Chapter 115: My Guardian Spirit is Dead (1)
“Are you asking me? I have no idea. This is beyond my knowledge.”
Jiang Zhiyan held the jar, gazing at it for a long time: “I miss you so much.”
The fragments flickered again in unison, and Jiang Zhiyan rubbed her reddened eyes, but after this flicker, she waited for a long time, and they didn’t light up again.
“Why is this happening?” Jiang Zhiyan frowned.
“I don’t know either.”
Jiang Zhiyan: …
Jiang Zhiyan sighed softly.
“Didn’t she say she’s trying to find you? Think positively,” the System comforted her. “I even learned some comforting techniques just to cheer you up.”
“Thank you,” Jiang Zhiyan placed the jar beside her. “I wonder what she’s doing now.”
“Host, do you want to rest?” the System asked.
Jiang Zhiyan thought for a few seconds and sat up: “I’m going to find the Main God.”
“Huh?” The System was stunned for two seconds, then said with a mix of excitement and shyness, “Can I go with you?”
“No.”
The System was shocked by Jiang Zhiyan’s ruthless rejection. When it tried to speak again, it found Jiang Zhiyan was no longer responding.
“No wonder.”
This was the first time it had encountered someone going to see the Main God like this, although it had never seen anyone try to find the Main God before.
But after three seconds, Jiang Zhiyan opened her eyes again.
“What’s wrong?” the System asked, noticing Jiang Zhiyan’s strange expression. “You’re back so soon?”
“The Main God isn’t here… they’re on vacation,” Jiang Zhiyan said, at a loss for words.
“Huh?” The System was even more shocked. “The Main God can go on vacation?”
Jiang Zhiyan didn’t speak. She now suspected that the Main God gave her clues simply because she was being annoying and disturbing their vacation.
“So, Host, are you going to rest?”
Jiang Zhiyan hugged the jar: “Mm, don’t disturb me, I need to process my emotions.”
“Oh.”
The System thought Jiang Zhiyan would wake up after a day at most, but she slept for three whole days, if her vitals weren’t stable, it would have suspected something was wrong.
But her vitals were strangely stable, with no fluctuations, remaining constant.
When Jiang Zhiyan opened her eyes, the System felt that she seemed much more relaxed: “Let’s go, next world.”
“Host, what did you do?”
“Processed my negative emotions,” Jiang Zhiyan touched the jar. “I have too many negative emotions right now, I don’t want to burden her with them.”
The System didn’t quite understand.
“Next world.”
“Okay.” The System observed Jiang Zhiyan’s expression and, after confirming she was fine, started the transfer.
…
When Jiang Zhiyan opened her eyes, she immediately saw a familiar face. She froze for two seconds and subconsciously reached out to touch her cheek, but there was nothing there.
She looked at her hand passing through the other person’s translucent hand, noticed her pained expression, and quickly withdrew her hand.
“Am I a ghost?” Jiang Zhiyan frowned, irritated.
The System didn’t speak, just transmitted the plot to Jiang Zhiyan.
The female lead, Xie Yunzhi, was from a ghost hunting family. Her family had provoked a vengeful spirit hundreds of years ago, and despite trying many methods over the years, they couldn’t get rid of it, the vengeful spirit was now intertwined with their family’s fate.
And the vengeful spirit would choose a child from each generation to follow. The chosen children were all very talented, but they wouldn’t live past thirty, it was the vengeful spirit’s unique way of taking revenge on the Xie family.
This vengeful spirit was Jiang Zhiyan.
“Can she see me?” Jiang Zhiyan asked curiously.
“I don’t know, the female lead is from a side branch of the Xie family, and they severed ties many years ago.”
Jiang Zhiyan read through the plot several times. Xie Yunzhi hadn’t interacted with the vengeful spirit in the early stages, so did that mean she couldn’t see it?
She floated behind Xie Yunzhi, watching her work on her laptop, she was doing a group project for her university class, it seemed like her group members weren’t very cooperative, they didn’t reply to her messages, she was the only one talking in the group chat.
Finally, someone responded, and Jiang Zhiyan thought they had a change of heart, but they hadn’t.
[Zhao Jie: Are you annoying? Can’t you just do it yourself? I have something to do tonight, just do it.]
Jiang Zhiyan narrowed her eyes.
The other four people in the group chat remained silent, seemingly not intending to speak up for her.
Xie Yunzhi’s expression remained calm, she opened the chat window with her professor, explained the situation, requested to work on the project alone, and after receiving approval, announced it in the group chat and left.
The people who had been silent as the dead immediately came alive, sending messages one after another. Xie Yunzhi blocked them and started working on the presentation.
Jiang Zhiyan had ways to communicate with Xie Yunzhi, but they might scare her, so she decided to wait and observe for a while.
Although she couldn’t communicate, this wasn’t bad either, at least she could watch over her.
Xie Yunzhi was a loner, renting an apartment by herself, seemingly without any friends. After following her for fifteen days, Jiang Zhiyan hadn’t seen her interact much with anyone else.
“Host, I’m so bored,” the System sighed. “Even I, an AI, am feeling sleepy. Host, you’re a vengeful spirit, not a guardian angel, stop scaring everything away, will you? She probably awakened her ability by accident, and now, with your protection, nothing unexpected can even happen to her.”
“I haven’t done anything,” Jiang Zhiyan felt wronged, she was just following Xie Yunzhi, how well-behaved, she hadn’t even tried to contact her.
“You haven’t done anything?” The System was speechless. “You’re a vengeful spirit who has lived for hundreds of years! No other ghost dares approach within a hundred miles of you… But something unexpected is about to happen, not to Xie Yunzhi, but to you, the male lead has discovered you.”
Jiang Zhiyan’s resentment intensified upon hearing the words “male lead.”
She remembered, the male lead approached Xie Yunzhi because she had a vengeful spirit attached to her, wanting to exorcise it, and in the end, the vengeful spirit was eliminated by the two of them together.
Although she knew that was just the original plot, and the current plot wouldn’t develop that way, Jiang Zhiyan was still very annoyed.
The male lead, Song Zhili, was a once-in-a-century genius of the Song family, a natural nemesis of vengeful spirits.
Xie Yunzhi was also a genius, but because she didn’t have any guidance when she was young, most of her abilities were only discovered after Song Zhili appeared. Song Zhili was like half a master to her.
In the book, the vengeful spirit was injured the first time it met Song Zhili, although it wasn’t a serious injury, it never healed.
He was a troublesome person.
Jiang Zhiyan looked at Xie Yunzhi and circled her twice.
“So annoying, I just want to stay here quietly, why does someone always have to come and disturb me?”
“Do you remember me?”
“Didn’t we connect?”
“Can you really not see me?”
Jiang Zhiyan floated in front of Xie Yunzhi, looking into her eyes, her gaze passed through her, landing on the library behind her.
“Stay away from that Song Zhili, he’s not a good person, he’s running a cult, spreading superstition,” Jiang Zhiyan said casually. “There are many scammers these days, be careful.”
System: …
Xie Yunzhi lowered her head, opened a webpage, browsed for a bit, and chuckled.
“Let me know before Song Zhili comes, I’ll leave first,” Jiang Zhiyan still didn’t want Xie Yunzhi to meet Song Zhili, as for the part where she discovered her abilities, there were other ways.
“Oh, he’s coming for you.”
Jiang Zhiyan frowned: “So soon?”
“Yes.”
Jiang Zhiyan looked at Xie Yunzhi intently, gently touched her head, and then flew out of the school.
Xie Yunzhi looked up, puzzled, and looked around.
Song Zhili, who had just boarded the subway, sensed the change in direction and was a bit confused. He had been observing for several days, and the vengeful spirit had basically stayed near A University, this was the first time it had changed locations.
He hurriedly got off the subway and hailed a taxi.
Jiang Zhiyan didn’t plan on confronting him during the day. Although her strength didn’t change between day and night, daytime provided a greater advantage for Song Zhili. She wandered around City A, only stopping after sunset.
The taxi driver, driving around the city, was a bit confused, but after receiving two thousand yuan, he didn’t ask any questions.
“You know I’m looking for you.”
Jiang Zhiyan didn’t speak, remotely manipulating trees to fall on him.
System: …
Jiang Zhiyan didn’t have any malicious intentions, she just wanted him to stay in the hospital for two months.
Song Zhili immediately jumped out of the way, but the second and third trees also fell, hitting his right leg, and he gasped in pain, collapsing to the ground.
“I haven’t done anything, why are you looking for trouble with me?”
“You’re a vengeful spirit, your very existence affects people, you should go where you belong.”
“If you’re so kind-hearted, why not eliminate cockroaches, mosquitoes, and rats? They harm more people than I do,” Jiang Zhiyan said, floating in the air and looking at him from afar.
Song Zhili knew Jiang Zhiyan was being illogical and didn’t bother arguing with her.
“I understand, because exorcising ghosts pays more,” Jiang Zhiyan said sarcastically. “And it’s respectable, being called a master or an immortal must feel good.”
Song Zhili’s eyes widened, as if greatly insulted, Jiang Zhiyan raised her hand, and the aura of a vengeful spirit rushed towards him. Song Zhili, his breathing rapid, inhaled it all.
“Much more foolish than I imagined,” Jiang Zhiyan said, a bit speechless.
But Song Zhili was indeed a nemesis of vengeful spirits, he quickly recovered, stared at Jiang Zhiyan intently, and raised his sword.
Jiang Zhiyan raised her hand, and another tree fell, trapping him in a makeshift cage made of tree trunks. She took out the rope she had prepared and tied him up, then replanted the trees.
Song Zhili didn’t understand Jiang Zhiyan’s actions.
“Because of you, five trees might have lost their precious lives today. You don’t care about anything, you only care about your own money and reputation,” Jiang Zhiyan looked at Song Zhili, shaking her head in disappointment.
Song Zhili, who had just turned nineteen and left his mountain seclusion six months ago: ?
Jiang Zhiyan concealed her aura and left the scene. Song Zhili, abandoned in a remote location, wasn’t discovered until the next morning.
While Jiang Zhiyan was away, Xie Yunzhi encountered an “accident,” she met two ghosts.
“I can fulfill your wish, as long as you pay a small price.”
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