception. In dreams, nothing can hide from their eyes, not even gods.”

As Bao Ying spoke, she took out a scroll and slowly unfurled it in front of Zhou Sheng.

She was a young woman with long, flowing hair, dressed in a red dress, barefoot, with beautiful features, but with an indescribable eerie aura, and her eyes gleaming with a faint purple light.

He wore a bone ring on his finger, which resembled both animal and human bones, with a small word engraved on it—Night.

This is the true face of that red-clad demon!

"After investigation, it can be basically confirmed that the ghost that killed countless innocent people and faked countless accidental deaths is Him, the Night Wanderer."

"Night Wanderer..."

Zhou Sheng's heart skipped a beat, and he showed a look of surprise.

Who would have thought that the woman in red was actually the legendary Night Wanderer?

Night patrol gods are deities in folk beliefs who are in charge of patrolling at night, forming a day-night surveillance system together with day patrol gods.

When the sunlight fades and night falls, the Night Wanderer will appear in the human world to observe people's evil deeds at night and secretly record them.

When their souls enter the underworld, these will become evidence of their crimes. Of course, if they commit extremely heinous crimes, the Night Wanderer will also punish them directly, making him a fearsome and dreadful deity.

He holds a high position in the underworld, being one of the Ten Generals of the Underworld along with the Day-Roaming God, and is also known as one of the Ten Underworld Marshals.

No wonder that day, when he saw its divine power blazing like a blood-red sun, even he, who possessed magical power, could hardly look directly at it.

The ghost messengers sent by City God Lu Bingyuan to escort him immediately knelt down and kowtowed upon seeing him, not daring to even breathe loudly.

"The lords are high and mighty, but someone always has to do the dirty work. Judge Lu is too high up to do everything himself, so this Night Wanderer is the main executioner."

"At the same time, His divine office is also just right."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Sheng couldn't help but nod.

The Night Wanderer is mainly responsible for surveillance. Its greatest supernatural power is to appear and disappear without a trace, making it difficult for even cultivators to detect its presence, let alone ordinary people.

Perhaps while you are sleeping, taking a bath, or whenever you are alone, there may be a pair of eyes quietly watching you.

Using such divine powers to monitor good and evil is certainly a good thing, but when it is used to deliberately create all sorts of "accidents," it becomes chilling.

At this moment, Zhou Sheng could almost picture those scenes in his mind: the Night Wanderer staring coldly at each of the victims, then replacing the fake knife with a real one, making the closing city gate hit the arrow that was scratching its ear, and placing nails at the dancer's feet...

Accident after accident, murder after murder.

"But in legends, isn't the Night Wanderer supposed to be a giant over ten feet tall, wearing a gauze hat and wide robe, holding a scroll and a vermilion brush?"

Zhou Sheng was somewhat puzzled. How could the appearance of this Night Wanderer be so different from that described in ancient books?
Bao Ying glanced around before whispering, "Some of the ghosts and gods in the underworld have been replaced. The Night Wanderer you mentioned disappeared hundreds of years ago."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Sheng remained silent for a long time, a chill creeping into his heart.

No wonder the underworld has become so unfamiliar, and some ghosts and gods dare to do such disregard for human life. It turns out that some of the ghosts and gods are no longer the same ones from back then.

What exactly happened in the underworld that led to this dramatic change?
"So what are you planning to do next?"

Zhou Sheng gave Bao Ying a deep look and suddenly asked a question.

"kill."

Bao Ying first firmly uttered the word "kill," and continued, "After confirming the identity of the Night Wanderer, I mobilized some of my friends down there and obtained a lot of clues."

"The friends downstairs?"

"Oh, right, I forgot to tell you, I am also a descendant of the Yin Bai family lineage. People usually call people of our lineage... the Incense Masters."

Incense burner!
Zhou Sheng's eyes flashed as he recalled what his master had once told him.

Among the Yin families, the Incense Bearers are a very special group of people. They have almost no combat power themselves, but they have a very close relationship with the ghosts and gods of the underworld, and can even manipulate them to a certain extent.

Every person who offers incense has far more friends below than above.

In addition, the person offering incense usually worships a powerful underworld deity, with whom they have the best relationship, and can be considered the deity's representative in the mortal world.

Of course, the profession of "top incense burner" is generally inaccessible to outsiders, and those who can become top incense burners are often "second-generation descendants of the dead".

In other words, I have someone below me.

"I wonder which underworld deity Brother Bao worships?"

Bao Ying bowed respectfully to the heavens and said, word by word, "King Yama, Lord Bao."

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(End of this chapter)