Chapter 45: The Art of Living and Dying Together
Shen Zhiyi took out the intact wick and put it into the triangular yellow talisman. She chanted a spell and the yellow talisman turned into fire, burning the wick into ashes, which all fell into her palm.
The three people who witnessed this scene widened their eyes.
Qin Xiaoyi's eyes were shining with excitement, and she had the urge to kneel down and become his disciple!
"Solved. From now on, when you go out, avoid committing adultery."
"Did you hear that?" Qin Yong's wife twisted his ear with a fierce look on her face.
Qin Yong didn't care at all. He wholeheartedly felt the lightness of his body, as if he was reborn.
"Thank you, Miss Shen. Don't worry, I will make sure you are satisfied with the divination fee!"
Seeing his always majestic and aloof father suddenly become like a younger brother, Qin Xiaoyi admired Shen Zhiyi even more.
Shen Zhiyi put some ashes into his pocket and said nonchalantly, “Just pay according to the market price.”
She doesn't like to owe favors to others, nor does she like others to owe her favors.
Although Qin Yong nodded repeatedly, he had already made a list of thank-you gifts in his mind.
"Okay, you can go back now." Shen Zhiyi said and turned to walk inside.
As he walked, he frowned.
Out of the corner of her eye she caught a glimpse of a slender figure walking beside her.
"Do you have anything else to do?"
Qin Xiaoyi knelt down with a thud, clasped his hands together, and said with a pious expression: "Master! Please accept my disciple's bow!"
Shen Zhiyi: “Hmm?”
"Master, I've loved studying this field since I was little, and I long to become a person like you. Please accept me as your disciple! I'll be obedient and do whatever you tell me to do!"
Shen Zhiyi laughed, "Miss Qin, let's just be classmates. I have nothing to teach you."
"No, Master!"
Qin Xiaoyi chased after her, but was finally stopped outside the gate by the disciples of the Taoist temple. She had to go back temporarily and think of another way.
On the way back in the car, the atmosphere between the parents was weird and they were on the verge of quarreling.
She quietly shrank into a corner and sent what had just happened to the Heir Alliance group.
After listening to her narration, Qi Song and others laughed again.
But this time, Pei Dan chatted with her privately.
Pei Dan: My father's condition has gotten worse, even though they haven't found the cause. It's a bit like the symptoms you described of being possessed by an evil spirit. (Image)
The attached picture is a current photo of Pei's father.
Qin Xiaoyi was surprised at first sight.
Uncle Pei, who has always been known for his ageless youthful appearance, has wrinkles all over his face and gray hair in the photo, looking like an old man in his eighties or nineties.
Pei Dan sent a voice message, his tone mixed with sadness and helplessness, saying that the doctor had given up and determined that his father had an incurable strange disease and could only live for a month at most.
Qin Xiaoyi, a metaphysics enthusiast, quickly responded, "Your father must have been possessed! I heard from my dad that they both went to the same place together, so their so-called illness must have been caused by the same thing."
Pei Dan was a materialist and laughed: "That sounds nonsense..."
"Will you die if you try it?" Qin Xiaoyi couldn't help but roar.
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Shen Zhiyi returned to the room, entered the Tai Chi Diagram APP, activated the scanning function, scanned the ashes of the phone, and immediately a clear route appeared.
At the end of the route, the target is marked with a solid green dot.
It’s only three kilometers away!
Shen Zhiyi packed up his things, planning to make a quick decision and go home to protect Lady Xiao.
As soon as I went out, I saw my master, Taoist Qingshan, leaning against a red pillar and snoring.
The sound of the door opening woke him.
"Master, I'm going to run something. Please think carefully about what happened last night and give me an answer when you come back."
Qingshan said: "Where are you going?"
"The caster of the Life-Extending Lamp has appeared. I'll go and collect it."
"sit down."
Taoist Qingshan's voice sank.
Shen Zhiyi looked at him doubtfully, “Master, are you going to stop me?”
"I'm not trying to stop you. I'm asking you to let her live and let me talk to her."
“…”
If this isn't stopping, what is?
Shen Zhiyi became interested and gossiped, "What kind of relationship do you have with her?"
Qingshan tapped her forehead: "Anyone can forget her, but you can't. When you were a child, she held you in her arms and fed you milk!"
Shen Zhiyi was stunned: “My wet nurse?”
"Ahem, I feed her with formula, so I can be considered a wet nurse."
Shen Zhiyi didn't find any relevant memories. She only remembered her senior brother and master. No woman could leave a deep impression in her mind.
"She is my senior sister, obsessed with the evil art of immortality. I have been looking for her all these years. Persuading someone to lay down their butcher knife is also a meritorious deed. Give her a chance."
Shen Zhiyi retracted his thoughts and said seriously: "That won't do. Killing demons and doing justice for the heavens is the duty of the Xuanmen. I can't go against the will of heaven just because she fed me when she was a child."
"She has also harmed many people. Her sins are unforgivable and must be eradicated."
These principles have always been taught to her by her master.
Qingshan didn't explain, but said, "Let her go this time. If she doesn't listen to me this time, you can do whatever you want to her next time. If she listens, I can tell you what you asked me last night."
“…”
Very cunning and cunning.
She said, "Master, we all understand your spiritual abilities. You are walking into a tiger's mouth by doing this."
Everyone in the circle knows that Taoist Qingshan is highly respected and can be called a know-it-all in the Taoist sect, but his actual combat skills are very average, even inferior to many of his juniors.
"After all, we are from the same school. She won't give me face." Qingshan was very confident.
Shen Zhiyi counted with his fingers and had an idea in mind.
"That's fine. I'll go find her again in a day."
"Well, be obedient."
Qingshan nodded with satisfaction, turned around and left.
Shen Zhiyi pulled him back and said, "Master, are you cheating?"
The old master glanced over and said quietly, "I almost forgot."
“…”
"The situation with your suspected pursuer is also a formation, but it's not recorded in any books. It's a unique secret method created by a pair of Taoist masters and apprentices three hundred years ago, so very few people know about it."
Shen Zhiyi held up his chin and listened carefully: "What formation?"
"The formation is called 'Live and Die Together'. The caster and recipient share compatible blood, their destiny intertwined, and their prosperity and adversity intertwined. In fact, when it was first created, this spell wasn't called a sorcery. It was only later, when someone with ulterior motives stole it and used it to commit the unethical act of stealing lives, that it became known as a sorcery."
He twirled his beard and said slowly, "From your description, it seems the person your suspected suitor is bound to has a bad fate and is in danger of losing his life. So, he's not only failing to gain anything but losing the rice. Not only will this not help him survive the great calamity in his life, but it will also devour all his luck and fortune, and he'll be haunted by evil for the rest of his life."
Shen Zhiyi was confused: “Why is this happening?”
Qingshan raised an eyebrow: "When this happens, it's either because the caster did it intentionally, or because the caster is not very skilled and can't see the true fate of the owner of the evil spirit, and mistakenly tied the two together."
(End of this chapter)
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