Having devoted myself to guiding souls, I was surrounded by them after my death.

"The guess was right, and it worked."

Luo Xiaoyu scratched her chubby little face, feeling a little embarrassed:

"I actually doubted Chen Shi's strength before, but now it seems he's definitely at level two... How embarrassing, communicating with people is really much harder than killing and exorcising spirits..."

At the same time, she secretly made a mental note of Chen Shi, this extremely special wild ferryman.

Although she had already made some of her judgments, Chen Shi was even more resolute and decisive.

"It worked!?"

Su Yining smiled, her long legs still firmly pressing down on Hu Lizhang's neck, maintaining a pressure that was neither too strong nor too weak—according to the plan, she still needed to use him to extract information about the Prosperous Flower Society.

"Hmph, as expected of my junior, you analyzed it correctly again." She turned her head, her beautiful crimson eyes looking at Chen Shi.

Chen Shi was still striking the Mirror Spirit's face with one hand, pressing it against the shattered mirror, waiting for the space to completely collapse.

His analysis is correct.

The Mirror Spirit constantly imitates others, using their faces. However, its true form is a blurry outline, lacking any facial features.

Furthermore, under normal circumstances, when a person faces a mirror, the reflection in the mirror does not show facial features.

All of this points to one thing—the key to the Mirror Spirit lies in its face.

After suppressing the person in the mirror, the falling photograph first showed a normal girl's face, and then it turned into a distorted appearance after plastic surgery. This was Ling Cage's way of implying that "the cause of death is related to plastic surgery."

The medical aesthetic report that appeared after Su Yining was rescued further confirmed this conjecture.

Before her death, Jingling was an online blogger who frequently underwent plastic surgery due to extreme anxiety about her appearance, which caused her facial muscles to become increasingly out of control.

And the most crucial part is that last sentence:

The patient refused psychological counseling and left the consultation room alone today, exhibiting a manic state.

"You disfigured yourself and committed suicide in front of the mirror, didn't you?"

Extreme appearance anxiety.

Chen Shi spoke calmly, looking at the increasingly blurry figure in front of him, and took out the photograph he had taken earlier.

As the Ling Cage began to disintegrate, the distorted face on the photograph paper reverted to its original, girlish appearance.

Although ordinary, his eyes were clear and bright.

Chen Shi took a deep breath, used the rope to press the photographic paper down in front of his fist, then pressed down on the mirror spirit and punched her in the face.

This time, he swung very lightly, but the moment his fist made contact with his face, it stirred up the strongest wind in the Spirit Cage.

In an instant, all the cracked mirrors in the entire spirit cage shattered simultaneously, and glass shards rained down across the entire cage like silver rain.

At the same time, the Mirror Spirit's form began to dissipate, and its mournful wails gradually transformed into human voices:

"My face... I want to be even more beautiful..."

"No, this isn't pretty enough..."

"It needs to be even more beautiful..."

The cage began to collapse, the corridors flipped, and everything began to turn into glass.

However, at that moment...

"Thump—!!"

Suddenly, the sound of a piano rang out, its heavy notes like the thud of a giant hammer, echoing throughout the entire Ling Cage!

"The sound of a zither?" Su Yining looked around as if facing a formidable enemy, while simultaneously kicking Hu Lizhang even harder.

"Just as I suspected."

Chen Shi wasn't too surprised. He turned around and saw Luo Xiaoyu rushing into the classroom.

"spirit……"

Luo Xiaoyu blushed and nodded to Chen Shi.

Behind her, Hu Lizhang's doppelganger was still tightly bound by silver chains, with a red-tasseled spear stuck in his head to prevent resurrection.

"Damn it, this is even worse than I imagined." Although Chen Shi knew that Luo Xiaoyu, who seemed harmless, could turn a person into a gourd without batting an eye.

But that was really ruthless.

How many of these kinds of things have you done with that cute face?!

The cage in the mirror began to crumble, and in its place...

The floor gradually turned into mahogany wood flooring, the space began to open up, rows of cushioned seats were stacked like steps, and crystal chandeliers hung high from the ceiling.

The cramped classroom disappeared and was transformed in the blink of an eye into a spacious lecture hall that could accommodate a hundred people.

Ahead, the stage is being set up, with the piano at the very center.

Black mud began to seep from the walls, ceiling, and floor.

At the same time, the Mirror Spirit that was just in front of me suddenly disappeared!

However, Chen Shi was not surprised by this, and simply said:

"Get ready, the new Ling Cage is coming."

……

He said this when the plan was first formulated:

"There is another issue to be aware of."

"In Qiushi Private Academy, the Mirror Spirit and the Sound Spirit check and balance each other. If the Mirror Spirit begins to weaken and the Mirror Cage collapses, then the Sound Spirit will definitely take the opportunity to unleash its own Spirit Cage."

"In the worst-case scenario, the Mirror Spirit will not be completely exorcised before the Sound Cage appears."

"Don't panic when the time comes. Remember how to exorcise the Mirror Spirit and immediately start dealing with the Sound Spirit!"

Recalling his words at the time, Chen Shi smiled helplessly:

"Sometimes I really don't understand whether being too accurate in guessing is a good thing or a bad thing."

Chapter 80 The Cage of Sound

"Thump—!"

The piano music started again, this time even more so, as if the entire space was trembling with the sound.

"A new Ling Cage?" Su Yining was still kicking Hu Lizhang hard to prevent him from causing trouble.

"Well……"

Luo Xiaoyu stared intently, immediately entering a state of spiritual infusion, and began to observe the spirit cage.

"Just as I guessed, the two evil spirits are mutually restraining each other. Once the Mirror Spirit weakens, the Sound Spirit will definitely seize the opportunity to rise up and create the Spirit Cage."

Chen Shi remained calm, after all, so far everything had been within his expectations.

The white corridors of the campus gradually faded away, and the space was twisted and reorganized under the control of the sound spirit.

The classroom walls melted, the narrow corridors collapsed, and in their place was an extremely spacious and magnificent space.

A wooden stage, draped in a red carpet, stood quietly in front.

Rows of cushioned folding chairs rose up, and a faint scent of perfume filled the air.

On both sides of the wall, metal wind instruments rose out of thin air, and candles lit up the ballroom with their soft glow, together with the chandeliers.

Above and in the very center of the ballroom, a giant black speaker was suspended in mid-air, secured by four steel cables.

"Creak...creak..."

A sticky, strange noise came from all directions.

"Chen Shi, look at the wall!" Su Yining exclaimed in surprise.

Looking up, one could see patches of dark silt beginning to overflow from every corner, crawling across the walkways, climbing over the high walls, and gathering towards the center of the stage.

"Black mud?"

Chen Shi held the rope and tightened it:

"It's the Sound Spirit."

As soon as he finished speaking, a towering giant shadow slowly appeared, and the shadow fell down like a monster, almost swallowing up half of the dance hall.

"Well……"

Luo Xiaoyu frowned, her small hands clenching tightly.

"So tall..." She glanced at her magical artifact, muttering to herself, "But my artifact has to lock down this watermelon-headed uncle first..."

"To be honest, isn't this evil spirit a bit too powerful?"

Chen Shi looked up and saw the black mud gathering together, forming a twisted human figure standing on the stage, blocking the piano behind it. Mud bubbles were rising from its entire body, and clumps of black mud fell to the ground, only to coalesce again.

In a daze, the piano keys fell again:

"Thump—!"

Yinling raised her hand, and her hammer-like arm slammed down heavily.

Chen Shi and Luo Xiaoyu stood directly in front of the stage, and when they looked up, they saw a dark shadow looming over them.

"Get out of the way!"

Chen Shi shouted, and he and Luo Xiaoyu quickly dodged to the left and right.

While dodging, Luo Xiaoyu didn't forget to pull the silver chain, throwing Hu Lizhang's corpse aside.

The next second, the mud arm crashed to the ground:

"Boom!"

A blast of air rose up, splashing black mud everywhere, only to gather it together again.

"This sound spirit is different from other spirits; it directly takes action itself. Is this to prevent us from having a chance to analyze the spirit cage?"

Chen Shi noticed something was amiss.

This sound spirit is extremely aggressive and makes no attempt to hide.

This makes it difficult to analyze Ling Cage.

Beside her, Luo Xiaoyu blushed, cupped her hands in front of her mouth like megaphones, and shouted as loudly as she could:

"Find...find the rules..."

Chen Shi looked around. This time, the Ling Cage was not complicated; it only had a spacious ballroom.

Before I could do anything, the piano keys fell again.

"Thump! Thump thump!!"

This time, the music was even more intense, and the lid of the instrument trembled, raising dust.

The sound spirit erupted instantly, and the black mud bubbled up along with the music, smashing wildly in the dance hall as if in a frenzy.

Loud noises continued, and waves of air rose up, leaving no time to calmly analyze the spirit cage.

"Is this sound spirit really that furious? Zhang Yan wasn't even as resentful as it was at the hospital last time."

Chen Shi dodged while glancing at the stage.

In the very center of the stage, black and white piano keys flew up and down, the high notes were sharp and piercing, the low notes were muffled, and the notes seemed to be in disarray, as if countless invisible hands were randomly pressing the keys.

"Huh?" While dodging, Luo Xiaoyu suddenly paused, looked at the piano, as if she had noticed something.

At the same time, Su Yining blinked, her eyes then slowly widened.

"This is... Chen Shi!"

Su Yining shouted:

"That piano is still playing the same dance tune!"

"What?"