Fang Fang nodded, "No wonder. I believe you. If you wanted to harm her, you wouldn't keep her useless soul. I'll help her enter a dream later, and as for my plan, we can proceed on parallel tracks."
"Oh?"
"The young master Ming you met today, his family made their fortune through illegal means. I just had Chen Jiaming send him a threatening video. What do you think they'll do to him? I believe they'll be at his doorstep tomorrow, and if they don't chop him to death, they'll at least take half his life. Then we'll call the police, and with his crimes, a death sentence would be more than enough," Fang Fang said with a hint of smugness.
Ye Huohuo inwardly exclaimed, this woman truly lived up to her reputation as a thousand-year-old fox spirit; her methods of harming others were something she couldn't help but admire.
"But didn't Chen Jiaming send the video using a burner phone? Are you sure the Ming family will find us by tomorrow morning?"
"I used a trick of illusion. Chen used his own card to send the video. If it were earlier, the Ming family would have found us before dawn!" Fang Fang's tone was relaxed, but the more relaxed she sounded, the colder Ye Huohuo felt.
"Then we need to hurry and get Du Lihua to dream, to extract the location of her hidden body. Any later and it might be problematic," Ye Huohuo urged.
Half an hour later, Chen Jiaming was almost driven mad by nightmares. The cold sweat in his dream soaked through the bedsheets, but he finally managed to reveal the location where Du Lihua's body was buried.
Ye Huohuo collected Du Lihua's soul into a bottle, and together with Fang Fang, they left Chen's residence. She glanced back at the building, "Chen Jiaming's retribution will come soon, it's just a shame we won't be able to see it."
Fang Fang smiled, pulled out her phone, tapped a few times, and handed it to Ye Huohuo, "Look!"
Ye Huohuo took the phone and couldn't help but laugh, "Compared to you, I'm just a small witch. You actually installed cameras at his home and outside in advance! Truly!"
"He harmed my benefactor to this extent, preventing us from meeting in the mortal world, and even took away my chance to repay her. Of course, I have to witness his tragic end with my own eyes, otherwise, I wouldn't be at ease."
An hour later, a red sedan stopped on a hillside outside Hai City. The area was originally planned to be a botanical garden, but the project was shelved due to a lack of funds. Now it was an unkempt forest. Few people ever came here, and even fewer at night.
Ye Huohuo and Fang Fang got out of the car and headed into the depths of the woods according to the location Chen Jiaming had mentioned in his dream. However, after walking for over half an hour, they still hadn't found the spot.
This forest was rarely visited because the trees were tall and dense, allowing little sunlight to penetrate. The forest had a heavy Yin energy. Ye Huohuo had severed her spiritual connection with Li Mohan, and now she had no resistance to Yin energy, so she had to secretly circulate the spiritual energy within her body to resist it. A person's spiritual energy was finite, no matter how high their cultivation. Moreover, her spiritual power was half-sealed, and at this moment, her spiritual energy was heavily depleted, causing her to gradually become exhausted.
"This isn't working. How about we come back tomorrow during the day?"
Fang Fang, being a spirit herself, actually preferred places with heavy Yin energy and was unaffected. She had been walking ahead, and upon hearing Ye Huohuo, she turned to look at her, only to notice Ye Huohuo's very pale complexion. Her face was greenish-white, and her lips were slightly purple.
"You have good cultivation, so why is your body so weak?" Fang Fang looked at Ye Huohuo in confusion. "You're a Yin-absorbing physique? No, that's not right. It's very difficult for someone with your physique to cultivate spiritual arts, yet your spiritual arts are not low. What's going on?"
Ye Huohuo had no interest in explaining her physical condition to her. She just shook her head and smiled wryly, "It's just a hard life! But this method of searching isn't working. This forest is so vast, and Chen Jiaming only provided a general direction. At this rate, even if the two of us searched for three days, we might not find it."
Fang Fang looked around at the surrounding trees and frowned, "Indeed, we need to find a way!"
Ye Huohuo was utterly exhausted. She had to keep up with Fang Fang's movements on the mountain while also circulating spiritual energy to resist the Yin energy. She could barely stand, so she found a relatively clean tree stump and sat down, gasping for air.
Fang Fang squatted down, picked up a pinch of soil, and sniffed it. Her eyes darted around as she said, "I have an idea!"
Even though Ye Huohuo was sitting, her mind was also working. As Fang Fang spoke, a thought flashed through her mind, "Use a tracking dog!"
Fang Fang glanced at Ye Huohuo and pouted, "With your current state, you can still use a tracking dog?"
Ye Huohuo scratched her head sheepishly, "Naturally, I can't. I mean, you use it. I have talisman paper here; I can tear one for you."
As Ye Huohuo spoke, she took out a piece of yellow paper from her bag. Without using scissors, she tore it with her hands. This was a basic skill she had honed since childhood, as one didn't always have scissors readily available, and should be able to create what was needed. In less than a minute, Ye Huohuo had torn a small yellow paper dog.
She handed the paper dog to Fang Fang, "Miss Fang, it's time for you to show your skills."
Fang Fang took the paper dog, held it between her right index and middle fingers, closed her eyes, and chanted a few words. Suddenly, a pink glow appeared at her fingertips, quickly enveloping the entire small paper dog. In the blink of an eye, the palm-sized paper dog transformed into a meter-long real dog, wrapped in pink light. It was a large wolfdog.
Fang Fang pointed in a direction and said, "Sniff!"
The large wolfdog quickly ran off in that direction. After a while, it returned, showing no signs of having found anything. Fang Fang had to point in a few more directions, and the wolfdog searched in all the directions she indicated. It searched almost the entire hillside but still couldn't find Du Lihua's body.
"That's strange, could it be buried too deep for the tracking dog to smell?" Ye Huohuo muttered.
"Impossible. I've imbued it with my thousand years of cultivation. It can smell something buried ten meters underground. Could Chen Jiaming have lied?" Fang Fang guessed.
"That shouldn't be right. He was already scared witless by Du Lihua's soul in his dream. How could he dare to make things up?" Ye Huohuo shook her head in disagreement.
Fang Fang: "Could it be..."
Ye Huohuo: "Could it be..."
The two spoke in unison. They looked at each other, "Could the body have been moved?"
Ye Huohuo slapped her forehead, "I'm so stupid! We have Du Lihua's soul. If this was the original burial spot, then if we release her soul here, she can follow the route the body was moved to find it!"
As she spoke, she released Du Lihua's soul. Fang Fang had given her some spiritual energy earlier, and she had also entered Chen Jiaming's dream and terrified him half to death, thus fulfilling half of his wishes. Therefore, her current state was much better than before. She could now speak and her emotions had stabilized.
"Lihua, can you sense your body's location?" Fang Fang patted Du Lihua's shoulder and said in a very gentle voice.
Du Lihua nodded at her. She spun around twice in place, then suddenly stopped facing one direction, her eyes fixed on that direction, and she raised her hand to point forward.
"That way?" Ye Huohuo said, "That's the road we came from. It seems someone really dug up her body and took it away by vehicle."
"Let's find them! I want to see who's causing trouble!" Fang Fang said angrily.