not so pure.As she walked, she tried to figure it out but couldn’t find the answer. Whatever; later she would ask that old man if he knew anything about this."Little Brother Zhang, who is your friend...Chapter 100: Ghost-Catching Taoist

Wei Jun nodded at the Taoist sitting on the sofa. Yesterday, his parents had told him that they would invite a Taoist to exorcise spirits today and said he was possessed by evil spirits, so they specially invited a Taoist from Jinhuang Temple to perform rituals to dispel them.

Regarding Xiao Yu, Wei Jun's parents were still familiar with him. The two had been good friends since their school days, when Wei Jun often brought Xiao Yu to his house. Moreover, Xiao Yu frequently hung out there and ate and drank at their expense, so they were also quite familiar with each other.

"Uncle, Aunt, hello. What's this..." Xiao Yu greeted Wei Jun's parents and looked at the middle-aged Taoist as he asked.

Wei Jun's father, Wei Zhonghua, and his mother, Wang Xinlan, exchanged glances and sighed. They had no other choice but to seek out any possible remedies!

Since Wei Jun knew that Xiao Yu's medical skills were very formidable, he had told his parents about it. Although they didn't believe him, it was hard for them to argue against a recent college graduate who wasn't particularly good at studies in school. Besides, he was a Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner; nowadays, which famous TCM masters hadn't practiced medicine for over three decades

Now that Wei Jun's parents saw Xiao Yu carrying medicine, they knew he had already figured out the situation with their son and there was nothing to hide anymore. So they started explaining to him.

It turned out that after Wei Jun contracted this strange illness and went everywhere seeking treatment without any improvement, Wang Xinlan, his mother, heard from some friends about how powerful the Taoists at Jinhuang Temple were—capable of catching ghosts and exorcising spirits. Seeing her son's condition worsening rapidly, she panicked and sought help at Jinhuang Temple. She explained their situation to the temple monks who said that Wei Jun was possessed by evil spirits and needed an altar ritual to drive away the ghosts.

"I told you it's superstition! Do you understand There are no such things as ghosts in this world, but you won't listen!" Wei Jun snapped at his mother’s words.

At this point, Xiao Yu heard that the Taoist was there to perform a ritual to catch and exorcise ghosts. He immediately looked surprised and turned to face the Taoist. The Taoist felt Xiao Yu's gaze and also turned around, nodding respectfully at him with a look of profound mystery.

Xiao Yu had never seen a Taoist performing rituals to exorcise evil spirits before. Thinking that he might have encountered someone from his own field when hearing the Taoist could catch and banish ghosts, he wanted to take a closer look. So he told Wei Jun: "Jun哥, don't say it like that. The theory of ancient ghost stories has existed for thousands of years; there must be some reason behind it. Even if nothing else, at least it can make Uncle and Aunt feel reassured, right"

Upon hearing Xiao Yu's words, Wei Jun sat down sulking but had no more to say. His mother quickly took over: "Right... Right... Mom promises this will only happen once; we won't invite any exorcists again in the future!"

Wei Jun's parents only have Wei Jun as their single child, so they are very concerned about his condition. Whenever they hear of any method that might help treat their son’s illness, they will try it out. This is the reason why Xiao Yu saw so many prescriptions and examination results at Wei Jun’s place.

But after seeing numerous doctors and taking countless medications without improvement, they turned to these supernatural claims. Yesterday when discussing with their son, he disagreed, but now that his work has been arranged, they turn towards the Taoist priest carefully saying: “Master Tianming, how about it… my son is back, shall we start”

“Mr Wei, there’s no need to rush. Exorcise evil spirits during the day and capture ghosts at night. I just examined your son, and he seems to be suffering from ghostly disturbances, which must be dealt with at night….”

Taoist Master Tianming had a lot of experience dealing with these wealthy individuals; all you need is to speak assertively, act enigmatically, and charge highly—these people won’t doubt it. If you charge too little, they might even become suspicious.

“Yes, yes, catching ghosts should be at night…” Wei Jun’s father didn’t know the priest's intentions; he merely heard some sense in what was said and agreed accordingly.

Saying that, he took out two stacks of money from his bag and gave them to Taoist Master Tianming. Without even looking at it, Taoist Master Tianming performed a Buddhist salute and said: “Mr Wei, why are you doing this Monks don’t accept money or items; please take it back!”

Just as the priest finished speaking, the doorbell rang: "That should be my apprentice. I sent him out to buy some necessary items for the ritual; he must have returned!"

Hearing Taoist Master Tianming’s words, Wei Jun's mother quickly went to open the door. Standing there was a young Taoist priest in his twenties performing a Buddhist salute towards Wei Jun's mother.

“Is it Earth Vortex” Before the young Taoist could speak, the voice of Taoist Master Tianming sounded from the living room. The young Taoist quickly answered: “Yes, master!”

"Earth Vortex, have you bought everything I asked for" Taoist Master Tianming questioned.

“I did, master, it cost me 35000 yuan in total; here’s the list!” The young Taoist entered the living room and handed a piece of paper to Taoist Master Tianming.

Taoist Master Tianming nodded without speaking. He didn’t take the list but turned towards Wei Jun’s father saying: “Mr Wei, all items are prepared; we just need to wait until tonight to start!”

At this point, Wei's father felt embarrassed. He didn't expect the other party to spend over 30,000 yuan just on items for exorcising ghosts and dispelling evil spirits, while he had only contributed 20,000 yuan. Wei’s father quickly reached into his bag and took out another 30,000 yuan, placing it on the table.

Dayiming glanced at the money on the table with a sideways glance and said, "Mr. Wei, what are you doing Exorcising ghosts and dispelling evil spirits is our duty; we cannot accept any gifts for this service. This goes against the principles of Daoism. Mr. Wei, please take it back!"

Wei's father had built his business from scratch and was naturally shrewd. He was just momentarily flustered because of his son’s matter but now he understood that they thought the money was insufficient. Thus, he added another 30,000 yuan on the table and said to Dayiming, "Master Daoist, do not refuse it. This is simply a donation I'm making for the temple's incense offerings as a token of my respect towards our Daoist ancestors!"

Dayiming pondered briefly, realizing that he probably could no longer extract money from Wei’s father. He then bowed again and said, "If this is Mr. Wei's donation to the temple, I will accept it on behalf of our ancestor and thank Mr. Wei for his generosity!" Then, he instructed a young Daoist monk next to him, "Dixuan, since this is Mr. Wei’s intention, please take these donations and hand them over to the temple later for good deeds."

"Yes, Master," replied the young Daoist monk respectfully as he bowed, then walked forward to put the money into a small cloth bag he was carrying.

Wei's father, who had billions of assets, didn’t think much about these few tens of thousands. Wei Jun muttered something and stopped talking.

Xiao Yu, despite feeling slightly suspicious about this situation, still wondered what items would cost over 30,000 yuan for a ritual to exorcise ghosts and dispel evil spirits. Moreover, he had just inspected the room but didn’t detect any ominous presence or ghostly energy; however, it was daytime now, so he couldn't be sure that nothing existed! What if ghosts appeared at night

Also, Xiao Yu knew Wei Jun's family was wealthy and thus wasn't bothered by this sum of money. He also wanted to see the exorcising process, so he kept quiet.

After Dayiming instructed the young Daoist monk to put away the donations, he crossed his legs on a sofa and closed his eyes without further words, giving an air of enigmatic profundity.

Xiao Yu saw that the道士不再說話，便來到廚房拿出藥材，把藥材放入一個砂鍋中。

就當蕭煜正準備去拿醫藥箱時，魏軍和他的母親正好走了進來。蕭煜說道：“軍哥，麻煩你幫我把醫藥箱拿來！”說完他繼續搗鼓著藥材。

“嗯，好的。”魏軍應了一聲出去了，不一會兒就把蕭煜的醫藥箱拿了過來。蕭煜接過醫藥箱從暗格裡拿出玉盒。

Wei Jun and Wei Mu were taken aback when they saw the jade box in Xiao Yu's hand. Such a large block of jade carved into a box would be quite valuable, even if the quality of the jade was just average. Wei Jun deals with antiques and jade artifacts every day, so he has good eyes for these things. After Wei Mu’s husband's company became established, she rarely worried about it anymore; instead, she spent her days shopping with other housewives. She still had a fair amount of expertise when it came to looking at jades.

Xiao Yu slowly opened the jade box, and they wondered what kind of thing would be kept in such an expensive box The value of this box might not mean much to them, but considering Xiao Yu’s background, even though he now had money, using a box like this for storage suggested that whatever was inside must also have great worth.

When Xiao Yu opened the jade box and placed a piece of ginseng into the clay pot, Wei Mu shook her head in disappointment when she saw slices of ginger. She thought it might be something valuable, but found out it was just pieces of ginger.

Only Wei Jun guessed that this could possibly be ginseng since Grandmaster Ye mentioned at Renhe Hall that a main ingredient for the prescription, ginseng, was missing, and Xiao Yu had said he possessed some. This might very well be what he meant, but Grandmaster Ye had initially instructed to use one piece of wild mountain ginseng, whereas Xiao Yu only used one slice.

Wei Jun wanted to ask Xiao Yu about it, but then decided against it since Xiao Yu was a doctor and Wei Jun had seen with his own eyes how skilled Xiao Yu was at Renhe Hall. Furthermore, he had also heard that Xiao Yu could be considered a disciple of the venerable Old Master Ye; therefore, there must not have been any mistakes.

Xiao Yu reduced the fire to low heat and slowly began stewing the ingredients in the clay pot.

After putting the herbs to boil, Xiao Yu then joined Wei Jun and others in the living room. Daoist Master Tianming was still meditating there with a look of profound concentration while the young Taoist stood behind him silently and with his eyes closed.

The time passed quickly, and it was already 6:30 PM; the sky had darkened considerably by now. Wei Mu's husband looked at the meditating Daoist Master Tianming cautiously and asked, "Master, shall I have some food brought up from downstairs We could use a bite."

Daoist Master Tianming finally opened his eyes and nodded inwardly muttering to himself, ‘Oh my, I’m starving! Just remembered to feed us.'

The young Taoist, hearing this, couldn’t help but twitch at the corners of his mouth; he had been waiting for food since long ago. Having stood in one position for more than an hour was really tiring.

After dinner, which started after eight o'clock, Daoist Master Tianming asked the young Taoist to bring a table over. This is when the young Taoist finally took out from his bag what he had bought earlier: two candles, a stack of yellow paper, a brush pen, some vermillion cinnabar and an empty mineral water bottle with a black liquid inside.ut moving to the treatment bed, Xiao Yu remained seated and lifted up his shirt.Xiao Hongyang held a golden needle and gently inserted it into Xiao Yu's abdomen. After inserting the needle, he lightly...