Chapter 28: Manic Madness

  Pan Hao tidied up his clothes and opened the door.

  "Hao Ge! It's so noisy outside!" Xi Wen little girl was eating snacks in the small pavilion outside the study. Seeing Pan Hao come out, her round eyes lit up instantly, and she ran over to pull on Pan Hao's sleeve, pointing outside and saying.

  "Ah, let's go take a look!" Pan Hao nodded and led Xi Wen towards the direction of the main gate.

  Young Master!

  Arriving at the front yard, several servants saw Pan Hao and came over to pay their respects. Apparently, they had also heard the commotion outside. They curiously followed him to the front yard, preparing to go out and take a look.

  "Li Bo, open the door, let's go outside and take a look!" Pan Hao said to the old man standing beside him, who also looked puzzled. Li Bo responded with a sound and hurriedly went to open the door.

  This Li Bo is one of the several underlings employed by Pan, with a skillful hand at cultivating flowers, able to tend to the flowers and trees in the front yard. Although he is over fifty years old, his body is still robust, and many of the rituals in the mansion are known to him clearly. Therefore, Pan Hao had the intention of employing him.

  "Creak... creak..." The vermilion gate opened.

  "Boom......" A young man wearing a blue Confucian robe with regular features burst in through the door.

  "You thieves, I, Wang San, will definitely kill you all and avenge my father's death!" The young man roared like a madman at the people outside.

  "Master, master, no one has killed the old master!"

  "Quickly catch the young master, don't implicate other families!"

  "Master has gone in, quickly..."

  As the young man rushed in, more than a dozen green-clad attendants also rushed over from outside.

  "Don't come any closer, or I'll kill them!" At some point, the young man in blue clothes pulled out a dagger with a cold glow and pointed it at Pan Hao and others, shouting loudly at the approaching servants.

  After finishing speaking, the young man in blue rushed towards Pan Hao and others. Obviously wanting to grab a knife and threaten the dozen or so people who had burst in. The youth's eyes were red-rimmed, holding a dagger, rushing quickly towards Pan Hao at the forefront.

  "What's all the commotion!" Pan Hao's tongue was like a spring thunderclap, exploding in the young man's ear. The young man's head was instantly stunned, his ears deafened.

  "Clang!" The dagger fell to the ground. The others who came in from behind were also stunned by Pan Hao's voice.

  "What's going on!" Pan Hao furrowed his brow and asked in a low voice. This time, however, he didn't use his true energy again.

  "This young master! This is our family's young master." A slender, steady-moving young servant in a green robe came to his senses from his daze, and with a bitter smile, he bowed his hands and replied to Pan Hao.

  "Oh, what's going on with you, young master?" Pan Hao looked at the blue-clothed youth in the middle with a puzzled expression, who had already been shocked by Pan Hao and was now dizzy and disoriented.

  "Our family's master suddenly became like this a month ago!" The young servant in green clothes waved his hand, and more than a dozen servants rushed up, grabbing the blue-clothed youth in the middle and tying his hands with ropes. However, they were extremely careful in their movements, afraid of hurting the blue-clothed youth.

  "Huh?" Pan Hao observed the expressions of these people, and they didn't seem to be lying. Nor did he stop their actions, but instead was very curious. Looking at the expression of that blue-clothed young man just now, it was clearly a look of irreconcilable enmity. How could these little servants still address him as "Young Master"?

  "This young master, please forgive the offense just now! We will take our leave immediately. Please be magnanimous!" The leading green-clad servant said with a bow, expressing his apologies to Pan Hao.

  Pan Hao nodded slightly, indicating that it was unnecessary to mind. Although he was curious about what was going on, since the other party didn't intend to say anything, Pan Hao also didn't press for an explanation.

  "Ugh, am I... am I sick again?" A hoarse male voice suddenly rang out. The young man in blue shook his dizzy head, looking at the rope on his hand, and opened his mouth with a bitter smile and helplessness.

  "Master, you're awake!" The leading servant was overjoyed. He hastily ordered the servants beside him to untie his bonds.

  "Sung Zhi, am I running wildly again?" The young man in blue clothes asked as he saw the leading servant.

  "Master, your illness has worsened. Just now when we escaped, Li Zi was injured!" Song Zhi reported with a bitter smile, expressing great concern to the young man in blue clothes, recounting what had just happened.

  "This brother, just now was rude, please forgive!" The young man in blue clothes hurriedly came to Pan Hao's front and bowed his head to apologize.

  "It's nothing, but what is this about?" Pan Hao waved his hand and asked the young man in blue.

  "Alas!" The young man in blue sighed and explained the reason. It turned out that this young man's name was Yao Chubridge, the son of a wealthy merchant in the county. Although his father had achieved success in business, he regretted not being able to pass the imperial examination. Therefore, Yao Chubridge had been placed with high expectations by his father since childhood, studying poetry and books in pursuit of one day passing the imperial examination and bringing glory to the family.

  Yao Chubridge did not disappoint Yao's father, and he successfully passed the imperial examination as a child prodigy and a scholar. However, just last month, Yao Chubridge suddenly became often absent-minded and talked to himself. Later on, it even evolved into him becoming like a different person, with his behavior being vastly different from usual. Moreover, he would do some absurd things, and then forget about them after waking up again.

  "The doctor said I had a split personality disorder, and when I'm ill, my behavior is like that of another person. So I've been keeping a low profile until today, and you know what happened!" Yao Chubridge adjusted his clothes while pretending to speak casually, but Pan Hao could sense the unease and fear in his heart.

  "Did anything special happen to you a month ago?"

  Pan Hao furrowed his brow slightly after hearing Yao Chubridge's account. This symptom was somewhat similar to the schizophrenia of his past life. Pan Hao raised his eyes and looked at the top of Yao Chubridge's head!

  Above Yao Chubridge's head, three feet above a white and red banded fate column stands upright, on the surface of the fate column a faint white aura is filling in. Little by little it is strengthening Yao Chubridge's fate.

  However, Pan Hao's eyes condensed, and around the fate grid, it was not only the aura of fortune, but also a faint black death energy and yin energy that lingered. These death energies and yin energies were slowly and steadily increasing, eroding Yao Chubridge's fate grid. The originally pure white fate grid with a hint of pale red had already been invaded by half of the death energy and yin energy.

  "It seems like nothing special. Oh, right! I bought a string of jade beads at the market, but accidentally dropped and broke them that night!"

  Yao Chubridge heard Pan Hao's words and couldn't help but think for a moment. Then he told about buying Yu Zhu, but didn't feel anything special!

  Pan Hao nodded after listening, the death aura on Yao Chubridge's head wasn't something that only appeared when doing evil things. Generally speaking, murderers' heads aren't filled with death aura, but rather resentment and killing intent! As for death aura, aside from dead people and graveyards, it seems to be quite rare!

  "Wait a minute, there should be some special nether artifacts and law artifacts that can absorb death energy and yin energy!" Pan Hao's eyes lit up as he thought of this.

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