Upon seeing Hu Tangdi's imposing manner, Shang Lin hurriedly stopped him, saying, "Don't hurt my classmate, he's been possessed."
Hu Tangdi's curled fingers instantly shifted, the target changing from Meng Zhe's neck to his face. Then, with a flick of his fingers, he slowly pulled out a spirit.
She Jinxing rushed forward, catching Meng Zhe's body as he was about to fall with one hand, and using his magic with the other to make Su Jinghang and Lin Shengqi, who had been awakened on the bed, fall asleep again.
Shang Lin immediately lifted the mosquito net beside Meng Zhe's bed. "Put him down first."
He turned back to Hu Tangdi and said, "Take him out and ask what happened. If you can accept it, then accept it; if you can't, then wait for me to perform a ritual to help him pass on to the afterlife."
Hu Tangdi grabbed the spirit and vanished instantly, thinking to himself, "What's the point of asking? Just scattering it is the right thing to do. Daring to cause trouble for their sect leader, this is the result they deserve."
Shang Lin naturally had no idea what Hu Tangdi was thinking. Instead, he quickly checked Meng Zhe's condition and was relieved to find that he was not injured. However, being possessed by a spirit would require him to rest for a few days.
After seeing Shang Lin cover Meng Zhe with a blanket and put the mosquito net up, She Jinxing asked, "Is the Sect Master alright?"
Shang Lin looked at Su Jinghang and Lin Shengqi again and asked, "They just fell asleep again, right?"
She Jinxing hurriedly replied, "Yes."
More worried about Shang Lin than the others, She Jinxing asked again, "Is the Sect Master alright?"
Shang Lin then replied, "It's nothing. She's just a young girl. Maybe she has some lingering attachment, which is why she's unwilling to leave. Let's go and take a look."
After saying that, he reached out his hand to She Jinxing, "But I'll have to trouble you to take me out, the second floor is still too high for me now."
She Jinxing wanted to say, "Just leave it to Senior Sister to handle, Sect Master can rest." But seeing Shang Lin's outstretched hand, he could only do as she said.
Despite his young age, the sect leader exudes a calm and composed aura. His words always inspire genuine admiration and inspire people to subconsciously follow his instructions.
When Shang Lin and She Jinxing found Hu Tangdi, she was standing on the roof of the girls' dormitory building, holding the right hand of the girl Shang Lin had mentioned in her left hand. The dormitory building only had four floors, but this height was just as dangerous for ordinary people.
Upon seeing that She Jinxing had brought Shang Lin over, Hu Tangdi immediately glared at him, but said to Shang Lin, "Sect Leader, don't worry, I'll dance with her once and she'll..."
Shang Lin immediately interrupted Hu Tangdi, "What's going on?"
As a demon cultivator, and one who had been sealed away for nearly a thousand years, Hu Tangdi had no affection for humans and naturally couldn't empathize with them. Moreover, in the demon cultivator's worldview, there was only the law of the jungle, meaning that only the strong were fit to survive, and the weak either fought or died; there was no third way.
So Hu Tangdi simply replied calmly, "Because of her introverted personality, she was always ostracized by her classmates. After a long time, she couldn't bear it anymore and jumped off here. But she was still unwilling to give up and kept trying to find those people to jump with her. The sect leader must have been targeted by her."
If an ordinary person heard Hu Tangdi say this, they would be terrified, but Shang Lin calmly nodded, "Yes, I saw her when I finished evening self-study."
To be honest, although Shang Lin is human, the cultivation world he inhabits is even more ruthless than the demon world Hu Tangdi knows. And this ruthlessness involves real life, so in some ways, he lacks empathy even more than Hu Tangdi. He's like a god who coldly observes the world without joy or sorrow.
However, after Shang Lin transmigrated to the human world, he struggled to live with his illness for three years, deeply realizing the fragility of life and the importance of health. Naturally, he couldn't bear to see young men and women doing things that didn't cherish their bodies and lives.
But what's done is done, and he can't change the girl's fate now. He can only help her fulfill her wish. So Shang Lin walked up to the girl, smiled, and reached out his hand to her, "Since you've chosen me, then I'll jump with you. I hope you enter reincarnation soon and be happy in your next life."
Upon hearing Shang Lin's words, Hu Tangdi and She Jinxing said in unison, "Sect Master, you mustn't."
Hu Tangdi tried to pull the little girl to his side, but Shang Lin stopped him with a completely indifferent remark: "With both of you here, do you think anything could happen to me?"
Hu Tangdi immediately stopped moving, and finally reluctantly let go, saying in a low voice, "Then the sect leader shouldn't have risked his life. Your health isn't good."
In response to Hu Tangdi's words, Shang Lin simply smiled and then said to the little girl, "Let's go."
The little girl seemed not to have heard Shang Lin's conversation. She stubbornly pulled him to the railing on the roof and then jumped off without hesitation. Shang Lin followed, and Hu Tangdi and She Jinxing hurriedly caught up, fearing that something might happen to their sect leader.
If an ordinary person could see this, they would be terrified, but Shang Lin didn't care about that. The little girl's memories from her previous life rushed into his mind as he leaped into the air.
The little girl was born into a family that favored sons over daughters, and her family was also poor. There were population restrictions at the time of her birth, so her father divorced her mother. Unfortunately, her remarried mother also had a daughter.
Her mother couldn't make a living raising her alone, so she remarried. But in a small county town, could a woman with a child marry well? As a result, the girl developed an introverted and insecure personality from a young age.
My grades were just average when I was in school. After all, geniuses are a minority, and most people have similar intelligence. To stand out, you need strong support from your family, both spiritual and material. At the very least, you need a stable learning environment.
But the girl's family wanted her to finish nine years of compulsory education and then start earning money, and then marry a man who could afford the dowry in two years. Unfortunately, the kids at school also bullied her.
Although the bullying at that time was not like the bullying that Chu Jiusheng and others did to Su Jinghang, how could a child who was already so fragile that he could collapse at any moment bear it? Instead, it became the last straw that broke the camel's back, and thus ended his young life!
Even so, the girl's family only sought some compensation from the school and then let the matter drop. The classmates who bullied her continued to study and live their lives as usual.
The little girl thus became a vengeful ghost, constantly seeking targets to jump off buildings with, like a bound spirit.
As Shang Lin's feet touched the ground, the little girl's soul instantly turned into specks of light and vanished. As the light and shadow disappeared, he seemed to hear her say, "Thank you."
After the ghost baby incident, Shang Lin encountered another tragedy of male chauvinism. Even though he doesn't have much empathy, he couldn't help but feel emotional, so he stood in the darkness without moving.
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