“I really am Emily Thompson.”

“I don’t believe you. How can you prove it?”

“You have a mole on your left buttock…”

“Alright, I believe you now…”

……

Possession does not grant access to memories. William Clark quickly stepped forward, covering Emily Thompson’s mouth, looking him up and down in surprise, and said, “You haven’t been possessed. Where’s that female ghost?”

Emily Thompson shook his head and said, “Maybe the possession failed and her soul was scattered.”

That female ghost had clearly lunged at him, but it was as if she had evaporated into thin air, disappearing without a trace. Emily Thompson himself was completely baffled, but he was certain that there was no trace of the female ghost inside his body.

He lowered his head and looked at his chest, deep in thought.

When the female ghost crashed into him just now, he seemed to feel a warm current surge in his chest, and then the female ghost vanished.

Glancing at David Brooks, who was collapsed on the ground and had completely fallen unconscious, Emily Thompson said to Senior Sister Zhou and William Clark, “You two look after David Brooks, I’ll go back to my room to recover…”

With that, he walked back to his room and closed the door.

He quickly walked to the bed, took off his outer robe and undergarment, and when his gaze fell on his chest, he was instantly stunned.

On his chest, there was a faint mark emitting a soft glow.

The light flickered a few times, then disappeared completely.

Emily Thompson had noticed this mark before when he was bathing, but hadn’t thought much of it, assuming it was a birthmark on this body. But now, thinking carefully, it seemed the original Emily Thompson didn’t have such a birthmark on his chest.

In other words, this mark had only appeared after he transmigrated.

The mark was less than half the size of a palm, and looked like an incense burner, with a spherical body and three legs standing beneath it.

Emily Thompson stared at the mark, finding it more and more familiar. Soon, he realized that the mark on his chest was exactly the same as the ancient jade he used to wear on his chest in his previous life…

He had worn that jade since childhood, and when he died in the line of duty, it was shattered by a bullet. Yet in this life, a similar mark had appeared on Emily Thompson’s chest.

A feeling arose in Emily Thompson’s heart—could his second life be related to that piece of jade?

The evil ghost that tried to possess him just now also seemed to have been sucked into this mark.

Emily Thompson carefully directed a trace of spiritual power to his chest. As soon as it touched the incense burner mark, it was immediately sucked in by a force. At the same time, Emily Thompson’s consciousness suddenly sank into another space.

All around him was a vast expanse of white, except for a towering incense burner in front of him, about ten feet high. The incense burner looked just like the mark on his chest, only much larger, covered in countless intricate patterns, and on its belly was a yin-yang double fish symbol, with the ancient characters “乾坤” inscribed above.

The incense burner was not intact; it was covered in dense cracks, some so large they ran across the entire burner, as if it could collapse into a pile of fragments at any moment.

Even in a world of cultivation, this scene still shocked Emily Thompson.

But soon, his consciousness grew blurry and he returned to the real world, with only the faintly flickering incense burner mark on his chest proving that it hadn’t been a dream.

Emily Thompson channeled spiritual power again and re-entered that world.

After several attempts, he discovered that the incense burner was like a bottomless pit—no matter how much spiritual power he poured in, it would be completely devoured, and he had no idea what the incense burner was for.

However, he did figure out how the female ghost died.

Ghosts are different from normal people; they have only a spirit body, no physical form, and the spirit body is pure yin. In essence, yin energy and spiritual power are both forms of energy. This incense burner could devour energy, so her attempt to possess Emily Thompson was simply courting death.

The Qiankun Furnace.

Since the incense burner bore those two characters, Emily Thompson decided to call it that for now. Although he didn’t yet know its true purpose, the fact that it could keep ghosts at bay was enough to make it a protective talisman for Emily Thompson. Without it, he might have already been controlled by the female ghost, and William Clark and Senior Sister Zhou wouldn’t have escaped either.

“Creak…”

The door was pushed open and a figure walked in from outside. Without looking, Emily Thompson knew who it was—apart from that demonic witch, only William Clark would enter his room without knocking.

William Clark saw Emily Thompson bare-chested, paused for a moment, then quickly walked over and asked with concern, “Are you alright?”

Emily Thompson put on his clothes and said, “I’m fine.”

William Clark asked curiously, “When did you become so good at fighting?”

Emily Thompson replied, “I’ve been practicing in secret. I was planning to use it against David Brooks, but it came in handy this time…”

William Clark looked at Emily Thompson. For the past two years, he and Emily Thompson had spent every day together, but only today did he realize there were things about Emily Thompson he didn’t know. The current Emily Thompson felt a bit unfamiliar.

The one who fought with the possessed David Brooks just now was a completely different Emily Thompson.

The old Emily Thompson had always been indifferent to the female disciples of Baiyun Temple, but today he treated Senior Sister Zhou very differently from before.

Thinking of this, he suddenly asked, “Emily Thompson, I have a question for you.”

Emily Thompson replied casually, “Go ahead.”