Chapter 12

Chapter 12

Lou Qianqian kept her eyes fixed on the stairs, and as soon as she saw me coming down alone with President Jiang, she rushed over, gloating.

“Ha! Qiao Moyu, you big liar-you finally got exposed! Listen, Uncle Jiang is one of our university’s sponsors. Someone like you, parading around and tricking people with superstitious nonsense, he’ll never let you get away with it.

“Uncle Jiang, you should contact the principal and get Qiao Moyu expelled immediately.”

President Jiang snapped, “How dare you speak to Master Qiao like that! Which class are you from?”

Lou Qianqian was speechless.

“Uncle Jiang, it’s me, Qianqian! My dad used to bring me to your house-you don’t remember?”

Lou Qianqian was on the verge of tears. President Jiang shot her an impatient glare and ordered the staff to take her away.

“Take her far away. Don’t let her interfere with Master Qiao’s ritual.”

Lou Qianqian was dragged off, sobbing. The other students whispered among themselves as her own reputation was thoroughly ruined.

President Jiang continued to look at me with a stern expression.

“Master Qiao, I’ll protect you!”

I replied, “Haha, that really isn’t necessary.”

After a while, all the members of the Jiang Family came downstairs-even Jiang Keke, limping behind me with her crutches.

“Master Qiao, we’ll protect you.”

The Soul-Sealing Array is set up with seventeen pieces called Tongmei.

Tongmei, in ancient times, were copper coins touched by the eyebrows of children. These coins, having passed through many hands, were saturated with Yang energy, and together with a child’s eyebrows, they could suppress the flow of Yin energy. Nowadays, we don’t use copper coins-we use one-yuan coins, and the effect is almost the same.

I took out my Luopan, explaining the Soul-Sealing Array to the Jiang Family as I searched for the coins.

President Jiang narrowed his eyes at me.

“Master Qiao, it’s not that I’m doubting you, but Auntie Chen is very meticulous. If so many coins were hidden here, she’d have found them long ago-” He cut himself off with a hiss as he watched me fish a damp coin out of the aquarium. The center of the coin had been hollowed out, just like an ancient copper coin.

“The seventeen coins are placed on the spots for the little seven officers. Only one of them is mobile-water is movement, so it’s in the tank. The rest were built into the walls and pillars before the renovations, so they’re nearly impossible to take out.”

I had President Jiang prepare a bowl of glutinous rice. I tossed the wet coin into the rice, and in moments, a cloud of black smoke began to rise, turning the entire bowl black.

Jiang Keke cried out in surprise, smacking her thigh.

“I forgot to take a video for my feed!”

Watching the black smoke in the bowl, I didn’t dare tell them the truth, worried I might frighten them.

The Evil Energy was even more intense than I’d imagined-there might not be just one Deadly Curse, but two.

After the Zi Hour tonight, the winning Deadly Curse will devour the other. When that happens, that’s when the real trouble will begin.