My lady, don't be angry. I'm letting you touch my big tail.

"My lady...I...I dreamt of the baby..."

Hua Ran calmed herself down and said, "The baby's eyes are like yours, and the rest are like mine... He's especially cute..."

Qiao Yi patted Hua Ran's head. Seeing that Hua Ran's fox ears were drooping, she felt bad too.

Hua Ran continued, "My lady, I'm crying because I feel I've let the baby down... My body has been dismembered, and now that the baby is here, it's urgent. I even said I didn't want the baby..."

Qiao Yi gently stroked Hua Ran's back.

"I understand, I understand."

Just then, there was a loud noise outside.

"Senior, senior, I'll go with you. My senior sister's paper crane has arrived again. She said she's very grateful for your help in the previous village."

That voice is unmistakably Zhao Daxian's.

Joey cursed inwardly, "Why did you have to choose this time?"

Also, your senior sister is my enemy!

However, Hua Ran had already gently pushed her away.

She wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes.

"My lady... I'm alright now."

Once outside, Zhao Daxian said she had heard about the incident; the family that drowned in the well had come directly to her for a ritual.

"I have to do my part; you saved my senior sister!"

Joey ignored her.

Then the group took a shortcut out of the province and headed straight for the river outside.

The mistress, whose husband had died, seemed determined to fight back, wielding a large knife and accompanied by three formidable female servants.

As we approached the river near the outlying province, a thick fog descended on the pitch-black night.

Qiao Yi squeezed Hua Ran's hand. "The yin energy here is very heavy. The magic of that corpse in the river has already spread to the shore..."

Lu Qianye scratched his head. "What kind of magic? I didn't see anything."

At this moment, a female servant said, "Don't hold my hand. By the way, why are your hands so cold?"

"Who's holding your hand! My hands are full of things!"

"what!?"

The head female servant was taken aback.

The third female servant said, "Who poked me in the back just now?"

"no one……"

"I'm right behind you, carrying things in both hands. Who would be poking your back like that?"

"Could it be..."

The unfinished words were even more terrifying than if they had been spoken.

Joey just picked at her own ear.

Zhao Daxian said, "Don't panic, don't panic! We're all with Miss Qiao, nothing will happen!"

Joey chuckled softly, and then the woman holding the knife rubbed her eyes and said...

"You...you're here? You're here to avenge you? Don't worry, I won't go back on my word..."

Lu Qianye nudged the female hostess.

"There's no one here. Are you talking to thin air?"

Instead, the woman chuckled foolishly, grabbed the knife, and charged forward, quickly disappearing into the mist.

"Hey!"

Immediately afterwards, the three servants also disappeared into the mist.

Joey hoped the four of them would leave quickly.

This way, the yang energy can be dispersed properly and then collected back in the future.

In an instant, blood appeared on the ground, and the blood quickly spread to their necks. Zhao Daxian screamed and yelled.

"Senior, senior! This...this...this...we haven't even found the river ghost yet, and he's found us first!"

Joey remained relaxed; she and Hua Ran were soaking in the water, yet their clothes didn't even get wet.

Soon, a person slowly emerged from the water in front of them, with jet-black hair and wide red sleeves, floating on the surface of the water.

The half of his face that was exposed was deathly pale.

Hua Ran squeezed Qiao Yi's hand tightly.

Joey whispered, "Don't be afraid."

"I...I'm not afraid, my wife. Don't you feel like he's very familiar to you?"

Joey didn't think of anything else, assuming that Hua Ran was feeling some kind of call from her own severed limbs.

But Hua Ran shook her head and said no.

“I know very well that my remains are not here.”

Lu Qianye exclaimed in surprise, "Holy crap... what... what is this?!"

She kept rubbing her eyes.

Joey paused. "You saw it this time?"

"Yes, a person just appeared out of nowhere! And in such a terrifying form! We're clearly on land, but why do we feel like we're in a river now? The water's up to our chests!"

As Lu Qianye spoke, he was about to draw his sword and cut the guy down.

"Don't try to play tricks on me, I'm not buying it!"

Qiao Yi wanted to pull him up, but Zhao Daxian pulled Lu Qianye up first.

“Miss Lu, don’t be impulsive. If you encounter a standing corpse on the road, you can give it money and your life! Since it’s standing, it means it has transformed into a demon or ghost immortal, which means it’s not an ordinary ghost.”

Upon hearing this, Joey immediately turned around.

Some doubts.

Is Zhao Daxian really someone who knows so much?

The system was also puzzled.

"Yes, Baozi, when Zhao Daxian was dealing with the snake fetus, she said that she was just like a funeral director and didn't know much. Has she really improved after being away for only a month?"

Joey pinched her chin.

She decided to look at the standing corpse first.

The fact that a corpse standing upright could be seen by someone like Lu Qianye is a skill in itself, proving that it possesses great cultivation.

Just like Hua Ran, who is a soul but can be seen by everyone.

"Ms. Lu, are you sure your subordinate's previous records are correct? It's about an upside-down corpse?"

"Yes, I'll keep reliable people with me."

"How could he have turned into an upright corpse in just a few days...?"

When the red-robed, black-haired man fully emerged from the river, Lu Qianye was so frightened that he gripped his knife tightly. "There really is a ghost..."

Hua Ran pouted and gave her a "what do you think?" look.

The male ghost slowly rose into the air, as if it were suspended in mid-air, and its eyes, which had been closed on its pale face, suddenly opened.

“Joey…1500 years…I’ve seen you again…”

"Ok?"

Joey was puzzled. One thousand five hundred years... In the system world, she was only a little over a thousand years old.

But Joey immediately thought of her past life.

Hua Ran's illusion said that she and Hua Ran had a past life.

The male ghost looked at Hua Ran again.

The voice contained heavy reduplicated sounds.

"The fox...it's that fox again...Joey, he killed you, and you're still willing to be with him..."

At that moment, a cool voice reached Joey's ears.

"Sweetie, we dealt with him together~ Want to take a look? Listen to me first, force him to retreat, leaving just the two of us~"

"Who? Are you that Taoist priest in the blue robe, Ran?"

"Wow, the nicknames you give people are quite nice!"

Qiao Yi took a deep breath, knowing that this male ghost had at least a thousand years of cultivation. So she pinched her right palm hard, quickly squeezing out a handful of blood, and drew a talisman of pure yang blood in the air.

The blood water around him instantly spread to both sides, and Lu Qianye felt the blood water disappear in an instant. When he looked up again, the male ghost had vanished without a trace.

Only Hua Ran exclaimed in surprise.

"My lady! My lady, what's wrong?"

Just as Qiao Yi fell to the ground, Hua Ran touched her forehead to hers, and they both entered a dreamlike realm.

Before me stood...myself, dressed in a blue Taoist robe.