"Is it fun to take the blame?" Gu Yuan's words made me freeze for a second.
This guy is truly shrewd. Our little schemes as the three little ones can't be hidden from his sharp eyes at all.
I awkwardly tugged at the corner of my clothes and said, "You... you've seen through it. Third Master is really wise."
Gu Yuan didn't say a word. He just stood there coldly.
"I'm sorry. I was mainly afraid that you would punish Jixiang, so I took the blame for him. He already knows his mistake. I guarantee on Jixiang's behalf that there won't be a next time."
"Aren't you afraid of being punished?"
"Afraid, of course I'm afraid. But I'm also wrong. I should have escorted that thing back with him. So if you want to punish someone, punish me."
"Are you willing to accept any punishment?" Gu Yuan took two steps towards me.
I frowned tightly, closed my eyes, and nodded firmly.
"Then take off your clothes."
"Ah?" I opened my eyes wide suddenly. Could he be punishing me in that way?
"Hurry up," Gu Yuan urged.
My face was burning hot. It was so embarrassing.
Is this even a punishment? Forget it. His waist isn't fully recovered yet. This might hurt his waist.
"Then take it easy on your body."
I unzipped my coat, took it off, and threw it on the bed.
When I was halfway through taking off my inner wear, Gu Yuan suddenly handed me a coat and said, "Put this on. There's a job. We need to go right away."
My hands hung in mid - air, and the corners of my mouth twitched. This was a major social - death moment.
It seemed I had thought too much. While Gu Yuan wasn't looking, I quickly put on the coat. It was so shameful.
"If I go with you, what about that bead?" I asked Gu Yuan.
"Let Jixiang investigate it to make up for his mistake."
A smile curled up on my lips, and I gave Gu Yuan a sweet smile.
It seemed Gu Yuan wasn't so heartless after all. I was increasingly impressed by him.
As soon as Gu Yuan left, I suddenly remembered Bai Qi's matter of entering the altar. I quickly followed his steps.
I explained Bai Qi's situation to him.
After Gu Yuan heard that Bai Qi wanted to be my body - guarding messenger, he seemed to have foreseen it. There was no change on his face, and he readily agreed.
While Gu Yuan was away, I quickly lit incense, wrote Bai Qi's name on the altar, and specifically marked that from today on, he would be my body - guarding messenger.
Before we left, Gu Yuan threw me a backpack and reminded me that from today on, I had to learn to invite the immortals to possess me by lighting incense.
After all, there was not just Gu Yuan as the immortal in my altar now, and I also had a body - guarding messenger following me. Today he would officially open my spiritual channels.
So in the future, if I wanted to invite the immortals from all paths in the altar to possess me, I had to light incense first and then chant the incantation of the helper. Only in this way could I more effectively summon the immortals I wanted.
After I took the big backpack and checked the various things inside, I suddenly felt that at this moment, I was Gu Yuan's legitimate disciple who could go on missions.
We didn't drive when we went out. It seemed this job was not far from our altar.
"Gu Yuan, you haven't told me what kind of job this is," I said. To be honest, this backpack didn't look big, but it was really tiring to carry.
"This time we won't fight against ghosts but against people," Gu Yuan said.
"Fight against people? Who?" I asked curiously.
"The person who secretly worships the Five - Path Gods."
"Wasn't the statue already destroyed by us? I always thought it was worshiped by Huai Ji and his people."
Gu Yuan didn't say a word. Instead, he stared at a sneaky middle - aged man in front. He threw a small pebble, which hit the man's knee exactly.
As the middle - aged man knelt on one knee, there came a cry of "Ouch..."
Gu Yuan said to me, "Follow him."
The man seemed to notice me. After looking at me, he started running away.
I followed him all the way and chased after the man desperately. He was tall and thin. One step of his long legs was equivalent to three steps of mine, and his speed was astonishing. It was really a pity that he didn't go to run track and field.
After chasing for a while, when I really couldn't catch up, Gu Yuan put his arm around my waist. In a flash, we had blocked the man in a corner.
When the man saw me suddenly appear, he was so scared that he trembled all over, as if he had seen a ghost.
I was out of breath from running. Even after Gu Yuan put me down, I still leaned on my knees with both hands, gasping for breath.
"Since... huff... since you could catch up... huff... why did you let me run?" I was so tired that I gasped for breath after every word.
"This is my punishment for you."
Then he whispered in my ear, "And more importantly, I want you to exercise more so that you can last longer when we do things next time."
My face turned as red as an apple. "..."
The next second, Gu Yuan said seriously to me, "He has the aura of the Five - Path Gods on him."
"You're the one who worships the Five - Path Gods, right?" Gu Yuan possessed me, and his voice carried a stern interrogation.
"How do you know? Who on earth are you?"
"I'm the one who will get rid of scum like you."
The man was shocked by Gu Yuan's intimidating power. His body went limp, and he knelt down.
"I didn't mean to harm anyone. I'm also a victim."
Gu Yuan must have already calculated that he would meet this man here. Everything was in his plan.
This man's name was Wei Shan. He was indeed the one who worshiped the Five - Path Gods. He was engaged in the shipping and aquatic product business. He had been very successful in the past few years and had earned a lot of money.
But in the past two years, he didn't know what bad luck had befallen him. He had encountered shipwrecks one after another, and almost all the money he had earned was lost.
In order to turn his luck around, through a friend's introduction, he got to know Ma Liu, the disciple of Ma Banxian. He heard that they were well - known people who could handle spiritual matters here and had great abilities.
So he spent all his remaining money to ask Ma Liu to help him turn his luck around and earn money.
Ma Liu invited the Five - Path Gods for him and worshiped them in that cave shrine. After that, he didn't need to worry about anything else.
He just had to offer a large amount of money as incense money to the immortals on the first and fifteenth days of each month.
Strangely enough, since he started worshiping the Five - Path Gods, his luck really turned around. Even when there were huge waves in the shipping business and other ships capsized, his ship could ride the waves and safely deliver the goods to the destination.
Everything was going smoothly until two days ago, when many uninvited guests suddenly came to his house.
These uninvited guests were none other than the evil ghosts among the Five - Path Gods he worshiped.
The statue in the shrine was destroyed by Gu Yuan. Many female evil ghosts killed by the Five - Path Gods became homeless wandering souls, so they naturally came to find the person who worshiped them and wanted his life.
Seeing so many evil ghosts in the middle of the night would definitely scare a person who knew nothing half to death, not to mention hearing the evil ghosts talk.
After finally escaping back, he thought he could go to Ma Liu to help him get rid of the evil ghosts.
But this guy actually told him that he couldn't offend Huai Ji, the Five - Path God. He couldn't kill these evil ghosts. He could only consider himself unlucky and bear the consequences.
Wei Shan felt that he had been cheated. After narrowly escaping death, when he saw me chasing him, he thought it was the evil ghosts coming to claim his life again.
Now that he knew there was an immortal on me, he hoped that we could help him. While getting rid of those evil ghosts for him, we could also get rid of Ma Liu, the troublemaker.
As long as we could handle it well, he was willing to pay a reward of 500,000 yuan.
500,000 yuan! That wasn't a small amount. Just hearing this number made my eyes light up.
Gu Yuan, however, said indifferently, "Ask him to add another 200,000 yuan."
This was the first time Gu Yuan had valued money so much.
But Wei Shan didn't hesitate and readily agreed.
After the deal was reached, Wei Shan led us to find Ma Liu. Just as we were about to enter Ma Liu's villa, an old woman appeared outside the door.
"Girl, I advise you not to get involved in this mess, or you'll get burned."