Chapter 110: Raising Ghosts

“Is that so?”
“Thank you for the reminder, I understand,” I said with a dry laugh, brushing him off before walking out of the elevator.

That Ms. Liu had been sneakily peeking at my door before, which did seem a bit suspicious.
But Fan Yuxuan’s act of speaking ill of others behind their back also made me find him untrustworthy.

In Willow Cypress Garden, I saw some people still posting missing person notices.
Not only that, but some people were also holding photos and asking people in the complex, likely the family of the missing man.

Even as I walked out of the complex gate, I was stopped by them.
A young man asked, “Little sister, have you seen the person in this photo in the last few days?!”

“No, I haven’t seen him,” I shook my head.
I was currently upset about the haunting in my own home and was in no mood to deal with them.
Besides, I didn’t know who this person was; at most, we had only crossed paths once.

He didn’t pester me much and let me go, turning to ask other passersby.
I quickly walked away.

When I got to school, I didn’t even go to my classroom.
I went straight to find Mo Qingyan.
I had heard before that she was in Year 3, Class A.
I ran straight upstairs and arrived at the third-year classrooms.

“Is that the school beauty, Xia Yubing?”
“What is she doing in our class?” I heard a third-year senior say.
Being so conspicuous at school was sometimes really troublesome as Xia Yubing.

But there were also advantages.
Just as I was hesitating whether to ask a senior to help me find Mo Qingyan, a familiar figure saw me and waved.
It was Xu Shan.
When Mo Qingyan had introduced him before, she had said that Xu Shan was her classmate.

Xu Shan walked out of the classroom and asked, “Junior Sister Xia, what brings you to our classroom?”
“Are you looking for Mo Qingyan?”

“Yes, where is Senior Sister Mo now?” I asked.

Xu Shan replied, “Mo Qingyan should be in the Supernatural Events Department’s clubroom right now.”
“She goes to the clubroom first every day when she comes to school.”
“You can wait for her here, or you can go and find her directly.”

“Thank you,” I didn’t want to wait any longer and ran straight to the Supernatural Events Department.
This time, I saw Mo Qingyan in the clubroom.
She was organizing some documents.

“Senior Sister Mo!” I went in and sat directly opposite her, still a little out of breath from running too fast.

“Luo Xiao, you came to find me in such a hurry.”
“Is there something wrong?” Mo Qingyan looked at me with a smile and asked, but I had a feeling that she already knew what I was going to ask.

“Senior Sister Mo, my house is haunted again!”
“Xia Yubing’s parents are still not at peace!”
“They can open the door and go out on their own, and they even go to the neighbors to greet them and ask them to take care of me.”
“They’re clearly paper figures, but what other people see seems to be living people!” I said, somewhat incoherently.

“Oh, so they can do that.”
“That’s interesting.”
“It seems they are repeating their actions of collecting rent when they were alive,” Mo Qingyan said in a very calm tone.

“What’s so interesting about it?”
“Didn’t you say that as long as I set up the incense holder and enshrine Xia Yubing’s parents properly, they won’t bother me anymore?”
“How did it become like this?” I asked anxiously.

“I said, as long as you do that, Xia Yubing’s parents won’t harm you.”
“And you haven’t been harmed by them, have you?” Mo Qingyan asked back.

“I can’t stand being haunted either!”
“How can I tolerate living under the same roof with ghosts every day?” I said, a little agitated.

“Didn’t I warn you before?”
“If you use the paper figure possession technique, the ghosts of Xia Yubing’s parents will not be able to reincarnate or ascend to heaven.”
“You will need to constantly summon new paper figures to maintain their existence,” Mo Qingyan said.

My heart instantly turned cold.
Mo Qingyan had indeed said something like that to me before.
But at that time, I was being haunted by ghosts, and my life was in imminent danger.
How could I care about the future?
I could only desperately seek any solution.

“But you didn’t tell me back then that these two ghosts could still move freely!”
“They appear and disappear like this all day, how can I stand it?” I said anxiously.

“That’s not my problem either.”
“You’re the one who gave them the ability to move,” Mo Qingyan pointed at me and said with a smile.

“Me? What did I do?”
“Eh?” I was confused, and then a flash of inspiration struck me.
“Was it yesterday, the life-buying money I gave away?”

“That’s right, you gave the life-buying money to Cao Bao, and he was hit by a car.”
“Although you didn’t give him enough life-buying money to kill him directly, the years of life that were reduced have been transferred to Xia Yubing’s parents,” Mo Qingyan said.

“Wait a minute, I asked you about the usage and side effects of life-buying money yesterday.”
“You didn’t tell me it would cause these things!” I suddenly realized that Mo Qingyan had left out some things when she taught me yesterday.

“Of course.”
“You asked about the usage and side effects.”
“Buying years of life is the effect of life-buying money, not a side effect, so I didn’t tell you,” Mo Qingyan said with a smile.

“That’s just sophistry!”
“Senior Sister Mo, you knew this would happen, so you deliberately told me how to do it, right?” I questioned.

“Yes, that’s right.”
“I did wonder what effect using life-buying money would have.”
“And it’s not just the effect of the life-buying money, but also the yin cabinet I told you to set up, and the soul-pacifying incense for the offerings.”
“With yin and yang combined, they gained a ghostly body, which is why they can move freely,” Mo Qingyan admitted.

“So the choice of the incense holder and the soul-pacifying incense were also part of it?”
“You set me up!” I looked at Mo Qingyan in disbelief.
To think I had trusted her so much, only to find that every step was part of her calculation.

“Don’t put it so harshly.”
“I didn’t set you up.”
“Have you suffered any loss or injury?”
“I was just a little curious.”
“Curious whether the ghost-raising technique mentioned in the book would really succeed,” Mo Qingyan said with a smile.

“Ghost-raising technique?” I pondered these words.
It didn’t sound like anything auspicious.

“That’s right.”
“The so-called paper figure possession technique is actually just the first step of the ghost-raising technique, which is to gather the soul.”
“I took it out separately to help you control those two ghosts.”
“The things I asked you to do later were also steps in the ghost-raising technique.”
“This process is necessary.”

“See for yourself,” Mo Qingyan threw a book to me.
It was an old book that looked like it had some age.
There was no cover, only two large characters on it: “Raising Ghosts.”

The book recorded methods on how to enshrine ghosts to be used by oneself.
The most typical method was to raise a ghost child.
Just the first step of gathering the soul had more than ten methods, and all of them were very strange and evil.

There were methods like carving poplar wood by the river where a child had drowned to gather the soul, then carving it into a human shape.
Using a steamed bun to dip in blood at a murder scene.
Cutting open a pregnant woman who had died in childbirth to take the fetus for cultivation.
And using a candle to roast human oil and drip it into a coffin for preservation.

Compared to these bizarre and cruel methods, the paper figure possession technique was already a relatively gentle and normal practice.