Ma San's presence was right in front of me.
The distance between me and him was not even a palm's width.
Yet, his shadow vanished into thin air...
And in the next second, as soon as I took my second step, my vision also became blurry, as if I was surrounded by a thick mist.
In that moment, as the fog dispersed, I seemed to see unfamiliar walls before my eyes.
But at this moment, I felt as if I had been bumped into something, and my body arched backward, retreating two steps.
The walls before my eyes were shattered!
My face slightly changed, and at this moment, I was still standing in the center of the large iron gate.
Still standing in front of me was Ma San.
Ma San was shaking a folding fan in his hand and clicked his tongue twice. "There's something here, but I prefer to go through the front door. I don't like being led around or being brought to someplace I don't understand."
The heart was pounding wildly.
My understanding of Ma San was refreshed once again...
Clearly, Ma San should have been led into the phantom wall of this ruthless prison due to its properties. The phantom walls here are supposed to send people to different places, but how could Ma San retreat back?!
Not only did he retreat back, but he also bumped me out...
This could not be a coincidence; it was deliberate.
The sky suddenly turned dark.
The dark and foreboding sky howled with cold winds.
A muffled creaking sound came, and the two iron doors closed heavily, as if trying to push us out!
"Guests are welcome! Where is there a reason not to let guests in?"
"Then why do you even act as the master? If you're not the master, why do you stay here and not leave?!"
Ma San's tone grew sharper and more hostile.
The iron door collided with us even harder!
Ma San's brow furrowed, and he raised his hand again, suddenly shooting out a talisman.
It was a yellow talisman, perfectly affixed to the iron bar above.
The two doors suddenly stopped, and with another muffled sound, they slammed back heavily.
In the roar, the iron doors slammed against the walls on the inside, and the doors were no longer fully closed...
"Refusing the offered drink, you want to taste the punishment drink."
"I want someone to bring Sun Zhuo here. I let you stay here."
"If you don't bring him, I'll take you to trade for medicine and cook a soup to nourish my body."
It's actually when he vowed the last time that there was a thunderclap in the sky, and in his anger, he had called himself "the old man."
At this moment, Ma San seems to be extremely domineering without any attitude of negotiation.
There was only a faint sound of wind, with no other sound.
The view before my eyes changed slightly.
Before entering here, what I saw was a barren hospital ground.
After being in the ruthless prison, what I saw was a hospital shrouded in ghostly mist.
Now, in the spacious playground in front of the door, we saw dim streetlights emitting a greenish glow.
The buildings behind us had lights on in several floors.
Ma San actually opened the ruthless prison by himself without entering through the phantom wall?!
A Taoist's strength lies in the domineering Taoist laws.
As for the master... although I lived with Old Qin since I was young, I always felt that his abilities were beyond the reach of gods and ghosts.
Fortune-telling is a very strange thing. Ma San's talisman and the forceful opening of the ruthless prison only made it harder for me to explain.
"Halt." Ma San's rumbling voice continued: "The little guy who's not been taught by the spirits, I'll catch him. You take him to the reward list. Remember, when the time comes, we'll exchange for the nine-dart fish. I'll go get a rock sheep, and cook it with fish and rice."
How much, Ma San was becoming slightly annoyed.
As he spoke, he stepped into the hospital playground with quick strides.
I didn't say anything, just followed after him.
This time, there was no mist coming, and nothing had changed at all in front of me!
Ma San walked straight ahead, and I followed him all the way.
Soon, we reached the front of the hospital building, where a deep corridor had very little light.
Ma San paused slightly, and I whispered the explanation: "From here, go to the end of the corridor. The sides are the rooms where patients stay, and up there are the stairs."
"I don't know if Wei Youming is here."
"But there's another building at the back, which was Wei Youming's living place when he was alive."
"Are they building a straight path in front of the stairs?" Ma San suddenly frowned, turning to look outside.
"Why isn't the corridor straight?" I was slightly puzzled, not understanding what Ma San meant. What did it mean for him to look back?
"The large iron gate is facing the hospital gate..."
Suddenly, Ma San squinted his eyes slightly. Since his eyes were already not very large to begin with, this squint made it look as if they were closed.
For some reason, I felt uneasy.
It seemed that Ma San had discovered something.
"The Little God, your life is lacking. You should have learned the things you should learn, but instead, you've learned a lot of things you shouldn't have. I wonder what Qin Weizi will do. If it were me, I would definitely take advantage of having such a good disciple and immediately try to change your destiny."
"Even if there are some reasons that prevent me from doing so, I'll have you memorize the knowledge by heart, even if it's just half a teacher. Without your destiny, it's not a problem as long as you have the opportunity. Even if it takes you ten years to become half competent, when you reclaim your destiny in that moment, you can make a profound impact."
Ma San spoke in a low voice but didn't get to the point, instead talking about me and Old Qin.
For a moment, I wasn't sure how to respond.
The next moment, Ma San said: "The stairs are facing the door, which is a roadcut. The inner door faces the outer door, which is a straight path through the evil spirits. The outside of the front door is a road, which is a heart-piercing evil spirit."
"A heart-piercing evil spirit runs straight through the hospital. With the support of the straight path through the evil spirits and the roadcut, it increases by three times indirectly. Do you know what this means?"
Ma San clearly had returned to the topic.
I shook my head, looking confused and puzzled.
This is completely beyond my understanding.
Ma San's eyes widened considerably, as if he was coming out of a trance. "This means that the hospital was built specifically for the purpose of seeing ghosts, not just any ghost, but a really big one."
"Normally, when a hospital or an official residence is built, even a regular building would have a general feng shui check. The design would never be so bad as to create three major ominous situations in a row."
"Do you think the hospital turned out this way because of the Twenty-Eight Prisons prisoners, because of that Wei Youming?"
Ma San asked me.
I nodded and replied honestly that it was.
Ma San's rumbling voice continued: "No, not Wei Youming. To put it another way, even if there were no Wei Youming, there might have been someone else."
"The construction of the mansion was specifically for a cursed mansion. Wei Youming was just coincidentally there. It was the feng shui that nurtured the Twenty-Eight Prisons prisoners."
"There are ghosts being cultivated here!"
"I don't know which master it is, but this is quite an impressive move, taking a hospital to cultivate the Twenty-Eight Prisons prisoners!"
Ma San's words made my face turn pale instantly, my head buzzing as if I had been struck by lightning.
Cultivating ghosts?
Wei Youming was the result of cultivating ghosts?
Not because of his excessive evil, but because he was the result of cultivating ghosts and became the Twenty-Eight Prisons prisoners?
But... how is this possible?!
