Bewitching Hearts

"You're awake."

In his dream, the person spoke to Lu Yibai after he fell asleep.

Lu Yibai: "???"

The man in the dream said, "You're awake," to you after you fell asleep.

Lu Yibai felt very strange. He was certain he had fallen asleep, but his mind was crystal clear. Had anyone else ever felt this way?

In his dream, he couldn't quite make out the man in front of him, but what the man said was rather thought-provoking.

The man in the dream said something chillingly profound, but Boss Lu's heart remained unmoved. In fact... he almost felt like laughing?

He chose to ignore it, believing that inaction was the best response.

The man in the dream thought Lu Yibai hadn't heard him clearly and said again, "You're awake."

Boss Lu still didn't respond.

Damn it, this script is all wrong!

In the room next to Lu Yibai, Lin Xiaoqi was sitting cross-legged, wearing hot pants and showing off her fair legs as she cultivated.

Suddenly, her brow furrowed slightly. She slowly stood up and walked to Boss Lu's door.

With a click, the door wasn't locked.

She walked barefoot to the bedside and glanced at Lu Yibai, who was sleeping with his eyes closed.

Lu Yibai's expression was natural, nothing seemed out of place.

That made sense. Her boss was pretty carefree.

"A petty trick to bewitch the heart!" Lin Xiaoqi scoffed, then lightly placed her finger on the handle of the Lion Umbrella and flicked the lion's head.

Suddenly, the Lion Umbrella on the bedside table vibrated, as if it had trembled violently.

Then, in Lu Yibai's "dream," he heard the man's voice again.

"Son of a bitch! What the hell!"

How incredibly non-standard was that Mandarin? It sounded like he was mumbling with his face swollen from a punch.

Then, the hazy dreamscape instantly shattered.

To be precise, it was violently shattered by Lin Xiaoqi.

Lu Yibai abruptly opened his dead fish eyes, and the first thing he saw was Lin Xiaoqi, wearing hot pants and displaying her stunning, timeless long legs.

From his lying position, he could also see her ample curves.

Lin Xiaoqi was looking at Boss Lu with great interest.

Boss Lu was a bit bewildered.

Could this be the legendary... night raid?

Should I open my arms, or open my arms, or open my arms?

As for the inexplicable dream he'd just had, he completely cast it aside.

Of course, Lu Yibai wouldn't actually think Lin Xiaoqi had any improper intentions towards him.

Emmmm... people should know their place.

Therefore, there could only be one reason she'd run into his room.

"Xiaoqi, I really didn't hide any potato chips in the room. The bag you found last time was the last one!"

Boss Lu looked at the Lion Umbrella in front of him, frowning slightly.

Actually, he didn't need Lin Xiaoqi to tell him; he could have guessed that there was something wrong with the Lion Umbrella.

Before, he always put the Lion Umbrella back on the stand. He'd slept fine then. Today, he forgot and placed it directly on the bedside, which resulted in a strange dream.

And it was obvious that the dream was being controlled by someone else.

A trick of the netherworld! Bewitching the heart!

But that shouldn't be happening!

The Lion Umbrella was a magical artifact with extremely strong Yang energy.

How strong?

Just a slight leak could feed Ye Yiyi to her heart's content, even send her soaring.

In Ye Yiyi's words, this Lion Umbrella could at least sustain a tribe of ravenously hungry Night Demons.

This made Lu Yibai think: if things didn't go well, he could just subdue a bunch of Night Demons and become a mountain king.

How could such a magical artifact produce such a sinister and eerie phenomenon?

Lin Xiaoqi took the Lion Umbrella from Lu Yibai's hand and said, "Boss, all four umbrellas in the bar have a certain age to them. Among them, your Lion Umbrella and that Skull Umbrella are quite special."

Lin Xiaoqi continued, "One Yin, one Yang, they generate and overcome each other."

It was easy to understand, at least the literal meaning was.

Lin Xiaoqi looked at the lion head on the Lion Umbrella and said, "Precisely because these two umbrellas are special, one with extremely heavy Yang energy and the other with extremely heavy Yin energy, they both suppress things that are overcome by them."

"The Lion Umbrella has heavy Yang energy, so it suppresses a ghost with extremely heavy Yin energy."

"The Skull Umbrella has heavy Yin energy, so it contains a demon with extremely heavy Yang energy."

Lu Yibai nodded, understanding the general idea.

"Will it be a bit tricky?" he asked.

They said it was suppressed, but didn't that ghost still manage to enter his dream?

Although a person's consciousness was weaker during sleep, the fact that it entered his dream was undeniable.

"No. If it truly had any real abilities, it wouldn't resort to these petty tricks," Lin Xiaoqi said.

That made sense. Lu Yibai nodded.

In this era of information explosion, what kind of tricks hadn't been seen?

Such mind-manipulating tactics were long outdated.

No matter what the other party said, just don't engage. Let them babble alone and see how long they could keep it up.

Intentionally saying something chilling to draw you into conversation, and the longer you talked, the more likely something bad would happen.

The Lion Umbrella needed Yang energy to suppress the ghost, and at the same time, there was excess Yang energy that could leak out for Ye Yiyi to absorb, clearly indicating it was handling the situation with ease.

It was stable and reliable, no need to worry.

Although Lu Yibai was very interested and curious about the ghost and the demon in the Skull Umbrella, he knew that curiosity killed the cat.

He was just a First-tier Night Watchman now, not qualified to be curious.

His thoughts were clear and his logic was sound.

Anything that could be killed wouldn't need to be suppressed. Since suppression was chosen, it must be a very troublesome existence.

He couldn't afford to provoke it.

When alive, one must know their place.

"Xiaoqi, I'm curious, where did these four black umbrellas come from, and who made them?" Lu Yibai asked.

Lin Xiaoqi shook her head, "I'm not sure either. Ji Dekeng might know. He gave me my Cat Umbrella too."

Lu Yibai nodded; it was normal for Lin Xiaoqi not to know.

After all, she was so lazy, she couldn't be bothered to be curious.

He'd ask Ji Dekeng when he met him.

He wondered if Ji Dekeng was living it up in Modu.

After Lin Xiaoqi returned to her room, Lu Yibai also went back to his. He placed the Lion Umbrella back on its stand.

It was better to sleep soundly.

Although he had undergone cultivation and didn't need to sleep for hours like a normal person, he still needed about three hours of sleep daily, otherwise, he would still feel mentally exhausted.

Even if his body was made of iron, his soul was not.

Before falling asleep, Lu Yibai remembered that he seemed to have forgotten something.

He recalled the fortune-telling from the uncle by the overpass!

It was unbelievably accurate!

He knew the fortune-telling uncle inside and out; he was just an ordinary person. He had watched him use his phone to tell fortunes with his own eyes.

So, the problem lay with...

He picked up his phone, which was charging, and went to the download platform to search for "Divination God."

He couldn't find it.

It had already been removed from the platform.

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