The lantern was knocked to the ground. Wan Ruo was about to pick it up to see what she had bumped into when the lantern slowly rose into the air, swaying brightly.
"So it's you! Why aren't you resting in your quarters and instead wandering around at this late hour?" came the cold voice.
Wan Ruo stood up and saw that it was Bai Chen holding the lantern. "Shopkeeper Bai? It's you. What are you doing here?"
"This is Shan'an Fang! I'm the shopkeeper here. Is it strange for me to be here?"
Wan Ruo thought it made sense. "You're right. But why aren't you sleeping at this ungodly hour?"
Bai Chen said helplessly, "I should be asking you that! You've even managed to run to my place, and you're asking me what I'm doing out?"
Wan Ruo was shocked. She had unknowingly run here in the dark. She gave an awkward smile. "Ah, sorry!" Then she said seriously to Bai Chen, "By the way, I have something to tell you..."
She told Bai Chen what she had discovered in the kitchen. Bai Chen said with interest, "Oh? In that case, I'm quite interested and would like to go and take a look!"
"Hey, did you even understand what I said? We should find a powerful Taoist priest who can exorcise demons first! Right now? Just you and me? … You can go if you want. I'm not going. I won't be able to save you then!" Wan Ruo advised earnestly.
Seeing Wan Ruo being so serious, which made her look so cute, Bai Chen gave a charming smile. He grabbed her wrist and started walking, saying as he did, "Don't worry! I'm here!"
"Don't tell me to worry! Hey..."
Just like that, Wan Ruo was dragged by Bai Chen to the kitchen. From the outside, the kitchen seemed calm, with nothing out of the ordinary.
At this moment, Bai Chen could sense a spiritual energy in the kitchen.
Wan Ruo also felt that there was something unusual in the seemingly calm kitchen. She turned around and was about to run away, but Bai Chen placed a hand on her head and turned her back, leading her into the room.
Bai Chen scanned the room and vaguely saw a white mass huddled in the corner.
When the thing saw Bai Chen, it trembled even more. It had felt a powerful force when Bai Chen was outside the door, a force so strong that it filled it with fear. Seeing Bai Chen in person now made it shake uncontrollably.
Bai Chen didn't take this evil spirit seriously. Instead, he quietly looked at Wan Ruo.
At this time, Wan Ruo, who was still in the dark, not being able to determine the location of the evil spirit, pretended to be calm and stood in front of Bai Chen. She carefully checked every corner of the room and said cautiously, "Be careful. It's nearby!"
"Can you see it?" Bai Chen asked tentatively.
Wan Ruo didn't let down her guard. She replied seriously and in a low voice, "No, but I can sense it!"
"Oh! …" Bai Chen looked at Wan Ruo thoughtfully as she nervously and bravely stood in front of him. He found it interesting! Seeing her like this always made him can't help but smile.
Wan Ruo continued, "If I could see it, I'd definitely destroy it! I..."
Hearing her talk so boldly, Bai Chen couldn't resist teasing her. "Oh? Is that so? Then turn around!"
"What?" Wan Ruo didn't quite understand. She turned her head. Bai Chen quickly extended his index finger and middle finger of his right hand, twirled them lightly in the air. Just as she turned her head, Bai Chen gently tapped her between the eyebrows with his two fingers.
Wan Ruo was still confused. "Ah? What's this for?"
Bai Chen looked at Wan Ruo and smiled slightly. He turned her head back.
Before she knew what was happening, oh my god, she could actually see the evil spirit! What was that white mass lying on the beam?
Bai Chen thought that Wan Ruo would be scared when she saw the evil spirit.
Unexpectedly, the white ball got panicked when it saw the two of them staring straight at it. It scurried around the room in a frenzy.
Wan Ruo rolled her eyes. Wasn't it so arrogant just now? What was it doing now? Seeing it flying towards her, Wan Ruo slapped it, and with a thud, it was knocked to the ground!
She shouted, "What do you think you're doing? How did you scare me just now? Why aren't you being so arrogant now? … I'll beat you to death! You unlucky ghost!"
The slap was so clean and neat that even Bai Chen standing beside her was shocked. The white ball was completely dazed from the blow.
It stood up groggily and quickly begged for mercy. "Please spare my life, sir. I know I was wrong!"
"How did you, this little evil spirit, break into this place?" Bai Chen asked coldly.
Hearing Bai Chen's question, Wan Ruo was stunned for a moment. She frowned slightly and looked at Bai Chen in shock. "You, you can see it?"
Bai Chen calmly looked at the white evil spirit without saying a word.
"Please spare my life, sir. I'm not an evil spirit. I'm just a low - level demon spirit with nowhere to go... I just accidentally wandered in. I have no ill intentions! Please spare my life, sir!" The white ball trembled in fear.
Hearing this, Wan Ruo was about to forgive it.
Then Bai Chen rotated his right hand and casually conjured up a blue fireball. Was he going to kill it?
The white ball was so scared that it started sweating. "No, don't kill me!"
"Do you know that this Shan'an Fang is not a place you can just barge into? … You say you wandered in by accident? Humph! I think you have other motives. How can I let you go?" After saying that, Bai Chen was about to take action.
At this moment, Wan Ruo was completely stunned. Oh my god, could he do magic?
Seeing this, Wan Ruo didn't care about anything else. She quickly stepped forward to stop him.
"Wait!" Wan Ruo spread out her hands and stood in front of Bai Chen. She continued, "Although I also really want to beat it to death, it hasn't done anything heinous or criminal. You can't just destroy it! There's really no evil aura on it!"
Hearing someone pleading for its life, the white ball quickly nodded. "Yes, yes, yes. I haven't done anything heinous. Don't kill me!"
Bai Chen frowned slightly, seeing that Wan Ruo was so naive in dealing with things. He retracted his hand and said coldly, "Fine. For your sake, I'll spare it this time!" Then he glanced at it and said, "You'd better behave yourself. Don't give me any reason to catch you!"
"Okay, you can go now! Leave this place!" Wan Ruo said gently to the white ball.
"But I... I have nowhere to go. I..." As the white ball said this, it actually started crying sadly.
Seeing this, although Wan Ruo couldn't stand people crying, this was just too fake. It made her feel like punching it! Wan Ruo helplessly stepped forward to comfort it. "Okay, okay, stop crying. You're just making noise without shedding tears. Is there anything I can do for you?"
"Little sir, can you take me in?"