"It actually dared to hug you."
Si Jiangchen slightly squinted his peach blossom eyes, and his expression clearly turned cold.
"If it didn't pounce on me, how could I stick the talisman on it?!"
I tightly gripped the talisman in my hand with hatred.
I certainly knew that Lu Xiaojuan was going to hug my shoulders. If Si Jiangchen's hand hadn't been so fast, her two legs would have wrapped around my waist too!
We're both women. What's the big deal?!
The cold snort from Si Jiangchen's nose sent an involuntary chill down my spine.
"If it were an extremely fierce ghost, you would be dead."
After his cold snort, he returned to his lazy look. He twirled the half - burned cigarette between his fingers and drew a talisman in the air.
This was the second time he drew a talisman in mid - air. I finally saw clearly that the talisman he drew was actually the supreme talisman of Taoism for suppressing demons and evil spirits.
The white smoke curled up like an immortal aura.
Who would have thought that such a perfect and spiritual - power - filled talisman would come from the hand of a zombie?!
"Squeak!!!"
Lu Xiaojuan got on all fours and was really like a beast. She screeched and tried to scurry away.
Si Jiangchen slightly bent the fingers holding the cigarette and casually waved his hand in front of him. The runes condensed from the smoke suddenly rose and pressed straight towards Lu Xiaojuan who was running away at high speed.
I was so shocked that I almost forgot we were catching a demon!
How could Si Jiangchen know such a top - level talisman technique?
Wasn't he a zombie? How could a monster with an incomplete soul cultivate such a Taoist technique that almost reached the sky?!
I just stared at Si Jiangchen in surprise with my eyes wide open until he lowered his eyes and our gazes met. Then he reached out and turned my face back to look in Lu Xiaojuan's direction.
"Mr. Du, what should we do now?"
He put the cigarette back between his lips and said playfully.
Only then did I notice that Lu Xiaojuan, who had been hit by the talisman Si Jiangchen drew in mid - air, was lying on the ground as if pressed by an invisible heavy object. Although her limbs were still struggling constantly, she could no longer display the ability to jump onto a three - meter - high wall in an instant.
This was the "Mountain of Gods Suppressing" in the Demon - Suppressing Talisman, which used the concept of a demon - suppressing object in one's mind to seal the demons and ghosts that brought disasters to the world.
I could only summon a huge rock, and the suppression effect was naturally not as good as this infinite mountain of gods that existed in the spiritual platform. Sometimes, if the demon was too dexterous or had practiced for a long time, I couldn't accurately suppress it.
So, I always pretended to be weak on purpose and waited for them to take the bait.
Si Jiangchen had so easily suppressed a yellow - weasel spirit that was unpredictable and as fast as the wind!
A strange feeling suddenly welled up in my heart!
Since I could remember, I had been traveling in the world with Du Wenzhong. The masters I had worshiped were all highly - skilled figures in Taoist arts. After learning for so many years, I was still not as good as a dead zombie?!
Frustrating! So frustrating!!
I walked up to Lu Xiaojuan, squatted down, and reached out to pinch the middle part of her right - hand middle finger. Diagnosing the ghost vein was different from the technique of traditional Chinese medicine. Instead of feeling the pulse at the wrist, one pinched different parts of the middle finger with two fingers.
If the two sides at the base of the finger throbbed, it meant that a powerful vengeful ghost had possessed the body; if the middle part of the finger throbbed violently, it meant that a spirit of a brute had caused trouble; and the throbbing at the tip of the middle finger meant that an even more powerful spirit had occupied the person's body.
Lu Xiaojuan was lying on the ground, swearing non - stop. My already bad mood became even more irritable. I raised my hand and slapped her furry, pointed face several times, making the yellow weasel possessing her wail.
"How dare you hit this immortal! You'll wait to be struck by lightning!"
Lu Xiaojuan's cheeks were swollen with red handprints from the slaps, but she still kept swearing, "You little bitch, you little brute! After this immortal occupies your body and practices the art of harmonizing yin and yang to achieve an immortal golden body, I'll return every slap of yours a hundred, no, a thousand times over!"
"A thousand times is nothing!"
I suddenly tightened my grip on Lu Xiaojuan's middle finger.
The two ends of Lu Xiaojuan's middle finger throbbed violently. When I pinched it so hard, her vulgar words suddenly stopped. This was the vital point of the ghost from the brute realm. Once pinched, it was not just the physical pain from the slaps!
The pain of having one's soul grasped was unbearable not only for a yellow weasel that hadn't yet achieved the Dao, but also for an earthly immortal who had achieved liberation from the body!
"Ah... Aah!! Help! Murderer!"
The yellow weasel I had in my grasp could no longer stay in Lu Xiaojuan's body, but it was unable to escape. Its limbs trembled like a sieve as it wailed and begged for mercy. "Immortal maiden, spare my life. I'll never dare again. Let me go. I won't take revenge."
"Then swear an oath."
Having traveled far and wide with Du Wenzhong, I naturally knew that these spirits never told the truth.
They were different from the proper immortal, ghost, and spiritual souls that had achieved the Dao. They had no human sense of morality, and their words never counted. This was also the reason why common people said, "It's easier to meet the King of Hell than to deal with little ghosts."
A spirit like a yellow weasel was the most unreasonable. Clearly, they had agreed to leave after being treated to good food and drinks, but as soon as the master left, they would come back and possess the victim again. All the reasoning and the offered incense, food, and drinks before would be in vain!
I had encountered such troubles several times, so I naturally wouldn't be easily deceived by it now.
The yellow weasel rolled its eyes and immediately said, "I, Huang Dabiao, swear that from today on, I won't torment this woman anymore. If I break my oath, let me choke to death on a chicken bone!"
"Slap!"
As soon as it finished speaking, I slapped its pointed mouth.
"Let you play tricks! Let you play tricks!!"
I was so angry with this thing that I almost couldn't hold back my laughter. It was already dead! How could it choke to death again?!
It clearly wanted to get away with it.
"Ouch, don't hit! Don't hit! I'll swear again."
The yellow weasel wished it could bury its head and face in the soil. It shook its head and said, "If I ever pester Lu Xiaojuan again, then... then let someone dig out my den and exterminate my descendants!"
This oath could be said to be extremely serious!
But there was still a strange feeling in my heart. I vaguely felt that something was wrong, but I couldn't grasp the key point. So I grabbed Lu Xiaojuan's hair and forced her to look me in the eye. I could feel the yellow weasel nervously rolling its eyes and just not daring to look into my eyes.
"I'll say a sentence, and you repeat it!"
I dragged it up from the ground, made it kneel, and then pinched its right hand and raised it above its shoulder. "I, Huang Dabiao, swear."
"I, Huang Dabiao, swear!"
The yellow weasel knelt obediently, but its two eyes showed panic.
I ignored its emotions and continued, "If I ever come to torment the villagers of Lu Village again in the future, I will surely be struck by lightning and suffer eternal damnation."
"No! No!!"
Sure enough, as soon as the yellow weasel heard me ask it to swear such a poisonous oath, it immediately started to act like a spoiled child and play tricks. "All of my family, a hundred or so of us, were exterminated by the bastards of Lu Village. If I don't torment them to death, how can I avenge this great hatred in my heart?!"
Sure enough, I remembered that I seemed to have heard it say before that all the yellow weasels on Miaofeng Mountain were dead!
"Village Head Lu, did you guys dig out the yellow - weasel dens?"
I turned to ask Lu Erzhong behind me.
"No!!! Absolutely not!" Lu Erzhong waved his hands repeatedly. "We've always kept a respectful distance from yellow weasels. Even when they came to the village to steal things, we didn't dare to kill them!"