“Yeah, I think I'm pretty smart, don't you think?” I didn't turn around, just replied to her in a somewhat flippant tone.

“You're really a genius, burning incense and paper in a place like this.”

The black hair on the ground surged like a tide, quickly covering the floor, walls, and ceiling, leaving only a foot around my feet untouched.

I looked at the constantly churning hair, probing towards my feet, and casually scoffed, “Even if I didn’t burn incense and paper, would you not have come out today? Even old women in the countryside understand the principle of using incense to attract ghosts. Do you think someone like me, who makes a living dealing with the yin and yang, wouldn’t understand?

"You've already reached an agreement with someone to leave my life here. What difference does it make if I burn incense or not? Whether I burn incense or not, you’d still come out and kill me, right?"

“Not necessarily. I am very good at killing people, but I don’t always kill people.” The woman's hair hung down from the ceiling, along with an upside-down human head. Her face was pale and delicate, her eyes filled with a hint of resentment, but the hair around her was constantly probing towards me like venomous snakes. If I showed the slightest weakness, the hair would surge over like a tide, entangling me like a spider's web, making it difficult for me to escape.

“Regardless of whether you kill people every time you appear, you're lying in wait here today with the intention of killing someone, and I am the one you plan to kill.” I bluntly pointed out the female ghost's purpose.

“How do you know? Do you know me well? Do you know my name?” The female ghost didn't seem to be in a hurry to attack, looking at me with a playful expression, saying some unimportant things.

I knew she was deliberately stalling for time. She was waiting for noon.

All the windows of this villa were obscured by locust trees, and all the rooms in the villa were filled with yin energy, but to maximize the power of the formation she had set up in the villa, she had to wait until noon.

She knew I was not an easy opponent, so she didn't want to get into a protracted battle with me. Once she was locked in a bitter struggle with someone with considerable cultivation, even if she won, she would suffer a significant loss of vital energy. This was definitely not the outcome the woman on the roof wanted.

She wanted a one-hit kill so that she could perfectly take me down without harming herself in the slightest.

Noon is the time of day when the sunlight is most abundant and the yang energy is at its peak. Some people may think that this time is not conducive to yin spirits and evil entities, that it is the cleanest time of day, but in fact, when yang reaches its extreme, yin is born. Noon is precisely the time of day when yin energy begins to grow. If she could activate the formation at noon, she could transform the yin energy that began to grow from noon into a continuous source of energy for the formation until she took me down.

I saw through her intentions but didn't expose them. On the contrary, I cooperated with her in stalling for time because she was waiting, and so was I. She thought that activating the formation at noon would allow her to take me down in one fell swoop, but I was waiting for the formation to be activated without any blind spots at noon, allowing me to completely uproot this formation.

“I've never met you before, so of course I don't know your name. What, are you planning to introduce yourself before the fight starts?" I raised my eyelids and stared straight into the female ghost's eyes.

The female ghost smiled charmingly. It had to be said that this female ghost had really good skin, even more tender and smooth than egg whites. It was truly as if it could be broken with a touch. If it weren't for being too pale, she would definitely be a great beauty. Although she was still very beautiful now, she gave people a feeling of unreality, like something made of paper, making people not want to get close.

“My name is Meiying, a captivating shadow specializing in seducing men’s souls. How about it, has your soul been seduced by me?”

“Sorry, not yet.” I replied with a straight face.

“Little brother, don’t be like this. If you continue like this, my soul will be hooked away by you. How about this? Let's make a deal. You follow me, you don't have to really love me, anyway, I'm only interested in your body. I'll dump my employer, and the two of us will be a pair of lovebirds for a long time, what do you think?" The woman shook her head, her long hair rippling, her bright red lips paired with her pale face, charming and terrifying.

I smiled coldly, my lips moving silently.

Meiying frowned and looked at me: “What did you say?”

“I said the time has come.”

The time had indeed come. I didn't need to look at the watch to know that it was exactly twelve o'clock, not a second off.

A strong gust of yin wind swept through the villa, and Meiying's formation was fully activated, but my incantation had already been activated three seconds before her formation was activated.

Don't underestimate these three seconds. When masters clash, one second can determine life and death. Meiying had laid in wait here in advance and flirtatiously chatted with me, all to get the first move, but unfortunately, I had already seen through her tricks. She couldn't get this first move.

The time had come, and Meiying no longer concealed her hideousness. All of her black hair transformed into venomous snakes, their sharp fangs biting towards every part of my body.

These were indeed not real snakes, but they were definitely not mere illusions. They were all transformed from the yin energy in the room.

Meiying had made ingenious arrangements in advance, gathering all the yin energy in the entire villa through the formation, using it all for her own purposes. She could also use the yin energy that began to grow from twelve o'clock as a continuous supplement. In this way, not only did she not have to expend any of her own strength, but she could also receive the formation's replenishment and nourishment.

I seemingly being attacked by black snakes transformed from hair, but in reality, I was being attacked by the yin energy in the room. If I was bitten by the snake fangs, yin energy would enter my body. If it were ordinary yin energy, it would be fine, but these hairs all grew from Meiying's head. It was yin energy that Meiying absorbed into her body through the formation and then regurgitated. Once it invaded my body, death was almost certain.

Therefore, Meiying was very confident in these venomous snakes. Seeing the venomous snakes approaching my body, a smile of victory appeared on her face.

I just stood opposite her, watching the smile on her face, with no intention of dealing with those snakes at all, not even dodging, and with an expression of utter calmness.

"Young man, you are right to give up struggling. Anyway, you are going to die. Rather than struggling and dying covered in wounds, it's better to stand still and die. That way, at least you can keep your whole body intact. Your face is so good-looking. It would be a pity if it were ruined."

As she spoke, Meiying was no longer charming, and no longer young. As the black venomous snakes pierced their fangs into my body, Meiying's appearance rapidly aged. One moment she was only fifty years old, and the next she was already eighty years old.

Meiying's expression finally changed. She was shocked and panicked, frantically pulling the venomous snakes off my body, but it was already too late.