Man Gu’s letter was lengthy, packed with inappropriate quotations from classic texts and inappropriate sentence-final particles like “zhi,” “hu,” “zhe”, and “ye”[1] added to the end of every sentence.

Filtering the extraneous content, Lu Yang distilled the letter down to its basic meaning: I can’t handle the haunting in the county town. Senior Brother, save me!

Lu Yang found it absurd. Man Gu is an almighty Void Refinement expert. How could he not handle a haunting? Oh, right… Void Refinement Stage. Indeed, he can’t deal with it.

“Old Meng, Junior Brother Man Gu wrote to me saying they’ve got a haunting over there.” Lu Yang immediately sought out the bane of ghosts.

Ten days had passed since Meng Jingzhou was blasted. He had just finished consolidating his realm and emerged from seclusion.

“You’ve gotten one too?” Meng Jingzhou also held a letter from Man Gu.

Comparing the dates, they pieced the sequence of events together. Man Gu had written...