18 Found the array.

" This is impossible!" cried Fang Yanli, as she circled around the empty spot and repeatedly confirmed that the location was correct and then looked at the empty stall and was lost for a moment before she frowned and scrunched up her nose, " Something is wrong, this morning it clearly smelled of death and decay but now it smells nothing like that, just what happened?"

Song Yan crouched down and inspected the space carefully, before standing upright and said calmly, " The master who set this array is good, if not for him siding with the wrong clients for a measly sum of money I would have sorted him out,"

Fang Yanli who was hovering in the air almost rolled her eyes at her comment, was there any point in saying that? So what if the master was good? In the end, wasn't he purely evil? Was there any need to compliment him? However, she somehow resisted the urge to roll her eyes at Song Yan and somewhat impatiently asked, " you mean to say that our trip here is going to be a wasted one?"

Song Yan turned her head to look at Fang Yanli and gave her a ' are you serious look' before she pointed at herself and asked with a smile, " Yanli, who am I?"

Seeing that sly smile on her mistress's face, Fang Yanli stiffened and croaked in a panicky voice, " My master, the one who rules the Yin ring despite not having a drop of the Gu family line." The ring that was called hell's fire was carved by the first head of the Gu family and because of that, this ring on Song Yan's hand only took the children of the Gu family as its master, if someone else other than the bloodline of the Gu tried to take it over it will retaliate and burn the thief along with itself.

But Song Yan was an exception with her years of cultivation she took control of the ring with her strength alone.

" That's right," said Song Yan as she took out two pieces of talisman paper and the Xieye pen from the space of the ring. She bit down on her thumb and then let the pen in her hand soak the drop of the blood, the Xieye pen's purpose was simple. Unlike the time when the masters had to collect a generous amount of their blood before drawing a talisman this pen would only soak a single drop of blood and then form an invisible connection with the blood flowing in the body, with its magical ability, the pen drew blood without any deep gashes and cuts on the wrist and arms, which made the work easier.

Song Yan drew on the talisman with her blood, once she was finished, she blew on both of the talismans before muttering a spell then she threw them in the air. The writing on the talisman changed to a golden glow as soon as they were flung in the air, and then with a swoosh, they flew away. " Follow those talismans."

Fang Yanli did as Song Yan asked her, the two of them followed the talismans that were flying in the air and only stopped when the talisman came to a sudden stop and fell and stuck itself to a marble grave that was considered new.

"What's this? Did you make a mistake?" asked Fang Yanli, the grave that hid the array was obviously very old and but compared to that grave, this one was fairly new and seemed to be built just a few years ago. The marble might have lost its lustre but the one with the array was so old that its wood was splintering, how can the two be the same?

Song Yan sighed and pursed her lips and smiled in a rather unkind way. "You really think that I will not scatter your soul and make it impossible for you to reincarnate?"

Fang Yanli very wisely shut up.

Song Yan turned her attention to the grave and carefully studied the spell that was cast on it. She was a ghost cultivator and her master was kind enough to let her read the books which comprised the ancient texts and dark arts which not only recorded the spells to ward ghosts but also many other spells such as creating a mirage and so on. Later on, when the enemies of her master found out that her master has subdued an evil spirit like her and made her a weapon to fight alongside her, they have destroyed those books but Song Yan has already finished cultivating to the highest level back then so it was all in vain.

The master whom Song Lan hired wasn't a novice and knew what he was doing, if it was someone else then they would have been trapped in a spot by him but she was different-

After carefully analysing the spell cast on the grave, Song Yan swiftly muttered a counter curse and broke the spell that was responsible for creating the mirage. Once the spell broke, the old grave that was hiding the array appeared at once.

"Holy shit! How did it come here?" Fang Yanli was surprised when she noticed that the grave that she marked was suddenly moved to a new space. How can a grave move from one spot to another and that too so cleanly?

Song Yan shrugged as she crouched down and took her talisman off which burnt into crisp the second its job was done. " The master must have sensed your presence, because of your high cultivation he might not have been able to track you since you were hiding your ghostly aura but he is powerful enough to realise that someone was watching him and that's why he moved this grave, don't forget, he is relying on these arrays to earn a quick some of the money. He can't afford to make a mistake." With that said Song Yan immediately threw a flying talisman on the grave- that quickly rose in the air and once it hovered in the air, the array that was hidden deep under it was revealed.