Chapter 106 - To step over an ant without crushing it, the control of force is very difficult!
"Lightning!?"
The demoness's eyes flashed with shock. It was too late for her to retreat. She had originally intended to pick on a soft target, but this lightning was actually conjured by the young man in front of her?
So she had searched for a long time only to pick a tough nut?
"Don't kill it immediately, there are still some—"
Uncle Feng raised his hand to stop him, but the next second, after the demoness was directly struck into ashes by the lightning, his hand froze in mid-air, and the words got stuck in his throat.
The demoness was already dead. He hadn't expected Bai Ye to defeat her with a single move.
"Don't look at me, I wanted to stop him too!"
Zhong Fabai noticed Uncle Feng's gaze, shrugged, and said slowly.
The main reason was that his disciple seemed to be even more powerful than him. How long had he been cultivating? This lightning was even more powerful than the Thunder-Striking Lightning Fist of the Maoshan Sect back then.
"To step over an ant without crushing it, the control of force is very difficult."
Bai Ye was a bit troubled. He clearly wanted to hold back, but the lightning directly instantly killed the demoness.
He should have known not to use lightning.
Sure enough, lightning, if not handled well, would turn the opponent to ashes.
"You're still putting on an act?"
Zhong Fabai felt a strange sensation in his heart. This troubled expression, combined with his previous tone, meant he could even act cool with this?
Actually, he had originally thought that with three against one, they could capture the demoness and ask about the Nine Chrysanthemum Sect's conspiracy here.
The Nine Chrysanthemum Sect had been absent from here for some time, and now that they had reappeared, it was certainly not just this one demoness. Coupled with Miyake Issey earlier, it seemed the other side showed signs of a resurgence.
The demoness's spiritual body also began to dissipate, clearly about to disappear soon. Before dying, the demoness looked deeply at Bai Ye and asked, "Daoist, what is your name?"
"I don't change my name when I walk, nor my surname when I sit. My name is Zhong Fabai, remember that!"
After hearing Bai Ye's words, the demoness's spiritual body completely dissipated, while Zhong Fabai, beside him, was stunned. What the hell are you doing using my name?
"Since the demoness is already dead, then let's just leave it at that. After all, my grand-nephew did it unintentionally."
Uncle Feng cleared his throat. Although he didn't quite understand this matter, he didn't say anything more. Exorcising demons and defending the righteous path was normal. Bai Ye couldn't be criticized for killing a demoness, could he?
Similarly, Bai Ye reporting his master's name was probably to make his master famous. What a good disciple! Uncle Feng also felt a bit envious.
Zhong Fabai didn't say much about this. He just felt something was off, but couldn't quite pinpoint it.
As for what Bai Ye was thinking, he just wanted to use an alias when out and about. He didn't care about fame in exorcising demons and defending the righteous path. He wanted to boost his old man's record, as everyone knew Zhong Fabai liked high-end matches.
"By the way, I agreed to that matter from before, but I'm currently still employed by the police, so I need to resign from there first."
Uncle Feng still held his police identity. Since he had decided to establish a ghost-catching company, he had to leave the police force first.
Uncle Feng had thought carefully about joining this company. The current situation in Hong Kong truly couldn't be resolved by them fighting alone for the time being. Bai Ye was right before; it's better for everyone to work together to solve it.
Coupled with his personality, he wasn't valued in the police force. Under his unfulfilled ambitions, Uncle Feng naturally had the idea of leaving.
Since there was a better option now, and it involved his junior brother and grand-nephew, all of them cultivators, they would have more to talk about than in the police force. So, he was naturally more willing to go there.
The two sides had a brief exchange. After Uncle Feng returned to complete the handover procedures, he would come immediately, and the two sides temporarily parted ways.
[Ding! You have foiled the Nine Chrysanthemum Sect's conspiracy and prevented the loss of national fortune. You are rewarded with one lottery chance!]
Indeed!
Bai Ye's eyes flashed with surprise. This conflict indeed involved the struggle for fortune.
Then, this malevolent aura also seemed understandable. It wasn't something that appeared suddenly, but a carefully crafted scheme, and all of this was most likely prepared by other countries to get a piece of the pie here.
He silently chanted 'use'.
[Ding! Using lottery chance, congratulations on obtaining: Qimen Dunjia.]
[Qimen Dunjia]: Contains the great Dao methods of divination, formations, and Daoist magic.
This thing?!
Zhuge Liang's?
Memories flooded Bai Ye's mind. This was another school of thought, distinct from Maoshan Daoist magic, focusing more on formations and observing celestial phenomena for divination. Moreover, the subtlety of many of its formations was even beyond what Maoshan's formations could compare to.
Similarly, Qimen Dunjia also had Daoist magic distinct from Maoshan. The two seemed to have a complementary relationship, and cultivating both seemed better for him.
In this world, Daoist magic was the most important; other abilities were merely auxiliary to him.
"That Feng Laosi also left the police force and joined the ghost-catching company."
The news of Uncle Feng's departure was quickly known by the ghosts in the upper echelons.
Regarding this company, they initially hoped that it would eliminate other ghosts. However, if they kept recruiting Daoists, it would certainly threaten them later.
If they were truly investigated later and it was discovered that everything above them was controlled by them, their good days would truly be over.
These evil spirits had never belonged to this level before. In fact, if they hadn't become ghosts, they would never have enjoyed their current lives. Now, if there were threats to their existence, they would definitely not allow the other party to grow powerful!
But precisely because of this, their attitude was somewhat resentful. The main thing was that they wanted to cultivate the other party, but they didn't want to see the other party grow so fast and so strong.
"What can we do? Didn't you say you wanted to cultivate them? And you can't even accept it when it's just starting?"
Logically speaking, since they were cultivating them, their growth should be a happy thing.
And this was just the beginning; who knows, this team might become stronger and stronger in the future.
"Don't say that. They've even dealt with people from the Nine Chrysanthemum Sect!"
"That's good! Those guys actually wanted to divide the fortune, which originally belonged to us!"
Even as ghosts, they could still enjoy fortune.
This was originally theirs. They even applauded the fact that the Nine Chrysanthemum Sect had been eliminated.
"But it's not just ours. Once this malevolent aura surpasses the clear aura, we will gain more benefits. However, it's not just us; there are many other ghosts here, and they will also share this fortune with us!"
They were very greedy. Unable to cultivate, they could only rely on this fortune to strengthen themselves. On the other hand, those ghosts who already possessed powerful strength might absorb even more fortune.
They had planned everything behind the scenes, but in the end, others reaped the rewards. Who wouldn't be unwilling to accept such a thing?
"So, we not only can't act against this company, but we even have to help them grow?"
Looking at it this way, it seems they can only feed this company at this time to deal with those who come to snatch fortune.
"That's right. You can't let the army deal with those ghosts and evil cultivators, can you?"
They held high positions and could order the army, but the army ultimately couldn't deal with evil spirits. So, they could only rely on Daoists. Why not let them grow stronger?
Seeing someone still hesitating, the gray-robed elder comforted them, saying, "What are you worried about? These Daoists inherently have their own principles. When the time comes, just let the army deal with them. If they can't deal with evil spirits, can't they deal with them?"
"You're right. Then let me see, should we eliminate Chu Renmei? Can we arrange for someone to dig her out recently? Otherwise, if she revives with the fortune's blessing, she'll be very difficult for us to deal with!"
The evil spirit Chu Renmei should be about to revive. The municipal department can also arrange for people to start digging.
Currently, her resentment is only temporarily suppressed and not completely gone.
"That clown also needs to be eliminated. The seal there is about to fail. If Curse Paradise continues like this, it will probably be broken by the clown."
Curse Paradise was previously sealed by them, and they were reluctant for anyone to go there.
Every person who died in Curse Paradise made the clown stronger. Once he broke through and left Curse Paradise, it would be much harder for them to find and deal with him.
"Just put the detailed information about Curse Paradise and Chu Renmei in there. Also, find an opportunity to release that lunatic Leo. That guy is a little useful against ghosts."
Leo in the psychiatric hospital can be released. That guy doesn't know Daoist magic. Letting him join the ghost-catching company can strengthen the other party's power while not increasing it too much.
"I deliberately leaked the news about the Zombie Bai Ye family to the antique dealer. I believe that family can also appear. It seems everything is within our predictions!"
"Don't forget those guys from Yin-Yang Road. Thinking about it, those foreign devils are really not good people!"
If it weren't for those guys, there wouldn't be so many ghosts. They could have dealt with some of them over the years.
Now, they even have to rely on other Daoists to help solve the problem.
"You can't say that either. After all, those foreign devils and some other guys want to live forever. If it weren't for those evil cultivators, the people at the top would all be occupied by us!"
Ultimately, it was due to the evil cultivators. Many head-descending masters and local evil cultivators, in order to gain power and wealth, had some connections with those guys, and their original intention was to occupy all the positions at the top.
But later, they thought about it and gave up. Sometimes, they couldn't perfectly imitate a person's living habits, so flaws would definitely appear. In the long run, those evil cultivators would surely be able to see through it.
And once they were seen through, these ghosts, having no combat power, might end up being refined into puppets.
So, thinking about it that way, they could only temporarily avoid contact and maintain this balance, which was quite good.
"By the way, quickly release the news about the haunted house at the first Yin-Yang junction, otherwise we won't be able to suppress it!"
"Alright, let's do that. Release the information about those evil cultivators as well. After they deal with that group of people, we'll eliminate all of them!"
This way, the fortune would belong only to them.
After arranging all of this, all the information about this place was put into the The Department of Miscellaneous Affairs's intranet, and Four Eyes quickly passed it on to Bai Ye.
"Heh heh, what a clever move to kill with a borrowed knife. But once your intelligence runs out, you'll all die."
Looking at the intelligence, a cold smile flashed in Bai Ye's heart. This time, the intelligence was directly specific to what time and what place. If it weren't for the person behind it wanting them to act, Bai Ye wouldn't believe it.
But that's good. He just happened to lack intelligence, not only about these evil spirits but more about those evil cultivators, such as the head-descending masters who refined Onmyoji, the people of the Nine Chrysanthemum Sect, and so on.
It seemed that over the years, they had also obtained a lot of incredible intelligence in this position.
"She's dead. The intelligence she sent back before she died was that a Daoist master named Zhong Fabai killed her."
"Zhong Fabai?"
Nine Chrysanthemum Sect.
Everyone remembered this intelligence.
In the future, when encountering Zhong Fabai, they must go all out.
"If she's dead, should we send someone over? Otherwise, that place will be vacant."
"No one available for now."
"No one?"
"Yes, I recently noticed a girl who is very suitable for spirit speech. That girl named Kayako will definitely become my most proud work after she dies."
He would soon be able to cultivate this evil spirit well, and he wouldn't leave at this time.
"Don't look at me, I can't go either. I'm also cultivating an evil spirit that can claim lives through the phone. Later, I can directly bring this evil spirit over!"
"Hanako has reached the final moment."
"Let's wait. Anyway, there's no rush. We just need to keep a constant watch over there and won't leave for long. We'll be back very soon, and after we return, I think we should investigate Zhong Fabai. That woman was very strong, and Zhong Fabai could even summon heavenly lightning. We must be on guard!"
Before returning to Hong Kong, they should gather clear intelligence.
Otherwise, if they went rashly, they would clearly suffer losses, which was unanimously agreed upon by the others.
Primary objective: investigate Zhong Fabai's intelligence!
Zombie Bai Ye: [Yin-Yang Eyes are so useful! Are there any other draws? Give me more! The production team's donkey wouldn't even dare to rest like this!]
Hong Kong Bai Ye: [No more, no more. Recently, I'm probably going to organize a wave of intelligence, mainly about those evil cultivators. I didn't know until I looked, and then I was shocked. There are simply a ton of them!]
He didn't dare to act rashly now. Evil cultivators were different from ghosts when dealing with people.
If they played a dirty trick from behind, he might die without even seeing their face.
Nichijou Bai Ye: [Being careful is good too, but your Yin-Yang Eyes are indeed very good. I can see all sorts of ghosts every day recently, and dealing with ghosts has become much simpler!]
Those few draws, the greatest use was the Yin-Yang Eyes. Recently, using the Yin-Yang Eyes to deal with ghosts has greatly increased efficiency.
It's just a bit of a pity that seven days have truly passed, but Sadako hasn't come yet. Indeed, in this Conan world, he went from June 16th to June 1st today, so Sadako owes him fifteen days.]