Chapter 348
Chapter 348
Seventh Master sent me a location at a pig farm in Huangjiagou.
We arrived an hour later.
I had assumed the practitioners would only borrow the farm as a temporary location. To my surprise, the two men from the Meishan Fa Sect were its owners.
They were brothers, both surnamed Feng and both in their sixties.
Seventh Master had mentioned the Meishan Fa Sect many times. I had imagined it as a renowned martial sect from the movies, filled with extraordinary experts of exceptional bearing.
Only after meeting its practitioners did I realize they were ordinary members of society like the rest of us. In fact, they looked no different from elderly farmers in any village.
Seventh Master was present too. After introductions, we hurriedly carried the unconscious Lu Yihao from the car and laid him on a recliner.
Even before we removed his loose pajamas, the two experts frowned at his complexion.
“This young man has absolutely no self-restraint.”
“He has indulged in excessive sex at such a young age.”
Hearing their preliminary diagnosis, Wang Xiaoxiao blushed. “Masters, my husband is exhausted from working too hard. He’s busy outside every day. He doesn’t do… that sort of thing so often.”
The two Masters merely smiled and said nothing.
They could tell at a glance what Lu Yihao’s private life was like.
When Wang Xiaoxiao defended him that way, how could they fail to realize he had been cheating on her?
I said, “Miss Wang, the two Masters need to examine your husband now. Why don’t you sit over there and rest?”
Seventh Master had already begun helping Lu Yihao out of his pajamas. Wang Xiaoxiao probably did not want to watch, so she walked far away and climbed back into the car.
Anning had even less desire to look. She went to see the pigs.
Once the two women left, we stripped Lu Yihao completely naked, even removing his underwear.
I stared at a certain place for two seconds and sighed. “It’s so small… Doesn’t he feel inferior?”
One of the two Masters was fat and the other thin. The Fat Master could not help laughing. “That’s called yang retraction. This is what happens when a man has no restraint.”
The moment Su Yi saw Lu Yihao’s condition, he turned away, almost vomiting.
“Good heavens!”
After Lu Yihao was fully undressed and the two Masters saw his horrifying state, they frowned. “How many children did he abort?”
I said at least eight.
“Eight… So many people desperately want children but can’t conceive, and this man aborted eight. So young, yet already burdened with so much sin.”
“If he didn’t want children, why get those women pregnant?”
The two Masters put on gloves, parted the lanugo covering Lu Yihao, and examined him carefully.
After more than ten minutes, sweat began pouring from the Fat Master because of his weight.
“What do you think? Can you cure him?” Seventh Master asked.
The Fat Master did not sound entirely confident. His expression was grave. “We can only try. His behavior has been too outrageous. The most severe case we’ve encountered involved three abortions, and the retribution was already terrible and extremely difficult to resolve.”
“He has eight. We can only do our best. It will probably be fine, but we can’t make any guarantees.”
What he meant was that they could likely cure him but did not want to speak too absolutely.
If the unlikely happened, it could ruin their reputation.
There was something I did not understand, so I asked the Fat Master, “Master, those eight children must have been aborted by different women. Why did all eight attach themselves to him at once?”
The Fat Master shook his head and sighed. “He brought it on himself. Our elders always said that a person must cultivate righteous energy before they can suppress corruption in every direction. When someone is filled with righteous energy, Evil Spirits keep their distance.”
“But look at him. Those amorous eyes and that lecherous face belong to a man whose mind is filled with nothing but sex. How could he possess any righteous energy? A constitution like his attracts unclean things more easily than any other.”
“And Old Seventh told me he has killed someone and is haunted by a female Ghost.”
“Everything he has done amounts to actively inviting those things to find him. If his death wouldn’t drag these Infant Spirits down with him, I’d recommend sending him straight into reincarnation and saving ourselves the trouble.”
With that, the Thin Master covered Lu Yihao with his clothes, then called everyone over.
Wang Xiaoxiao was overwhelmed with worry and hurriedly asked about Lu Yihao’s condition.
“His condition is severe. Extremely severe.”
The Fat Master continued, “But we still have a way to cure him. We simply can’t guarantee success because his body is too weak. If it doesn’t work, you’ll have to take him away. We can’t allow him to suffer an accident here.”
Wang Xiaoxiao could no longer worry about anything else.
The sight of Lu Yihao caused her pain. She only wanted him to recover.
“Master, then please do your best. If it truly doesn’t work, I’ll take him away.”
“Very well.”
The Fat Master nodded. “We’ll begin the ritual soon, but we still need one thing. Go to the nearest farmers’ market and buy eight large roosters.”
Wang Xiaoxiao did not understand. “What are the roosters for?”
The Fat Master smiled. “Just buy them. We have a use for them. But remember, they must be roosters, and there must be eight.”
Wang Xiaoxiao hurriedly nodded. “All right. I’ll buy them now.”
She had not driven here, so she had to take Su Yi’s car.
At that moment, Seventh Master pulled Anning aside and whispered something to her. Then Anning got into the car as well.
After Anning and Wang Xiaoxiao drove away together, Su Yi pulled me aside and asked, “Master Chen, what if we save Lu Yihao first and then ask where my sister is, but he refuses to tell us?”
“Can we wake him up first and make him answer? We can save him after he talks.”
Su Yi had a point.
If Lu Yihao knew he was already safe, he would never reveal Su Lan’s location.
I quickly explained the situation to the two Masters and asked whether they could wake Lu Yihao first.
“That won’t be a problem.”
The Fat Master nodded, went inside, and returned with a set of silver needles.
Acupuncture was a branch of traditional Chinese medicine, whose foundational theories were also built upon Yin and Yang and the Five Elements. That was why people said Daoism and medicine were inseparable.
The Fat Master inserted silver needles all over Lu Yihao’s head until he resembled a hedgehog.
Then he inserted two needles into the Yongquan points on the soles of Lu Yihao’s feet, the starting points of the kidney meridian. Afterward came Taixi, Rangu, Fuliu, Dazhong…
Even when every needle was in place, Lu Yihao did not awaken.
The Fat Master wiped the sweat from his forehead and grumbled, “What a specimen. Even this won’t wake him. His kidneys must be on the verge of complete failure.”
With that, the Fat Master stood and slapped Lu Yihao twice. “Young man, wake up! Hey! Wake up!”
Those final two slaps brought Lu Yihao around.
He opened his eyes weakly and stared at the people before him in confusion and pain.
I walked up and greeted him. “Brother Hao, do you recognize me?”