One divination a day, a trainee celestial master

Jiang Shou took a deep breath and forcibly cleared his mind of those "charming and arrogant" domineering CEO lines that made people's toes tremble.

He reached into his robes and pulled out the [Yang Qi Lantern Talisman] with two fingers. This time, Jiang Shou didn't pretend to be some kind of reclusive master. With his other hand, he took out the green plastic lighter.

"Click".

A pale blue flame shot out, igniting the edge of the yellow paper. As the talisman was set ablaze, he flicked his wrist slightly.

The burning talisman seemed to come alive, breaking free from his fingers and flying into the air above the living room on its own.

"Whoosh..." The talisman burned away rapidly in mid-air, leaving no ashes. Instead, it transformed into countless golden specks of light, like fireflies!

These golden specks of light drifted lightly across the two floors of the villa. Wherever the light touched, the previously dense and impenetrable chill melted away as quickly as snow meeting the blazing sun.

At the corner of the stairs on the second floor.

Shen Xu, who had been hiding in the shadows watching Jiang Shou make a fool of himself, was suddenly horrified to discover that the falling golden light was clinging to her translucent spirit body like maggots.

As the golden light enveloped her, her prized concealment techniques instantly failed. A white dress stained with dark red blood, and her pale, aloof face, gradually appeared in the air.

Jiang Shou stood in the center of the living room on the first floor, tilting his head slightly upwards.

By the light of the dappled gold filling the room, he could see the female ghost behind the second-floor railing, her face filled with terror.

"..."

Jiang Shou's lips twitched violently twice, and his back teeth clenched so hard they made a "crunching" sound.

That pitiful face, that flowing white dress… isn’t she the female lead from the dream just now, the one whose chin I grabbed, who held me in my arms, and who forced me into that cliché scene of “Woman, you want to escape from me?”?

"Oh! It really is you!" Jiang Shou pointed at Shen Xu on the second floor, his face turning green with anger. "You female ghost, did you grow up eating poisonous mushrooms in your previous life? Instead of absorbing people's yang energy, you come here to forcibly feed people brain-draining, cheesy short dramas?!"

Shen Xu on the second floor panicked. She frantically waved her hands, trying to brush off the golden specks of light from her body, but found it was no use.

Her figure was now completely exposed to the man's view.

"You...you stay away!"

Shen Xu was shocked and her body floated back two meters in mid-air. She suddenly waved her hands forward, and a gray-black resentful force roared out.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!" In the living room on the first floor, the heavy black tripods that were originally lying on the ground, as well as an unbroken glass ashtray, suddenly rose into the air and, as if they had eyes, smashed down on Jiang Shou!

"Still using this tactic?"

Jiang Shou snorted coldly, not even bothering to dodge. His physical abilities and reflexes, honed by the true energy, far surpassed those of ordinary people. He simply shifted his body slightly, his feet moving slightly.

"Bang! Crash!" The tripod grazed his shoulder and slammed onto the floor, while the ashtray shattered at his feet. Jiang Shou effortlessly dodged all the projectiles as if strolling through a garden, without even his clothes getting touched.

Seeing that physical attacks were ineffective, Shen Xu panicked. She bit her pale lips and clenched her fists tightly. The invisible rope of resentment that had once suspended the fake Taoist priest Wang Chuanfu in mid-air solidified again and silently wrapped around Jiang Shou's neck!

Just as that chilling power was about to touch Jiang Shou's skin...

Jiang Shou calmly pulled out the [Guardian Talisman] from his pocket.

He formed a sword incantation with one hand, held the talisman between his fingertips, and with a thunderous roar, shouted: "Imperial Decree!"

"Buzz~~" With this low shout, a faint light flashed on the [Guardian Amulet].

A thin layer of cyan light instantly spread out from Jiang Shou as the center, enveloping his entire body.

"Sizzle..." The moment Shen Xu's invisible rope of resentment touched the cyan light shield, it was like water dripping into a hot oil pan, making a piercing corrosive sound, and was instantly repelled and disappeared without a trace.

"You...you're all bad people!"

After her attacks were repeatedly thwarted, Shen Xu flew backward in mid-air, her eyes red with anger.

She hovered in mid-air, pointing at Jiang Shou, her voice trembling with a hint of aggrieved tears: "You were the ones who occupied my house first! You wouldn't let me watch TV! You even brought wave after wave of Taoist priests and monks to bang on wooden fish and disturb me! Now you want to kick me out! You're bullying me!"

Hearing this inexplicable accusation, Jiang Shou was stunned for a moment.

Occupying the house? Not letting me watch TV? What kind of nonsense is this?

However, after this brief exchange, Jiang Shou understood. Apart from being able to throw objects from a distance and create illusions that could kill people, this female ghost did not possess any of the bloodthirsty methods described in the "Disposal Record" that were used by vengeful ghosts to harm people or drain their yang energy.

"I'm too lazy to waste my breath on you!" Jiang Shou's sense of social humiliation caused by the "domineering CEO dream" had not yet dissipated.

He looked at Shen Xu, who was floating in mid-air, and sneered, "You come down here! I'm going to catch you today and settle the score!"

Jiang Shou's mind sank, and he suddenly separated a stream of true essence from his dantian and poured it into his legs!

"Bang!" Jiang Shou's footsteps slammed into the solid wood floor, creating a crack. He leaped up like a cannonball, soaring half a flight of stairs.

"Ah!" Shen Xu was startled and turned to fly towards the master bedroom on the second floor.

Although she was a spirit, without physical weight, and flew at extremely high speeds, Jiang Shou's speed was even more astonishing, enhanced by his true essence.

Thus, a bizarre chase unfolded in this gloomy villa.

Shen Xu dodged left and right in mid-air, passing through walls and doors. Jiang Shouze used the ground, walls, and stair railings to propel himself forward, like a parkour performer, relentlessly chasing after her.

The two chased each other from the living room on the first floor to the corridor on the second floor, and then circled back to the spiral staircase from the corridor.

"This female ghost is quite slippery!" After chasing for several rounds, although he didn't lose her, he was always just a little short of catching her. Jiang Shou's patience finally ran out.

"I'm not playing with you anymore!"

Jiang Shou abruptly stopped in his tracks on the second-floor corridor. His face darkened, and he reached into his inner pocket with his right hand, pulling out the ultimate weapon, the [Resentment-Breaking Talisman], which was extremely intricately drawn and had consumed half of his true energy to create!

"Whoosh!" The moment the yellow paper was pulled out, a chilling blue light faintly flowed through the intricate patterns outlined with the finest cinnabar!

Even before Jiang Shou activated the talisman, the sheer power it exuded, capable of severing evil, pressed down on the entire second-floor corridor like an invisible mountain.

Shen Xu, who was about to escape through the wall, froze the moment she felt the oppressive aura.

Her translucent spirit body seemed to have been electrocuted, and began to tremble violently and uncontrollably.

The absolute oppression and fear from the depths of her soul left her without even the strength to run away.

The "fierce female ghost" who was just trying to put up a stubborn resistance and loudly accusing others.

With a "thump," Shen Xu's body seemed to lose its ability to float, falling heavily from mid-air. Her knees buckled, and she knelt on the cold wooden floor on the second floor.

Under Jiang Shou's astonished gaze, Shen Xu clutched her head tightly with both hands, her thin shoulders trembling violently.

Followed by.

"Waaaaah... Waaaaah—!"

The terrifying female ghost, who was rumored to have scared away several groups of monks and Taoist priests and kept Mr. and Mrs. Lin awake at night, actually sat on the ground and cried loudly like a little girl who had suffered a great injustice!

"Waaaaah... Don't kill me... I don't want to die... No, I'm already dead..." Shen Xu cried incoherently, wailing, "I just wanted to watch a TV series in peace, what did I do wrong... Why are you forcing me like this... Waaaaah..."

"..." Jiang Shou's hand, holding the [Breaking Vengeance Talisman], froze in mid-air.

Looking at the white-dressed female ghost on the ground, crying her eyes out and offering no resistance whatsoever, he felt his brain go blank.

"Shut up! Stop crying!" Jiang Shou's head was buzzing from her crying, and he snapped at her irritably.

"Hiccup!" Shen Xu shuddered in fright and quickly covered her mouth with both hands. But large tears still streamed down her face as she sobbed and looked at Jiang Shou, looking utterly pitiful.

Jiang Shou sighed deeply. He folded the [Broken Resentment Talisman] that was holding in mid-air again and put it back in his pocket.

After all this commotion, he finally understood. This female ghost wasn't some ferocious demon at all; she was exactly as described in the "Disposal Record"—purely a lingering spirit trapped in place because of some unresolved obsession from her past life!

Such spirits are extremely difficult to expel by force; the more forcefully you try to expel them, the heavier their yin energy becomes. Only by finding their root cause and eliminating their obsessions can they be sent into the cycle of reincarnation.

Jiang Shou pulled over a single sofa chair from the side of the corridor and sat down with an air of authority.

He crossed his arms and looked down at Shen Xu, who was kneeling on the ground, as if interrogating a criminal.

"I'm asking you," Jiang Shou's tone softened slightly, but it still carried an undeniable air of authority, "Since you've never harmed anyone, why didn't you go to the underworld to be reincarnated after you died? Why do you insist on staying here to play the ghost and scare people?"

Shen Xu sniffed, lowered her hand from her mouth, and answered softly with a pitiful expression, "I... I don't know how to get to the underworld. When I died in the car accident, my parents' souls disappeared, leaving me all alone. There were no Black and White Impermanence or underworld messengers like those in novels to guide me..."

"No underworld messengers to guide them?" Jiang Shou frowned. That was strange. According to Taoist teachings, after death, underworld messengers must come to collect the soul. How could they have left her out?

"Then what exactly is your obsession that you're still here for? What unfulfilled wish do you have?" Jiang Shou was too lazy to delve into the efficiency of the underworld's work, and continued to ask, "If you tell the truth, I might be able to help you, eliminate your obsession, and send you into the cycle of reincarnation."

The moment the word "obsession" was mentioned, Shen Xu, who had just been crying miserably, surprisingly showed a faint blush on her pale, bloodless face.

She kept her head down, nervously twisting the hem of her white dress with both hands, her eyes darting around.

"My...my obsession is..." Shen Xu's voice was barely audible, "The night I died, I was watching that Korean drama I'd been following for two whole months...The male lead was about to find out the female lead was a real chaebol heiress, but I hadn't even watched the finale yet..."

"Later, my uncle took the TV away and cut off the internet. The short drama I was watching on Tomato Video, which had over 300 episodes long, about a domineering CEO... the misunderstanding between the male and female leads still hasn't been resolved..."

Jiang Shou: "???"