The Beautiful CEO’s Dragon Blood Bodyguard
Chapter 489 - 0489: Three Souls and Seven Spirits

Chapter 489: Chapter 0489: Three Souls and Seven Spirits

At home, He Yan poured Long Fei a cup of tea and sat down opposite him, visibly nervous.

With Long Fei present, the room even felt much warmer.

He Tiantian asked her, "Mom, can I watch TV?"

He Tiantian glanced at Long Fei.

After Long Fei nodded, she turned on the television and found Pleasant Goat for her daughter to watch.

She couldn’t help but ask Long Fei, "Are you really a disciple of a Mount Mao master?"

Long Fei smiled and shook his head, "No, I was just bluffing. But I do know a bit about these kinds of things."

He Yan nodded, brushed her bangs aside, and said earnestly, "Okay, as long as you can cure Tiantian’s illness, I’ll pay whatever it costs. If I can’t afford it, I’ll owe you and pay back slowly."

She had thought that Long Fei was posting online to make some extra money and felt bad about letting Long Fei help for free.

Long Fei shook his head with a smile, "Sister Yan, what are you talking about? Helping you and still asking for money, what would that make me?"

"But I can’t just let you help for nothing, can I?"

He Yan frowned slightly.

Holding his cup of tea, Long Fei teased, "It’s not for nothing, haven’t I already drunk your tea?"

He Yan gave a wry smile and didn’t insist further.

Suddenly, the doorbell rang outside.

He Yan went out to open the door, and a young man entered, carrying a bag, and politely nodded at He Yan.

It was Zhang Yinyang who had circled the area searching for the place.

Upon entering and seeing Long Fei, he immediately bowed respectfully and greeted, "Master Long."

He Yan stared in shock from behind, noting the young man’s distinguished attire and wondering why he was so polite to Long Fei.

She hadn’t seen Long Fei for many days and had no idea what he was doing outside.

Long Fei merely nodded slightly and instructed him, "Take a look and see what thing has latched onto this child? If you help her this time, I will take you as my disciple."

Zhang Yinyang immediately widened his eyes in excitement and nodded vigorously.

Becoming Long Fei’s disciple had almost become his obsession.

After Li Zhenni took him back, he spent every day with Fat Wang and Lu Buping, nearly becoming their lackey, all to get closer to Long Fei and become his disciple.

How could Zhang Yinyang not be excited by Long Fei’s proposition?

Zhang Yinyang set down his belongings and cleared a space in the room with Long Fei.

He sat across from He Tiantian, wiped his fingers over his eyes, and one pupil immediately turned white.

He Yan watched tensely from the side, her face filled with disbelief at the astonishing scene.

Zhang Yinyang’s brow furrowed, and his eyes returned to normal.

Long Fei asked, "Did you see clearly?"

Zhang Yinyang nodded, "It’s a man, but he hasn’t fully awakened yet."

"What do you mean?"

Long Fei didn’t understand much about these matters.

Zhang Yinyang explained, "Humans have Three Souls and Seven Spirits. The Three Souls are: the Main Soul, the Awareness Soul, and the Life Soul.

The Main Soul is the essence of a person; after death, it’s what remains.

The Awareness Soul determines one’s intelligence; the stronger the Awareness Soul, the higher one’s enlightenment and IQ. Conversely, the lower one’s IQ.

The Life Soul determines one’s longevity; the longer the Life Soul, the longer one’s lifespan. Conversely, the shorter one’s lifespan.

After a person dies, only the Main Soul remains, and the Life Soul and Awareness Soul dissipate.

If the Main Soul reincarnates, it will generate a new Awareness Soul and Life Soul with the new life."

Souls without spirits have no consciousness, like ghosts.

The seven spirits of a person—joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, evil, desire—after death, keeping just one spirit is enough to awaken the consciousness of the main soul.

Some people only have their spirit of evil left, and they become malevolent ghosts.

Some people have their spirit of joy, and they become joyful ghosts.

Some people have their spirit of desire, and they become lustful ghosts.

Some people have all seven spirits intact, and their personalities remain much the same as when they were alive.

This little girl only has her main soul; not a single one of the seven spirits has fully merged with the main soul. Therefore, she has no reaction right now and can only cling to this young girl to absorb essential Qi and survive!"

Long Fei understood, he had learned the genuine arts of cultivation, and didn’t really understand these heterodox paths of catching ghosts and exorcisms.

After listening to Zhang Yinyang’s explanation, he suddenly saw the light.

He thought about the souls he had encountered last time at the North City Cemetery; perhaps they were just like this, with only the main soul left as their seven spirits had been worn away.

Without spirits, the main soul is just a foolish ghost without consciousness.

He Yan was frightened, "Who is this man, and why is he haunting my daughter?"

Zhang Yinyang shook his head and asked her, "Have you recently taken your daughter to any unclean places? Like cemeteries or places within funeral parlors?"

"No, I haven’t."

He Yan was on the verge of tears.

Zhang Yinyang rubbed his head and said, "Then I don’t know. If you want to find out, you can wait until he awakens and ask him."

He Yan shook her head repeatedly, "No need, no need to know, just catch him and take him away quickly!"

Zhang Yinyang looked at Long Fei.

He knew that if Long Fei only wanted to catch ghosts, he wouldn’t have asked him to come.

With Long Fei’s methods, just by imparting some Yang Qi to the little girl, it would be enough to scatter the Yin Qi from her body.

Long Fei looked at him and laughed a bit, "Don’t look at me, I’ve asked you to come today to learn from you with an open mind."

Zhang Yinyang gave a wry smile, "Master Long, could you please stop mocking me?"

Long Fei asked, "Do you have a way to strip the ghost away and then retrieve his seven spirits?"

He was quite curious about this soul. Among the comprehensive Daoist manuals left by his ancestors, there was one specifically about these heterodox paths.

Techniques like ghost-exorcising, corpse-driving, Demon-Enchanting Banner, Yin-Gathering Banner, Five Poison Banner.

Many of them were related to these ghosts and monsters.

Long Fei wanted to research this soul and having Zhang Yinyang to help was the safest approach.

Zhang Yinyang knew it wouldn’t be that simple, opened his luggage bag, and took out a black altar.

About twenty centimeters in size, it was almost like a pickle jar one might find in the countryside.

It only differed in that it was engraved with a ring of mystic patterns and appeared to be rather old.

He introduced it to Long Fei, "This was left by my master, named the Yin-Yang Yin Gathering Altar. My master used it a few times before, said that activating the mystic patterns on it would invert Yin and Yang, producing a suction force that could absorb all sorts of Yin Qi. To strip the ghost from the little girl, just activating this altar would suffice. If unable to activate it, the only other way would be to kill it directly."

Long Fei took the altar and looked at it. With a motion of his spiritual power, he sensed a flicker of mana fluctuation on it.

This object turned out to be a magic artifact.

For the average person, this altar was already very precious.

Even just placing it in a home, without doing anything, it could ward off evil and expel ghosts.

But among magical treasures, this one was of the lowest grade.

What he was most lacking now was the art of artifact refinement, and these days he was studying that during his downtime. Aside from the Tai’a Spirit Sword, he had not seen any other magical treasures.

The art of artifact refinement left by his ancestor started with high-end spiritual artifacts, two levels higher than magic artifacts.

How could he fathom it thoroughly? Researching this altar was a good start to step through the threshold.