Fang Yue knew he shouldn't be smiling.

But he was genuinely happy.

Because his conjecture was correct.

This wasn't the work of a [Yin Messenger].

All his paranoia these past few days had been him scaring himself!

He had stopped practicing his blade a moment ago because he had sensed that familiar feeling of irritability.

Unlike before, Fang Yue had ignored this feeling and buried himself in his blade practice.

This time, Fang Yue had released his senses and fully sought the source of this feeling.

Although he was a step late, he had managed to capture it.

Originally, it wasn't just the guard on the ground who was meant to die this time, but also the dozen or so guards sleeping by the campfire, all dying at the hands of the eerie entity.

If it hadn't been scared away by Fang Yue, that eerie entity would have definitely been capable of doing such a thing.

And the fact that the eerie entity ran away meant... that eerie entity was no match for him!

Fang Yue grew even calmer.

He had overlooked a question before: why didn't the eerie entity kill him, and only killed Shui Mei and Pi Sanzai?

Now he knew it was because the eerie entity didn't dare kill him, couldn't kill him, couldn't beat him!

"He's dead?"

The young miss, Yang Hongxia, and Head Butler Hai were stunned for a moment before hurrying forward to check his breathing. Sure enough, the man was gone.

The young miss was fine, without much feeling, and was just thinking about the compensation money.

But Head Butler Hai suddenly went berserk, the hairs on his back standing on end.

He knew that everyone present, including himself, didn't even know what had happened, and someone had died silently and without a trace.

Apart from Fang Yue, apart from this man, no one had sensed anything unusual!

If Fang Yue hadn't been here today, wouldn't that mean that the unknown eerie entity could easily kill them all?

The wilderness... was indeed dangerous!

Head Butler Hai steadied his trembling body.

He had been running around outside for many years, seen many deaths, but had been fortunate enough to survive.

But this time was definitely the most deeply frightening.

Because if the process had gone wrong today, and they had encountered this eerie entity without Fang Yue present, their entire group would have been wiped out!

"Head Butler Hai, what's wrong?"

"Shh!" Head Butler Hai told the young miss, who hadn't realized the seriousness of the matter, to shut up quickly, and then respectfully asked, "Lord Ye, is there a way to find out where that eerie entity is?"

Fang Yue glanced at him and nodded, "Yes, have everyone gather together and don't stray too far from where I practice my blade."

"Okay!"

Head Butler Hai didn't have less authority in the caravan than the young miss, and even his words carried more weight than hers.

The people in the caravan might occasionally feel that some of the young miss's orders were a joke, and they wouldn't listen or do as she said.

But as long as it was Head Butler Hai speaking, everyone would obediently follow.

After all, although it was said that the young miss was leading the team, in reality, Head Butler Hai had been managing everything, up and down, for all these years. Everyone knew who was doing the work - Head Butler Hai would never harm them.

The people were quickly gathered together, forming a large circle with Fang Yue at the center.

Fang Yue practiced his blade in the circle.

This time, he practiced very slowly.

Some people were puzzled as to what he was doing until they learned that an eerie entity had killed a guard, and they realized the seriousness of the problem, immediately becoming respectful to Fang Yue.

Time passed quickly, and at the beginning, everyone was on high alert.

But soon, some people relaxed and began to doze off, falling asleep in a daze.

Only Fang Yue continued to swing his blade, meticulously.

Only when the system notification sounded did Fang Yue pause, but he stopped only after completing a cycle.

Only Head Butler Hai saw this difference. Others who understood the principle of Fang Yue's examination all screamed in fright when they saw Fang Yue stop practicing his blade, and the scene became chaotic for a while.

The young miss was also frightened and glanced at Fang Yue with some resentment.

She had only realized how serious the problem was and how outrageous the eerie entity was after Head Butler Hai explained it to her.

For their caravan, this was a group-annihilation-level eerie entity. No matter what level its true strength was, it made no difference to their caravan.

The only one who could save them was Fang Yue.

Fang Yue ignored them, glanced at the content of the system notification, and continued to practice his blade, but his mood was getting better and better.

"System notification: Congratulations to player [Ye Se Li Ming] on successful cultivation. [Dark Moon Blade Technique] has been upgraded to the first level. Force control value increased by 1000 points."

"Name: Dark Moon Blade Technique."

"Level: Second-rate of the Acquired Realm."

"Layers: Second Layer/Total of Three Layers."

"Restrictions: 1700 points of force control, Acquired Realm."

"Description: Can only be used in dark environments or under moonlight, and only has one move. Using the blade in non-special environments will result in self-harm first!"

"Effect: Can use the blade in specific environments, increasing force control value by 2000 points. Conversely, using the blade in the daytime reduces force control value by 2000 points, consumes 70% of health with one strike, and adds the negative status [Moderate Internal Injury] and the negative status [Disrupted Internal Energy]."

"Note: One blade in the daytime, suicide. One blade at night, divine destruction."

He glanced at the attribute changes.

"Force Control: 7170 [Base: 7150] [Status/Buff: +20]."

As expected of a purely destructive blade technique. Even a daytime character can add 2000 points of force control value as long as they can use this one strike, making it extremely lethal.

If this blade technique didn't have usage restrictions and he had learned it in the Mortal Realm, he would truly be killing kids left and right with one strike.

Theoretically, apart from the [Blade-less Ghoul], he could beat anyone else in the early stages.

Unfortunately, that was just wishful thinking. There shouldn't be such terrifying martial arts in this world.

After all, martial arts are based on personal strength to unleash their power.

On the other hand, divine weapons might have a chance to unleash their power even when held by mortals.

He stopped his random thoughts, continued practicing his blade, and steadied his mind.

When the rising sun was about to appear on the horizon…

That familiar feeling of blockage, of irritability, appeared once again!

Fang Yue immediately interrupted his blade technique, activated his senses, and fully searched for the location of that eerie entity.

Head Butler Hai immediately noticed the difference in Fang Yue's blade-drawing state and shouted, "It's coming!"

The moment Head Butler Hai spoke, Fang Yue had already moved!

In the flickering light of the Human Soul Bonfire, Fang Yue rushed in front of the young miss, who was dozing off and drooling.

When the young miss was awakened by Head Butler Hai's stern voice, what she saw when she opened her eyes was Fang Yue's emotionless, extremely calm blade, the blade she had been watching for almost half the night, falling towards her!

Her pupils shrank suddenly, and the young miss screamed, her whole body trembling, too frightened to move.

However, Fang Yue's blade didn't strike down but stopped about five centimeters above the young miss's forehead, remaining still.

Then…

-118671!

Drip.

Drip.

Black blood dripped from the void along the blade, landing on the young miss's face.

She blankly felt the cold touch of the black blood that only eerie entities possessed, gradually sobering up, her screams long since stopped.

"Ee...rie entity?"