In the space created by Li Chengxian, I truly felt the pain of the Ice Hell.
I also understood what the little ghosts meant by "in the water".
As a registered Taoist priest who practiced Taoism, Li Chengxian actually did such things that violated the Heavenly Way!!
In ancient times, during natural disasters and wars, there were always some villains with evil intentions who used human souls to create venomous wells. They threw many living people into half - dried wells, letting them drown, suffocate or finally starve to death.
After those who suffered so much in life died, their resentment lingered. In the deep wells sealed with talismans, they devoured each other.
Just like raising poisonous insects, in the end, only some evil ghosts full of hatred for everything in the world were left.
Then they would refine and subdue these ghosts for their own use.
Li Chengxian didn't have the ability to dig a well in the city, nor could he collect countless souls.
So he used an abandoned SPA spa as a place to trap souls and refine ghosts. He raised the five little ghosts he found according to their birth dates here. Naturally, after my grandfather's three souls were captured by him, they would also be placed in such a place without any surveillance cameras.
In this expensive office building, leaving such a large area idle would cost a fortune!
This was definitely not the work of a poor Taoist priest like Li Chengxian!
I had no time to think about the key points... I felt that all the water in my body had turned into ice crystals. The sharp pain made it impossible for me to continue the spell of the Yin Five - Thunder.
I supported myself with my left hand on the mirror that was the only connection to the outside world.
Suddenly, a bit of warmth flowed into my palm, and then spread to my fingers and arms... Just like the spring breeze reviving the frozen land, in an instant, my body was as warm as if I was bathing in the sun.
"All is illusory, find peace within your heart... Xiao He, it's all an illusion!"
Si Jiangchen's voice came from nowhere, deep like the thunder of Awakening of Insects, dispelling the last trace of hesitation in my heart.
"The sky is round and the earth is square, the laws are nine - fold. Yin gives birth and Yang follows. All ghosts have nowhere to hide. Those who dare to defy will be suppressed by the five thunders!"
As I recited loudly, I also raised the thunder seal with my right hand.
In the Ice Hell in front of me, there were faint flashes of lightning.
Countless blue - purple lightning bolts were like wriggling snakes, scurrying through the frozen air. Countless cracks appeared in the ice crystals, and in an instant, they exploded into a white mist that filled the entire space.
"Go!!"
A red figure flashed before my eyes. Wang Yingxiu grabbed my raised arm with one hand and grabbed my grandfather's hair with the other, then rammed the two of us through the fog - covered mirror.
"Ah!!!"
The moment my body passed through the mirror, I felt as if I had stepped into thin air from a bottomless abyss and my whole body was falling. The sense of weightlessness made me scream and reach out to grab something. Then I fell into a warm embrace with a faint smell of tobacco.
"You're awake. Finally awake!!"
It wasn't Si Jiangchen's voice!!
I shivered and quickly opened my eyes, only to see Dong Jianhui looking at me with a look of relief.
"Ah!!"
I let out a scream and tried to sit up, but the force around my waist suddenly tightened, making me fall back onto the warm chest.
"What are you screaming for..."
Si Jiangchen was kneeling beside the mirror, holding me in his arms. His right hand was tightly clasped with my left hand. The warmth I felt before came from here.
"Why are you here?!"
I couldn't break free from his restraint, so I just moved my stiff neck and looked around.
Wang Yingxiu's red dress was stuck in the shadow of the ceiling. The five little ghosts with sharp teeth were tied together like a bunch of candied haws and pulled out of the mirror world. My grandfather was floating in mid - air, and for the first time, there was a solemn look on his joking face...
"If I hadn't come, you would have been trapped and died in there."
Si Jiangchen's voice was calm, showing no emotion.
But I saw the muscles on Dong Jianhui's face twitch. "Mr. Si... I didn't mean to let Miss Du get into danger."
"Um."
Si Jiangchen was still calm, only making a single sound from his nose.
"But this adventure was worth it!"
I grabbed Si Jiangchen's hand, my eyes full of excitement. "I saved two people at once!!"
Who would have thought that on my first day at work, I could rescue my grandfather and Si Tong.
The anxiety that had been hanging over me for months finally disappeared. I felt so relieved that I just wanted to jump up and shout.
Si Jiangchen seemed to be infected by me too. He curled his lips into a smile. "Don't be too happy. Our situation is not very good."
With that, he helped me stand up.
We were still in that dilapidated changing room. Apart from the addition of Si Jiangchen and Dong Jianhui, there seemed to be no change.
"Miss Du, is Manager Yang's current situation normal?"
Dong Jianhui suddenly pointed to the shadow by the wall and asked me.
Under a tattered curtain, Yang Fan was curled up on the ground like a lifeless piece of meat.
"... Him?!"
I was greatly surprised and quickly turned to look into the mirror.
The glass of the mirror was as white as if covered with a layer of fog, reflecting our figures and the scene of the room behind us. However, among our real reflections, there was a hazy gray shadow, desperately pounding on the mirror surface in the mirror, with its mouth wide open as if trying to escape.
Yang Fan and I were originally just captured into the mirror by our souls. Now I had been pulled out by Wang Yingxiu, but Yang Fan was still trapped in the illusion created by Li Chengxian.
I couldn't help but look up at Wang Yingxiu.
"What is he? I don't have the energy to save him."
Wang Yingxiu glanced at the man howling for help in the mirror, then turned to tease those little ghosts with bared teeth.
That's right! Yang Fan was so vicious. In order to embezzle huge kickbacks, he not only killed Wang Fang, but also tried to do the same to me in this abandoned store today.
Looking at his terrified and deformed face, I hesitated, but still wanted to pull him out!
He was highly suspected of killing Sister Fang and was also guilty of job embezzlement.
I thought that the worldly law's punishment for such a person was quite satisfying!
I gently broke free from Si Jiangchen's fingers, formed a soul - capturing spell seal with both hands, and pointed at the gray shadow in the mirror.
Unexpectedly, a sudden gust of yin wind blew across the mirror surface. A black claw reached out from the white mist and grabbed Yang Fan's soul body. Before he could even struggle, he disappeared into the obscurity deep in the mirror in an instant.
"It's Li Chengxian!! He captured Yang Fan's soul!!"
The moment my finger touched the glass mirror, a small crack appeared on this mirror that even a chair couldn't break. The crack quickly spread out like a spider web and instantly covered the entire mirror surface. Then, with a dull sound, "Puff", the whole mirror wall instantly shattered into pieces.
Behind the mirror was actually a rather large space. With the dim light reflected from around, many black human - shaped figures could be seen inside...