"You'll stay in the hotel quietly today. Don't go anywhere. I'll go and catch the culprits for you. I'll send you a message once I've caught them. If you dare to be disobedient and run around, and I can't find you when I get back, you'll be hung on the crooked tree in front of the Taoist temple with your second senior brother!"
Seeing the nonchalant look on Little Yuanzi's face from the corner of his eye, the Taoist Priest Qingyun knew that this punishment wouldn't scare her, so he quickly added another sentence.
"Don't worry. When I hang you up, I'll definitely capture that little ghost. No one will chat with you, and no ghost will bother with you."
Ah, wouldn't that be so boring that she'd die?
Hanging upside down on the tree, with the blood flowing in the wrong direction, she couldn't even sit in meditation to pass the time. She'd just have to swing back and forth on the tree boringly.
If she were hung there for a whole day, her body might not suffer much, but it would be a great mental torture.
Although Nian Nian didn't understand why her master had become so strict and even resorted to punishment to threaten her, she still obediently nodded.
She didn't dare to ask. She simply didn't dare. Her master's face looked so grim right now.
"That's my good girl. Early this morning, I set up a formation in this room. You can sit in meditation here at ease. If you're hungry, eat the food in your bag. Don't tell me there's nothing to eat. I saw your father stuffing a lot of things into your bag before you left. Alright, now tell me the locations of those two."
The Taoist Priest Qingyun tapped Nian Nian on the forehead. After giving her another worried reminder, he got the addresses calculated by Nian Nian and left the hotel.
The room instantly fell silent.
Little Yuanzi looked around and felt the refreshing aura. She knew that this was the formation specially set up for her by her master.
Sitting in meditation and regulating her breath in this formation would make her feel energetic.
She hadn't had a good rest all night yesterday, and now her body was quite tired. As a well - behaved child, Nian Nian didn't waste much time. She got ready and started to regulate her body.
It was just staying in the room for a day. It wouldn't be that hard to endure.
"Alas, it's so boring..."
"Little girl, I died so miserably..."
"Ah, it's so hot! Why is it so hot around here!"
"Jibber - jabber, jibber - jabber, ulala..."
Suddenly, many whispering voices came to her ears. She could understand some of them, but couldn't understand others at all.
Nian Nian slowly opened her eyes and looked around, but saw nothing.
What was going on?
The formation set up by her master would never have obvious flaws. Moreover, formation - setting was her master's forte. He must have carefully surveyed the place before setting it up.
The voices just now seemed to come from various ghosts.
How could there be ghosts in her master's formation?
Ordinary ghosts couldn't get close to the formation created by her master at all.
Nian Nian scratched her head, opened her yin - yang eyes, and looked around again. After making sure that there was no soul around, not even a trace of yin energy, she slowly closed her eyes.
Maybe she had misheard.
Little Yuanzi muttered to herself.
But just as she closed her eyes, the noisy voices came again.
They were so annoying that she couldn't calm down at all.
What on earth was whispering in her ear?
Little Yuanzi puffed out her cheeks, opened her eyes, and searched every corner of the room.
After making sure that she hadn't found any evil things, she angrily went back to the bed.
Fine! They didn't want her to sit in meditation and regulate her breath, right?
Then she'd rest in the most primitive way.
Sleep!
Nian Nian gave up on cultivation. As soon as she closed her eyes, countless ghosts would talk in her ear. There was no way she could calm down.
To recharge her energy, she should at least be able to sleep.
But just as she closed her eyes, in a daze, the jibber - jabbering voices rang out again.
And this time, the voices were much louder than before.
She could clearly catch what the other side was saying, but she couldn't understand a single word.
It was really inconvenient in a foreign country. She didn't even know what language the ghosts were speaking.
Nian Nian couldn't find the locations of those ghosts, but she thought that since she could hear them, they couldn't be too far away.
She opened her mouth and shouted in ghost language, "What do you want? What on earth do you want?"
"I want to invite you to come and play with me. I'm so uncomfortable. I'm really so uncomfortable!"
"Yes, come and play with us quickly. We're really so uncomfortable!"
"I can't hold on any longer. Come and play with us quickly..."
Countless ghosts replied in ghost language. Their words were almost the same. They were just inviting her to play with them and saying that they were very uncomfortable.
Little Yuanzi had never heard such nonsense in ghost language. For a moment, she even thought that she might have translated it wrong.
Of course, that was absolutely impossible.
She dealt with ghosts all day long. If she couldn't even speak ghost language or made a translation mistake, she might as well quit this business.
"Where on earth are you? If you want me to play with you, you have to tell me where I should go, right?"
Nian Nian secretly sighed in her heart. The ghosts abroad were really different. Their voices could travel so far.
They could penetrate the barrier set up by her master and accurately reach her ears.
The ghosts in China weren't that powerful.
But these little ghosts were really annoying. They always chattered in her ear, making it impossible for her to sleep.
Little Yuanzi secretly decided that she must teach these ghosts a lesson later.
Tell them not to bother her anymore.
"You go out and keep walking to the right. I'm at the innermost part when you get there."
"Yes, just keep walking straight. We're all there. Come and play with us quickly!"
"Please come and play with me quickly. We're really so lonely, so bored, and so uncomfortable!"
Hearing where they were, Nian Nian immediately got up and jumped out of bed.
But just as she was about to step out of the door, the words of the Taoist Priest Qingyun suddenly flashed through her mind.
If she dared to step out of this door today and her master couldn't find her in the room when he got back, he would definitely hang her on the crooked tree in front of the Taoist temple.
The little foot that had been stretched out suddenly retracted.
No, no. The consequence was really too terrible. It wasn't worth it just for a good sleep.
"Why did you stop? Don't you want to play with us anymore?"
"Why don't you go out? Go out quickly!"
"I can't stand it anymore. If you don't come and play with us soon, I'll go and play with those people downstairs!"
"Hehe, how about skinning them all?"
"I think it's a good idea. Just skin them all, tear their flesh and blood apart, and make them just like us."