Liu Ruyan managed a faint smile and said, "It's nothing, we're still holding on."
Qin Yao also nodded her head, but the feeling of weakness stopped them from sitting up straight.
Anna ran anxiously to the two women's sides, her face full of concern, "Brother, what on earth is happening to them? Haven't they been to the hospital?"
Xu Hao walked over to the two women, took each by the hand, and Immortal Bone worked again, rapidly absorbing the evil energy from within their bodies as he explained, "You two have been invaded by evil energy, which can destroy your life force, make your bodies go cold, and eventually lead to death without treatment, because with the current scientific methods, it is impossible to cure diseases caused by evil energy."
After a short while, all the evil energy in their bodies was absorbed, and the color returned to their faces.
Xu Hao picked up the congee brought by the nurse and patiently fed it to the two women to warm their bodies.
Anna, with her chin in her hands, watched and suddenly said, "I want to get sick too, then Brother can feed me."
"Get sick, my foot!" Xu Hao gave her a knock on the head.
Qin Yao laughed, "Where did you pick up this little girl? You're really an animal, how could you lay a finger on someone so young."
Xu Hao pinched her nose and said, "Naughty, always talking nonsense! I didn't do anything to her, she insisted on following me."
As the four of them joked and laughed, Liu Ruyan and Qin Yao finished their congee, and they felt a bit stronger.
Xu Hao stood up and said, "I'm going to find the source of this accumulation of evil energy."
"I want to go too!" Anna immediately stood up and declared, having already decided to stick by Xu Hao's side.
Liu Ruyan and Qin Yao looked at each other and said, "Let's go too. We're also quite curious about these things, how they can make people ill so silently."
"Alright then," Xu Hao nodded slightly.
On the way, Xu Hao said, "The place where the evil energy is most concentrated is where the absorption device is placed. The things in Xuan Technique are actually very simple, often an item that seems trivial to ordinary people can have unexpected effects, so to break the traps of Xuan Technique, the most important thing is to be good at observing." Catch the formatted version at *.
He pointed at the air and continued, "When we stand still, we can feel the air currents around us carefully. The direction in which those slightly cool air currents blow can help you determine the flow of evil energy, because that is the evil energy itself."
The three girls listened to Xu Hao and tried to sense it for themselves.
Unfortunately, they couldn't feel anything.
Xu Hao said with a smile, "It's indeed hard to feel at first. Only after much practice will you get that kind of sensation, but this method only applies to places where the evil energy is particularly dense."
Liu Ruyan said, "I've seen on TV that those Taoists hold a compass and mutter to themselves, quickly finding the location of ghosts."
Xu Hao laughed, "Whether ghosts really exist, I'm not sure, since that all comes from hearsay and no one has seen them with their own eyes. But a compass can indeed be used to find evil energy, to determine where it is concentrated and where it is weak, which is why almost every Feng Shui Master carries a compass with him. Even if he's not very good at reading Feng Shui, he can still use it to help choose a good place to live based on the level of evil energy."
The three women nodded, although they did not fully understand, Xu Hao had opened a new door for them.
Anna suddenly asked, "Brother, then why don't you use a compass?"
Xu Hao replied with a smile, "Good question, because I don't need those things. The Way is in my heart."
All three girls rolled their eyes in unison. Wasn't he afraid of being hit for showing off like that?
Under Xu Hao's guidance, the four of them quickly arrived at the company's basement parking garage.
At a corner of the parking garage, Xu Hao led them there and stopped.
There was an antique-looking incense burner with three sticks of incense inserted, still burning, with wisps of fragrance drifting from the burning tips and out of the parking garage's exit.
Qin Yao commented, "There's an incense burner here, what's it for? How can the fragrance drift so far?"
Anna held her chin and said seriously, "Let true analyst Anna deduce, an incense burner, burning incense, must be for offering to ghosts and gods! So, this means someone is afraid of having a car accident and has set up this incense burner here."
Xu Hao nodded slightly and said, "To say it's for offering to ghosts and gods is not wrong, but more precisely, it's 'cooked rice for incense, inviting all ghosts to taste'!"
Upon hearing Xu Hao's words, all three girls felt chills and goosebumps on their skin, a cold shiver running down their backs—just the name was enough to make one's scalp tingle.
"What does that mean?" All three asked simultaneously.
Xu Hao pulled out the three sticks of incense and then kicked the incense burner to pieces, spilling the rice inside all over the ground.
The three women crouched down and took a closer look; indeed, all the rice grains were cooked, the kind that had burst open!