When Zhang Chu heard Zhou Yunling’s words, he instantly realised that that White Cloth Formation just now was not under Zhou Yunling’s control, and she was unable to control the situation within the formation.
In other words, this Zhou Yunling was not the ghost’s master, but instead could be that ghost’s slave.
At this time, Zhang Chu grunted, “Get over here!”
Zhou Yunling, however, turned around and ran.
“Want to run?”Zhang Chu’s expression was cold and stern as his foot stepped on the hilt of a machete, followed by a pinch with his foot, and the machete immediately flew in mid-air.
Zhang Chu kicked on the hilt of the knife, and the knife instantly flew towards Zhou Yunling’s calf.
Puff!
The machete pierced through Zhou Yunling’s calf, and Zhou Yunling screamed miserably as he fell to the ground.
Zhang Chu walked towards Zhou Yunling in large strides, his face chilling.
At this moment, Zhou Yunling rolled over, half lying on the ground, his face full of fear: “Don’t kill me, don’t kill me!”
Zhang Chu then stared at Zhou Yunling, “Speak, what’s going on with those two men in black?”
Zhou Yunling was very nervous, “They are people from the Zhou Family, they are here to protect me.”
“The Zhou Family?”Zhang Chu frowned slightly.
He had heard Shangguan Qingxue mention that there were three great families in Jinling, namely the Jin Family, the Shangguan Family, and the Zhou Family.
The Jin Family’s Jin Sixth Master, Zhang Chu had already come into contact with.
As for the Zhou family, Shangguan Qingxue had reminded Zhang Chu that he should not have any dealings with the Zhou family, who seemed to be particularly fond of monopolising some livelihood trades.
At this time, Zhang Chu asked, “Are you from the Zhou Family?”
Zhou Yunling nodded slightly, “Yes!”
However, Shangguan Qingxue stepped forward and spoke, “Although you are a member of the Zhou Family, but based on your status in the Zhou Family, it’s not so bad that you would send someone specifically to protect you, right?”
Zhang Chu also felt that there was something fishy about this matter, and those two men in black were more like dead soldiers.
“Say, what’s going on!”Zhang Chu said indifferently.
Zhou Yunling hurriedly begged for mercy, “I’ll say, I’ll say, it was Zhou Chong who told me to do this, when he heard that I liked you, he gave me a treasure to become a Great Immortal.”
“Then, he asked me to find a way to get you, to make you my slave, those two men in black, they were the bodyguards Zhou Chong gave me.”
Shangguan Qingxue’s eyes flashed, “Zhou Chong!”
Zhou Chong, the leader of the younger generation of the Zhou Family.
Zhou Chong’s status in the Zhou Family was very high, higher than even Shangguan Qingxue’s status in the Shangguan Family, and was considered to be the Zhou Family’s already hand-picked crown prince.
Moreover, Zhou Chong himself was a very tactful fellow, and had long ago cleaned up the younger generation of the Zhou Family into submission.
Now, the entire Zhou Family, the younger generation, all look up to Zhou Chong.
At this moment, Shangguan Qingxue’s mind raced and her gaze chilled, “Zhou Chong, trying to use such underhand tactics against me, does he have something in mind for my Shangguan Family?”
Zhou Yunling, on the other hand, hurriedly begged for forgiveness, “Xiao Xue, everything has nothing to do with me, I am only doing things according to Zhou Chong’s arrangement, moreover, I love you with all my heart, please let me go, I promise not to say anything.”
Shangguan Qingxue did not answer Zhou Yunling, but instead looked towards Zhang Chu, “What else do you wish to ask?”
Zhang Chu nodded slightly and asked Zhou Yunling, “Tell me what treasure Zhou Chong gave you that could make you suddenly be able to tell fortunes.”
Zhou Yunling hurriedly said, “It’s a painting!”
Without needing Zhang Chu to ask more, Zhou Yunling shivered on his own and told everything about the painting.
According to what Zhou Yunling said, it was a painting of a beauty.
The woman on the painting was very beautiful, but there was no lower half of her body, and it looked as if that woman was a ghost with only half a body.
After Zhou Yunling began to make offerings to that painting, he possessed some special abilities, especially in matters of marriage.
With the Zhou family’s help, Zhou Yunling’s fame spread in some small circles of rich wives, and many people began to seek Zhou Yunling’s help.
Like a widow who has been living alone for many years and wants to find a godson, like a woman whose husband does not come home for a long time to find a white boy, or too repressed when she was young and wants to find a reliable person to indulge in when she gets older, etc. Anyway, as long as it has to do with marriage, it is very important to have a good relationship with her husband.
Anyway, as long as it was something related to marriage, Zhou Yunling could help with it.
That painting both gave Zhou Yunling some help, but it also asked Zhou Yunling to do a lot of strange things.
For example, it wanted Zhou Yunling to wear such brightly coloured clothes, for example, it wanted Zhou Yunling to live in such a low, deserted hut, and it even wanted Zhou Yunling to make gold offerings to it.
And when Zhang Chu heard this, his eyes lit up.
Like gold? Gold was something that could not be eaten, then, all that gold, must have been hidden by that painting.
And that painting, at this moment, was hidden within that hut.
At this moment, Zhang Chu twisted his head, looked towards that hut, and muttered in his heart, “This painting seems to have a bit of Taoism, and it also has money.”
Immediately after that, Zhang Chu’s heart stirred again, “Also, I have recently seen the Yellow Dragon Retreating Pillar sign, signifying that I can obtain an exceptionally loyal slave. Could it be that this trigram might be fulfilled in this painting?”
A truly loyal slave was not necessarily a human, it could be a ghost servant.
So at this moment, Zhang Chu rose to take in the servant.
So Zhang Chu asked Zhou Yunling, “That painting is still inside the hut, right?”
Zhou Yunling hurriedly said, “Yes, it is inside the hut.”
Immediately after that, she added, “I’ve already told you everything, can I leave now.”
Zhang Chu swept a glance at Zhou Yunling, followed by a cold smile, “Yes, you can go.”
In fact, Zhang Chu could already tell that Zhou Yunling would definitely die today.
This was because anyone who raised a ghost was doomed to not live long from the moment they made offerings to the ghost.
As the saying went, it was easy to invite a ghost but hard to send it away, and if she served the ghost as her master, then that item would definitely take her life.
And now, Zhou Yunling had actually told all the secrets of that painting, it was impossible for that painting to spare her.
Zhang Chu was too lazy to do anything to clean her up, so he let her leave on her own.
Zhou Yunling received Zhang Chu’s permission and hurriedly stood up, stumbling towards the outside.
However, just as she ran into the hutong, an old house, which seemed to have been overburdened long ago, collapsed with a rumble, and countless pieces of earth directly crushed Zhou Yunling underneath.
A pool of blood, flowed out from the cracks in the ground.
“This ……” Shangguan Qingxue and Xie Lan’s scalps went numb as they watched.
Zhou Yunling was dead.
At this moment, Zhang Chu looked towards Shangguan Qingxue, “You guys go first, I still have some things to do.”
Shangguan Qingxue took a deep breath before saying, “Don’t worry, I’ll handle the matter of the dead, you won’t have any trouble.”
After saying that, Shangguan Qingxue pulled Xie Lan, who was already dumbfounded, and walked towards the car in large strides.
On the other hand, Zhang Chu stayed in the small courtyard and once again looked towards the hut.
Zhang Chu vaguely sensed that there seemed to be shadows swaying within the hut.
Zhang Chu smiled, sure enough, something was inside.
In fact, Zhang Chu was not being arrogant and frivolous when he stayed behind and prepared to look for that painting, he had a bottom line.
When Zhang Chu was eight years old, the Demoness Master had broken into Longhu Mountain and borrowed all sorts of secret codes for catching ghosts and subduing demons for Zhang Chu to practice.
Against such things, Zhang Chu had plenty of means.
However, at this moment, Zhang Chu did not immediately enter the hut because inside was that thing’s home turf.
The first secret to dealing with this kind of ghosts and monsters was that one could not fight on the opponent’s home turf, and one had to find a way to trick the thing inside.
That kind of behaviour of knowing that a place was haunted and still having to go in to take a look was purely a death wish.
At this moment, Zhang Chu arrived under a tree in the small courtyard, and immediately after, Zhang Chu found a few broken bowls in the small courtyard, and placed some clumps of earth in the bowls.
Then, Zhang Chu took out a talisman, and with a gentle shake of his hand, the talisman ignited without fire.
Immediately after that, Zhang Chu recited an incantation, “Spirit of Heaven, Spirit of Earth, Supreme Lord Lao has come to reveal his spirit, the jade tray holds the agar liquid, delicacies and delicacies come down to the mortal world, the meal comes!”
After Zhang Chu finished this incantation, the talisman in his hand suddenly exploded with a poof, emitting an extremely bright light.
Immediately after that, inside the broken bowl in front of Zhang Chu, those clods of earth unexpectedly flashed brightly, as if they had transformed into all sorts of delicious and precious delicacies, as if the finest immortal dishes from the heavens had descended to the earth.
Of course, this sight was but a flash, and immediately after, it turned into the broken bowl holding the earth pieces again.
This was a Maoshan Taoist technique called Maoshan Borrowed Meal Technique.
After performing it, in the eyes of some dirty things, this bowl of dirt has been transformed into a delicious dish that can only be enjoyed by immortals, and a bite can increase one hundred years of Taoism, and a drink can lead to a thousand years of dreams.
At this moment, this bowl of earth clods had created a fatal attraction for many greedy ghosts.