The faceless ghost guard from the Underworld was the one whipping Lu Ling with the black chains!
He had a long - standing connection with the Gu family, so it wasn't strange for him to show up here to help.
After being whipped several times by the chains, several burn - like marks appeared on Lu Ling's already thin soul body. She let out a scream and tried to block the blows with her hands, but the faceless ghost guard looped the chains around her hands and dragged her in front of us.
"You old hag! You've plotted against Mrs. Gu again and again. If Master Gu hadn't needed you for something, I would've sent you to the Underworld to suffer long ago. How could I have let you keep pretending to be stupid?"
The faceless ghost guard shouted menacingly.
"Lu Ling, don't think that just because you've pulled some tricks, you can keep Gu Nian and Tong Yunfang as your last cards forever."
As soon as Gu Fancheng spoke, the faceless ghost guard stepped back behind him and followed him closely.
"Hehe, so what?"
Lu Ling wiped the wounds on her body that were surrounded by black mist and sneered triumphantly. "After all this time, you still haven't found those two lackeys... And!"
Saying that, she looked at the faceless ghost guard behind Gu Fancheng. The sneer on her face gradually turned into malicious mockery. "It wasn't your Mrs. Gu's kindness to put me under the Avalokitesvara statue for spiritual transformation. She was just afraid that after I was reincarnated, she wouldn't be able to find those two old ghosts to serve her anymore!!"
"Do you know why Miss Du came back with me?"
Gu Fancheng coldly curled his lips. The innate terrifying aura made Lu Ling can't help but take a step back. The faceless ghost guard floated behind her proudly, blocking her way, muttering, "Listen carefully to what the master has to say!"
Lu Ling shivered and glanced at me with a look of both confusion and malice.
I didn't care about this woman's looks at all. I pursed my lips and said, "I saw Steward Tong!"
As soon as I said this, Lu Ling's expression changed from confusion to disbelief. She widened her blood - red eyes and struggled to get up. "Impossible! Absolutely impossible! Those two old ghosts couldn't have left our formation!"
"What's impossible?!"
I looked at her fearlessly and sneered coldly. "The birth of the young master of the Gu family can naturally break your stupid formation..."
As I was speaking, a flash of inspiration suddenly came to my mind. I immediately felt clear - headed and couldn't help laughing. "Ha!! Lu Ling, I know! I know where you trapped Steward Tong and the others!!"
"… You!! How could you possibly know?!"
A look of panic flashed across Lu Ling's eyes.
"Previously, Mr. Gu and the others didn't notice the souls of Steward Tong and the others because you used a formation to seal the place where they were. Now Steward Tong can come out because little Lu Gu is here! He is a celestial star reincarnated and has the positive qi to break evil spirits!
The more I talked, the clearer my thoughts became. "As long as he is nearby, any formation will be broken by the positive qi, and Steward Tong can get out of the trapped formation. So, the two stewards should be trapped here! In this mansion!!"
I looked at Lu Ling. "Am I right?"
"Nonsense!! What do you know about formations?"
Lu Ling was obviously shocked by my words. She began to panic and twisted her body as if she was going to pounce on me.
How could the faceless ghost guard let her rush to me? He quickly took out the chains and locked her head. The soul of Lu Ling wrapped by the black chains was immediately immobilized. She was like a puppet with its strings cut, and even her eyes became dull!
"What a stupid guy!"
Although the faceless ghost guard's blank face had no facial features, one could still feel his contempt. "The master gave you a chance to atone for your sins, but you still refused to admit it. Now it's good! Miss Du knows your secret! What's the use of keeping you?"
Saying that, he shook the black chains in his hand and hung Lu Ling in the air.
"Miss Du, what you said... Is it true?"
There was also a look of disbelief on Gu Fancheng's face. He was the reincarnation of a great demon. His perception of spirits was much more sensitive than that of ordinary practitioners. Even so, he had never sensed the aura of the stewards in his own mansion. He had even invited many psychic cultivators to help him find the souls of Tong Yunfang and Gu Nian.
These two loyal stewards died in a car accident while protecting Gu Fancheng. It was Gu Fancheng who went to the Underworld and snatched their souls back just before they entered the cycle of reincarnation. Gu Fancheng felt very guilty and wanted them to live again.
So, Gu Nian and Tong Yunfang possessed two newly - dead corpses, which was the so - called "rebirth by possessing a corpse".
In this way, they were able to return to Gu Fancheng's side. Later, Gu Fancheng had an accident and almost died both physically and spiritually. Lu Xiyu returned to Hong Kong with him to deal with the matter of his father borrowing his lifespan. During this period, Tong Yunfang and Gu Nian suddenly disappeared. There was no sign of them either alive or dead...
A few days ago in Beijing, Gu Fancheng's elder brother died because of his own misdeeds. Gu Fancheng knew that his elder brother, Gu Linze, always regarded his stewards as thorns in his side. So he sent people to torture and interrogate him. Gu Linze confessed that in Lucheng back then, in order to cut off Gu Fancheng's "right - hand men", he asked Lu Ling, who knew magic, to get rid of Tong Yunfang and Gu Nian, the two ghosts who had possessed corpses!
Gu Linze always did things in a cruel and ruthless way. He wanted to solve the problem of their souls once and for all, but Lu Ling had other plans. She just set up a formation to trap the two of them. She still wanted to extort money from Gu Fancheng with them or use them as a means to save her own life!
Unfortunately, no matter how much she calculated, she didn't expect that I would come to the Gu family mansion with little Lu Gu. She also didn't expect that Tong Yunfang would endure the pain of the infernal fire to escape a wisp of his soul from the crack of the formation in order to protect the young master, and it just happened to be seen by me!!
It was all fate. As the saying goes, "Heaven's plan is not as good as man's calculation." Lu Ling lost completely this time!!
"It's certain that the souls of these two people are in this mansion."
I slowly walked into the yard of the Gu mansion and looked up at the exquisitely - built three - story villa. "… Mr. Gu, has anyone ever said that your mansion was designed like a burial mansion?"
As soon as we entered the mansion, I had noticed the abnormal feng shui of the Gu family mansion. There was a flowing stream in the yard that was led in from outside the wall. It meandered like a river in front of the main gate, and there was a jagged rockery built behind the villa, placed in the back yard like a landscape.
This was the location of a burial cave with water in the front and a mountain in the back. I looked up at the upper floors, took a light breath, and then said, "Your third floor is the coffin chamber of the master, the second floor is the burial chamber, the first floor is the memorial hall, and the basement..."
I glanced at the basement air window hidden behind a cluster of evergreen shrubs and slowly said, "That's the pit for those who were buried alive with the master!"