Li Mazi pinched me several times to wake me up. At this time,it was already dark outside.

Jade Tail sounded aggrieved. “It’s not my fault that hekeptme with him!”

“What happened to me?” I held my head. I feltdizzy and light-headed.

“She’s been sucking your Yang energy,” said Chuyi.

“What?” I was surprised. “You stinky little fox, was thatyourwayof repayingthefavor?”

Jade Tail felt irritated. “What do you meanby ‘favor’?You eat rice, and IeatYang energy. It’s normal for me to eat, isn’t it? I just took a bit of energy from you, and you fainted.Whyareyoublamingme forbeing so weak?”

This little foxhadasharptongue. She made myblood boil.

Chuyi said, “This thing is really dangerous. She has not been tamed yet. You shouldn’t bring her with you all the time.”

“What's this ‘thing’you mentioned? It’s not polite totalk about agirl like that!” Jade Tail had her hands anchored at her waist. She fumedand jumpedout of mybag.

I got up and sighed. “We should continue topreparethe seal.”

It seemed something washidden inside the pine treeasit was blockingthe eye oftheformation. However, wecouldn’tget inside thetree to check.

Then,I remembered Jade Tail. “Miss Jade Tail, we have to ask a favor of you.”

She said contentedly,“Oh? Whatdo I get in exchange?”

“I’ll buy yousomething good to eat,”I said as I tried to coax her.

“Geez, I don’t want food! I want new clothes!”

“Okay, okay!”

Jade Tail turned into her fox formand entered ahole at the tree stump.She shortly returnedand transformedback to her human form. While brushing off the brown leaves on her body, she said, “Arusted samurai sword and a set of armor are inside.”

I guessed theseitemswereused to kill many peopleandgraduallyaccumulatedstrong murderous energy. Thatwaswhy they were used to guard the seal.

We didn’t have similar items to replace them. I discussed it with Chuyi and we both agreed that we woulduse them for the new formation as well.

As we were about to activate the new sealing formation, police sirens howled from the foothilland echoedthrough the night sky. Chiba rushed to checkand said,“Not good. There are many policemen in the shrine.”

I was surprised. “I told Urashima not to call the police, didn’t I?”

The situation hadbecomecomplicated. I decided to activate the formation first. I put on the gloves and grabbed a few black snakes, nailingthem onto the pine trees. When their bloodslumped fromthe tree to the soil, I started to read the spell.As soon as I finished reading the spell, a group of people with flashlights in their hands came to the mountain. Urashima led this group of policemen. He pointed at usand ranted aboutsomething. From his tone, I knew they didn’t come in peace.

Jade Tail was scared. She turned into her bead formand wentback into my bag.

The policementook outtheir pistols and shouted. Chiba hurried to explain to them. However, Urashima hostilely pulled her aside.

“What did they say?” I asked.

“They said you were the accomplices thatstolethe Silver Fox Guardian. They told you to stay still…”

Before Chiba could finish, Urashima yelled at her. I guessed he wanted to shut her up.

My head buzzed.IsUrashima planning to push the blame on us, ordoes he have something else in mind?

We were just Chinese touriststhat couldn'tspeak thelocallanguage. We couldn’t communicate with them. Eventually, they came to cuff us. My heart chilledas we might end up in jail.

Li Mazitried to explainhimself with tears on his face, hopingthe other partywould understandwhat he was saying.

Chuyi’s eight-facedHan sword was confiscated as they considered it a weapon. His face was emotionless, and he didn’tshow weaknesswhen hefaced the policemen.

“Mr. Zhang, Iwillfind a way to rescue you!” Chiba screamed.

I asked quietly, “Jade Tail, can you help us?”

“I can!” Jade Tail’s fox head protruded from the bag. “But you have to bear all theconsequences!”

“All right, don’t do it!” I hurried tosay.

She snortedanddidn’t sound pleased.

She was a monsterand might use extreme methods. If she caused big trouble,we would be doomed.

The policemen took us down the mountain to where a few police cars were parked. I thought Iwas done for, buta shotgun resounded all of a sudden. Many people crouched in fright. A young cop heldapistol with both hands,shakilypointing itin acertain direction.

The chief ran to him and yelled at his face. The young man tried to explain himself.

This scenein front of me was like a drama without subtitles. Soon, I knew what had just happened. A headless samurai withbrokenarmor slowly approached the police chieffrom behind. Many people saw him. They screamed and shouted.

The chief also turned to see, and his eyes opened wide in shock. The samurairaisedhis swordand hackedat the officer. The chief officer landed on his butt. He wasparalyzedfromfear.

A few shotguns echoed. However, the bullets went through the samurai’s body, which made his figureflash. It wasas if the bullets had hit a reflection in the water.

I looked around. A thick fog had arisen within the shrine. Somehuman figuresappearedin the fog, bothancientandmodern. Themikos, staff, and policemen screamed in fear.Theplacewas in completechaos. Idiscoveredthat Japanese people were really afraid of ghosts.Did they believe in their existence?

The policemenfiredtheir guns unceasingly. The shrine’s staff andmikos ran to hide inside the shrine.

While I was watching the fun, I heard a crackle. My handcuff was unlocked. Ilowered my headand found Jade Tail with a tiny key in her hand. She blinkedat me. “How will you thank me for this?”

“Where did you take the key?”

“I made it from a leaf!Sigh, I stole it, of course!”magic

She also uncuffed Chuyi and Li Mazi. As soon as we were free, we backed off to a relatively safe area. There were bulletsflying everywhere. We didn’t want to get hurt.

Someone touched me from behind. It was Chiba. “Mr. Zhang, Mr. Urashima hasdisappeared!”

“I’m sure he’s going to the mountain. He wants to destroy our seal!”

Iunderstoodit now. Urashima was the other party’s accomplice. If he hadn’t insistedon openingthe box to check, Jade Fang wouldn’t have hadthechance tostealthe statue.At that time, we hadn’tsuspectedhim yet.

We immediately headed to the mountain. If we caught Urashima, we would be able to clear our names.

As soon as we got to the mountain trail, we saw numerous ghosts wandering around the mountain. There werea lotof them. At first glance, they made me think of the event called‘the night parade of one hundred ghosts.’

“Oh myGod!” Li Mazi hid behind a tree. “I’m not going! I’m not going! Anyway, I’m no help. I’ll wait for you guys here!”

I wanted to scold him, but I saw a long-haired banshee behind Li Mazi. Itlooked like Sadako in‘The Ring’.

I smiledand said,“Hey, look what’s behind you.”

Li Mazi turned and screamed. He swunghis arms and legsandranto hide behind me.

Atthis moment, countless souls were attracted byourauras.They started to swarm toward us.

Chiba made hand sealsand shouted, “Evil spirits, get lost!”

Thanks to herbloodline, she still had some magic powers that helped her sweep away the weak souls.

I drew my Sirius Whipand read somespells. The whip moved like a snake. All the soulsit hitturned intosmoke. Chiba was amazed.

Those souls didn’t havegreat strength, so Chuyi didn’t need to take action.

I cleared a path andtold them to follow me. However, I wasn’t awarethata samurai had approached me from behind. When I turned to see, he had already wielded his katana, ready to hack at my head. My heart chilledat thismoment.

“On your knees!” Chuyi made a hand seal.

The samurai kneltin front of me as if he was pressed downby a mountain. He clenched histeeth and usedthe katana to support himself.

From my position, I could see his guts spilling out. He was bleeding. Perhaps he had performedseppukuto commit suicide.All theghosts that diedby the way ofsuicide had strong resentful energy.

Chuyi drew his sword out of its sheathand gently moved it. The samurai was beheaded; he turnedinto smoke and vanished.