Li Yi’s idea of pretending to be dead is somewhat peculiar, but it might have a chance of success. After all, dealing with these ghostly things, he must rely on his experience as a messenger rather than just his strength. The deceased Evolver has already proven to him that sheer strength alone doesn’t work in this house. With this thought in mind, he immediately started to act on it. He chose a paper garment and put it on. The paper garment wasn’t anything special, just a normal item, and Li Yi didn’t sense any unusual power or strange occurrences from it. Li Yi sat back on the sofa in the living room wearing the paper garment, quietly waiting for time to pass. The silent room was filled with corpses lying motionless, sprawled haphazardly on the floor. Their hollow eye sockets stared at the ceiling, seemingly expressing their unwillingness before death. The rigid faces still showed a hint of fear. Unfortunately, Li Yi wasn’t afraid of corpses or ghosts. He is a Martial Artist who has defeated countless formidable enemies along the way; corpses are merely meant to scare ordinary people. But these corpses were unlucky souls from Earth. In the end, he kindly stored them in the storage ring he picked up, planning to find a place to bury them once he had the chance to leave. Though they are buried in the Otherworld, at least they would be resting in peace. After handling the corpses, the room lost some of its eerie atmosphere. However, as dusk faded away and night fell, the lights inside seemed dimmer than usual, only enough to illuminate the dining table, leaving the rest in darkness. Li Yi, sitting on the sofa in his paper garment, was motionless like a corpse, not even breathing, with only his eyes glowing ominously in the dark, occasionally flickering with silver sparks. He resembled a lurking beast, feeling out of place in this haunted house. Time crept to eight o’clock. The building was utterly silent, with only the ticking of the clock and distant car horns outside the window. When the time came to nine o’clock. The building remained silent, everything seemed normal, and nothing occurred. Li Yi stayed completely still on the sofa. For someone in Cultivation like him, sitting motionlessly for a long time was not difficult. He had ample time and patience. However, when the time reached ten o’clock. Li Yi slightly turned his head and listened toward the hallway. A faint sound of footsteps emerged in the hallway, as if someone had entered the building. Wait, not just one set of footsteps—it was two, no, three. There were three sets of footsteps. But one of the footsteps was lighter, not like an adult’s, but more like a child’s. "A family of three?" Li Yi immediately recalled the three bowls of rice from the day, precisely matching three people. This meant that three deceased people were living in this house. He continued to feign stillness. Awaiting the arrival of the three footsteps. The footsteps moved from the first floor to the second, then to the third floor, finally slowing down as they approached. Li Yi’s assumptions were correct; those three dead people lived here. He could accurately determine that they had stopped in the hallway, just separated by a wall. Instinctive hostility made him clench his fists, and the gathering of his body’s power caused flashes of electricity to flicker around him. But upon realizing the oddity, he forcibly suppressed his murderous desire and dispersed this power. Soon, the sound of keys jingling came from the entrance. It seemed they were searching for the key to open the door. However, when Li Yi peeked through the small gap of the door, he saw that the dim hallway was completely empty—there was no family of three, no keys. But just at that moment. The door lock turned, and the door creaked open slowly. Yet the unseen family of three did not enter, and everything fell into a brief silence. Li Yi frowned, puzzled by the situation, but he sensed something ominous—could his act of pretending to be dead have been discovered? Loud arguing erupted from the unseen family of three at the entrance. The sound was very muddled, incomprehensible, as if shielded by a barrier—despite how loud they were, it was impossible to discern what they were saying. Amidst the shouting, the child at the entrance began to cry. "Waah...," the cry of a little girl echoed throughout the building, audible even to those outside. "I’ve been discovered." At that moment, Li Yi realized his method of wearing paper clothes and playing dead had failed. The three deceased residents had spotted him and were arguing about it. And the argument grew louder and louder. Li Yi’s ears even started to ring, as if all the noise had drilled into his head, causing a headache, irritation, and anger. So noisy, why is there such an awful family of three? We only sat on your sofa for a while, didn’t we? I even helped you wash the dishes, why don’t you thank me? And that little girl, crying, only knows how to cry. Cry, cry to your mom, do you believe I’ll punch you all to death? His fist hardened once more, the previously subdued power gathering again at this moment. He wanted to vent, wanted to explode. However, rationality told Li Yi that he had to suppress this agitation; he must not be controlled, otherwise, he would likely die in this building, unable to leave like the other evolvers. Li Yi even clasped a Dharma Seal and practiced the White Bone Temple. But it was still useless. The noise of arguing, fighting, crying, crazily reverberated in his ears, making him feel like he was about to explode. "I must quickly find a way; otherwise, I won’t make it out of this building." Li Yi realized that the paper clothes were useless and even caused that dead trio to argue. Chapters fırst released on 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵⁂𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮⁂𝓷𝓮𝓽 He immediately tore off the paper clothes he was wearing, Yet the moment the paper clothes were torn, the arguing, crying outside the door abruptly stopped. All the sounds vanished in an instant, replaced by a deathly silence. "Sure enough, I guessed right, choosing the paper clothes was a mistake, not only did it not help me, but it also had the opposite effect." Li Yi felt his mind ease significantly, his hardened fist slowly relaxed down. But the situation did not improve. Without the disguise of paper clothes, it meant Li Yi was now completely exposed in this haunted house, as a living person. The sound of footsteps reappeared at the door. A set of footsteps quickly rushed into the house, and instead of stopping in the living room, they headed straight to the kitchen, Li Yi still couldn’t see anything, only the position of the footsteps allowed him to discern the existence of the other party. The sound of metal clashing came from the kitchen. The other party seemed to have taken a knife from the kitchen. But Li Yi remembered, there were no knives in the kitchen at all. Then the urgent footsteps left the kitchen, heading straight towards Li Yi on the sofa. "Are they coming to chop me with a knife?" Li Yi understood. Immediately, he heard the sound of a knife slicing through the air. A sharp pain shot from his shoulder, and he was a bit surprised as he glanced at his shoulder. Yet the pain was tangible. Furthermore, Li Yi realized that his life was ebbing away, as if he truly had been slashed by the other party. Recalling the deaths of those previous evolvers. He somewhat understood. The evolvers didn’t die of hunger here, nor were they trapped to death; rather, they were slaughtered by the dead in the haunted house, despite having no wounds on their bodies, the damage was real. Before Li Yi could think further. The sound of the cleaver whistling came again. Li Yi used the sound to determine the position, easily avoiding it, even if the attack was unseen. He flickered like a bolt of lightning to dodge next to the dining table. However, a piercing pain still struck his chest. "Can’t dodge?" Li Yi’s expression changed slightly. The rapid footsteps approached him once more, and outside the door came the sharp laughter of a child and the stiff clapping of a woman. Since the attack hit with absolute accuracy, dodging was pointless. Li Yi abandoned evasion and attempted another object. If the paper clothes enraged those three dead people, what was this paper umbrella for? He immediately opened the paper umbrella. Then the sound of cleavers chopping disappeared, and the sharp laughter outside the door was gone, as if everything returned to tranquility. However, Li Yi’s body instinctively froze for a moment. Because he felt someone standing behind him.