The

 middle-aged man 

suddenly

 raised a

 butcher knife

. It seemed 

h

e wanted to kill Lin Xia! 

As the situation was urgent, I couldn’t think much. I directly sprinted into the villa and lashed the Sirius Whip. My whip made the man 

drop

 his knife. Then, I pulled Lin Xia

 and ran 

away. 

After a few steps, I felt a sharp pain 

in

 my left arm. I turned and saw Lin Xia’s dull face on my arm. He was biting me! 

“Damn you!”

I couldn’t help

 but curse

. That middle-aged man had found me

and had attempted to slash Lin Xia just to force me to 

come

 out. And now, he was controlling Lin Xia to attack me! 

I gritted my teeth

 and gathered 

all of my strength to give Lin Xia a strong whip. A transparent figure whined and flew out of 

his

 body

. Then, it 

returned to the side of the middle-aged man, who was chasing after me. I finally saw the face of the transparent figure. He was a fat man. 

Lin Xia was baffled. “Why 

am I

 here?” 

I didn’t have time to explain to him. I 

brusquely 

said, “There’s a car parked outside. 

D

rive it to my antique shop and ask Li Mazi to bring my stuff to me.”

Then, I gave him a few spirit talismans. 

Lin Xia was a smart person. 

Although he

 was a little bewildered, he didn’t ask anything

 and quickly rushed 

away. 

The middle-aged man held the pinky phalanx in his hand. The spirit immediately chased after Lin Xia

, but

 I wielded my Sirius Whip to stop it. The man saw that Lin Xia had already driven the car away, so he controlled his spirit to attack me instead. 

After several lashes, the Sirius Whip had temporarily used up its energy. I put 

it

 back 

at

 my waist. I took out a few talismans and smeared them on my wounded arm. Then, I attacked the spirit with the blood-stained spirit talismans. Although the blood on my arm wasn’t essence blood, it contained Yang energy

.

When the middle-aged man saw my attack, he controlled the spirit to back off. However, his control wasn’t smooth. After a few steps, the spirit 

was

 hit. I was able to smack a talisman on 

its

 forehead. 

The spirit immediately screamed and shrank. The middle-aged man rushed forward to retrieve his Yin spirit and returned it to the phalanx. 

I exhaled in relief. Now, there was only the middle-aged man I needed to deal with! I took out a sharp dagger from my bag

. I stared

 at him. “Why 

do

 you want to harm Lin Qiusheng?” 

The middle-aged man sneered darkly. “

That’s 

business between me and Lin Qiusheng. You shouldn’t put your nose in someone else’s business.” 

I spat and raised my bleeding arm. “You made your spirit bite me. Yet, 

y

ou

’re

 telling me not to put my nose in your business?” 

The middle-aged man’s face turned dark. He picked up the 

butcher

 knife 

from

 the ground

 and aimed 

at me. 

My body twisted 

to the side

 to dodge his 

attack

. At the same time, I moved behind him. The dagger in my hand that was aimed at his chest 

cut

 down furiously. 

As I had 

repeatedly been in contact

 with otherworldly items and seen many dead bodies, I understood the structure 

of the human

 body very well. I attacked him precisely and cruelly. The man roared, but his knife was still attacking me.  

I was weary from the previous fight, so I was half a beat slower. The

 butcher 

knife brushed my shoulder. Immediately, blood spurted. To prevent the man from attacking me again, I rolled 

to the side

. 

When I turned around, I saw the middle-aged man clutch

ing

 his chest and wield

ing

 his knife one more tim

e. He was

 dashing toward me. I clenched my jaw to focus. With the dagger in my hand, I 

glared

 at him. 

As the man was shortening the distance between us, I grabbed my dagger tighter

 and was 

ready to risk my life with him. Suddenly, the vrooming noise 

of a car

 engine arose outside

.

The middle-aged man knew that my reinforcement had come. His face changed drastically. He rushed into a thick bush and disappeared into the night. His movement was so smooth. 

It seemed 

he had borrowed the

spirit’s power. 

Li Mazi and Lin Xia got out of the car and found me wounded and bleeding. Li Mazi simply checked my wound and took me to the hospital where the doctor disinfected my wound and wrapped it up. The cut on my shoulder looked terrible, but it wasn’t deep. 

However,

 the spirit had bitten deep enough to my veins, which would take quite a long time to fully recover. 

“Brother, you should rest well. 

Why don’t you ask Senior Shu

 and Chuyi to take over this case?” suggested Li Mazi. 

“I don

’t 

think 

we

 need to. It’s just my arm that got hurt. I am not paralyzed.” 

A

fter the fight tonight, I 

had

accomplished

 something. The spirit wasn’t strong. As long as I could solve the man who controlled it, the case would be solved 

altogether

. However, 

because

 I had stabbed that man

,

 I wondered if he would

meet up with Ru Xue tomorrow. 

Li Mazi was puzzled. “Little 

B

rother Zhang, did they hit you until you turned crazy? You’ve seen him twice, right? You can tell Lin Qiusheng some special 

features

about

 him.” 

I listened to him and found no reason to reject 

his

 idea… 

Early

 the next 

morning, I told Lin Qiusheng 

about t

he appearance of the middle-aged man. Lin Qiusheng put on a grimace afterward. After a long time, he sighed

 and cursed

, “I 

can’t

 believe that it’s him!” 

“What’s the matter?” I pulled myself together as I 

learned

 that Lin Qiusheng knew that man. 

“He’s Wang Jie. He was my roommate in university. We had a good 

relationship,

 but we 

didn’t keep in touch after graduation. 

Two years ago, I met him at our class reunion. I got his contact afterward.” 

Li Mazi pursed his lips. “Why does he want to harm you?” 

Lin Qiusheng’s face stiffened. After a while, he sighed again. “Wang Jie and I are similar. We do cooking shows. However, he has no significant talents. His career isn’t going well. 

Since

 I’

ve been

 doing well with my career, he asked me to help him. I had never expected that he would turn hostile toward me.”

It turned out Lin Qiusheng introduced Wang Jie to his company and made him his assistant. Lin Qiusheng was dedicated to teaching him about his various experiences with working 

on

 cuisine shows. After one year, Wang Jie had finally hosted a show on his own. However, he wasn’t a gifted person. His episodes failed one after another. 

Lin Qiusheng didn’t know who had instigated Wang Jie on the thought that he 

wanted to

 take his glory 

as a

 gourmet, and that he had secretly worked with the television station to cancel Wang Jie’s show. Dissatisfied and angry, 

the man

 resigned. They had stopped contact with each other afterward. Lin Qiusheng had never thought that Wang Jie would harm his entire family. 

I thought it was absurd that Wang Jie wanted his benefactor’s life because of something trivial like that

.

However, Li Mazi understood the story better. “There are many types of people in the world. It’s okay

, w

e 

were bound to

 bump into this sort of person someday.” 

“Your sense of taste 

went away 

unknowingly? Have you seen a doctor?” I

asked. 

Lin Qiusheng got my idea immediately. “You think Wang Jie did this, too?” 

I nodded. Although I couldn’t confirm it now, from my experience, it 

was

certainly 

related to Wang Jie. 

Lin Qiusheng was so angry

 that hi

s face turn

ed

 red. He grunted and cursed Wang Jie for being heartless. I shook my head. If we knew the murderer, Ru Xue wouldn’t need to go to see him. 

“No, she should still go!” Lin Qiusheng insisted. 

“Wang Jie isn’t only greedy, but he’s also 

perverted

. If he’s not seriously hurt, he will go 

on the

 date.” 

Sooner or later, we had to 

deal with

 him. I contemplated and agreed with his idea.