It only pities human love.
A bitter, poignant feeling welled up in Wu Zi's heart, difficult to express. He looked at Xu Yi with a hidden sadness in his eyes… which caused the supervisor to sigh again…
Seeing the supervisor sighing repeatedly, Xu Yi asked, "Supervisor, why do you keep sighing? Is something difficult to handle?"
"With me here, what's difficult to handle?" The supervisor glanced at Wu Zi: "It's just a matter of compassion for human love..."
"Huh? Human love?" Xu Yi thought of the skeleton in the well and asked incredulously, "Did the senior in the well have any romantic entanglements?" Xu Yi thought of a possibility and her eyes widened: "His relationship with that leopard demon?"
"What are you thinking about?" The supervisor's whisk swept past Xu Yi, interrupting her reverie: "Nonsense."
"Huh? Wasn't it what you meant by having compassion for human love?"
"Tsk...did I say it was the one down in the well?"
"Who...who else could it be?" Xu Yi asked, puzzled.
"If you don't know, then forget it." The supervisor said no more.
Wu Zi finally recovered and bowed to the supervisor, saying, "Supervisor, let's go upstairs and rest for a while." Then he said to the innkeeper's waiter, "Bring up some food."
After the three were seated in the room, Wu Zicai told the supervisor about Fenyu. The supervisor nodded: "I know that kid Fenyu. His cultivation is not bad, but unfortunately his mind is not upright and unstable. However, he has not caused any major trouble, so I have not paid attention to him for the time being... This is also the reason why I came here in person this time... If he still does not restrain himself this time, I will have no choice but to send him to the Yellow Springs to cultivate again for another lifetime..."
When the supervisor mentioned rebuilding, Xu Yi clearly sensed a tangible killing intent, and even the air seemed to tense...
Xu Yi asked uncertainly in a low voice, "Supervisor, do you really want to kill him?"
"Our Taoist whisk can slay demons and monsters, but it never kills people; it all depends on how it chooses to do so."
Xu Yi's heart skipped a beat. Since leaving the mountain, she had only ever seen Wu Zi slay demons and monsters, and had never included humans in the scope of those who could be killed. Now, hearing the supervisor say this, she was very shocked and asked again, "Are you really going to kill him?"
Unexpectedly, the supervisor laughed twice, stroked his beard, and said, "Being attached to existence or non-existence is also attachment. Little Xu Yi, you must remember this."
Xu Yi felt that this sentence was not an answer, but it was indeed an answer... Xu Yi suddenly remembered a pool of water she had encountered on her way to her wedding. The pool was small, only two or three miles wide, but it was very deep, so deep that the bottom could not be found... However, its color was ordinary light blue, and its appearance did not show any abnormality...
Xu Yi was truly impressed by the supervisor's level and depth of knowledge, so he stood up and bowed to the supervisor very solemnly: "Thank you for your guidance, Supervisor."
The supervisor waved his hand, "You're welcome, little Xu Yi." Then he tapped Wu Zi with his whisk, saying with exasperation, "Xu Yi understands, but you don't. Don't you know the difference between you and her? Different paths, different paths..."
The whisk tapped Wu Zi's head repeatedly, making his mouth bitter, his heart ache, and his head feel dizzy. After a while, he finally composed himself and greeted the supervisor, saying, "I understand."
"You understand in your words, but you can't let go in your heart. You still have a long way to go..." The supervisor sighed to Wu Zi.
Xu Yi was completely confused, but Wu Zi smiled and comforted her, saying, "The supervisor is talking about me, it has nothing to do with you."
"Oh," Xu Yi nodded blankly, then put the matter aside.
The supervisor, observing from the sidelines, couldn't offer any words of comfort to the young couple deeply entangled in love, since teaching is never about preaching... so he changed the subject: "Let's go and confront that malevolent spirit tonight..."
"Okay." The two nodded in unison.
After the three of them had rested for the night, they headed towards the mass grave. However, the mass grave was unusually quiet that night, with not a breath of wind and even the ghostly aura on the ground was very thin, completely lacking the eerie atmosphere of the previous days...
"This... seems a bit too clean?" Xu Yi asked Wu Zi.
Wu Zi glanced at the supervisor: "After all, a powerful being has arrived. It's not stupid; it naturally knows how to restrain itself."
The supervisor flicked his whisk and asked Xu Yi, "Little Xu Yi, where did you go down from last time?"
"I can't remember either. The well edges around here are all repaired in pretty much the same way, so I really can't tell the difference..."
"Oh? Then let me borrow a wisp of your ghostly energy to scout ahead..." With that, he pointed and pulled at Xu Yi's brow, and a wisp of dark ghostly energy flowed out from between Xu Yi's eyebrows...
"Oh, primordial ghost energy?" The supervisor exclaimed, "Not bad, little girl."
Xu Yi looked at the black beads, which had faded in color considerably, and felt a pang of heartache... but she couldn't say anything, so she could only nod symbolically as an answer.
"Haha, little girl, don't be disappointed. If you extract ghost energy in the same way I do, you can form lines and networks."
Huh? Is that so? "Then I'll try it next time."
"Hmm," the supervisor nodded to Xu Yi, then tossed Xu Yi's ghostly aura upwards, injecting a wisp of golden magic power. Xu Yi's thread-like ghostly aura expanded like ink in water... until it spread into a large black cloud that shrouded the horizon, gradually covering the area within ten miles of the mass grave.
The sky was obscured by Xu Yi's ghostly aura, and the surroundings darkened. Xu Yi discovered that he could sense his surroundings through the ghostly cloud above his head. Just as he was marveling at this, he saw layers of black mist slowly rising from the land shrouded in ghostly aura, growing thicker and thicker until it covered the three of them up to their calves before stopping...
Xu Yi immediately felt a strong gravitational pull. "This way..." Xu Yi said to Wu Zi and Jian Zheng, and then followed the gravitational pull and jumped down into one of the wells.
When the three landed, they saw the scene of ten thousand ghosts worshipping that Xu Yi had witnessed on her first night...
In the center remained the skeleton of the elder, surrounded by unconscious souls kneeling in concentric circles radiating from the skeleton…
"That's exactly what I saw that night." Xu Yi turned around and realized that the supervisor and Wu Zi were shrouded in his ghostly aura, as if they were wearing a ghostly cloak: "Supervisor, what's going on?"
"I'll borrow your ghostly aura to see what you see." The supervisor flicked his whisk and asked Xu Yi, "These spirits don't seem to have any consciousness?"
"Yes, that's how they usually are. They just sit there, not moving, but when they're tainted by that malevolent energy, they become irritable and go berserk, attacking anyone they see."
“Oh, then let’s collect these unconscious spirits first, and release them after this malevolent energy is resolved…” After the supervisor finished speaking, he nodded to Wu Zi, and the two of them took out identical cloth bags from their robes and began chanting incantations. The cloth bags slowly grew larger, and Xu Yi then saw that the inside of the bags was densely covered with runes…
Under the pull of the bag, the dazed and confused souls around were drawn in one by one, and the number of souls around them dwindled... When the supervisor and Wu Zi had collected about a third of them, a sudden change occurred. The malevolent energy on the skeleton seemed to sense the decrease in the number of souls around it, and it actually awakened prematurely. Dark gas seeped out from the skeleton's left shoulder, and it instantly transformed into the shape of a leopard, leaping out from the skeleton's shoulder and roaring at Wu Zi and the supervisor...
With a fierce roar, the surrounding spirits awoke rapidly, struggling to raise the bones from their bodies as they charged towards Xu Yi and his companions...
Xu Yi quickly mobilized his ghostly energy to block it, but saw the supervisor beside him smile calmly, throw the cloth bag in his hand to Wu Zi, then take out a jade gourd, open it, and chant an incantation over the skeleton. Under the gourd's summons, the skeleton swayed little by little and began to approach the gourd...
Seeing the skeleton approach the jade gourd, the leopard was both angry and anxious. It leaped a few times and charged towards the supervisor. The supervisor laughed and said, "Little Xu Yi, stop the leopard."
"Huh?" I'll stop the leopard? Xu Yi felt this wouldn't work, but since the supervisor had spoken, he must be confident. So he gathered another surge of ghostly energy and blocked the leopard's path...
But one cannot do two things at once. While preventing the crazed spirits around them from getting close to Wu Zi and the supervisor, Xu Yi was also using his ghostly energy to resist the murderous aura that permeated the area. He was soon overwhelmed... The surrounding spirits kept breaking through Xu Yi's ghostly energy barrier and getting closer to Wu Zi and the supervisor. Wu Zi was manipulating two cloth bags to absorb the surrounding spirits, so he couldn't spare any hands to deal with those rushing over...
His body was quickly pierced by those sharp bone spikes... Meanwhile, the murderous intent that had solidified into a tangible form kept crashing against the ghostly energy barrier that Xu Yi had condensed. With each impact, the ghostly energy barrier flickered, as if it would shatter at any moment...
This won't do... We must save Wu Zi first. Xu Yi made up her mind and used her will to manipulate ghost energy into threads that flowed towards the souls in front of Wu Zi. The ghost threads were soft and light, passing through the souls in front of Wu Zi one after another. The souls that were pierced were quickly absorbed by the ghost threads and turned into part of the ghost threads...
With the spirit in front of Wu Zi dealt with by Xu Yi, Wu Zi quickly continued to absorb the surrounding ghosts at an accelerated pace... The supervisor, on the other hand, seemed to be having a much easier time. Perhaps it was because the supervisor himself possessed sufficient power, so no spirits approached. The supervisor was solely focused on collecting the skeleton, which, attracted by the energy, swayed and slowly moved towards the jade gourd...
Seeing this, the leopard grew even more anxious and rammed into Xu Yi's ghost energy barrier with all its might... The barrier flickered faster and faster, and Xu Yi was anxious, cold sweat pouring down his face... He accelerated the mobilization of the black beads in his body to continuously release ghost energy to strengthen the barrier, but the ghost energy in his body quickly became weak and insufficient. Xu Yi saw the black ghost threads still wandering beside him, so he used his will to recall them and quickly replenish some ghost energy, but this was far from enough...
Just as Xu Yi was at a loss for what to do, the supervisor placed a hand on Xu Yi's back and said, "I'll help you." Xu Yi felt a chilling ghostly aura continuously pouring up from the soles of her feet. Wherever that ghostly aura touched, even Xu Yi, a ghost, got goosebumps... So cold...
But Xu Yi had no time to pay attention to that at the moment. He focused all his attention on channeling this energy throughout his body and reinforcing the ghostly energy barrier in front of him. This ghostly energy was enormous and contained wisps of golden magic power. It was incredibly powerful and expanded rapidly, connecting the ghostly energy barriers on both sides of Xu Yi and forming a semi-circular ghostly energy shield that firmly resisted the leopard's attack and the violent bone spikes...
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