"Irene, can you really see ghosts?" Shao Hui looked at Joohyun expectantly.

"Yes." Joohyun simply nodded. Since Zhang Wenwen and Chu Xiao had already told them, there was no need for her to continue concealing the fact. Besides, the reality was she was just too lazy to reveal it and wasn't deliberately hiding it.

Shao Hui excitedly grabbed Joohyun's arm: "Zhang Wenwen also said you're much more powerful than the average Celestial Master."

Zhang Wenwen even advertised her? Joohyun couldn't help but be a little surprised.

Joohyun replied in a low-key manner, "I'm not good enough to compare with the top masters, but I'm better than those at the bottom feeders."

"Anyway, you must come with us to see something first," After Shao Hui finished, he turned his head to Qin Yi who was driving and excitedly exclaimed, "Qin Yi, drive faster."

"We'll be there soon," Qin Yi replied.

Joohyun curiously looked out the window. The car passed an intersection, turned right, and entered a hospital.

Just then, Shao Hui's phone suddenly rang. Shao Hui answered it, only to hear Zhang Wenwen's shrieking, "Brother Shao Hui, come quickly. My brother is dying."

"We're downstairs." Shao Hui's face instantly turned ugly.

Qin Yi, who was planning to look for a parking space, directly turned the steering wheel and drove the car below the inpatient department: "Take Irene up first."

"Okay," Shao Hui said, pulling Joohyun directly from his side down the car.

Joohyun, who was forcibly pulled out of the car, actually wanted to say, 'wouldn't it be faster if you let me go and let me get out of the car on the other side?' yet apparently Shao Hui was currently panicking and was oblivious to this.

He dragged the dumbfounded Joohyun all the way to the inpatient department, took the elevator to the 16th floor of the department, and after exiting the elevator, continued to drag Joohyun along, running wildly and finally stopping at the door of a VIP ward.

"Joohyun!" The moment Zhang Wenwen saw Joohyun, she looked both surprised and scared at the same time.

There were a total of four people inside the ward. Joohyun first looked up at Zhang Wenwen, then her eyes fell on a middle-aged Daoist priest wearing a Daoist robe in front of the hospital bed. The middle-aged Daoist priest was clutching a jade pendant with sufficient spiritual qi, channeling the spiritual qi from the jade pendant into the young man on the sickbed.

"Ziyang, how is Ziyang?" Shao Hui squeezed through the crowd and ran to the front of the hospital bed.

"Joohyun, please save my brother." When Zhang Wenwen saw Joohyun standing in the doorway without moving, she eagerly ran over and pleaded.

It was the first time Joohyun saw her crying and begging. She pulled her hand back hard, but Zhang Wenwen thought she was going to shake herself off, so she grabbed tighter.

Shao Hui also reacted at this time. He turned his head towards Joohyun and called, "Irene, can you quickly come over and check?"

"Let go!" Joohyun shouted with a head full of black lines at Zhang Wenwen who was hanging onto her arm.

"Joohyun, it was all my fault before. I shouldn't have said bad things about you. I'm so sorry. Please, save my brother." Zhang Wenwen's eyes were swollen from crying. She was obviously really worried about this brother of hers.

"You're restraining me, so how can I even get closer to him?" Joohyun retorted while baffled.

"Uh..." Zhang Wenwen froze for a moment, then as if she was shocked by electricity, she hurriedly released her hand.

Joohyun then walked closer towards the hospital bed. Mother Zhang, Chu Xiao, and Shao Hui were surrounding the bed, but they stepped back at the same time and looked at Joohyun with hopeful expressions.

Joohyun glanced at the young man in the hospital bed. He looked like Zhang Wenwen, but his skin color was pale and almost transparent. Maybe it was because he was in bed for a long time, so his cheeks looked particularly gaunt. He was sleeping quietly, but the vitality in his body was fading away little by little.

His vitality that was mixed with the spiritual power input by the middle-aged Daoist priest flowed into a black hole the size of a table tennis ball in the middle of the young man's eyebrows. If the middle-aged Daoist priest hadn't continuously injected his spiritual power, the young man's vitaliy would have been cut off long ago.

"Ngh!" The middle-aged Daoist priest suddenly grunted with strain. His sweaty forehead and cramped hands was enough to tell that he could not sustain for much longer.

"Daoist Zhao!" Mother Zhang looked at him nervously.

"Mrs. Zhang ... poor Daoist...I'm afraid...I can't hold out any longer." Daoist Zhao said with some strain.

"Hold on a little longer!" Joohyun suddenly spoke up.

From the moment Joohyun entered the door, Daoist Zhao knew that Mrs. Zhang's daughter didn't lie. The little girl she said she knew was indeed a Celestial Master, and the spiritual power around her was stronger than his. It was just that Joohyun made no move after entering the door. Daoist Zhao was absorbed in maintaining Zhang Ziyang's vitality, so he had no time to ask Joohyun.

Now that Joohyun had actually taken the initiative to speak, Daoist Master Zhao heaved a sigh of relief and said, "Three...three minutes."

"That's enough," Joohyun pulled out the compass from her backpack as she spoke.

She had previously absorbed a lot of evil qi in order to awaken the dormant evil spirit in Lisa's body, but although she had recovered a lot these days, she decided to borrow the aura stored in the compass for 'just-in-case-things-go-bad insurance' purposes.

"Bzzzz!!!"

The compass vibrated unhappily in Joohyun's hand, as if to say, Every time I just absorbed spirit qi, you would then drain me.

"Be good, and I'll let you sleep there at night," Joohyun said soothingly.

The compass went quiet. Joohyun raised her hand and gently threw it. The compass rotated in the air and then stopped above Zhang Ziyang's head. A faint spiritual light sprinkled down and shrouded the young man's entire head.

Although the other people in the ward couldn't see the spiritual light, witnessing the dark compass floating in the air on its own, was already shocking enough. Shao Hui and Qin Yi, who just entered through the door, were also dumbstruck.

Under the spiritual light, the black hole in Zhang Ziyang suddenly stopped absorbing vitality and instead absorbed spiritual qi from the compass.

Joohyun took advantage of this opportunity. She stretched out a finger, and using the spiritual power of the compass, she drew a talisman in between Zhang Ziyang's brow, sealing all the vitality of the young man in his body.

After the last stroke,the talisman seal struck, and the black hole, originally the size of a table tennis ball, suddenly began to shrink and eventually shrunk into the size of a black dot suppressed under his brow by the talisman seal. Joohyun raised her hand and withdrew the compass. Daoist Zhao also took advantage of the moment and stopped channeling spiritual qi. He staggered and fell into the chair behind him.

"How is it?" When Mother Zhang saw the two-stop moving, she immediately asked worriedly.

Daoist Zhao first glanced at Joohyun, but Joohyun was looking down, thinking of something, so he could only explain by himself, "Young Master Zhang's condition is under control for the time being, but too much of his vitality was sucked away before. I'm afraid..."

"Afraid of what?" Mother Zhang urged apprehensively.

"I'm afraid he won't be able to wake up," Daoist Zhao sighed.

"What do you mean he won't wake up? Is my son saved or not?" Mother Zhang asked hysterically.

She originally thought her son was suffering from an acute illness. The doctors were at their wits' end, but the Daoist priest her daughter had brought in told her that someone had ensnared her son using magic. Now that they managed to stabilize her son's condition, the Daoist priest next told her that her son might never wake up again. Mother Zhang was on the verge of collapse and could no longer control her emotions.

"Mom, Mom, calm down." Zhang Wenwen hugged her mother soothingly.

Qin Yi on the side suddenly spoke out and asked, "Is there any other way to save him?"

"Unless his vitality that was sucked away can be retrieved," Daoist Zhao glanced at Joohyun and continued, "But this poor Daoist's cultivation level is too low to detect who exactly sucked away Young Master Zhang's vitality."

Qin Yi followed Daoist Zhao's gaze and looked at Joohyun, who remained silent, and suddenly asked, "Irene, do you have any way?"

"Huh?" Joohyun's head snapped up in startlement, confusion all over her face. It was obvious that she didn't hear Qin Yi's question clearly.

"Daoist Zhao said that the vitality that was sucked out of Ziyang had to be retrieved before he could fully recover. Do you have a way to retrieve his vitality?" Qin Yi repeated.

"No!"

Joohyun suddenly turned her head and looked at Zhang Ziyang's soul who had suddenly sat up from the hospital bed. The young man's eyes were pleading, and he kept shaking his head at Joohyun.

Sure enough, it was voluntary!

Taking away a person's vitality was an evil technique that works against the heavens to begin with, so even if it was used successfully, it was impossible to suck out someone's vitality as smoothly as just now while going unhindered in the slightest.

Thus, Joohyun felt puzzled at that time, but now, it appeared that this young man indeed voluntarily let his vitality be absorbed, and it was he who gave his birth date as well as his blood essence to the other party.

Joohyun frowned and suddenly didn't know what to do. On the one hand, he volunteered to die and on the other hand, his relatives desperately tried to stop him. A sense of irritability of being involved in someone else's domestic affairs suddenly welled up in her.

"Irene?" Qin Yi prompted.

Zhang Ziyang: "Don't stop the Life Exchange Technique!"

Zhang Wenwen: "Sister Joohyun."

Zhang Ziyang: "Don't hurt her!"

"Shut up!" The noise was giving Joohyun a headache. She carried her backpack, pushed everyone away, and directly walked out of the ward.

She either killed all malevolent ghosts she had encountered before or helped them find peace. When things were too complicated, she needed to quietly consider how to solve the matter.

Everyone in the ward froze, and Mother Zhang directly slumped on the ground in despair. Zhang Wenwen bit her lip, let go of Mother Zhang Zhang's mother, pushed the ward door, and ran out after Joohyun.

"Joohyun, Sister Joohyun." Zhang Wenwen stopped Joohyun who was about to leave at the entrance of the elevator. "Sister Joohyun, please save my brother. What happened before was all my fault. I apologize to you, I will..."

"I've already forgotten the previous incident. Never ever mention it again." Joohyun knew that Zhang Wenwen was referring to the young ghost who drowned before.

"If you really forgive me, please save my brother, alright?" Zhang Wenwen begged and almost knelt towards Joohyun.

"Wenwen!" Chu Xiao chased out and saw that Zhang Wenwen was almost going to kneel. She promptly ran and held her up.

Seeing that Chu Xiao stopped Zhang Wenwen, Joohyun, who was about to reach out to stop her, silently withdrew her hand.

"Sister Joohyun, although Wenwen admittedly was at fault in the previous incident, the entirety of the blame cannot be placed on her alone. If you didn't remind her that a ghost was clinging on her, she would have been unlikely to seek a Celestial Master in fear," Chu Xiao couldn't help but say.

"..." Joohyun fell silent for a while. In fact, she knew that Chu Xiao was right. At the outset, if she hadn't deliberately wanted to scare Zhang Wenwen, that little ghost would have gone to reincarnation, and the subsequent events wouldn't have happened.

The reason she was so angry when she saw Zhang Wenwen was because the little ghost covered Zhang Wenwen's mouth with his hand. The soul of someone who had just died was extremely weak. If it wasn't for too much fear or resentment, the little ghost would have been powerless to control Zhang Wenwen. So, Zhang Wenwen probably first wanted to find someone to help the little ghost find peace, but in the end, she must have changed her mind and began to find someone to collect the little ghost. When the little ghost realized the danger, he instinctively covered Zhang Wenwen's mouth so that she couldn't speak.

They really should clear this thing up. She and Zhang Wenwen were both at fault. Hence, Joohyun helped the little ghost sought eternal peace as a form of apology and asked Zhang Wenwen to donate to children in the mountains in honor of the kid. This was to accumulate karmic rewards so that the kid could reincarnate as a good baby in the future.

But in the end, Zhang Wenwen's crime was related to her. Joohyun looked at Zhang Wenwen and said, "Go there with me."

Zhang Wenwen froze, then followed Joohyun to a corner.

Joohyun glanced at Shao Hui and Qin Yi, who chased after them, and then at Chu Xiao, who was standing nearby, and whispered to Zhang Wenwen beside her, "If your brother wants to die, are you still going to save him?"

"What??" Zhang Wenwen raised her head incredulously.

"The reason your brother is like this is because someone took your brother's birth date and blood essence and used the Life Exchange Technique, which means that your brother's life span was exchanged to a person who is dying." Joohyun said, "This kind of technique isn't difficult to break. The actual difficult part is that your brother actually volunteered."

"Wh-what does that mean? Why should my brother volunteer?" Zhang Wenwen's face was full of confusion.

"Tch!" Joohyun frowned, feeling that she couldn't convey this matter. With this in mind, Joohyun brought together her right hand's index and middle fingers and slowly crossed them in front of Zhang Wenwen's eyes.

Zhang Wenwen unconsciously blinked her eyes.

"You can see your brother if you go back to the ward now," Joohyun said.

"Ha?" Zhang Wenwen was dumbfounded even further.

"Yin Yang Eyes can only last for thirty minutes, so you better hurry," Joohyun urged.

Only then did Zhang Wenwen react. She turned around and ran towards the ward, rather dubious.

"Wenwen?" When Chu Xiao saw Zhang Wenwen suddenly running away, she gave Joohyun, who was standing in place, a puzzled glance, turned around and followed her.

Qin Yi and Shao Hui approached. Shao Hui looked at Joohyun and asked, "Irene, what did you just say to Zhang Wenwen?"

"This is their family's privacy, so I can't tell you, or rather you can ask Zhang Wenwen herself," Joohyun replied.

Qin Yi and Shao Hui looked at each other, and Shao Hui continued to ask Joohyun, "Then...Ziyang's situation, is there any help?"

"It's not a question of whether he can be saved. It's a question of whether to save him or not," Joohyun frowned and replied.

"What do you mean? Of course save him if he could be saved. What do you mean save him or not?" Qin Yi asked, puzzled.

Just then, a clamor suddenly erupted around the corner in the ward. Shao Hui and Qin Yi feared that something had happened inside, so they hurriedly ran back again.

After they ran away, Joohyun thought for a moment and sent a message to Shao Hui: (Tell Zhang Wenwen that my seal can last for seven days. If her brother has made a decision in seven days, come to me again.)

After sending the message, Joohyun turned around and left the ward through the elevator. Joohyun was in a terrible mood throughout the whole journey, and her sullenness continued into the night. Even Lisa noticed it.

"It's winter vacation. Why are you unhappy instead?" Lisa asked strangely.

"I encountered a matter that I don't know how to solve," Joohyun said with a frown.

"Let me hear it. I'll help you analyze." It was rare for Lisa to see the little girl weighed down by something in her mind, so he couldn't help but be a little curious.

"It's just, I encountered a strange phenomenon today." Joohyun did not say Zhang Wenwen's name, but made up a fictitious character, and then relayed the matter to Lisa, "So, Third Brother, do you think I should save this person or not?"

"You also said that the Life Exchange Technique is inherently against conventions, so the normal course of action should be to save this person," Lisa said.

"But this person is willing to exchange his life for another person." Joohyun said, "In a way, the one he saved has a chance to continue living. If I step in to stop the Life Exchange Technique, then it's the same as me killing another person."

Lisa was slightly stunned: "But isn't this person already supposed to die?"

"It's still different. If the other party is forcibly seizing, or maliciously snaring, then I can stop it without scruples and comply with Divine Principles. But the problem is, it's entirely consensual." Joohyun said, "It's like some car accidents. The child on the road was supposedly the one to be hit, but the mother on the roadside instinctively saved him. If I have a way to stop this incident, do you think I should stop the mother from saving her own child?"

"..." This question immediately put Lisa into a dilemma too. This was a tragedy, and both endings were unpleasant.

"You know, it would have been fine if I didn't see it, or if I lack the ability, and be helpless to do anything. But I saw it, and I also have the ability to stop it. Why do I feel now that I'll be involved with these two people no matter who dies, ah? It's so annoying, aahhh!" Joohyun rolled on the sofa while hugging a pillow, upset. "Actually, I can't quite understand his behavior. Won't he make his family very sad like this too?"

"Why are you annoyed?" Lisa suddenly spoke out and asked, "You can completely pretend that you have never encountered this matter. When his family asks for your help, you can also choose not to intervene."

"But I've seen it, ah. There's no way I can pretend that I haven't seen it, ah," Joohyun replied, depressed.

Lisa couldn't help but smile. He reached out and tugged Joohyun, who covered herself with her pillow. "Get up, don't smother yourself."

Joohyun continued to cover herself and did not move.

"Do you know why you are annoyed?" Lisa asked.

"I don't know." Joohyun sullenly responded.

"Because you are kind," Lisa suddenly quipped.

Joohyun moved the pillow away from her face, looked at Lisa and said, "I'm not kind. When I catch a ghost, no matter how pathetic that ghost is, I will still take him away."

"That's because you know that sending them to reincarnation is the best ending for them." Lisa said, "But this matter is different. This person you're talking about is desperately trying to save another person, and deep down you actually don't want him to die, do you?"

"..." Joohyun froze and sat up hugging the pillow. "I don't know."

"If there was a way to have the best of both worlds, would you go for it?" Lisa asked.

"But there is no best of both worlds." Joohyun said, "The Life Exchange Technique can only be used on people who are going to die, so one of them must die."

"Since you can't leave this matter alone, why don't you just go and try to understand the matter at hand better?" Lisa said, "When you know more, maybe you will naturally know what needs to be done next."

"What if I still don't know what to do?" Joohyun asked.

Lisa pondered over it and said, "Or you can just think of it as for me. I'm curious. What kind of relationship is it that allows that person to trade his life for the other person's life."

"Hmm..." Joohyun hesitated for a moment: "But my master's rule is that I must charge when undertaking a task."

Lisa snickered and said, "Then I'll pay you a dollar to hire you to investigate this matter, okay?"

"A dollar? So cheap, ah. Forget it. For the sake of our acquaintance, I'll give you a discount." Joohyun threw the pillow, took the apple on the coffee table, and began to nibble.

Lisa could not help but smile again when he saw that Joohyun had finally recovered her spirit.

For a money-mad person to give him a discount and accept only a dollar, it was also considered that Joohyun had attached utmost importance to him.

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