Although Du Xishan was your designated ntor, holding life-and-death power over your academic progress, after being screwed over by this old guy twice in a row, you’d long lost any semblance of respect for him.
Right then, you rolled your eyes at him and asked, "Didn’t you say Xu Sha was in trouble? Well, there she is, floating around just fine."
As you spoke, you pointed at Xu Sha, who was circling a piece of bronze ware not far away. On closer inspection, you realized it was the very one Du Xishan had brought out from the ancient tomb.
"See? I told you Xu Sha was still in this room."
Du Xishan spread his hands helplessly towards the middle-aged woman in white standing beside him.
You held your head, knowing you’d been had by this old geezer again.
Looking sowhat speechlessly at Du Xishan, you asked, "Lao Du, you didn’t have rush all the way over here just to confirm that Xu Sha is still in this room, did you?"
"Of course not, don’t be so agitated," Du Xishan said with a smile, bringing you over to the bronze ware and pointing at it, "Ever since I got my hands on this treasure, I’ve been studying it, but for so reason, I always feel like there’s sothing blocking , a lot of advanced equipnt are useless. If it’s not magnetic interference, then it’s an inability to penetrate that protective layer."
"Protective layer?"
As you were about to reach out and touch the bronze ware, Du Xihai next to you suddenly shouted, "Wait!"
Fan Yi, observant of details, promptly provided you with a pair of clean plastic gloves.
Taking the plastic gloves, you lifted the bronze ware without even feeling like sparing Du Xihai a glance.
Ordinary people might not notice anything amiss when looking at the bronze ware through glasses, but through your left eye, you could see a faint blue glow covering the surface of the bronze ware.
Just as you were about to examine the blue glow more closely, Du Xihai’s tepid mockery ca from behind, "Don’t pretend to know if you don’t. Soone who’s not even an apprentice dares to show off in front of us experts, what a joke."
You turned to look at Du Xihai, and at first, you didn’t notice, but upon closer inspection, you saw a wisp of black air lingering on his forehead, at the spot between the eyebrows.
You didn’t speak directly to Du Xihai; whether in appearance or personality, he was the type who seed to be asking for a smack.
Seeing that Du Xishan had co over, you said to him, "Lao Du, ask Fatty Du if he’s been running into bad luck often lately, or if he always feels a chill behind him when walking at night. Also, ask if he’s been having dreams about being chased by ghosts."
"How do you know?"
Before Du Xishan could say a word, Du Xihai couldn’t help but blurt out a question.
With one corner of your mouth raised, having piqued Fatty Du’s interest, you turned your attention back to the bronze ware in your hand instead.
"This thing’s surface faintly carries a kind of energy. Although I’m sowhat afraid of it, I can’t help but get closer. It feels as if it wants to suck away all the ghost Qi from ," Xu Sha floated beside you and said, "Handso guy, please help, destroy this thing."
"It can absorb your ghost Qi?"
Hearing Xu Sha’s words, you appeared sowhat surprised.
"Yes, although it’s weak, I can feel it. I’m afraid it will suddenly beco stronger, and then I would completely perish," she said.
You looked at Xu Sha, your laughter reassuring, "Don’t worry, even if I can’t remove the blue glow from the surface of the bronze ware, I’ll take you away from here. Besides, it’s about ti for you to be reincarnated."
Xu Sha was stunned for a mont before she murmured with a downcast head, "I, I don’t want to die."
"But you’re already dead, and existing in this form is ultimately wrong. Sooner or later you’ll be found by the Ghost, and what may await you then is likely the torture of Hell."
"No, no way, I haven’t done any evil deeds; at most, I only scared a few people. Does scaring people warrant Hell?" Your words obviously frightened Xu Sha.
"It’s not about whether you scared people or not, you’ve died, and now you’re trying to escape reincarnation; that’s a sin. The cycle of life and death is a law of the Three Realms; no one can change that." After pondering, you asked, "Is there an unfulfilled wish you still have?"
Xu Sha sighed softly, "Actually, I don’t really have any so-called wishes. Ever since I was young, I’ve been neglected by others. My parents didn’t care much for either. After my brother was born, I beca superfluous to them. After I went to university, I lost contact with them, and now that I think about it, it’s been years since I’ve spoken to them."
You watched Xu Sha, and after thinking for a mont, you turned to Du Xishan and said, "Lao Du, you want to remove the blue glow from the surface of the bronze ware, right?"
"Blue glow?" Du Xishan looked intently for several seconds before he asked, "You can see it?"
"Yes, this thing resembles a small Gathering Yin Formation, although I’ve never heard of one that doesn’t require talismans to be activated," you said, furrowing your brow as you stared at the blue glow on the surface of the bronze ware, "This can only an that it must be a magic artifact."
With that, you placed the bronze ware on a table nearby and said to the middle-aged woman in white, "Could you get a flashlight, please?"
The middle-aged woman smiled and nodded, quickly drawing a flashlight from a drawer beside her.
The bronze ware was shaped like a monster without limbs but with six pairs of wings.
It had its mouth wide open, but there were no teeth or a tongue inside the gaping maw.
You shone the flashlight into the beast’s mouth, and its body inside was hollow and empty.
At first, there was nothing out of the ordinary, but as you were about to shift your gaze, your left eye suddenly beca burning hot.
The vision in your left eye began to continuously zoom in on the image inside the beast’s mouth, feeling as if you were sitting in front of a computer screen, endlessly zooming into a high-definition map.
Before long, you found so characters on the inner wall of the bronze beast’s body.
"Lao Du, get a pen and paper!"
Although you possessed a photographic mory, this piece of bronze ware had already made its way to the provincial museum, evidently belonging to the nation. Besides, you didn’t take much interest in artifact research, and promptly wrote down the characters from the inner wall of the bronze beast’s body.
"What script is this? Where is it from?"
Upon seeing you jot down these strange characters, Du Xishan looked at you with a puzzled expression.
"Of course it’s from the belly of the bronze beast. Oh right, to facilitate your research, I’ve also sealed its Gathering Yin Formation first."
As you spoke, you took out eight pieces of yellow talisman paper from your pocket, each already inscribed with cinnabar Magic Seals.
Upon seeing this, Du Xihai let out a cold laugh and said to Du Xishan, "I must say, Professor Du, I never expected your student to be such a charlatan."
While Fatty Du was speaking behind you, you had already placed the eight cinnabar talismans in eight directions around the bronze beast, then whispered a few phrases, pressed your palms together, suddenly opened your eyes wide, and the cinnabar talismans unexpectedly burst into flas.
Others might not see anything, but through your left eye, you could clearly see that as the cinnabar talismans burned, the ethereal green glow on the surface of the bronze beast lted away like ice, vaporizing into wisps of smoke and dispersing.
With the burning of the cinnabar talismans, the ethereal green glow on the surface of the bronze beast completely vanished.
You handed the bronze beast over to Du Xishan, "Here, now that the layer on its surface is cleared, Xu Sha is temporarily free. You should spend more ti with her this month, take her to visit her hotown, et her parents and such. Once her worries are resolved, I’ll take her to see the Ghost, and let her be reincarnated."
After a pause, you took out three more talismans from your pocket and handed them to Du Xishan, "Stick these on the forehead, and after washing your face, you should be able to see Xu Sha. One is for you, and the other two are for Xu Sha’s parents."
As you spoke, you suddenly turned and quickly stepped forward, sticking the prepared cinnabar talisman onto Du Xihai’s forehead!
"What are you doing?"
Du Xishan quickly tried to grasp the cinnabar talisman, but you laughed and slapped his hand away, saying to him, "You might as well keep this talisman on; then you won’t have to feel a chill down your spine at night, and you can converse directly with that thing—how nice is that?"
Du Xishan had always been a skeptic of ghostly affairs, but after sticking on the cinnabar talisman, he suddenly saw a female ghost floating next to Du Xishan!
"You... you... what are you?" In a panic, Du Xihai retreated, his expression filled with terror.
Xu Sha turned and glanced at Du Xihai, saying coldly, "Fatty, if you utter another disrespectful word and trouble this Miss, worry that I’ll co looking for you tonight!"
Du Xihai was so frightened that he didn’t dare to fart.
With the three pieces of talisman paper in hand, Du Xishan asked you, "Do these talismans have a ti limit?"
"No, as long as the talisman paper isn’t damaged or dirty, it should be fine."
Before leaving, you deliberately gave Du Xihai another look, said with a smirk, "Little Du, stop secretly interacting with those tomb raiders. The stuff in their hands is full of bad aura. If you keep this up, you likely won’t make it to this year’s Spring Festival Gala."
"You’re slandering ! How could I, a distinguished university professor, have anything to do with those people?"
"That’s your own business, no point explaining to ."
You gave Du Xihai a disdainful look, shook your head, and swaggered off.
Heh, that’ll teach you to show off!
Leaving the museum, you looked at the empty square before you, scratching your head, thinking how inconvenient it is to be without a car these days.
Maybe it’s ti to buy a bicycle or two.
That way, you too would belong to the car-owning class.
Alright, you admit that thought was a bit "leaky."
There was a bus stop outside the provincial museum’s square, and after standing there for a short while, a bus arrived that was heading directly to Zijin Port.
No sooner had you stepped onto the bus than Fan Yi followed.
"Eh, you’re heading back to the university too?"
"Mhm," Fan Yi nodded.
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