The Villain's Mom Becomes Famous for Fortune-Telling and Gossip Ch. 128

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Yu Yuan looked at him with a hint of pride, her tone a bit lighter. "We do go after them, but not right now."

Outside the car, the scenery sped by. Zhou Yu received a message from a friend but didn't get a chance to check it.

He heard his master's quiet voice beside him, "I've encountered this method of buying lives many times before, and it basically all comes from one place."

Zhou Yu perked up, hearing a familiar name from his master, "It's the Ghost Control Sect I told you about earlier. Their sect is different from ours. Our sect specializes in a pair of eyes that see through all things. But theirs is about catching and controlling ghosts, using their power to achieve their goals."

This method was clever and effective, but many times if used improperly, it spelled disaster for both the occult master and the client.

Zhou Yu was amazed by the Ghost Control Sect's power and a little curious. "Such a strong and god-defying sect—haven't other sects teamed up to deal with them?"

Generally, a situation stays stable because the forces involved are roughly equal. The Ghost Control Sect's ghost-controlling powers were clearly too overwhelming, so it would be hard for other sects not to unite against them.

Yu Yuan's look of approval grew. "You're right. Back then, the Ghost Control Sect was indeed besieged by many occult sects together. Our Tianyuan Sect was among them."

At that time, she had just graduated and was young, but she witnessed the catastrophe firsthand.

The Ghost Control Sect never cared about a disciple's talent or character. With their skills, anyone ruthless enough would eventually become a powerhouse. And unfortunately, this world never lacked villains.

So, within just over ten years of their existence, the Ghost Control Sect had already caused major disasters in several places.

In those days, media wasn't developed and superstitions were still strong. Several villages experienced large-scale deaths with tragic scenes, which villagers believed were punishments from the gods.

The Ghost Control Sect, the real culprits, sneered at the ignorant villagers worshipping them. They took advantage of this to sell "blessings" from evil deities, gaining countless followers.

Later, several famous sects found out and joined forces to take down the Ghost Control Sect. But because their followers were too many and ignorant, those sects suffered heavy losses too.

Zhou Yu clicked his tongue, "What happened after that?"

"After that..."

He heard his master sigh softly, and for the first time, her eyes showed a hint of melancholy.

"Most sects badly damaged in their energy didn't survive the passage of time and have basically disappeared into the river of history."

So this was why Yu Yuan looked down on the few occult sects today.

She knew clearly that the truly powerful sects had long since faded after that great war. The major sects in the Celestial Master Hall now were nothing but broken remnants from back then. Few had real strength, and none reached the old standards. Most just grazed the edges of occult studies and flaunted themselves as powerful masters, charging higher and higher prices.

This was also thanks to the country's crackdowns on all kinds of occult stuff over the years. These days, in big cities, supernatural spirits and ghosts have become fewer and fewer, and it's even less suitable for powerful spirits to train. Otherwise, with the current weak and broken sects, if the old events happened again, the outcome would be obvious right away.

But now it seemed like that kind of situation was happening again.

Yu Yuan called Hua Nan to tell him what had happened today. After a moment of silence, Hua Nan's voice grew heavy, "Consultant Yu, have you heard of 'Ghost Opera'?"

"I've heard of it." Yu Yuan lowered her gaze. When she had picked the lucky person on the app Daily Divination and got Zhou Xi's 'Green Hills and Light Mist,' Zhou Xi wanted to calculate career luck. At that time, she had sent Zhou Xi to rescue her boss Meng Qianhe, who got caught in a ghost maze.

Back then, the thing trapping Meng Qianhe and the others was exactly the "Ghost Opera."

But she remembered clearly that she not only captured several of those evil ghosts but also burned the ghost paintings they possessed.

"What about 'Ghost Opera'?" she asked.

Hua Nan sighed on the other end of the line, "Last night, Consultant Bai found another one deep in the woods of Huling Mountain and already dealt with it."

Consultant Bai?

Yu Yuan knew Consultant Bai was a demon clan member who still worked for humans, but she hadn't expected him to go to Huling Mountain.

After all, long ago, Huling Mountain was the fox clan's stronghold—and the fox clan all had the surname Hu.

Hua Nan said, "Consultant Yu, I feel something's off. These days, the Special Incident Investigation Bureau has gotten 20-30% more cases than usual. Though 20-30% doesn't seem like much, with spiritual energy slowly reviving in recent years, I'm worried some evil cultivators might take the chance to stir trouble."

"This isn't certain yet." Yu Yuan rubbed her temples. If it really was the remnants of the old Ghost Control Sect causing trouble, she was definitely in for a busy time. "I just ran into ghost mazes and life-borrowing near Heping Avenue in Shancheng. If you haven't handled those cases yet, you'd better deal with them first."

Since the hotel manager was a local from Shancheng, Hua Nan and the others planned to get him to talk before leaving, so handling the life-borrowing cases was now a priority.

Zhou Yu's friend's house was very close to Zhou Yu's hometown, almost in the opposite direction of the temple.

They drove for a full hour and a half to get there.

The friend's house was brightly lit. When the two arrived, they saw someone waiting in front of the villa from afar, and when Zhou Yu's car pulled up, their eyes lit up.

"Brother Ji!"

The younger of the two was a girl, around her early twenties, waving excitedly at Zhou Yu. Her carefully styled curly hair gently fell over her back, and her round, cute features gave off a "girl next door" vibe.

Next to her was a tired-looking man. Seeing Zhou Yu and Yu Yuan get out of the car, he quickly came forward.

"Xiao Yu!"

"Uncle Sun!"

Zhou Yu replied and introduced, "Master, this is Uncle Sun, the father of my brother Sun Han. The other is—"

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