A passerby in a horror movie

After listening to Mazu's words, Li Haotian nodded solemnly and then sorted out the information.

The Heavenly Dao and the Source are vying for power, and it is clear that the two are currently in a state of relative equilibrium.

However, if we don't find a way to stop the source from continuously polluting and stealing the world's power, it will eventually replace the Way of Heaven.

If Li Haotian can sever some of the sources from which the power is drawn, he will surely be able to draw it out.

If it doesn't absorb enough power, it will still be discovered by the Heavenly Dao.

However, the time it takes for the source to appear will likely be very short.

Otherwise, if Heaven finds out, it will definitely eliminate them.

Therefore, Li Haotian only had a brief moment, or even less time, to summon Mazu.

"This is really difficult!"

Li Haotian couldn't help but sigh, but he was not discouraged.

He wasn't fighting alone; the goddess Mazu was watching over him.

Moreover, this so-called source, although it sounds terrifying, is actually nothing more than a hidden rat.

Because Heaven cannot detect it, it can only keep having its home raided. But once it is discovered, this rat will only be reduced to being beaten to death.

Thinking of this, Li Haotian immediately felt much more relaxed.

After giving some more instructions, Mazu turned and left.

Li Haotian felt dizzy and the surrounding white mist instantly dissipated. Suddenly, he heard a cacophony of sounds. When he turned around, he found himself back inside the main hall.

"Your Majesty, I'm leaving!"

Li Haotian bowed towards the statue.

The fact that Mazu appeared to guide him this time was already a risk; she probably won't be able to appear again, and he'll have to rely on himself.

Without wasting any time, Li Haotian took a taxi directly to a nearby hospital.

Following the instructions of the goddess Mazu, Li Haotian also developed his own plan.

To cut off the source of power theft, we can start from two aspects.

First, there are souls that have just died and have not yet been devoured by the source.

Second, newborns who are about to be born and have not yet been contaminated by the source force.

The place where these two are most common is the hospital, where every day there are many newborns and elderly patients who are about to die.

Li Haotian didn't ask anyone else for help because this time he was facing an extremely terrifying being.

If we bring Yoshiharu Hashimoto along, and he gets caught in the crossfire, he probably won't even be able to remain a ghost.

It was almost noon, and the hospital was bustling with noise. After asking the staff, Li Haotian went to the emergency department first.

However, upon entering the hospital, Li Haotian did not see any clusters of ghosts.

Generally speaking, hospitals are places where ghosts are very likely to appear.

But Li Haotian hadn't seen a single ghost after going inside for a while.

This means that the conditions for people in the Silk World to become ghosts after death are much harsher than in other worlds.

Li Haotian walked a little further in and suddenly saw a middle-aged man squatting in the corner.

The middle-aged man stared blankly at his door, his expression vacant. He exuded a faint aura of yin energy, and a wisp of black mist swirled between his brows.

Li Haotian's eyes lit up when he saw it, and he quickly stepped forward.

"Make way, make way, make way."

As soon as I reached the door of the ward, a hospital bed was pushed out, inside which lay a dead body.

The man's appearance was exactly the same as the middle-aged man squatting at the door; clearly, this man was dead. What Li Haotian saw was his ghost.

Then followed by a woman and a boy of about ten years old. The woman was crying, and the boy seemed a little lost.

Seeing this, Li Haotian silently mourned for two seconds, chanting "Salvation Heavenly Venerable," and then walked past them to the middle-aged man's side.

The man also noticed Li Haotian, turned to look at him, and met Li Haotian's gaze.

Suddenly, an extremely fine thread appeared between his brows; this was the Ghost Thread.

The strange silk thread instantly connected with Li Haotian's brow, but it was dissolved by the magic power within Li Haotian's body as soon as it made contact.

Seeing that the ghostly silk could not connect with Li Haotian, the middle-aged man's ghost turned his head away again and remained squatting in the corner without saying a word.

Li Haotian took out the jade ruyi and, with a wave of his hand, put away the middle-aged man's ghost. The jade ruyi was bestowed by the goddess Mazu, and it contained a space constructed with divine power, which could be used to store ghosts.

After examining the body, Li Haotian discovered that the middle-aged man's ghost had only recently become a ghost, and his soul was still relatively weak.

Instead of dealing with the middle-aged man's ghost, he wandered around the various wards again.

In just a short time, Li Haotian had already made quite a bit of progress.

Especially in the intensive care unit, there are quite a few newborn souls.

However, they only lasted for a short while before quickly dissipating.

Li Haotian reacted swiftly, collecting these dissipating souls into the jade ruyi.

Within a few hours, Li Haotian had collected dozens of ghosts.

However, the gains were minimal afterward, since a hospital can't actually accommodate too many people.

Li Haotian turned around and went to the obstetrics and gynecology department.

There are many pregnant women here who are about to give birth or are about to deliver.

You can still see pregnant women strolling around in the corridor.

Li Haotian channeled his magic power and looked at the belly of the woman walking towards him.

By circulating one's magical power, one can clearly sense a new soul being nurtured within, and this soul is not corrupted.

When Li Haotian arrived outside the delivery room, a pregnant woman had already been wheeled out.

Li Haotian looked at the newborn and indeed saw a faint black aura between his eyebrows. However, the black aura was very weak, and the unknown substance had not yet taken root in his Heavenly Soul.

Li Haotian walked behind without making a sound, holding a jade ruyi in his hand. Under the protection of divine light, his presence became very low, and almost no one noticed him.

As Li Haotian raised his hand, a divine light emanated from the jade ruyi. Under the illumination of the divine light, the black aura between the baby's eyebrows quickly melted away.

"Ok?"

However, just as the black mist dissipated, Li Haotian felt a gaze that appeared out of nowhere in the corridor, scanning him.

Wherever his gaze fell, time and space seemed to freeze for a moment. Fortunately, the divine light emitted by the jade ruyi in Li Haotian's hand concealed him well, and he was not noticed.

The feeling came quickly and went quickly; it lasted only a moment before Li Haotian no longer felt it, as if it had just been a hallucination.

However, Li Haotian understood that this was not an illusion.

The gaze he had just received had put immense pressure on him, as if it had frozen his very soul.

If he hadn't had a jade ruyi or other magical artifacts protecting him, he probably would have been killed in an instant.

"The goddess Mazu's prediction was indeed true!"

Li Haotian was not afraid at all; on the contrary, he felt delighted.

This gaze looks completely abnormal; it's very likely the source's method.