I'm certain that Song Yixuan's apartment is on the first floor.
When the two neighbors and I brought him back, we didn't even pass by the elevator lobby.
However, this space is clearly on top of a high-rise building dozens of stories tall. Could it be that we were all collectively tricked by an illusion or trapped in a nightmare, and unknowingly walked up to the upper floors?
"Master Lu, we... we're still too late!"
Suddenly, the bright chandelier in the apartment lobby flickered a few times, and a woman's voice came into my ears.
Ma Su?!
I couldn't help but shiver. It seemed that those controlled by the One-Eyed Buddha Mother were like individual terminal devices, while the One-Eyed Buddha Mother herself was an extremely vast network. As long as she wanted to know, she could clearly understand the whereabouts of every believer.
"How terrifying! Someone has already been bewitched!"
Ma Su's voice continued to come through the broken glass, sounding both regretful and panicked.
"Don't be afraid! If we catch the culprit, we can still save them!"
A calm female voice followed Ma Su's words. Suddenly, a cluster of orange flames ignited in the tall and vast space in front of me. In an instant, it turned into a raging inferno, burning the ink-stained sky and the distant and nearby buildings into curled ashes.
In front of me was still the broken glass in front of the lobby door. Three or four young people who had fallen from the building earlier were lying or crawling in the broken glass on the ground. Behind these people stood two women and a child.
So it was all an illusion just now!
All of us had fallen into a collective nightmare. Although we were still on the first floor, those young people who thought they had stepped into thin air had really fallen to the ground, as if they had fallen from a high-rise building.
Among the three people standing outside, I only recognized one.
The sexy woman with long curly hair, wearing a nude inner dress and a knee-length black lace outer coat, was Ma Su, the boss of Taoran Media. The woman standing beside her had long black hair simply tied into a ponytail hanging behind her head. She was wearing a light green striped round-neck long dress. Under the pale yellow light, she looked pure and beautiful, like a small flower swaying in the breeze.
However, this seemingly delicate and beautiful girl was holding a silver talisman in her hand. The moment our eyes met, her eyes turned cold. The talisman flew out of her hand, and at the same time, she made a magic seal with both hands and slapped the talisman. Immediately, the incantation drawn in cinnabar on the talisman paper left the paper and formed a huge corpse-suppressing talisman in the air, pressing down on me head-on!
Did she know that I was a century-old zombie?!
Otherwise, how could she come at me with a corpse-suppressing talisman right away?!
I desperately shrank back, clasped my hands together, and quickly made a Six Ding and Six Jia Body Protection Spell. The divine consciousness of the celestial officials served as a tough armor protecting me all over. The corpse-suppressing talisman was blocked outside the hazy golden light.
"Eh?"
A look of surprise appeared on the girl's pretty and sweet face. The cute little bun beside her with a clear voice said, "Mom, why isn't she afraid of the talisman... How can she draw talismans herself? Is she also a Taoist cultivator?"
"Sister Baby, this Miss Du must have practiced Taoism. Otherwise, how could she control people's minds and arrange ghost marriages for others?!"
Ma Su eagerly told the two women, one big and one small, everything she knew about me.
Only Du Peiyun and the others knew the true identities of Si Jiangchen and me clearly. Those like the One-Eyed Buddha Mother only knew that my Taoist magic was powerful and that I could swallow her clone, which had gathered a lot of faith power!
"Arranging a ghost marriage!"
The little girl called "Baby" had curly reddish-brown hair pulled into a cute little bun on top of her head. She was wearing a light yellow Tang-style ruqun, looking ethereally cute. When she heard Ma Su mention "arranging a ghost marriage", she immediately wrinkled her cute little nose and glared at me with disgust. "Hey! I really can't believe that with such a good-looking appearance, you can do such a bad thing that goes against the Heavenly Way! Those who arrange ghost marriages are all big bad guys!"
Saying that, without waiting for the girl in the light green dress to act, the little girl rushed towards me viciously. The moment she reached my side, her face became furry, her small mouth protruded sharply forward, and with a "puff", two small pointed ears grew out.
This was actually a little red fox?!
Seeing her open her mouth and bite at my face, I quickly reached out and pinched her pointed mouth, then grabbed the back of her neck with my other free hand and lifted her up in the air.
"Hey, let go!"
The little fox Baby was grabbed by the back of her neck, and immediately panicked. She flailed her four paws in the air and screamed, "Big bad guy, let go of this great immortal Baby!"
"Humph! I arranged the ghost marriage to punish the scumbag. What's wrong with that!"
Actually, I didn't think it was a good thing for A Xiu to cling to Song Yixuan like this. A Xiu loved children so much. She should be reincarnated in the next life to enjoy family happiness!
However, I had to respect her choice. Don't persuade others to be kind without experiencing their pain.
Since A Xiu had chosen to go all out against the scumbag, as her friend, I naturally had to help her fulfill her wish. As for the future... everything could be negotiated. As long as I protected A Xiu's soul and kept her sane, even if she wore Song Yixuan down to death, I was confident that I could send her into reincarnation. At the very least, like A Jian, she could stay with us as a carefree ghost immortal...
Yes, I remembered Du Wenzhong saying that ghosts like A Jian, who were taken in by us, were not under the control of heaven and earth, and still retained their own soul and wisdom. After a long time of cultivation, they could become ghost immortals. If they could be recognized by the three religions, they would break away from the ghost path and become genuine gods!
I couldn't help but think of the scene when Si Jiangchen recognized Huang Dabiao...
If possible, it would be so good if A Jian and Wang Yingxiu could stay with us forever and be free from the suffering of the Six Paths of Reincarnation!
As my thoughts were turning, I heard Ma Su's voice say anxiously again, "Master Lu, you can't listen to Miss Du. She... she's a fan! In order to meet Song Yixuan, she lured him to the apartment she rented. Song Yixuan probably refused to comply, so she pushed him out of the window and he became paralyzed! Now, we don't know who paid her, but she insists on arranging a ghost wife for young Song with a woman who has been dead for a long time! How can someone who practices Taoism but doesn't do good deeds speak so confidently?!"
I knew that Ma Su was very eloquent, but this kind of upside-down talk really opened my eyes!
Ninety percent of what she said was true. I did lead Song Yixuan to Wang Yingxiu's apartment, and he did fall out of the window. I also arranged the whole ghost marriage for Wang Yingxiu!
But what was the cause of all this?!