The villa’s nanny came running down from the second floor, screaming loudly, as if she had been terribly frightened.
From one of the bedrooms upstairs came a series of heartrending screams.
The young man from the Bai family ran straight upstairs. Du Yu followed behind him, his face somewhat pale. As an ordinary person, how could he not be afraid when faced with something like this? But the Du family had more than just one heir.
If Old Master Du died just like this, then so be it. But if he survived, Du Yu was his eldest son and heir. If he wasn’t at his father’s side now and one of his brothers took advantage of the situation, then… Thinking of this, he steeled himself and followed them upstairs.
Lin Fan followed unhurriedly behind them. When they reached the bedroom door, he looked inside.
The bedroom was large and luxuriously decorated. At that moment, however, a seventy-year-old man was tied down to the bed. His skin had turned pitch-black, his pupils were reddish, and red fingernails had grown from his fingers.
He struggled painfully on the bed, emitting beastlike screams from his throat.
“Dad!”
Du Yu hurriedly tried to go forward, but Bai Jingyun reached out and stopped him. “He’s lost his mind. Don’t get close!”
When Du Yu heard that Old Master Du had lost his mind, he didn’t dare approach. Even if he wanted to show off, the old man couldn’t see him right now.
At that moment, Old Master Du continued struggling on the bed, making it bang loudly.
Bai Jingyun went to the bedside and examined Old Master Du’s condition. He hurriedly pushed the tea table in the bedroom in front of the window. He was carrying a bag, and after opening it, he spread a layer of yellow cloth across the tea table.
He then placed an incense burner in the center and candles on either side. After lighting a stick of incense, he inserted it into the burner. Then he picked up a peach wood sword and began chanting, “Evil spirit, leave at once! By command of the law!”
Next, he kept waving the peach wood sword in his hand, performing an exorcism.
Lin Fan, standing at the doorway, was utterly dumbfounded. Seriously? He was a first-grade layman!
The thing possessing Old Master Du was nothing more than a low-level evil spirit.
Under normal circumstances, a first-grade layman should have been able to wipe out such a low-level evil spirit with ease.
Yet this guy had even set up an altar. What an unnecessarily grand display. Anyone who didn’t know better might have thought he was about to battle some incredibly powerful demon.
Bai Jingyun continued waving the peach wood sword, hopping around like a shaman in a ritual. He was soon drenched in sweat, but Old Master Du showed no sign of improvement. Du Yu grew increasingly frantic as he watched from the side.
He was terribly nervous as well. After all, this was someone they had invited from the Bai family. If even he couldn’t deal with it, Old Master Du would probably be doomed.
Du Yu naturally didn’t want the old man to die just yet. After all, Old Master Du hadn’t made a will!
Although the old man had told him countless times that he wanted Du Yu to become his successor, there was no proof.
If Old Master Du kicked the bucket, wouldn’t all those brothers and sisters turn against him and fight over the family fortune?
At that moment, Du Yu almost wanted to go up and help wave the peach wood sword a few times.
“No good. This demon is too powerful.” Bai Jingyun panted heavily as he looked at the old man still struggling on the bed. “It seems I’ll have to use my vital essence to destroy it!”
“Hey, hey.” Lin Fan hurriedly spoke up. “There’s no need for that, is there? You’re a first-grade layman. Do you really need to sacrifice a drop of your vital essence to deal with something like this?”
When Bai Jingyun heard Lin Fan’s words, he turned around in surprise. “You know about first-grade laymen?”
“Why haven’t you left yet?” Du Yu was sweating profusely with anxiety. When Lin Fan spoke, he hurriedly shouted at him, “Get out of here! If you interfere with Mr. Bai’s ritual, don’t blame me for being rough!”
With the old man’s life hanging in the balance, Du Yu was frantic and had no patience to be polite with Lin Fan.
“If you make me leave, your old man is guaranteed to die today.” Lin Fan smiled faintly.
Bai Jingyun’s expression darkened. “Do you know who I am? Since you know about first-grade laymen, then you must have heard of the Bai family. If even our Bai family can’t deal with this evil spirit, then I’m afraid only a Great Golden Immortal could deal with it today!”
The Bai family was one of the foremost families in the area when it came to hunting demons. They had inherited their tradition for more than two hundred years. The current head of the family had even reached the third-grade layman level, and might possibly break through to become a fourth-grade layman.
Bai Jingyun was the only person among the younger generation of the Bai family to become a layman. He was proud and arrogant. Even setting aside the fact that he had become a layman, merely being a member of the Bai family meant that wherever he went in the area, he was treated as an honored guest and received with the utmost respect.
Lin Fan thought seriously for a moment, then said apologetically, “I’m sorry, but I really haven’t heard of the Bai family.”
Upon hearing this, Bai Jingyun clenched his fists. He hadn’t heard of the Bai family?
That was far more upsetting than a direct insult. He had been proud of being a member of the Bai family since childhood. If it had been an outsider who simply didn’t know any better, that would have been one thing.
But this young man knew about first-grade laymen. That meant he was part of the Yin-Yang Realm. Was he deliberately pretending not to know about the Bai family to provoke him?
Lin Fan wasn’t deliberately trying to anger Bai Jingyun. He was simply telling the truth.
He could be certain that Bai Jingyun had barely any experience dealing with demons on his own. Perhaps this was even his first time out training. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be so inexperienced.
A first-grade layman had actually set up an altar to deal with a low-level evil spirit.
“This is your first time out training, isn’t it?” Lin Fan asked.
Bai Jingyun’s expression darkened. “What do you mean?”
“Nothing much.” Lin Fan smiled at Bai Jingyun as he walked forward. He came to the incense burner and picked up the single stick of incense inserted in it.
Du Yu hurriedly said, “Kid, Mr. Bai is performing a ritual. What are you doing messing around?”
Bai Jingyun’s expression also turned ugly. No matter what, he was in the middle of performing a ritual. What did this guy mean by suddenly walking over and taking the incense from his altar?
Bai Jingyun also said coldly, “What are you trying to do?”
Lin Fan said, “Didn’t you just say that only a Great Golden Immortal could deal with a demon your Bai family couldn’t handle?”
“I’ll show you a Great Golden Immortal.”
As he spoke, Lin Fan had already reached the bedside. Holding the stick of incense, he smacked it straight across Old Master Du’s face as the old man struggled on the bed.
Lin Fan shouted, “Get out!”
As the stick of incense struck him, a shrill, eerie cry came from inside Old Master Du’s body. Then his struggling gradually subsided, and the skin on his body slowly returned to its normal color.
The evil spirit hiding inside Old Master Du had actually been driven out just like that?
“What?” Bai Jingyun’s pupils contracted. He stared at Lin Fan in disbelief. How was this possible? How could he have driven away this “ferocious” demon so easily?
Du Yu also sucked in a cold breath. He had never imagined that this brat dressed in a school uniform was the one who had truly been hiding his abilities.
The room instantly fell silent, so quiet that one could hear a pin drop.
Lin Fan casually tossed the stick of incense onto the floor, then turned back to Bai Jingyun and asked, “Did you get a good look at the Great Golden Immortal?”
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