Chapter 4
Chapter 4
After getting a clear look at the weasel’s face, Li Xun immediately lost his cool. He rubbed his chin, looking utterly perplexed.
“Seriously, girl? With a face like that, what exactly do you see in him?”
“Where did I go wrong? Seriously, where did I lose out?”
The weasel appeared as a middle-aged man in his early thirties with a crooked nose and a mouthful of yellow teeth. He gave me a grin, his mouth stretching wider and wider until it exceeded any normal physiological limit, his teeth slowly lengthening.
While Li Xun was still being difficult, Sister Jima had already realized what was happening.
She glanced down at the banner in her hand and took a step back, trying her best to shrink her large frame behind the sofa.
“Uh, Immortal Aunt, am I interrupting your ritual? Hey, brother, let’s get out of here and let these two get back to it.”
As she spoke, she tentatively grabbed Li Xun, trying to head for the door. The weasel was standing right by the entrance, his face grim, staring at them with a deathly intensity.
Sister Jima immediately raised her hands in surrender.
“I don’t have to leave. It’s actually quite nice sitting right here.”
“Leave? For what? Can you really just stand by and watch this girl get bullied by this Monkey? Li Jiajia, I’m telling you, you’re really something else. Where’s your sense of justice?”
Li Xun shot Sister Jima a disapproving look. Sister Jima exploded instantly.
“Li Xun, are you freaking stupid? The Immortal Aunt is performing a ritual!”
“You know, a great spirit, a Chuma Immortal! Did you forget everything from when we were kids?”
Just as the words left her mouth, a sharp crack echoed from above. The light bulb on the ceiling shattered. A second later, the computer screen went pitch black. The entire room was plunged into darkness, with only a faint glimmer of light filtering in from the window.
Inside the room, the sofa sat against the wall to the left of the entrance. Sister Jima let out a scream, dragged the sofa over with one hand, and then leaped behind it, grabbing a throw pillow to shield her chest.
Li Xun remained standing where he was like an idiot. He glanced at me, then looked back at the weasel.
“You’re a Chuma Immortal?”
Chuma Immortals are a unique folk tradition of Northeast China, a continuation of the ancient religion of Shamanism. It is said that in order to cultivate immortality and accumulate merit, spirits and monsters select disciples among humans, using the disciple’s physical body to perform good deeds and help people.
Those chosen by them are Chuma Disciples, also known as Chuma Immortals.
After becoming a medium, these individuals gain special abilities, allowing them to diagnose illnesses, exorcise evil spirits, and change a person’s luck.