Whenever he encountered a place with a corpse, Xiao Heijing's spirit would come alive, floating around above Ye Fan's head like a wandering ghost.

Ye Fan asked with the Tongling Mirror: "Can you sense dead spirits?"

Xiao Heijing searched for a while and said, "There are many around, but they're all so weak, uh..."

Xiao Heijing was quite "picky" when it came to food; it liked to consume dead spirits with cultivation, but the dead spirits around were all of ordinary people, so it didn't have an appetite. Ye Fan knew there shouldn't be any of Li Bei among these dead spirits. Even if there were, after death, a dead spirit only retained a trace of obsession, which might not lead to any discoveries, yet perhaps this obsession could offer some clues.

"Master, someone is coming," Sang Yuan said.

"Hmm." Ye Fan had already sensed it too. Even in a mortuary, there would still be someone on night watch. "Let's go!"

Ye Fan used Spiritual Energy to stuff the corpse back, and left the mortuary with Sang Yuan. After learning about Li Bei's death, his first instinct was to inform Elder Wu, since Elder Wu had always had a good relationship with Li Bei. However, he vaguely felt that finding Li Bei's spouse, who was likely still alive, might be more useful.

Ye Fan's first meeting with Li Bei was on the grasslands. At that time, Li Bei had a simple herding woman by his side. The woman had no cultivation at all. Between Li Bei and that woman, much was kept hidden, including his identity as a cultivator, which he did not reveal. Ye Fan knew that Li Bei and the woman were not legally married; Li Bei simply wanted to avoid the world.

Li Bei always mentioned he was evading the vendetta of sects on Earth, but now it seemed things weren't that simple.

"Master, should we return?" asked Sang Yuan while Ye Fan was contemplating.

"For the time being, we won't return. Follow me to a place!"

With those words, Ye Fan hailed a taxi by the roadside. The two of them went to a residential complex on the outskirts of Ninghai City. At the entrance of the complex, a male security guard was carefully watching the arrivals. When Ye Fan approached, the guard came to greet him, "Mr. Ye."

"Are they upstairs?" Ye Fan asked.

The security guard replied, "People guard the area day and night, there'll be no problem. What are your instructions?"

Ye Fan said, "I'm here to take the person away, prepare the vehicle, and then have the person brought down."

"Yes, Mr. Ye, please wait a moment!" The man immediately used his phone to contact others nearby. Shortly after, two men came down from upstairs, carrying a box, and two women followed behind them. These two women were in charge of daily care.

The person was directly loaded into the box truck, and Ye Fan and Sang Yuan got in as well.

The vehicle eventually stopped in a residential alley in a small town in the suburbs. After bringing the person inside, Ye Fan waved them off, "You may leave now."

"Yes, Mr. Ye. Do you have any other instructions?" The male guard seemed honored to help Ye Fan and always wanted to prove himself. But he was just a normal mercenary, and couldn't assist with matters involving cultivators, so Ye Fan didn't bother asking him for help.

"No more instructions!" With that, Ye Fan no longer paid attention to the male guard, and the guard left the yard with his people.

...

...

The courtyard was just an ordinary courtyard in the town. Ye Fan directly opened the box in the yard. It was tightly wrapped but equipped with an oxygen and cooling system to ensure the person inside wouldn't suffocate. The person inside was unconscious to prevent any commotion during transportation.

This person was Zhang Xiaofan, whom Ye Fan had met by chance, and whose car was flipped after drunk driving by the young girl Qing Xu.

Zhang Xiaofan's father was the chief of police in Ninghai City. After her father was dismissed and investigated, Zhang Xiaofan was in a state of fear, constantly believing she had killed someone, and thought that her father had isolated her through some connections. Little did she know, it was all just a ruse.

"Master, she seems to have been mentally sealed by some drug. Should we wake her up?" Sang Yuan asked.

"Hmm." Ye Fan used Spiritual Energy to move the box to the living room. He sat on the sofa first, watching as Sang Yuan infused a stream of Spiritual Energy into Zhang Xiaofan's body. With a faint hum, Zhang Xiaofan woke up.

"Who are you? Don't come near me, or I'll scream!"

In her flight, Zhang Xiaofan became very fragile and sensitive. She first believed she'd been raped, and then that she'd committed murder. She was mentally exhausted, and according to Sun Ning, she had even considered "turning herself in," so any slight change in environment would frighten her. Now brought to an unfamiliar place, she was sweating in fear, confused and helpless.

"Miss Zhang, it's been a while. Do you remember me?" Ye Fan asked with a smile.

"You?" Zhang Xiaofan now noticed Ye Fan sitting on the sofa nearby. She carefully observed him, wavering her head anxiously, clearly unable to recall where they had met.

Ye Fan chuckled, "Miss Zhang, maybe celebrities forget things easily; we met once in Ninghai City in a traffic accident. But at that time, Miss Zhang was thoroughly intoxicated."

"I remember you now. You're that... demon girl's friend!" Zhang Xiaofan yelled, "She's... she's a demon, yet no one believes me when I say it."

"What you said sounded so bizarre—that a girl could instantly overturn a car. Ha, no one would believe it, they'd think you were drunk or hallucinating from drugs. But I'm telling you, it was all real!" As he spoke, Ye Fan reached out his hand, and Zhang Xiaofan, who was seated in the box, realized she and the box were lifted into the air.

"Ah? What are you doing? This is insane! Help! Help!" Zhang Xiaofan screamed, but no one would hear her, as Ye Fan had already arranged a powerful Spiritual Energy shield around the room.

Ye Fan stood and said, "Does Miss Zhang want to attract the police? It seems Miss Zhang has... a homicide charge on her back!"

"How... how do you know? No, I didn't kill anyone. Don't try to trap me!" Zhang Xiaofan growled, "I remember those people mentioning you're a police officer too. I get it, you're investigating that murder case, right?"

Ye Fan smiled, "Miss Zhang, there are things I must truthfully tell you. You did not kill anyone. The so-called murder was just an act to deceive you."

"What did you say?" Zhang Xiaofan was instantly baffled.

She hadn't seen Xu Jie's son die with her own eyes, but she had seen the news reports. Her father couldn't be lying to her; the case had caused such a sensation, how could it have been a mere act?

Ye Fan said, "Whether you believe it or not, everything was orchestrated by me. I wanted to teach you a lesson, to help you discern right from wrong. Your father colluded with Sun Ronghe's forces and even orchestrated murder and retaliation in the city. Now your father has been legally sanctioned. I don't want you living in the shadows, so I'm telling you this specially."

"I... I don't believe it!" Though Zhang Xiaofan dearly wanted to believe, as it would exonerate her completely, she still found it unbelievable.

Ye Fan said, "I'll have someone send you home, and you'll understand once you return."

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