Chapter 3: White Bones Seek Help (Thanks to Tie Fenglu for the reward)

  At this time, Qing Shan Dao Chang's outer garment was torn in many places with large holes, his head hung low, his face ashen, and what surprised me the most was that his originally stiff goat beard now disheveled into a tangled mess of soft grass stuck to his chin, apparently he had exhausted all his energy.

  And I strangely found that the spiritual symbol on my forehead was slightly moving. Instinctively, I used my hand to press it down, and the middle finger that had been bitten earlier was still bleeding slightly. The blood touched the spiritual symbol, which stopped moving. But as soon as I took my hand away, it moved again, so I could only press it tightly, tears streaming down my face.

  The sudden knock on the door startled me. My rental house had all its doors and windows closed, and the knocking was light and gentle. I didn't dare move or even breathe a word.

  The knocking sound stopped. But on the window next to the door, a figure appeared. Ah, isn't that Yu Zhen, that little girl? Clearly imprinted on the window. Yu Zhen also seemed to have found me, and a sly smile appeared on her face. What is this woman doing looking for me? Has that fat boss run away?

  Just as I was about to respond, I strangely discovered that the tall figure of Qing Shan Daozhang, who had fallen to the ground, was slightly trembling. I had been leaning against Daozhang's fallen body, tightly protecting him by his side. At this moment, I felt his entire body seemed to be pressing towards me, and his crossed legs suddenly pressed down on my feet, making it impossible for me to move. Yet, Daozhang remained as still as death.

  I was thinking of saying a few words to Yu Zhen outside and asking her to wait for a while.

  But unexpectedly, Yu Zhen outside the door saw that I was motionless and stretched out her hand to tap on the window again. This time, it only made me startled, with a chill running down my spine. Good heavens! Whose hand was this? It was exactly like the bony hand that had tapped on my car window before. Could it be...? I didn't dare think any further.

  But Yu Zhen by the window saw that I was still motionless, and suddenly smiled eerily, floating away. I felt my soul scatter with her. And what made me almost frightened to fall to the ground was that I clearly saw a blood bat fly away swiftly, and that one cry of "yi ya" exploded in my heart.

  Fortunately, the green hills on the ground slowly recovered. The whiskers suddenly popped out one by one, and in an instant they were as hard as I had seen them before. The whole person was like a balloon, slowly inflating, and his complexion began to return to normal.

  I was overjoyed and cried. A series of changes made me regard Qing Shan Dao Chang as my only support at this time.

  With a snap, Qing Shan Dao's body suddenly grew taller and he stood up straight. He hastily grabbed my hand and looked me up and down, the spiritual symbol on my forehead was still there, and I didn't seem to have any other abnormalities. Qing Shan Dao let out a long sigh of relief.

  "What a disaster!", Qing Shan Dao Chang said, "I used the dog's original blood to help the yin ghost cross the yang, thinking she would have some understanding. Who would have thought that there was a mistake, and she took the initiative to move the original blood, but it turned out to be awakening a group of small evil spirits, this is really big trouble."

  I widened my eyes in surprise again.

  Qingshan Daochang looked at me carefully again and said, "As I expected, there is a strange aura on your body. If you cultivate it properly, you can expel evil spirits, but if you act rashly, you will help the ghosts and yin energy. You are destined to be a swordsman."

  I don't understand.

  Qingshan Daochang said: "You'll understand in the end, just now, I lost my spiritual blood, and I also risked everything to make a desperate bet. I didn't expect to win, but your Supreme Spiritual Blood and my Supreme Yin Blood can merge to form a Primordial Spirit, with extremely strong killing power. Now, I still need to go mobilize more reinforcements, just now I was almost injured by the evil entity. I used up all my spiritual symbols, it seems my cultivation is still not enough."

  I pointed at the spiritual symbol on my forehead and asked: "Then what should I do? How can I go out with this appearance?"

  Qingshan Daochang said: "Now I'll take it down for you, and use our two yuanling to temporarily suppress it, but this is only a temporary measure. Let me think about it for a few more days before solving it."

  After finishing, Qing Shan Dao whispered incantations in his mouth, placed my middle finger on his arm, and two streams of fresh blood flowed out. With a swift stroke, he pressed it onto my forehead, and the spiritual symbol fell with a clang. When I looked into the mirror inside the house, there was an obscure red dot on my forehead.

  Qingshan Daochang said: "For now, let's just suppress the evil spirit temporarily. That's all we can do for now. As for what happens next, I'm not sure either. Let's see whose fate is stronger. Hopefully, the Spirit Blade will appear."

  I nodded, and didn't ask much, there were too many things happening now, it was hard to get a clear answer.

  "My lifelong magical powers are all concentrated in this bell, it can protect you from evil spirits but not from ghosts. In times of crisis, ring the bell to ask for help and I will come to assist you. However, remember that my current powers can only travel 800 miles during the day and 1,000 miles at night. If your life is in danger, throw the bell to save yourself, its power can trap evil spirits for two hours, giving you time to escape with all your might. But once the time is up, the power will be lost, and if you still cannot escape, both of us will be at the mercy of the evil spirits, which would be even more perilous! This move should only be used as a last resort, it's a gamble with one's life, remember!"

  I held the copper bell with both hands. Suddenly, I asked, "Just now when you were taking care of me, it was as if my ex-girlfriend had come to find me, and I was trapped, but I didn't go, yet this girlfriend of mine is quite strange."

  Qingshan Daochang said: "That's an illusion, not your girlfriend, it's a yin ghost who wants to occupy your mind. Taking advantage of my weak Fa Li at this time, he wants to take us both away. I am a Fa Shen, with such a fierce ghost approaching me, I will have instinctive protection. Now you must be careful, when I'm not around, you must be mindful of everything and can't act rashly as usual."

  The words fell, and I was shocked into a cold sweat. From now on, I really need to be careful.

  I was just about to mention the midnight appointment tonight, but Qing Shan Daozhang had already stood up and stopped me from speaking, saying: "Some things, let's see the opportunity, can't say too much, nor can we reveal it." After finishing, he hastily got up and left.

  I patted the orange-red wallet that was still stuffed in my clothes, and suddenly I felt a chill run down my spine, but it was an arrow on the string, and I had to shoot.

  I don't dare to go out, nor do I dare to make any other big moves. Sitting in my familiar rental house, looking around, I feel a sense of eeriness. Damn it, this is what they call seeing ghosts, am I going to end up like this at such a young age? The warm and wealthy life that everyone talks about, I haven't even enjoyed it yet. Thinking about it again, I start to resent Yu Zhen, that little demon, from whom everything started, and with one move, she almost turned my whole life upside down.

  Suddenly, my forehead felt a dull ache. I looked in the mirror and saw that the faint red spot had suddenly brightened, like someone was desperately trying to hold something back. I suddenly understood what Master Dao had said earlier - when the red spot shone brightly, I was as usual, but when it dimmed, there seemed to be a faint sound of grinding blades rising up. I quickly calmed my mind and stabilized my thoughts, biting my teeth and letting go of my hatred for Yu Zhen. Soon, the red spot returned to normal, and I felt calm again.

  Good heavens! I've made a mistake. Everything is clear to me now, and I dare not act rashly again. Cold sweat broke out all over my body, and I could only sit quietly and wait for time to pass.

  It was 11:30 at night, I quietly got up, touched the copper bell on my body, and also the orange-red wallet, and went out with light hands and feet. Heaven, my own familiar house, familiar environment, but now I seem like a thief.

  Downstairs, the wind was colder than usual, and I couldn't think much. Got in the car, started it, everything seemed normal, drove straight to the road home towards daylight.

  The small town's nightlife is conservative, the streets are quiet and deserted, with occasional passersby hurrying by, but in my eyes they seem like wandering souls. Alas, I've brought this upon myself, ending up in this situation where everything seems ominous.

  At 11:52, the car approached the intersection near home.

  Suddenly, I felt a slight vibration in the copper bell in my bosom. The car lights flickered on and off for no reason, and when I looked forward, oh my god, the spot where the wild dog was pressed during the day had now become a cluster of blood bats, scrambling for the almost disappeared bloodstains, their red eyes intertwined with each other, like a ball of distinct red and black, rolling in the middle of the road.

  The car stopped, but I didn't dare get out.

  The copper bell in my bosom had a clear vibration. In neutral gear, I stepped on the accelerator, and the car engine let out a loud roar, scattering the bats away, and the copper bell fell silent. My heart was frightened, knowing that Qing Shan Dao Zhang's copper bell had protected me, and the evil spirits could not approach.

  At 11:57, there were still three minutes left. Suddenly, I felt inexplicably tense in my heart. I pressed the bright red wallet again and plucked up the courage to get off the bus.

  I stuck to the car door, the engine hadn't died yet, and it hummed softly. At this moment, this inanimate object was faithfully accompanying me. I thought of Yu Zhen, and my heart felt a faint, inexplicable pang of sadness.

  "Big brother is really trustworthy!" A female voice accompanied by a red shadow suddenly floated over, and I didn't even know where it came from. Forget it, forget it, don't think about it anymore.

  I trembled and handed over that orange-red wallet, so nervous that I couldn't speak.

  "Big brother, what's going on? I should thank you properly. I just got off the night shift and we're not allowed to make phone calls during work hours, so I only said one sentence to big brother. Didn't expect that big brother is such a sincere person!" In front of him was clearly the normal giggling sound of a woman.

  Gathering his courage, he took a closer look under the dim streetlights and found it was the woman in red from daytime. Compared to daytime, she looked even more charming, with a tall and slender figure, soft hair falling down, a delicate face, prominent breasts, a slim waist and round buttocks. If not for the series of strange events that had occurred, this would have been a standard romantic encounter.

  "Seems like you know I'm Li Yan, thanks." The woman took the wallet and ripped it open with a whoosh, her voice startling my heart, which instinctively stuck to the car door.

  Li Yan burst out laughing, "Big brother, what's wrong with you? Are you afraid I'll eat you up?"

  He took out all the money from his bag and said: "That's all I have, big brother. If you think it's enough, I'll thank you again in the future."

  I waved my hands nervously, and my lips were still trembling so much that I couldn't speak. And yet I clearly saw those hands, right in front of me, this was the third time they had appeared before my eyes, like white bones, under the dim streetlights, they seemed to be shining with a pale light.

  I couldn't wait any longer, I suddenly opened the car door and quickly sat down in the driver's seat.

  But at the same time, I felt a red shadow that was even faster than me, like a wisp of red smoke, silently and quietly drifting into the back seat of my car.

  My car suddenly sounded like an old cow gasping for breath, sputtering and coughing as if it was about to die but still struggling to make a sound.

  The whole car body was shaking non-stop, and suddenly it felt like it was about to be lifted up. I was frantically trying to shift gears but couldn't manage to do so. My heart sank with a sense of dread. Outside the car, I could clearly feel the wind whizzing by, making a howling sound as it stuck to my car body. But wait, wasn't there no wind tonight?

  "Big brother save me, someone wants to harm me!" A voice suddenly came from the back seat of the car, which was an extremely old female voice.

  Turning my head, it was still the red-clothed woman Li Yan, I don't know when she got into the back seat of my car. But at this time, her whole body was shrunk together, her face was wrinkled, and her hair was disheveled, looking like an old crone at first glance. Good heavens, what's going on?

  "Believe me, I won't harm you, big brother save me!" The hoarse voice was indeed coming from Li Yan's mouth. Still calling him big brother, isn't it that I should be calling you grandma instead?

  There's nowhere to hide, and escape is impossible. What's even more deadly is that my gear can't be shifted, the engine sound is getting weaker and weaker, clearly unable to hold on.

  "How can I save you?"