Could it be that the evil ghost left as soon as Li Guangyou's relative moved out?

As this thought emerged, Xiao Mu couldn't help but shake his head.

After an evil ghost has occupied a place, it will not leave easily, it's simply not in their nature.

Each evil ghost has a strong sense of territory, hence the term haunted house came to exist.

If someone commits suicide in a house, the spirit of the deceased is likely to stay in residence for several decades, even hundreds of years.

This is what is referred to as a haunted house.

Xiao Mu didn't believe that as soon as Li Guangyou's relatives left, the evil ghost would have immediately departed as well. Such a possibility was too slim.

After a moment of thought, he said, "Mr. Li, please take me to see other places."

"Mr. Mu, please follow me."

At this point, Li Guangyou had great trust in Xiao Mu and led him to other areas.

Initially, Li Guangyou was leading the way, but gradually it was Xiao Mu who started to guide Li Guangyou instead.

The house was huge, and following the trace of the evil ghost, Xiao Mu eventually navigated to the backyard.

The backyard was in a state of disrepair, sealed off with a large iron lock.

Xiao Mu looked at the large iron lock, which was rusted all over, clearly showing that it hadn't been opened for a long time.

This indicated that Li Guangyou's relative, who had lived here, had never ventured into the backyard.

However, in the backyard, Xiao Mu found signs of the evil ghost.

Did the evil ghost enter the backyard?

What was the ghost doing in a place that Li Guangyou's relatives never went?

Could it be that the backyard was the hiding place of the evil ghost?

"Mr. Li, do you have the key to this lock?" Xiao Mu asked.

"Key?"

Li Guangyou looked at the rusted lock and shook his head. "The key has been lost a long time ago. This lock is of no use, let me break it."

He fetched a hammer from the house and smashed the rusted lock open in a few strokes.

Pushing open the rusted wooden door, Xiao Mu went straight in.

The backyard turned out to be a garden, full of overgrown weeds.

Xiao Mu looked into the weed pile. There was an area in the middle where the weeds were slightly wilted, showing the traces of the evil ghost's passage.

Following the route the evil ghost had taken, a few steps onwards led to a blank area paved with small stones. The traces of the evil ghost suddenly vanished.

Turning to face Li Guangyou, Xiao Mu asked, "Mr. Li, was there any hidden construction or something similar in your yard before?"

Judging from the scene within the courtyard, it was obvious that the evil ghost had gone underground.

But where exactly the ghost hid was something that Xiao Mu couldn't discern. This implied that the ghost was hiding in a rather peculiar place, capable of shielding the ghostly aura, and close to a water source.

"Hidden construction?"

Li Guangyou looked blank, then quickly shook his head. "No!"

"Think carefully. This courtyard seems to be quite old, were there any old wells or cellars in it?" Xiao Mu continued to ask.

There weren't many things that could hide an evil ghost's aura - old wells and underground cellars were among them, and both could be related to water.

"Mr. Mu, please wait a moment. Let me ask my father."

Upon hearing this, Li Guangyou's face became serious.

"If there is, ask for the location."

Xiao Mu instructed.

"Okay."

Li Guangyou agreed and walked to the side to make a phone call.

Not long after he returned, he looked at Xiao Mu in awe, giving a thumbs up, "Mr. Mu, you are really amazing. How did you guess it right away? I just asked my father and learned from him that there indeed was a dry well in this backyard. However, it was sealed up when we switched to using tap water."

Xiao Mu was delighted to hear this.

Just as he had suspected! He was right. The evil ghost was hiding in this backyard, in the same location as the old dry well.

The dry well, or the ancient well, according to ancient folktales, leads to the road to the underworld and serves as one of the pathways to the underworld. An evil ghost hiding in it would indeed be hard to discover.

Not to mention evil ghosts, even a blood demon could hide its aura and remain undetected when hidden inside.

In addition to this, large ancient tombs, ruins, abandoned sites, temples, and so on can also hide the auras of evil ghosts and zombies.

Whether it's ruins, ancient tombs, or abandoned sites, the pervasive aura of decay is enough to mask any other smell.

"Did you figure out where it is?"

Xiao Mu continued to ask.

"I found out."

As he answered, Li Guangyou walked forward cautiously. Clearly, from Xiao Mu's questioning, he had guessed something and was extremely worried about an evil ghost suddenly appearing from under the ground to take him by surprise.

His worry was apparently unnecessary. It was daytime, and unless absolutely necessary, evil ghosts would not come out.

"Here."

Li Guangyou took a few steps forward and backward, measured a distance, and finally marked a location.

"Here!"

Xiao Mu drew a circle on the position Li Guangyou mentioned using the Peach Wood Sword.

A golden light flashed, and the trap formation was set.

"Mr. Li, step back a bit, I am going to drive the evil ghost out."

After Xiao Mu gave the instructions, Li Guangyou backed off nervously.

"Dispatch!"

Xiao Mu took out the Ward Off Evil Talisman and with a shout, threw it to the position of the dry well at the center of the trap formation.

A golden light flashed, disappearing underground.

At the same time...

"Hee-hee!"

"Woo-woo!"

The ghastly laughing and crying sounds of evil ghosts immediately came from underground.

From the moment the Ward Off Evil Talisman was thrown down, they were disturbed, and had no option but to come out from underground.

"Hee-hee!"

Two evil ghosts appeared in the center of the circle. When they saw Xiao Mu and Li Guangyou, their faces showed a fierce color.

"Ugh!"

The evil ghosts were wet and emitted a thick smell of rotten fish and shrimp. When Li Guangyou smelled it, he vomited on the spot.

"Gah gah!"

Seeing the evil ghosts, Li Guangyou was so frightened that his teeth were chattering, his legs trembling, and he fell to the ground. He had never seen real evil ghosts before. Seeing two at once, he was immediately terrified, and not fainting was already good.

"Hee-hee!"

In the midst of the sinister laughter, hatred appeared on the faces of the two evil ghosts. They glared at Xiao Mu and cried out, "Damn Daoist, dare to disturb our rest, die!"

Tagged as Ghost mist, the evil ghost charged at Xiao Mu after their cry.

"Mr. Mu, be careful!"

Li Guangyou warned fearfully.

Xiao Mu was completely calm as he took out his Peach Wood Sword and pointed it forward lightly, saying, "Rise!"

A golden light flashed, and a golden cage appeared, immediately trapping the ghost mist inside.

"Zi zi!"

"Ouch!"

Where the ghost mist touched the golden light, it was corroded. The evil ghosts let out a scream, and soon formed physical bodies within the golden cage.

As the golden cage shrank, the bodies of the two evil ghosts were involuntarily tightened.

"Destroy!"

Xiao Mu pointed his Peach Wood Sword forward again.

"Hum!"

With a flash of golden light, the golden cage suddenly shattered into golden blades of light, stabbing towards the two evil ghosts.

"Ouch!"

In their screams, the two evil ghosts vanished into thin air.

Xiao Mu heard two prompts: Energy+1, Energy+1.

"What is this?"

As he bent down to pick up the energy crystals dropped by the evil ghosts, Xiao Mu found another item—a small corner of a stone.

The stone radiated Yin Qi, but it was a very peaceful kind of Yin Qi and not harmful to people.

It meant that this stone had nothing to do with evil ghosts, but was related to ordinary Yin Spirits.

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