“No!” Realizing what was about to happen, Chen Yu subconsciously ran towards Lou Ming.
“Come back!” Elder Wu’s face changed dramatically. He raised his hand to grab Chen Yu, who dodged sideways and avoided his blocking arm, and continued to run toward Lou Ming.
“Boom!” Another muffled thunder rumbled in the sky.
Lou Ming broke through the spiritual shield blocking him. Despite the Heavenly Thunder’s warnings, he walked towards Chen Yu step by step and then suddenly stopped in his tracks. His bloodshot eyes fixedly looking at the girl running towards him, and suddenly stopped moving.
“Don’t go there!” The dark clouds in the sky gathered consistently, and the silver moonlight was gradually covered by the shadow. Beneath the terrifying thundercloud, lightning seemingly could strike at any time. Elder Wu yelled in horror, trying to stop Chen Yu from courting death.
“Third Brother!” The distance between the two wasn’t that far. Even if Lou Ming stopped in place, Chen Yu ran to him in just a blink of an eye.
Dressed in white cotton padded clothes, Chen Yu rushed into Lou Ming’s arms. With blood-red evil qi around him, he was like a white dove rushing into the sea of blood, tightly hugging Lou Ming’s waist.
“Third Brother, my spiritual power is gone. Can you stop releasing your evil spirit? The Heavenly Thunder is going to strike down. I beg you.” Chen Yu cried. At this time, she already knew that she couldn’t control the monarch-level of Lou Ming’s evil spirit. She had already forgotten that Lou Ming had lost his senses at this time, but she didn’t know what else she could do except to say these words.
“Crackle! Rumble-crackle-crackle…”
“Crackleeeee…”
Sporadic lightning flashed within the dark clouds. The Heavenly Thunder was on the verge of striking…
Lou Ming lowered his head, and a trace of doubt flashed at the bottom of his cold eyes. He studied the girl’s face in his arms, looking at the crystal tear drops on it. Something didn’t feel right.
I merely want to come to you. I didn’t mean to make you cry!
Lou Ming’s thumb instinctively wiped the tear marks on Chen Yu’s cheeks, ignoring the Heavenly Thunder that was about to fall overhead.
“Chen Yu!” A thick purple lightning bolt fell from the clouds as Elder Wu called out Chen Yu’s name desperately. In the nick of time, a golden light suddenly burst out from Lou Ming’s body, and it shot up into the sky, holding up a barrier between the thundercloud and his evil spirit.
The purple lightning struck mid-air and suddenly lost its target. After a pause, it left a crackling rumble and disappeared into the night sky. At this juncture, the sky’s thunderclouds also quietly dispersed, revealing the silvery white moon behind. The valley once again returned to quiet as if nothing had happened.
Elder Wu gaped at the scene incredulously. Under the bright moonlight, a golden barrier appeared. Under the golden barrier, a blood red evil spirit raged, and in the center of the red evil qi was an embracing couple.
“Third brother?” Aware of Lou Ming’s movements, Chen Yu felt that Lou Ming might still be conscious at this time. She raised her head and tried to make out Lou Ming’s expression, but she couldn’t see anything in his bloodshot eyes.
On the girl’s tilted face, her eyes that welled up tears were particularly bright, and her bright red lips seemed to be saying something. Lou Ming couldn’t hear clearly, but he found it a bit noisy. He lowered his head and sealed the annoying voice.
“Um~~” Chen Yu, who was suddenly kissed, was stupefied. She clutched Lou Ming’s clothes with her fingers, and beneath his bloodshot gaze, she slowly closed her eyes.
Knowing that his granddaughter in love was one thing, and seeing his granddaughter being taken advantage of was another thing. Elder Wu didn’t care if he could beat Lou Ming and swung his peach wooden sword to attack the man.
However, before he could reach the couple, a seven-colored spiritual light suddenly beamed out from the cave not far behind Lou Ming. The light seemed to have a consciousness and bore straight on two people embracing each other.
Under the irradiation of the seven-colored spiritual light, the continuous outward flow of Lou Ming’s evil qi gradually stopped. Because of the spiritual light’s emergence, the excess red evil qi in the valley was also purified little by little. In the end, only some residual Yin and Evil Qi remained. As if completing some kind of mission, the evil spirit disappeared while the seven-colored spiritual light also slowly vanished from sight.
“Pfff!”
“Third Brother?” Chen Yu exclaimed. She squatted to help Lou Ming, who suddenly fainted. Upon finding that Lou Ming looked ruddy and continuously breathing, she turned her head in surprise and shouted to Elder Wu, “Grandpa, Third Brother’s evil spirit seems to have been sealed.”
Elder Wu walked to their side. He looked at the unconscious Lou Ming with a complicated face, and found that his evil spirit was indeed sealed. Knowing that this was the effect of the seven-colored spiritual light, Elder Wu turned his head to the cave nearby and asked, “What’s in there?”
Chen Yu shook her head blankly.
Elder Wu didn’t expect Chen Yu to be able to answer him. He bypassed the two people and went straight toward the cave, and then jumped down.
Shortly after Elder Wu jumped into the cave, the space beside Chen Yu suddenly distorted. A gust of nether wind blew by, and Xiang Nan, holding his Judge’s Pen, suddenly appeared in front of Chen Yu.
“Xiang Nan?”
“Celestial Master Chen?” Xiang Nan was a little surprised when he saw Chen Yu.
“Why are you here?” Chen Yu looked at Xiang Nan with some caution. Xiang Nan was now a ghost messenger, so she was afraid that he was here to hook another soul.
“The City God noticed the abnormal Yin Qi here, so he sent me over to investigate.” Xiang Nan looked around and said, “I see that there’s very heavy Yin and evil Qi here, but there’s nothing unusual. Celestial Master Chen, do you know what is going on here?”
Hearing that he didn’t come to catch Lou Ming, Chen Yu immediately breathed a sigh of relief and explained, “There was originally a magical barrier here with more than a dozen malevolent ghosts and a millennium-old zombie inside.”
“A zombie? So that’s how it is.” Xiang Nan was surprised. Zombies had been separated from the six reincarnations and weren’t under the control of the Underworld, but this could also explain the reason for the abnormal surge of Yin Qi in the valley.
After knowing the reason, Xiang Nan threw his Judge’s Pen in the air. After turning twice in the air, the scarlet pen began to absorb the excess Yin and Evil Qi around. Hence, in a blink of an eye, the pen absorbed every thread of Yin and Evil Qi in the valley.
After retrieving the Judge’s Pen, Xiang Nan met Chen Yu’s surprised gaze and explained, “This is the Judge’s Pen, the magic weapon the Underworld gave to me. It can absorb the earth’s Yin and Evil Qi and be used to purify the world.”
“It seems you have a good life in the Underworld,” Chen Yu commented.
“It’s all thanks to you, Celestial Master Chen.” Xiang Nan smiled. “If you hadn’t brought me to the City God for him to administer justice, I might have died today with the Liu family. How could I have gone to the Underworld and become Judge Wen under the City God’s rule.”
“Are you already a judge?” Chen Yu was amazed. It must be known that the right and left hands of City God were civil and military judges, who were responsible for patrolling the world. Their rights were no trivial matter.
“It’s just a fluke. If there’s anything I can do for you in the future, you can always find me,” Xiang Nan said and took out a black phone from his pocket. He said, “Let’s exchange numbers.”
“Can a phone in the Underworld connect with a number in the world of the living?” Chen Yu was surprised.
“Yes, but it requires me to set a special setting on the phone,” Xiang Nan explained.
Xiang Nan had always wanted to repay Chen Yu after he became a judge in the City God’s Temple in the capital. However, the situation in the hospital the last time was special, and Xiang Nan didn’t have time to talk to Chen Yu.
After the two exchanged contact information, Xiang Nan said, “It seems that someone is coming over. Celestial Master Chen, I’ll leave ahead.”
After bidding farewell, the air distorted once more, and Xiang Nan crossed the Ghost Gate into the Underworld.
Shortly after Xiang Nan left, He Qi ran down from the hill with a bunch of assistants, jogging all the way to Chen Yu’s side.
“Young Master! Miss Chen Yu, Young Master, he…” He Qi looked at Chen Yu nervously.
“Third Brother passed out,” Chen Yu replied.
The assistants breathed a sigh of relief in unison. Lou Ming would faint for a period of time every time after his evil spirit rioted. They were already used to it.
“Let’s help Young Master to rest for now,” He Qi said. He and Cheng Peng both carried Lou Ming up from Chen Yu’s arms and carried him towards the outside of the valley.
Chen Yu stood up, but didn’t follow Lou Ming to leave. Instead, she turned around to look at the cave not far away.
“Miss Chen Yu, where is Elder Wu?” Tian Fei, who had stayed behind to wait for Chen Yu, did not see Elder Wu, and asked out loud in wonder.
Perhaps hearing someone asking about him, Elder Wu jumped up from the cave in due course.
“Grandpa.” Chen Yu hurried forward.
“Where is Lou Ming?” Elder Wu glanced at her and asked.
“He’s taken home by Assistant He,” Chen Yu replied.
Elder Wu nodded and said nothing.
“Grandpa, what did you find below?” Chen Yu asked curiously.
Hearing this, Elder Wu raised his right hand, revealing the thing in his palm, it was a… black hairpin.
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Elder Wu: Are you married? You hugged and kissed right in front of me!
Lou Ming flushed, and lowered his head in embarrassment: Grandpa, are you trying to force a marriage?