"Third Young Master!"
"Third Young Master!"
The guards, who rushed over from the small building, and the assistants who were earlier helping Joohyun deal with the Ghost King, all rushed over.
Cheng Peng was the first to reach Lisa's side. When he saw the faint frost white on Lisa's clothes, he was drained with terror.
"Get out of the way!" Cheng Peng pushed the dazed Joohyun away. With the other assistants who sprinted over, several people together lifted Lisa, who was already motionless, back.
The push caught Joohyun off guard. Instead of angrily questioning Assistant Cheng about why he suddenly pushed her away, she slowly unfolded her hands. Her white palms in her vision were red, and that cold touch was still flowing to her brain through her nerves.
Both these hands just hugged her Third Brother.
Joohyun snapped back to her senses, and then stretched her legs, running towards the direction of the small building.
"Miss Joohyun." Joohyun just started running when He Qi caught up with her and stopped her.
"Assistant He, Third Brother, Third Brother, he..."
"Miss Joohyun, Third Young Master will be fine for now," He Qi comforted.
"I want to go see him." Joohyun was anxious. How could someone's body temperature be that low?
"Before you go in, please do Third Young Master a favor," He Qi said out of the blue.
"What?" Joohyun was a bit confused.
"Just now, Third Young Master broke his seal just to save you." He Qi said, "Although the time is very short, it also emmanated a lot of evil Qi. To avoid unnecessary trouble, please deal with it."
Joohyun froze. This was not something she had not considered. When she unlocked the jade clasp on Lisa's hand, she had already thought of drawing a Purification Incantation to purify the evil Qi in the surroundings. However, with Lisa suddenly having met with an accident moments ago, Joohyun was too anxious and forgot about it in her panic.
Joohyun nodded, turned around, and walked to the place where the Ghost King had just disappeared. She raised her right hand, condensed spiritual power in her fingertips, and drew a Purification Incantation in the air.
The instant the incantation took shape, it immediately dispersed, turning into a myriad of golden light, purifying the air of the remaining evil Qi and Yin Qi.
Chen Yang, who had just recovered from the shock and was walking toward his sister, witnessed another scene once more. His sister stood in the open small park and drew randomly in the air with her fingers. Afterward, specks of starlight burst forth and were emitted. What was more amazing was that after the starlight dispersed, the gloomy and depressing small park just now became comfortable just like magic. It was as if the streetlights turned a few shades brighter.
This was definitely not a psychological effect.
Chen Yang shook his head for a while, and when he returned to his senses, Joohyun had already run into the small courtyard of the Lou family.
When He Qi brought a group of guards over to help earlier, Chen Yang did not think much about it. After all, this was Third Young Master Lou's domain, and it was normal for guards to come and check once they detected danger. But when Third Young Master Lou personally came out of the small building, his sister plunged directly into his arms. Chen Yang instantly realized that this was not the kind of normal he thought. His sister knew Third Young Master Lou.
His younger sister, who had just returned to their home for less than half a year and spent most of her time in the university, not only knew Third Young Master Lou but was also intimately familiar with him.
They were so familiar that Third Young Master Lou's security team came out to defend his sister when she was in danger; so familiar to the point where Third Young Master Lou personally came out to save her.
"Young Master Chen, I'm sorry." The guard at the entrance of the small courtyard reached out to stop Chen Yang who was heading to the door.
"I..." Chen Yang would have never approached the small courtyard normally, but Irin was inside now: "My sister is inside."
"Sorry, but you can't enter," the guard responded expressionlessly.
Chen Yang fell silent for half a second and lifted his head to look at the lights in the courtyard.
When Irin had just returned home, Third Young Master Lou had sent someone to present her a gift. People never entered and exited the Lous courtyard at will, yet Irin entered unimpeded. On top of that, Third Young Master Lou personally saved her just now...
So, Irin was safe inside.
Chen Yang couldn't enter, but he deduced that Irin would be fine before turning around, intending to go home for the time being. As he walked home, he mulled over what had just happened. What was that invisible thing? Why did it attack Irin?
"My paternal grandpa is an exorcist!"
Compass, paper talismans, exorcist, could it be that...
This incomparably absurd and so reasonable conjecture made Chen Yang's metaphysical world view completely collapse. Was his sister an exorcist??
Chen Yang stood rooted in place and in his mind replayed the incident; what happened before and after several times over. The more he mulled about it, the more he felt that there was no more plausible explanation than the current conjuncture. He heaved a sigh and decided to have a good talk with Joohyun when she returned home.
Chen Yang started walking forward again, and his eyes fell on a beige down jacket on the roadside, which was tossed on the roadside when he was chasing Joohyun just now. Chen Yang paused and then walked over to pick it up. He then turned around and walked back to the entrance of the small courtyard of the Lou family.
"This is Irin's down jacket. Please help me bring it to her," Chen Yang begged.
The guard took the jacket in Chen Yang's hand.
"Also..." Chen Yang glanced at the door and said, "Please tell Irin. I will inform our parents when I get home that she went back to school for an emergency."
Looking at the situation, Irin wouldn't be able to return home tonight. To prevent their parents from worrying, Chen Yang could only help cover her tracks this way.
In Lisa's bedroom on the second floor, the seven assistants all crowded into the room. Everyone's brows were knitted as they looked at their Third Young Master who had frozen into ice on the bed.
When the evil spirit in their Third Young Master's body began to lay dormant, his entire body functions would be frozen by the extreme cold. Although they could stand beside their young master without fear of being affected by the evil Qi, they had never wanted to see their young master in such a state.
"Have you contacted Master Mao?" someone asked.
"I just did, but Master Mao is out of town and can't come until dawn," another person replied.
"What are we going to do now?"
"..."
No one in the bedroom answered because they all knew that once their Third Young Master was in a state of dormancy, they could only wait until spring. After the beginning of spring, their young master himself would slowly awaken from his hibernation. In the interim, he could only stay asleep.
"Third Brother, where is Third Brother?" Joohyun, who had finished dealing with the evil Qi, pushed the door and ran in, and then saw Lisa lying on the bed at a glance.
Joohyun ran to the bedside and immediately sensed that something was wrong. The vital Qi on Lisa's body was slowly disappearing? Joohyun was so scared that her pupils contracted. She raised her hand to check Lisa's pulse, which was so faint she could hardly feel it anymore.
"How could this happen?" Although the Ghost King was powerful, it was no match against her Third Brother's evil spirit at all. Hence, he couldn't be hurt by the Ghost King.
"It's all because of you!" Cheng Peng couldn't help but yell.
"Cheng Peng!" He Qi shouted heavily, "This is the Third Young Master's own decision. No one can blame Miss Joohyun."
Cheng Peng, of course, knew that it was the Third Young Master himself who wanted to go out. However, if it wasn't because of Joohyun, how could the Third Young Master go out at such a sensitive time.
"What do you mean because of me? What is going on?" Joohyun turned to look at the two men and asked, "Why is Third Brother's vitality getting weaker and weaker, and why is the evil spirit on his body seemingly vanishing too?"
Master Mao would not arrive until the next morning, and the few of them did not comprehend metaphysics. So, if there was anyone else here who could help the Third Young Master, it could only be Joohyun, a Celestial Master.
He Qi thought for a moment and then decided to explain the matter to Joohyun, "The evil spirit in the Young Master's body changes with the alternation of spring, summer, autumn and winter seasons. In summer and autumn, the evil spirit will be relatively stable. In spring, the evil spirit is the most active, and in winter, the evil spirit is the weakest."
Joohyun was stunned by what she heard. Because Lisa was always with his jade clasp, Joohyun failed to detect that the evil spirit in his body had changed after winter arrived.
"The evil spirit in the Young Master's body will begin to lie dormant at the winter solstice."
"Dormant?" A possibility flashed through Joohyun's mind.
"Yes," He Qi continued to explain, "We can't find the cause. We only know that around the winter solstice, as soon as Young Master steps into a place with lower temperature, the evil spirit in his body will start to hibernate. Everything develops into this after it hibernates; Young Master will have no breathing, no heartbeat, no body temperature, and no consciousness, and will sleep until the beginning of spring."
"No wonder. I always feel that the warm air here is distinctly hot." Joohyun said in hindsight, "So...is this kind of dormancy harmful to Third Brother's body?"
"It is." If there was no harm and was merely sleeping, the assistants wouldn't be so worried. "Young Master's body temperature drops sharply when he hibernates and slowly revives after the beginning of spring, a condition that can be very damaging to the body. The last time Young Master woke up from an accidental hibernation, he recuperated for a whole month before he barely recovered. The doctor also said..."
"What else did he say?" Joohyun urged.
"If this happens frequently, his internal organs are at risk of being overwhelmed," He Qi frowned and said.
As He Qi's words fell, the remaining six assistants all blamed themselves.
"It's all because we didn't protect Third Young Master."
"Everyone professes to be the King of Soldiers but can't even do this job right."
"..."
Joohyun felt that every self-reproach from the assistants was directed at her. It was because of her that Lisa went out.
So what could she do? What could she do to help her Third Brother? Joohyun tried hard to rack her brains.
Evil spirit, evil spirit dormancy?
Joohyun's eyes suddenly lit up, and she asked anxiously, "The dormancy is because the evil spirit will sink completely into silence. At the beginning of spring, the evil spirit begins to recover, so Third Brother wakes up, right?"
"Yes," He Qi nodded.
"I have an idea!" After Joohyun finished speaking, she turned around and walked quickly to the bed. She casually kicked off her shoes with both feet, and then directly climbed on Lisa's bed.
"What are you doing?" The assistants looked puzzled.
"I'm trying to see if I can manage to resuscitate Third Brother up," Joohyun answered.
"How are you going to even try?" He Qi asked reflexively.
Joohyun lay on top of Lisa through the blanket, leaving the assistants with a "Don't disturb me" command.
The next moment, she bowed and kissed Lisa's lips.
"Hiss!" The assistants caught their breaths.
"You..." When Cheng Peng saw that Joohyun dared to molest his Third Young Master, he was so angry that he charged forward, intending to pull her away.
Tian Fei nimbly stopped Cheng Peng and whispered, "You forgot - the research room!"
Cheng Peng instantly recalled that in the research room, Joohyun kissed their Third Young Master once and stopped his riotous evil spirit.
The other assistants evidently recalled it too. Brimming with hope, they each looked at the two kissing on the bed. However, now that they were watching, why did it suddenly feel wrong? Say, a man and a woman were kissing in bed. What were they, seven big old men, watching them for?
It was not known who was the first to turn around, but the remaining six followed suit, one after the other.
"Cough...Isn't it inappropriate for us to do this?" someone whispered.
"Let's all go out," He Qi suddenly said, after weighing the matter for a moment.
"No..." The moment Cheng Peng voiced his objection, Tian Fei along with another assistant next to him dragged him out of the bedroom.
The rest of the assistants also followed, and He Qi walked last. He closed the door and guarded it.
Meanwhile, inside the room, Joohyun, who was concentrating on kissing Lisa, uh, no, transmitting Qi, finally sensed the faint evil spirit inside Lisa's body that hadn't completely gone dormant.
Joohyun had no clue why the spirit qi in her body could sense the evil spirit, and she could sense it through a mental method. Joohyun also asked the old man when she was young, and the old man always said that she had a special physique and extraordinary talent.
Regardless of the reason, for once, Joohyun was truly grateful for her extraordinary talent, which allowed her to work on the evil spirit in Lisa's body.
Most of the evil spirit in Lisa's body was dormant. Joohyun was struggling to work on the evil spirit, but fortunately, the Spirit Qi in the small building was very abundant, and she has enough spiritual power to use.
As time ticked by, Joohyun gripped Lisa's hands, and let spirit qi and evil qi run between them through their interlocked palms. Because the evil qi in Lisa's body was tremendous, every once in a while Joohyun felt short of spirit qi, at which point she would lower her head to Lisa's mouth and take a mouthful of breath, and then absorb the excess evil qi in his body into her own. Once her spirit qi was enough, she would circulate it back through the mental method.
Time passed unknowingly, but Lisa's stiff body began to soften. His body slowly got warm, and his tightly shut eyelids trembled slightly and slowly opened.
Lisa was still very weak, and his consciousness was fuzzy. He stared at the person in front of him for a while.
What is Irin doing?
A sudden wave of fatigue hit Lisa. He wanted to sleep again, but before losing consciousness, he felt a touch of warmth and softness attached to his lips.
Lisa did not sleep long, and he woke up when dawn broke.
He froze for a second when he felt someone holding his hand. He turned sideways and found the sleeping girl, lying beside him.
The girl's right hand was holding his right hand, lying sound asleep on her side. The girl had a head of chestnut curly hair and a fair little face flushed with sleep. Her long eyelashes hid her black gem-like eyes, which always sparkled when open.
Then...Lisa's gaze unconsciously fell on her partly open red lips.
"Third Brother, I took advantage of you." Lisa remembered the innocence that existed in the girl's eyes when she said this.
"Luckily, no outsiders will ever know what has transpired here," Lisa sighed and quietly released her hand. He carefully got up from the bed, and then covered Joohyun with a quilt before he turned around and walked out of the bedroom.
From now on, he couldn't let this little girl take advantage of him again. With his back turned, Lisa showed a wry smile.
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Crab: Why can't you let Irene take advantage of you again?
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