"Heh heh... so you’re back."

The woman’s voice was hoarse and carried an indescribable glee.

Su Nian was never one to coddle others, let alone this vile ghost.

"Hold this."

Su Nian shoved the livestreaming phone into the young girl’s hands and yanked the door open.

A woman stood eerily by the wall. Her eyes were bruised and black, with no whites to be seen—a truly bizarre sight.

The young girl held up the phone, a little dazed. She carefully stayed close to Su Nian, flinching when she saw the ghastly face.

The room was dark, its curtains drawn. The only illumination came from the light spilling in through the open door, making the woman standing stiffly at the entrance with a smile plastered on her face look exceptionally creepy.

"My dear daughter... heh heh heh!"

It was the first time Su Nian had ever heard such a sleazy laugh. She noted how the ghost was deliberately forcing its voice into a wispy, ethereal tone that lacked any real power.

The frightened young girl couldn’t help but shrink back.

Su Nian rolled her wrists, which let out a sharp CRACK.

[Uh oh. This isn’t looking good.]

[I told them not to pull this crap. They never listen.]

[Place your bets. How long till it caves?]

[My money’s on it dying a second time.]

Su Nian brutally kicked the door wide open, only to see that the gloomy woman inside had changed her face.

At first, she had looked bizarre, but at least recognizably human.

But in the next instant, she began to bleed from her eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. The blood gushed out like an endless waterfall until her once-delicate, pretty face was nothing but a crimson-red head.

Su Nian watched in disgust as the ghost’s scare tactics grew more and more exaggerated. Now, blood was even spurting from its nose.

Faced with such a scene, Su Nian felt not a shred of terror. In fact, she almost wanted to laugh.

’Who would’ve thought of having blood gush out of both nostrils at once?’

[Doesn’t this ghost care about how messy it is?]

[Her face has literally turned into a head of blood.]

[The blood jetting out of her nose is like a fountain.]

Su Nian found it too disgusting to watch. She couldn’t even be bothered to dwell on such a moronic scare tactic.

The young girl, however, was a nervous wreck.

"Master, please save my mom! That’s my mom’s body!"

"Fine, I know."

Su Nian’s tone was lazy, but her movements were fast, precise, and ruthless.

She spun around, slapped a piece of talisman paper on the woman’s forehead, and then, with her bare hands, ripped a hazy, grey, smoke-like entity from the body.

It was the female ghost. Su Nian grabbed her by the hair and yanked her forward.

She dragged the ghost clear out of the body by brute force.

Su Nian had always been ferocious when dealing with ghosts, and she showed no mercy now. A few quick slaps were enough to nearly disperse the ghost’s form.

Her wrist starting to ache, Su Nian decided to take a short break. But in those few seconds, the female ghost saw her chance and made a break for it.

Seeing it was about to get away, Su Nian swiftly dragged it back and started wailing on it, landing one slap after another on its head.

She cursed as she hit it, "So, you want to be a mom, huh?"

"Stealing people’s bodies, huh?"

"Making your nose gush blood, huh?"

"How about I make you die a second time? You believe me?!"

Su Nian’s ghost-beating philosophy was all about being fast, precise, and ruthless. Her hands moved quickly and inflicted serious pain, and her mouth never stopped running.

"An ugly ghost like you dares to impersonate a human? And you called this girl your ’dear daughter’? ’Dear daughter’ my ass! Why don’t you go take a look around? With that long, unlucky shoehorn-face of yours, you really have the gall to be a pretty little girl’s mother?!"

The female ghost’s soul was slammed against the wall by Su Nian. Its already sparse hair was caught in her grip, and its head had to endure a torrent of slaps.

It was truly beyond tears at this point.

’This woman looks so delicate and frail. And her expression... she looks pretentious as hell. Who would’ve thought that when she starts beating up a ghost, it would actually hurt so much?!’

Su Nian was utterly furious. She grabbed its head and started slamming it against the wall—BANG! BANG! The female ghost’s head was ringing from the impacts.

’It was starting to suspect it had a concussion. Its ears were filled with a muffled buzzing. It could see the woman was cursing it out—and using some pretty foul language, too—but it couldn’t actually hear any of the words.’

’Even its vision was a blur. It never imagined that after already being dead, it would have to worry about its physical health all over again.’

"SOB, SOB..." The female ghost was being beaten so flat it was practically sticking to the wall.

It had no choice but to urgently call for its idiot partner.

[I feel second-hand pain for it. It just had to try and act all spooky. Well, it’s getting what it deserved.]

[I literally watched the streamer beat it from a 3D blob into a 2D sheet.]

[She’s beating it until it’s see-through.]

The young girl, who had just been warning Su Nian to be careful, now stood with her mouth hanging wide open, feeling as if her jaw might dislocate.

She had watched with her own eyes as the gray shadow emerged, but before she even had a chance to be scared, she was completely floored by Su Nian’s methods.

The man who had just appeared was no pushover, either.

He floated with his feet off the ground, his gaze cold and desolate.

"Master, we’re just looking for a place to rest. There’s no need to exterminate us, is there?"

’According to the plan in his head, he couldn’t win a direct fight. But, he could use his brilliant mind to get Su Nian to lower her guard, then seize the opportunity to kill her.’

It was a fine plan in theory, but Su Nian had absolutely no intention of cooperating.

Su Nian had always been a woman of action. The moment she saw him, she started walking toward him.

The male ghost was a bit dumbfounded. ’Why isn’t she answering? Aren’t we supposed to have a little back-and-forth here?’

But it all happened in a flash. Su Nian crossed the distance in just a few steps.

A faint smile played on her lips as she reached out, her hand stopping just above the male ghost’s head.

Then, with a gentle twist, she wrenched the ghost’s head right off.

[I kinda feel like this is something a villain would do.]

[Ghosts scare me, but when the Master acts like this, I actually find it kind of cool.]

[The streamer is a real badass, just twisting his head off like that.]

An expression of shock was frozen on its face, but Su Nian wasn’t done. She viciously kicked the male ghost’s headless body to the ground.

Then, she extended a foot clad in a designer shoe and began to grind and roll, forcibly squashing the male ghost’s body into a ball.

The disembodied head hadn’t even processed what was happening. In the next second, it could only watch as its own body was rolled into a ball by Su Nian.

She then placed its head on top, completing her ghost-snowman.

The male ghost didn’t even have time to react, let alone adapt to its newly remodeled body.

Su Nian then picked up its head and bounced it on the ground a few times like a basketball. The male ghost felt like its head was about to shatter. Its mind was buzzing, its features were contorted in agony, and its nose had been flattened. For a moment, it felt like calculating one plus one would be a challenge.

[When the streamer makes a move, you know it’s the real deal.]

[You can always count on the streamer. That was intense!]

[My skin is crawling. I can only peek through my fingers. This is just too brutal.]

[Give me a break. You call this brutal? Compared to the disgusting crap these two have pulled, like forcibly possessing someone’s body, I’d say the streamer is being gentle.]