Yu Ziyu crawled under the bed and pulled out a yellow pear wood box. On the black lacquered lid, several large characters were engraved in a flamboyant style: “Yuanshi Deguang Taishang Xuanhuang Wuliang Tianzun”.
She opened the box, her bright, dark eyes darting around. As if struck by a thought, she pointed to a few large characters on the lid and asked Li Jiyan, “Read these characters to me.”
Li Jiyan glanced at it, recognizing only the three characters “上” (shàng), “无” (wú), and “天” (tiān). He feigned indifference with a cold expression and remained silent.
”What a disappointment.”
Yu Ziyu didn’t think too much about it. She just wanted to hear people recite her divine title. She wouldn’t force people to do it if they didn’t want to, but she still tried to justify herself: “One day, I will make you kneel on the ground and shout it willingly.”
She took a bunch of random things out of the huanghuali wood box.
Li Jiyan looked over, his face tingling slightly…
The copper coin sword is made of peach wood and wrapped in red silk cloth, with ancient copper coins inlaid on the outside.
The Sanqing Bell has a mountain-shaped handle and a dark yellow body.
The ruler is a short, square peach wood stick, dark brown in color, with the twenty-eight constellations, the seven stars of the Big Dipper, and the six stars of the Southern Dipper engraved on its edges.
The Bagua Mirror is made of jade and has a convex bronze mirror inlaid in the center. The eight trigrams, Qian, Zhen, Kan, Gen, Kun, Xun, Li, and Dui, are engraved around the mirror.
And a bunch of yellow paper talismans, cinnabar pens, tokens, and command flags that Li Jiyan couldn’t understand.
Yu Ziyu piled all these things onto the spacious and exquisite canopy bed.
Li Jiyan couldn’t help but ask, “If you put all these things on the bed, how are you going to sleep tonight?”
Yu Ziyu’s pretty face turned stern, her full lips pressed tightly together, and then she said, “You really don’t know your place. You’re possessed by an evil spirit, and you still want to sleep?”
She got into bed and sat cross-legged beside Li Jiyan.
Picking up the Bagua mirror and looking at his face, Yu Ziyu leaned over to see. To her great disappointment, the Bagua mirror only showed Li Jiyan’s angular face, not the true form of the evil spirit.
”Damn it, this is a demon-revealing mirror personally crafted by our ancestral master, yet it can’t reveal its true form. This evil spirit is truly formidable!”
Li Jiyan cautiously began, “Yu Ziyu, actually, I wasn’t possessed by a ghost. There is indeed another consciousness inside me. I don’t know how to say it, but it’s definitely not because I was possessed by a ghost.”
Yu Ziyu said coldly and sternly, “Shut up! Whether you’re possessed by a ghost or not is for me to decide, or for you to decide? Ignorant.”
She put down the Bagua mirror and continued fiddling with the pile of ritual implements.
She picked up the Taoist’s ghost-catching manual and kept flipping through it, studying it with great eagerness.
After finding the corresponding method in the manual, she raised Li Jiyan’s tightly bound hands high and pressed them above his head. She then took a cinnabar pen and drew a talisman on his forehead.
After making a few strokes, she felt that it was inconvenient to move while sitting sideways, so she simply straddled Li Jiyan’s waist.
Li Jiyan tensed up, his breathing became heavy, and his Adam’s apple bobbed up and down: “Yu Ziyu, don’t be like this, it makes me feel terrible.”
”Don’t move, I’m drawing a talisman.” She was drawing intently, almost face to face with the man beneath her, their breaths mingling.
Li Jiyan broke out in a cold sweat, shrank back, clenched his fists so tightly that his bones creaked, and his voice grew increasingly hoarse.
”Yu Ziyu, move away from me. I’m a man, and I like you so much… You’re making me really uncomfortable.”
Yu Ziyu ignored him and was fixated on drawing a talisman on Li Jiyan’s forehead.
Before long, she sensed something was wrong, stopped writing, frowned, and asked, “Ugly thing, what are you hiding down there? Why are you always poking me?”
Li Jiyan closed his eyes in despair, his face showing unspeakable forbearance and pain. He gritted his teeth and said, “Yu Ziyu, hit me. It’s my fault for being vulgar.”
”Are you planning to assassinate me? Are you trying to harm me? I’d like to see what kind of hidden weapons you’ve got!” she said angrily, throwing down her cinnabar pen and tearing open Li Jiyan’s belt and tucking down his trousers.
The scene before her eyes caused her face to turn pale and then flushed. Of course she knew all this; her mother had taught her these things ever since she started menstruating.
Enraged, she yelled, “Li Jiyan, you scoundrel! Who allowed you to act like this? You appear to be a gentleman on the surface, but you’re actually such a filthy person in private. You’re truly shameless.”
Li Jiyan dared not open his eyes.
He knew he had scared her again. He felt ashamed of his reaction; yes, he had promised to listen to her. How could he do this without her consent?
”I’m sorry.” He awkwardly made an excuse for himself, saying haphazardly, “I might have been affected by the evil spirit possessing my body. Yu Ziyu, please help me, help me get rid of that evil spirit.”
Yu Ziyu suddenly realized that the evil spirit was a lecherous thief who had been licking her hand in the alley during the day. It was not surprising that he was now exhibiting such a shameless and lewd reaction.
She pulled up Li Jiyan’s pants, tying the belt tightly into a knot. After a moment’s thought, she found a talisman and stuck it on Li Jiyan’s waistband.
”The fact that you can be influenced by evil spirits shows that your heart is not pure to begin with. You should control yourself and not cause me any trouble. I’m already so busy, and you still dare to act like a lecher. Don’t you have any shame?”
She continued drawing talismans. After finishing, she sat down to meditate and murmured incantations.
Li Jiyan lay on the bed, turning his head to look at her. He liked her more and more, finding her extremely cute and adorable in everything she did.
After chanting the incantation for a while, Yu Ziyu suddenly opened her eyes, made the Cloud Thunder Seal, and struck Li Jiyan’s forehead with her palm three times in a row.
She had an unusually strong grip, which left Li Jiyan’s mind in a daze.
After finishing, she quickly picked up the Bagua mirror and looked at it, only to be utterly disappointed again: “Why can’t I still defeat that ghost? Strange, could it be that my method is wrong?”
Yu Ziyu found a new talisman and stuck it on Li Jiyan’s body. This time, she picked up a magic ruler and said, “It might hurt a little, but you have to bear with it in order to exorcise the ghost.”
”Don’t hit the head.” Li Jiyan had only one request.
”Don’t worry, the ruler will only hit the body, not the head.” Yu Ziyu pulled open his shirt, grabbed the ruler and struck him on the shoulder, the firm skin quickly turning red.
After striking him with the stick, Yu Ziyu took out the Bagua mirror as usual and looked at him, but there was still nothing unusual in the convex bronze mirror.
”Was it not strong enough?” she muttered to herself as she jumped off the bed, adjusted her posture, and struck Li Jiyan again with the ruler, this time hitting him three times.
Li Jiyan groaned, “Yu Ziyu, this hurts a lot. Stop it, it’s uncomfortable.”
”If you can’t even endure this little hardship, how can you be my husband! Besides, I’m doing this for your own good, so listen to me.”
Finding the magic ruler ineffective, Yu Ziyu then picked up the Three Pure Ones Bell and shook it near his ear, attempting to force out the evil spirit within him with its piercing sound. Unfortunately, the Three Pure Ones Bell still had no effect.
She had no choice but to switch back to the copper coin sword and continue attacking him.
When the maid Qinghe saw that the light was still on in Yu Ziyu’s room, she went to the door to advise her miss to rest early, but she heard banging sounds, bell sounds and even a man’s voice coming from inside.
”Miss, what are you doing in the room?”
Yu Ziyu put down the copper coin sword, covered Li Jiyan’s mouth, and turned her head to say, “I’m cultivating, don’t worry about me, go to sleep!”
”What are you fixing? Why are you making such a commotion?” Qinghe asked again, still worried.
”What else can you cultivate? Immortality, of course. I’m going to sleep now, you should go back.”
”Alright, you’re still feeling unwell, so don’t stay up too late. Go to bed early.”
Yu Ziyu shouted, “I know, I know!”
After Qinghe left, she slapped Li Jiyan’s face in exasperation: “What did you say? You attracted people here, and all my efforts have been wasted. You ruined your wife’s plans! Who taught you to be such a husband!”
Li Jiyan’s shirt was completely ripped off by Yu Ziyu. He looked down at the bruises on his body and moved to the inside of the bed.
He said in a low voice, “This isn’t how you exorcise ghosts. You’ve exorcised the ghost, but my body is ruined. Is that really exorcising a ghost?”
”Do I need your guidance to do things? You wicked child!” Yu Ziyu got off the bed, sat down at the desk, and opened the Taoist manual to look for new methods of exorcising ghosts.
Li Jiyan lay on the bed, uncomfortably bound by hemp rope, his flesh throbbing with pain. In a daze, he felt that “him” within his body emerged again.
Li Jiyan was slightly startled, but upon closer examination, he felt a chill run down his spine.
He hadn’t taken the second personality seriously before because “he” rarely appeared and quickly disappeared. But today, “he” appeared twice in a row. Could it be that one day “he” will completely take over this body?
There was no time to think deeply; his mind felt frozen and unable to function.
As Yu Ziyu was sitting and flipping through the manual, a pair of warm hands touched her back. Turning around, she saw Li Jiyan. “When did you untie the ropes?”
Li Jiyan held up his wrist, which was covered in red marks, to show her: “It broke.”
”You’re not Li Jiyan, you’re that evil spirit?” Yu Ziyu realized.
He rested his chin on her shoulder and gently breathed on her neck: “Of course I’m not Li Jiyan. By the way, from now on you can call me Li Feng, not Li Jiyan, it’s disgusting.”
He quickly told her his real name. He didn’t want to be associated with Li Jiyan.
Yu Ziyu wanted to find a rope to tie him up again, but seeing his body covered in bruises, she couldn’t bear to do it. Instead, she took a talisman and stuck it on his forehead: “Don’t move. Once I find a way, I will help you.”
Li Feng, shirtless, his body bulging with powerful muscles, sat behind Yu Ziyu and held her in his arms.
”Ayu, what were you doing with Li Jiyan just now? How did you end up like this? Did he make you angry?”
Yu Ziyu felt a chill run down her spine from his touch, thinking to herself, “This lecherous devil really knows his stuff; he’s got a knack for bewitching people.”
She didn’t deliberately push Li Feng away, thinking that this should also be her tribulation.
Mortals are most easily blinded by beauty, and this lustful demon is incredibly skilled, having taken over Li Jiyan’s handsome appearance.
If she can resist the temptations of this lustful demon and remain unmoved by his advances, wouldn’t that be a once-in-a-lifetime test? Furthermore, such a test would be extremely beneficial for her future use of sexual techniques to regulate her body and mind.
Yu Ziyu flipped through the books, silently reciting a calming mantra in her mind, trying her best not to let lust cloud her judgment.
Seeing that she didn’t refuse, Li Feng gradually went further, kissing her shoulder through her clothes: “Ayu, do you like me or Li Jiyan? You should like me more, right? What good could that good-for-nothing Li Jiyan be?”
He kissed Yu Ziyu’s neck, leaving a few shallow teeth marks: “Wife, why aren’t you looking at me? Stop reading.”
He rubbed against Yu Ziyu for a while, and seeing that she was unmoved, he pulled open her collar and lowered his head to bite her: “Ayu, I finally got out, and you are so indifferent. In your heart, am I still not as good as Li Jiyan?”
Yu Ziyu was completely flustered. If she continued to let Li Feng cause trouble, she really wouldn’t be able to take it anymore.
She stood up and walked towards the bed, beckoning to him: “You lecher, come here quickly.”
Li Feng climbed onto the bed and hugged her: “Ayu, shouldn’t we rest now?”
Yu Ziyu took out a bottle of medicine and handed it to him: “Drink this. It’s a soul-stabilizing potion, given to me by the Ancestral Master.”
”What’s this?”
”Just drink it when I tell you to, why do you always have to talk so much?”
Seeing Yu Ziyu’s displeasure, Li Feng dared not provoke her and drank it down. Yu Ziyu pushed him down onto the bed: “You’re just disturbing my Dao heart. Lie down properly. I still need to find a way to subdue you.”
Li Feng lay on the bed, his legs weak, and he struggled for a long time but could not get up.
Yu Ziyu returned to her desk to study ghost-catching techniques. She frowned all night, her black hair a mess from scratching, but she still couldn’t figure out the secret to catching ghosts.
She didn’t sleep all night; even with the crowing of roosters outside, she still wasn’t sleepy.
In the end, she could only close the book, stand by the window, shake her head and sigh. She realized that her skills were still too shallow and she needed to ask her ancestral master for help.
She came to the bedside, woke Li Jiyan up, and told him, “Don’t move in the room. I’m going out for a bit, I’ll be back soon.”
Li Jiyan was in a daze, his head and body ached. He sat up, patted his head, and looked pained.
”Are you Li Jiyan, or that evil spirit?” Yu Ziyu asked again.
”Li Jiyan”.
Yu Ziyu lowered her head and blew on the bruise on his cheekbone, saying, “Did you hear what I just said? Don’t make a sound in the room. I’ll be back soon.”
Li Jiyan looked up. The room was brightly lit, and he quickly noticed the hickeys and teeth marks on Yu Ziyu’s neck: “What happened to your neck?”
Yu Ziyu, full of righteous indignation, said: “It’s all because of that lecherous ghost possessing you. That evil ghost is really powerful. I was almost seduced into sleeping with him. Luckily, I had a strong will, or I would have fallen for his trick.”
Li Jiyan rolled off the bed, stood up, and gripped her shoulders tightly: “You kissed him?”
”No, how could I kiss that lecherous thief? He was the one who kissed me.”
”How could you let him do that!” Li Jiyan roared in disbelief, his eyes bloodshot. “Could it be that you like him?”
”Keep your voice down. You’ve got some nerve, daring to yell at me.”
Li Jiyan hugged her tightly, not even daring to use force: “Yu Ziyu, you’re really out of your mind. He’s taking advantage of you. He’s not a ghost, he’s someone else, a different person from me. He’s taking advantage of you, don’t you know that?”
”Of course I know he’s a lecher. I’m busy figuring out how to get rid of him, and I also have to consider whether your body can handle it. I’ve got a huge headache. I have my own plans, so why are you yelling at me!”
Li Jiyan said with a sob in his voice, “Anyway, you can’t let him kiss you.”
Yu Ziyu shook off his hand: “You are really short-sighted. I am a saint sent by heaven. If I don’t do it, who will? If I don’t contact him first and figure out his tricks, how can I get rid of him? If I don’t get rid of him, what will happen if he goes on to harm other women?”
Li Jiyan lowered his head: “He would never kiss another girl, he only loves you.”