The Ghost Insists on Giving Me a Beautiful and Powerful Wife! - Chapter 34.2

Their new location was a cave, and the pitch-black environment was impossible to see anything in. Zhuang Ciyue pulled out a fire starter, blew on it lightly twice, and a spark ignited in the dark environment.

The spark wasn’t enough to light the way. Just as Yu Ruoyin regretted not bringing all her tools, Zhuang Huaishu suddenly pulled a flashlight from her pocket. When the flashlight turned on, the white light quickly swallowed Zhuang Ciyue’s tiny spark, and she was speechless: “Grand-Aunt, we are Ink Artists.”

Zhuang Huaishu lightly tossed the flashlight to Yu Ruoyin: “Who says Ink Artists can’t use flashlights?”

Yu Ruoyin held the flashlight and shone it upward. The cave ceiling was covered with tightly packed, inverted stalactites. The stone surface was covered in black ash, looking like pitch-black, foul-smelling animal tusks. Yu Ruoyin gripped the flashlight tightly, trying to suppress her inner fear.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew into the cave entrance. The black ash scattered instantly, transforming into black crows that flew apart.

The black crows flew over their heads, pecking fiercely at their skin. Although small, their sharp beaks were exceptionally vicious; one peck left a patch of red marks.

Yu Ruoyin still had Jiang Huaining’s spiritual energy protection, but Zhuang Ciyue was worse off. Tiny cuts were pecked into her body, and beads of blood started to seep out.

Strangely, the black crows did not dare to approach Zhuang Huaishu and Nan He. Nan He grabbed Yu Ruoyin’s wrist, and instantly a wall of golden light surrounded her, making it impossible for the black crows to come closer. Zhuang Huaishu leaned on the wheelchair, watching Zhuang Ciyue, whose forehead had a row of tiny wounds from the pecking, with no intention of helping: “Where are the skills you learned?”

“Ah, right, right, my pen!” Zhuang Ciyue hurriedly pulled out her Ink Drawing Pen and quickly sketched a blue-faced, fanged evil beast on half her face.

Her body suddenly swelled up, tiny black fuzz appeared on her face, and red, sharp claws grew on her hands. She took a deep breath, and her belly quickly inflated. When her belly was fully distended, she suddenly blew toward the scattered crows.

Strands of faint blue flames spewed out of Zhuang Ciyue’s mouth.

The faint blue flames quickly burned up the black crows surrounding her, but the number of crows increased rather than decreased. They seemed to be able to reproduce rapidly using the Yin fire.

The more Zhuang Ciyue burned, the more black crows appeared.

Yu Ruoyin quickly shook free of Nan He’s hand, took out a Borrowing Yin Talisman from her satchel, and placed it on her chest.

She recited the incantation as she read in the book, and the Borrowing Yin Talisman on her chest instantly lit up.

The paper talisman turned into a black sachet. The sachet’s open cloth pocket was fatally attractive to the black crows. They surged towards the sachet, and after the sachet absorbed the black crows, a black thread emerged from the pocket. The black thread followed Yu Ruoyin’s forehead and drilled into her body.

Yu Ruoyin felt the exhaustion from carrying the coffin instantly vanish, and she could clearly feel her physical strength increasing. The skin on her right arm slowly turned pale, and her fingernails gradually lengthened and turned red.

Yu Ruoyin clearly felt her body becoming ghost-like. Since the number of black crows whose Yin energy was absorbed did not increase again, Yu Ruoyin knew this method worked.

The color of the sachet was fading bit by bit, and Yu Ruoyin quickly prepared to renew the Borrowing Yin Talisman.

Just as she took out the talisman paper, Zhuang Huaishu’s faint voice drifted over: “Those are Yin Crows. If you absorb their ghostly energy, you’ll have bad luck.”

Yu Ruoyin’s hand holding the Borrowing Yin Talisman froze: “Grand-Aunt, you could have said that earlier next time.”

“I will.” Zhuang Huaishu leaned wearily against the wheelchair, quietly observing Yu Ruoyin: “If I remember.”

“…” Yu Ruoyin felt that Zhuang Huaishu had intentionally not said anything earlier.

Seeing that the Yin fire was useless, Zhuang Ciyue quickly picked up her pen again.

The black beast on half her face changed into black vines. The black vine pattern glowed, and suddenly, black vines sprouted from her back. There was a flower bud every centimeter on the vines. The buds would open upon touching a black crow, extending fangs to violently bite the crow’s wing, completely swallowing it before closing again, ready for the next one.

The vines spread very quickly, rapidly devouring all the black crows.

After all the black crows vanished, the pattern on Zhuang Ciyue’s face instantly dimmed. She reached out and wiped away the edges of the pattern, then slumped to the ground.

She scooted closer to Yu Ruoyin: “Little Yu, Little Yu, I was scared to death just now!”

The Zhuang Ciyue in front of her was completely different from the Zhuang Ciyue from a moment ago.

Yu Ruoyin quickly reached out and pulled her up, and with Nan He, they supported her, one on each side: “Sister Yue, weren’t you unafraid of Yin creatures before?”

“I’m not afraid, but I’m afraid of not having time to fight back.” Zhuang Ciyue patted her chest, still shaken: “The ghosts I used to fight in the mountains were all ghosts Grand-Aunt caught. Although they hit me hard, they would never try to kill me. The rest were some very weak ghosts that couldn’t hurt me at all. This is my first time encountering Yin Crows!”

Zhuang Ciyue pointed to the row of bloody holes on her forehead: “Look at what they pecked on me!”

The bleeding on Zhuang Ciyue’s wounds had stopped, but the black blood dots hadn’t faded yet, looking very unpleasant.

She was both aggrieved and angry: “Who was so wicked as to put Yin Crows at the ghost market entrance!”

“Sister Yue, are you saying these Yin Crows were deliberately placed here by someone?”

“Definitely.” Zhuang Ciyue grumbled: “Yin Crows survive by eating fresh flesh and drinking fresh blood. This kind of remote passage rarely has people passing through. If these Yin Crows weren’t fed, they definitely wouldn’t have grown this large, and they wouldn’t have the ability to hurt me. Although I’m not that skilled, I am still the apprentice of the number one Ink Artist!”

“…” Zhuang Huaishu tugged at the blanket on her body: “I just said, don’t say you are my apprentice.”

Zhuang Ciyue bared her teeth at Zhuang Huaishu: “Then I’m the granddaughter of the number one Ink Artist, Grand-Aunt! I haven’t even settled the score with you yet! Why didn’t you remind Little Yu not to use the Borrowing Yin Talisman? Absorbing the Yin Crows’ ghostly energy will truly cause bad luck for a long time! Were you intentionally trying to harm Little Yu? Little Yu is my best friend, how could you do this!”

“I said it.”

“You said it too late!” Zhuang Ciyue was still very angry. She rushed over and grabbed the wheelchair: “I protest, I’m angry, I want to complain!”

“Who are you going to complain to?” Zhuang Huaishu rubbed her ear and asked nonchalantly: “Stop yelling, why didn’t you say anything yourself?”

“Grand-Aunt! If you keep this up, I’ll really be mad for a long time! You clearly know I can’t speak!”

Zhuang Ciyue was currently like a hedgehog with its quills lowered, her soft spines touching Zhuang Huaishu without causing any discomfort.

Zhuang Huaishu was not only unthreatened but actually felt like laughing: “Alright, since you know your shortcomings, then work hard to improve.”

“Grand-Aunt!” Zhuang Ciyue angrily handed the wheelchair to Nan He: “You push it!”

Zhuang Ciyue pulled Yu Ruoyin and walked outside, glancing back occasionally to make sure Nan He was following with Zhuang Huaishu.

As she walked, she complained to Yu Ruoyin: “Little Yu, don’t you think my Grand-Aunt is too much? An average Ink Artist like me can’t speak after drawing Yin, or a ghost will possess me! She can talk after drawing Yin, but she’s widely recognized as the number one Ink Artist in the field! Where do I even rank! I can only draw half a face of the Witchcraft pattern now!”

“Last time in the barrier…”

“My bone pen was broken then, and the Witchcraft pattern on my face was ineffective, so I only had my mouth left to yell.”

“I see.”

While talking to Zhuang Ciyue, Yu Ruoyin kept glancing back with her, trying her best to slow their pace.

Since learning she would have bad luck, every step she took was extremely cautious. She was used to bad luck, but she still had Jiang Huaining on her back.

Zhuang Huaishu, being pushed by Nan He, caught up with them. Seeing Yu Ruoyin’s cautious look, she slowly said: “You don’t need to worry too much. Your fate is already bad enough; this little bit of Yin energy won’t affect it.”

“…” Yu Ruoyin now understood why Zhuang Ciyue’s voice was getting louder. She also felt the urge to yell at Zhuang Huaishu. Yu Ruoyin managed a strained smile: “Perhaps, I should be happy now?”

Zhuang Huaishu ignored her forced expression and seriously approved her suggestion: “You can.”

“Sister Yue, let’s hurry up and get out!”

Yu Ruoyin hurried her steps a little. She didn’t really want to talk to Zhuang Huaishu now; it was too easy to get angry.

She and Zhuang Ciyue walked at the front, and they were the first to step out of the cave.

As soon as they walked out of the narrow, cold cave, what they felt was not fresh air, but a blast of heat.

The sudden surge in temperature caught them off guard. The excessive heat was almost enough to burn skin. Yu Ruoyin was slightly better, but Zhuang Ciyue’s fair skin immediately turned red. She quickly picked up her pen and changed the Witchcraft pattern to a frost and snow design. A burst of cold air radiated from her. She quickly grabbed Yu Ruoyin’s arm to cool her down: “So hot, so hot! Why is it suddenly so hot!”

Yu Ruoyin also felt hot, but perhaps due to her body’s current special condition, she was not as dramatically affected as Zhuang Ciyue. She even felt that the hand Zhuang Ciyue placed on her arm was a bit too cold, but since it was Zhuang Ciyue’s good intention, she didn’t feel right pulling away.

When Zhuang Huaishu came out, she saw the frost flower pattern on Zhuang Ciyue’s face, and her face darkened instantly: “Is this how I taught you to use the Witchcraft technique?”

“I’m hot, very hot.”

Under Zhuang Ciyue’s repeated declaration, Zhuang Huaishu also noticed the unusual temperature.

As a top Ink Artist, her bones and meridians were partially ghost-like, so her perception of temperature was not as sensitive as Zhuang Ciyue’s, but she had keen observational skills.

She patted Nan He’s hand: “How about you?”

Nan He had tiny beads of sweat on her forehead. She slowly opened her mouth, first letting out a puff of hot air: “It is hot.”

“Isn’t it night right now?”

Zhuang Huaishu looked at the hanging moon with great confusion. The moonlight was strong, and the stars were numerous; it was a lovely night scene.

Zhuang Ciyue took out her phone: “The weather app says it’s twenty-five degrees, but it feels like more than forty-five degrees right now. What’s going on?”

Yu Ruoyin leaned over, looked at the phone with Zhuang Ciyue, and suddenly had an answer in her heart: “I might know what’s going on.”

“Hmm?”

Zhuang Huaishu and the others all looked over. Yu Ruoyin nervously clenched her fists: “Sister Yue, you should remember Sister Qingzhen told you that Sister Xiayu is a Spirit of Nature, and her duty is to guard the summer. Sister Xiayu is currently injured, and not lightly.”

“Hiss…” Zhuang Ciyue remembered and held her forehead: “Don’t tell me the temperature will be like this until Xiayu recovers.”

“Not necessarily.”

Yu Ruoyin couldn’t say for sure, but it should be this reason. They had been wandering along the boundary line between Yin and Yang, and the cave also harbored Yin Crows. This was the first time they had encountered the true outside temperature since Xiayu was injured.

No wonder Lu Qingzhen kept saying it would be very cool when she brought the coffin out, mentioning that living people were afraid of the heat, and also mentioning the outside weather. Yu Ruoyin had only briefly heard it and didn’t pay attention at the time, but now she understood what it meant.

Zhuang Ciyue let out a heavy sigh: “I originally didn’t like that Lord Xia very much, but now I realize I love her very much. I hope she gets well soon.”

“This is quite good. At the current temperature, ordinary people won’t easily go out.” Zhuang Huaishu leaned on the wheelchair, raising her eyes to look at the coffin on Yu Ruoyin’s back: “Congratulations, you don’t have to worry about scaring people.”

She hadn’t even considered that yet.

Oh right… the coffin!

Yu Ruoyin quickly moved to put down the coffin. Zhuang Huaishu was somewhat confused: “What are you doing?”

“I need to check if Auntie Ning is hot. I even covered her with a blanket, I need to…”

“You…” Zhuang Huaishu interrupted Yu Ruoyin in disbelief: “Do you think the owner of the Four Spirits Shop is afraid of heat?”

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