The woman sitting on the ground slowly raised her head and said, "My mission is to take away those who are destined to leave."

The first time I saw her, I thought I was looking at a stone statue. The woman's skin was the same color as the rocks on the roadside. Although her eyes and the corners of her mouth could change, the muscles on her face didn't move at all.

The woman chuckled, "You're one of the ones I'm taking away."

"Is that so?" I laughed. "I'd like to see how you're going to take me!"

"It's not time yet!" The woman shook her head slightly. "There's a time to be born and a place to die. If the time and place aren't right, I won't take you."

"But I want to take you!" As soon as I said that, the Soul-Chasing Lock on my right hand shot out. The chain, straightened by my true qi, stabbed towards her chest like an iron rod.

With a muffled thud, the woman was knocked to the ground by the Soul-Chasing Lock.

I couldn't help but be slightly stunned as I looked again at the corpse lying on the ground.

The stone-like color on the corpse's face was fading rapidly, and soon it turned into a woman in her twenties.

The stone person who had been talking to me had run away!

I stood up and said, "What exactly was that woman?"

"Can't tell!" Ye Yang shook his head. "You clearly used the Soul-Striking Whip, how come you didn't knock her out of the corpse?"

It seemed that Ye Yang's judgment was the same as mine. He also felt that a ghost had controlled the body.

"Let's go back first! I want to see what tricks the ghosts in the mountains are playing?" I stood up and walked back to Xu Yulong's room.

The Xu siblings were sitting together at this time, looking like they had just finished crying.

When Xu An'an saw me, she stood up and bowed deeply. "Hall Master Li, I'm sorry, I..."

"There's no need to apologize." I raised my hand to stop her. "If I was angry, you would have died long ago."

"I'm asking you now, who are the people who came with you? Did they also receive the tourist brochure?"

Xu An'an said, "The people who came with us are all our usual companions. Not counting my brother and I, there are six people in total. They always follow my brother's lead, wherever we go, they go."

"My brother said he wanted to take me to Taiqu Mountain for tourism, so I told them about it, and they insisted on coming along. My brother agreed. They all come from martial arts families."

"Mm!" I nodded slightly and said, "Ye Yang, Feng Ruoxing, you two watch them. Lin Zhao, come with me to find someone."

The person I wanted to find was that Yao Men disciple.

I felt that his appearance in the tour group must have been for some other purpose.

I remembered that when the tour guide handed out the room keys, he assigned the Yao Men disciple to room 407, but he took the initiative to exchange for a room guarding the stairwell.

When I went upstairs, I took a special look at that room.

The design of that room violated a major taboo in feng shui.

Under normal circumstances, whether it's a residence or a hotel, the room door should not face the stairs directly. Even if it's unavoidable, it must be offset by a certain distance.

If the door faces the stairs directly, it's like letting the "qi" outside rush straight into the room without any obstruction.

To put it simply, both living people and dead people in a building will walk on the stairs. If a living person is walking on the stairs and you open the door directly, at most you will both be startled.

If you encounter a dead person walking on the stairs and you scare them, they might just enter your room.

If someone opens the door and sees a figure on the stairs, flashing by, and their back feels cold, that means the person is already standing behind you.

Especially in hotels, where there are many people and mixed qi, it's easier to welcome dead people in.

If you don't believe me, you can pay attention when you stay in a hotel, and see if it's the same as what I said.

When I arrived at that room, the door was already half open, and the light shining out of the room was clearly not from a lamp.

As I looked into the door, I saw a section of white candle on the table!

Red candles welcome gods, white candles welcome ghosts.

Why did he deliberately choose such a place and light a white candle in the room?

After signaling Lin Zhao to be careful, I walked into the room. What I saw was an envelope placed on the table, with the words: Hall Master Li, to be opened by you.

I couldn't help but frown slightly. Did that old man talk to me on the bus because he already knew who I was?

I took out the letter and saw the following written on it: Hall Master Li, I know you will definitely come. My little trick can fool others, but not you. We brothers are just showing off our insignificant skills for you to laugh at.

Let me introduce myself, I am Old Smokepouch, born of the invisible. The one in the box is my fellow disciple Mountain Rat. We brothers are here for the Iron Tile Temple.

If I were to say, please Hall Master Li, raise your hand and let my brother do a business deal, you would definitely not agree.

I can only offend you.

Hall Master Li probably doesn't know the way to Iron Tile Temple. I do, so I won't wait for you. If you are a little faster, you might be able to drink a cup of warm wine that I have prepared for you in the Iron Tile Temple.

The letter ended here, just using up a page of letter paper.

When I took out the second page of letter paper, my eyes suddenly narrowed.