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Zhao Long was caught off guard by Lin Feng's directness. After a moment of hesitation, he said, "Teacher Lin, you already know?"

Lin Feng stroked his chin and said, "I think I have a basic understanding, but I don't know what your motives are?"

Zhao Long gritted his teeth, as if making a decision, and said to Lin Feng, "Teacher Lin, I need to tell you this. Can you promise me you'll keep it a secret? I don't mean to harm anyone!"

Lin Feng nodded and said, "No problem. I suspect you didn't intend to harm anyone. Otherwise, I would have been perfectly capable of destroying your foundation and making you no different from an ordinary person!"

Zhao Long lowered his head and said, "Actually, I just thought it was curious and fun, I didn't expect the consequences to be so serious!"

Lin Feng said, "The bloodstains in the nails on the door, were those also your doing?"

Zhao Long nodded and said, "Yes, I didn't want them to suspect me, so I wanted to divert their attention!"

Lin Feng nodded and said, "Yes, don't try such dangerous things again. You have quite a bit of Dao foundation, but you're too naive about the dark world. I advise you to stay away from it if you can. Without certain methods, you'll end up harming yourself and others, you know that?"

Zhao Long lowered his head and dared not utter a sound.

Seeing Zhao Long's expression, Lin Feng's tone softened considerably as he asked, "Where did you learn these methods?"

Zhao Long took a tattered book out of his jacket and handed it to Lin Feng, saying, "It's in here!"

Lin Feng took the book and flipped through a few pages, his expression gradually becoming serious. Seeing Lin Feng's unusual expression, Zhao Long asked anxiously, "Teacher Lin, is there something wrong with this book?"

Lin Feng asked seriously, "Where did you get this book?"

Zhao Long said, "I found it at a used bookstore!"

Lin Feng closed the book and said, "Could you lend me this book?"

Zhao Long said, "I'll give it to you. I don't need it anyway. I tried it out of curiosity and almost killed three of my roommates. I almost lost my own life too."

Lin Feng said, "Thank you so much, you've been a huge help to me!"

Zhao Long was already in a state of panic when Lin Feng discovered the serious mistake he had unintentionally made. He didn't even ask Lin Feng what use the book was; he just wanted to leave the office as soon as possible.

Seeing Zhao Long's uneasy expression, Lin Feng laughed and said, "Don't worry, since it was an unintentional mistake, as long as you are willing to correct it, why should I pursue it further?"

Zhao Long nodded meekly in agreement, and Lin Feng scolded him a few more times, saying, "You go first!"

After Zhao Long came out, he hurriedly went back to his dormitory.

Lin Feng eagerly flipped through the old book. The pages were yellowed, but the layout was horizontal, clearly indicating it wasn't from before the liberation. However, such a book certainly wouldn't be published in post-liberation China, let alone during the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Perhaps it was secretly printed during the liberation period!

Book 3, Chapter 9: Ghostly Tales (9) (Supplementary Chapter)

Xiaoxue hesitated, then reached out her hand and touched Lin Feng's hand. Upon touching it, Xiaoxue felt as if she hadn't touched anything at all; her hand passed right through Lin Feng's. Startled, Xiaoxue stared blankly at her hand for a long time before sobbing.

Lin Feng didn't try to dissuade her, saying, "Xiaoxue, I hope you understand that you are dead! Although it's hard for you to accept, it's the truth, and you must accept it!"

After crying for a while, Xiaoxue nodded and said, "Yes, I am indeed dead, but I have always been unwilling to admit it and dared not face reality!"

Lin Feng asked, "Do you remember now?"

Xiaoxue nodded and said, "Yes, I remember everything. I was hit by a car and died while crossing the street on my way to this date! I've been dead for a long time!"

Lin Feng said sympathetically, "Now that your resentment has been released, I hope you can ascend to the next world as soon as possible on June 8th next year! Don't linger in this world anymore, you should have a new place to go!"

Wang Feng, who was behind him, asked curiously, "Why can't we upgrade now? Why do we have to wait until June 8th next year?"

Lin Feng said, "That day is the day she died. Only on that day next year, at the same time, can she be reincarnated. At other times, she can only wander around, which is the origin of the so-called wandering ghosts. If they miss the specific time, they can only wait for the next opportunity!"

Looking at the elementary school girl's pitiful appearance, Liu Hong swallowed hard and said, "Such a pretty girl, wandering around at night, what if she runs into bad guys—no, bad ghosts? Why don't you come to our dorm?"

Before he could finish speaking, Lin Feng smacked him on the head and said, "What? You don't even have the most basic Dao foundation, yet you want to learn how to raise ghosts? Have you had enough of living?"

Wang Feng said, "What? It can't be that serious!"

Lin Feng said, "You guys don't understand, but ghosts have very heavy yin energy. Even if the yin energy doesn't take root in your body, prolonged contact will still cause illness and eventually lead to your death!"

Liu Hong said, "Is there any way to solve this?" He seemed determined to let Xiaoxue move into their dormitory.

Lin Feng said, "Of course there is a solution, and it's very simple, but it depends on whether others agree. It's inconvenient for a beautiful girl to be in a boys' dormitory like this!"

The three of them said in unison, "Boss, she's Gui Ai, is she alright?"

Lin Feng ignored the three guys whose eyes were gleaming with greed and asked Xiaoxue, "Xiaoxue, it's up to you. I'll help if you agree, but I won't care if you don't!"

Xiaoxue glanced at the three of them and said in a low voice, "Anyway, I have nowhere else to go, so if they're not afraid..."

Before she could finish speaking, the three of them said in unison, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid!" They could easily raise ten or eight more of these beautiful female ghosts.

Xiaoxue added, "I hope you won't find me troublesome!"

The three of them shook their heads in unison and said, "No trouble at all, no trouble at all!"

Lin Feng sighed at the decline of morality and the loss of traditional values. Seeing a pretty girl, they were willing to risk their lives. He had no choice but to help them, and besides, he felt a pang of pity for Xiaoxue wandering alone. Lin Feng took out three talismans and gave them to the three men, saying, "Keep them close to your bodies and never remove them except when bathing. These talismans will protect you from yin energy and prevent your yang energy from clashing with Xiaoxue's!"

Then he instructed Xiaoxue, "Don't come out during the day. Now that your resentment has dissipated, you won't be able to withstand the yang energy if you come out during the day. Come out after 10 pm. If you go, just stay in the mirror in their bathroom!"

As soon as Lin Feng finished speaking, the three of them said in unison, "No way!"

Lin Feng asked, "What's wrong? Why can't it work?"

Wang Feng said, "Teacher Lin, are you deliberately messing with us? What are we going to do if she hides in the mirror and we have to pee every day?"

Lin Feng scratched his head and said, "That is a problem! Here's what we'll do: you buy some white paper and stick it on the windows, then use ink to blacken the white paper. That way, she can walk around the dormitory during the day, and she can stay anywhere at night. Anyway, she's not affected by the gravity of this world, so she can stay anywhere!"

The three of them nodded in agreement and came over to hug Xiaoxue as they prepared to leave.

Lin Feng said, "Wait a minute, this is a serious warning to you. Her spiritual power is still very scattered right now. After three days, once her spiritual power gathers together, ordinary people will be able to see it. So you must be careful and don't let anyone else see it, understand? Don't cause me any trouble!"

The three of them nodded repeatedly. Lin Feng said to them, "You guys go out first. I need to teach her some basic methods of gathering spiritual energy so that she can manifest when she wants and not manifest when she doesn't want to. That would be more convenient!"

The three of them had no choice but to go outside and wait. The corridor was dark, and Zhao Long suddenly said, "Do you think Teacher Lin might take the opportunity to molest Xiaoxue?"

Wang Feng said, "That's unlikely. Xiaoxue is a ghost. Besides, if he could molest her, would he really leave her in our dorm? We're a boys' dorm, with four guys who are extremely vulnerable to beautiful women!"

Liu Hong shook his head and said, "We might not be able to, but he might be. He knows so much."

Just then, the door was pulled open, and Lin Feng said irritably, "You three brats, do you think I'm deaf? Such a loud voice! What bad things were you saying about me? Hmph! You won't be passing 'Art Appreciation' class this semester!"

The three immediately begged for mercy, saying, "Teacher Lin, boss, the leader."

Lin Feng said impatiently, "Go away, have you been watching too many movies? I'm not a gangster. Don't talk bad about me behind my back. I have ghost informants. Be careful, or I'll have them harass you every day. They're the kind of ghosts who die in extremely gruesome ways. Do you guys want to try it?"

The three immediately flattered him, saying, "No, no, no."

Lin Feng waved his hand and said, "Stop, go back to the dorm! We can talk about it tomorrow!" Then he said to Zhao Long, "Zhao Long, come to my office tomorrow morning if you're free. I need your help with something!"

Zhao Long looked slightly uneasy, but because the corridor was dark, no one noticed. Zhao Long said, "Okay! I'll go during the second break tomorrow morning!"

Lin Feng said, "Let's go after school in the morning!" Zhao Long nodded in agreement.

Lin Feng gave the group some more instructions before leading the three overjoyed people outside!

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I don't know why the ninth chapter I uploaded yesterday isn't showing up today, so I'm uploading it again. I hope you'll forgive me.

Volume 3, Chapter 11: Ghostly Tales (11)

Lin Feng wasn't interested in delving too deeply into the book's origins and date. He had just been captivated by a particular passage and quickly flipped to that page to examine it closely.

That page contained a strange story, which the author himself clearly didn't understand.

The story goes like this: In late Qing Dynasty Xinjiang, due to the weakness of the Qing government and the rampant aggression of foreign powers, the nomadic people living along the Xinjiang border were living in dire straits. Among these herders, who constantly changed their habitats in search of water and pasture, there was a young man who unintentionally saved a woman. Overwhelmed with gratitude, the woman agreed to marry him. This was originally a very cliché story of a hero saving a damsel in distress.

But the story doesn't end there. During a migration with other herders, the two were captured by Russian soldiers who frequently harassed them while chasing after a stray flock of sheep.

After capturing the two men, these ruthless thieves, long accustomed to robbery, harbored evil intentions towards the young man's beautiful wife, intending to assault her. However, the woman, fiercely independent and unable to bear the humiliation, seized a short knife used by one of the soldiers when he wasn't looking and plunged it into her heart. But the woman did not die; instead, she became incredibly ferocious, and an entire squad of thirty Russian soldiers perished at her hands.

Afterwards, the woman dug out her own heart, threw it on the ground, and told the young man that she was a descendant of the devil before leaving him.

The heartbroken young man refused to believe that the woman was a cruel devil and traveled all over the Tianshan Mountains in search of his lover.

Ten years later, he found the woman near a small oasis in the desert. For ten years, she had been searching far and wide for a way to overcome her bloodlust. Because she deeply loved the young man and feared that staying by his side might one day trigger her rage and harm him, she left. She had once met a hermit in the Tianshan Mountains, who told her that only by finding another demon's descendant and ripping out his heart to place in her own chest could she be restored to her original state. The woman traversed almost the entire Tianshan Mountains and desert but could not find the other demon's descendant.

The young man said he didn't care what the woman was and was willing to continue living with her. After that, their whereabouts became unknown. It's unclear whether the woman found another descendant of the devil, or whether the young man ultimately died because of the woman's desires; the book doesn't record anything.

But for Lin Feng, this was undoubtedly good news. Now at least he knew how to help Qi Qi overcome her craving for blood, even though success was ultimately slim, it was better than nothing.

Lin Feng rushed to Li Mingsheng's place. Since the last incident, Qiqi had been unable to control her longing for blood, so Li Mingsheng had her move out of the dormitory and stay with him. Firstly, he was afraid that she would go berserk and turn her roommates into dried-up corpses, and secondly, he could take better care of her.

Everyone knew in their hearts that Li Mingsheng and Qiqi had fallen deeply in love during their nearly three months of on-and-off contact. To put it nicely, it was a deep and unwavering love; to put it bluntly, it was lust that made him reckless.

However, Qiqi remained relatively rational and tried her best to control herself. When she couldn't control herself, Li Mingsheng would buy her live chickens and ducks to suck on raw. But this wasn't a long-term solution, so Li Mingsheng and Qiqi were constantly troubled.

When Lin Feng arrived at Li Mingsheng's house, he saw Li Mingsheng looking distressed, while Qiqi sat to the side seemingly unaffected. Lin Feng knew this was a case of emotions clouding judgment; Li Mingsheng was usually calm and composed, rarely revealing his inner thoughts, but his current expression told Lin Feng that he was truly exhausted.

Lin Feng tossed the book onto the coffee table and said, "You should thank me! This book contains a method to help Qiqi return to normal!"

When Li Mingsheng heard that there was a way to restore Qiqi to normal, his eyes lit up with joy. Although Qiqi remained calm, she couldn't hide the joy on her face and came closer.

Lin Feng recounted what he had just read in the book to the two of them. Li Mingsheng said somewhat dejectedly, "Don't you think this hope is a bit too slim?"

Lin Feng said, "Although it's uncertain, it's better than nothing!"

Qiqi sighed and said, "I can't possibly go and rip everyone's heart out!"

Her words startled Lin Feng. If Qiqi really did that, probably no one could stop her. At least he knew that no one among them was her match, especially when she went berserk; anyone who went would die, and two would die together.

Lin Feng coughed and said, "I think there should be some kind of connection between you demons. Your spiritual power is far superior to that of humans. Why don't you investigate those with high spiritual power slowly and find out?"

Qiqi thought for a moment and said, "You're right. Of all the people I know, you have the strongest spiritual power. Let's take your heart out and see it first!"

Lin Feng was startled and said, "No way, is this how you repay me? I've helped you a lot!"

Qiqi chuckled and said, "Look how scared you are! How could I possibly lay a hand on you? But thank you for giving us a direction to search. I feel that at least we're no longer at a loss, wandering around aimlessly!"

Lin Feng put on a relieved look and said, "That's more like it, but remember to treat me to a meal after this is all sorted out!"

Qiqi gave a sly smile and said, "How about I treat you to some blood? It's from a live chicken or duck, and it tastes really good!"

Lin Feng quickly waved his hand and said, "Thank you, thank you, no need!"

Li Mingsheng also shook off his previous dejection and burst into laughter.

After leaving Li Mingsheng's house, Lin Feng headed back. All the way, he felt something was off about Zhao Long, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it. He thought about it from beginning to end and couldn't find anything suspicious about him, but seeing this guy just made him feel uneasy. Perhaps it was the incident with Zhao Long and his three roommates, which had instilled a sense of unease in him, that had unconsciously created a prejudice against him! That was the only explanation Lin Feng could give himself.

However, let's wait and see how things go. Let's go home and calm down before thinking about these troublesome things!

Volume 3, Ghostly Twelve, Illusion (1)

Lin Feng was still fast asleep when the phone rang. Without opening his eyes, he picked up the phone and held it to his ear. After listening for only a few words, he suddenly sat up and said, "What? I'll go back to sleep right now!"

Lin Feng glanced at his watch; it was already past ten. Xiao Jiejie had long since gone to work. Breakfast was on the coffee table. He didn't even bother to sit down and eat, grabbing a fried dough stick and wolfing it down while hurriedly getting dressed. Once he was dressed and had finished the fried dough stick, he rushed out.

The Special Investigation Unit just called, saying they found a strange body in a residential building in District 3. The deceased was nailed to the ceiling. The detectives couldn't find any clues, so they told Li Mingsheng to notify the Special Investigation Unit to come and check if there was anything unusual.