I've seen a living person beaten by a ghost messenger.
When I was learning Taoist magic from the Taoist priest of the Maoshan School, I met one of his junior brothers. That man was said to have tried to deceive the ghost messenger in order to change the fate of his good friend. Although ghost messengers can't casually take away a person's soul, they can impose punishments.
Half of that junior brother's face was missing skin and flesh, and even half of his lower jawbone was torn off. So he had to wear a mask all day long and was reluctant to take it off even when eating.
Si Jiangchen couldn't see ghosts, so he naturally couldn't avoid the ghost messenger's slap!
That's why I threw myself forward desperately, trying to block that slap. But I was holding Granny Bai in my arms, and my foot tripped over the power cord of the monitor beside the bed. I suddenly fell forward.
"Xiao He, watch out!"
Just as the ghost messenger slapped at Si Jiangchen's face, Si Jiangchen happened to bend down and reach out to catch me. The ghost messenger's powerful attack missed. He thought he was bound to succeed and didn't hold back any strength. Suddenly missing his target, he actually staggered like an ordinary person!
Si Jiangchen had helped me up. Without time to talk to him, I took out a talisman and slapped it into the air. It was a Liuding Liujia Evil-Suppressing Talisman, a kind of talisman that uses the divine power of the celestial gods to suppress evil spirits.
Although the ghost messenger was officially appointed, his essence was just a ghost from the underworld. Just now, Si Jiangchen had drawn a talisman in the air and shattered the hat and the official appointment talisman on the ghost messenger, which proved his rank. I just took this opportunity to temporarily suppress him.
The yellow talisman silently slapped on the ghost messenger's forehead.
"How dare you..."
He didn't have time to finish his words before he was suppressed and couldn't move.
At this moment, I didn't care about the doctors and nurses who were staring at me in astonishment as if I were performing a mime. I stuffed the hedgehog in my hand into Si Jiangchen's arms and reached out to grab the chain around Du Wenzhong's neck.
That chain was forged by the boundless power of the underworld over countless years. It carried all the power and forbidden spells of the ten palaces and eight wastelands of the underworld. I grabbed it regardless. The originally black chain immediately emitted a terrifying red light, like the fire of hell flowing through it. My hand felt like I had grabbed hot magma. The burning pain mixed with a tingling sensation instantly rushed into the veins of my body.
"Ugh!!"
I gritted my teeth desperately and tried to pull the chain off Du Wenzhong's neck, but the soul - capturing chain seemed to be welded to his neck. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't move it an inch.
The great pain from my palm had blurred my consciousness. I just held on with a will not to let myself fall!
Du Wenzhong! A Wen!!
He was my little follower, my friend, my family!!
He had accompanied me all his life. I couldn't just watch him leave this world! I never thought that one day he would not be by my side!! I didn't know what I would become if there was no such greedy, vain but kind - hearted old man in this world!!
"Grandpa!!! Du Wenzhong! You're not allowed to die!!!"
I desperately bit my lips to keep myself a little sober, but the magma - like feeling on the soul - capturing chain instantly turned into an extremely powerful electric current. It spread from my palm to all my limbs and tried to blow me away.
"Ah!!"
My hand trembled violently. I was about to lose my grip on the chain when a hand reached out from behind me and firmly held my wrist. With a lift and a pull, it easily took the soul - capturing chain off A Wen's neck. The moment the chain left the human soul, it melted with the wind. A cloud of black air seeped into my palm. Immediately, my ten fingers were as black as if they had been struck by high - voltage electricity.
"The stars above the great stage respond to changes without cease. They drive away evil and bind demons, protecting lives and safeguarding bodies..."
I forced myself to recite the Heart - Cleansing Spell. Then I slapped Du Wenzhong's soul, who was still in a daze, and pushed him back into the body on the hospital bed.
"Beep... beep beep beep..."
The instruments that had already given out long - tone alarms began to show signs of life again. The emergency doctors who had originally planned to give up started to get busy again.
Watching them surround the hospital bed and carry out the rescue in an orderly manner, I finally couldn't hold on any longer and fell backward.
I wasn't worried about falling because Si Jiangchen was always behind me.
Sure enough, Si Jiangchen put his arm around my waist and helped me to the nursing table in the emergency room.
My hands were completely stiff. Although there were burn - like marks, rustling black crystals were constantly falling off.
This was the harm caused by the extreme cold from the underworld to a living person's body. Although I was a zombie with non - decaying bones, I still maintained the vitality of a human body...
"How did it suddenly become like this?"
The round - faced little nurse who had brought us in saw my mime - like performance throughout. The yellow talisman I slapped really disappeared into the air, which made her feel both strange and curious. From the moment Si Jiangchen held my wrist to the moment my hands turned completely black, it was just a split second. She didn't even blink!
She wanted to grab my wrist to check my injury, but Si Jiangchen stood in front of me and smiled faintly, "Thank you. Just find us a bandage."
I knew he was afraid that the things in my wound would infect the little nurse.
"Okay... all right."
The little nurse brought over a roll of bandages. Si Jiangchen had already helped me sit on the chair.
"Don't worry about me. I'm fine!"
The sudden disappearance of the great pain just now made me feel relieved. At this moment, my hands were numb and I had no feeling. Seeing that Si Jiangchen was still holding Granny Bai in her original form, I quickly shook my head and said, "Please help us save this hedgehog!"
"How is that possible? I'm not a veterinarian! I still have other patients to attend to!"
The little nurse naturally refused my almost unreasonable request without hesitation.
But I was just desperate. I couldn't just let Granny Bai die of her serious injuries!
"Please bring some disinfectant and hemostatic medicine."
Si Jiangchen's calmness seemed even more reliable at this time. Now that we were stuck in this emergency room and couldn't go to a pet hospital, we could only bandage the festering wounds on Granny Bai's body first.
The little nurse nodded and soon came back with a bottle of iodine and a bottle of Yunnan Baiyao. "I think it seems to have been injured in a fall. Give it the small red pill in the Yunnan Baiyao. If there are internal injuries, it can stop the bleeding."
"Ah!!! Thank you!"
I thanked her gratefully. Si Jiangchen had already put the hedgehog on the nursing table and was using cotton balls to clean the dirt on the wounds.
"Come on, let me treat your wound."
The little nurse thought it was unreasonable for Si Jiangchen to treat the hedgehog's wound first, so she walked up to me and said, "Your wound seems to be anthrax caused by being frozen in liquid nitrogen. If you don't get treated quickly, you may have to have your limb amputated!!"