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

Qiao Dawan clutched his stomach, while the middle-aged woman and the little girl lay unconscious on either side.

The female ghost was huddled inside that emerald green halo.

She kept pounding the emerald green barrier with her fists.

Qiao Dawang coughed.

"Don't bother! I knew you were going to kill Sister Lu, that's why I set up a barrier around where Sister Lu was active."

"How could this be... How did you know she would come to this place? Her schedule is unpredictable!"

Qiao Dawang looked back at Lu Qianye. He felt a little embarrassed, but he was still pleased that Lu Qianye was cooperating with him.

With a wave of his hand, the central dot landed squarely on Lu Qianye himself.

Then, a large halo of light surrounds Lu Qianye.

No matter where the female ghost lands, as long as she gets close to Lu Qianye, she can be captured.

This story goes back a bit.

Let's rewind to the time when Lu Qianye and Qiao Dawang were arguing.

Qiao Dawan said he was leaving, but his fingers twitched slightly at his side, indicating that Lu Qianye should move closer to him.

He cast an invisible spell on Lu Qianye's body.

As one of the Four Fiends, his magic naturally surpasses that of ghosts and monsters.

If it were a proper face-to-face confrontation, he could pin that female ghost down in the mud, making it impossible for her to get out.

The other side probably realized the disparity in strength between them, which is why they kept running back and forth.

Then Lu Qianye stayed in the room, feeling utterly bored.

When a cup fell and shattered not far away, Lu Qianye went over to pick it up and cut his hand, causing it to bleed.

That's when the following events happened.

Qiao Dawang took a deep breath and said, "Sister Lu, we need you to kill her."

"I?"

"If your knife can harm her, it proves she is guilty; if your knife cannot kill her, it proves she is not guilty enough to die and need not be destroyed."

Qiao Dawang said that he was burdened with too many debts from souls, and he was no longer sure if he could kill other souls.

Over the years, whenever there were monsters to be eliminated, he was always in charge of capturing them and putting them to trial by Joey.

Lu Qianye was quite decisive.

He simply asked, "Big Bowl, where's the female ghost?"

Qiao Dawang coughed.

"Sister Lu, from this spot, walk forward four steps in an east-west direction. Okay, we're here."

Lu Qianye naturally still couldn't see it.

But she trusted Qiao Dawang, just like the tacit gestures the two had exchanged before.

Lu Qianye immediately drew his sword, and the female ghost actually showed a fearful expression.

"You're just an ordinary person, you can't even see ghosts, how could you possibly kill me?"

Lu Qianye heard the sound.

Previously, she could only hear the screams of a female ghost possessing a little girl.

With this sound, Lu Qianye became even more certain.

She gripped the knife hilt tightly with one hand, assuming an attack stance.

At the same time, she only had one thought in her mind.

That is... I can finally help Qiao Dawang, no! I can fight alongside Qiao Dawang!

So, without waiting for the female ghost to say anything more, she raised her knife and struck.

After the chopping was finished, everything seemed to stand still.

The female ghost still held onto a sliver of hope.

She opened her mouth to speak, but at that moment, she found that she couldn't control her mouth.

Suddenly, a crack appeared on the female ghost's neck.

The air inside began to dissipate.

"how come……"

The female ghost uttered only three words, and the cracks on her body grew larger and larger. Finally, with a "crack," she completely turned into a wisp of black smoke and drifted away with the wind.

Only then did Qiao Dawang breathe a sigh of relief.

"Sister Lu, it's over. She deserved to die."

But after Qiao Dawang finished speaking, he let out a "whoosh" and fell to the ground.

"A big bowl!"

Lu Qianye came to Qiao Dawan's side and found that there was a small pool of blood under Qiao Dawan's body, and the clothes around his waist were completely soaked with blood.

The boy was pale, his thin lips were tightly pressed together, and his forehead was covered in sweat.

"Big Bowl, you...you're injured, but you're supposed to recover quickly, right?"

"Logically, that should be the case, but this time it hasn't recovered, and in fact... it's getting worse..."

Qiao Dawang coughed several times after saying just one sentence.

He covered his mouth, and blood seeped through his fingers.

Lu Qianye was startled after reading it.

"What exactly is going on?"

Qiao Dawang was also surprised. What exactly was going on?

Logically, since the female ghost is dead, no magic should be able to affect his body anymore.

But when Qiao Dawang looked up, he discovered a single hair inside the halo that trapped the female ghost.

The female ghost escaped from his grasp by turning into a single hair.

"Sister Lu...can you see that hair?"

"can!"

Lu Qianye muttered to herself, and there really was a hair. She was about to reach out and grab it.

Qiao Dawang stopped him.

"do not move!"

“That’s…that’s Qiongqi’s hair. I know why the female ghost was targeting me.”

Qiao Dawang lay on his back on the ground, his fists clenched tightly, because the force he exerted on his arms caused his blood to flow faster and more.

But he was furious.

"Damn it! It's not so much that she's targeting me, but rather the resentment of Qiongqi!"

Qiao Dawang once asked Qiao Yi why, among the four evil spirits, he alone became the beast under the Sun God.

Joey calculated that it was a matter of timing and fate.

The other murderers didn't become beasts under the sun god, which must mean they did something wrong at the time.

It goes against the natural order, so he is not given important positions.

Joey also told Joe Dawang that he should always stay true to himself, because one day in the future, it was hard to guarantee that three of the other four ferocious beasts would not come looking for revenge on Joe Dawang.

In particular, ferocious beasts are prone to going astray and easily become tainted by resentment.

This female ghost probably came into contact with Qiongqi's fur. Qiongqi's inherent hatred for Taotie, combined with the female ghost's resentment, led to her current state.

Although the female ghost has vanished, Qiongqi's hair won't be so easily obtained.

Now, Qiongqi is driven by spontaneous hatred and is taking revenge on Qiao Dawang.

However, this was just the hair left behind by a ten-thousand-year-old Qiongqi after its death...

Qiao Dawang appeared calm on the surface, but in reality, he had already exhausted all his methods.

"damn it!"

"I...if I don't stop it...I'll..."

Lu Qianye also noticed the problem, and she quickly pulled Qiao Dawan into her arms.

"Is there any other way? As long as you can think of it, I can do it!"

Qiao Dawang shook his head, but grabbed Lu Qianye's hand with his bloodstained hand.

Tears streamed down her face.

Lu Qianye's heart tightened instantly.

"Big Bowl, why are you crying? It must hurt a lot, right?"

Qiao Dawang, however, became happier the more he cried.

Because he suddenly remembered what Joey had said.

"Sister Lu...I might die...Qiao Yi said my death this time is inevitable..."

Upon hearing this, Lu Qianye immediately panicked.

"Nonsense! You're a Taotie! You said you're a ferocious beast that can grow at any time. You're still a child, what are you talking about dying for?!"

Qiao Dawang suddenly discovered...

Sister Lu wasn't asleep that day; she heard everything Sister Lu said in the carriage!