A sharp pain suddenly shot through Nian Nian's abdomen. Instinctively, she turned around and saw the little monk who had disappeared earlier standing behind her, with a sinister smile on his face.
Drip, drip.
The area where she had just felt the pain was wet and sticky.
Nian Nian opened her mouth, trying to say something, but a gush of uncontrollable metallic sweetness welled up in her throat and spurted out.
Her body involuntarily fell backward.
She instinctively looked down at her abdomen.
There was a big hole pierced through by the demon - subduing pestle.
It hurts so much...
Nian Nian twitched the corners of her mouth, wanting to cry out loudly, but her throat felt as if it was stuffed with cotton.
Tears welled up in her eyes but were forced back.
There was still one last thing to do.
The most important thing!
She had to finish it before she could fall.
Enduring the tearing pain in her body, Nian Nian gritted her teeth and managed to turn around again with great difficulty.
She pasted the talisman with a bit of fresh blood on it onto the pillar.
Instantly, purple thunderbolts flashed. All the ghosts that had gathered around were turned into black smoke and disappeared without a trace in that instant.
The little monk standing behind Nian Nian was also electrocuted and twitched all over.
Nian Nian gritted her teeth and held on for a second, then reached up and tore off the talisman.
Then she closed her eyes and fell backward.
As her vision blurred, she seemed to see her eldest senior brother and third senior brother running towards her desperately.
It must hurt a lot to fall on the cold stone platform.
Hmm...
But she didn't feel the pain.
It must be her third senior brother or eldest senior brother who caught her.
Hehe.
"Nian Nian! Nian Nian!"
Shen Weixun managed to catch Nian Nian just in time before she hit the ground.
But seeing the little girl breathing faintly, he panicked and didn't know what to do.
The Black and White Impermanence finally rushed to Nian Nian's side at this moment.
They frowned tightly, their eyes full of heartache.
"Hurry up. Seal her acupoints first. If this continues, Nian Nian will bleed to death."
The Black Impermanence hurriedly reminded.
Only then did Shen Weixun regain a bit of his senses. He quickly and clumsily tried to stop Nian Nian's bleeding.
The bleeding was stopped, but it was only a temporary solution.
The demon - subduing pestle that had pierced through Nian Nian had been nourished by evil energy for a long time. It was no longer a holy magic weapon but an evil one full of filth.
Just now, when the thunder formation was activated, they could only watch helplessly as Nian Nian got into trouble but couldn't get close.
Especially the Black and White Impermanence.
As Yin messengers, they were a type of Yin souls.
The thunder was a natural restraint for them as Yin souls.
If they rushed in rashly, they might end up being scattered to the winds along with Nian Nian.
So they could only stand there stupidly outside and watch Nian Nian fall.
The culprit, the little novice monk, was lying on the ground, electrocuted and motionless.
The White Impermanence squatted on the ground and carefully examined the body of the little novice monk.
"It's just an empty shell. There's no soul in this body anymore. Before, it must have been occupied by some wandering ghost. Now the evil ghost in his body has also been scattered to the winds by the thunder."
Shen Weixun remained silent.
None of these things mattered to him. The most important thing now was whether there was any way to save Nian Nian quickly.
The evil energy entering her body would accelerate Nian Nian's life's passing.
Even if they rushed Nian Nian to the hospital for timely treatment at the fastest speed, it would be useless as long as the evil energy remained.
The key was that there was also a curse mixed in this evil energy, which was extremely complicated.
"Damn it! Who on earth is causing all this trouble? Show yourself! If you have the guts, come at me! What's the point of hurting my disciple!"
Daoist Qingyun was almost exploding with anger.
His wife was suffering inside the small building, and he just let his guard down for a moment, and his little disciple almost died.
These successive blows had almost pushed him to the brink of collapse.
"Master, calm down first. The most urgent thing now is to treat junior sister. Do you have a way to break the curse junior sister is under? As long as the curse is removed, the evil energy won't be a big deal."
Mu Yanchen quickly grabbed Daoist Qingyun who was about to rush out blindly to find the culprit.
Trying to stay calm, he hurriedly asked.
"Yes! Yes! Save your junior sister first."
Daoist Qingyun rushed back to Nian Nian's side in a hurry. He first checked her breath and pulse, then formed hand seals and placed his hands on Nian Nian's body.
A faint wisp of black air emerged from above Nian Nian's forehead but quickly shrank back in the blink of an eye.
But in just one second, he caught the aura of the curse.
"Damn it, it's him again."
Although a Taoist priest shouldn't swear, Daoist Qingyun really couldn't hold back his temper.
This familiar curse, this familiar aura, this familiar spell.
Wasn't it the work of that bastard Gu Heng who had killed his wife back then?
It was him again, always him!
The thing Daoist Qingyun regretted most in his life was getting to know Gu Heng.
He had even confided in this kind of person and befriended him.
"Master, is there any way to break it?"
Seeing that Daoist Qingyun recognized the curse, Shen Weixun quickly asked.
"I can't break it. We have to find Gu Heng."
Daoist Qingyun sighed helplessly.
Since he had known Gu Heng, the latter had been researching this curse.
It was a spell passed down from their ancestors.
By the time it was passed down to his generation, it was almost half - lost.
All he could get were just a few scattered words. He didn't know why the most crucial part hadn't been passed down.
Gu Heng had spent his whole life trying to complete this spell.
Back then, when Gu Heng killed his wife, he had used this very spell. But at that time, he hadn't fully mastered it. If his wife hadn't been an ordinary person with no means to fight back, Gu Heng wouldn't have succeeded so easily.
And now, it seemed that he had finally completed the spell.
The function of this curse was to curse another person through a medium and then steal that person's lifespan.
The stolen lifespan could be transferred to another person or to himself.
There were many spells in the world that could steal and transfer others' lifespans.
If it were just that simple, Gu Heng wouldn't have spent his whole life pursuing this spell.
The most heaven - defying thing about this curse was that unlike other similar spells, there was no discount when stealing others' lifespans.
For example, if you stole twenty years of lifespan and transferred it to someone else, it might only be one or two years with other spells. But with this curse, you could transfer exactly as much as you stole.
If successfully researched, in a certain sense, it could make a person immortal.
The most crucial thing was that this thing not only stole lifespan.
It could also steal the other person's fortune while stealing their lifespan.
If used on a person who was also a Taoist inheritor, it could even steal their cultivation.
Back then, he had tried to persuade Gu Heng that this kind of spell was a heresy and not a good thing, and told him to stop researching it.
But Gu Heng had said that he just wanted to complete the spell so that the craft passed down by their ancestors wouldn't be lost.
The most ridiculous thing was that he had actually believed this excuse.
He should have realized back then that Gu Heng was a person with evil intentions, which was why he was so obsessed with this curse.