My master gave me a death mission: to go down the mountain and retrieve his granddaughter.

Upon hearing Su Muchen's words, both the old man and Luo Heng felt a chill run down their spines, as if something bad was about to happen.

Su Muchen ignored the two people standing to the side and directly used his divine sense to envelop the entire bedroom, forming a closed space.

Immediately afterwards, Su Muchen muttered incantations while his hands kept changing, forming various hand seals.

"You beast, show yourself at once, hey..."

As Su Muchen shouted, the bright bedroom instantly went dark, and within seconds, the entire bedroom was pitch black.

This startled the two people standing nearby. It was daytime, so why was the bedroom suddenly pitch black?

Before they could react, a faint glow appeared in the dark bedroom, and two floating eerie flames appeared in the sky above the bedroom.

"What... what's going on?"

The sudden appearance of the two ghostly flames once again startled the two of them. These two ghostly flames were too eerie, somewhat like the will-o'-the-wisps that only appear on television.

Immediately afterwards, a sinister "heh heh" sound came from the bedroom. The sound was clearly that of a child, but it sent chills down one's spine.

Following the source of the sound, a terrifying scene appeared before the two of them.

Above Old Master Luo's head floated a boy with an upper body and a wisp of black smoke as his lower body.

Moreover, black blood was flowing from all seven orifices of the boy, and his mouth, which was about to split open to his ears, was constantly emitting sinister laughter.

This terrifying scene is even scarier than scenes in horror movies.

"Ah... what is this...?"

"This...this...could it be a ghost?"

The old man and Luo Heng were so terrified by the scene that they collapsed to the ground, trembling all over.

"Look at you two, so timid. I told you to be mentally prepared."

Seeing the two of them completely terrified by this scene, Su Muchen couldn't help but tease them.

"Brother Su... what's going on? How did such a frightening thing suddenly appear?"

"Young man, is this...is this a ghost?"

Their voices trembled as they spoke, turning their heads away, not daring to look at the horrific scene.

"It's not wrong to call this thing a ghost, but to be more precise, it's a wandering spirit. When a person dies, their resentment doesn't dissipate, and over time it will condense into a wandering spirit that roams the world. Without a master to deliver it from suffering, it will never be able to reincarnate."

"Brother Su, are you saying this little devil—no, this vengeful spirit—was formed from my father's resentment?"

"No, this is not your father's soul. Your father's soul is being absorbed little by little by this evil spirit, and this evil spirit is the culprit that harmed your father."

"What? Brother Su, are you saying that my father didn't actually have an illness, and that his current state was caused by this vengeful spirit?"

Indeed, as soon as Su Muchen entered the bedroom, he used his divine sense to scan Old Master Luo's body and already knew the reason for his illness: it was this evil spirit causing trouble.

"Yes and no. It should be said that the manipulator behind this ghost is the real culprit. This ghost is just a medium. In fact, the reason why Grandpa Luo became like this is because he was cursed."

"Ah... what happened? How did my father get involved with these things?"

"You wouldn't understand even if I told you, but don't worry, with me here, Grandpa Luo will definitely be fine."

It wasn't that Su Muchen didn't want to explain, but the thing about black magic was very mysterious and ordinary people simply couldn't understand it.

Su Muchen also learned about the practice of black magic by flipping through some ancient books in the secret realm during his spare time. This was also considered a method of cultivation.

In Southeast Asia, many wicked practitioners kill newborn babies with cruel methods to accumulate resentment. Once enough resentment has accumulated, it will form a vengeful spirit.

Once a spirit is formed, it often needs a vessel to reside in, such as a pottery jar or a box. If the vessel breaks, the spirit will also dissipate in the world.

The sorcerer only needs to seal the vessel of the vengeful spirit, and the spirit will obey him. After all, his life is in the hands of the sorcerer, and if he doesn't obey, he will be doomed at any time.

Ghosts are souls, and mortals cannot see them except under specific conditions. Just like now, if Luo Heng and the other person hadn't been in Su Muchen's divine sense space, they wouldn't have been able to see where the ghost was.

Of course, aside from some special conditions, some powerful top experts can also see the existence of ghosts. After all, they have already activated their divine sense, which is somewhat similar to a third eye. These ghosts and the like have nowhere to hide in front of these top experts.

Those sorcerers can not only use ghosts to fight enemies, but also to cultivate themselves. They can control ghosts to invade human bodies and absorb the life force of the human body.

Once all the life force has been drained, it will devour the soul of the person until the soul is completely consumed. Only then will the vengeful spirit leave the body and return to the controller.

Those sorcerers who control spirits can cultivate by absorbing the life force within the spirits, thereby strengthening themselves. This method of cultivation is extremely vicious.

The moment Su Muchen saw the ghost, he knew that Old Master Luo must have been cursed by a sorcerer from Southeast Asia during that military exercise, which was why he had become like this.

No wonder so many famous doctors couldn't find the cause of Old Master Luo's illness. He wasn't sick at all; he was simply under a curse, and the evil spirit was slowly draining away his life force.

Fortunately, he arrived in time. If Su Muchen had arrived a day later, Old Master Luo's soul would have been completely devoured by this evil spirit, thus leaving his body and returning to the controller.

"Hehehe..."

The eerie laughter still filled the entire bedroom, and the ghostly spirit began to wander around the room.

First, it floated onto the old man's shoulder and chuckled evilly in his ear. This nearly gave the old man a heart attack. He screamed and fainted on the spot.

Then, the ghost suddenly appeared in front of Luo Heng, face to face with him, no more than ten centimeters away, and grinned at Luo Heng, looking extremely terrifying.

Fortunately, Luo Heng had served in the army for many years and was not as cowardly as he looked. Although he was terrified, he did not faint from fright.

Luo Heng closed his eyes immediately, no longer looking at the terrifying face. Judging from his trembling body, he was terrified.

Seeing that Luo Heng had closed his eyes, the ghost felt bored and turned its gaze to Su Muchen, who was standing there. It floated directly to Su Muchen's shoulder and blew its ghostly energy into his ear.

The ghost originally thought that Su Muchen would be just as frightened as Luo Heng and the others, but Su Muchen's next move actually scared the ghost.

Su Muchen turned his head and stared directly at the ghost, then grinned like it. The ghost felt a chill run down its spine and immediately fled.

"Hehehe... You little brat, don't you like scaring people? How come you're the one who's scared now?"

"Eeya..."

The spirit could not speak, and in response to Su Muchen's provocation, it could only let out a terrifying scream.

"Hmph, you little brat, you've drained all of someone's life force, and now you're even after their soul. You're truly vicious. I can't let you live today."

The ghost seemed to understand Su Muchen's words and vaguely sensed a threat. It no longer maintained its previous ghostly form, opened its mouth wide, and its upper body slowly grew larger until its mouth was large enough to swallow Su Muchen's entire head, at which point it stopped growing.

Then it let out a sharp cry and lunged at Su Muchen's head, as if it wanted to bite Su Muchen's head off in one bite.

Faced with the menacing ghost, Su Muchen made no attempt to dodge. He only made a move when the ghost was about to swallow his head whole, but it was just a slight movement of his mouth.

"roll……"