Published at 15th of November 2024 9:32 am

Chapter 254: Body Impervious to a Hundred Evils

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“Do you think this quality will do?” Sun Lihua asked Xu Fan, looking a bit uncertain.

“It will suffice. The quality of these jades is quite good,” Xu Fan nodded, reaching out to pick up a pure white Hetian jade from the box.

This piece of jade was carved into the shape of a gourd, with two Bagua-shaped talismans engraved on it.

Xu Fan gently held the Jade Gourd in his hand, then touched the throat of the man lying on the bed with his finger. Even in his unconscious state, he seemed to be stimulated by something and slightly opened his mouth.

At that moment, Xu Fan’s hand moved like lightning to stuff the Jade Gourd into his mouth.

“Young friend, what are you doing…” Lin Yaoshi watched Xu Fan’s action with some confusion. In his understanding, people in ancient Yan Country indeed placed jade stones in the mouths, but it was generally for the dead, using pure jade to block the impure qi emanating from the corpse’s mouth.

Before Xu Fan had even treated the illness, he had already placed a jade stone in the patient’s mouth.

This act seemed rather inauspicious.

Despite a heap of questions in his mind, Lin Yaoshi saw Xu Fan’s focused expression and didn’t dare to interrupt, only pondering silently to himself.

After all, though he was skilled in medicine, he did not understand mysticism and could only show a look of ignorance and fear to ask.

Xu Fan, however, didn’t care about all that. After placing the Jade Gourd in the elder’s mouth, he formed a sword gesture with one hand and slowly pointed it toward the elder’s chest and abdomen, preparing to cast a spell. Suddenly, he remembered there were still a few other people in the room. Glancing around, he said, “Elder Lin, please have the caregiver and your granddaughter leave the room first. They are women with insufficient yang energy; during the exorcism process if the evil qi senses their bodies’ yin energy, it might affect them.”

“Xiao Li, you go out first,” Sun Lihua obediently called out the caregiver looking after the elder.

However, Lin Shutong didn’t take kindly to Xu Fan’s words. Although she was not the rumored feminist fighter, she was someone who had received higher education from childhood and was an atheist. To her, Xu Fan’s obscure and mysterious claims sounded like nothing more than the second-rate tricks of a charlatan.

“What do you mean women have insufficient yang energy? Are you perhaps trying to get rid of us so you can pull the wool over our eyes? My grandfather is old and has bad eyesight, and Uncle Sun is too distraught to see clearly. In this room, I am the most sober person. If you send me out, then you can continue your charade with no one to expose you. Is that what you’re thinking?” Lin Shutong demanded, holding Tongtong and speaking bluntly to Xu Fan.

“Pretty sister, daddy is a good man. Daddy isn’t what you’re saying,” Tongtong said to Lin Shutong, her lips pursed with a hint of grievance after hearing Lin Shutong’s words.

“Baby, you’re still young and there are many things you don’t understand. But sister tells you, there are no ghosts and goblins in this world, you must not believe Daddy’s nonsense!” Lin Shutong gently stroked Tongtong’s small braid and spoke seriously.

“Lin Shutong, you’re really spoiled. Didn’t I just tell you that children should stay out of adults’ business? What are you doing here? Believe it or not, I’ll have you thrown out!” Elder Lin looked at Lin Shutong, feigning anger as he spoke to her.

Xu Fan was practically a demigod in Elder Lin’s eyes. Lin Shutong was young and ignorant, which might have been excusable, but Lin Yaoshi knew better. His scolding of Lin Shutong was simply to prevent Xu Fan from becoming angry upon hearing her words. If Xu Fan really got angry because of Lin Shutong, even if the Lin Family was wealthy and influential, they might not be able to afford the wrath of this enigmatic alchemist.

Of course, Lin Shutong couldn’t understand the good intentions behind her grandfather’s scolding. Seeing her usually indulgent grandfather become so stern because of Xu Fan, a stranger, Lin Shutong felt a surge of defiance and, with tears in her eyes, said to Elder Lin, “Grandfather Sun is my godfather, he’s watched me grow up, and if he is ill, I want to be there to see him. I still don’t believe there is anything like ghosts and goblins in this world, so I’m not afraid at all!”

“You… you… are you trying to anger your grandfather to death…” Lin Yaoshi was also visibly agitated, pointing at Lin Shutong, unable to find the words.

However, Lin Shutong still stood defiantly in her place, not moving an inch, her eyes shining with stubborn defiance.

“Xu young friend, my granddaughter has been unruly since she was a child. Sometimes, even I am at my wit’s end with her, alas… truly…” Elder Lin said to Xu Fan with a bit of an apology in his tone.

“Elder Lin, don’t blame yourself. If Miss Lin wishes to stay here, that’s fine. Just don’t be frightened later,” Xu Fan said nonchalantly, waving his hand gently.

Xu Fan didn’t want to cause any generational conflicts for Elder Lin because of himself, so he generously gave Lin Yaoshi face.

“Xu young friend, my granddaughter is too stubborn. If she wants to stay, let her be. But your little daughter is only four or five years old, isn’t it better to send her out of the room first? She’s just a child and must not see such evil spirits,” Elder Lin said to Xu Fan with concern as he looked at the adorable Tongtong in Lin Shutong’s arms.

“Haha, my daughter will be fine. She is impervious to a hundred evils,” Xu Fan laughed heartily.

The jade token worn by Tongtong had been transformed into a Spiritual Artifact through his alchemy, and it even housed the spirit of a small prince with considerable cultivation.

Although the evil spirit in Elder Sun was also a menace, compared to the small prince in the jade token, it was merely a minor spirit faced with a great one. The prince was a resentful spirit from over a thousand years ago, having reached the threshold of the Qi Practicing Realm just by automatically absorbing grievances. This was not something an ordinary evil spirit could compare with.

Tongtong, wearing a Hello Kitty jade token, would be safe if the evil spirit retained even a shred of reason and would not dare make a move on Little Tongtong.

If the spirit did try anything, the small prince within the jade token would emerge immediately and slay the evil spirit. As the protector spirit of the little princess Tongtong, he had yet to demonstrate his loyalty and was very much looking forward to someone coming along to court death.

“Haha, if such a young girl is not afraid, why would I, Lin Shutong, be scared!” Hearing Xu Fan’s words, Lin Shutong became even more determined to stay in the room and monitor Xu Fan treating Elder Sun.

She never believed in the ghosts and goblins Xu Fan mentioned in the first place. Now he claimed his daughter Tongtong was a Body Impervious to a Hundred Evils. Well, then I must be a Body of Thousands Buddhas’ Pilgrimage, thought Lin Shutong. Making up idioms is easy for anyone. After all, Lin Shutong, a high schooler who’d read plenty of online novels, always felt that Xu Fan’s words were such a sham.

Ghosts and goblins, those are just made-up things.

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