According to Yan Lang, if Gu Zhisang was willing to become the Special Spiritual Department’s ‘special member’, it would be the same as her relationship with the underworld. After all, it was not a secret that she could arrest the ghosts and connect to the underworld on her behalf.

As a special member of the Special Spiritual Department, she was not bound by the various rules of the department and did not have to work from nine to five.

As for the rest like the salary, intelligence, etc., they will be as usual.

It can be said that in an official organization, such treatment was already very sincere.

However, Gu Zhisang knew in her heart that even though she was just a non-staff member, in the eyes of the Taoist Sect and other metaphysical organizations, agreeing to the invitation of the Special Spiritual Department was going the same path as the official.

If the Taoist Sects were still the same as in the past, Gu Zhisang, who was once the master of the Taoist Sect, would not hesitate to reject Yan Lang to join them.

But now, the Taoist Sect was full of intrigues, intertwined forces, and even deeper hidden dangers. It was no longer the Taoist Sect that Master Taoist Jun Hong built with his original intention, gathering all the metaphysical talents from all over the world to uphold morality.

After thinking for a moment, Gu Zhisang nodded in agreement.

“Okay.”

Yan Lang and Zheng Ruyu looked at each other and saw relief and joy in each other’s eyes.

The reason why they attach so much importance to Gu Zhisang and want to bring her into the camp is that there were too few high-level mystical masters in the Special Spiritual Department.

There were currently only a very small number of ‘earth’ level mystical masters known, and they were all leaders of major factions, as well as the heads of some aristocratic families who remained hidden from the world.

Their paths were profound and they lived long.

Take Taoist Chang Qin, the headmaster of Yiyuan Secct, he lived for at least two hundred years.

Yan Lang had met him when he was still a young man and had just taken over the Special Spiritual Department. At that time, Taoist Chang Qin had white hair tied high and he looked to be at least sixty or seventy years old.

After decades passed, Yan Lang himself became an old man with half his body buried in the ground, but Taoist Chang Qin still looked like an immortal and had a strong body.

Such seniors were often involved in many families and factions, and it was impossible to escape alone, so they did not join the Special Spiritual Department.

Currently, the highest-ranking person in the group was the Taoist Master who had a personal enmity with Qianqing Sect.

He has been stuck at the eighth level of Tao for more than ten years and has not been able to break through to the Earth level.

And since the Special Spiritual Department doesn’t have an ‘earth’ level Taoist Master, they were often overwhelmed by the Taoist Sect.

They have no say at all.

Based on the above, Gu Zhisang’s participation can completely reverse the disadvantaged situation of the Special Spiritual Department.

Yan Lang smiled gently and said: “Welcome Miss Gu to join us. If you look at these documents now, it will not be considered a violation of the regulations.”

“To be honest, there are indeed mystic masters in our group who are related to the underworld, and we also know that Miss Gu is looking for information about the ‘Black Mist’. The spirit group first discovered that the existence of this thing has nothing to do with the world of metaphysics. It goes back to 13 years ago, there was a major case that shocked the whole country.”

“Miss Gu can take a look at this document first.”

Gu Zhisang took the document and opened it. It recorded a serial murder case in a certain province in thirteen years.

The criminals brutally killed six unrelated young men and women in two cities in this province and used various methods to mutilate the bodies of the deceased.

At that time, the scale of the case caused panic.

After spending a lot of effort to catch the person, the police discovered that the person was a pervert with a twisted mentality.

The reason why he killed those men and women was simply because they had outstanding looks, were knowledgeable, had good conduct… and had a series of traits that were liked by others, or had a good family background.

The pervert felt unfair and unbalanced, so he killed them.

After the case was solved, the entire Internet was fighting against this narrow-minded and cruel criminal. Only the police were still puzzled.

Yan Lang’s recalling voice sounded in the living room:

“After this criminal was arrested, the local police station found it strange. He was short and frail, how could he kill so many victims on his own and avoid being arrested several times by the police as if heaven help him?

Later, while investigating at his home, we discovered the statue for the first time. “

Gu Zhisang understood: “The Thousand-faced God.”

“That’s right.” Zheng Ruyu took over the topic, nodded, and said: “In this major kidnapping case in Southern Province, we also found that villagers in two villages were worshiping this ‘Thousand-faced God’. According to their confessions, this statue was provided by a Taoist Master who told them to worship it regularly.”

“We are now certain that this is an evil god.”

Zheng Ruyu said, stood up took out a gold and bronze statue from the cabinet behind him, and placed it on the table:

“This one is the statue we found at Wu Feng’s, the village chief of Xiaoyan Village.”

Gu Zhisang looked at it and saw one of the many faces of the statue that was facing her, looked like a lifelike and sad face.

It was a tragic image, but it made people feel frightened and uncomfortable no matter what.

Zheng Ruyu said: “13 years ago, we discovered that after killing the victims, the criminal would remove their organs and offer them to this statue, but that was the first time we saw this strange statue. Plus we didn’t think of metaphysics at all, so we ignored it.”

“Later, more and more secret cases came to light, and there was a vague shadow of this statue behind them, so we began to pay attention to this object.”

Gu Zhisang asked: “Do you have any clues now?”

Yan Lang said: “We have extracted a special power from the bodies of the statues and some captured criminals and masters.”

He said and glanced at Zheng Ruyu beside him, who then took out a small transparent square from the safe.

A wisp of thick gray-black gas can be seen in the transparent instrument, swimming and colliding in the small square-like life.

Gu Zhisang was a little surprised: “How did you do it?”

She has fought against this ‘black mist’ several times and was very aware of the lethality of this thing.

In addition to corroding the body of the mysterious master, it can also affect people’s minds.

Even she had only succeeded in obtaining a small wad.

Yan Lang smiled and said: “Actually, this ‘black mist’ was not taken out by the spirit group. I asked my friends at the Research Institute to extract it using official scientific instruments.”

“By the way, Miss Gu, you have solved several cases before. There are some mysterious masters behind the scenes who are setting up formations to help others. After those people were caught, we also used instruments to detect the same substances in their bodies. The composition of this ‘Black Mist’ is very special, it is not a soul, but some fluctuations can be detected.”

Gu Zhisang: “???”

Is this called scientific exorcism and materialism to catch ghosts?

After reading all the findings of the spirit group, Gu Zhisang didn’t get much useful information, but it was better than nothing.

She changed the topic and asked:

“Mr. Yan, you just said that he wanted me to help check the evil spirit in a person’s body. Is it your relative or descendant?”

Yan Lang shook his head and said, “His name is Yan Xiaoyan, and he is not related to me.”

Gu Zhisang’s heart moved when he heard this familiar last name.

“Before, a wave of people from the Taoist Sect came to the city where I broadcast live to besiege me. They mentioned such a person at that time and asked me to ‘donate’ the jade finger bone, otherwise, I would be risking the safety of the people in the world. Could it be that Yan is the same person those Taoist masters are talking about?”

Yan Lang was a little embarrassed, he had heard about what happened at that time.

To prevent Gu Zhisang from overthinking or remaining dissatisfied, he explained:

“It is indeed the same person, but that little friend didn’t know those people would do that. They all made their own decisions. He was also very sorry for this matter, but he has never been able to find a chance to apologize to you. Because his health… is indeed too bad.”

To describe Yan Cheng’s current situation would be an understatement.

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