Chapter 66 Escape They can leave at any time
Ming Hui is qualified to be Lin Zhuyue's master.
He had been a very powerful spiritualist in his lifetime, perhaps even more powerful than Ling Yan. In the era when spiritual energy was still strong, there were many powerful spiritualists.
only……
"I can't understand why you'd help me."
Lin Zhuyue picked up the paper-wrapped panini and said to Minghui, who was standing in front of the table,
"Opening the blockade of the underworld would do far more harm than good to you. Anyway, I can't think of any benefit."
Ming Hui is a great ghost cultivator who is in charge of a ghost town. He has led hundreds of ghosts on night marches many times, disturbing the world of the living and making the spiritual masters hate him to death but unable to do anything about him.
If the blockade of the underworld is opened, it is unknown whether Minghui will be caught, but he certainly cannot be as arrogant as he is now.
"I have a reason to open that door."
Ming Hui gently turned the ring on his hand and said,
"When Ling Yan was still alive, I didn't force him. Now you're the only one left in the Ling family. If I don't seize this opportunity, I might never see the seal of the underworld lifted."
His tone was sincere.
But Lin Zhuyue didn't intend to agree to him just like that:
"I believe my father is friendly with you for a reason. But, sorry, this is not a trivial matter, I need to think carefully about it."
Minghui nodded and said:
"That living soul has only been out of the body for half a month. It still has over thirty days before its vital and yang energy dissipates and it completely transforms into a dead soul. That should be enough time for you to figure out the outcome."
Lin Zhuyue lowered his head.
Ming Hui was threatening her with Lu Tao's life.
He is an evil ghost, so he is very tough and rarely gives others the power to choose.
Ming Hui seemed to be busy with something, so he quickly left the room, leaving only two of his men to keep an eye on Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can.
After breakfast, Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can returned to their room.
Shi Chan lay on the bed, looking at the scars on his face with a small mirror.
The scar began on the forehead, piercing through the eyebrow and eyelid, and extended all the way to the side of the nose. Although not deep, it was quite striking. Furthermore, due to the iodine solution, the area around the wound was yellowish, which was quite unsightly.
"That's pretty rough."
Shi Can threw away the small mirror and said,
"What if I get disfigured?"
Lin Zhuyue suggested: "Tear down Minghui City."
Shi Can turned over and waved his hand:
"...That's a great idea. If I could do that, I wouldn't be hurt."
Lin Zhuyue stopped joking. She sat at the table beside the bed and asked seriously:
"Do you think I should take Ming Hui as my master?"
Shi Can sat up and beckoned to Lin Zhuyue.
Lin Zhuyue stood up, confused, and walked to the bed.
Shi Chan said in a coaxing tone:
"Lower your head a little, and come a little closer."
Lin Zhuyue lowered his head as he was told.
Shi Can reached out his hands, and with a "slap" sound, he slapped Lin Zhuyue's cheeks with both hands. He cupped Lin Zhuyue's face, pinched the soft flesh on her cheeks with his index finger and thumb, and pulled it to the sides.
"Um, what are you doing?"
Lin Zhuyue retracted his head in pain.
"I'm afraid you've really been driven crazy by the Spiritual Master Mansion."
Shi Can put down his hand, sat cross-legged on the bed and said,
"Ming Hui is very powerful, no one can deny that. But he is a ghost cultivator with a notorious record. Although there are some spiritual masters in the Spiritual Master Mansion who are on good terms with him, the majority of spiritual masters, from the previous generation, the generation before that, and the generation before that, are his sworn enemies."
"If you accept him as your master, you will have a really hard time in the Spiritual Master's Mansion and won't be able to survive anymore."
Lin Zhuyue was also aware of this.
But……
Shi Chan took her hand and said:
"If you really need a mentor to guide you, there are actually better options."
That night, Shican did not stay in the room to sleep.
After Lin Zhuyue fell asleep, he got up and went to the ghost market around the octagonal tower. Minghui's men did not stop him, but followed him closely.
Shi Chan went around and around and only bought one feather.
After buying the feather, he stopped wandering around the ghost market and went to a well not far from the ghost market. He sat by the well and threw the feather in his hand into the well.
A filthy voice appeared in my ears:
"Throw a kingfisher feather into a well, and it will carry the thoughts and longings it carries into the dreams of those on earth."
Shi Can raised his head and looked at Ming Hui who appeared here at some point. He did not feel embarrassed or awkward about being exposed, but said sarcastically:
"You know so much."
"I've been in this world for so long, it's not surprising that I know more."
Ming Hui looked at the bottomless well and said,
"On the contrary, I heard from the people in the Spiritual Master's Mansion that you are very knowledgeable and know many spells. Now it seems that they were not bragging."
Shi Can said, "Thank you for the compliment."
"It's so late, aren't you going to bed?"
Minghui asked,
"A living person in the underworld would probably feel very sleepy, right? If they don't rest well, their Yang energy would be quickly depleted."
"Isn't it all thanks to you?"
Shi Chan stood up and said,
"You stuffed me and the girl I had a crush on in the same room. I kept having dreams and my body was reacting, so I couldn't sleep well at all."
Ming Hui was a little surprised: "Secret love?"
Shi Can was silent for a moment and asked, "...what else?"
"The people at the Spiritual Master's Mansion said that you two are engaged."
Ming Hui slowly opened his mouth and asked,
"I see you guys get along pretty well. Is it just a secret crush? Haven't you confirmed your relationship yet?"
Shi Can really wanted to hold Lin Zhuyue's shoulders and shake her:
Look, even the devil thinks we're a couple! Even the devil knows I like you, and you're the only one in the world who doesn't know it!
Shi Can went crazy for a while, then followed Ming Hui back to the octagonal tower.
Minghui said to Shican:
"I'll arrange another room for you."
"Thank you, but no thanks."
Shi Chan refused without a second thought.
"In this kind of place, it's better for her and I to stay together for warmth."
Shican was sent back to his room by Minghui.
Ming Hui asked his men to bring a quilt and a chaise longue with a thick cushion. Shi Can finally had his own quilt and no longer had to sleep on the floor.
Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can stayed in the octagonal tower for another two days.
Minghui took pretty good care of them, but no matter how thoughtful and meticulous he was, it could not change the fact that living people would be eroded by the Yin energy in the underworld.
"Shi Chan."
Lin Zhuyue woke up Shi Can who was sleeping and said,
"I'm so cold, even under the covers I can't keep warm."
Shi Chan leaned over to the side of the chaise longue and lifted the covers.
Lin Zhuyue hesitated for a while, and when she felt really uncomfortable, she lay down on the chaise longue and shared the same quilt with Shican.
The body that had been cold for a long time finally felt the warmth. Lin Zhuyue subconsciously shrank into Shi Can's arms, absorbing the warmth of Shi Can's body.
Shi Can could clearly feel that the body curled up in his arms was a little cold, as if it had been blown by the cold winter wind for two hours.
"Can you hold on?"
Shi Can let Lin Zhuyue lean on him and said,
"If it really doesn't work, let's just leave. This mission is indeed beyond our capabilities, so it's reasonable for us to give up. The Spiritual Master Mansion won't blame us."
Lin Zhuyue shook his head and said:
"I haven't reached my limit yet. Let's wait and see."
Shi Chan wrapped the quilt tighter around him.
Lin Zhuyue fell asleep quickly. Because her body felt cold, she instinctively reached out and hugged Shi Can, the source of warmth, and tucked her head into the crook of Shi Can's neck.
Warm breath came out of Lin Zhuyue's nose and blew gently on Shi Can's neck.
Shi Chan was so nervous that his hair stood on end and his heart was beating like a drum.
It's terrible.
Shi Chan couldn't fall asleep at all. He could only keep his eyes open, staring at the ceiling, silently waiting for "morning".
There is no day in the underworld, only extremely long nights.
Lin Zhuyue was not feeling well and had been sleeping. It was not until the afternoon that Shi Can woke her up.
Shi Can said to the sleepy Lin Zhuyue:
"Minghui has left the city, and we are almost out of energy. We cannot miss this opportunity."
Lin Zhuyue patted his face and tried to cheer himself up.
She put on a ghost mask with a green face and fangs.
Shi Chan also smeared his face with grave dirt to conceal his yang energy.
Two people opened the door.
It was not known whether it was out of precaution or to treat the captives well, but there were always ghosts guarding their rooms. As long as Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can's requests were not excessive, the ghosts in charge of the guard would try their best to meet their demands.
The ghost of the handsome young man guarding the gate saw them coming out and asked:
"What's the matter...?"
However, before he could finish his words, Shi Can knocked him to the ground. Shi Can pulled out two talismans from his pocket, one of which he pressed tightly against the ghost's mouth, and the other, like a rope, tied the ghost's hands behind his back.
The ghost couldn't even make a "woohoo" sound. It just struggled and looked at Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can in horror.
Shi Can took out the compass and said:
"I want to ask you a question, and you must answer it well."
The ghost with his mouth covered didn't say yes or no. He couldn't understand how to answer Shi Chan's question since his mouth was sealed.
"In ancient times, people sought immortals and the way; today, people search for souls and ask for directions."
Shi Can injected spiritual power into the compass and chanted,
"Dead ones, please answer my question: where is the place where the soul is hidden?"
The ghost that Shi Can had tied up with the talisman suddenly became extremely painful. He closed his eyes tightly and rolled over and struggled. If he had not been restricted by the talisman and could not make a sound, his cry of pain would have surely spread throughout the entire octagonal tower.
The spell Shi Chan uses is called Soul Search, which can forcibly extract the answers the caster desires from the subject's consciousness. However, after the soul search, the subject's soul becomes fragmented and incomplete, making it difficult to recover. Therefore, Soul Search is considered a sorcery.
Shi Can saw the soul-searching technique in a book, but the book's record of the soul-searching technique was incomplete. Shi Can only knew how to search the souls of the dead, and could only use the soul-searching technique to ask for directions, and could not ask for anything else.
A faint light rose from the ghost's skull and drifted onto the compass. A spot of light also floated on the compass, and the two faint spheres of light merged together, floating slowly and flying towards the side of the corridor.
Shi Can ignored the painful ghost, pulled Lin Zhuyue, and took a step to catch up with the ball of light that was about to float out of sight.
The ball of light floated to the end of the corridor on the sixth floor and floated down the stairs.
Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can followed the ball of light to the fourth floor.
There are many ghosts gathered on the fourth floor, most of them are wearing guards' uniforms. It seems that there is something extremely important on this floor that needs them to guard it all the time.
Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can wanted to stop and observe the situation, but the guiding light ball floated directly from the stairs to the corridor and entered the sight of the ghosts.
The guards all saw the ball of light.
"What is this?"
Shi Can: "...This is a stupid spell." Lin Zhuyue grabbed a piece of talisman paper and recited the spell as quickly as possible before the guards could react:
"Left up, right up, right down, left down, one corner, two corners, three corners, four corners. The paper becomes a wall, the spirit becomes a cage. You cannot see outside, and you cannot get out from inside."
The paper barrier quickly spread out, covering the fourth floor of the octagonal tower and swallowing up all the guards.
Lin Zhuyue summoned the golden amber fire, and Shi Can held up the ultimate blade.
Golden flames burned fiercely, sweeping across the entire fourth floor. Sharp blades emitting a bluish-purple glow slashed across the necks of the dead, reaping the souls burned in agony by the extreme sun's fire.
In less than ten minutes, the fourth floor was completely cleared.
Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can followed the guiding light ball and came to a locked door.
The golden amber fire gathered together to form a scroll. The scroll quickly turned into a bunch of keys, lying heavy in Lin Zhuyue's palm.
On the morning of the second day after arriving here, Lin Zhuyue, under Shi Can's suggestion, quietly used the Ukiyo-e scroll to copy the key carried by the dead soul.
She didn't know if there was any key in the bunch that could open the door in front of her, so she could only pick out those of similar size and try them one by one.
After trying the sixth time, the lock was finally opened.
Lin Zhuyue pushed open the door and walked in, followed closely by Shi Can.
There were two black cabinets in the room, on which were neatly placed many small porcelain bottles, each as long as from the tip of a finger to the base of a palm and as thick as two fingers. Labels were attached to the bottom of the porcelain bottles, with the name and date written on them.
Shi Can said, “It’s a soul bottle.”
The soul bottle was originally a container for storing food, and later became a funerary object, used to suppress and guide the souls of the dead. However, after the passage of time, spiritualists came to believe that the soul bottle was a very good container for holding souls.
Lin Zhuyue followed the date and found a relatively new porcelain vase.
"Yes."
Lin Zhuyue picked up the porcelain vase from the cabinet.
"Lu Tao, May 25, 2X25, happened to be the day he ate white rice at the crossroads."
On the night that Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can were brought back to the underworld by Ming Hui, they were thinking about a question -
Where exactly did Minghui hide the soul? Was he carrying it on his person? Or was he keeping it somewhere in the octagonal tower?
If they didn't carry it with them, they might still have a chance to retrieve Lu Tao's soul.
Therefore, Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can stayed and waited for the opportunity to act. Today, they finally found the opportunity, and the result was worth their hard work. They found the soul bottle containing Lu Tao's soul on the fourth floor.
Shi Can opened the Bagua bag, put the souls with newer dates into the bag, and said to Lin Zhuyue:
"let's go."
Lin Zhuyue summoned the Ukiyo-e scroll again.
The shape of the Ukiyo-e scroll soon changed into a large oval mirror.
If a ghost saw this mirror at this moment, it would surely feel familiar. In a room in the octagonal tower of Minghui City, there existed an identical mirror. This mirror was a door to the living world.
The last time he entered the underworld, in order to escape, Lin Zhuyue copied this mirror using the Ukiyoe scroll. The mirror has always existed in the records of the Ukiyoe scroll and has not disappeared. Lin Zhuyue can reproduce this mirror at any time.
She and Shi Can could escape at any time, but they stayed in the underworld for so many days just because they wanted to retrieve Lu Tao's soul.
Lin Zhuyue took Shi Can's hand and asked:
"Will Minghui be so angry that he wants to kill us?"
"We have to accept the consequences. Since he brought us to his lair, he must bear the consequences. He can't be the only one who bullies others without others bullying him, right?"
Shi Chan touched the scab-covered scars on his face.
"But I'd better stay away from him from now on. I'm afraid he'll smash my face and then I really won't be able to find a girlfriend."
Two people walk through an oval mirror.
The surrounding scene instantly transformed from a dark room filled with soul jars into a sea of flowers. The double-petaled scented lilies exuded a rich fragrance, tightly enveloping the young man who had fallen from mid-air.
The mirror gradually disappeared, turned into a Ukiyo-e scroll, and then turned into tiny golden petals, gradually disappearing into the air.
"We are safe now."
Shi Can lay on his back in the sea of flowers, holding Lin Zhuyue who was lying on him, and said,
"You can rest now."
Lin Zhuyue closed his eyes and fell asleep.
When she woke up again, she was already in the guest room of Shican's house.
She was so thirsty that she threw off the covers and got out of bed to get some water. She didn't know how long she had been lying there, but the slightest movement caused her to feel a sharp pain in her chest, and she nearly fell down the stairs.
Shi Chan was having lunch in the restaurant.
He was quite busy eating lunch, holding a small fish in his left hand, chopsticks in his right hand, and a mobile phone in front of him.
After hearing footsteps, he looked up and saw Lin Zhuyue standing on the stairs.
"woke up?"
Shi Can put the little fish on the ground and asked,
"I'll ask the chef to cook you something. Noodles, please? Do you want dried noodles or hand-rolled noodles?"
I just made some hand-rolled noodles at home yesterday, divided them into several portions and put them in the refrigerator. I can just cook them when I want to eat them.
"vermicelli."
Lin Zhuyue sat down at the table, picked up the health pot with a constant temperature of 45℃, poured himself a glass of water, and after taking a few gulps, asked,
"How long have I slept?"
"Less than a day. We returned to Tiancheng last night. You opened the door and sent us to the suburbs of the neighboring province, so the journey back was quite tiring. But you slept soundly and didn't wake up the whole time."
Shi Can picked up the phone and said,
"I've called a doctor to come and examine you. Even though you're already awake, I'd still like to check you out just to be on the safe side. You've been severely eroded by the Yin Qi, so you might need some medicine to recuperate. I'll take some too."
At the mention of taking medicine, Lin Zhuyue, who was already not very energetic, immediately became listless. She slumped over the table with her head down, letting Xiaoyu scratch her pajamas under the table.
Lin Zhuyue stood up: "My clothes..."
Shi Can's family originally had a nanny, but after the nanny took leave and left Tiancheng last year, she never came back and resigned directly.
The housekeeper was able to take care of all the household affairs, so there was no need to hire a new live-in nanny.
"Wen Miyan changed it for you."
Shi Can said to Lin Zhuyue,
"Don't think of me as a pervert who would strip girls' clothes."
"……oh."
Lin Zhuyue asked again,
"How is Lu Tao?"
"The soul in the soul bottle has been taken out, but the yang energy and life energy have not yet dissipated. It is a living soul and can be directly put back into the body."
Shi Can paused and said,
"But Chu Feiyu is very uncooperative and refuses to leave that body no matter what. The Spiritual Master House is trying its best to communicate and negotiate with him. If he is too stubborn, we will have to resort to forceful measures."
Lin Zhuyue was very hungry. Without waiting for the kitchen to cook the noodles she wanted to eat, she reached her chopsticks into Shi Can's bowl and picked up the hand-rolled noodles in his bowl.
Shi Can simply pushed the bowl in front of Lin Zhuyue.
He bent down and hooked his finger at the little fish. The kitten immediately gave up scratching Lin Zhuyue's trouser legs and ran towards him, and he grabbed it into his arms.
Lin Zhuyue asked: "Why do you take the cat to eat?"
"Your daughter was beaten with a baguette."
Shi Can rocked the little fish in his arms like a child and said,
"She felt very aggrieved and wanted to be held and comforted. Just now, she buried her head in my arms and refused to lift it up."
Lin Zhuyue asked doubtfully, "Will a baguette hit a cat?"
Shi Chan touched his nose guiltily.
It was actually him who started the fight between Baguette and Xiaoyu. He opened the package of freeze-dried food and only let Baguette smell it, not eat it. After letting Baguette smell it, he stuffed it into Xiaoyu's mouth. Baguette was so angry that he punched Shican several times, slapped Xiaoyu twice, and ran to the cat's nest to vent his anger.
When children and children are not harmonious, it is often because the elders are immoral.
Lin Zhuyue's noodles were cooked not long after, but she had already eaten most of Shican's hand-rolled noodles and thought they were quite delicious.
Therefore, the noodles originally cooked for Lin Zhuyue became Shican's lunch.
Shi Can actually didn't like eating noodles. Although he kept saying he wanted to eat soft rice, he didn't like soft noodles. However, he and Lin Zhuyue exchanged food without any complaints. It was just a bowl of noodles, as long as Lin Zhuyue was happy.
After lunch, the doctor from Yunze Medical Clinic came to the door.
As expected, Lin Zhuyue was eroded by the Yin energy and his body was severely damaged. He received prescriptions for replenishing Qi and blood and removing blood stasis, a total of fourteen prescriptions.
Shi Can's physical condition was much better than Lin Zhuyue's, so he was prescribed only three prescriptions in total.
When Shi Chan saw the doctor off, he asked:
"Is there any medicine to remove scars? Will the scars on my face leave scars?"
Shi Can knew in his heart that it would most likely not leave a scar.
He has a scar-free physique. When he was a child, he fell and injured his face while playing. The wound was very large and he didn't apply any medicine, but he recovered quite well. When he looked in the mirror, you couldn't even tell that his face was injured.
But he was just very worried.
Lin Zhuyue is a lustful female hooligan. If the wound on his face leaves a mark, what can he use to seduce others?
The doctor prescribed a gel for Shican.
Later, a text message came from Fu Xingwei.
Shi Can sat in the cat room and said to Lin Zhuyue, who was holding a cat bar and trying to coax the baguette out of the cat bed:
"Ming Hui had his men deliver a letter to the Spiritual Master's Mansion."
Lin Zhuyue asked, "He asked us to wait?"
Shi Can shook his head and said:
"No, he praised us and said we were both amazing."
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