"I'm not going!"
Hearing my suggestion, Wei Yuan shook his head repeatedly. "She wants to kill me. How could I travel with her?"
"Oh... then I won't interfere," I shrugged. "It seems I can't earn this ten million. You can ask those feng shui masters from Hong Kong your family hired to help you solve this problem."
Playing hard to get... I've seen my grandfather do this many times!
Wei Yuan looked even more tense. He even reached out his hand as if to grab my arm.
"Miss Du, that's not what I meant! I don't want to trouble anyone else. I still hope you can help me!"
I slightly shrugged my shoulders, avoiding his ghostly body that seemed to pass through mine, and said, "Then be obedient and go back into your body. When you're discharged from the hospital, come to me, and we'll discuss the future arrangements."
"Okay... but!"
Wei Yuan frowned with a bitter face. "What if I can't get back into my own body?"
He had tried countless times in the ICU, but every time he was bounced back. It was as if he and his body were like the positive and negative poles, completely incompatible.
I thought for a moment, then took out a talisman for calming the soul and stabilizing the spirit from my bag. I wrote Wei Yuan's name on it with cinnabar, then flicked my hand to burn the talisman. The yellow paper in my hand turned to ashes, and in an instant, there was an identical yellow talisman in Wei Yuan's hand.
"Go. Return to your hospital bed. Wait for my contact!"
I pointed at the inpatient building across the street outside the window, feeling a bit lucky that I had rented this house.
Just as Wei Yuan was about to leave nervously, I suddenly called him back. "Will you see Si Jiangchen?"
Wei Yuan was stunned for a moment. He looked at me with a somewhat stiff expression. He didn't understand the meaning of my words and thought I was showing off my relationship with Si Jiangchen.
I could naturally guess what was on his mind. So, before he could answer, I added, "If you reveal my whereabouts, from now on, you'll never be able to find me again!"
"Uh... okay!"
A barely suppressible smile appeared on Wei Yuan's face. He nodded repeatedly. "I won't say anything! How could I reveal Miss Du's address to him! He... he doesn't deserve to be with Miss Du!"
My heart skipped a beat. I asked, "You all know that Si Jiangchen is a monster?"
"He... he's not just a monster. He's a brute! Whoever is kind to him will end up dead!"
Wei Yuan gritted his teeth.
"So don't get me into trouble."
It seemed that Wei Yuan didn't know that Si Jiangchen was a zombie!
I pursed my lips. Just as he said, even if I went out on the street and said he was a zombie monster, no one would believe me...
So, I said seriously to Wei Yuan, "My grandfather is seriously ill. If something happens to me, it will be two lives lost... I don't want to die, and I definitely don't want my grandfather to die!"
"Miss Du, don't worry. I won't let that brute get near you!"
Wei Yuan seemed to have a deep hatred for his uncle, like a feud of killing his father and stealing his wife. Just mentioning Si Jiangchen, even his wooden expression as a ghost became vivid.
"Thank you." Only then did I feel relieved.
Although the talisman I burned for him would make him lose this memory instantly after returning to his body.
However, considering that even my Yang Five - Thunder Spell, which had never failed before, was ineffective, if this talisman failed to erase his memory, this could be a backup plan.
Wei Yuan left. Borrowing the last bit of dim light at dusk, he disappeared in the direction of the hospital.
I turned around and asked the female ghost still kneeling on the ground, not daring to move a muscle, "Do you want to be reincarnated properly?"
The female ghost nodded vigorously.
She was so scared by A Jian that she lay on the ground obediently, not even daring to raise her head.
"Then stay here with me for a few days. I'll ask Wei Yuan to take you home. If your family really mishandled your body casually, what are you going to do?"
The female ghost shrank back and remained silent.
It seemed that she was another poor soul. She was so young, working in a nightclub alone in a foreign land, and even after death, no family member cared about her.
Thinking about my current situation with my grandfather, I couldn't help but feel a bit melancholy. I sighed softly and took out a porcelain bottle to capture her.
If the female ghost's family was unwilling to arrange a ritual for her, Wei Yuan would probably have to spend some more money to send her smoothly to the underworld to atone for her sins.
"Are you done?"
Just as I was calculating in my mind how to arrange the female ghost's after - life, suddenly, A Jian's angry voice rang in my ear.
"Yes."
I looked up. A Jian's white clothes were floating in front of me.
"Xiao He, do you know why your Five - Thunder Spell is ineffective?"
He looked at me with an expression of disappointment.
"I don't know!"
Just mentioning the ineffectiveness of my spell, I felt a bit panicked. I pouted and looked at A Jian.
This thunder spell was taught to me by my most powerful master from the Qingwei School. The Qingwei School was a Taoist sect that respected thunder spells. I always used the Five - Thunder True Spell to subdue powerful ghosts.
If the thunder spell I was used to using had a problem, in the future, when I faced those ghosts with deep grudges, wouldn't I lose my ability to protect myself?
"What else is the Five - Thunder Spell you used called?"
A Jian looked at me coldly like a teacher checking students' studies.
"Called? It's called the Yang Five - Thunder Spell. What's wrong? A Jian, don't look at me like this. I'm so panicked!"
Being stared at by A Jian's ink - black eyes, cold sweat was about to break out on my forehead.
"Sigh..."
A Jian couldn't bear to see my panicked expression. He sighed and softened his tone. "Xiao He, what's the first sentence of the cultivation method of the Yang Five - Thunder Spell?"
"The first sentence, 'The Yang Five - Thunder Fire can only be practiced by the pure...'"
This was a mantra I knew by heart. I recited it without even thinking. The moment the mantra left my mouth, it was like a thunderbolt hitting my mind.
"Only the pure can practice... Only the pure can practice..."
Suddenly, the color drained from my face. I murmured these four words over and over again.
All those who practiced Taoism knew that the Yang Five - Thunder Spell was a technique to attract the righteous thunder fire between heaven and earth. The practitioner must have a pure body without any sexual experience. The reason my spell was always effective before was that my body could resonate with the thunder fire!
However, after last night's absurdity, I was... no longer a pure - bodied person. It was only natural that I couldn't attract the Yang Five - Thunder Spell!
"I... I..."
I was so afraid of recalling that night with Si Jiangchen that my brain had automatically blocked out all the details. I thought that if I pretended nothing had happened, I could escape all the entanglements.
But the reality was so cruel that it caught me off guard!
I not only lost my virginity but also my means of making a living.
For a yin - yang master, without the ability to subdue ghosts, it was like a tiger without claws and teeth.
Not only could I no longer perform those rituals, but countless karmic debts from my previous deeds might come back to haunt me!
Yin - yang masters rarely had a good end.
They fought demons and captured ghosts during their lifetimes, incurring countless retributions. When they were old and weak, with their vital energy depleted, evil ghosts would come to them on their own...
I never thought that this day would come so soon for me!
My grandfather had said that I was destined to be alone all my life, and I never thought I would have a night in the same bed with someone else. But life was so unpredictable.
I not only lost my pure body but also got involved with a monster!
"A Jian, what should I do?!"
I looked at A Jian floating in the air desperately. For a moment, I was so confused that I didn't know what to do in the future!