Xia Xia's experience was truly heart - rending.
Nian Nian was still young. All she could think about was how pitiful this ghost sister was.
But Shen Weixun thought a bit more deeply.
For example, the business card that the man named Yang Bei had left behind before he left.
Previously, Shen Weixun only thought the man was a bit crazy and acting after the fact. There had been so many opportunities for him to apologize for his rudeness, but he had to leave a business card at the end.
Now that he thought about it, this man must have seen something from Nian Nian and himself.
Spiritual beasts. Coincidentally, their family had one.
And it was extremely close to Nian Nian.
It was Cheng Huang.
That little thing was still at home, eating and lazing around.
If the man's target was really the spiritual beast, then the only thing that could have attracted him to initiate a conversation seemed to be the aura of Cheng Huang.
But the man was neither a cultivator nor a sorcerer. How did he manage to tell?
Moreover, he had only left his business card. What made him so certain that they would contact him?
There must be a plot.
That was the first thought that popped into Shen Weixun's mind.
"I'm afraid I can't hold on any longer. Can I entrust it to you?"
Xia Xia's soul was becoming increasingly unstable. It seemed as if it was about to dissipate at any moment.
She had missed the ghost messenger who was supposed to escort her soul. After hiding and dodging for so long and absorbing so much malevolent qi from humans, she was on the verge of vanishing completely.
Unless she could quickly make her way to the Underworld to dispel the malevolent qi on her, there was no hope for her.
What she was referring to was the little spiritual cat left behind by humans.
Nian Nian looked at this cute little thing and nodded vigorously.
"Yeah, I've already promised the big spiritual cat. I will definitely take good care of the little spiritual cat!"
Spiritual beasts were rare. It was already a blessing in disguise that they could keep this little thing and prevent the spiritual cat species from going completely extinct.
Nian Nian didn't want the spiritual cat to disappear from the world completely, so she readily agreed.
Xia Xia let out a sigh of relief.
It seemed that since her last wish had been fulfilled, her soul began to dissipate at an accelerated pace.
Seeing this, Nian Nian quickly opened the passage to the Underworld and threw Xia Xia in.
From then on, it was up to Xia Xia's own fortune whether she would have a good or bad fate.
The little spiritual cat currently looked like an ordinary kitten. They could take it back without having to hide it, and it wouldn't attract too much attention.
However, once it grew up, it would be clearly different from ordinary felines.
By then, they would need to find a place where it was less likely to be discovered and raise it there.
When they returned to the guesthouse, Taoist Priest Qingyun was stunned when he saw the little spiritual cat.
He had seen Cheng Huang before. He had thought that it was already extremely lucky for his little apprentice to have obtained such a spiritual beast. But he never expected that just by going out for a while, she would bring back another one.
However, after hearing the origin of the little spiritual cat, Taoist Priest Qingyun let out a long sigh.
"This little thing is fated to be with you. You can take it in for now. As for that man, you don't have to worry about him. He doesn't have much time left."
"Why? There's no sign of death lingering around him. He doesn't seem to be on the verge of death."
Nian Nian didn't understand her master's words. Some facial features could be easily discerned at a glance.
For example, one's lifespan.
The facial features of a dying person were very different from those of a normal person.
One could almost tell the person's fate without having to calculate carefully.
When they first met the man, although he gave people a bad feeling, there was nothing abnormal about his fate.
Taoist Priest Qingyun stroked his little beard and let out a long sigh. "Do you know which clan the spiritual cat has been guarding?"
"I don't know."
Nian Nian shook her head. There was no such record in the books, so of course she didn't know.
"The spiritual cat guards the Witch - Doctor Clan. Witch - doctors can communicate with a kind of spirit between heaven and earth. This spirit is alive and mostly attaches itself to plants to survive. They can use this spirit to treat people's illnesses, and the effect is much better than that of ordinary herbs."
"However, because this healing effect was too miraculous, people regarded this clan as witches. Later, for a period of time, witchcraft was rampant, and people regarded witchcraft as an inauspicious technique. As a result, the Witch - Doctor Clan was also implicated. The spiritual cat was once treated by the witch - doctors. This clan had been kind to the spiritual cat, so it stayed by the witch - doctors' side to guard them. Since then, it has disappeared with the reclusive witch - doctors."
"That man was treated by a witch - doctor. And the witch - doctor has the ability to communicate with their own medicine. As long as that man is still alive, the witch - doctor can find him through their medicine. He killed the witch - doctor's sister and the spiritual cat. That witch - doctor will definitely not let him go."
What Taoist Priest Qingyun was saying was quite a bit of insider information. Some families had spiritual beasts guarding them for generations. Most of them had a profound connection with the spiritual beasts that guarded their families.
However, most of these families would not expose their family guardians.
So others rarely knew the whereabouts of these spiritual beasts.
Regarding the legend of the spiritual cat, he had only heard a few words by chance. Later, he had heard a lot more information, and by piecing together the true and false parts, it had become a story.
The spiritual cat was indeed not a very powerful spiritual beast, nor was it a auspicious one.
But just because it had lived for so many years and could communicate with humans, it was already a rare treasure.
To end up in such a situation was really heart - rending.
"You should take good care of this little thing, and also Cheng Huang. Maybe these two little things will become the ancestral treasures of your family in the future."
Taoist Priest Qingyun happily stroked Nian Nian's head. He asked about the result of the final competition and then went back into the house.
It was already very late. Nian Nian went back to her room to sleep early. When she woke up the next day, the long - awaited evaluation time had arrived.
There weren't many final contestants. It was only at this time that Nian Nian and the others learned that classmate Xiaoming was not a contestant at all.
Instead, he was a professional specifically responsible for supervising their competition process.
Meng Xiaoming gave Nian Nian and Shen Weixun extremely high evaluations. Of course, there was also a bit of friendly bonus.
After all, they weren't very familiar with each other. Under such circumstances, Nian Nian and Shen Weixun had still chosen to take care of his health when they didn't know the situation, which had delayed their own competition progress.
In the end, the matter had been resolved very neatly.
Even the people who had chosen the location were not very clear about what had actually happened in Nanshan. So the fact that it was a ghost causing trouble was not related to the study of feng shui. It was an unexpected event.
One couldn't even say that Nian Nian and Shen Weixun were slacking off and going off - topic.
But this very thing became a point of criticism.
There was another group among the contestants that had extremely excellent evaluations.
It was also a man and a woman.
They were the youngest and most outstanding descendants of the Hu Family and the Liu Family respectively. And the Hu Family and the Liu Family were also the main organizers of this conference.