Chapter 461: with translation of chapter title

Strangely, at this moment, all the items in the west room became blurry, as if the entire space only had the Soul-guiding Lamp, me, and the quietly lying Mystic Cat beside me.

The Pawn Ticket of Yin Dang Hang suddenly appeared, a dark green light exuding mystery.

I waited several nights and it never came, but I never expected it to actually appear in such a situation.

The ticket face was still the same as before, only bearing a signature, with no content.

I couldn't help but complain in my heart, just how many Yin Dang Hang Pawn Tickets did Feng Wu Jiu sign back then for others?!

This debt, when will I ever be able to pay it off?!

Truly, the ancestors' sins bring suffering to the descendants.

I reached out and clicked open the Pawn Ticket, and it vanished instantly.

Lines of tiny characters immediately appeared in midair.

Upon seeing this, I was stunned.

The tiny characters were divided into two parts.

The first part clearly reads: Cinnabar Spirit Bone and Buddha Bone mutually grow and thrive, able to ward off any witchcraft, fostering sinews and flesh, bringing back life with a miraculous hand.

The second part reads: The spinal bone can be borrowed; on the fifteenth of next month, send the Buddha Bone's fleshly body into Gui Shi to reopen Yin Dang Hang.

My heart pounded wildly, and it seemed my ears were filled with the sound of my own heartbeat.

I clearly recognize each of these tiny characters, and I understand their meanings individually, but when put together I somehow can't make sense of them.

What Buddha Bone?

Who to send into Gui Shi?

Who will go to reopen Yin Dang Hang?

Meow!

The tiny characters disappeared.

Everything around became clear again.

The Mystic Cat let out a call, pulling me back to reality.

I looked at the translucent red spinal bone in my hand, its whole body wrapped in Merit Light, yet it did not emit any toxicity.

I gradually calmed down and began to analyze carefully.

This spinal bone should have been sent back to Yin Dang Hang, but the Pawn Ticket's tiny characters indicate it can be borrowed.

Lend it to whom?

Without a doubt, at this critical juncture, it is obviously for Yu Nian!

Yu Nian being able to merge with the Buddha Eye shows her physique is sufficiently special.

So she is actually a Buddha Bone fleshly body!

Cinnabar Spirit Bone and Buddha Bone mutually grow and thrive, able to ward off witchcraft... This is truly a timely help in the snow!

But, does such a coincidence really exist in this world?

Isn't this like a pie falling from the sky?

I'm not sure what consequences giving Yu Nian this spinal bone would lead to.

Or will we be schemed against again?

No, no!

They have already made it clear: on the fifteenth of next month, send the Buddha Bone's fleshly body into Gui Shi to reopen Yin Dang Hang.

The price for borrowing the spinal bone is to let Yu Nian go reopen Yin Dang Hang.

No wonder they're in the pawn business—this is a clear, fixed price!

For Yu Nian, this is an opportunity for rebirth.

Of course, from now on she might be trapped in Yin Dang Hang.

But for her current situation, being trapped in Yin Dang Hang is better than being worse than dead, and at any moment possibly being controlled and tormented by bad people, right?

For Yu Nian, Yin Dang Hang is both a prison and a life-saving talisman.

Originally everyone was chasing me to run to the west room, but Yu Nian's situation was bad, so she ran to the side rooms instead, and in the end only Liu Junyan remained waiting at the west room's door.

When I came out, I told him what had just happened, and we talked while heading to the side rooms.

I didn't consult Liu Junyan's opinion; since I myself couldn't be fully decisive, why bother troubling him?

But in fact, Yu Nian's situation leaves me no room for hesitation.

When we returned to the side rooms, Bai Shulan was administering acupuncture to Yu Nian.

The slender silver needles, upon being thrust into the acupoints, were actually melted instantly!

Yu Nian's whole body exuded an abnormal redness, scorching to the point of being frightening.

That sight reminded me of the incense-ash flood I saw in the abyss before Yin Dang Hang on the fifteenth night.

If you can't get it, destroy it!

The other side truly intends to manipulate witchcraft to 'dot' Yu Nian to death!

Too vicious!

I walked to the bedside, had everyone leave, and kept only Bai Shulan.

「Shulan sis, this time… it's all up to you! 」

I handed that Cinnabar Spirit Bone to Bai Shulan, asking her to help implant it into Yu Nian's body.

I also asked her whether she needed to invite Bai Jingmo and Uncle Huo for help.

Bai Shulan gritted her teeth and said, 'No delay, stay and give me a hand; I will do my utmost.'

After thinking, she again said, 'Since we're taking a risk, we might as well go all out—bring all the spirit items you keep in your fridge; I'll pick the usable ones and use them together. Whether we can ultimately save Yu Nian depends on her own fate.'

I gritted my teeth, turned around, and went to get the things from the fridge.

When I came back again, the scene before my eyes shocked me once more.

Over the past year or so, I've long grown accustomed to many things.

But tonight, my worldview and understanding were still refreshed again.

In just a short while, Bai Shulan had already opened Yu Nian's chest cavity.

When Yu Nian first arrived at the pawnshop, her chest cavity had been sewn up, and Bai Shulan had said that something was stuffed inside her chest.

But at that time we had no backup, and dared not rashly open Yu Nian's chest.

Obviously, Bai Shulan had been keeping this matter in mind, having rehearsed it countless times in her heart, and tonight she finally acted calmly.

And Yu Nian's opened chest cavity was stuffed full of incense ash.

Those incense ashes were now emitting sparks.

The other party must have been casting a spell on Yu Nian through these incense ashes.

"Don't just stand there, come help."

Bai Shulan cleared away the incense ash bit by bit; the temperature was too high, a layer of sweat appeared on her forehead, and her hands suffered multiple burns, yet she remained as steady as an old pine.

"It's truly hard to believe—how could my senior sister's body withstand the corrosion of these things?" I said, feeling distressed.

"Her physique is special," Bai Shulan said, "but even if it's special, it won't last much longer; after tonight, not even bone fragments will remain of her."

After all the incense ash had been removed, Yu Nian's temperature finally dropped.

But she lay stiffly on the bed, eyes closed, devoid of vitality.

Her internal organs, wherever I could see, were completely unrecognizable and had lost all vitality.

At this moment, Yu Nian was already on the verge of death.

Bai Shulan suddenly said to me, "Xiao Jiu, you're not needed here; go out and wait for me."

I knew she probably didn't want me to see the bloody scene to come.

I also really didn't dare to stay.

Because seeing that blood would uncontrollably conjure in my mind the bloody scenes of Yin Dang Hang, and I feared disturbing Bai Shulan.

I obediently went out to wait.

This wait lasted nearly an hour and a half.

Every minute and second of this period was agony for us.

When the side-room door was pulled open, everyone turned as one to look at Bai Shulan, awaiting her final verdict.

Bai Shulan's hands were covered in blood, her whole body exhausted.

She said calmly, "It's been implanted; whether she can live, I don't know."

Having said that, she returned to the Bai family.

I knew her psychological pressure was also great.

The men stood guard outside, while we girls kept watch by Yu Nian's bed.

The bedsheets weren't changed, and Yu Nian lay in a pool of blood, with no one daring to move her.

She lay still, with no rise and fall even at her chest, her whole body as pale as paper.

No one dared to ask: Is she already dead?

Thus we waited, eyes wide with anticipation.

We waited and waited, not knowing how long.

When the first rooster crow sounded, Yu Nian's body suddenly arched upward, followed immediately by a long, terrifying inhalation…