“Ex-dad”, a term unique to Li Haoran, refers to his father from his previous life.

Qin Yanyan set out to travel the world, seeking opportunities to form her Golden Elixir, and to gain insights into the mortal world, aiming for a breakthrough in her state of mind.

She had only passed a few counties and stayed overnight in a dilapidated temple when she encountered such an exciting event.

After being persuaded by her mother for a month, Qin Yanyan was about to accept this father with no blood relation to her, when she encountered such an incident.

This was not the way to gain insights into the mortal world.

“Wait, Yanyan, let me explain!” Li Haoran was somewhat flustered. By the heavens, he was really here to catch ghosts. He hadn’t even extracted any useful information when he was caught red-handed by Qin Yanyan.

The Central Continent was so vast, how could he have run into Qin Yanyan?

Was this the entanglement of karma between father and daughter?

The white-clothed female ghost also realized something was wrong and tried to escape. Li Haoran used a capturing technique, transitioning from reality to illusion, and from illusion back to reality. In the midst of these transitions, he pinned the female ghost to the ground.

This was a technique Li Haoran had learned while refining tools. Now, with a slight modification, he used it to catch ghosts.

Being at the same Foundation Establishment stage, the female ghost was no match for Li Haoran.

“I was assigned a mission by the sect. I came here with Brother Lu and Brother Meng to catch ghosts!” Li Haoran hurriedly explained. If Qin Yanyan went to Su Yiren with a misunderstanding, he might as well not inherit Qin Yuanhao’s memories and directly start his tenth life.

“Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou?” Upon hearing her ex-dad’s words, Qin Yanyan remembered these two prodigies of the Seek Tao Sect.

One was a disciple of the sect master of the Seek Tao Sect, and the other was the eldest son of the Meng family. Their credibility was much higher than Li Haoran’s.

“Yes, they are sleeping in the room next door. They can definitely prove my innocence!” As Li Haoran spoke, he used the soul-locking chain he had refined to tie the white-clothed female ghost to a load-bearing wooden pillar, then went to find Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou.

Qin Yanyan followed Li Haoran with suspicion.

As soon as Li Haoran pushed open the door, he spoke so fast it was frightening: “Brother Lu, you must prove my innocence. We are here to catch ghosts, right? You didn’t give the signal to start because the female ghost didn’t come to you, right…”

Before he could finish, he saw Lu Yang with a strange smile at the corner of his mouth, pulling the blue-clothed female ghost who was struggling in vain. This scene didn’t look like something a gentleman would do.

“Brother Lu, you…” Li Haoran stammered, not expecting Lu Yang to be such a person.

Seeing this, Qin Yanyan thought Li Haoran was making excuses and became furious: “You dare to say you are here to catch ghosts?!”

“Let’s go see Brother Meng. He must be seriously catching ghosts!” Li Haoran was confident that there would be no accidents with Meng Jingzhou. The single dog spiritual root might have the brain to conceive ideas, but not the body to realize them.

Then Qin Yanyan saw the unconscious red-clothed female ghost and Meng Jingzhou squatting beside her, observing carefully.

“Date rape?!”

Qin Yanyan was shocked. How could each of their methods be more thrilling than the last?

Compared to the three of them, Li Haoran seemed to be the most conservative.

Li Haoran: “……”

Why did he always encounter bad luck when he went out with Brother Lu and Brother Meng? Last time, he ended up with a fiancée who was two thousand years older than him and a daughter with no blood relation to him, and he became the former leader of one of the four major demonic sects.

This time, when he needed them to prove his innocence, they were messing around.

“Bullshit, who said I date raped her? Don’t you know I have the single dog spiritual root?!” Meng Jingzhou roared, turning around to see who was so blind.

“Eh, niece, are you here to find your dad?”

Feeling the Golden Elixir aura emanating from Meng Jingzhou, Qin Yanyan repeatedly reminded herself that she couldn’t beat him.

Meanwhile, Lu Yang finally subdued the immortal fairy and regained control of his body. Holding the blue-clothed female ghost, he went to find Li Haoran and Meng Jingzhou.

After the three of them showed the mission issued by the sect, and Meng Jingzhou revealed his single dog spiritual root status, Qin Yanyan finally believed that they were here to catch ghosts, not to visit prostitutes.

The blue-clothed female ghost held by Lu Yang was shivering. These three men were from the Seek Tao Sect, one of the five major immortal sects.

When everyone arrived at the main hall, Li Haoran tied the still shivering blue-clothed female ghost and the unconscious red-clothed female ghost next to the white-clothed female ghost.

With this, all three female ghosts were captured.

“So, the Seek Tao Sect issued a ghost-catching mission, and you came to Guhuai Town to catch ghosts in order to complete the sect mission?” Qin Yanyan mostly believed their story.

Qin Yanyan still didn’t know that her father from her previous life was the reincarnation of the Nine Nether Sect.

Li Haoran obtained Qin Haoran’s memory fragments after Su Yiren and Qin Yanyan left.

This was not something he could tell Qin Yanyan.

Li Haoran couldn’t possibly say that her father in her previous life was the head of a demonic sect and not a good person.

That would completely ruin their father-daughter relationship.

“What about you, why did you come to Guhuai Town?”

“My mother said that when I visited your house last time, I started arguing as soon as I arrived, showing that I was too impulsive and needed to improve my state of mind. Since it’s time for me to form my Golden Elixir, she let me go out and travel to temper my state of mind.””Today, I spent the day in Shoutian County, strolling around the market and spending all my money. There are no free inns in Shoutian County, so I had to continue north. When I saw this ancient temple, I thought I could stay here for the night, so I came.”

Li Haoran was very worried about Qin Yanyan’s journey.

In a few days, Qin Yanyan might have to perform on the streets to make a living.

“We…we four, although we are ghosts, we have never harmed anyone!” the woman in green clothes cried out in her defense.

They were very careful in absorbing Yang energy, not causing any trouble, fearing that they would attract the righteous cultivators.

What they feared most had come to pass, and this time, it was the strongest among the righteous, the Seek Tao Sect.

It was said that the righteous cultivators loathed demons and ghosts, killing them on sight.

Could they survive in their hands?

“Never harmed anyone?” Meng Jingzhou sneered, “It’s clearly written in the mission that you absorb people’s Yang energy, causing them to become listless and muddle-headed all day. Are you saying that’s all false?”

The woman in white was almost in tears: “No, really, we are very careful when we absorb Yang energy. We only take a small part of it, which won’t affect people. Moreover, we have registered this with the town mayor.”

“We also know that absorbing too much will affect people. Who would come next time if we do that? It’s better to absorb a little several times than to drain it all at once. We understand the principle of not overfishing.”

“Wait, the mayor knows about this?”

“Not only the mayor, but all the travelers in the town can testify!” the woman in white said earnestly.

Lu Yang and his companions were confused by the woman in white’s words.

“Really, we’re not lying. Just now, the three of us sisters went to knock on the doors of various inns, asking if they needed service. After serving a round, we just came back and saw you three heroes lying in the temple. Seeing that your Yang energy was quite strong, we wanted to absorb some of your Yang energy as the end of tonight.”

Lu Yang: “???”

You even provide door-to-door service?!

The woman in white said sheepishly: “Only with good service can we have repeat customers.”

Qin Yanyan was even more shocked than Lu Yang. Is this the mortal world?

(End of the chapter)