According to Yan Lang, if Gu Zhisang is willing to take on the position of 'special instructor' of the spirit group, her relationship with the underworld will be the same as hers - although she is not a ghost messenger, she can arrest ghosts and connect to the underworld.
As a specially hired member of the Spirit Group, she is not bound by the various rules of the Spirit Group and does not have to work from nine to five.
The rest of the salary, intelligence, etc. remain the same as usual.
It can be said that in an official organization, such treatment is already very sincere.
However, Gu Zhisang knew in his heart that although he was only a non-staff instructor, in the eyes of Xuanmen and other metaphysical organizations, agreeing to the invitation of the Ling Group was actually on the same side as the official.
If Xuanmen was still the same Xuanmen as before, Gu Zhisang, who was once the master of Xuanmen, would reject Yan Lang without hesitation and devote himself to the secular world.
But now the Xuanmen is full of intrigues, complicated forces, and even deeper hidden dangers. It is no longer the Xuanmen that Master Junhong Taoist built with his original intention, which gathered the world's metaphysical talents to uphold morality.
After a little consideration, Gu Zhisang nodded in agreement.
"Can."
Yan Lang and Zheng Ruyu looked at each other and saw relief and joy in each other's eyes.
The reason why they value Gu Zhisang so much and want to bring her into the camp is that there is a lack of high-level masters in the spiritual group.
There are very few known Earth-level Xuan Masters, all of whom are the leaders of major factions and the heads of some super families who have secluded themselves from the world.
They have deep knowledge and long life span.
Take the head of Yiyuan Temple, Taoist Qin, for example. He has lived for at least two hundred years.
Yan Lang had seen him when he was still a young man and had just taken over the spiritual group. At that time, Taoist Chang Qin had white hair tied up high and looked to be at least sixty or seventy years old.
After several decades, Yan Lang himself had turned into an old man with half of his body buried in the ground, but Taoist Chang Qin still had the appearance of an immortal and was in very good health.
Such old seniors are often closely involved with their families and factions, so it is impossible for them to escape alone, and therefore they will not join the spiritual group.
The highest-ranking person in the group at the moment is Master Xuan, who has a personal grudge against the Ganqing Temple in the Xuanmen sect.
He had been stuck at the eighth level of Xuan for more than ten years, and had not been able to break through to the Earth level.
Also, since the Spirit Group does not have an Earth-level Xuan Master in charge, they are often suppressed by the Xuan Sect.
They have no say at all.
Based on all of the above, the addition of Gu Zhisang alone can completely reverse the disadvantaged situation of the Spirit Group.
Yan Lang smiled gently and said, "Welcome Miss Gu to join us. It won't be considered a violation of the rules if you read these documents now."
"To be honest, we do have a master in our group who is related to the underworld, and we also know that Miss Gu is looking for information about the 'black fog'. In fact, the Spirit Team first discovered the existence of this thing and it had nothing to do with the metaphysical world. It can be traced back to a major case that shocked the whole country thirteen years ago."
"Ms. Gu, please take a look at this document first."
Gu Zhisang took the document and opened it. It recorded a serial murder case in a certain province thirteen years ago.
The criminals brutally killed six unrelated young men and women in two cities in the province and mutilated the bodies of the dead in various ways.
The magnitude of the case at the time caused panic among the people.
After spending a lot of effort to catch the man, the police discovered that he was a mentally twisted pervert.
The reason why he killed those men and women was simply because they were good-looking, knowledgeable, well-behaved... and had a series of popular characteristics, or had a good family background.
The pervert felt that it was unfair and unbalanced, so he killed.
After the case was solved, the entire Internet was condemning this narrow-minded and vicious criminal, but the police were the only ones who were still puzzled.
Yan Lang's voice of recollection rang out in the reception room:
"When the criminal was arrested, the local police were very surprised. How could a short, weak and feeble-minded man kill so many victims and evade arrest by the police several times as if he had divine help?
Later, when we were investigating in his home, we discovered the statue for the first time.”
Gu Zhisang understood: "Thousand-Faced Su God."
"That's right." Zheng Ruyu took over the topic and nodded, "In this major trafficking case in Southern Province, we also found that villagers in two villages were worshipping this 'Shu God'. According to their confessions, the statue was provided by the head master, who specified that they should worship it regularly."
"We are now basically certain that this is an evil god."
Zheng Ruyu said, and stood up, took out a golden bronze statue from the cabinet behind him, and placed it on the table:
"This is the offering we found in the home of Wu Feng, the village chief of Xiaoyan Village."
Gu Zhisang looked over and saw that one of the multiple layers of the statue was facing her. It was a lifelike and sad face.
It is obviously a tragic scene, but it makes people feel frightened and uncomfortable.
Zheng Ruyu said, "We discovered thirteen years ago that after killing the victims, the criminal would take their organs and offer them to this statue. But it was the first time we saw such a strange statue, and we didn't think about it from a metaphysical perspective, so we ignored it."
"Later, more and more secret cases surfaced, and behind them there was a vague shadow of the statue. That's when we began to pay attention to this object."
Gu Zhisang asked: "Do you have any idea now?"
Yan Lang said: "We have extracted a special power from the statues, some captured criminals, and the bodies of the Xuan Masters."
As he spoke, he glanced at Zheng Ruyu beside him, and the other party took out a small transparent statue from the safe.
A wisp of thick gray-black gas can be clearly seen in the transparent instrument, swimming and colliding in the small square as if it has life.
Gu Zhisang was a little surprised: "How did you do it?"
She had fought against this "black fog" several times and was very clear about its lethality.
In addition to corroding the master's meridians and body, it can also affect people's minds.
Even she had only ever succeeded in getting a small clump.
Yan Lang smiled and said, "Actually, this 'black fog' was not taken out by the Spirit Team. I asked my friends at the Research Institute to extract it using official scientific instruments."
"By the way, Miss Gu, you have solved several cases before. There were some mysterious masters behind the scenes who were helping the evildoers. After those people were caught, we also used instruments to detect the same substance in their bodies. The composition of this "black fog" is very special. It is not a soul, and some fluctuations can be detected."
Gu Zhisang:?
This is truly a scientific way of exorcising evil spirits and a materialistic way of catching ghosts.
After reading all the findings of the Spirit Team, Gu Zhisang didn't actually get much useful information, but it was better than nothing.
She changed the subject and asked:
"Mr. Yan just asked me to help check the evil spirit in a person's body. Is it your relative or descendant?"
Yan Lang shook his head and said, "The Yan in his last name is the same as Yan Xiao Yan Yan, he has no relation to me."
Hearing this familiar surname, Gu Zhisang's heart moved.
"Before, a group of people from Xuanmen came to the city where I was broadcasting live and surrounded me. They mentioned this person at the time and asked me to 'donate' the jade finger bone, otherwise I would be putting the safety of the people in the world at risk. Could it be that Mr. Yan is talking about the same person as them?"
Yan Lang felt a little embarrassed, as he had also heard about what happened at that time.
In order to prevent Gu Zhisang from thinking too much or still feeling dissatisfied, he explained:
"It is indeed the same person, but that young friend Yan had no idea that the people from Xuanmen would do those things from the beginning to the end. They all acted on their own initiative. He is also very sorry about this matter, but he has never found a chance to apologize to you because his health... is indeed too poor."
To describe Yan Cheng's current situation as bad is an understatement.
Yan Lang sighed and said, "It's a pity for that child. He was born with a strong evil spirit that could not be resolved. He was determined to be a 'bad omen' and evil spirit since he was a child. He was almost killed on the spot. In the end, he managed to survive and was extremely smart and built up the family business today. It's such a pity to have such a fate..."
From Yan Lang, Gu Zhisang learned that this person's name was "Yan Cheng".
During this period, the evil energy in his body had become worryingly heavy, and his condition was also very dangerous.
The masters of the three major forces of Xuanmen have people waiting at Yan's house 24 hours a day, waiting to eliminate him when he completely loses control.
Because of Yan Lang's entrustment, and the fact that Gu Zhisang was indeed a little curious about the legendary "evil summons" that had made the Xuanmen fearful for more than 20 years, she thought about it and agreed.
But she always felt that the name sounded familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had heard it.
Gu Zhisang said, "Since Mr. Yan has spoken, I can go and take a look at the situation. If the situation is really critical, I can lend you the jade finger bone."
Yan Lang's expression lit up: "That's great, let me thank Miss Gu on behalf of Yan Cheng!"
He immediately asked Zheng Ruyu to send a car to take them to the Yan family.
Arriving at the famous mountain villa in Rongcheng where every inch of land is worth a lot of money, Gu Zhisang seemed to have sensed something and looked at an area not far away from the car window.
She already knew where Yan Cheng was.
I saw that the sky above that area was covered by a large formation like a curtain, separating the area below from the surrounding environment. The person who set up the formation was quite skilled.
Even so, there was still a faint light gray gas leaking out from the formation, which was enough to give a glimpse of how strong the evil spirit within the formation was.
Seeing this scene, Gu Zhisang's original three points of curiosity turned into seven points.
就在这时，久违的系统忽然跳了出来，在她脑海中分外激动道：
“桑桑！！你现在要去的是晏家，你知道晏承是谁吗？！果然世界剧情是不会轻易放弃的，就算你远离了男女主但他们还是会因为种种原因相爱，你还是会成为他们人生路上的大反派！”
听着脑海中系统激动又没头没尾的话，顾之桑一头雾水：“你在说什么？和剧情有什么关系？”
系统：“晏承就是本文男主晏许归的早死大哥呀！！”
顾之桑：……？
她终于想起这个名字哪里耳熟了，原来她听系统讲剧情的时候，听过一次。
系统喋喋不休道：“我刚才去看了一眼男女主的情况，果然他们还是相见、并且互生情愫了！虽然这次没有救命之恩俩人的感情进展要慢上许多，但也在往正轨上走了。”
“所以这和我有什么关系。”顾之桑。
系统：“桑桑你想啊，书中的剧情是男主的天才大哥早死，他才能顺理成章地成为夏国晏家的唯一继承人，否则以他书中最开始的人设：不喜欢经商的赛车手，他怎么可能接替他大哥的位置啊！”
“如果晏承这个一力顶起晏式集团、把晏家的产业翻了百倍的大boss不死，那晏式的股票可比铁坨子还稳当，根本就不存在骤跌和商业危机了，那男主就没有压力没法成长成熟，女主也就不能用自己的锦鲤好运次次帮助他逢凶化吉，两个人的感情升温就会更慢……”
系统的小嘴叭叭不停，数到最后理直气壮道：“这么看的话，如果桑桑你要把晏承早死的命运改变了，你可不就是阻碍男女主情感、事业的大反派了？”
顾之桑哭笑不得。
这时严朗的车子已经开入了偌大的晏家。
一进入阵法之中，周围外泄的煞气便更加明显。
感受着此处的力量，顾之桑能够理解为什么玄门的人对这个凡俗世间的晏承如此重视了。
他现在就像一颗储存‘凶煞’的罐子。
罐子的储量有限，已经到了濒临爆炸的极点。
只要晏承这个容器撑不住，那么如此多的煞气必然会把他转化为千百年难得一见的大凶之物、为祸人间。
顾之桑更好奇了。
这个晏承究竟是什么人，才会有这样凶的命格？
他一介肉/体凡胎，又得有多强大的毅力才能在这样的‘凶煞’侵蚀下存活二十多年？
跟着严朗走进晏家主厅的时候，顾之桑发现此处的人数竟然不少。
数名服饰各异的方外之人或垂眸假寐、或盘膝打坐，但从众人放在法器上随时准备祭出的手，以及他们紧绷的身体和锁住的眉头，仍可看出他们并没有表面上看起来那么轻松。
所有人都在紧张地等一个结果。
守在门口的玄师看到严朗，唤了一声：“严先生。”
他看到严朗身后的顾之桑后，眼睛不由大睁。
屋内的众人听到声响，也都侧目看来，一时间神色各异。
顾之桑感受到一道怨念深深的目光投射在自己的身上，她顺势看了过去，发现那人非常眼熟，正是当时去围堵自己抢夺玉指骨的其中一名玄师。
她无视那人的目光，去打量房间内的其他人。
其中沙发上紧紧攥着手、神情紧张的夫妻俩，以及他们身边锁紧眉头的青年人，是屋内唯三的身上没有太多能量的人。
这说明他们不是玄师，是普通人。
顾之桑听到那青年一直在低声安慰：“妈你别紧张，大哥他一定不会有事的……”
当她的目光扫到那说话人的侧脸时，她目光一顿，有些惊讶地停在了青年的侧颜上。
很像。
这个青年的侧脸很像她的故人——曾经寄居在山头和她作邻居的那个病弱小皇子晏回山。
就是现在这个角度，让她第一眼看去时有些幻视。
但稍稍细看就会发现二者并不是一个人。
晏回山的鼻梁直挺线条清晰，但这个青年的鼻骨略微向下回弯，并非是那种俊气温和的气质。
联想到彼此间同样的姓氏，顾之桑忽然意识到了什么。
这个晏家，不会和晏回山有什么关联吧？
就在她出神时，被她忽视的那名玄师心中愤愤，认为顾之桑是故作姿态想要羞辱自己。
他涨红了脸阴阳怪气道：“这位不是霸占着‘玉指骨’不愿意拿出的顾之桑小姐么，现在怎么同灵组的严先生一起过来了？我要是你，我都不好意思过来，若不是你当时自私自利不肯拿出来为晏承化解煞气，事情怎么会落到今天这个地步！”
他说完这些话后，所有人的目光都落到了顾之桑的身上。
包括那一对夫妻和青年人。
看到青年正脸的一刹那，顾之桑心头有种说不明的失望。
正脸就不太像了。
其实他五官上确实有晏回山的影子，但这人给她感觉却和晏回山八杆子都打不到边儿。
系统激动的声音在脑海中响起：“是男主！这个就是晏许归！！”
“好哇现在男主和‘痴情女配’正式碰面了，果然，桑桑你和他气场不合呢。”
顾之桑看出来了。
这个晏许归明明是第一次见到自己，眼神却带着明晃晃的不喜。
她心底因着对方和好友相似的五官而生出的略微好感，也彻底消失了。
晏许归也在打量传说中的顾之桑，听到了旁边玄师对她的指责，心中生出阵阵不满。
他一直听玄门的人抱怨，说这个顾之桑有多霸道、见死不救，就是不把‘玉指骨’给大哥用。
要知道这个东西从名义上讲，还是他们晏家祖宗的东西呢。
再加上他最近喜欢上了一个娱乐圈中的女明星。
那个女生名叫于风清，温婉善良，他一见钟情。
晏许归在网上搜索了对方的信息，还去对方的超话里看粉丝的安利和种种留言，其中就看到了不少粉丝发的这个顾之桑和于风清是前队友。
两人之间多有恩怨，以前对方常常欺负于风清，现在直接洗白了。
如此等等，更是让晏许归对此女一点好感都没有了。
见她一直盯着自己看，晏许归皱紧了眉头。
顾之桑对他没了兴趣，扭头看了眼那叫嚣的玄师。
见对方嘴巴一动还要张口，她指尖一弹，灵光直接投射到了那玄师的嘴唇上。
顿时那玄师的嘴巴像被无形的胶黏在了一起，无法开口说话。
他脸色更涨怒目而视。
顾之桑语气冷淡：“既然不会说话，嘴巴也没有张开的必要了。”
另一玄门的老者缓缓开口，目露精光：“这位顾小友未免也太过霸道了，随随便便就给同道中人下禁言术，严先生，这就是你们灵组之人的做事方法么？”
他心下震惊。
顾之桑怎么出的手他根本就没看清，并且在禁言术生效的瞬间，他便试图解除，可却无济于事。
这说明顾之桑的等级和能力比他强？！
严朗一摊手，无奈道：
“道长误会了，顾小姐是我们灵组的‘特聘指导员’，并不是灵组的人，更何况她地位比我高，我也管不了她。”
“呵。”老道冷笑一声，“这种话严先生也说得出口？难道不是……”
此时忍无可忍的中年夫妻哑着声音开口打断：“诸位，这里是晏家不是你们玄师的地盘，我儿子还在危急中，可以不要吵了吗！”
严朗看向符轻岸和晏鹤夫妻俩，开口道：“符女士，这位是顾之桑，她听说了晏承的情况特意来看看能否帮上什么忙。”
符轻岸红着眼眶和顾之桑握了手：“顾小姐，谢谢你不计前嫌愿意过来，之前那些事……是我们晏家没有交接好，让你受委屈了。”
顾之桑道：“这位夫人严重了，我只能说先看看情况，能否成功我也没有把握。”
“这样就很感激了。”
说着，他们把顾之桑引到了刻有阵法和贴着符箓的门口。
不少默默看着的玄门玄师心中微妙。
里头的煞气有多浓重、凶狠，他们都是感受过的。
这个顾之桑还是年岁小太嫩了，竟然就这么愣头愣脑地直接进入，被那些煞气冲撞，恐怕不死也要脱层皮！
但饶是如此也没有人出声提醒。
打开房门后，顾之桑迈步走入。
一进入房间，铺天盖地的‘凶煞之气’便鱼涌而上，潮水般的压力和负面情绪一波接着一波，试图同阴煞之气一同往她体内涌。
恍惚间顾之桑仿佛听到了无数凄惨痛苦的嘶吼，坠入地狱恶鬼道。
但她只有一瞬间的晃神，强大的神魂力量便让她彻底清醒。
她环顾四周，发现屋内被沉沉煞气笼罩，依稀能看出这间屋子的主人品味简约大气，略显冷淡。
视线的尽头是一张床，上面平躺着一个人影，正是煞气的来源。
顾之桑抬脚走了过去，每凑近一点周围的煞气便更凶猛一些，部分阴煞甚至突破了她淡淡的护体魂力，把她的皮肤剐地有些疼痒。
After walking to the bedside, she finally saw the face of the young man who was trapped in nightmares and evil spirits.
His eyes were tightly closed, his brows were furrowed, his hair was neatly trimmed, revealing a smooth forehead covered with sweat;
She has a sharp nose, thin lips, and a small mole under her eyelids.
Judging from his facial features alone, he is a very handsome man, though a little frail due to the pain from his illness.
Gu Zhisang was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter after a while.
She is really crazy. Every time she looks at someone, she thinks they resemble Yan Huishan.
The facial features of Yan Cheng were different from those of Yan Huishan, only their outlines were similar. But when she took a quick glance at him, she felt that he was familiar to her.
The system's voice sounded again: "Sangsang, I have found out what you asked me to check. Yan Cheng and the Yan family are indeed descendants of the royal family eight hundred years ago. How did you know this?"
Gu Zhisang: "They are the descendants of the old friends."
She thought to herself, no wonder they looked so familiar. It turned out that Yan Chenghe and his family were most likely the descendants of Yan Huishan, but she didn't know whether they were descendants of his branch.
Looking at the handsome man with a pale face, Gu Zhisang stretched out his hand and took out the jade finger bone.
"Since you are the descendant of an old friend, I will take a good look at you."
After Gu Zhisang activated the jade finger bones, his brows twitched.
She discovered that this jade finger bone did have the ability to suppress evil spirits, but it had little effect on the evil spirits in Yan Cheng's body.
In order to find out what was going on with the evil energy in this person's body, Gu Zhisang stretched out his fingertips and touched Yan Cheng's skin.
Almost at that moment, she felt the evil spirit from Yan Cheng sweeping towards her.
She suddenly opened her eyes, her face full of surprise.
What exactly is this evil spirit? Why can I absorb and dissolve it?
Gu Zhisang felt the burning power in his veins, and always felt that the "murderous aura" of Yan Cheng was too strange.
Not only does it not have much cold power, but it also has a faint burning sensation.
Just like...
It's like the power tempered by thunder and fire, but it's indeed a painful torture.
And because of the special nature of these evil spirits, Gu Zhisang, who has experienced the tempering of thunder and whose soul has become an "earth immortal", can withstand it, but other masters cannot resolve it.
In other words, the only person in the world who can help Yan Cheng is Gu Zhisang.
After discovering this, Gu Zhisang put aside all his confusion and suspicion in his heart and began to carefully absorb the "evil spirit" around him.
The power of thunder and fire hidden in the evil spirit entered the meridians, like a short period of practice and tempering again and again.
Time flew by, and after about ten minutes, the evil aura around the young man on the bed became weaker and weaker.
In the chaos, Yan Cheng felt the bone-gnawing pain wrapped around his body, which faded a lot without him noticing, and his whole body became warm.
This kind of feeling that could be called comfortable was something he had never experienced in more than 20 years, and he wouldn't even dare to dream about it.
The person on the bed's eyelashes trembled slightly, and he slowly opened his eyes.
Feeling something unusually soft in his palm, Yan Cheng tightened his grip slightly. The touch was very much like human flesh.
He still had a confused look on his face and turned his head away.
The next moment, he met a pair of dark pupils' eyes.
Gu Zhisang said calmly: "You're awake."
Yan Cheng:?!
His pupils constricted and he opened his mouth but couldn't say a word, thinking he was still dreaming.
Then Yan Cheng's gaze moved down and he finally saw the soft foreign object in his palm. His throat rolled and he swallowed so nervously that he almost jumped up from the bed.
Because Gu Zhisang was holding his hand, their palms were touching.