After Joohyun slapped the man into the alley, she was about to chase him in to give him a violent beatdown but was blocked by the waves of hostility.
Seeing the indiscriminate attack in the alley from Xiang Nan who looked like he went crazy, Joohyun silently retracted her foot that had stepped into the alley and decided to sit down on the sidelines.
This unlucky person must be the Celestial Master who painted the soul-refining array, however, even though he was pushed down and beaten by Xiang Nan like this, he actually still overestimated himself and wanted to refine Xiang Nan.
This man's ability to seek death was quite special.
The man was smashed back inside the alley by Joohyun's compass, and while he was still confused and disoriented, he was pressed down and beaten violently by Xiang Nan. The hostile energy inside the alley became heavier, completely suppressing the man's aura. He had no power to fight back, so he could only take out another advanced-level talisman he brought for a high price and once again shook Xiang Nan away from himself.
The man took this opportunity to run towards the alley's entrance again.
Joohyun saw the man running towards her, so she simply lifted her foot and kicked him back in.
Like a hungry tiger pouncing on his prey, Xiang Nan immediately rushed to kill.
"Little girl coming from nowhere, what are you making trouble for?!" the middle-aged man shouted at Joohyun while avoiding Xiang Nan's attacks. He hadn't recognized Joohyun as the Celestial Teacher he just gave a 'lesson' to.
"He, he..."
The middle-aged man fell prey to Joohyun's plot time and again, he had already lost the decisive opportunity in this fight. Xiang Nan took a posture of 'fighting to one's last breath' and the middle-aged man knew that he would be seriously injured if he waited any longer, so he took out the last advanced talisman he had and intended to take this opportunity to escape for good.
When the man ran to the alley's entrance this time, he shouted, "Get out of the way!"
"He, he..." Joohyun raised her right hand, and the compass that had been floating in the air slowly floated back to Joohyun's side.
"Are you that Celestial Master?" the middle-aged man felt the aura on Joohyun's body, and his face changed suddenly.
"I studied hard for half a month, but you actually attacked me when I was taking my exam?" Joohyun showed a hideous grin and waved her right hand forward ruthlessly, and the man was immediately smashed back into the alley by the buzzing compass.
Xiang Nan roared and rushed up again.
People are divided between good and bad, so of course it was the same with Celestial Masters. Joohyun was ignorant when she was young, she once asked the old man, how to know if a Celestial Master is good or bad? Joohyun still remembered the old man's answer.
Back then, Joohyun had just learned how to draw talismans, the old man pointed to the talisman Joohyun had just drawn carefully and said, "Talismans are made by the Celestial Master's own spiritual power, so there's a close connection between them. For example, this talisman, because you're the one who drew it, then you can feel if it's used by someone."
"Talisman is formed by your energy and can help others, but at the same time, others can also use the connection between the talisman and you to harm you through a special spell. Little girl, you have to remember a Celestial Master's magic should be used to fight supernaturally evil things, such as exorcising ghosts or evil spirits, using magic to harm people is a big taboo in the spiritual world." The old man said solemnly, "If one day someone dares to use your talisman and casts a spell to harm you, find them and beat them to death."
Joohyun looked at the half-dead man beaten by Xiang Nan, and suddenly felt that as long as she didn't let the man out of this alley, then she didn't need to beat him up herself and this man would still end up in almost the same condition as if she did it herself.
The man saw Xiang Nan completely ignored the soul-refining array and used his power frantically, it was obvious he had made up his mind to die alongside him. The opportunities created by the three advanced-level talismans were all ruined by this little girl who suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Left with nothing else, the man made a determined effort and took out a black wooden tablet from his pocket.
What was sealed in this wooden tablet was an evil spirit he refined in Xiangxi ten years ago, right now, its strength was nearing that of a ghost king. If it weren't for the fear that two formidable evil spirits appearing at the same time would bring attention from the spiritual world, he would have already taken this out a long ago. However, at this time, he had no way to care about anything else.
"Ghost King, heed my command!"
Following the man's voice, an evil spirit stronger than Xiang Nan suddenly appeared. Two majestic Yin auras collided, they soared high into the sky and thunder rolled with frightening roars.
Xiang Nan was shaken away by the sudden huge Yin aura; he looked up and saw a pitch-dark ghost shadow standing firmly in front of the middle-aged man.
Ghost King! It was the first time Joohyun saw a Ghost King, its dreadful Yin aura made her take a step back.
"Eat him, you can completely evolve into a Ghost King after eating him." The man leaned against the wall and pointed at Xiang Nan.
Although the Ghost King was powerful and the aura of its whole body was daunting, there's no trace of emotion in those red eyes left except for indifference. After hearing the man's order, the Ghost King suddenly jumped up and rushed towards Xiang Nan. The two evil spirits' fight was too fast for the naked eye to see and Joohyun couldn't see anything except for fragmentary reflections.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Three booms of thunder sounded in the sky one after another, a warning from Heaven caused by the dense Yin energy. At the same time, Celestial Masters of the spiritual circle of Imperial Capital, no matter what they were doing all stopped immediately to look up at this warning and thought, what kind of evil spirit was born into the world?
The man ignored Xiang Nan after he released the Ghost King, because he knew, although Xiang Nan was powerful, he wasn't yet an opponent for the Ghost King which had evolved from devouring thousands of ghosts.
The man raised his hand to wipe at the bruise at the corner of his mouth and walked towards Joohyun step by step with a dark face.
"Girl, you're courting death!" Joohyun's interference again and again made the man extremely angry, he raised his hand to strangle Joohyun's neck with a hideous face.
Joohyun avoided the man's arm sideways and kicked his face with a round kick. He was kicked to the wall, and before he could react, he was tossed down to the ground by Joohyun's shoulder throw.
If you have to rank Joohyun's talents, she's third in studying, second in ghost-hunting, and first in fighting.
The two spirits were fighting in the alley as Joohyun held the man to the ground and beat him up wildly outside the alley. She cussed while beating him, "You attacked me while I was taking an exam, do you know how difficult it is to get high points?"
How would the man know he didn't only get beaten by Xiang Nan's hands, but also planted on the ground by a little girl's hands?
"Ghost King!" the man yelled.
In the alley, Ghost King who was facing Xiang Nan suddenly turned into a puff of black smoke and floated towards Joohyun.
"Shit...!" how would Joohyun know where her fist would land on the Ghost King? She was frightened out of her wits and didn't know what to do. As she was about to get up and run away when she saw a black wooden tablet out of the corner of her eyes. Joohyun immediately recognized this wooden tablet as the ghost tablet where the Ghost King resided in, so she stepped on it without thinking.
Crack! The ghost tablet was broken into two, and the Ghost King who had drifted in front of her suddenly disappeared, and even Yin energy filled black cloud cleared up in an instant.
"You..." the man couldn't believe what he saw.
"How can such an important thing as a ghost tablet use such a brittle wood?" After Joohyun finished spitting this out, she continued to raise her foot and kicked the person.
This grandaunt, I, only want to beat you up to relieve my anger, but you dare to use a Ghost King to deal with me, this is plain murder, ah.
"Police, don't move!" Joohyun's heart skipped a beat, she stopped her foot that was lifted up in the air.
I'm so done! I'm gonna enter the police station again!
"Sir, are you okay?!" The police helped the bruised man from the ground while secretly saying to himself that it was too miserable.
The man stood up and didn't answer the police but stared at Joohyun standing to the side with spiteful eyes.
"You... Joohyun?" the police officer couldn't help exclaiming when he turned around and saw Joohyun.
"Sergeant Qiu?!" Joohyun greeted nervously. It's over, it's over, 80% of his injuries were inflicted by XiangNan, ah, but ordinary people can't see ghosts, I'm so in trouble this time!
"You... you did this?" Qiu Heng asked with a complicated expression on his face.
"I... would you believe what I have to say?" Joohyun's awkward laugh was uglier than crying.
Qiu Heng hesitated, he looked at the miserably injured man next to him and asked, "Is she the one that caused your injury?"
The man naturally knew the two knew each other, but no matter whether they knew each other or not, he didn't want to go to the police station. He took a step aside, avoided Qiu Heng's support, looked at Joohyun and asked, "Your name is Joohyun?"
"What are you gonna do about it?" Joohyun stared back without showing any weakness.
"Just wait and see!" the man said viciously.
"Sir, we can go to the police station to fix up whatever things we have to do, don't say these kinds of words that can be misconstrued as you getting revenge." Qiu Heng noticed the man's expression and tone were wrong, obviously he wanted to get revenge on Joohyun later on so he couldn't help but give a warning.
The man turned his head and stared at Qiu Heng. Qiu Heng who looked at him couldn't help but shudder, this man isn't a good person!
"What's the matter?" Chen Yang, who had been waiting in the car for a long time, saw Qiu Heng couldn't handle this fight, so he walked over with a cold face.
When Chen Yang approached, he looked at the man's injuries and frowned, this can be sentenced as criminal assault. The beating seemed to be done by a girl, he wanted to see what kind of valiant, masculine woman she was, so Chen Yang turned his head to see the culprit with some curiosity.
"Brother!" Joohyun greeted him with a crumpled and ugly smile.
The Coke can in Chen Yang's hand fell down on the ground with a clatter, wetting the ground.
"What is this?!" Chen Yang said angrily.
Joohyun took a step back in fright, pointed to the man with a scarred face and said, "He bullied me first!"
Qiu Heng felt like he wanted to cry piteously when he heard this. Little sister Joohyun, ah, if you want to find an excuse, then find a decent one, if you beat people up like this, how can you still claim you were bullied?
"What the hell is going on?" Chen Yang glanced over the man's swollen face in shock.
Qiu Heng looked at the bag Joohyun dropped on the ground and asked with a flash of inspiration, "Did he steal your bag?"
"He... he..."
"Say he molested you!" didn't know when the female perverted ghost floated over.
"He molested me!" Joohyun whose mind was chaotic, naturally accepted the female ghost's suggestion.
"What!!!" Qiu Heng looked at the man angrily. In his eyes, that bruised, pitiful face changed into a boorish one in an instant.
The man obviously didn't expect Joohyun to say something so outlandish, he felt like his blood was choking him in his chest, but he couldn't spit it out.
When Chen Yang heard someone actually dared to molest his sister, he abruptly turned his head and stared at the pig-headed man, his chest heaved up and down violently, and it took all of his life's self-control to resist the urge to go up and beat him up.
You're a policeman, you can't hit anyone casually!
Chen Yang repeated this three times in his head, after he calmed down somewhat, he slowly squatted down to pick up the empty can, and then walked up to the man before he crumpled the can right in front of his face.
"Interrogate!" Chen Yang turned around and dragged Joohyun into the police car with him.
Qiu Heng took out the handcuffs and detained the startled man.
"I didn't do it!" the man only started arguing now.
"Then why did she beat you?" Qiu Heng asked.
"..." the question that Joohyun couldn't answer, in fact, he couldn't answer it either.
Twenty minutes later, the car stopped in front of the police station. Chen Yang led the way with an ugly face while Joohyun followed behind with a guilty conscience and Qiu Heng rudely pushed the man inside.
Bang! Chen Yang slapped his gun on the desk heavily, shocking the other members inside.
"Boss, what's wrong?" Someone secretly asked Qiu Heng who brought a detained person in.
"That's boss' little sister." Qiu Heng pointed at Joohyun with his chin.
"The one who treated us to breakfast last time?" When Joohyun left Chen Yang's dormitory last time, she bought more than a dozen breakfasts for the people on the team, so they all remembered her.
"En." Qiu Heng nodded, then pulled at the middle-aged man forcefully, "This guy actually dared to molest our boss' little sister and was caught by me red-handed."
"F*ck, is he so impatient to die?" The hot-blooded policeman was about to raise his hand to give the other party a lesson, but found he was already in a miserable situation, so he quietly put down his hand and asked in a low voice, "Did the boss hit him?"
"Our boss is the most upright person ever, how can he beat people up casually? It's little sis, Joohyun that beat him up." Qiu Heng whispered.
Qiu Heng and the police officer who asked him turned their heads to look at Joohyun. Joohyun gave a smile back with a guilty conscience inside.
"Worthy of being boss' little sister!" the police officer silently gave a thumbs up.
Qiu Heng nodded in agreement.
The victim who heard the whole conversation couldn't help but roll his eyes.
Chen Yang walked out from the back room; his coat was already taken off revealing a military-green T-shirt. He threw a folder on the table and shouted, "What are you doing in a daze? Bring the people here."
Qiu Heng was taken aback, he hurriedly pulled the person over and pressed him in a chair, "Sit!"
The middle-aged man glared at Qiu Heng, as if saying, you dare to treat me this way?
"What are you looking at? Behave yourself!" Qiu Heng raised his hand and slapped the other person on his forehead, who asked you to molest little sis Joohyun?
The middle-aged man's eyes were red, but no one cared about him.
"Irin, you sit down too!" Chen Yang looked at his sister again, her appearance like she was at a loss of what to do, she must be badly scared.
"Oh." Joohyun sat down very obediently.
Chen Yang opened the folder and asked in a deep voice, "What's your name?"
"..." the man ignored it.
"Name?" Chen Yang impatiently asked again.
"..." the man still ignored it.
"He's asking you what your name is!" Qiu Heng slapped him again.
The man turned his head abruptly and stared at Qiu Heng fiercely. Since he became a Celestial Master, where would there be any ordinary person who didn't respect him? When would anyone dare to do this to him?!
"What are you looking at?! He's asking your name!" Qiu Heng sent his palm flying to him once again.
"You..." As soon as the man's fingers moved, he felt an undulation of pure spiritual power, so he stopped his movements halfway and turned his head to look at Joohyun.
Joohyun's body was surrounded by pure spiritual energy, there's a warning in her eyes.
His ghost tablet was shattered, and the Ghost King couldn't be summoned temporarily. This girl wasn't weak, and he may not be able to fight her, the policemen all were her people, it seems he can only admit defeat today.
"Qi Changming!" The man gritted his teeth and uttered these three words.
"When and where? Why did you molest my sister?" after Chen Yang finished speaking this, the pen in his hands snapped.
"..." Qi Changming felt a mouthful of blood blocking his throat, who is he, who the f*ck molested your little sister?
Joohyun bowed her head with a guilty conscience, inside everyone's eyes, it looked like the little girl was so sad that she was about to cry.
"Explain it honestly!" Qiu Heng, who was filled with righteous indignation, gave him another slap. A wretched middle-aged uncle actually dared to molest a young 18-year-old girl.
It was already dark when Joohyun left the police station, Chen Yang personally drove her back to Imperial University.
"Brother, I'll go first." Joohyun unlocked her seat belt and got out of the car.
"Irin." Chen Yang called to Joohyun, "Be careful when going out in the future."
"Brother, don't worry, I'm very powerful so I won't suffer." Joohyun said.
Chen Yang thought about Qi Changming's tragic injuries and felt like his worries were reduced somewhat.
"Isn't winter vacation coming soon?" Chen Yang asked again.
"En, these two weeks are exam weeks, so we will have a holiday after exams, ah." Joohyun said.
"Do your exams well, if there's no failed tests, then brother will give you a gaming computer." Chen Yang rubbed Joohyun's hair.
Joohyun smiled and nodded, she got out of the car and waited for her brother to leave before jumping on the spot with anger, "Qi Changming, ah, if I can't get this gaming computer, then we're not done yet!"
After Joohyun vented enough, she was about to walk into the school when a pale ghostly face appeared in front of her. She jumped in fright, and she almost pulled out a ghost expelling talisman.
"Celestial Master Chen, it's me, it's me."
Joohyun couldn't identify her for a while and finally recognized her as that female perverted ghost, "It's you ah, why did you suddenly become an evil spirit?" Joohyun frowned as she looked at the resentment surrounding her.
"I thought my power would become stronger if I become an evil spirit." The female ghost replied with a somewhat desolate expression.
"Stupid!" Joohyun was about to scold her when she suddenly thought about the female ghost's 'prompt suggestion' in the afternoon, so Joohyun didn't scold her and asked, "Why are you looking for me?"
Unexpectedly, the female ghost suddenly knelt down which frightened Joohyun into taking three steps back in shock.
"What are you doing? Quickly, get up." Joohyun shouted.
"Celestial Master Chen, please help us." The female ghost begged.
"I already said, I..."
"I'm aware we are neither relatives nor friends and me begging you like this is really brazen, but we truly have no other way." The female ghost pleaded, "As long as you save us, we absolutely wouldn't raise any objection in the future whenever you need to use us. Although I know this might seem like an empty promise, we're all spirits and we honestly have nothing else to offer. Furthermore, there are some antiques that were buried alongside Xiang Nan..."
Antiques? Joohyun's eyes lit up suddenly, but it dimmed as soon as it came, "It's not that I don't want to help you, but that Qi Changming has a Ghost King on his side, I can't beat him, ah."
"That..." the female ghost thought for a while and said, "Then, can you let Xiang Nan leave the alley? As long as we leave, that person won't easily find us."
"I'll try." Alas, I'm still too soft-hearted, Joohyun thought helplessly.
Joohyun followed the female ghost back to the alley. The hostile energy had disappeared completely. Xiang Nan stood in the alley holding a translucent Xiaokang while looking at Joohyun silently, not a trace of the haughtiness that was present when they first met can be seen on his face.
He bowed slightly towards Joohyun, "Thank you!"
"Don't, I'm just here to take a look, I may not succeed." Joohyun quickly avoided his bow.
"Thank you for saving us this afternoon." Xiang Nan said.
Joohyun was always someone who's amenable to coaxing but not coercion, so she felt a little embarrassed and tried to change the subject. She looked at the child in his arms and asked, "What's wrong with him?"
"He was injured by that person, Xiaokang being unable to reincarnate is also his doing." The female ghost explained from the side.
"Let me see." Joohyun walked over curiously.
Xiang Nan opened his arms to let Joohyun look at Xiaokang carefully. Joohyun looked at the little kid for a moment, then stretched out her hand and attached it to the child's forehead. A soft spiritual force flowed from her fingers and slowly poured into the little boy. After a while, everyone can see the translucent body slowly became solid again.
As spiritual power flowed through his body, Joohyun could see a red pattern on the back of Xiaokang's hand.
"Soul Restriction Seal?" No wonder the Underworld didn't accept him as spirits who have this seal are spirits who have an owner, and the owner must agree to let them reincarnate.
Joohyun retracted her palm from Xiaokang's forehead and stretched out an index finger to point at the seal. Spiritual energy flowed along the lines of the seal, and after about a minute, her spiritual energy gobbled up all the traces of Soul Restriction Seal.
"Thank you!" Xiang Nan saw that Xiaokang's soul had solidified, and he thanked her again.
"Although I removed the Soul Restriction Seal on him, his soul body was injured and he still needs to rest for some time, otherwise, even if he goes to the Underworld to reincarnate, he will become sickly in generation after generation." Joohyun said.
"Xiaokang can reincarnate?" The female ghost was so happily surprised.
"You still have to wait for him to recuperate." Joohyun repeated.
"It's already good, thank you." Xiang Nan showed a rare happy look, while the female ghost on his side was so happy, she was jumping in joy.
Joohyun wasn't afraid of people bashing her, but she's afraid people will keep thanking her. She was unable to adapt to Xiang Nan's sudden politeness so she quickly changed the subject, "By the way, why can't you leave the alley?" [TL: our fish is a little tsun-tsun]
Xiang Nan paused for a bit, then he handed Xiaokang to the female ghost before lifting up his hands. A series of rattling noises emerged and four thick chains the width of a child's arm suddenly appeared under the dim streetlamp.
"Soul Chain?" Joohyun exclaimed in surprise; it was the first time she saw such a thick soul chain.
"Celestial Master Chen, is there any way to get rid of it?" the female ghost asked anxiously.
"Normally, Soul Chains can be split open, but with such a thick chain, I don't have enough power, ah." Joohyun said.
"Ah..." the female ghost couldn't hide her disappointment.
"It's okay, now that Xiaokang is safe, I won't be pushed around by him anymore, it doesn't matter if I can't leave here." On the contrary, Xiang Nan looked even more relieved.
Joohyun pondered for a moment, then she suddenly asked Xiang Nan, "How long have you been dead?"
"About six hundred years." Xiang Nan answered.
"How many antiques were you buried with?" Joohyun asked again.
"Not much, about ten or twenty." Although Xiang Nan didn't know why Joohyun asked this, he still honestly replied.
Six hundred years old antiques, ten to twenty pieces, how much money would they be? Joohyun took out her phone, said 'wait a bit' to them and ran to the side to call.
"Irin?" Lisa put down the pen in his hand.
"Third Brother, if there are twenty pieces of six hundred years old antiques, wouldn't they be quite valuable?" Joohyun asked excitedly.
"Yeah, they would be quite valuable." Lisa replied.
"Third Brother, I'll divide the antiques with you 50:50." Joohyun said happily, "Could you lend me the bronze sword for a bit?"
Author's NOTE:
Chen Yang: Didn't we catch a crime syndicate fighting yesterday?
Qiu Heng: Yes.
Chen Yang: Then lock that piece of shit together with them.
Qiu Heng's eyes lit up: Understood!
TL NOTE:
One thing that got my attention, some women misuse their 'fragility' to accuse men of doing things to them and extort money / just being a bully. Sometimes, their accusations could destroy someone's life, like being jailed, having a criminal record, losing the trust of your family, friends, and coworkers, being fired from a job, etc. Although that piece of poo-poo middle-aged man kinda deserved it, I'm still not comfortable with what our fish did to him... (I understand that it was done under pressure and confusion though...) And, before anyone bash me, Panda is a woman herself, this isn't me being sexist or anything, okay? Peace~ (￣▽￣)ノ