I was hurt 

all over

 and didn’t have the strength to counter him. I closed my eyes and waited for my last moment to 

arrive

. 

Then, a

 gold light flashed

. 

I heard metal clanging

, just 

as though 

weapons were hitting

 each other. I opened my eyes and was thrilled

 to

 see 

Senior Shu

 next to me. He had used his Holy Mother Scepter to parry the 

taming master

’s Nepalese saber. 

Senior Shu

 looked a

t me and 

smiled

. Then, he 

took the Emei Piercer from his waist

 and threw 

it 

at

 me. 

My desire to live was awakened. I grabbed the Emei Piercer and used it to support the weight of my body

. I tried 

to get up on my feet. 

“Hey, 

don’t you feel ashamed while

dealing

 with a 

little

 kid like him

?

” 

Senior Shu

’s opening remarks were always provoking. He held the Holy Mother Scepter horizontally 

in front of

 his chest

, aiming for

 the head of the 

taming master

. 

The 

taming master 

rolled his eyes in worry. Most of the 

taming master

s 

that

could keep 

corpses and ghosts had a fatal weakness: Their close-combat skill

s were

awful

! 

Th

e

se people were good at harming 

others while staying hidden

. Today, he had show

n

 up to kill me because he knew that I didn’t bring any 

weapons with me

. He believed that he could 

get rid of

 me here. However, 

Senior Shu

 had abruptly 

shown

 up

, which 

messed up his plan. 

“Do 

y

ou really think you

’re

 my opponent?” 

said t

he 

taming master

 coldly

. Then, he 

took something

 out

of

 his pocket

 and threw it

at

 us. 

I knew it was just 

a

 smoke grenade, so I boldly jumped into the thick smok

e and screamed

, “

Senior Shu

, hurry! After him!” 

Unexpectedly, 

Senior Shu

 didn’t run after 

him

. With a pale face, he looked at me in panic. “Not good…” 

“What’s wrong? I’m all right.” I thought that the fog was toxic, but I felt 

alright

. 

“If I’m not wrong, kid, you are under his tam

ing

 technique!” 

Senior Shu

 said with a sullen face. Gritting his teeth, he lifted me. With the Holy Mother Scepter in his hand, he rushed outside. 

When we came to the gate of the school, I saw the Holy Mother Scepter release a gold hue gas that formed an arrow. 

Senior Shu

 followed the lead of the arrow

 and ran

without a care

for

 the obstacles in front of us, such as the wall or the dark cliff. 

Everywhere we passed, the surroundings turned into a normal mountainous trail. 

After w

alking for half an hour, the gas from the Holy Mother Scepter disappeared. 

Senior Shu

 exhaled and put me back on the ground. 

“

Senior Shu

, how 

did

 you find me?” 

“I knew you were tricked by that man after checking the hotel’s surveillance cameras. 

As for

 how I found you, hahaha…” 

Senior Shu

 sniggered disdainfully. “Kid, did you 

do a bad

 thing in the hotel today?” 

I looked at the Emei Piercer in my hand and realized that he had visited my room. 

I recalled

 the used tissues in my room

 and

 blushed. 

Senior Shu

 patted my shoulder. “Oh, it’s understandable that young men sometimes want to have fun. 

If it weren’t for the

 ‘essence’ on the tissue, I wouldn’t 

have been

 able to find you.” 

On the way back to the hotel, my back felt itchy. I kept scratching it. 

Senior Shu

’s face grew darker as he walked faster. 

When we got to the hotel room, I felt like hundreds of thousands of ants were marching on my back. I hated that I couldn’t just simply use a knife to cut off that piece of skin.

 T

he tam

ing

 technique had

 begun

 to work on me. 

Senior Shu

 asked me to lay face

down on the bed. He heated a small knife on the flame of a lighter. Then, he pricked a hole 

in my

 back and squeezed some blood into a wine tumbler. “How do you feel now?” 

“Comfortable…” I answered. Before I could finish, a heart-piercing pain came from my wound. It felt like my entire body was being roasted above a big fire. I tried not to scream, but the flesh of the cut on my back convulsed. 

“It’s good that you got just the 

Taming Five-Poison

.” 

While I was in pain, 

Senior Shu

 exhaled in relief. He showed me the wine tumbler. The red blood inside had turned dark

. M

any bean-sized worms 

floated 

in there. 

After taking

 a close

r 

look, I shivered 

when

 I recognized those were small scorpions! 

“He must have collected your blood while fighting with you. Fortunately, it’s just a 

Taming Five-Poison

. If i

t wa

s something stronger, I’m not sure I could have saved you,” 

Senior Shu

 said sternly. 

I recognized that I

’

d

 been extremely foolish to jump

 into the fog. I said through gritted teeth, “Please help me 

deal with it

.” 

Senior Shu

 nodded. “You will feel a 

lot of pain

 while I’m helping you. Be patient.”

Then, he took out something 

that looked

 like a long wallet. When he opened it, I saw rows of silver needles. 

He stabbed all the needles into my back and took them all out after a while. Then, he poured 

saltwater

 on my back. 

“

Aaahhh

!”

I couldn’t help but scream. My back felt like it didn’t belong to me anymore. 

Senior Shu

 lifted me and punched right at my chest! 

He had controlled his force 

well so that

 I 

wouldn't

 feel much pain. However, my chest felt so

 stuffy

 that I had to 

curl

 my body in

to a ball

. 

Senior Shu

 turned to my back again and poured another bowl of 

saltwater

. I couldn’t stand this. I slumped 

to

 the edge of the bed and vomited

.

A

round five minutes later, I felt better. Then, I saw that I had vomited all the scorpion eggs! 

“All right, go sleep in my room!” 

Senior Shu

 waved his hand at me. It seemed the 

Taming Five-Poison

 was solved. I didn’t linger

. I went 

to his room and 

slept

 right away. 

When I woke 

up the

 next morning, my back was still hur

ting

. However, my whole body felt light and flexible, 

just

 as if I had been reborn. 

Senior Shu

 told me that while treating the 

Taming Five-Poison

, he had accidentally opened up the acupoints in my body, which promoted my blood circulation. That

 wa

s why I 

felt so refreshed.  

I thought to myself

 that

 if 

taming master

s could use this sort of skill to treat people’s sickness, it would be so wonderful. They could have both wealth and fame. Why did they have to walk on the evil path? 

Senior Shu

 saw that I

 had

 recovered

.

He said 

with a sullen face, “

W

e have to 

deal with

 that 

taming master

 tonight. We’ve spent enough time on him. If we 

waste any 

more time, we 

won’t be able to

 save my life-bound rat.” 

“What should we do?” 

I agreed with 

Senior Shu

’s ‘fight fast, win fast’ point of view. However, I didn’t know how to lure

 out

 the 

taming master

. 

Senior Shu

 sneered coldly

.

 “If he likes to play with appearance 

changing

, we will

 go along

 with him!

If I

’m right

, he

 should

still be lurking

 in the dark. I will disguise 

myself as you

 and 

go

 downstairs alone. I think he will do it again. 

Then, w

e will trap him!” 

I understood 

Senior Shu

’s idea. He wanted to 

take advantage

of the fact that

 the 

taming master

 looked down on me to capture him. 

“What can I do to help you?” As we didn’t have any other 

ideas

, I reluctantly agreed with him. However, subconsciously, I thought that it 

wouldn’t be

 easy to trick the other party.

Senior Shu

 asked me to stay upstairs and keep watch. As soon as something expected happened, I 

would

 show

 my face

. I

f Senior Shu

 failed and let the 

taming master

 run away, I should jump in 

to help him

. 

At noon, the sunlight was scorching. 

Senior Shu

 and I were sitting in our room, eating watermelon and chatting. Suddenly, someone called me. I walked out and saw it was the hotel owner. He was bringing two big carton boxes that he was having difficulties lifting. 

Seeing me 

crane out

 my neck from upstairs, the hotel owner looked relieved. He gingerly 

said

, “Brother, could you please come down here and give me a hand?” 

“All right!” I agreed with him. There were many hostels and homestays in this area. Almost all houses in this place had been renovated to be hostels. However, there weren’t many people 

that stayed in them

. I 

could be

 the only young man in this hotel. 

When I 

went

 downstairs, I saw the owner climbing the stairs. “

I’ll help you carry that

. You can 

go fetch

the rest of the

 stuff.” 

“What do you mean?” The hostel owner looked bewildered. 

I was surprised. Then, I returned to my room and pressed myself by the window to watch. 

Another hostel owner was waiting

 for me at the patio

!

I turned and 

said

 to 

Senior Shu

, “The hotel owner outside is probably a fake one.” 

“Yeah?” 

Senior Shu

 was 

completing

 his face-shifting technique. He 

smirked and said, 

“I want to see who disguises himself better!”

He quickly fiddled with his face and applied some strange potions. Immediately, he wore my face. 

“Take this. 

In a critical

 moment, you can use it 

alongside

 the 

Big

 Dipper Sirius Spell.”

 Senior Shu

 gave me the Holy Mother Scepter while 

grabbing 

the Emei Piercer

. Then, he turned and left.  

A moment later, I saw 

Senior Shu

 walking 

away with the taming master while 

holding

 a

 box

.

Senior Shu

’s movements slowly became stiff. 

It seemed

 he was controlled

by the 

taming master

. 

I was worried that I would lose track of them if I stayed here. I hurriedly walked behind them. On the way, 

Senior Shu

 acted as if he had figured out something was wrong. He turned and ran. The 

taming master

g

rabbed him and took him away. They disappeared from my sight. 

His 

trick

 was the same as 

before

. I thought he would 

go

 to that abandoned school. However, that school was an illusion he had made. I couldn’t get in there. Feeling helpless, I had to wait at the spot they had disappeared.