Tao Cheng lifted his brows and took out a copper plate. He silently chanted to do a divination for Ning Shu.

  Three copper coins fell on the table, and one of them actually cracked. Tao Cheng’s face color changed greatly upon seeing this.

  He picked up the cracked copper coin and said, “Could it really be something terrible? It was just a small calculation, yet something like this happened.”


  “We can’t take this job, it’s too dangerous,” said Ning Shu.

  Tao Cheng scratched his head and nodded. “Let’s talk about this later.”


  Ning Shu nodded in response.

  Tao Cheng then continued, “Go to the back mountain and hunt some game. We really can’t afford to raise these children.”


  “OK,” said Ning Shu.

  “After you come back, I’ll test you on your latest lessons.” Tao Cheng left with his hands folded behind his back.

  Ning Shu noticed that he seemed very worried. It was clear that the divination just now had made him apprehensive.

  Ning Shu went to the back mountain to see if there was any game.

  Although she didn’t encounter any wild animals, she found some wild fruits. She had only eaten a bit of bread earlier, so she was already starving. She picked some of the wild fruit to fill her stomach.

  The fruit didn’t taste good. Instead, it was somewhat bitter and sour. Ning Shu only ate a couple before giving up.

  She caught two rabbits, and that was it.

  It indeed was not easy to support this group of children.

  Ning Shu held a rabbit’s ear in each hand. When she returned to the temple, Tao Cheng was in the middle of having the children assume a horse stance.

  When Tao Cheng saw Ning Shu holding only two rabbits, he rolled his eyes and asked, “Why are there only two?”


  Ning Shu retorted, “We’ve pretty much eaten everything around here. It’s already really good to have two rabbits.”


  Ning Shu noticed that the children were dressed in tattered clothes. Furthermore, the clothes on the younger children were a little too big and didn’t fit them at all. It was clear that they were handed-down.

  Ning Shu covered her forehead. How did they end up like this? A person like Tao Cheng, who knew skills like divination, would usually be the honored guest of a dignitary.

  This world wasn’t without ghosts. Although people that believed in science, not everyone did.

  Ning Shu skinned the rabbit and cleaned the inside. She then boiled the entire rabbit in the pot until it was soft and turned into soup. Next, she fished out the bones.

  On the side, she made dough dumplings. These things sated hunger very well.

  So they had meat soup and dough dumplings for lunch. The taste turned out pretty good with some salt, so everyone enjoyed it.

  As Ning Shu watched these children, she suddenly understood why Tao Qin wanted to get revenge. Feng Yin had killed the master that raised her and obliterated his soul.

  And these children who had been abandoned by parents they didn’t even know were exterminated before they even reached their teens. The younger ones were only about seven years old, yet they were also killed. Feng Yin absorbed their souls and became even more powerful.

  Tao Qin had just been an obstacle on the path of love between Feng Yin and Song Xihan. Feng Yin had been worried that these Daoists would talk his woman into leaving him, so he just annihilated all of them.

  It could guarantee the safety of his woman and strengthen his soul at the same time, killing two birds with one stone.

  In a word, these dozens of human lives were used to emphasize that the male lead was the supreme monarch of the world. He was the most powerful and he doted so much on the female lead. If anyone dared to bully her, he would be wiped out. If a ghost offended the female lead, Feng Yin would directly devour it, destroying its soul.

  In any case, he was invincible.

  After eating, Ning Shu headed back to her room to practice. She would only be able to protect the sect if she was strong.

  After she managed to make the strand of energy form, her strength had increased and her movements also become much more agile. With the amulet she had exchanged for earlier added on and the soul pearl that could absorb souls, her chances of escape if she encountered the Phantom King was amplified.

  Although Ning Shu didn’t want to get involved in Feng Yin and Song Xihan’s love story, was this something she could avoid just because she wanted to?

  Ning Shu heaved a long sigh. Feng Yin was a cheat-like existence. He even had an entire army of ghosts under him and other ghosts would tremble at the mere sight of him.

  In short, he was the hegemonic president of the Phantom World. If he wanted to kill, he would kill; there was no negotiation.

  MTL Editor: Meraki

  TLC: Kaho