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16：The Vengeful Spirit

I couldn't see the entity, only hear the sound of it dragging chains, climbing up the stairs one step at a time.

At this moment, Hu Fenglou's eyes were firmly fixed on the staircase. The entity moved very slowly, and such sluggish movements made it appear particularly frightening in the still of the night.

Generally, ghosts only venture out between half past midnight and three or four in the morning, as these hours are filled with the thickest yin energy of the day. Anything that appears outside these times is either not a ghost or has become a fierce spirit, powerful and difficult to deal with.

Although I had only recently become a disciple of the horse-riding immortals, I had heard about such things before. This thing had come out as soon as it was dark, and it was definitely not an easy opponent to handle.

As the entity finished climbing the stairs and started moving towards us, although Hu Fenglou was still by my side, I couldn't help but feel frightened and tugged at Hu Fenglou, signaling him to ask what we should do now.

Just a moment ago, Hu Fenglou had been intently watching the entity. Now that it had come upstairs, he seemed to lose that serious attitude, no longer cautious. He walked straight to our room door, stretched out his index finger and drew a couple of symbols on it as if painting, then shut the door, turned on the light, and told me to go to sleep.

Outside, the sound of the iron chain dragging right at our doorstep terrified me to the point where my scalp almost exploded. I looked at the door, then at Hu Fenglou who was undressing, and asked him, "What about outside, outside..."

"It's nothing major, but indeed, I can't handle this thing."

Hu Fenglou wasn't ready to give up when Old Dong said he didn't understand the situation, but now that he had seen it himself, he seemed to have resigned himself. However, seeing Hu Fenglou's unruffled demeanor, my heart gradually began to calm down, knowing that if he could still think about sleeping, then the entity probably wasn't a great threat to us.

"Did you see what that thing outside is?"

Although I was still a bit shaken, I was also curious about what that entity was.

"It's a vengeful spirit," Hu Fenglou answered without even lifting his eyelids, but after he spoke, he paused and seemed to doubt his own words. After thinking for a while, he continued, "I don't actually know what it is."

Hu Fenglou, who can see with his eyes and hear with his ears, and is also a celestial being, even he admits he doesn't know what the entity is, made me unable to resist mocking him: "Aren't you ranked second in the Hu celestial family? How come you don't know what this little thing is?"

Seeing me mock him, Hu Fenglou suddenly got a bit angry and snapped at me, asking if I needed to be taught a lesson?

But Hu Fenglou had just had his capabilities denied by Old Dong, and now being called useless by his own disciple, his good mood was instantly ruined. Without my consent, he floated into my body.

Suddenly, my eyes felt cool, and as Hu Fenglou entered my body, he opened the door and walked out toward the entrance.

Just now, I saw that when the entity entered, the lobby downstairs seemed to darken. Now, with Hu Fenglou in me, he controlled me to look downstairs only to see that it wasn't dark at all, but rather the floor was covered in lots of pitch-black dirty water. This water was as black as ink and seemed to have many people-like things squirming in it, yet they did not break the surface of the water, making it look like water being boiled, dirty and disgusting.

This water was only on the first floor, and on the stairs leading up to our second floor, there were clearly visible footprints of someone walking up. These footprints passed right by our door and headed into the hallway. Hu Fenglou followed these footprints with his gaze, seeing at the end of the footprints, there was a figure wearing a Qing dynasty robe embroidered with dragon patterns, draped with a broad mantle on its shoulders, but the figure had no head. In its hand, it dragged a rusty, thick iron chain, at the end of which hung a ferocious and very large human head!

This head had a greenish face, bright red mouth, unusually large, showing sharp fangs, and at that moment, it was lying on the ground, facing us, with its pair of large, bell-like eyes staring straight at us.

Hu Fenglou looked at the entity and smiled, saying to me, "Look at him, he has the body of a human, but his head is neither ghost nor demon. What do you think he is?!"

Perhaps the entity heard Hu Fenglou speak, for it suddenly turned its headless body towards us, carrying its own head, and charged at us very quickly.

Seeing the entity coming towards us, Hu Fenglou disdainfully glanced at it, walked into the room, and shut the door he had marked with symbols. The entity was confined outside by the symbols drawn by Hu Fenglou, and suddenly it was silent outside.

When Hu Fenglou left my body, my heart suddenly started pounding intensely. Although Hu Fenglou had answered what the entity was, I couldn't help but ask him again, "What exactly is that thing?!"

"I've never seen it before," Hu Fenglou answered. "But that thing was wearing a robe embroidered with golden dragon patterns, likely from the royal family. But it couldn't be the emperor, our Northeast doesn't have such powerful dragon veins to suppress an imperial tomb. Even if an emperor were buried here, the tomb would have been excavated and damaged. It's probably a prince or a noble's son. In the past, our Hu celestial title was conferred by Nurhaci, who also granted us the Hu surname to ensure our respect and veneration. If this really is the burial site of a royal descendant, I truly can't disturb it. If I accidentally kill it, I would be dishonoring the imperial grace, and the appearance of this thing here is very strange indeed. Either there's a tomb under this house, or this noble died here. As for why it became unrecognizable after death, that truly relates to Feng Shui."

Listening to Hu Fenglou, it felt like listening to a story, piquing my curiosity. But thinking of the strange entity outside, I felt a surge of fear and so I asked Hu Fenglou what we should do now.

"Sleep. When it's light, that thing will go back. Otherwise, what else do you want to do?"

After Hu Fenglou spoke, his gaze suddenly became mischievous as he looked me up and down.

Seeing his suggestive look, I immediately told him to stop; I didn't want to get involved with him in someone else's house.

"So you mean, once we go back, that's it?" Hu Fenglou asked me, smiling.

"You're really vile," I scolded Hu Fenglou.

But at this moment, I didn't have the leisure to argue with Hu Fenglou. If he really couldn't handle this matter, then we would have to go back tomorrow, and I didn't have much money left. We couldn't just go back after being scared once. But then, I remembered what Old Dong said during the day, that only Hu Jiuxiao from Changbai Mountain could rectify this Feng Shui. I wondered if this Hu Jiuxiao was the same person mentioned by Elder Hu.

"Hu Fenglou."

"Hmm?" Hu Fenglou responded.

"Do you think this Hu Jiuxiao is related to Elder Hu?"

Hearing me mention this, Hu Fenglou suddenly scoffed at me: "Elder Hu and Hu Jiuxiao are from one big family; why else would I be polite to that old woman? Although I call her Elder Hu, she's only cultivated for over fifty years. We wolves are naturally spiritual; fifty years of cultivation turn one into an old woman, a hundred years into a handsome young man. The longer one cultivates, the more they can change at will, and the more particular they become about their appearance. If you ever see a Hu celestial as beautiful as me, they must have cultivated for over a thousand years."

"What if I invite Hu Jiuxiao to come and check this Feng Shui for us, do you think Old Dong will pay us?"

When Hu Fenglou heard me say this, he was momentarily stunned, then scoffed at me: "What kind of daydream are you having?"