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

Hanazono still wanted to play around with Inugami.

Especially after seeing that Inugami only favored the Taoist nun, Hanazon felt completely at ease with Inugami.

"Why are you being so fierce? Be careful, women don't like men who are too fierce. A man should be like me, having the ability to be fierce, but also having a gentle attitude. Besides..."

Hua Ran turned around and came to Inugami, laughing, "Actually, they're all dogs. Haven't you heard of a fox terrier? You should learn from me."

As a result, Hua Ran looked up and saw Qiao Dawan.

The boy was just as delicate and beautiful as before, like a little milk cake, with fair skin and a rosy glow.

But his eyes held a sinister killing intent.

He was next to Lu Qianye, so there was nothing he could do.

If Lu Qianye were not around, the boy would definitely display his gluttonous and bloodthirsty nature.

Hua Ran then walked up to Qiao Dawang, her fawning smile vanished, and she looked at him with a serious expression.

"I don't like the way you look at me."

Taotie bared its teeth at Hua Ran, puffed out its small chest, and looked fierce.

"I ate you!"

Hua Ran rolled her eyes at him disdainfully.

The boy, disregarding the presence of others, rushed out.

Just as he lunged forward to bite Hua Ran's neck, his body was suddenly pulled back.

When he turned around, he saw Lu Qianye grabbing his collar.

"Well... there's nothing wrong with my rice. I don't know why he's been eating it for over ten days and then started talking about eating people... cough cough, this kid is probably spoiled by my uncles and has no manners. I'm really sorry, I'm really sorry."

After all, when Lu Qianye took Qiao Dawan away from Old Man Qiao, he was still very obedient.

Joey said, "Alright, let's go."

Zhao Daxian actually fawned over him and rented him a boat.

The group then boarded the boat.

Sure enough, as soon as they reached the entrance of the river, a thick fog rolled in, and visibility quickly dropped to less than five meters.

Zhao Daxian swallowed.

"Senior, should we continue paddling forward? The main problem is I can't tell which way to go..."

However, no sooner had she finished speaking than something yanked the oar away with great force, making a commotion on the water.

"Ahhh!"

Zhao Daxian called out.

Feeling embarrassed, I quickly reached out to scoop it up, but suddenly touched something like seaweed.

"What is this? Is there seaweed in the river? Wait... it seems finer than seaweed..."

When she pulled it out, she saw it was a clump of long, black hair.

He was so frightened that he fell over.

"senior!"

Qiao Yi closed her eyes and asked the system, "How many anomalies are there? I feel a lot of yin energy, even more than when that male ghost came last night."

The system kept pressing the keys and said, "There are... sixteen locations around! Four at the bow and stern, and four on each side of the ship."

"There are so many, I don't think it was the male ghost who did it, Ji Meng was helping."

The system paused.

"Ji Meng is helping ghosts? Even in our system's ghost-catching world, a divine beast like Ji Meng wouldn't associate with ghosts... Isn't that beneath him? Besides, a vengeful ghost that has lived for 1,500 years, with this little bit of magic power, doesn't seem right..."

Joey had a string of fragmented information in her mind.

She exhaled, "Tongtong, do as I say. It's definitely Ji Meng helping him refine the Foundation-Setting Sword, the Qiankun Spear, and the Blazing Sun Bow."

"Wow, using yang energy to refine three weapons at once, Baozi, you're consuming your yang energy too much."

"You are right to listen to me."

"Okay~ I believe in you, baby, good luck~"

This time, Joey aimed all three weapons at the river, ignoring the sixteen anomalies already identified by the system.

When the Dingji Sword fell into the river, a large crater appeared on the surface of the water, and many pale hands emerged from the river, each with black fingernails and red sleeves.

They spread upwards from the bottom of the boat, leaving a bloody handprint on the hull with each touch.

Zhao Daxian'er tremblingly pulled out a thick stack of talismans from his bosom, too nervous to unfold them.

Then she spat on her hand, and as a result, the boat swayed from side to side because it was being pressed down by too many ghostly hands. A large amount of river water surged up and soaked all of her talismans. When she twisted them, they all crumbled.

The boy suddenly grabbed a ghostly hand and, with an unknown amount of force, snapped it off, revealing a bloodthirsty smile.

Then he began to eat the ghostly hand.

Lu Qianye was still shaken from yesterday, and now she was even more astonished. She even tried to cut the ghost hand with the sword at her waist, and it actually succeeded.

But when he turned around, he saw that Qiao Dawan's mouth was full of blood.

She rushed over and slapped the bloody hand away.

"How can you eat this?"

The boy glared fiercely at Lu Qianye, his mind completely blank.

The entire face was cracked; a delicate, fair face was covered with fine cracks.

“I am not a child, nor am I human! What can’t I eat? I can even eat you, eat this ship, and swallow this sea!”

"Hahaha, I was born hungry, and no one knows the suffering of my hunger. That woman, Joey, suppressed my nature. She only harms me and is not worthy to be my master! Today, I will eat to my heart's content, eating gods and ghosts alike!"

Thunder began to rumble in the sky.

A loud bang sent shivers down people's spines.

Hua Ran looked up at the sky, then at Qiao Dawang; he wanted to go over there.

Qiao Yi grabbed Hua Ran and used the Qiankun Spear to create a dent in the Dingji Sword, turning it into a vortex.

"Don't go. You can't see the Buddha through to the West, and you can't save a life."

"My lady, but... but the sky has turned gloomy, and lightning has struck. This is an omen of midnight clouds obscuring the stars and thunder stopping the beasts from running. Taotie is about to fall! If he starts eating without restraint and doesn't control his insatiable appetite, he will completely turn into a negative monster, and in the end..."

Hua Ran pursed her lips and said, "My lady, he still calls you master. The beast killer seems to be related to your past life. Are you really going to just let it go?"

"You can't control him, his actions are determined by his heart! Ranran, can you control his behavior, can you control his heart?"

Lu Qianye didn't understand at all.

However, after seeing ghosts she had never seen before last night and tonight, she simply assumed that Qiao Dawang was possessed.

He rushed over and hugged Qiao Dawan.

"It must be the ghosts here affecting you! So what if you're not getting enough to eat? I'll ask the cook to make you something when we get back. Don't eat this stuff, or you'll get an upset stomach."

Lu Qianye, who doesn't believe in ghosts, originally wanted to find some stories she heard as a child, like how you can curse someone if they're possessed, but she realized she couldn't curse a child!

So she said, "Repeat after me: Demons arise from the mind; if the mind does not generate them, they do not exist!"

Qiao Dawang was stunned for a moment.

Zhao Daxian'er stood up tremblingly, "Senior, what do we do now?"

As the ship rocked violently once more, Joey jolted and looked down to see a dagger plunged into her abdomen.

Hua Ran's eyes widened.

The smell of blood wafted over, stimulating his senses.