I flew on a sword at the magic academy

Chapter 78 Medicine Spirit

"The Emperor, the Death Card, and the Fallen Angel, this deck of cards..." Fiona frowned slightly as she stared at the three cards on the table.

Having the Death Card and the Fallen Angel is clearly not a good omen.

"Fiona, what does this card mean?" Locke asked curiously.

"The emperor represents authority and control."

"The Death card represents addiction, helplessness, and irreversibility."

"Fallen angels represent prosperity and decay."

Fiona stared at the three cards on the table and began to think seriously.

"Authority, control... This person is Duke Harvey, who lives on the top floor of the hotel! That must be the problem!"

Combining all the information, Fiona finally came to this conclusion, then suddenly stood up, picked up the three tarot cards, and walked outside.

"Where are you going?" Locke shouted.

"I'm going to find Shi Daohan and the others!" Fiona said without turning her head.

By this time, the discussion in the room where Shi Daohan and the other two were had already ended.

Jing Xinyu had already fallen asleep, Shen Tianyu sat cross-legged on the sofa with her eyes closed to rest, while Shi Daohan sat leisurely at the tea table, sipping tea.

Upon seeing Fiona suddenly push open the door and enter, both Shi Daohan and Shen Tianyu looked up.

"Fiona? Is there something you need?" Shi Daohan asked softly.

Fiona walked straight up to her and said, "There's something wrong with the 23rd floor!"

Upon hearing this, Shi Daohan and Shen Tianyu exchanged a glance, somewhat surprised.

"How do you know there's something wrong with the top floor, the twenty-third floor?"

Fiona took out three tarot cards: "The Emperor, representing power; the card of addiction and irreversible death; and the Fallen Angel, foreshadowing prosperity and decline. Isn't the most powerful person in this hotel Duke Harvey, who lives on the top floor? All of this might be related to him!"

"These are... tarot cards?"

"It's a Western method of divination; it looks quite interesting."

Shi Daohan and Shen Tianyu secretly communicated with each other using their divine senses, but they were also somewhat surprised that Fiona had guessed the source of everything based on just three cards.

Shen Tianyu stroked his chin, staring at the three tarot cards Fiona had taken out, and muttered to himself, "Addiction, Irreversible, Prosperity and Decline... What do these two cards mean?"

The information we have now is the source of all this, and it is all inextricably linked to Duke Harvey, who lives on the top floor.

"As far as I know, this Duke Harvey, although he has a title, is just an ordinary mortal. Where does he get such great ability to attract so many ghosts to this hotel?" Shi Daohan was completely puzzled.

All the mysteries can only be solved by going up to the top floor at night in person.

Fiona didn't go back to her room, but stayed here, sitting on the sofa with Shi Daohan, flipping through a magic book together.

Night fell quickly, and the city lights illuminated the bustling cityscape, while the Latafia Hotel appeared even more eerie.

"Isn't it about time?"

Shi Daohan closed the magic book, rubbed her eyes, and Fiona had already fallen asleep on her shoulder at some point.

"Then let's get started." Shen Tianyu stood up and stretched.

Shi Daohan gently shook Fiona awake and softly instructed, "No matter what happens later, you must stay by my side and don't run around, okay?"

Fiona rubbed her sleepy eyes and obediently nodded, saying, "I understand."

Shi Daohan got up to wake Jing Xinyu, but when she lifted the covers, her expression froze instantly—there was no one in bed!

"Where is he?!" Shi Daohan looked at Shen Tianyu.

"No, I don't know!"

Shen Tianyu's face also showed surprise and doubt. He had been in the room all day and did not know when Jing Xinyu had left.

"What use are you if you can't even keep an eye on one person!"

Shi Daohan cursed and quickly pushed open the door and ran out.

"ah--!!!!"

As soon as they entered the corridor, a scream came from the room where Locke was.

"Damn it! This is bad!"

Shi Daohan had a bad feeling and quickly ran over.

The room was pitch black. When Shi Daohan turned on the light, he saw Locke hiding in a corner, screaming in terror.

"What's wrong?" Shi Daohan asked, quickly scanning the room but not seeing Jing Xinyu.

Seeing Shi Daohan arrive, Locke felt like he'd found a lifeline. He quickly got up and hid behind her, pointing at the wardrobe and stammering, "The wardrobe... there's a ghost in it!"

"It's nothing, it's just a ghost."

Shi Daohan gently comforted her, then raised her hand and lifted the wardrobe door, revealing a hideous female ghost.

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Inside the room, Shi Daohan, Shen Tianyu, Fiona, and Locke sat side by side on the sofa, while the female ghost stood before them with her head down, like a child who had done something wrong.

The female ghost looked to be only eighteen or nineteen years old. Her face was covered with scratches, and most shockingly, a kitchen knife was stuck diagonally into her head, with dried blood covering most of her face.

"What's your name? Why are you harming people here!"

Shen Tianyu crossed his legs and scrutinized the female ghost.

"My name is A-Lian, and I haven't harmed anyone!" the female ghost protested, waving her hands.

"You hid in the closet and almost scared me to death! Isn't that endangering people?" Locke said angrily, then quickly pulled his head back under the blanket.

"Little brother, I only scared you, didn't I? I didn't actually hurt you. We have to be reasonable with each other," the female ghost said earnestly.

Shi Daohan looked her up and down and asked, "From the East? China or Japan?"

"From China," the female ghost replied.

"Then just speak your mother tongue. Don't try to use foreign languages ​​with me; it sounds awkward."

"Hey hey, are you Chinese too, miss? Hey hey, we're from the same hometown!" The female ghost took the initiative to strike up a conversation.

"Handle it as it should be handled; trying to get close to me won't work."

Shi Daohan turned to Shen Tianyu and asked, "If someone from our side dies here, is they under the jurisdiction of their Western underworld or our underworld?"

Shen Tianyu was stumped by the question and said, "I think it must be the underworld officials who came to take the person back."

"The chief disciple of Donghua Mountain, huh? He knows nothing." Shi Daohan pouted and muttered under his breath before looking at the female ghost again.

"Ah Lian, right? You were murdered in this hotel? Did you die recently, or some time ago? Didn't anyone from the underworld come to take you away?"

She asked several questions in a row, and the female ghost Ah Lian answered them one by one.

She was a student who went to study in the Western world five years ago. During that time, she had a local boyfriend, and the two had a very good relationship.

But one day, she discovered that her boyfriend was cheating on her with two women, and heartbroken, she broke up with him.

"Judging from your condition, you probably didn't commit suicide on your own, did you? Was it your boyfriend who killed you?" Shen Tianyu said.

"That beast! He knelt on the ground begging for my forgiveness, then tricked me into going to the kitchen..."

As she spoke, her emotions became agitated, and a chilling wind swept through the room, causing the lights to flicker, which terrified Locke.

Although Fiona remained expressionless and appeared calm, she still quietly moved closer to Shi Daohan.

Shi Daohan shook his head and sighed softly, already able to guess what happened after the female ghost A-Lian was tricked into the kitchen.

"No man is any good!" the female ghost Ah Lian shouted hoarsely.

"That's right, there isn't a single good man," Shi Daohan chimed in.

Shen Tianyu nodded subconsciously, but quickly realized something was wrong and hurriedly said, "You can't generalize and condemn everyone. For example, I'm a good man!"

"..."

"Ahem, let's get back to the point." Shen Tianyu cleared his throat twice and said, "Since you didn't die in this hotel, why did you come here?"

"I don't know either." The female ghost, A-Lian, shook her head and pondered, "At first, I felt completely dazed, like a thoughtless leaf drifting downstream in a river. But after coming here, I feel very clear-headed, and this place feels very comfortable."

"Comfortable, and alert?"

Shi Daohan and Shen Tianyu exchanged a glance.

They've already checked the feng shui of this hotel; the layout is quite ordinary and doesn't attract ghosts.

"So, all these years, no one from the underworld has come looking for you?" Shi Daohan asked, pinching her chin in confusion.

"No," the female ghost shook her head.

"If it falls under the jurisdiction of the Western underworld, then their efficiency is too low, isn't it?" Shen Tianyu muttered under his breath.

Finally, they decided to go to the top floor first to see what secrets it held.

The top floor of the Latafia Hotel was reserved for the Duke of Harvey, and since the elevator couldn't go up there, the group had to climb the stairs.

As they reached a corner in the stairwell, Jing Xinyu, who had mysteriously disappeared, was sitting on the stairs, seemingly waiting for them there all along.

"Where did you go?" Shi Daohan frowned.

Jing Xinyu tilted her head and smiled sweetly, saying, "If you can't sleep, just take a walk around."

Shen Tianyu looked at her suspiciously: "When did you leave the room? Why didn't we notice?"

"Oh dear~ At the time, one of you was drinking tea and reading, and the other was wiping his 'wife' down, so I didn't want to disturb you and just came out on my own."

She stood up, dusted herself off, and said, "Let's not talk about that anymore. Come with me to the top floor. I've found something interesting."

Shi Daohan walked over to Locke, placed a hand on his shoulder, and whispered, "If you feel any discomfort, be sure to tell me immediately, okay?"

Although Locke didn't know why Shi Daohan would suddenly say these things to him, he still nodded seriously.

Duke Harvey bought the entire top floor of the Latafia Hotel, but he lived there alone. Even the young maid Kelly only came to deliver meals on time every day; she didn't live there.

Upon arriving at the corridor on this floor, Shi Daohan and the others discovered that the corridor was covered with a dense layer of green liquid, which shimmered with an eerie glow under the dim light.

"Is it fluorescent powder?" Fiona suddenly asked.

Upon hearing this, Shi Daohan, Shen Tianyu, and Jing Xinyu all turned around in surprise and astonishment.

"You can see it?" the three of them asked at the same time.

They are not ordinary people, so it's not surprising that they can see these green liquids. But how can Fiona, with her mortal eyes, see them?

"Yes, like fluorescent powder." Fiona nodded.

Shi Daohan squatted down, dipped his finger in the green liquid on the ground, and smelled it.

"It smelled like both poison and medicine, just like the young maid I saw in the elevator."

"Do you know how I felt when I smelled that scent in the elevator? I was scared, but I couldn't help wanting to get closer," Jing Xinyu said.

The feeling wasn't intense, but it did give her some ideas.

So she caught a few ghosts in the hotel and brought them to the top floor to verify them.

"On the sixteenth to twentieth floors, those ghosts seemed to have received some kind of nourishment, and their ghostly energy and yin energy reached their peak. But as they continued to go up, they gradually became thinner."

"Just as I brought those ghosts to the top floor, do you know what happened? In just a moment, those ghosts were completely annihilated."

Jing Xinyu pointed to the green liquid on the ground and said, "This stuff can be called poison or medicine. It can be beneficial or harmful to living beings. However, since I am a pure-blooded demon, this stuff will affect me, but not very strongly."

Shi Daohan pondered, "No wonder the middle floors have the heaviest yin and ghostly energy. While they enjoy the nourishment of the medicine, they also fear its toxicity."

Shen Tianyu also squatted down, dipped her finger in the green liquid, and smelled it.

"It's both poison and medicine, what on earth is this stuff? Westerners can actually make something like this."

"No, it was actually China that first started playing with this kind of thing," Shi Daohan said.

"Do you know what this is?" Shen Tianyu turned around.

"Have you forgotten? The Five-Stone Powder that was popular during the Wei and Jin Dynasties."

Upon hearing Shi Daohan's words, Shen Tianyu immediately realized what was happening and exclaimed in surprise, "It's Yaoling?!"

The word "medicine spirit" needs to be broken down for better understanding.

[Ling] can be understood as a kind of medicine, but it cannot be simply summarized as a medicine.

"Medicine Spirit?" Jing Xinyu looked puzzled, as she was hearing this term for the first time.

"The power of the medicinal spirit is very strong and has many uses. It can not only affect people, but also cultivators like us. It can also provide power to demons, ghosts, and gods. That's why so many ghosts are attracted and gather in this hotel."

"As early as ancient times, sages discovered this substance and named it [Ling]. Because this substance has some medicinal properties, the word [Yao] was added before [Ling], so it is called [Yao Ling]," Shen Tianyu explained.

(End of this chapter)