This is the true immortal of the Taoist sect.

Li Daoxuan bent down to support Lord Zhao's arm, frowning as he said:

"Get up first, then we'll talk."

At this moment, Lord Zhao was already in tears. The dignified ruler of a county was crying like a child.

"Mr. Li, you are very powerful. Please help me retrieve the embroiderer. I am willing to serve you faithfully for the rest of my life, until death do us part..."

Li Daoxuan's tone grew cold as he asked:

"The embroiderer you mentioned, is she the vengeful ghost from the well?"

Lord Zhao nodded.

"Since it's a vengeful ghost, it means it has long lost its humanity. As a county magistrate, you possess the authority to suppress vengeful ghosts, so why do you still raise a tiger that will become a threat?"

Ye Tingzhou was right when he said that the evil spirit in the well had become quite powerful, its malevolent aura almost solidified. If this continued, the well would not be able to be sealed off.

Even Lord Zhao's official seal and aura could not be contained.

By then, the entire Anyi County will likely be plunged into chaos and devastation.

Upon hearing Li Daoxuan's words, Lord Zhao froze on the spot, as if all his energy had been drained in an instant, and he collapsed to the ground.

"Lord Zhao, I observe that you are diligent and caring towards the people in your daily governance. You truly deserve to be called a local official."

"Why would you do something that could potentially destroy the entire Anyi County?"

In fact, Li Daoxuan had a rough idea. To use the words from his previous life, Lord Zhao was putting on a story of love between a human and a ghost.

Perhaps from Lord Zhao's perspective, his actions were an expression of deep affection.

From the perspective of the residents of Anyi County, this is treating the lives of tens of thousands of people in the city as a joke.

Just as there are different levels among martial artists, there are also different levels among ghosts.

Newly born ghosts are not actually very strong; they can only be called wandering spirits.

However, once a wandering soul advances to become a vengeful ghost, its destructive power is almost equivalent to that of a Grand Martial Master of the Fourth Realm.

Above the vengeful ghosts, there exists an even more terrifying being, known to the world as the Ghost King.

Li Daoxuan had read some records that a ghost king-level monster had appeared in the history of the Great Zhao Dynasty. In order to eliminate it, the court sent seven or eight grandmasters with the imperial seal to successfully complete the mission.

The vengeful ghost in the well in the backyard of the county government office is a creature close to the Ghost King.

Once this thing is released, no one in the entire county except Li Daoxuan can rival it.

As an official appointed by the imperial court, Lord Zhao could not possibly be unaware of these matters.

At this moment, everyone else in the yamen was also alerted and rushed over.

Lord Zhao still had some sense left. He forced himself to get up and ordered his servants to clear the ruins. Then he led Li Daoxuan and his two disciples back to his living quarters.

After much hesitation, Lord Zhao finally revealed the reason why he was keeping a vengeful ghost.

Lord Zhao's full name is Zhao Chun'an. Just as Li Daoxuan guessed, this vengeful ghost is Zhao Chun'an's beloved.

Zhao Chun'an was not originally from Anyi County, but from the neighboring county.

Later, while studying in Anyi County, he met and fell in love with a local woman named Xiu Niang.

The two secretly pledged their lives to each other, agreeing to marry Zhao Chun'an after he returned with his academic achievements.

But fate had other plans. The embroiderer caught the eye of the magistrate of Anyi County at the time and was forcibly taken as a concubine.

At this time, the embroiderer was already pregnant. She was strong-willed and unwilling to submit, so she threw herself into a well in the backyard of the county government office and committed suicide.

When Zhao Chun'an returned from high school and learned of this news, he was almost devastated.

Fortunately, the well happened to be located in an extremely yin place, which nourished the embroiderer's soul, causing her to transform into a ghost.

Zhao Chun'an devised a plan to bring down the previous county magistrate and had the embroiderer's ghost devour the magistrate's entire family, transforming her into a vengeful spirit.

Zhao Chun'an pretended to be the new county magistrate to suppress the evil spirit, but in reality he only sealed it in the well.

He often struggled with this, knowing he shouldn't have done it.

But Zhao Chun'an couldn't resist his longing for the embroiderer. Even though he could only see the embroiderer, who had become a vengeful ghost and had lost all humanity, he was willing to endure it.

After hearing Zhao Chun'an's words, Li Daoxuan and the other two could only sigh silently.

This is a complete tragedy.

Li Daoxuan recalled his feelings when he first met Zhao Chun'an, and now he suddenly realized why he had felt instinctively disgusted when he saw Zhao Chun'an back then. It turned out that this Lord Zhao spent every day with a vengeful ghost.

His body was already tainted with the extremely yin and filthy aura of a vengeful ghost.

I just wasn't skilled enough to see it back then.

Li Daoxuan hesitated for a moment, but finally said firmly:

"Lord Zhao, let's not even talk about the fact that the embroiderer's soul has already been taken away by those people, and she has probably already left the county town. Even if I could help you get the embroiderer back, I would never allow her to continue to exist."

A ghost that has already become a vengeful spirit has absolutely no chance of changing its nature.

In the mind of the vengeful ghost, there was only one thought: to devour and kill.

Such an existence is a great scourge to the world. If Li Daoxuan encountered it, he would have no other thoughts than to give it a Five Thunder Talisman.

Lord Zhao covered his face and wept, almost in despair.

He knew this all too well, but that's how people's obsessions are; even knowing they shouldn't do something, they still can't help themselves.

At this point, Li Daoxuan suddenly felt a jolt in his heart, and his eyes sharpened.

"Lord Zhao, was the vengeful ghost that caused the Wang family tragedy a year ago also you...?"

Upon hearing about the Wang family tragedy a year ago, Mingyue's body trembled violently. She turned her head and stared intently at Zhao Chun'an with her gray eyes.

Zhao Chun'an gave a wry smile and shook his head, saying:

"Although I did not raise that vengeful ghost, it existed because of my indulgence."

"Because the embroiderers need blood as food, I cannot bear to kill them, so I can only rely on it to provide them with blood as food."

"But I restrained it, preventing it from causing harm in the city, yet I never expected this beast to be so greedy and actually sneak into the city..."

Mingyue, sitting to the side, had already turned pale, her hands clenched into fists, and her face was covered in tears.

"choke..."

The Moonlit Sword was drawn, and Bright Moon cried out in a mournful, angry voice:

"So it was you, you corrupt official! Give me back my parents' lives..."

With boundless rage, Mingyue thrust her sword at Zhao Chun'an without hesitation.

Qingfeng had already sensed that something was wrong with Mingyue, and the moment Mingyue made her move, he drew his longsword and parried her attack.

"Mingyue, calm down..."

Qingfeng said anxiously.

Mingyue wouldn't listen to reason, and directly attacked Qingfeng.

Her magical power was far superior to Qingfeng's, and Qingfeng was unable to withstand her sword strike, retreating repeatedly.

Seeing this, Li Daoxuan sighed helplessly and grabbed the tip of Mingyue's sword just as it was about to kill Zhao Chun'an.

"Mingyue, don't let hatred consume your reason. Calm down first."

Mingyue tried to draw her sword, but it wouldn't budge.

In desperation, he immediately released his sword, pointed at Zhao Chun'an, and cried out:

"But Master, if it weren't for him, my parents wouldn't have died, they wouldn't... they wouldn't have died by my own hand..."