My happy life in a courtyard house with triplets.

Chapter 558: Two Deaths at the Terminus Bureau

Tianming and Tianyang from the Special Intelligence Bureau quickly arrived near the Cloud Top Building. Following the lingering dark spiritual aura of the building, they swiftly pinpointed the location of the evil spirit.

At this moment, Wang Tianyi was in his courtyard, intently repairing Dark Spirit Eye's damaged arm. His apprentice beside him poured basin after basin of foul-smelling blood into the ceramic jar containing Dark Spirit Eye. Soon, a piercing, shrill scream emanated from the jar, echoing throughout the courtyard. Wang Tianyi picked up silver needles and precisely stimulated various acupoints on Dark Spirit Eye's body. Before long, a brand new arm had grown back on Dark Spirit Eye's body. Looking at the fully restored arm, a strange smile curled at the corner of Dark Spirit Eye's lips.

Wang Tianyi stared at him, his tone icy: "Take a day off, and I'll take you to get revenge."

No sooner had he finished speaking than Wang Tianyi sat down on the prayer mat, preparing to close his eyes and meditate, when a disciple tumbled in, shouting in a panic, "Master, something terrible has happened! Two men in black trench coats have broken in!"

Upon hearing this, Wang Tian flew into a rage: "Who dares to trespass on my territory? They're courting death!"

Before the words were even finished, the courtyard gate was kicked open, sending splinters flying. Tianming stepped into the courtyard first, shouting sharply, "Everyone inside, get out here and face your death!" Tianyang followed closely behind, his sharp gaze sweeping over everyone in the courtyard, his aura tense.

Wang Tianyi stood up, glared coldly at the two men, and angrily shouted, "Who are you? Do you know who I am?"

Tianming scoffed, retorting, "I don't care who you are! You're just a cowardly, scheming cultivator!"

These words thoroughly enraged Wang Tianyi. His face turned vicious: "They're truly courting death!" With that, he grabbed a handful of fresh human blood, stuffed it into a sealed ceramic jar, and chanted an incantation: "Go, kill them both!"

Black mist billowed from the mouth of the earthenware jar, and two ghostly figures suddenly leaped out, rushing straight at Tianming and Tianyang. The two exchanged a glance, showing no fear, and pulled out specially made magical weapons from behind them—one wielding a long sword to slay ghosts, and the other a short staff to suppress evil—and immediately met the attack. In just a moment, the two ghostly figures were utterly annihilated, their souls scattered and dissipating into black smoke.

Tianming flicked the black mist off his longsword, his face full of disdain: "Is that all? It's not even enough to tickle me."

Wang Tianyi spat fiercely and sneered, "Kid, don't talk big and get yourself into trouble. This is just the beginning."

As soon as he finished speaking, his two disciples immediately attacked, smashing all the dozen or so pottery jars around the courtyard with a clatter. Wang Tianyi formed complex hand seals and shouted sharply, "Kill them!"

Hundreds of grotesque ghosts poured out of the broken pottery jar, densely covering the entire courtyard. Tianming and Tianyang's expressions instantly turned serious. They immediately joined forces and attacked, their blades and staffs flashing as they desperately slashed at the ghosts. The number of ghosts was simply too great, and after a long struggle, the two gradually became exhausted and their breathing became disordered.

While fending off the ghosts, Tianyang urgently said to Tianming, "Quickly send a message! We were careless!"

Tianming nodded in agreement and immediately pulled out his communication device to call for help. Just then, a cold light pierced the air, and a sharp sword slammed into the communication device, instantly shattering it into several pieces.

Tianming's eyes widened in anger as he looked up and saw Wang Tianyi brandishing his sword, his heart skipping a beat. Wang Tianyi slowly stepped forward, a mocking smile on his lips: "Didn't you say a tickle wasn't enough? Why are you in such a hurry to call for help?"

Tianyang pulled Tianming behind him and said in a deep voice, "No, we have to find a way to escape!"

Wang Tianyi laughed loudly, as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world: "Escape? What do you think this place is? You think you can come and go as you please? Attack!"

The ghosts swarmed forward again. The two men cautiously looked around, completely unaware of the danger behind them. Suddenly, a pitch-black arm shot out from the shadows behind them, piercing straight through Tianming's chest. Tianming let out a muffled groan of resentment and collapsed to the ground.

"I'm going to kill you!" Tianyang's eyes were bloodshot, and he was about to retaliate when that arm suddenly grabbed his heart and forcefully ripped it out of his body. Behind the two of them was the expressionless Dark Spirit Child. He held the warm heart, lowered his head and began to chew it, his mouth full of blood.

Wang Tianyi stood aside, watching the scene before him, and laughed heartily: "These two guys with magical abilities have certainly boosted your skills quite a bit."

The Dark Child raised his head, grinned, revealing a set of gleaming white teeth, and his smile became even more eerie.

Just then, a rapid phone call rang. The young apprentice beside him answered the phone, listened for a few words, and then frowned as he looked at Wang Tianyi: "Master, it's Li Mingjie from the Li family."

Wang Tianyi frowned, his tone impatient: "It's him? Why are you calling?"

The apprentice replied cautiously, "Master, you promised him before that you would help him kill someone."

Wang Tianyi then remembered and nodded: "I remember now, did they send over that person's photo?"

The apprentice quickly handed over a photo: "Master, this was just delivered today."

Wang Tianyi looked down at the photo; it clearly showed Zhang Lei's face. He casually instructed his apprentice, "Give him a message and tell him I took care of it for him today. Don't keep calling to urge him, or he'll be in big trouble!"

After saying that, Wang Tianyi looked at the corpses of Tianming and Tianyang on the ground and said coldly, "Carry these two corpses into the house. Such good cultivation materials cannot be wasted."

The apprentices immediately began to lift the body, and Wang Tianyi then set up an altar to perform a ritual. He took out a puppet doll, pasted Zhang Lei's photo onto the doll, and kept making hand seals with his fingertips, trying to remotely extinguish Zhang Lei's life force.

Meanwhile, Zhang Lei was in his shop when he suddenly felt a chill run through him, as if something was missing. A chill ran down his spine, and he immediately flashed into his personal space. Strangely, as soon as he entered, the eerie feeling of being deprived vanished without a trace.

Zhang Lei immediately called out to the system in his mind: "System, what just happened to me?"

[Ding! Host detected to have been subjected to a malicious attack by evil magic, lifespan reduced by 30 years.]

Zhang Lei froze instantly, his expression changing drastically: "What? 30 years less? How many years do I have left?"

[Ding! Host's remaining lifespan is 35,987 years.]

Upon hearing the number, Zhang Lei breathed a sigh of relief and patted his chest: "Thank goodness, we're well-off."

But the next second, he sensed something was wrong and quickly asked, "System, can you find out who did this?"

[Ding! Testing available. Each test costs $1000 million.]

"Ten million it is, investigate quickly, I want to see who dares to mess with me!" Zhang Lei didn't care about the expense at all.

[Ding! 10 million US dollars deducted. Detection complete. The attacker is the evil cultivator Wang Tianyi. Current location: No. 108 Tianhe Road, Shanghai.]

"A mere evil cultivator dares to touch me, Zhang Lei? He's courting death!" Zhang Lei was instantly enraged, then frowned. "I don't know any magic right now, so I can't deal with ghosts... System, can I exchange for something to deal with ghosts?"

[Ding! This system is currently a money-for-everything trading system and does not support the exchange of items related to cultivation or exorcism.]

Zhang Lei angrily retorted, "Why? Aren't you an omnipotent system?"

[Ding! The system can be upgraded to a cultivation system. Upgrading requires 1 trillion US dollars.]