This celestial master cultivates both physical and magical arts; why did you provoke him?

Xia En glanced at his watch.

4:03.

I'm late.

"Wait three more minutes," he said. "If you don't come, you're leaving."

Fang Zijian's lips twitched: "She's the school beauty, what's wrong with waiting a few minutes?"

"Doesn't the school beauty have to be punctual?"

Fang Zijian was speechless.

Two minutes later, a figure rushed out of the dormitory building.

She was a girl in her early twenties, with long hair, wearing a beige trench coat over a white knit sweater and a long skirt.

She has delicate features, fair skin, and a tall figure.

She definitely has the looks of a school beauty.

But at this moment, the school beauty was a bit disheveled.

She ran so fast that she was panting heavily, her hair disheveled. When she reached Xia En, she put her hands on her knees and gasped for breath.

"I'm sorry... something came up just now..."

Xia En glanced at her.

He doesn't look well; there are dark circles under his eyes, his lips are pale, and he's in a very bad mental state.

the most important is.

She had a faint aura of yin energy about her.

It's faint, but it's definitely there.

"What is it?" he asked, getting straight to the point.

Liu Ruyan was stunned for a moment, then looked up at him.

The boy in front of me... looks to be in his early twenties, dressed casually, with a lollipop in his mouth.

Is this the "professional" that Captain Chen was talking about?

"Um..." she hesitated for a moment, "You're Master Xia... Master Xia?"

"Um."

"How...how old are you?"

"Twenty-three."

Liu Ruyan fell silent.

She thought the person coming would be an old Taoist priest with a refined and otherworldly air, or at least a middle-aged man.

As a result, a young man who was only two years older than her arrived, and who looked even more like a slacker than her male classmates who skipped class to play games.

Is this reliable?

"If you don't believe me, then so be it."

Xia En turned and left.

"etc!"

Liu Ruyan quickly stopped him, "That's not what I meant! I just... I was just a little surprised..."

Xia En stopped and turned to look at her.

"What's unexpected?"

"I was surprised to find you...so young."

"Can't you catch ghosts when you're young?"

Liu Ruyan opened her mouth, but couldn't say a word.

Fang Zijian tried to smooth things over:

"Liu, don't let his youth fool you, he's incredibly capable. I've seen him in person..."

"Shut up," Xia En interrupted him.

Fang Zijian obediently shut up.

Liu Ruyan looked at Fang Zijian, then at Xia En, and finally gritted her teeth.

"Okay, I believe you."

She said, "Could we talk somewhere else? There are too many people here."

Xia En nodded.

Ten minutes later, at the back gate of the school, there was a milk tea shop.

The three sat in a corner. Liu Ruyan ordered three cups of milk tea and then recounted the whole story from beginning to end.

The matter is actually not complicated.

Liu Ruyan has a roommate named Lin Xiaoyu, who is also in the performing arts department. The two live in the same dormitory and have a good relationship.

But starting last week, Lin Xiaoyu started acting strangely.

First, she had insomnia, unable to sleep all night, saying there were strange noises in the dormitory.

Later, he fell asleep, but started talking in his sleep, very loudly, but the content was unintelligible.

It sounds like some strange language, and sometimes like animal sounds.

Liu Ruyan and her other roommates couldn't sleep because of the noise. When asked what she dreamed about, Lin Xiaoyu said she didn't remember dreaming at all.

Even more strangely, Lin Xiaoyu became increasingly haggard during the day, with dark circles under her eyes getting heavier, but she would become energetic at night, with bright eyes, walking around the dormitory and muttering to herself.

The night before last,

Liu Ruyan lowered her voice, "I saw her standing by the window, talking to someone outside. I asked her who she was talking to, and she turned to look at me—that look in her eyes was nothing like Xiaoyu's!"

As she spoke, her voice began to tremble.

"That look...it was so cold, so unfamiliar, like...like something was attached to her..."

Xia En sipped her milk tea, listened to her story, and then asked, "Where is she now?"

"She's in her dorm," Liu Ruyan said. "She didn't have classes today, and she's been sleeping the whole time."

"Take me to see it."

Liu Ruyan hesitated for a moment: "Now?"

"Now."

The three of them got up and walked towards the girls' dormitory.

When they reached the dormitory building, Liu Ruyan swiped her access card and led them inside.

The dormitory supervisor peeked out and saw that it was Liu Ruyan with her group. She didn't say anything, but just glanced at Xia En a few more times.

The girls' dormitory corridors were filled with the mixed smell of shampoo and laundry detergent, and the walls were covered with various notices and club posters.

Several girls passed by and, upon seeing Liu Ruyan, all showed expressions of surprise.

Especially when she saw Xia En and Fang Zijian behind her.

"Ruyan, who's this?" A girl with a ponytail approached, her eyes sparkling. "Boyfriend?"

"No," Liu Ruyan quickly denied. "It's...it's my cousin, he came to see me."

The girl with the ponytail glanced at Xia En and muttered, "My cousin is quite handsome, but he's dressed a bit too casually..."

Xia En pretended not to hear.

Reaching the fourth floor, Liu Ruyan pushed open the door to a dormitory room.

"This is it."

The dormitory is small, a four-person room with bunk beds and desks underneath.

The three beds were neatly made, except for the one by the window, which was completely covered by a curtain.

The yin energy was coming from that bed.

It's very strong.

It was much thicker than the one on Liu Ruyan's body.

Xia En walked over and pulled back the curtain.

A girl, around twenty years old, was lying on the bed. She had delicate features, but her face was frighteningly pale, her lips were bluish, and her eyes were sunken.

She was sleeping soundly, her brows furrowed, as if she were having a nightmare.

The strangest thing is her mouth.

His lips moved slightly, silently muttering something. The frequency and rhythm were completely unlike the babbling of a normal person.

Xia En stared at her for a few seconds, then reached out and pressed his hand on her forehead.

A chilling, icy sensation came from my palm.

There was also a slight vibration.

It felt like something was struggling inside her body, trying to break free.

"How is it?" Liu Ruyan asked nervously.

Xia En withdrew his hand without saying a word, but simply took out three talismans from his pocket.

One was stuck on Lin Xiaoyu's forehead, one on the headboard, and one on the footboard.

As soon as the talisman was applied, Lin Xiaoyu's body twitched violently.

Then, she opened her eyes.

Those eyes...

It wasn't normal black and white, but a murky gray, its pupils shrank to the size of pinpoints, staring intently at Xia En.

"Who...are you?" she asked, her voice hoarse and shrill, not at all like that of a twenty-year-old girl.

Liu Ruyan was so frightened that she took a step back and almost screamed.

Fang Zijian was also terrified, but he still forced himself to hold up his phone and record the video.

Xia En looked into those eyes, very calmly.

"Come out," he said.

Those eyes narrowed, a hint of mockery flashing across them.

"With you?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Lin Xiaoyu's body suddenly convulsed violently, her whole body bouncing on the bed, making "hoarse" sounds.

Liu Ruyan cried out in surprise and tried to rush over, but Fang Zijian held her back.

Xia En didn't move.

He simply raised his right hand, put his index and middle fingers together, and touched Lin Xiaoyu's brow.

"Thunder Magic - Suppressing Evil"

A tiny spark of electricity shot from his fingertip into Lin Xiaoyu's forehead.

Lin Xiaoyu's body stiffened abruptly, and then!

"ah--!!!"

A sharp scream came from her mouth; the sound was not human at all, but more like the roar of some kind of wild beast.

Immediately afterwards, a stream of black energy surged from her seven orifices, condensing in the air into a blurry human figure.

The humanoid figure had a ferocious appearance, opened its blood-red maw, and lunged at Xia En.

Liu Ruyan was so frightened that she closed her eyes.

Fang Zijian's hand trembled, and he almost dropped his phone.

then!!

"Palm Thunder".

"boom!!!"