Chapter 65: The Unlucky Star 12

  Shen Cailan's figure, shrouded in an ominous bloody aura, merged into the thick smoke at the entrance of the building and quickly disappeared from Qin Fei's line of sight.

  "What's going to happen now?" The unexpected fire had caused the situation, which was originally under control, to go off track to a large extent. Qin Fei looked at Gu Yin with anxiety. What would happen next? Would Ye Cheng die in this fire?

  Gu Yin glanced at Qin Fei and looked towards the burning building, his eyebrows furrowed.

  Ye Cheng's life and death were not on his mind, but Qin Fei was obviously a soft-hearted person and couldn't bear to see someone he knew die in front of him, so he agreed to help Ye Cheng at the time. However, he didn't know that Ye Cheng would have such a calamity as the fire, and it's likely that his life would be lost in that burning building. If he had known about this calamity beforehand, there were ways to resolve it, but now it was too late, and the fire in the building wouldn't allow an ordinary person to enter safely.

  "This fire is Ye Cheng's calamity, I don't know if he can survive." Gu Yin said slowly, "All I can do is prevent Shen Qianlan from taking action against him after Ye Cheng gets through this calamity."

  Do your best and leave the rest to fate, whether you can survive or not depends on Ye Cheng's own luck.

  Gu Yin looked around and planned to find a place to set up his formation. However, at this moment, he felt a chill gather in the air.

  Gu Yin looked up at the night sky, in the pitch-black darkness above the building. From all directions, an ominous aura gathered in the rolling thick smoke, forming a gray mist that ordinary people couldn't see, like a whirlpool, extremely unnatural.

  "What's that?" Following Gu Yin's line of sight, Qin Fei also quickly discovered the unnatural fog mass.

  "Evil spirits wandering souls." Gu Yin's eyes narrowed.

  "Evil spirits gathering? Why are they congregating?" The gathered evil spirits emitted an ominous and chilly aura, making Qin Fei feel extremely uncomfortable even from a distance. He unconsciously took two steps back towards Gu Yin.

  "There is an array on the rooftop." Gu Yin's words were slow and low, his eyes dyed with ink-like blackness, not revealing a single glimmer of light.

  That was an array for refining ghost equipment.

  The jade platform scripture that calmed Shen Qianlan's soul was destroyed, and now it seems it wasn't an accident, but rather a deliberate act. Someone maliciously moved the jade platform, destroying the scriptures on top of it, allowing Shen Qianlan's soul to be slowly eroded by impurities and gradually transform into a malevolent spirit. Now, evil spirits and wandering souls are gathering to set up an array, clearly intending to refine Shen Qianlan into a ghost vessel, and Ye Cheng is the final catalyst for this refining process.

  At the moment of formation, offering a thousand people's blood and soul as sacrifice would lead to the completion of the ghostly device. And these thousand people's blood and souls - those who had barely escaped from the square, the firefighters who came to put out the fire, and the surrounding onlookers, were the readily available sacrificial offerings.

  Shen Qianlan is a 500-year-old Daoist immortal, a very rare existence. Ordinary Daoist immortals rarely have such a high level of cultivation. An existence like Shen Qianlan would be absolutely top-grade for refining ghost equipment, but in reality, almost no one would dare to try and capture her because very few people can guarantee that they won't be counter-attacked when refining a Daoist immortal of this level. Once counter-attacked, the consequences would be eternal damnation, so extremely few people dare to take action with an attitude of "trying it out".

  When someone dares to defy Shen Cui Lan's will, that person is no ordinary person.

  Who is this person? This question turned around in his mind, and Gu Yin couldn't help but think of the person who had set up a trap to take his soul seventeen years ago in Qing Shui Town. That person had such abilities, and he also knew a lot about the art of communicating with ghosts and spirits. If it was him, Gu Yin wouldn't be surprised that he knew about the Xian's obscure array formation in the Lian Hua altar.

  However, whether it is him or not can only be confirmed after seeing him.

  Seventeen years ago, Gu Yin didn't actually see the killer's appearance, but he had a way to identify him, on the premise that he could catch him first!

  "Come with me." Gu Yin pulled Qin Fei's hand and quickly walked towards the outer edge of the square.

  "Where are we going? What about Ye Cheng? What about those evil spirits?" Qin Fei asked anxiously as he quickened his pace to catch up with Gu Yin, who had pulled him along for two steps.

  "Yue Cheng's matter will still be handled as previously stated - stop Shen Qianlan and leave the rest to his own luck. As for those evil spirits and ghosts..." A cold laugh came from Gu Yin in the wind, "Naturally, let them take me to meet the master who summoned them to have a midnight banquet."

  Gu Yin held Qin Fei's hand, walked out of the square, crossed the road, and entered a hotel by the roadside. Under the strange gaze of the receptionist, he quickly filled out the registration form, paid the money, took the room card, and led Qin Fei upstairs.

  Qin Fei: "......" Aren't you trying to catch those evil spirits? Why drag me here to open a room?

  Just as Qin Fei was being driven dizzy by Gu Yin's series of actions, he had already been dragged into the room on the third floor by Gu Yin. Then, Gu Yin locked the door and didn't wait for him to ask questions before pulling him into the bathroom.

  Standing in front of the half-length mirror in the bathroom, Gu Yin finally let go of his hand, frowned and examined the mirror, seemingly barely satisfied with a knock on the mirror surface. He then took out the cinnabar from his pocket, dipped his finger in water, mixed it with cinnabar, and began to draw talismans on the mirror surface near the frame.

  Qin Fei watched as Gu Yin drew a circle of symbols on the mirror frame, and then heard Gu Yin mutter a sentence under his breath. The reflection of him and Gu Yin in the mirror twisted strangely for a moment. Qin Fei blinked, just about to take a closer look, but didn't expect the lights in the bathroom to flicker once before suddenly going out with a pop.

  The bathroom fell into darkness, but the mirror in front of them gradually floated up with an orange glow after the lights went out. Before long, a swaying image appeared on its surface, as if someone was walking forward with a camera. The scene was a chaotic corridor, with signs of burning everywhere, but Qin Fei soon realized that this corridor was actually the floor where they had dinner.

  "I borrowed the evil spirit's eyes in the building and turned the scene around." Gu Yin simply explained to Qin Fei.

  Gu Yin is using a kind of Yu Gui Shu, which now belongs to the Geng family's ultimate skill, but for Gu Yin, it is just one of the skills he learned from various channels thousands of years ago.

  Using the Oni technique, reverse manipulate the evil spirits gathered in the building to destroy the Ghost Equipment's refining array. This is Gu Yin's plan. However, before destroying the refining array, Ye Cheng must be found first and cannot be allowed to die at Shen Qianlan's hands. Otherwise, even if the refining array is successfully destroyed, it will not be possible to prevent Shen Qianlan from being refined into a Ghost Equipment.

  However, before Gu Yin found Ye Cheng, Shen Qianlan appeared in the mirror first.

  Shen Qianlan walked slowly and steadily in the corridor, her face expressionless, yet with a hint of malevolent aura. Behind her followed a large group of evil spirits, who crowded around her but did not dare to truly approach or touch her. It looked as if Shen Qianlan was leading a procession of evil spirits.

  That strange procession marched through the corridor as if taking a leisurely stroll, walked up the stairs that were everywhere with flames, turned into the safe passage on the upper floor, and then Ye Cheng's figure appeared in the mirror.

  Gu Yin slowed down a step, and Ye Cheng met Shen Qianlan first.

  Ye Cheng's appearance looked very bad, there were no obvious external injuries on his body, but he had already become hypoxic and fell into a state of unconsciousness. Shen Qianlan stood three steps away from Ye Cheng, quietly looking at him, while Gu Yin standing in front of the mirror was quietly watching Shen Qianlan.

  Things have developed to this point, and if you want to stop Shen Qianlan, you can only let her soul fly away. Gu Yin raised his hand and drew an array in the void, trying to use the Ghost Control Technique to control Shen Qianlan. But unexpectedly, just at this moment, a hoarse voice issued a command before him.

  "Kill him!"

  Gu Yin's eyes flashed, and he quickly manipulated the ghosts under his control to hold back Shen Qianlan. However, the vengeful spirit that was once a celestial being was not something that a few small ghosts could hold back, and it soon broke through the encirclement of small ghosts, arriving in front of Ye Cheng in the blink of an eye and pinching his neck.

  "Shen Cailan!" At that moment, Qin Fei almost subconsciously shouted out this name in a low voice.

  As soon as Qin Fei's words fell, Shen Qianlan's figure stiffened, and her hand, which was pinching Ye Cheng's neck, involuntarily loosened. However, at this moment, the situation changed again, and the group of evil spirits that were originally attached to Shen Qianlan suddenly shot towards Ye Cheng like arrows leaving a bowstring.

  A deadlock as settled as dust...

  Just as the deadlock was about to be decided, a shrill scream suddenly rang out. Shen Qianlan's eyes were bloodshot, her face twisted and ferocious, but she opened her arms to block the group of evil spirits that were going for Ye Cheng.

  At this moment, Gu Yin's Onryo-jutsu had thoroughly captured more than half of the evil spirits in the building, and quickly counterattacked the array master behind him. The evil spirits in the building suddenly split into two forces, attacking and invading each other, with eerie winds blowing in the corridors, and unreasonable explosive sounds constantly ringing out.

  Gu Yin's eyes drooped, his consciousness shuttling through the malevolent spirits and vengeful ghosts under his control with the Ghost-Controlling Technique.

  Where is it? Where is the layout person?

  Southwest direction... still need to go further west... found it!

  The evil spirit manipulated by Gu Yin suddenly pounced towards the black figure standing at the west window, zooming in. However, just as Gu Yin was about to turn around to face the person, he saw the person slowly raise his arm, and his fingers quickly drew a symbol in the air. Gu Yin's heart skipped a beat - that was an attack! It was a killing move aimed at Qin Fei!

  Gu Yin's consciousness quickly withdrew from the evil spirit that was about to approach, then he pulled Qin Fei behind him and pinched the evil spirit that had rushed out of the mirror.

  The evil spirit dissipated in the silver light at Gu Yin's fingertips, and at the same time, the mirror on the bathroom wall shattered into countless pieces, falling off the wall.

  Gu Yin looked at the fragments of the mirror on the ground with a cold expression. He could confirm that the person who set up the formation was the same one who had tried to take his soul seventeen years ago. The deathly aura that flashed out when he drew talismans to drive away ghosts, he would absolutely not mistake it, exactly the same as the person seventeen years ago.

  But he escaped instead...