"Didn't your master teach you how to identify ghosts?"
Du Peilin looked at me with a pained expression. "Although our Qingwei School mainly focuses on Thunder Magic, our skills in identifying and capturing ghosts haven't declined to the point of not being able to distinguish between a living soul and a dead one!"
I was speechless in the face of Du Peilin's words.
I had never learned how to identify ghosts. It seemed that I could see souls ever since I had memories, and they were no different from ordinary people.
I always thought they were just ordinary humans. If I ignored them, they would just leave me alone.
In this world, there are countless Bardo beings who have died a normal death. After death, they would be captured by the ghost messengers and taken back to the Underworld for trial. If they didn't commit any serious crimes after the trial, they could still wander in the mortal world until the seventh day after death.
Most of the souls I saw were these harmless ghosts.
As for a living person's soul leaving their body, what did it matter to me?
"Look!"
Du Peilin frowned, made a hand seal, and reached out to pull at the back of my neck. Half of that lecherous male ghost's body was pulled out...
"Zhi... zhi!"
The once arrogant male ghost didn't even have the strength to speak. He slumped on my shoulder like a puddle of mud, unable to lift his head.
"Hey? How did you become like this?"
I was extremely surprised. When he first parasitized on me, he even dared to take a bite out of the ghost nurse Li Li!
Du Peilin drew an exorcism talisman on the male ghost's glabella with his finger.
This exorcism talisman was used to suppress a ghost's energy and prevent them from moving around randomly. But now, it was used to hold together the male ghost's almost dissipating soul body so that he wouldn't be completely destroyed.
"... Save... save me..."
The male ghost lay on my shoulder, his voice as faint as a gossamer as he pleaded for help from Du Peilin. "Master, I... I'm going to be eaten by this woman..."
"Nonsense! You came to parasitize on me yourself to avoid being caught by the White Impermanence!"
I clearly remembered how he was chased by the White Impermanence and had no choice but to crawl into my body. He probably wanted to take over my body. Now he was playing the victim and shifting the blame!
"Master... save me..."
The male ghost ignored my words and just pleaded with Du Peilin. "This woman's soul is a fierce ghost... I'm almost being melted by her!!!"
Saying that, he finally mustered up his last bit of strength to raise his head.
The male ghost's face was right on my shoulder. I only had to turn my eyes slightly to see his appearance.
His face was like a puddle of melting wax. The yellow and emaciated skin had almost all his facial features stuck together. Even his eyeball had fallen out and was hanging on one side of his cheek, swaying as he stared at me.
"Are you still denying that you're a zombie?"
Du Peilin lowered his voice and said to me, "At your level of zombie, you can suck blood and souls at will. This man's living soul is really stupid and reckless to dare to come at you!"
"What does it have to do with me!"
I wasn't going to fall for it. This Du Peilin was just trying to set me up to admit that I was a monster!
"Since you're a capable master and he's asking you for help, why don't you help him?!"
I turned my head away in disgust.
That male ghost... no, that living soul was indeed so weak that even the strong smell of medicine had become faint and almost imperceptible.
"Xiao He, your scheming is so obvious... it's almost hitting me in the face!"
Du Peilin said helplessly, "You're asking me to help you get rid of the parasitic soul, but you're acting like you have nothing to do with it! No way. I can help you capture him, but you have to sell me your soul bottles, talismans, and such at a cheap price!"
...
This Du Peilin really drove me crazy!
The first time I saw him, he was so cool, aloof, and looked like he was going to be my enemy.
Now, in this situation, he actually wanted me to be a middleman and wholesale magic tools from Master Lu to sell to him!
"Let's go, let's go! It's settled then!"
Du Peilin didn't even wait for my reply. He reached out and grabbed the man's living soul by the hair and asked, "Where's your body now?"
"Downstairs, in the intensive care unit of the emergency room."
The man's living soul seemed to regain some strength after being grabbed by Du Peilin. He timidly didn't dare to struggle. "Master, can I not go back into my body? I'm scared..."
"Scared of what? What kind of person are you! You don't want to use your own original body and instead come out to occupy someone else's body. I think you're either stupid or bad!"
Du Peilin saw it very clearly. "Tell me! What did you do to make the Black and White Impermanences come to capture you in person?!"
"... I... I don't know either!"
The man's eyeball hanging on his face still rolled around randomly.
"Xiao He, let's go! I'll get him out of you."
Du Peilin didn't waste any more words with him. He grabbed my arm and walked towards the emergency area downstairs. "Later, I'll burn a talisman to notify the Underworld to come and capture him immediately!"
"Don't!!! Master, please don't!"
The man's living soul almost let out a scream. "I'll tell you, I'll tell you..."
...
It turned out that this man was named Zhou Wei. He was a native of a suburban county around the capital. His family became proper demolition millionaires after getting both houses and money from the demolition.
After getting rich, Zhou Wei started a lazy and idle life.
He had always admired the luxurious and ostentatious lifestyle of the rich. Now that his parents had nearly ten million in wealth, he naturally wanted to enjoy the life of the rich.
Of course, the first place he set his eyes on was the "Famous Banquet", known as the number one place in the capital.
When he had no money before, Zhou Wei had always envied those who could spend a fortune in such a luxurious place. Now that he had money, he naturally wanted to enjoy this wonderful life to the fullest.
Although he couldn't get to the VIP areas on the second floor and above, the beautiful female waitresses on the first floor were already enough to dazzle him and make him forget about everything else.
Hanging out with those exquisitely made-up and sexy "princesses" in the "Famous Banquet" every day, Zhou Wei increasingly looked down on his yellow-faced wife at home.
As soon as he got home, he would nitpick and sarcastically ridicule his wife. For the sake of their one-year-old child, his wife could only swallow her anger, which only made Zhou Wei even more excessive. He even started to abuse his wife.
After being beaten severely, his wife couldn't bear the physical and mental pain. She sent their crying baby son back to her in-laws' place and then drank "Paraquat" to commit suicide.
When Zhou Wei came back home after having a good time outside for a couple of days, his wife was already in a coma.
Zhou Wei was so scared that he almost collapsed. He called an ambulance and sent his wife to the hospital.
However, "Paraquat" was an incurable poison. His wife had also delayed for two days at home, so there was no way to save her.
Seeing his wife's painful appearance when she was being intubated and having her stomach pumped, Zhou Wei regretted his actions and felt that he was a terrible person... But he couldn't just commit suicide like his wife!
So, Zhou Wei took his anger out on the young nurse who was treating his wife...