During the Qing Dynasty, children addressed their mothers as ‘

Er

niang.’ The female ghost we had encountered yesterday also wore Manchurian traditional clothes. Could she be th

is 

spirit’s mother? 

After thinking

 that Li Mazi 

was

 almost killed by the white shadow, my heart sank. 

T

hen I remembered it was broad daylight right now! 

Since

 it 

was able to

 possess a living man 

in

 daylight, it meant 

that this

 spirit was even stronger than what Li Mazi had described.

While my head was spinning and thinking, I suddenly heard a horrible scream. I pulled myself together.

However, I was terrified

 when I recognized 

that Mr. Jin had escaped the four bodyguards’ suppression

. He 

furiously dashed toward the old woman. 

The woman looked petrified. She 

didn’t

 blink 

or

 move. I knew I couldn’t wait anymore. I bit the tip of my tongue

 and dashed 

forward. Immediately, I spat my blood on Mr. Jin’s forehead. 

Mr. Jin stiffened. I took this rare chance to slap him abruptly

.

 Mr. Jin shook

, and h

is eyes rolled to the back of his head

. Then, 

he fainted. At the same time, I saw a white shadow swirl

around the group of people. Then, it disappeared. 

It seemed the spirit could appear during the day but still needed to borrow a body. I heaved a sigh of relief. 

Ye Chen saw that his boss was unconscious

 and asked 

hurriedly, “What happened to him?” 

“A spirit 

was 

borro

wing

 his body. Don’t worry. He’ll wake up after sufficient rest.” I nodded.

There 

is

 a saying

 that goes, “T

he palm hits the flesh, and the back of the hand hits the soul.” It 

means

 that when you palm someone, you just hurt that person’s body

. However, i

f you use the back of your hand to hit someone, it 

will

 hurt their soul. It was the reason why people didn’t use the back of their hands to hit others in some regions. I had just tried my luck when I slapped him. 

To my surprise

, it had worked! 

Ye Chen asked the bodyguards to carry their boss upstairs to rest. The old woman turned to thank me. 

After talking to her, I learned that she was Mr. Jin’s mother

and that the other two middle-aged men were his younger brothers. They 

had come

 to visit him when they heard that he 

had

a

 strange disease. They didn’t expect that Mr. Jin 

would turn

 crazy in the morning… 

There was another odd thing about Mr. Jin. He always acted nice. However, when he saw his friends or relatives, he 

became

 fierce. I guessed it 

had

 something to do with the spirit

’s

 life. 

At around twilight, Mr. Jin’s mother left with his two brothers. Before she left, she asked me to take care of Mr. Jin. 

It was

 nightfall

 and

 Mr. Jin hadn’t woken up yet. Ye Chen took me for dinner

 and asked 

me where Li Mazi had gone. 

“He

 went 

home to run some errands. I think he will come back in a few days.” I told Ye Chen a random excuse then asked him to rest tonight. “No matter what you hear, don’t leave your room.” 

After li

stening to me, Ye Chen sternly nodded. 

If the two spirits just wanted to torture Mr. Jin, they wouldn’t hurt the other staff in his house. Ye Chen and the guards couldn’t help me. It would be better if they stayed away from the scene. I didn’t want them to be the next host! 

At around 11:00 PM, I turned off all the lights in the villa. Then, I got out of the hous

e and climbed

 a big tree. I smeared ox tears on my eyelids

 and watched 

Mr. Jin’s room

 without

 blinking. 

Soon, a vague figure appeared in my sight. When it came closer, I recognized it was the female ghost I’d encountered last night. 

She headed toward Mr. Jin. I didn’t take action but patiently waited to see what she wanted to do.

She went to Mr. Jin’s bed. 

After s

taring at him for a while, she began to sob. 

Her crying was extremely sorrowful. I could 

feel

the

 anger 

inside

 her agony. I couldn’t help but pity her

 and felt

 sorry for her. 

I was outside and 

could hear her cries

, which meant that Mr. Jin could hear her, too. However, he didn’t react

 and slept

 like a dead pig. 

The ghost raised her hands

 and aimed 

at Mr. Jin. All of a sudden, the bronze bow materialized in her hands! I had taken that bow during the day

, so h

ow could she get 

it so easily

?

I didn’t have time to think as the ghost had already shot Mr. Jin. The 

man

 immediately whimpered in pain. 

It explained the sounds Ye Chen and the others had heard before. After knowing what had happened during the night, I became sterner. I walked around the area outside the villa to check and found nothing. 

It wasn’t hard to deal with that female ghost 

now that we were

 alone

, so

 I wouldn’t let such a good chance slip away. I took out a Yang Concealing 

T

alisman to conceal my Yang energy. While creeping 

i

n the corridor, I bit my finger and drew a simple Five Elements 

F

ormation there. 

The Five Elements 

F

ormation focused on mutually 

attracting

 and 

repelling the

 Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth elements. 

Those 

who understood the rules could escape the formation easily. However, if they didn’t know the rules, they would never escap

e and could only wait for

 death. 

The bow that the ghost 

used

 naturally belonged to the Fire attribute. Water puts out fire

, so 

I placed a water 

gate

 right at the entrance to the 

room

. It would make the ghost inadvertently enter the formation. 

Then, I returned to my room to 

grab

 the Yin and Yang Umbrella. From the balcony of my room, I climbed into Mr. Jin’s room. 

T

he ghost didn’t 

notice

 my 

presence. I used this chance and

 opened the Yin and Yang Umbrella

. Then, I

 threw it toward her. 

Unexpectedly, although the female ghost didn’t see me, her bow did. It jumped up and parried with the Yin and Yang Umbrella. After a clear crackle, the bow 

broke

 into two pieces. 

The female ghost saw the Yin and Yang Umbrell

a and shrieked

. She didn’t turn her head back

 and rushed 

toward the corridor. 

I knew she would 

step into the formation. I didn’t need to chase after her.

 I flinched and

 picked up the two halves of the bronze bow. At the moment it had c

lashed

 with the Yin and Yang Umbrella on its own, I knew it had a spirit. 

However, it was now broken. W

hat a waste! 

The female ghost screamed and cursed outside. I smiled

 and walked 

out of the room. Indeed, she was trapped inside the Five Elements 

F

ormation! 

Although my Five Elements formation wasn’t bigger than her three-inch-golden-lotus-feet, she couldn’t escape. No matter where she ran, she would be sucked back into the formation, which made her look like a roly-poly toy. 

Gradually, the female ghost was worn out. She began to whine. I couldn’t stand it when women cried. My heart softened

 and

 was about to release her. She wasn’t my equal opponent, after all. 

Before I could dismiss my formation, her crying turned into sharp laughter. 

“Your Majesty, open your eyes and see how good your sons are! Haha!” The ghost’s laughter subsided. “Pity me

. I, 

Abahai, 

ha

ve been a good mother my whole life. However, 

m

y sons strangled me to death. My God! Why did you do that to me? Where’s the justice for me…” 

Then, her eyes turned red

. She gazed 

at me as though she wanted to tear me into pieces! 

S

he hurled herself toward the water 

gate

. 

All of this happened in just a glimpse of time. When I pulled myself together, the female ghost had already vanished into thin air. 

I looked at the water 

gate

and felt

 helpless. I slumped onto the ground. 

The female ghost’s last words had shown her identity. She was the woman 

Emperor Nurhaci,

 the Qing Dynasty’s founder

, 

loved the most. She was Lady Abahai.  

Lady Abahai was a smart, kind, and beautiful woman. She 

had

 strong support for Nurhaci when he struck to claim the nation. 

At the same time, she was a good mother who had taken care of her three sons pretty well

.

However, after Nurhaci got sick and died, her three sons, under Hong Taiji’s

pressure, forced her to commit suicide by strangling herself with a 

bowstring

. They did it to save themselves. 

I guessed that when Abahai died, she had a thousand questions in 

her mind

. That’s why she didn’t believe 

in the existence of

 love and 

familial 

affection. She hated both her family members and friends.  

If this spirit was Lady Abahai, the white shadow was 

undoubtedly 

her son, Dorgon. Dorgon was the leader of one of the great Eight Banners. 

It explained why

 he always wore white clothes. Dorgon often blamed himself for the death of his mother. When he started his regency, the first thing he 

did

 was confer the posthumous title

, 

Empress, to his late mother. 

I guessed that Dorgon’s spirit had followed his mother to repay the love she had always carried for him. 

I felt guilty. It was exactly 

as

 the saying, “I didn’t kill Boren, but Boren died because of me.” I had never thought of destroying Abahai, but I had indirectly forced her to kill herself one more time… 

Ever since I

 had started

 working in this otherworldly item business, I had never encountered such an emotional situation. I felt a little shaken.