"Why did you follow me out?" Ling Yi asked Li Yue helplessly.
"So you're allowed to resign? I resigned too," Li Yue said, head held high, looking quite proud.
"Are you stupid? I resigned because I offended Du Bin. If I hadn't left, Lao Mao would have been in a difficult position. Lao Mao is a good person, but he's been in officialdom for too long and has become a bit too accustomed to the ways of the world."
"Besides, what was your reason for resigning?"
"Because of you!" Li Yue said, staring intently at Ling Yi.
This completely baffled Ling Yi; even a fool would understand what Li Yue meant.
Are you serious?
"Yes, I'm serious."
"I may not be a good person, but with my personality, I'm bound to get into big trouble sooner or later. If you follow me, you'll inevitably get dragged down by me."
"Then I'll try my best to help you become a good person," Li Yue said earnestly.
Seeing Li Yue's gaze, Ling Yi slammed his hand on her head, messing up her hair, before saying under Li Yue's resentful look, "You're hopeless."
"Let's go eat, then I'll go see Guo Xiaomei. Quitting my job feels so liberating; I'll never have to get up early again."
"Did you agree?" Li Yue asked expectantly.
"Promise what?"
"Be my boyfriend!"
"Let's give it a try!"
Li Yue said with dissatisfaction, "Only a scumbag would say that."
It's not too late for you to regret it now.
"Hmph, let's go, let's go eat."
"I want to eat boiled fish," Ling Yi said.
"I dislike fish the most. I want to eat ribs. I know a restaurant that has amazing ribs."
"I want to eat fish!"
"I want to eat pork ribs!"
" Shitou, paper, scissors, whoever wins gets to decide." Ling Yi raised his right hand.
"Haha, you're definitely going to lose then. I'm a master at rock-paper-scissors. I'll play paper, what will you play?"
The two walked away chatting and laughing, unaware that a pair of murderous eyes were watching them from a car parked by the roadside.
This person was none other than Du Bin, who had been tricked by Ling Yi.
Du Bin took out his phone and dialed a number.
" Old Lin, didn't you say you knew a powerful sorcerer? I need him to kill two people. What price? Name your price... No, one of them is also a sorcerer, very young, not even twenty years old... Two million? Deal!"
"How about we meet sometime tonight? Okay, same place as always!"
After hanging up the phone, Du Bin felt much better. After pondering for a moment, he dialed his father's number again.
"Dad, I want Wu Bai!"
After a long silence on the other end of the phone, someone finally said, "Tell me what you want to do first!"
"I'm going to... kill two people." Du Bin paused after saying this, realizing he had meant to say that he had resigned and wanted to start his own company.
"You little brat, didn't you cause enough trouble last time? Do you know how many favors I had to pull to get this sorted out for you?"
"Are you crazy? Even your Laozi wouldn't dare to take someone's life so easily, and you want to kill two people? You'll get Laozi killed sooner or later."
"Old... old man, if you don't agree, I'll expose your Xiao San, and I even have evidence of you accepting bribes... Damn it!"
Du Bin's face was extremely ugly. He knew that he must be in this state because of Ling Yi's so-called " Truth Curse ".
But having come this far, he simply gave up entirely.
"Very good, you really are my good son." Du Yun Feng said through gritted teeth on the other end of the phone.
"You don't need to talk like that. What's wrong with giving me some money? I'm your son. After you die, won't all your money still have to go to me?"
"Beep beep!" Director Du Yun Feng hung up the phone in anger.
However, ten minutes later, he still transferred Wu Bai to Du Bin.
" Ling Yi, you bastard!" Although he received the money, Du Bin was not happy at all.
Du Bin knew perfectly well who his Laozi was.
He was a seemingly kind but ruthless and cunning Smiling Tiger who had taken countless lives.
Du Bin grew up in Du Yun Feng's shadow and learned Du Yun Feng's ruthless methods as well.
This is why Du Bin secretly recorded the video of Du Yun Feng accepting bribes.
At first, it might seem like fun, but Later you start to realize that it could be a form of security for his future.
After all, his Laozi had quite a few women, and his younger siblings could probably form a football team.
What if someone suddenly appears and challenges him to inherit the family fortune?
Like father, like son; neither of them are good birds.
After finishing their meal, Ling Yi and the other person went straight to Guo Xiaomei's house.
If Ling Yi had only speculated about Guo Xiaomei's identity as a sorcerer before, now it's practically confirmed.
Ling Yi could smell the rotten odor unique to sorcerers from afar.
This smell is generally difficult for ordinary people to detect; it's not a smell specific to the Sense of Smell, but rather something that can only be "smelled" by the soul... the smell of a decaying soul.
"Is this 306?" Li Yue asked.
Ling Yi nodded and was about to knock on the door when he suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong?"
"Sigh!" Ling Yi sighed and said to Li Yue, "Stay a little further away."
"Oh, then be careful!" Li Yue retreated behind Ling Yi, knowing that Ling Yi must have discovered something.
Ling Yi said softly into the room, "Why are you doing this?"
There was a slight noise inside, but it quickly fell silent again.
"The spell on this door is called the Spirit-Sealing Curse," Ling Yi explained to Li Yue.
" God Investiture?" Li Yue was somewhat surprised.
"It's not the kind of 'God Investiture' you're thinking of. This 'God Investiture' refers to sealing off the Primordial Spirit. Once someone touches the incantation on the door, the Spirit-Sealing Curse' will be activated."
"At that time, Guo Xiaomei's Primordial Spirit will be completely sealed off, meaning she will be unable to Perception anything from the outside world, and her thoughts will completely cease."
"Vegetative state?"
"Pretty much. Once the body dies, it's really over. Usually, these kinds of curses are used to harm people. I never thought this silly girl would use them on herself."
As Ling Yi spoke, he touched his brow with his right index finger, and a visible red light bloomed between his brow and fingertip.
"Break!"
Ling Yi's fingertip guided the red light, directly striking the incantation node on the door. The next moment, a strange, semi-transparent fluctuation appeared at the incantation location, then completely disappeared.
Then, Ling Yi pushed open the door and went straight in.
This is a two-bedroom, one-living room apartment. Although the decoration is simple, it is kept very clean and tidy.
On the sofa, a girl with completely white hair, wearing a pink dress, was hugging her knees, staring blankly at Ling Yi and Li Yue as they entered the room.
Guo Xiaomei's face was sickly pale, almost frighteningly so.
This is the consequence of casting a spell at the cost of one's life.
Ling Yi couldn't help but sigh inwardly, "This girl is only seventeen years old."
In Ling Yi's eyes, Guo Xiaomei's Life Force was almost gone, and if nothing unexpected happened, she could live for at most three days.
"Who taught you your spells?" Ling Yi asked gently.
"..." Guo Xiaomei didn't speak, but lowered her head and buried her face in her knees.
"You're studying the Life Curse school, right?" Ling Yi wasn't discouraged, but continued speaking as if to himself.
"There are three schools of sorcerers: the Life Curse Sect, the Soul Curse Sect, and... wait, what's the last one again?" Ling Yi scratched his head and asked in a low voice.
"It's the Dharma Curse Sect!" Guo Xiaomei said in a slightly hoarse voice.
"Yes, it's the Dharma Curse Sect, but this school seems to have been lost long ago. It's said that the spellcasters of the Dharma Curse Sect are extremely powerful, and every spell they cast has earth-shattering power."
"It hasn't been lost!" Guo Xiaomei said, shaking her head.
"If it hadn't been lost, why don't we see any sorcerers of the Dharma Curse Sect school now?"
"They... they all live in a place called the Curse Realm. It's said to be inhabited by powerful sorcerers, but no one knows where the Curse Realm is," Guo Xiaomei said, looking up at Ling Yi.
Unbeknownst to her, the deathly look on Guo Xiaomei's face lessened considerably, and some rosy color returned to her originally pale face.
"Do you know what school of martial arts I belong to?" Ling Yi asked with a smile.
Guo Xiaomei shook her head.
"I'm going to cast a spell, guess what it is."
Guo Xiaomei looked at Ling Yi curiously.
This time, Ling Yi used his hands to form a hand seal. After a series of complex interlacing and changing movements of his fingers, an extremely dense green light bloomed between his hands.
The girl's face changed drastically. She reached out to stop Ling Yi, exclaiming, "No!"
But Ling Yi was too fast; it was too late for the girl to stop him.
" The Life-Pardoning Curse, fall!"
Ling Yi pressed his hands down, and the green light instantly fell on Guo Xiaomei.
A miraculous scene unfolded.
Guo Xiaomei's originally pale hair turned black in the blink of an eye, and her originally pale face also recovered, becoming healthy and rosy.
"You, you..." Guo Xiaomei pointed at Ling Yi, her eyes filled with tears.
" Guo Xiaomei, you're still young. You should live well, carrying on your sister's legacy."
"Waaah!" Guo Xiaomei threw herself into Ling Yi's arms and burst into tears.
Although Li Yue didn't know what Ling Yi had done, she could tell that Ling Yi had saved Guo Xiaomei.
However, when Li Yue looked at Ling Yi, her expression clearly showed great worry.
From their conversation, it's clear that Ling Yi's life-saving spell comes at a great cost.
Perhaps due to suppressing her emotions for too long, Guo Xiaomei cried for a full half hour before finally falling asleep in Ling Yi's arms.
After escorting Guo Xiaomei into the bedroom, Li Yue asked Ling Yi, " Ling Yi, what is the Life-Decreeing Curse?"
"The method of transferring one's Life Force to others." Ling Yi did not hide it.
"Are you... are you stupid?" Li Yue was so worried she was almost crying.
"Hehe, let me tell you a secret: my soul, my Primordial Spirit, and my life force are all limitless."
"Nonsense, no one's Life Force is infinite." Li Yue naturally didn't believe it, thinking that Ling Yi was just trying to comfort her.
But Ling Yi was telling the truth. Although he had sealed his memories, his powerful soul and infinite life force were not sealed.