Ye Huohuo finished giving instructions and started rummaging through the large bag brought by Xiao Lingzi.
The bag was so big, she almost had to stick herself inside it! Half her body was already inside.
"Hey? Ye Huohuo, you're stretching my bag out, just tell me what you want, and I'll find it for you!" Xiao Lingzi was heartbroken about his bag and wanted to snatch it back.
Li Mohan, with a cold expression, grabbed Ye Huohuo by her collar and pulled her out. "If you want to find something, why not just pour everything out and look! Look at you..."
He frowned, looking at Ye Huohuo's hair and forehead, which were covered in some unknown powder, with disdain.
"No, that needs to be made away from light. I wanted to make it directly in his bag and then take it out!" Ye Huohuo's small face was smudged with black and white, making her look like a little calico cat!
Coupled with her cat-like eyes, she was a perfect calico cat being held by the scruff of its neck!
Despite his disdain, Li Mohan still took out tissues and wiped her face clean. As he wiped, he complained, "If you get this dirty again, I won't give you any food!"
His voice carried a hint of pampering that he himself didn't realize.
Sunlight cast a halo around them, making the scene sweet as if emitting pink bubbles. However, the two involved were completely oblivious.
Xiao Lingzi cleared his throat, "Ye Huohuo, you're not going to do that, are you!"
Li Mohan and the others didn't understand, but Ye Huohuo nodded, "Yes, time is too tight, and the cost is higher, but only that will work. If we had a few more days, we could investigate slowly."
Xiao Lingzi's thick eyebrows almost stood on end, and his eyes widened, "Are you crazy? With your current physical condition, not letting you get ten hours of sunshine a day is already bad enough, and you want to use that!
Are you tired of living? I'm also afraid your second senior brother will come after me with a saber if he finds out! No, whatever that ghost thing is, it ran away. I can't let you do something so harmful to your body!"
Xiao Lingzi said this while snatching his bag back, with a look of utter defiance, as if to say that if you force me, I'd rather be smashed to pieces than remain intact.
Ye Huohuo was amused by his reaction, "What's with that expression? It's like I'm going to assault you! Don't worry, how could I let second senior brother know about this!
I promise, first, I'll be fine, and second, second senior brother will never find out! I'm not the same as I was before. My luck is much better now. With this big tree here, I'll be fine!"
As Ye Huohuo spoke, she patted Li Mohan's shoulder casually, just as she would pat A Cheng and Xiao Lingzi.
However, when she patted him a second time, she met Li Mohan's sharp, glinting eyes and immediately withdrew her hand, giving an awkward smile.
Then she rubbed her hands together, "It's a habit!"
"This habit is bad, change it!" Li Mohan said with a stern face, raising his hand to brush over his shoulder as if Ye Huohuo's hands were very dirty.
Ye Huohuo rolled her eyes in her heart and cursed, "You obsessive-compulsive freak, I'll throw you in a mud pit to cure you sooner or later!"
"What is she going to do, and why is it bad for her?" Li Mohan always focused on the most important points.
"She's going to make Soul Chasing Powder. It's made from over a dozen medicinal powders mixed with a person's yang energy. High-grade Soul Chasing Powder can find the Yin spirits a person is looking for, based on what the person performing the ritual is thinking.
This was originally invented by people from the Xuanmen sect who specialized in finding family souls for others. It originally used the yang energy of the person looking for the soul as a guide, so it had no impact on the practitioner's body.
However, it later evolved into a ghost-exorcising technique that uses the practitioner's own yang energy as a guide. This is very harmful to the practitioner, especially those with insufficient yang energy.
Ye Huohuo's yang energy was already damaged, and her body is currently in excess yin energy. If she releases more yang energy, the yin-sha energy might seize the opportunity to enter her meridians. At that point, even the greatest immortal could not save her!"
As Xiao Lingzi spoke, he hugged his bag even tighter.
Ye Huohuo shook her head and gave a wry smile, "Don't listen to him, it's not that serious. I know my own body. I always do things that benefit both myself and others; I'm not so great as to sacrifice myself to save others.
The reason I catch ghosts and help people without charging much is to accumulate good karma. I've been entangled by malevolent energy and have thin fortune. If I hadn't been accumulating good karma, I would have died long ago. How could I still be alive? It's the same today.
That female ghost escaped due to my negligence. If she harms someone, I'll have half of the karmic debt for every life she takes. By then, I'll truly be doomed!
Don't worry, I'll do what I can and will never harm myself for others!"
Ye Huohuo grabbed Xiao Lingzi's bag, "There's not much time left. In a few more hours, the sun will set. You will help me, won't you?"
Seeing that she couldn't persuade Ye Huohuo, Xiao Lingzi looked towards Li Mohan for help.
Unexpectedly, Li Mohan said faintly, "Listen to her!"
Xiao Lingzi reluctantly let go of the bag, "Then I definitely have to follow you. If anything goes wrong, I can help a little!"
"I'll follow too!" A Cheng, who had been silent, added.
Today's events made him feel immensely guilty. He hadn't done a good job in either matter, and now, even if it meant giving his life to Ye Huohuo, he wouldn't hesitate.
After so many years, this was the first time he felt so useless, unable to even assist properly.
Ye Huohuo was about to disagree, but before she could open her mouth, Li Mohan, as if he had foreseen it, said, "Let them follow, or you won't do it either!"
His word was final.
Ye Huohuo could defy anyone, including her master, but in front of Li Mohan, she was like a cat whose claws had been retracted, without any temper.
This must be what they call one thing subduing another!
Soon, the Soul Chasing Powder was made. Ye Huohuo bit her middle finger, using the blood as a guide to inject her own yang energy into the powder.
There was very little powder, about the size of a bottle cap when collected.
Originally, the powder looked like ordinary finely ground medicinal powder, but after Ye Huohuo's blood was dripped into it.
The moment the blood landed on the powder, it changed.
The drop of blood disappeared instantly, like water sinking into sand. It didn't form a bead coated with a thin layer of powder, as Li Mohan had initially imagined.
It was integration, complete integration.
Every particle, too fine to be seen with the naked eye, was coated with a bit of blood.
This meant that every particle was controlled by Ye Huohuo.
Ye Huohuo sat cross-legged on the large sofa in the office, her eyes closed, secretly chanting the incantation. When she opened her eyes again, the powder floated up.
It turned into dust in the air and dispersed.
In just this short time, Ye Huohuo felt her chest become somewhat stuffy, her throat slightly sweet, and her blood and qi surging intensely.
She glanced at the three people in the room with her eyes, saw them all looking towards the door and no one paying attention to her. She took this opportunity to turn sideways, tilt her head, pull out a tissue, and wipe her lips.
Then she crumpled the tissue into a ball and stuffed it into her pocket.
The entire action was completed in an instant, and no one saw it.
Now that everything had begun, she absolutely could not falter. However, her body seemed to be getting out of her control.
She was gradually unable to hold on!
She unconsciously took out the talisman her master had given her before leaving, telling her to use it when she couldn't hold on. Should she use it? Could she still hold on?