Chapter 1: The Haunted Yōlin (Part 1)

  The rain woman smiled and looked at the heavy rain pouring down from the broken stone, and once again transformed into a flower-shaped umbrella, opening it up.

  "How about it, stinky turkey, can't you shut up?"

  Ding Lingxiu stood in the rain, but didn't feel particularly good. He looked at the constantly collapsing cave ceiling and muttered to himself:

  "What's going on, Little Rain?"

  The rain girl lifted her elegant hair behind her back, a strand of fragrance entered her nostrils. She smiled brightly at Ding Lingxiu and replied proudly:

  "Hehe, I'm clever, right? Just now when I was using the Crystal Rain Defense Umbrella to block its first wave of attack, I secretly used my demonic powers to manipulate the water-attributed demonic energy in the underground dark rivers within this cave. Now we're deep underground, and these dark rivers have burst through the rocks after my manipulation, so that's why that stupid fire chicken got drenched."

  Ding Lingxiu listened and was instantly petrified, thinking that the phrase "big chest but no brain" truly condensed the great wisdom of the Chinese nation into one sentence, and how aptly it described Yu Nu.

  Ding Lingxiu said with a bitter tone:

  "Little Rain, since you know we're so deep underground and this place is so low-lying, if you divert the water from the hidden river over here, won't we drown?"

  The Rain Girl suddenly realized and slapped her forehead saying:

  "Oh no, I didn't think of this, what are we going to do now?"

  "Whatever, drowning is better than burning anyway, what else can we do, run!"

  As they spoke, the top of the cave above them accelerated its collapse. The large hole that had knocked out Chi Yan earlier grew bigger again, and underground water poured down frantically like a huge pipe filling a pool, except this pipe had no switch. Water gushed out from inside without any restraint. Other parts of the cave ceiling also showed large and small irregular cracks, and underground water splashed everywhere along these cracks, with some places already forming water columns. This was no longer rain in the demon cave, but rather water pouring into the cave.

  Ding Lingshu and Guo Mohan both looked up at the top of the cave, their eyes fixed on the rocks above them. The rocks seemed to be getting more and more unstable, and it was likely that they would collapse soon. Even if they ran out of the cave now, they didn't know if they could make it in time.

  Ding Lingxiu was anxious and said:

  "This... isn't good, Rain Girl. Can you think of a way to let these underground dark rivers that were gathered by your demonic energy flow back?"

  The rain girl scratched her head and said with embarrassment:

  "Master, this is impossible to do. I altered the original course of these underground dark rivers and forced them to change direction. They crushed many rocks along the way before being guided here by my demonic power. A new waterway has been formed, and you know that water flows downhill, don't you? With our location being so low, how can we possibly reverse this?"

  Ding Lingxiu was tongue-tied and speechless, thinking that what he said at this time was indeed reasonable.

  But now there is no time to care about these things, he hurriedly urged Yu Nu:

  "Alright, it can't be helped then. Wait a minute... I'll go get something, you have to help too, quickly go move that colorful stone pillar away and bring it back to the Holy Domain."

  "What's with the stone pillar? Why are you carrying that thing?" The Rain Girl looked puzzled.

  "Hurry up and go, sister! That thing has too much magical power, only a monster can hold it. Can you help me take it for a moment?"

  Ding Lingxiu finished speaking and hastily ran to the side of the corpse, picked up the soul-gathering ball and stuffed it into his backpack. At this time, Yu Nu also picked up the Wu Guang stone pillar and transformed into a blue light that merged into the Bai Gui diagram. Ding Lingxiu adjusted the shoulder strap of his backpack and prepared to run towards the stairs at the entrance of the cave.

  He had only taken a few steps when he discovered that Guo Mohan hadn't escaped, but instead was standing at the entrance of the cave with his arms wrapped around himself, waiting for Ding Lingyu.

  "Auntie, can't you see that this place is about to collapse? Let's talk about killing or chopping once we get out, okay?"

  Ding Lingxiu's voice was almost pleading, as he knew that the place was about to collapse, but couldn't understand why Guo Mohan, who understood Feng Shui better than him, was still here entangled with him.

  "Huh? The great and powerful Young Master Ding is also afraid now?" Guo Mohan's face was fearless, still with that icy cold expression. "This is really a case of the beam above being crooked and the beam below being slanted. Old Fox Ding cheated my father out of the Hundred Ghosts Painting, and now this little fox wants to snatch away my Spirit Gathering Ball? Are you people bullying me because there's no one left in the Guo family?"

  Ding Lingxiu at this time had no desire to argue back, and said pitifully:

  "Miss Ding, this is my friend Neidan inside your Spirit Gathering Orb. It's not that I don't want to give it back to you, but let him retrieve his Neidan first. I'll definitely return the orb to you afterwards. Shall we head out for now?"

  Guo Mo sneered coldly and said:

  "Hmph, don't try to sweet-talk your way out of this, I won't let you go even if it means we both perish today."

  After she finished speaking, she actually took out the Lingyue Palace lantern. Ding Ling's eyes widened in shock and his heart was racing. He thought to himself, "Is she going to fight again? Heaven, is she really prepared to die together with me?"

  Guo Mohan held up the lantern of Lingyue Palace, her beautiful eyes closed, and murmured words in her mouth:

  "The heavens are dark and yellow, the universe is vast and desolate, the Spirit Bird's palace lanterns shine brightly in the void."

  When the three beams of light from the Lingyin Palace Lantern were projected out, the two red and yellow lights had already become extremely dim, leaving only that beam of blue light to appear particularly dazzling. She lightly touched that beam of blue light with her slender fingers, and in an instant, the blue light burst forth, making Ding Lingyu feel a numbness throughout his body, as if all the hairs on his skin were standing up. And around him, a sudden burst of crackling thunderbolts erupted, the electric lights flashing even more brightly in the humid air inside the cave, producing an explosive roar that made people extremely frightened.

  Ding Ling's numbness all over his body had not yet dissipated, and he only heard the thunder piercing his ears. The demonic energy inside the lantern of the Spirit Vulture Palace suddenly exploded in mid-air, and a strange demon resembling a raccoon dog appeared out of the blue light.

  Ding Lingxu's demon-seeking compass sounded an alarm, and Ding Lingxu's stiff hands had to make a great effort to take it out, but after seeing the display on the demon-seeking compass, he was almost desperate:

  Name: Raiju

  Rank: Oni

  Weakness: Stone attribute

  Type: Power-type demon.

  Ding Lingxiu let out an astonishing cry:

  "You actually have another ghostly-level demon?"

  He had thought that Guo Mohan hadn't used the blue demonic energy because it was too weak or there hadn't been a situation where he needed to use it. But he never could have imagined that Guo Mohan would possess two ghostly entities of the fierce ghost level, this was simply like a tale from Arabian Nights.

  The Thunder Beast came out and swayed in front of Guo Mohan, smiling and saying.

  "Little master, what's going on that you've called me out? Is someone scared again and wants to sleep with me?"

  Guo Mohan's pale face suddenly turned red after Lei Shou's words, she frowned and coughed lightly. She didn't respond to Lei Shou, but instead turned her head to look at Ding Lingxiu who was trembling with fear, a faintly evil and charming cold smile appeared on her face:

  "Hmph, I've said it before, your Ding family is only good at scheming against people and doesn't have any real strength as a demon hunter. With these mediocre demons that are barely better than a circus troupe, you think you can take me on? Today, I'll avenge my father and kill him, Lei Shou."

  The Thunder Beast turned its head and saw Ding Lingyu, immediately understanding.

  "Wū ào——"

  Suddenly, a loud roar exploded inside the cave, this roar was more shocking than thunder. Ding Lingxiu didn't have time to react, and the giant beast like a big bear rushed over like lightning.

  When the Thunder Beast emerged from the lightning, Ding Lingyu finally saw its true face: this Thunder Beast looked like a raccoon dog and also like a tiger, shaking six strange tails shaped like lightning, and the tail produced crackling electricity as it shook. Although the Thunder Beast was huge in size, it looked cute, fluffy enough to make little girls want to hug it. Ding Lingyu could only be sure that it was a ghost-level monster from the sharp light flashing in its two dark blue eyes.