One divination a day, a trainee celestial master

As if grasping at a last straw, Boss Lin frantically pulled out a slightly crumpled, yellow triangle-shaped "exorcism talisman" from his pants pocket. With his other hand, he pulled out a lighter from his pocket.

Out of extreme fear, his hands trembled like leaves, and he tried several times before finally managing to ignite the flame.

With trembling hands, Boss Lin brought the lighter close to the yellow paper with cinnabar drawings.

What followed was an extremely shocking scene that the Lin couple would never forget and that completely overturned their materialistic worldview!

That seemingly cheap and ordinary piece of yellow paper, the moment it came into contact with the flame...

Instead of smoking and burning like ordinary paper, it "whooshed" free from Boss Lin's fingers and floated in mid-air!

Immediately afterwards, the folded talisman was suddenly unfurled in mid-air!

"boom!!!"

A pure, dazzling golden-red flame burst forth and burned fiercely on the talisman!

Just as the talisman was about to burn out.

"Buzz~~~!"

A dazzling golden light, almost tangible, suddenly burst forth from the ashes, sweeping through the smoky living room like a ripple, instantly dispelling the chill that filled the room.

Within this golden light lies a trace of domineering yet pure "Supreme One Guardian" righteous essence!

"Ahhhh!"

From the shadows of the stairs at the corner on the second floor came a girl's cry of pain, as if she had been scalded by boiling water.

With that cry of pain, the thick, chilling atmosphere in the villa's living room was swept away.

The invisible restraint that had been around Wang Chuanfu's neck completely disappeared the moment the golden light shone.

"Thump!" Wang Tianshi, whose feet were dangling in the air, crashed heavily onto the wooden floor. His knees buckled, and he collapsed to the ground in fright, a foul stench running down his trouser leg.

"Cough cough cough... cough cough..." Wang Chuanfu covered his neck, coughing violently, greedily inhaling the fresh air.

Mr. Lin stood at the door, staring at the unbelievable scene before him, still holding the lighter in his hand, completely dumbfounded.

"Old Lin! Old Lin! What are you standing there for! Let's go!"

Mrs. Lin was the first to come to her senses. She screamed and rushed over to lift Wang Chuanfu, who was slumped on the ground. Boss Lin also seemed to wake up from a daze, ran over and kicked his unconscious assistant, Xiao Liu, in the buttocks, forcefully waking him up.

"Ghost! There's a ghost! Run!" Xiao Liu screamed as soon as he opened his eyes.

The four of them scrambled out of the villa without looking back, not even daring to pick up their shoes that had fallen to the ground.

As for the SLR cameras, multi-camera setups, and high-end fill lights worth tens of thousands of dollars set up in the living room... anyone who wants them can take them.

……

Three o'clock in the morning, Cuiwei Mountain.

A black BMW sedan, its high beams blaring, sped up the winding mountain road before abruptly slamming on the brakes near the pavilion halfway up the mountain.

The car door opened. Mr. Lin and his wife, Mrs. Lin, practically tumbled and crawled out of the car. Supporting each other, they trudged along the bluestone mountain path leading to Shouyi Temple.

At this time, the mountains and forests were completely silent, with only the occasional cry of a night bird.

On the high courtyard wall of Shouyi Temple, a large orange cat silently lay on the edge of the green tiles. Fat Tiger, with his half-closed eyes that gleamed with an amber light in the darkness, looked down at the two panting, disheveled humans on the mountain path.

Its thick tail swept lightly across the tiles twice, a hint of boredom flashing in its eyes. It shifted to a more comfortable position, resting its head on its two front paws, and continued to doze off.

"Huff... huff..."

Mr. Lin, holding his wife's hand, finally climbed the last step and stopped in front of the two tightly closed elm wood doors of Shouyi Temple.

The two men's designer trench coats were soaked with sweat and night dew, and their hair was disheveled; they no longer resembled wealthy and composed businessmen at all.

Boss Lin swallowed hard, stepped forward, and reached out to grab the brass ring on the door.

"Knock knock knock".

The dull knocking sound carried far into the quiet night.

After waiting for about ten seconds, there was no movement from inside the door.

Boss Lin gritted his teeth, raised his fist, and was about to slam the door a few more times with greater force.

"Old Lin, stop knocking." Mrs. Lin grabbed her husband's wrist, her voice weary and trembling. "It's past three in the morning. The young Taoist master must be asleep by now. It's so rude of us to be banging on the door in the middle of the night."

Mrs. Lin tightened her trench coat and shivered. "It's too windy and cold in the mountains. Why don't we go back to the car and spend the night there, turn on the heater, and come back up tomorrow morning when it's light?"

Mr. Lin's hand, which was raised in mid-air, froze for a moment. He recalled the talisman that had turned to ashes in an instant but burst out with dazzling golden light in the Jinshui Bay villa, as well as the shrill scream of the female ghost.

If it weren't for that talisman he casually stuffed into his pocket as a tourist souvenir, they would have been skinned alive tonight, if not dead.

"I'm not going back to the car."

Boss Lin shook his head, put down his hand, and said with unusual firmness, "We'll just squat down and wait at the entrance of this Taoist temple. That way, the first thing the Celestial Master will see when he opens the door tomorrow morning is us."

He sighed, his face full of regret: "Last time we came, we kept calling them 'youngsters' and 'unreliable,' treating them with such contempt and perfunctoriness. Not only did they not hold it against us, they even gave us a life-saving talisman. Now that we need their help, we must show them the utmost sincerity. We'll just wait here and not go anywhere else."

Mrs. Lin listened and nodded silently.

In the early autumn night, the mountain wind carried a chill. This wealthy merchant couple, who were usually pampered, huddled together in the corner of the door frame outside the Shouyi Temple, using each other's body heat to ward off the night's cold.

If you didn't know their identities, just looking at this scene would really make you feel sorry for them.

……

Meanwhile, in the back courtyard of Shouyi Temple...

Jiang Shouzheng sat cross-legged on the wooden bed, his eyes slightly closed, his hands forming a mudra and placed on his dantian.

He was circulating his microcosmic orbit according to the mental techniques in the "Inner Landscape Chapter".

In fact, Jiang Shou's keen hearing, refined countless times by true essence, had already detected the movement when the BMW came to an abrupt stop outside the Halfway Pavilion.

Then, the heavy breathing of the Lin couple as they climbed up the mountain path, and their regretful conversation outside the door, all reached his ears without missing a word.

Jiang Shou sat on the bed, a slight smile curving upwards at the corners of his mouth.

"Coming to bang on the door in the middle of the night, it seems that the [exorcising talisman] has come in handy."

Jiang Shou secretly calculated in his heart. Although the talisman only contained a trace of true essence, it was pure Supreme Guardian Qi, which would definitely have a deterrent effect on ordinary Yin Sha things.

Since the two of them were able to rush over overnight, it means they survived, but they must have been quite frightened.

"You used to look down on me for being young and incompetent, saying you were going to hire some big-name livestreamer with tens of thousands of followers? Now you know who the real powerhouse is, right?"

Jiang Shou showed no intention of getting up to open the door. He focused his mind and continued to guide the true energy in his dantian through his meridians.

"Let's go outside and get some fresh air to clear our heads, and maybe take a break from your arrogance."