"Let's go. Both of you need treatment."
Si Jiangchen ignored the surging law - enforcing ghost officials and picked me up in his arms. Then he turned to Bai Yu, who was on high alert, and said, "Although you're from the Bai family, if you waste time, you'll end up lame."
"But!"
Bai Yu gritted his teeth, his jaw tightening as he stared at the ghost officials who had rushed up to us. He looked like a little hedgehog with its spines up. "How could they let us go?"
As he spoke, two ghost officials, half a foot taller than Si Jiangchen, grabbed his arms from either side.
He was just a zombie. They even thought that the Lord of Mount Tai had made a fuss by sending them.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the two ghost officials touched Si Jiangchen's arms, they felt as if they had touched a piece of burning charcoal. They looked at each other in horror and tried to pull their hands back at the same time. But their palms seemed to be glued to Si Jiangchen's body and they couldn't move at all.
"Ah!!"
The ghost officials were greatly shocked. They had punished countless errant yin officials and wandering souls, but they had never seen such a situation. The chains condensed from the black mist on their bodies immediately flew up and stabbed at us. Obviously, they wanted to pierce through our bodies.
Si Jiangchen took a step forward with me in his arms. As if he had eyes, he just blocked in front of Bai Yu. The chains filled with black mist all penetrated into his body and disappeared.
"..."
The scene of the iron chains capturing souls that the ghost officials had expected didn't happen. The chains that had entered Si Jiangchen's back disappeared like a clay ox entering the sea.
At the same time, the two ghost officials who were holding Si Jiangchen's arms found that they were melting... Si Jiangchen's body was like an unfathomable black hole, which was now showing its extremely ferocious face and sucking the two law - enforcing ghost officials into it.
"Save... save me..."
The incident happened so suddenly that the two ghost officials only managed to shout "save me" before they melted away like snowflakes falling on burning charcoal. The other law - enforcing ghost officials, seeing this, immediately stopped in their tracks. Their ugly and strange faces all turned and looked back in the direction of the Lord of Mount Tai.
"How could you..."
The round face of the Lord of Mount Tai showed a look of surprise and anger. Now that he was in a girl's body, he looked more like a bullied little girl, with even his eye sockets turning red. "You're just a zombie. Our yin - world ghost officials are your natural enemies!"
"... Are you also from the yin world?"
Si Jiangchen narrowed his eyes, with a provocative smile on his lips. "Among the ten palaces and five directions of the yin world, which one are you?"
"I! I..."
The Lord of Mount Tai opened his mouth. Suddenly, he felt it was a bit boring to say his own identity. So he simply gave a cold snort, broke free from the little nurse's body, and revealed his extremely huge dharma form.
The Lord of Mount Tai, wearing a crown and a robe embroidered with mountains, rivers, the sun, and the moon, exuded an extremely terrifying aura of coercion. I couldn't help but spit out another mouthful of blood, splashing both Si Jiangchen and me.
The round - faced little nurse, without the support of the Lord of Mount Tai, fell to the ground with a "thud".
"Xiao He?!"
Si Jiangchen couldn't see the spirits that were crowded in the room. He only saw me spitting blood again. Immediately, he sent a silver light with his backhand towards the direction where the little nurse had fallen. It was a silver talisman!!
I had heard from Master Lu that the making of a silver talisman was immeasurable in terms of money. Timing, location, and human factors were all indispensable. Moreover, the talisman paper and ink were all extremely rare things in the world. The cinnabar on the silver talisman was not ordinary cinnabar, but was made by grinding pigeon - blood rubies in a diamond ladle into powder and then mixing it with cinnabar from Sichuan and Guizhou. When making the talisman, the world would be shaken, and countless resentful ghosts would try to stop the birth of this talisman that could restrain all ghosts. They would do everything they could to destroy it.
This was also the first time I had seen a silver talisman being activated. Si Jiangchen's crimson eyes seemed to be dyed silver.
"Trifling skills!"
The huge dharma form of the Lord of Mount Tai had broken through the roof of Master Lu's house. He looked down at us disdainfully from a high position.
That silver talisman, which seemed imposing and carried a powerful spiritual consciousness, was like a tiny firefly in front of the dharma form of the Lord of Mount Tai. He easily raised his palm and caught it in his hand.
"The... the talisman doesn't work!!"
I was shocked. In fact, I also understood in my heart that the Taoist talismans we used were just to draw down a trace of the spiritual consciousness of the heavenly gods and condense it in the talisman paintings. And the Lord of Mount Tai himself was a god! An ancient god!!
How could he be captured by the talisman spirit?
The cold smile on Si Jiangchen's face didn't change. "Whether it works or not is not up to Xiao He to decide!"
I didn't know what his words meant, but there was a sweet and fishy feeling surging in my chest. I quickly covered my mouth with my hand to prevent myself from vomiting blood and distracting Si Jiangchen.
The Lord of Mount Tai crushed the silver talisman like snuffing out a lampwick, and then said complacently with a smile, "So, you're also a Taoist priest?!! Why... don't you kneel down when you see the dharma form of the Lord?!"
He thought that once he revealed his dharma form, all of us cultivators would recognize him. Naturally, without his self - introduction, we would immediately worship him.
Unexpectedly, Si Jiangchen completely ignored him. He not only turned a blind eye to his dharma form, but also seemed not to hear when the Lord of Mount Tai condescended to talk to him. He actually stepped out of the room.
"Stop!! You bastard!"
Although the Lord of Mount Tai was an ancient god who had been forgotten, it was just that no one made offerings to him. He felt that he had shown a miracle but was still being ignored. This hateful zombie, Si Jiangchen, was simply lawless!
He couldn't hold back his anger any longer. He raised his palm as big as a hill and pressed it down on Si Jiangchen's back.
"Be careful!!"
Si Jiangchen couldn't see the spirits, but I could see clearly. If that palm really hit Si Jiangchen, his body would probably be seriously injured like mine.
In response to my warning, Si Jiangchen just sneered. "Since he hurt you, even if he's a god, I won't spare him!"
The silver talisman was the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Si Jiangchen naturally knew that the power that could suppress the silver talisman must be either a god or a celestial being.
However, there was no sign of uneasiness on his face at all. When he spoke, it was as if he was talking about the yellow - skinned weasel that had bullied me.
"Bold! How dare you!!"
The Lord of Mount Tai also heard the contempt in Si Jiangchen's words. He was so angry that he didn't show any mercy like when he used the Mount Tai spiritual stone against me. Instead, he added all his divine power to this thunderous palm.
In my eyes, that huge palm descending from the sky gradually turned into slow - motion. I could even see the palm lines clearly. I had to hug Si Jiangchen's neck tightly, trying to protect him.
Unexpectedly, that sky - covering palm suddenly split into pieces less than half an inch away from me!!