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"Daoist! Did you kill my pet?" The female ghost pouted, her brows furrowed with infinite charm.
At that moment, Li Chengjun, an ordinary person, bit his tongue to avoid being entranced, while Xiao Lin floated lightly toward the female ghost. Meanwhile, Li Chengjie drew a calming talisman from his waist and stuck it on Xiao Lin's back, causing him to awaken once more.
Thinking back to the earlier situation, Xiao Lin was filled with dread. He grabbed Li Chengjun's hand and hid behind Li Chengjie. At this time, Li Chengjie was chanting a spell with his fingers forming seals, completely ignoring the female ghost.
"Daoist! You have such a cruel heart! You don't want anyone else to have me, so you even blinded this young man!" The female ghost swung her flower basket, sending a wave of Yin Qi into Xiao Lin, causing the calming spell's light to flicker and shatter into two pieces. At that moment, Xiao Lin began to spin around wildly as if he had lost his mind.
He groped around like a blind person and frantically exclaimed, "Jie, Jun, I can't see anything!"
Before long, Xiao Lin was grabbing at both of them in madness, shouting about how they were stealing his woman. At this point, Li Chengjie drew his Peach Wood Sword, letting a drop of blood fall onto its blade. He then pulled out a stack of Yellow Talismans from his pocket and tossed them into the air. As the sword flipped over, it pierced through three Spirit Talismans, which he pressed onto Xiao Lin's forehead, chest, and abdomen.
"Supreme Old Lord, heed my command! Guardian spirit, protect the heart, cleanse desires!" The three Spirit Talismans adhered to Xiao Lin, extinguishing the endless flames within him. The flower basket in the female ghost's hand instantly lost one of its Ghost Flowers, which dissipated like sand falling to the ground.
"What a cruel brother! Hmph! I won't pay attention to you anymore!" With that, she vanished into thin air. The three people in the room looked around but found no trace of the ghost. At this moment, Li Chengjun let out a sigh of relief and said, "Thank goodness you're here, or we would have been in big trouble!"
At this time, Xiao Lin added, "Lucky you were here. Huh? Jie, what are you looking at?" Having experienced many storms in life, Xiao Lin quickly realized that the female ghost had disappeared but that Li Chengjie remained vigilant.
"Mr. Xiao, Bro, that ghost hasn't left; didn't you notice?" pointed out Li Chengjie, directing his wooden sword at the scattered fragments of the flower basket on the ground. Only then did they realize that the broken pieces had transformed into individual Ghost Flowers, which were taking root and rapidly growing throughout every corner of the room.
Just as the Ghost Flowers were about to reach their feet, Li Chengjie used his sword as a brush to quickly draw a circle beneath them. Following the circle's outline, he continuously inscribed Talismans. With the final stroke completed, a burst of golden light erupted from the circle, pushing back the encroaching Ghost Flowers, while simultaneously trapping the three within its confines.
The golden circle clashed repeatedly with the Ghost Flowers. Any spirit that touched the golden circle disintegrated into Azure Smoke. However, as they continued to collide, the Ghost Flowers began to corrupt the golden circle; the Talismans drawn by Li Chengjie gradually faded away. At this point, all three were drenched in cold sweat from shock.
Finally, once again echoing through the room was the voice of the female ghost: "Silly brothers! Do you want to play with your sister? I've been waiting for so long!"
The two brothers were able to maintain their composure, but the ordinary Xiao Lin had once again been tempted. Fortunately, the strong and sturdy Li Chengjun held him back; otherwise, stepping out of the Golden Circle would have led to a disastrous fate.
The three of them stood out like bright lanterns amidst the sea of Ghost Flowers. At that moment, Li Chengjie said, "Bro, keep your mind steady. You must not step out of this Golden Circle. Tonight is a rare night for Yurei patrols, and the suppression of these spirits will be even stronger. As long as we can hold out until midnight, this Ghost Flower illusion will collapse on its own."
Li Chengjie's words provided Li Chengjun with immense reassurance. Outside the Golden Circle, the voice of a female ghost continued to echo, saying, "Brother knows quite a bit! But even if the Night Wanderer is patrolling tonight, do you think you can withstand until midnight?"
"Hmph, do you think I am unaware? However, your Intricate Calculations have misjudged my determination! The illusion may be powerful, but I have my own ways to break it!" After saying this, Li Chengjie pressed a finger against the necks of his brother and Xiao Lin. Xiao Lin immediately fainted, while Li Chengjun, due to his robust physique, did not fall unconscious right away.
"Brother, please don't!" Li Chengjun exclaimed just as his vision blurred; he collapsed like a mountain crumbling under pressure. He realized what his brother intended to do, but it was too late.
Seeing this, the female ghost smiled and said, "Do you really think you can save their lives like this? Your half-baked Three Pure Amulet cannot possibly withstand my endless Ghost Flowers! Moreover, what can the three of you do?"
Just as she was getting into her stride, she suddenly stopped as if she had swallowed a live fly. At that moment, clad in a robe and wielding a wooden sword, Li Chengjie stepped out of the Golden Circle enveloped by the Three Pure Amulet. A turtle shell that had long been unable to break through and a living rabbit— even a fierce tiger knows that the rabbit is the delicacy. Now faced with endless Ghost Flowers, as soon as Li Chengjie stepped out, they abandoned the Golden Circle and surged toward him.
In an instant, Li Chengjie was enveloped and became a large flower ball infested with Ghost Flowers; all his golden spiritual energy vanished. However, at that moment, the female ghost gritted her teeth and suddenly retreated.
At that moment, cracks appeared on the flower ball. The golden spiritual energy spread along these cracks as if it were about to break free from its cocoon like a butterfly. With a crackling sound, a wave of spiritual sword energy burst forth from within the Ghost Flower. Like wind sweeping through wheat fields, wherever the sword energy passed, Ghost Flowers shattered piece by piece. The female ghost let out a mournful cry and fell to the ground; her incorporeal body suffered an actual wound—a four-inch-long golden scar appeared on her otherwise pristine back.
Like a human being, from where the golden scar lay emanated Eerie Energy—this was the essence of the female ghost herself—flowing out like blood from a human being. The female ghost wailed as she gathered Eerie Energy with her hands and applied it to her wound. It sounded like sizzling meat placed on red-hot pebbles; after expending nearly half her strength, she finally managed to heal the sword wound on her back.
At this moment, she looked in shock at Li Chengjie sitting cross-legged on the ground surrounded by streams of golden light. His eyes were tightly shut; yet with the wooden sword in hand, he radiated an aura akin to that of a divine weapon—its sharpness made her feel as though merely looking at it could lead to being severed.
"Daoist! You actually risked everything!" The female ghost floated up again; gone was her previous allure. Her ghostly face turned pale as her colorful skirt transformed into a long black gown.
"Blasphemer, today I shall make your soul scatter!" Li Chengjie did not open his eyes or even speak, yet his voice resonated like a spell, each word booming like thunder, causing the female ghost to sway unsteadily.
"Hmph, stop pretending! I've lived for over twenty years and been dead for thirty. What kind of people haven't I seen? Let me tell you, I've encountered dozens of desperate Taoists like you. That last strike was your limit, wasn't it? The sword that burned the Spirit Platform couldn't kill me! Now I'm just waiting for you to exhaust your strength. If you die, those two people in the circle will die too!" The female ghost gritted her teeth.
Indeed, that last sword strike had terrified her to the core. It contained the Primordial Qi of the earth, all the power Li Chengjie had unleashed by burning his own Spirit Platform. Every Geomancer has their own Primordial Qi; in fact, even ordinary people possess their own essence of Primordial Qi.
This Primordial Qi begins to dissipate from the moment of birth. By the age of three, it is completely gone as children start to cultivate their Yang energy, growing stronger until old age when they begin to weaken again. This is the cycle of human life, and while this Primordial Qi does not vanish entirely, it becomes hidden. Only by entering the path of cultivation and becoming a Geomancer can one communicate with this hidden Primordial Qi, transforming from nothing to something, from Pseudo Spirit to True Spiritual Power. Ultimately, if one can recall their original Primordial Qi, they truly become Transcendence and can ascend as an immortal.
Now, having burned his Spirit Platform to unleash his original spiritual power, Li Chengjie had effectively severed his path of cultivation. Even if he survived, he was destined to become an ordinary person—a miserable existence among ordinary people—because a cultivator who falls back into ordinariness loses all their power and becomes frail and sickly.
However, this sacrifice resulted in an invincible attack. If it weren't for the assistance of the female ghost's master who secretly intervened to share the blow between them, the female ghost would have surely met her demise at the hands of that sword's energy. With help blocking the attack, Li Chengjie's plan was thoroughly thwarted. At this moment, he radiated golden light but was already at his limit; he had no more strategies left.
Time ticked away second by second as the golden light around Li Chengjie faded. His sword hand fell limply to the ground. Despite his efforts to endure, he ultimately could not escape the fate of losing his strength.
"Clang!" The wooden sword dropped to the ground as Li Chengjie collapsed, his eyes filled with endless regret. The clock on the wall indicated that only a few minutes remained until midnight. Seeing Li Chengjie fall made it clear to the female ghost that the power gained from burning his Spirit Platform had vanished. Both she and her master—and even several men accompanying her master—were filled with excitement.
"Hahaha, Taoist! In the end, you couldn't outlast me! I know you're not dead yet, but I'm going to kill the person you're trying to protect right in front of you!" The female ghost lightly stepped forward toward the now dull Golden Circle—the protective talisman—and cautiously touched its edge with her finger; it easily passed through.
No problem! It seems this Taoist really is done for! With newfound courage, she reached out toward Xiao Lin; after all, that was her target this time!
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