“Do you think we can trust that He Kui guy?” After Li Mazi said that, I felt interested in this case. 

Li Mazi laughed and shook his head, shooting me a meaningful look

We had seen this a lot. 

U

nfilial children made their parents 

die

 with a grudge

, and t

hey were only scared when their parents came back from 

the dead

to pester

 them. Moreover, when they came to ask 

for my

 help, they didn’t tell me 

about

 the horrible things they had done to their parents. That

 was 

why Li Mazi and I agreed that He Kui was lying or o

mitting

 the fact that he and his wife weren’t filial at all. 

Still

, ghosts were ghosts. I couldn’t just ignore 

the fact that a

 ghost was troubling an innocent kid! 

When we arrived at Baijia Village, He Kui was waiting for us at the village entrance. When he saw us, he rushed to us,

 and 

excitedly 

grabbed

 my hand. “Master Zhang, you’re finally here.” 

It seemed Li Mazi had 

told

 him about me. I didn’t talk nonsense

 and asked 

him to take us to his house. 

He Kui looked hesitant. Li Mazi waved his hand in 

dismissal

. “Quickly, tell us if you

’re experiencing 

some trouble.” 

“Master Zhang, I

 have 

something here. Please take a look.” He Kui 

hesitated

 for quite a long time

 before he 

carefully took out a longevity lock charm from his pocket. 

At first glance, the longevity lock charm looked like it was made of pure bronze. However, it had been oxidized in some corners

; i

t 

didn’t look like

 a valuable item. The strange feature about this longevity lock charm was that it had fresh mud and dirt stuffed at the carved slits on its surface

. It looked 

as though it had just been unearthed. “What’s wrong with this lock charm?” 

He paled

 and puckered 

his lips. After a moment, he stuttered

,

 “My father brought it to my house.” 

“What?!” Li Mazi was 

observing

 the longevity lock charm. 

After hearing that, he looked 

scared

 and threw 

the lock charm 

at

 me. I 

made

 a slight frown 

and asked 

He Kui to continue. 

“After 

I returned

 home from the South Sea, my little girl 

wasn’t

 getting better. Her situation 

was

 getting worse. Moreover, my wife dream

ed 

about my father more often. 

I almost

 cracked last night

, which is why I called 

Mr. Li to help me. Unexpectedly, this morning, I found this longevity lock charm on my daughter’s bed! I’m sure my father brought it to my house. I know it’s the lock charm my father always kept with him when he was still alive.

When he passed away, I buried this lock charm with him.” 

“Where is his grave? 

Could you take

 me there to 

have

 a look?” 

If the dead had given away their grave goods, it 

normally

 meant they wanted to use these grave goods to exchange for the living 

recipient's

 life! 

However, in most of the cases, the dead just wanted to trick the living and make the living their partner. It was some sort of otherworldly marriage. Still, I was sure that the old grandfather wouldn’t have 

such an idea

 toward his granddaughter. That

 was

 why I wanted to go to his grave

. I wanted to understand the meaning behind his actions

. 

He Kui didn’t 

refuse my proposal

. He led us toward the paddy fields. He stopped at a location that looked lower than the fields around. A medium-size grave was situated in the middle of that piece of land. 

There was only one grave in this area. I didn’t wait for him to show me the way

 and took 

the lead. I bowed to the grave before carefully assessing it.

I had spent a good time observing it, but I didn’t find anything wrong. 

The only thing was that I saw only

 a 

bit of

 Yin energy, which was

 rather

 unusual. 

This grave was located in a lower position than the land around, which 

allowed

 the water and cold energy to congregate 

around it

. In theory, the grave should have thick and furious Yin energy. 

Seeing that it was 

relatively clean, I thought 

there might not be a

 corpse down there! 

“Master Zhang, did you find anything?” 

He Kui looked at m

y

grimace, and h

e panicked as he seemed to figure out something. I told him my 

guess and asked 

if we could open up the grave to confirm

 it. 

He was bewildered at first, 

but

 when he heard that we should open up the grave, his face turned sullen. “

I’m not sure about that

. Is it okay if we don’t open the grave?” 

“

I see. Then, w

e

’ll only observe the

 situation f

or now

.” I nodded as I understood 

what he was feeling

. His father should rest in peace. If we 

didn’t feel hopeless about what to do

, we shouldn’t unearth him.

I looked at the grave for a while and found nothing problematic with it. Then, I followed He Kui to visit his house. 

His house was a blue brick house with a tiled roof. It looked really old, though. Although they could live in this rickety house, it was the worst-looking house in this village. 

“Why 

didn't you

 renovate the house?” I sounded skeptical. 

He Kui blushed

 and 

embarrassedly 

told

 us the story. “This is my father’s house. After 

I graduated

, I got a job in the city. When I got married, I 

spent almost

 all of his savings to 

rent

 a house in the city. However, after I lost my job, I couldn’t pay the rent, so we decided to move back here.” 

I disdained this man, but I understood that his 

miserable

 situation was surely related to his father. However, I didn’t want to discuss this with him

. Instead, I 

asked, “How is your daughter?” 

“Oh, I almost forgot to tell you. Last night, she didn’t cry. She had a good sleep.” 

When we talked about his daughter, He Kui finally had a smile on his face. 

Li Mazi chimed in, “

C

ould it be the effect of the longevity lock charm?” 

“E

h

?” He Kui 

didn’t

 react for quite a long time. In the end, he spoke gingerly, “If so, my father wouldn’t have tortured us right from the start…” 

After he said that, Li Mazi didn’t talk anymore. They both turned to me. 

I had thought about what Li Mazi had just mentioned. Many elders didn’t like their 

daughters-in-law

, but they all loved their grandkids. Because 

of a grudge

, Mr. He had pestered his daughter-in-law but 

that

 didn’t hinder him from loving his little granddaughter. However, I thought 

that 

something else 

was scaring

 He Kui’s daughter, not his old man. 

“Yeah, it’s 

possible

.” 

Li Mazi nodded

 to show 

that he agreed with my assumption. He Kui’s face turned complicated.

He looked both doubtful and sorry. 

As soon as we entered his courtyard, we heard 

a

 child crying. Her cr

ies

were

 getting louder and louder. He Kui

 was 

worried

 and 

rushed to the house. Li Mazi and I followed him. Then, we saw a young woman sitting on the edge of the bed

. She was 

comforting her crying baby. When the woman saw us, she hurriedly brought the kid to us

 and begged 

us to save her daughter. 

At first glance, I could already confirm that this little girl was being pestered by something foul. Her face 

was 

ash-gray

. H

er heavenly 

t

emple was dark, and I saw a vague purple cloud above her head. 

Little kids could see foul beings because of 

the

 spiritual purple cloud above their 

heads

, which also represented the kid’s fate. As kids grew up, this spiritual cloud would slowly seep into their 

bodies

 and become their life essence. 

The little girl

’s 

spiritual energy was dispersing bit by bit. If 

things

continued like 

this, she would die 

in

 three days. I hurriedly adhered a Yang Flame talisman on her forehead to 

protect

 her life. Then, I started to assess this room. The room was filled with a black mist that torrentially rolled toward the bed. 

It was n

o wonder 

that

 the purple spiritual energy on her head was eroded. Staying in this room was no differe

nt

 from soaking in Yin energy for the whole day. Let alone a little girl, even an adult would be harmfully affected! 

He Kui’s wife

’s face was

 haggard. I knew the Yin energy here had affected her as well. I asked He Kui to 

open

 all the windows and 

doors and

 then continued to watch. Strangely, the Yin energy in the room didn’t disperse. Even when the wind blew in and disturbed the Yin energy, after a while, the Yin energy congregated again

 and twirled 

above the bed. 

“What’s going on?” I frowned, muttering to myself. 

“He Kui, Li Mazi, 

move

 th

at

 bed to another place. I want to see if there’s something underneath.” 

Except for dust, there was nothing else under the bed. Frighteningly, the Yin energy continued to move and 

spin

 above the bed! 

I asked the two men to move the bed to a few more locations. However, no matter where they put it, the mass of Yin energy followed it. 

As Li Mazi saw that I kept watching the void above our heads, he knew there 

was

 Yin energy there. “Did you find the origin of the Yin energy?” 

I shook my head. That mass of Yin energy kept spinning over there, 

but

 I couldn’t find where it originated. 

Fortunately, the vortex of Yin energy had only moved around the bed. I picked up the baby and left the room, but it didn’t follow me. It meant that foul thing 

wasn’t

 aiming at the baby. He Kui had thought that his kid had caught a cold, so he didn’t bring her out of that room. But 

h

e had accidentally put the little girl in danger. 

He Kui’s wife immediately rushed into the room to gather some stuff and moved the baby crib out of the room. 

Indeed, as soon as the kid was settled in her crib, the purple cloud 

above

 her head 

stabilized

. I asked her parents 

to tell me 

h

er date of birth. I wanted to 

use the Soul Beckoning 

T

echnique to help her 

recollect

 her spiritual energy. 

But

 as she was just an infant, 

her

 spiritual energy was feeble

, and it was difficult to gather once dispersed. I could only collect

 part of 

it

. However, 

s

he would recover naturally if we 

could assure that her family wasn’t

 pestered again. 

After we had solved the little girl’s dangerous situation, the couple heaved a sigh of relief. They continuously thanked me. I just waved my hands. “It’s all right. 

However

, I can’t see where the Yin energy 

is coming

 from. I need to observe it again tonight.” 

He Kui nodded. He asked his wife to cook us something.

Li Mazi and I were 

starving. 

We quickly finished the 

food

 and took a nap. 

At night, I asked He Kui’s family to stay and rest in the living room. Li Mazi and I hid in the child’s room, waiting!