The Legend of the Eternal King
Ghosts

If you hide the carcass, it will also smell the stench.

This was a saying that now applied to the Xin Clan.

The morning before the sun exploded on the eastern horizon, a skinny old man ran with a breath in his chest until he entered a tavern on the main street of the central capital.

Although the morning was still a little dark, some customers had already taken their seats. They watched as the old man entered in a hurry by rubbing his breath.

"Old Man, you're running a marathon or you're being chased by ghosts. Early in the morning, sweat." One of the visitors welcomed the arrival of the old man with a plunge.

Laughs from some of the other visitors.

"For heaven's sake, what I'm saying is gonna knock you all out." The old man said seriously, but still with his breath stinginging.

"Just tell Old Man before you die of breath !" Other visitors were attracted and began to get impatient.

Old Man immediately calmed down. He improved his appearance by styling his hair and tidying up his clothes. He took the folding fan out of his pocket.

"Wraakk.... He opened the fan in a unique style and started fanning himself gracefully.

The great transformation of commoners into true tao priests.

"Old man, don't play the charade, quickly tell us what news you're bringing !" The fat man with the big drink glass was already on the verge of being curious.

Old Man squinted, he started telling the news he was carrying.

"You know Night Lily shut the door from yesterday morning to today? Did you guys also know the Night Lily branch across the continent is also doing the same thing. They all shut the door too tightly." The old man began his sentence.

Visitors began to file what things would cause all branches to close their trading operations.

They begin to guess with wild assumptions according to their thinking abilities.

"At the same day the Xin Family who are the lords of Night Lily on our continent also locked their main gate."

"Some saw them padlocked using large chains that supposedly could to ensnare dragons." The old man continued.

"Old Man don't season with micin. We'll be stupid for eating so much micin from your story !"

The fat man holding the big glass voiced his voice back. Quite loudly greeted with the roar of other visitors who rallied.

"Ehm... !" Old Man cleared his throat. The visitor immediately shut up and refocused his eyes on the old man continuing to deliver the news.

One of the visitors even specifically focused on paying attention to the lips of the old man. Looking forward to what the old man will say.

When the old man started to open his mouth his heart started to beat. His mouth opened as if ready to swallow the word issued by this old man.

"The entire merchandise plus Night Lily's treasury in the entire branch and the Xin Family Treasury were lost stolen in one night." Old Man closed the fan right on his chin.

An uproar hit the entire room. Some of the visitors immediately stood glaring their eyes.

Some of them hit the table because what the old man said was far beyond their expectations.

They all immediately discussed until it made a sound like a herd of bees buzzing.

"Who did it? And what about the guards ?" one of the visitors asked.

"True, how could they fail? have the guards all been defeated ?" Another visitor immediately chimed in.

Old Man swept his arms like a Taoist priest about to pray. The fan is directed high up in the sky.

Wrakk.... With a graceful movement the fan is opened in front of the face until it is fully covered. The fan is lowered slowly to make the old sir's sharp eyes visible to all visitors.

"Old Man stop playing ludruk. We almost died of curiosity this time." The fat man this time was really angry. He slammed the wooden glass firmly on the table.

"It's beautiful and really neat. Thieves enter without being detected by security systems and guards at all."

"You know, they lost their treasuries in unison when the constellations of apes appeared glowing in the southern sky. That usually happens at 2:00 in the morning." The old man was getting excited.

"Soul sacrifice? Hohohoho... No blood on the floor. No casualties at all." Old man finished reading the news.

All visitors are staggered.

They could hardly believe the news that Old Man had delivered.

Old man lied?

Old Man making up?

The atmosphere was more bustling with the drone intensifying due to the arrival of dozens of other bees. People who arrive late immediately scramble for seats.

They immediately extended their necks and opened their ears wide as this news was retold.

All the visitors discussed each other what really happened, how the proud fate of the Xin family was, who the expert who stole their treasury was, and how the guild's expert army would take a step.

A truly lively discussion with a high sense of participant enthusiasm. It's the biggest news they've heard in a lifetime.

Some visitors run off the ridge by holding their breath like the old man did. They ran to another shop.

And so it went until this news spread like a plague that began in the central capital until it spread across the continent.

***

Li Hua and Fang Yi furrowed brows looking at their young master.

Usually the young master always wore black clothes. This time the young master wore all-white clothes with a white headband that formed a triangle on the forehead. Even Little Kong also wears a similar headband.

The young master is going to throw a tantrum especially this time. They looked at each other wondering.

"What do you see, quickly change into white clothes !" Mao Yu snorted.

They were both confused as to what the young master wanted to do. They did not dare to argue, within a few minutes the duo returned in white clothes similar to his master.

Mao Yu gave an incense stick as big as an arm to Fang Yi. Giving the metal bowl along with the beater to Li Hua, while Little Kong was given a small bell by Mao Yu.

Mao Yu was holding a large folding fan, the length of one adult arm. The fan opened by Mao Yu there is a calligraphic inscription which means "Peace".

"What are we going to do, sir?" Fang Yi asked curiously.

"We will chase away the ghosts" Mao Yu replied.

The duo immediately shivered and shuddered in horror. Ghosts have always been a terrible thing for everyone, including for both of them.

From childhood they are filled with horror stories about spirits who possessed people. Even ghosts that trap and prey on humans.

Ghosts had yet to appear in front of them. But the fear had lifted the feathers on them both.

"Young Master I have a sudden affair, I forgot there is a task from you that I have not completed." Li Hua tried to leave.

"Master it seems I heard a sound from the stable horse. The mother horse seemed to let out a cry about giving birth to a child." Fang Yi immediately followed the steps of a defaulter like Li Hua.

Mao Yu scowled at this strange chuckling duo in front of her.

"Why are you so timid like this. I'm just asking you two as ghost bait." Mao Yu fused her brows.

"The ghost ? Hiiii...." The duo jumped in the same direction. They hugged because they were horrified.