Chapter 111: Zhong Fabai

After Police Inspector Ma left, Uncle Feng walked to Zhong Lian's side and said, "Take good care of A-Wei, I'm going out for a while."

Very quickly, Uncle Feng arrived at the Pagoda Building on Lengjiao Mountain on Lamma Island.

With a single glance, he saw that the business staff inside the building were all puppets.

Over these years, he had also learned of some things, he just hadn't mentioned them to anyone else.

Uncle Feng walked into the building, and Zhang Cheng appeared before him.

Uncle Feng immediately bowed and said, "Uncle-Master."

Zhang Cheng said indifferently, "What is it?"

Uncle Feng lowered his head and bowed, saying, "A-Wei borrowed the Ancestor's magic power, and his body is depleted. I would like to ask Uncle-Master for some precious medicine to nourish his body."

Zhang Cheng reached into his sleeve, then took out a hundred-year-old ginseng and tossed it to Uncle Feng, saying, "Is this enough?"

Uncle Feng's eyes widened slightly; a hundred-year-old premium wild ginseng was already rare, and on the market now, it would cost at least 800,000 Hong Kong dollars, and even then, it might not be available.

He hurriedly said, "Uncle-Master, this is too much."

Zhang Cheng said expressionlessly, "Keep the excess as a reserve."

Uncle Feng cupped his hands and said, "Many thanks, Uncle-Master."

Zhang Cheng glanced at Uncle Feng and asked, "Anything else?"

Uncle Feng said, "Uncle-Master, the headquarters has already turned its attention to you here."

Zhang Cheng was silent for a moment, then said, "It was only a matter of time; I will make arrangements."

"A Bai has a death tribulation ahead; you and Xiao Wei should go and take a look together."

Uncle Feng's expression changed, and he hurriedly asked, "Uncle-Master, what kind of death tribulation will Xiao Bai encounter?"

Zhang Cheng flicked his horsetail whisk and said, "Heavenly secrets must not be leaked; you should go now."

The next second, he found himself already outside the Pagoda Building.

Uncle Feng still wanted to go back in, but he saw Mitaro appear and block him, saying, "Xiao Feng, go back."

Uncle Feng sighed and said, "I understand."

Afterward, Uncle Feng returned to Lin Jiajun's home. Seeing Uncle Feng preparing medicine with a hundred-year-old wild ginseng, Lin Jiajun asked in surprise, "Uncle, you didn't embezzle this, did you? This is a hundred-year-old ginseng."

Uncle Feng snorted and said, "This was given to me by my Uncle-Master."

Miao Zhiwei hurriedly leaned in and said, "Master, so I have an Uncle-Master-Ancestor? Is he powerful?"

Uncle Feng nodded and said, "Of course. Uncle-Master is probably the only True Person in this world who can summon wind and rain."

Lin Jiajun said with some surprise, "Really?"

Miao Zhiwei, however, said excitedly, "Summoning wind and rain, isn't that a deity?"

Uncle Feng waved his hand and said, "Don't you two have work to do? Don't disturb my pill refining."

Afterward, Uncle Feng took out a pill furnace and began refining pills using firewood.

Before long, the pills were refined. Lin Jiajun smelled the pill fragrance and instantly felt refreshed.

He hurriedly leaned forward and asked, "Uncle, give me one to eat too."

Uncle Feng glanced at Lin Jiajun and said, "If you aren't afraid of getting internal heat and bleeding, I can let you eat one."

Lin Jiajun gave a sheepish smile and asked, "Uncle, why don't you use a rice cooker?"

Uncle Feng explained, "Refining pills requires the fire energy of wood and the metal energy of the pill furnace; using anything else lacks these two things, and the effect is greatly diminished."

Afterward, Uncle Feng went to the hospital and gave Zhang Wei a pill.

Half an hour later, Zhang Wei opened his eyes.

Zhong Lian hurriedly asked, "Brother Wei, how are you?"

Zhang Wei was still a bit dazed; he looked listless and said softly, "I'm so hungry, and very tired."

Uncle Feng said to Zhong Lian, "A-Lian, go get some white rice porridge."

Afterward, Zhong Lian brought the white rice porridge, and Uncle Feng cut the pill and added it as powder.

Then, Zhong Lian slowly fed the white porridge to Zhang Wei.

With this, Zhang Wei's pale complexion became a bit more ruddy, and his listless expression became spirited.

Uncle Feng told Zhong Lian to pack up, and once Zhong Lian left, Uncle Feng said, "I went to see Uncle-Master."

Zhang Wei hurriedly asked, "Is Uncle-Master-Ancestor doing well?"

Uncle Feng nodded and said, "Don't worry, the old gentleman is doing much better than you. Uncle-Master told me that A Bai is in mortal danger."

Zhang Wei immediately tried to get up, but then collapsed back onto the bed.

Uncle Feng said crossly, "You should focus on recovering your health first. Come find me tomorrow; I'll go see A Bai first."

Zhang Wei nodded and said, "Okay, I'll listen to Uncle."

Uncle Feng hesitated for a moment and said, "Zhong Lian will temporarily stay at Jiajun's house."

Zhang Wei said worriedly, "I'm worried..."

Uncle Feng said indifferently, "This is what she chose."

Zhang Wei nodded and said, "I understand."

Uncle Feng went out, gave some instructions to Zhong Lian, and then left the hospital.

That evening, he found that grocery store belonging to Zhong Fabai.

Just as he arrived at the grocery store, he saw the shop door half-open, and Zhong Fabai's voice came from inside: "What ghost? With me, Zhong Fabai, here, the ghosts and monsters within a twenty-mile radius have long since emigrated."

Inside, Inspector He and Jin Maiji both asked in surprise, "You're that cocky?"

Zhong Fabai laughed and said, "I'm not trying to scare you; I started learning Daoist arts at five, finished my apprenticeship at sixteen, and opened this grocery store at twenty."

Jin Maiji and the others immediately asked, "Why?"

Zhong Fabai said with an arrogant look, "Because there are no ghosts, so I had to open a grocery store to make money to eat. Who are you three?"

Jin Maiji and the others immediately took out their identification and said, "We are cops."

Zhong Fabai said irritably, "Cops, what are you here for? Hmph, this reminds me of a certain cocky..."

Uncle Feng walked in and asked, "Who is cocky?"

Zhong Fabai snorted coldly, "What are you here for again?"

Uncle Feng said irritably, "The Martial Uncle says you have a death tribulation, I've come to help you, don't be ungrateful."

Zhong Fabai immediately said, "Death tribulation? How come I don't know about it, and why would I need your help?"

Uncle Feng teased, "What, you brat don't believe what the Martial Uncle said?"

Zhong Fabai saw through Uncle Feng's intentions at a glance and laughed, "Hehehe, good for you, Feng the Fourth, trying to play me again, I won't fall for your tricks."

"Thump, thump, thump."

A series of knocks sounded outside the door.

Uncle Feng was about to turn around when Zhong Fabai immediately said, "It's my shop, I'll open the door."

Saying this, he walked quickly to the entrance, opened the door, saw two traffic police officers outside, and asked, "What is it?"

The short traffic cop said, "Inspector, we have already found the woman you mentioned."

Inspector He immediately said, "Take us there quickly."

Inspector He led Jin Maiji and Meng Chao out the door, and Uncle Feng followed.

Zhong Fabai stopped Uncle Feng and said, "My turf, I'll handle it."

Uncle Feng had no choice but to stand to the side.

Zhong Fabai immediately stepped forward to block Inspector He and said, "Wait a moment!"

The two walking corpses in front immediately turned around and reached out to grab people; Zhong Fabai immediately raised his hands to block them, then took advantage of the momentum to step forward and strike the walking corpses back with both hands.

Inspector He was so scared that he hurriedly ran back to the grocery store, with Jin Maiji and Meng Chao following closely behind.

Zhong Fabai's martial arts were very sharp, and in a few moves, he kicked a walking corpse to the ground.

He grabbed the other walking corpse, swept it to the ground with one leg, then pinned it down with his knee, quickly pulled a peach wood cinnabar brush from his sleeve, thrust it hard into the walking corpse's chest, and then slapped it in.

The walking corpse immediately spat out fluid and died instantly.

The other walking corpse heard the scream and rushed up again, only to be grabbed by the rising Zhong Fabai and kicked into the wall.

Immediately after, Zhong Fabai pulled out a peach wood cinnabar brush and killed the short walking corpse in one blow.

Zhong Fabai snorted coldly and said, "You can come out now."

Jin Maiji hurriedly opened the door and asked, "Master, is it all settled?"

Zhong Fabai said irritably, "This is only just the beginning."

Meng Chao said dejectedly, "Then what do we do next?"

Zhong Fabai waved his hand and said, "Set up the altar!"

He immediately brought out the dharma altar and set it up, then told Meng Chao to go catch two roosters, told Inspector He to light the Seven-Star Lamp, and told Jin Maiji to paste yellow talismans around the house.

As for Uncle Feng, he just pulled up a stool and watched.

As it turned out, while catching the roosters, Meng Chao encountered that more powerful female walking corpse.

Zhong Fabai pulled out a peach wood sword, took a yellow talisman and stuck it on the sword, then stepped onto the dharma altar and rushed out, knocking the female walking corpse away with one strike, and he shouted, "Bring the chicken blood!"

Jin Maiji and Meng Chao, two grown men, knew how to eat chicken, but this was their first time killing one.

Without the help of chicken blood, Zhong Fabai was forced back by the female walking corpse for a moment.

He shouted, "Hurry up!"

Jin Maiji immediately brought over two drops of chicken blood; Zhong Fabai dipped into it and said in disbelief, "Two drops?!"

He immediately swung his sword to force back the rushing female walking corpse and said to Jin Maiji, "You hold them off first!"

Zhong Fabai rushed to the dharma altar, grabbed a rooster, and asked, "Where is the knife?"

Meng Chao couldn't find it and had to say, "I don't know."

Zhong Fabai was very anxious and had to pull the rooster's neck hard until it snapped, and a large amount of chicken blood fell onto the dharma altar.

He immediately used the peach wood sword to dip into the chicken blood and the yellow talisman, and struck the female walking corpse chasing Jin Maiji with one sword.

This strike was immensely powerful, directly wounding the female walking corpse severely, leaving her unable to get up.

Just as Zhong Fabai was about to finish off the female walking corpse, a black shadow flew over; Uncle Feng, who had been watching the show, immediately rushed over and brought out a warding-off talisman to strike a palm, but this had no effect on Miyake Issei at all.

Uncle Feng hurriedly pulled Zhong Fabai back and said, "Something is strange!"

Miyake Issei smiled coldly.

Uncle Feng immediately reached into his bosom and took out the Xie-Zhi Divine Light Mirror.

Facing the illumination of the divine light mirror, Miyake Issei hurriedly raised his hand to block the golden light.

He let out an angry howl, waved his hand to stir up a gust of wind, and the next second, he disappeared with the female walking corpse.

Zhong Fabai said reluctantly, "Thanks."

Uncle Feng sighed and said, "Are you still angry at the Martial Uncle?"

Zhong Fabai gave a muffled snort.

Uncle Feng frowned and said, "The Martial Uncle is very good to you; if he hadn't reminded me today, you would likely have been in grave danger today."

Zhong Fabai said unconvinced, "Without the Martial Uncle's magic treasure, you would also be a match for it."

Uncle Feng nodded and said, "True, back then the Martial Uncle gave his own sword to you, but you were the one who refused it out of spite."

Zhong Fabai looked up and said, "I can also teach A-Wei, the Martial Uncle is just biased!"

Uncle Feng hurriedly waved his hands and said, "Fine, fine, fine, I won't argue with you; the most important thing now is to deal with that thing from just now."

Zhong Fabai turned and walked toward his grocery store, saying, "You don't need to tell me, I will take action."

Uncle Feng shook his head helplessly, looked at Inspector He and the other two, and said, "I am a policeman from Tung Ping Chau, do you know the origin of that thing?"

Jin Maiji immediately said, "Senior, I know, our branch station was originally built on the ruins of a Japanese club."

"After the war was won, the people in that club committed suicide there; I didn't expect this Miyake Issei to actually be resurrected."

Uncle Feng nodded and said, "I understand, you all go back first; this matter is not something you can get involved in."

After Jin Maiji and the others left, Uncle Feng walked into the grocery store again.

He said, "A Bai, Martial Uncle's arrangements have his own reasons, stop being stubborn."

Zhong Fabai asked again, "Where am I worse than you?"

Uncle Feng had no choice but to say, "Your temperament has been like this since you were small, not steady at all; how could Martial Uncle feel at ease handing A-Wei over to you?"

Zhong Fabai gave a light huff and did not speak.

Uncle Feng said, "In our line of work, one must be careful and cautious, and act with steadiness. A-Wei might be Martial Uncle's... In short, regarding this matter, Martial Uncle has his own reasons."

Zhong Fabai waved his hand and said, "I know, this time I will cooperate with you."

Uncle Feng smiled and said, "It's not just me, there is also A-Wei; he will come over tomorrow."

Zhong Fabai asked, "Why didn't he follow me here this time? I heard from her that Old Ma came to you with a case."

Uncle Feng nodded and said, "It was people from the Nine Chrysanthemum Sect using walking corpses to smuggle drugs. A-Wei exhausted his strength and is recuperating."

Zhong Fabai immediately asked, "The problem isn't big, is it?"

Uncle Feng shook his head and said, "It's fine, I went to find Martial Uncle and got a hundred-year-old ginseng."

Zhong Fabai let out a sigh of relief and said, "Then it's fine."

The next day, Zhang Wei's body finally recovered. He entrusted Zhong Lian to Lin Jiajun and said, "Hey, kid, if you dare to toy with A-Lian's feelings, let me tell you, you're dead."

Lin Jiajun said somewhat awkwardly, "How would I dare? I won't, you can rest assured."

Zhang Wei patted the dejected Miao Zhiwei, then went to find Uncle Feng.

He quickly arrived at Zhong Fabai's grocery store. As soon as he saw Zhong Fabai, he immediately shouted, "Uncle Zhong!"

Zhong Fabai beamed with joy and said, "A-Wei, good lad, do you know the power of the God-Inviting Technique now?"

Zhang Wei said excitedly, "Uncle Zhong, you don't know, the Patriarch I invited down the second time was really amazing."

That demonic corpse that even Uncle Feng couldn't solve was directly struck dead by a bolt of lightning."

"I just saw the thunder appear out of thin air, hit that demonic corpse, and it instantly turned into charcoal. It was too powerful."

Zhong Fabai smiled and said, "Now Daoist arts are in decline. In the past, your Uncle Feng and I could also use the Thunder Curse."

Zhang Wei said enviously, "I heard that Grand Martial Uncle could even summon wind and rain, it's a pity I haven't seen it."

Zhong Fabai comforted him, "There will be opportunities in the future, you can ask Martial Uncle himself."

Zhang Wei said, "Right, Grand Martial Uncle said you have a death tribulation this time, and Uncle Feng and I have come to help you."

Zhong Fabai nodded slightly and said, "I know. I'm afraid what we have to deal with this time is a Western vampire."

Zhang Wei said in surprise, "A vampire? I haven't seen one yet. Our Daoist arts should be able to deal with it, right?"

Uncle Feng shook his head and said, "No, our Daoist arts are completely ineffective, but powerful magical artifacts can."

Zhong Fabai sighed and said, "If only I had Martial Uncle's sword."

He felt a bit of regret now for being so stubborn back then, losing such a magical artifact!

(End of this chapter)