Chapter 62: Seven Star Life-Extending Lamp: Don’t harbor resentment towards someone else’s fiancée…
Wen Miyan's team was carrying out their mission in Jiangnan City, not far from Linhai City. Ye Yangjia was receiving emergency treatment at the best local hospital, and reinforcements from the Spiritual Master's Mansion could arrive directly by helicopter, saving a lot of time.
Shi Chan got off the helicopter carrying a wooden box and went straight to the emergency room.
Lin Zhuyue followed closely behind.
The emergency room was very quiet at night, and the lights in the corridor were not very good and the light was a little dim.
Wen Miyan lowered her head and sat on the cold stainless steel chair.
Feng Yuansi was also sitting there, three empty chairs away from Wen Miyan. He looked dejected. Finger marks covered his face, and there was blood at the corner of his mouth. Not long ago, Wen Miyan had slapped him hard.
Shi Can wanted to beat Feng Yuansi, but he didn't have time to compete with Feng Yuansi. He just glared at Feng Yuansi with eyes as sharp as a knife, then picked up the wooden box containing the Seven-Star Life-Extending Lamp and followed Fu Xingwei into the emergency room.
Wen Miyan stood up and followed him in.
Lin Zhuyue felt she couldn't help much, and it wouldn't be good to crowd into the emergency room, so she waited outside. She sat down in a chair and waited quietly.
Feng Yuansi, who had been silent for a long time, opened his mouth and asked:
"Do you have anything to say?"
Lin Zhuyue had originally not intended to speak, but when Feng Yuansi asked this, she could no longer suppress the complaints in her heart. She asked:
"Someone has clearly told you not to, why do you still insist on forcibly sending the dead soul away?"
Feng Yuansi lowered his head and said:
"My spiritual weapon is the Qiansi, which is very unfriendly and even somewhat cruel to the dead. From childhood to adulthood, everything I have done to the dead souls has been to control and manipulate, not communicate."
Lin Zhuyue frowned and retorted, "That's not a reason."
"When it comes to the cruelty of spiritual weapons to the dead, you don't even rank. Shi Can's spiritual weapon is Jue Ren, and Wen Mi Yan's spiritual weapon is Fang Tian. Both are very aggressive spiritual weapons. Once used, they will turn the dead souls into ashes."
Lin Zhuyue turned her head to look at Feng Yuansi and asked,
"But do they just kill the dead souls without saving them? Wouldn't it be much easier to just disperse them instead of communicating with them and releasing their obsessions? If they did that, the dead souls wouldn't have a chance to return and cause trouble again. But look closely, which of them did that?"
"Feng Yuansi, the dead were once living people. As long as they didn't do evil, their wishes and obsessions need to be respected."
Wen Miyan walked out of the emergency room.
"Not only do you not take the dead seriously, you also don't take other people's lives seriously."
Wen Miyan was still angry, or rather, she was furious. When she heard Lin Zhuyue and Feng Yuansi talking about this matter, she wanted to lose her temper. She accused,
"This time, the ghost returned and stabbed Ye Yangjia. What should I do next time if it stabs the victim?"
"That ghost was just a five-year-old girl. We could have sent her away, but thanks to you, I had to beat her to pieces. Don't you think that's cruel?"
Feng Yuansi hung his head in silence.
In the emergency room.
Ye Yangjia lay on the operating table, his face pale and near death. The doctor had cut off his clothes, exposing the horrific wound on his chest.
The cauterization and hemostasis had been completed, and the doctors were now giving Ye Yangjia fluids and blood transfusions to prevent him from going into shock due to excessive blood loss. As if the infusion tube wasn't flowing fast enough, one doctor even removed the infusion bag and squeezed it hard, allowing the fluid to quickly enter Ye Yangjia's body.
Not far from the operating table, Shi Can was carefully taking out the lotus glass lamp from the wooden box.
The life-extending lamp is a very delicate thing. When Shi Can was young, he picked a lock and broke one of them. The life-extending lamps were handed over to a special person to repair. It was not repaired until the end of last year and was sent back to the Shi family's house for safekeeping.
Fu Xingwei placed the compass on the ground, determined the direction, and arranged the lamps according to the directions of the seven stars. To prevent the compass from being affected by the magnetic field and indicating a biased direction, he also turned on the compass function on his phone to verify it.
You must be extremely careful when lighting a life-saving lamp. If there is even the slightest deviation, not only may the life-saving lamp fail to be saved, but it may also cause damage to the lamp.
Shi Can arranged forty-nine small lamps with ghee candles in addition to the seven glass lamps.
In this way, the Seven Star Life-Extending Lantern Array was set up.
Shi Chan took out the lamp oil from the wooden box.
The recipe for making the life-extending lamp oil has been lost. However, according to our ancestors, the lamp oil is made from precious herbs, taking the essence of hundreds of herbs, and offering it to the gods. Only after being blessed can it have the effect of extending life.
The lamp oil was a dark red color like blood.
Shi Can unscrewed the lid and added oil to the lamp.
"If you want to light a long-burning lamp, you must know how to add oil."
Every time Shi Can finished adding oil to a glass lamp, he would light the wick of the glass lamp with a lighter and mutter something to himself.
"Those who still have breath will continue to burn out the lamp and make it shine again."
The doctors heard the chanting, but they didn't turn around.
The hospital had explained in advance that the seriously injured teenager was a spiritual master and someone would come to light a life-extending lamp for him.
The doctors didn't quite believe these things, and were even a little worried that the person who lit the so-called life-saving lamp would contaminate the wounds of the injured. However, since they had been told so, they could only cooperate.
As doctors, no matter what methods the spiritual masters use, whether effective or not, they will do their best to save Ye Yangjia.
Every time Shi Can lit a lamp, his face became paler.
The life-extending lamp consumed not only herbal oil but also a large amount of spiritual energy. From lighting the lamp to renewing it, it often required several excellent spiritual masters to take turns supplying spiritual energy.
Not long after, all seven life-extending lamps were lit.
Fu Xingwei lit the forty-nine small candles around him and burned a piece of red paper with Ye Yangjia's name and eight characters written on it.
The life-extending lamp array is completed.
The candlelight flickered, and the faint light rose from the lamp like foam, gradually floating towards the operating table and merging into Ye Yangjia's body.
Fu Xingwei asked, "Did it succeed?"
Shi Chan nodded: "It should be successful."
Shi Can could see a flame on Ye Yangjia's body. It was very weak and almost extinguished. However, after absorbing the light rising from the life-extending lamp, the flame burned a little more steadily.
"You're not in good condition. Go and rest first. I'll be on guard here."
Fu Xingwei took out his bank card from his wallet and said,
"Call the guys outside and get a room nearby. Don't go too far. The life-extending lamp needs to be refueled for at least seven days. I can't hold on any longer."
Shi Can did not take Fu Xingwei's bank card. He looked at Ye Yangjia who was still lying there and left the emergency room.
Outside the emergency room, Lin Zhuyue and Wen Miyan sat next to each other, while Feng Yuansi sat alone on the other side. The three of them looked depressed and listless.
Shi Can walked up to Feng Yuansi.
He finally had time to settle accounts with this transfer student. He grabbed Feng Yuansi by the collar, pulled him up from his seat, and said:
"If you can't adapt to our way of doing things, then don't be a spiritualist anymore. Go back to your parents and herd sheep as soon as possible."
"Stop it."
Wen Miyan stood up and advised,
"If you make a scene, you'll be punished. What do you want to gain by getting punished for him?"
Lin Zhuyue reached out and grabbed the corner of Shican's clothes, shaking his head at Shican.
Shi Can snorted and let go of Feng Yuansi's collar.
"Let's go find a hotel to rest first."
Shi Can said to Lin Zhuyue and Wen Miyan,
"We still have to replenish the life-extending lamp with spiritual power afterwards. We can't do this if we're not in good condition. We don't want to collapse from exhaustion before Ye Yangjia is out of danger."
Shi Can took two steps outside, then turned back and said to Feng Yuansi:
"You come too."
In order to be able to go to the hospital at any time to refuel the life-saving lamp, they chose a four-star hotel very close to the hospital and booked two executive suites.
Shi Chan took a shower, dried his hair, and walked out of the bathroom.
Feng Yuansi sat on the sofa with his head down.
Shi Can was too lazy to pay attention to him, so he went straight into the room, picked up his phone, opened the chat software, joined the family group, and sent a message to tell his parents that the life-extending lamp at home had been used on Ye Yangjia.
His parents had no objections and even showed some concern for Ye Yangjia's situation.
First of all, Ye Yangjia and Shi Can are childhood friends. Although they look a bit plastic, they have always been close friends.
Secondly, Shi Can had an accident when he was performing a mission alone last year. At that time, the Shi family’s life-extending lamp had not been repaired yet. It was Ye Yangjia who saved Shi Can’s life with his own life-extending lamp.
It is reasonable and emotional that the Shi family should take out the life-saving lamp at home when Ye Yangjia is in danger.
Shi Chan placed his phone next to his pillow, covered himself with the quilt and fell asleep.
The next morning, when he woke up, he found Feng Yuansi already asleep on the bed next to him. He was lying spread-eagle, without a blanket, and there were dark circles under his eyes, suggesting he had slept very late.
Shi Chan got up, washed up, and went to the cafeteria upstairs for breakfast. After eating, he bought an extra breakfast coupon and took it to the hospital.
After a night, Ye Yangjia's condition improved somewhat, but his vital signs were still low, and he was still in danger of death.
The forty-nine butter candles on the ground had burned out, leaving only seven glass lotus lamps, each well-filled with oil, still burning. The flames were steady, constantly injecting life into Ye Yangjia's body, tugging at death.
Fu Xingwei sat in the accompanying chair, staring intently at the life-saving lamp.
The Seven Star Life-Extending Lamp could go out suddenly during the first three days of lighting, and it had to be lit again immediately. Therefore, Fu Xingwei was extremely serious and didn't dare to relax for even a moment.
"Teacher, please go to the hotel and have some breakfast."
Shi Can took out the breakfast coupon and handed it to Fu Xingwei.
"Have a good sleep after eating and take some rest. I'll watch over here. Wen Miyan will come over in the afternoon."
Fu Xingwei had just refilled the lamp oil and was very tired. He had no intention of staying awake. He took Shi Can's breakfast voucher and went to the hotel according to the location Shi Can sent him.
Not long after Shi Can had been guarding the life-extending lamp, Feng Yuansi came. Shi Can refused to speak to him and refused to let him into the ward.
Feng Yuansi was very persistent and sat outside without leaving.
In the afternoon, Shi Can and Wen Mi Yan took turns, but Feng Yuan Si refused to leave and continued to sit outside to watch. Shi Can knew that Wen Mi Yan was very annoyed with Feng Yuan Si, so he dragged her out of the hospital.
On the way back, Feng Yuansi thought:
"Wen Miyan seems to hate me."
"Isn't it natural for me to hate you?"
Shi Can picked up some fruits from the supermarket, asked the waiter to cut them up and put them in a plastic box, and said,
"Her partner was fatally injured, and she even killed a ghost that didn't require any forceful measures. You have to understand that for a spiritualist, killing a ghost is sometimes not much different from killing someone."
"We've only been spiritualists for a few years now, and we've seen a lot. We're pretty strong mentally, so we're just upset when we encounter something like this. If it were me, I'd definitely drag him to a psychologist for treatment."
"Oh, right."
Shi Can did not forget to stab Feng Yuansi twice more and said,
"Lin Zhuyue doesn't like you either, so please stay away from her and don't harm her."
Feng Yuansi, who was originally gloomy, raised his head, with a flame of unwillingness burning in his eyes, and said:
"I know it's hard for her to have a good impression of me after something like this. But, aren't you really saying this out of selfish motives?"
Shi Chan turned around and looked at him.
Feng Yuansi said:
"I know that the Shi family and the Ling family have an engagement."
Shi Can's eyes turned cold. He stared at Feng Yuansi closely, and warned with anger in his tone:
"So you knew I was engaged to her? Then you should stay away from her even more, Feng Yuansi. Don't harbor ill intentions towards someone else's fiancée."
This is the first time Shi Chan acknowledges the engagement.
Shi Can took the fruit slices to the cashier to pay, and without caring where Feng Yuansi was dumped, he quickly returned to the hotel.
Instead of returning to his room, he knocked on Lin Zhuyue's door and said, "It's me." Then he heard footsteps from inside the room.
The footsteps were getting closer to the door.
The door was opened from the inside.
Lin Zhuyue was wearing the loose pajamas given by the hotel, with a towel draped around her neck and her head wet.
After seeing Lin Zhuyue, Shi Can's irritability subsided a little.
"I bought you some fruit."
Shi Can handed the fruit box to Lin Zhuyue and asked,
"Why don't you blow-dry your hair again?"
Shi Can entered the room, found a hair dryer from the bathroom, and blew Lin Zhuyue's hair.
Lin Zhuyue was eating sliced fruit while blowing her hair.
When she ate the grapes, her expression became a little strange.
But she tried her best to keep her facial expression tense, turned around with a grape fork, and handed the grape to Shi Can's mouth:
"This is delicious, try it."
Shi Can opened his mouth and bit the grapes. He was afraid that Lin Zhuyue would dislike him, so he was very careful when eating the grapes. He just took the grapes lightly and did not bite Lin Zhuyue's fork.
After the grapes entered his mouth, Shi Can bit them hard, and the juice splashed in his mouth.
Shi Chan’s expression changed.
He pinched Lin Zhuyue's face and asked:
"...You're so jealous! Do you want to murder me?"
Lin Zhuyue said confidently: "You murdered me first!"
After Shi Can finished blowing Lin Zhuyue's hair, he left her room.
Fu Xingwei slept in the room he booked. Shi Can didn't want to live with Feng Yuansi anyway, so he went downstairs to the front desk to book a new room and went to rest in the new room.
In the next few days, several apprentice spiritual masters and Fu Xingwei took turns guarding the lamps and adding oil. Although there were enough people, the spiritual power consumed when adding oil should not be underestimated.
Because Lin Zhuyue had more spiritual power than others, she naturally put in a lot of effort after Shi Can taught her how to add oil to the life-extending lamp.
When she looked in the mirror, she always felt that she had lost weight.
Ye Yangjia woke up on the seventh day.
But it is very likely that it was not the life-saving lamp that woke him up.
He could always hear Shi Chan whispering to him these days:
"Ye Yangjia, if you don't wake up, I'm going to pull out your oxygen tube and put you to death."
After Ye Yangjia opened his eyes, he cursed "beast" with all his strength and fell asleep again.
Ye Yangjia's parents also completed their mission that day and rushed to Jiangnan City to take over the task of adding oil to the life-extending lamp.
Lin Zhuyue and others were finally able to return to Tiancheng.
Lin Zhuyue, Shi Can, and Wen Miyan all took leave and didn't return to school, sleeping soundly at home for two days. Fu Xingwei even fell ill after submitting his report and self-criticism.
Two days later, Lin Zhuyue finally recovered, carried her schoolbag, and went to the classroom as the bell rang.
Shi Can stood up and asked Lin Zhuyue to sit inside.
Lin Zhuyue was a little confused and asked:
"I don't think I saw Feng Yuansi?"
Wen Miyan, who was sitting on the left of Lin Zhuyue, said:
"He received a severe disciplinary action and is under probation. The higher-ups are currently holding a meeting to discuss whether or not to fire him outright. The Feng family has been hiding for too long and no longer has much say in the Spiritual Master's Mansion. If the Ye family is persistent enough, that guy won't be able to stay."
Shi Can opened the textbook and said:
"Even if he wasn't expelled, it would be difficult for him to survive in the headquarters after something like this happened. Who would dare to team up with him?"
During the lunch break, Lin Zhuyue went to Shican's house for a meal.
Lunch was fish skin dumplings, which Lin Zhuyue had wanted to eat before but didn't get to eat. The dumpling skin was made of grass carp meat, so the soup used to cook the dumplings was very delicious, and Lin Zhuyue was very satisfied after eating it.
Shi Can sat opposite Lin Zhuyue, holding Xiaoyu in his arms.
Baguette is a dandelion cat. Shi Can is afraid of eating a mouthful of fur, so he never holds it while eating. But Xiaoyu is still young and hasn't started to shed yet, so Shi Can thinks he should hold it more now.
Lin Zhuyue looked at Shi Can curiously and asked:
"Come to think of it, you've used the life-extending lamp before?"
Lin Zhuyue still remembered that when Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia went to Yuancheng No. 1 Middle School to deal with the female ghost in the toilet, Ye Yangjia called and scolded Shi Can, saying that Shi Can had returned to Tiancheng when he was on a mission alone and used his family's life-extending lamp.
Shi Chan answered calmly:
"Yes, I did. I went on a very ordinary mission, but while carrying out the mission, I unexpectedly ran into a very powerful ghost cultivator who was stealing the souls of children. I fought with him. He died, and I was seriously injured."
He pulled the collar of his T-shirt down.
There is a scar nearly two inches long above the heart. No, it can’t be called a scar because the mark is very shallow.
"I've had scar removal treatment, but there are still traces."
Shi Can loosened his collar, letting the T-shirt bounce back, and said,
"Every time I look in the mirror and see it, it's always an eyesore."
Lin Zhuyue's focus was not on the scar, she exclaimed:
"Do you really have pecs?"
Shican never exposes his upper body whether at home, on the beach or in the training hall. Although his pajamas may occasionally be unbuttoned with a button, it is not enough to let people see his chest muscles.
Shi Can: “…”
What should I do if my fiancée is a sex maniac?
Lin Zhuyue immediately became serious and asked:
"Does it hurt?"
"Of course it doesn't hurt now."
Shi Chan touched the scar through his clothes.
"I felt like I was going to die, and I almost died."
Lin Zhuyue put down the spoon, looked at Shi Can seriously, and said:
"You won't get hurt like this again. You have a partner now. You won't be on a mission alone or in danger alone."
Shi Chan’s heart skipped a beat.
After a moment, his eyes almost melted into water.
"I'm serious, you have to keep your word."
Shi Chan stretched out his little finger and said,
"You must protect me."
Lin Zhuyue felt that Shican was a little childish, but she was really serious. She reached out, hooked her little finger with Shican, and recited the oath.
It was already June when Ye Yangjia returned to school.
He was bedridden for a long time and underwent arduous rehabilitation before being discharged and returning to Tiancheng. However, the Spiritual Master Academy believed that he was temporarily unable to complete missions, and whether he could continue to work as a Spiritual Master needed to be carefully considered. For now, he was only allowed to return to class.
Ye Yangjia returned to the group, but Feng Yuansi left.
Ye Yangjia hoped that his family would not hold Feng Yuansi responsible, so Feng Yuansi was not fired.
However, just like Shi Can said, after something like this happened, even if Feng Yuansi was not expelled from the academy, it would be difficult for him to continue to work in the main department.
Feng Yuansi transferred from the main campus to the Hong Kong branch before Ye Yangjia returned to Tiancheng.
The Feng family's ancestral home was bustling for a short while before it fell into silence again.
Feng Yuansi also looked for Lin Zhuyue before leaving.
No matter where he is, the Feng family is always an ally of the Ling family. If Lin Zhuyue needs him, he and the Feng family behind him will return to her side.
In the training hall after school, Ye Yangjia was asking Shi Can, a veteran, for advice:
"How long did it take you to be able to run and jump again after you were injured?"
"Three months."
Shi Chan asked caringly,
"Do you need help unscrewing the bottle cap?"
Ye Yangjia shouted angrily: "Get out!"
Shi Can obediently went to unscrew the bottle cap for Lin Zhuyue, who was almost exhausted from practicing and collapsed on the bench. After he finished, he received a very sweet "thank you".
Shi Can sat next to Lin Zhuyue, took out his phone and forwarded a message to her, asking as he sent it:
"The driving school we learned driving at before seems to be closing down. Ye Yangjia's and my instructors have moved elsewhere, but Wen Miyan's instructor is still here. I think it's best to find another driving school. Both of them have good reputations. You can decide which one you want to choose."
Lin Zhuyue didn't quite understand this and said:
"It's all fine. Just help me choose."
"I'll ask someone."
Shi Can stroked Lin Zhuyue's hair and asked,
"What brand of car do you prefer? Now you can think about it."
Lin Zhuyue thought for a moment and said:
"I think I should buy a bigger car, and a sturdier one, so that if there's a collision on the road, I won't be the one hurt."
Shi Can: “…”
You haven't even learned how to drive yet, but you're already thinking about becoming a legendary driver?
Ye Yangjia, who was not far away, stood up.
Shi Chan asked, “What’s wrong?”
"Wen Miyan drove the car into a dead end. With her poor driving skills, she couldn't back the car out."
Ye Yangjia walked out with his phone and said,
"Her driver is not at home. I have to go and save her."
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