Quick Transmigration: Underdog Turns out to be Untouchable-Chapter 301 Heavenly Master 8

Although Gong Lanfang had said earlier that she would drive back overnight, she also feared that something might happen if she drove while tired. So after leaving Zhu Ming’s house and driving for over an hour, she found a hotel in a nearby county to stay overnight.

Early the next morning, the three of them ate breakfast. Only then did Gong Lanfang drive back home, and because she could always be with her mom and no longer had to stay at the grumpy grandmother’s place, Jiajia was especially happy.

She was very sensible and didn’t make a fuss. Her expression of joy was merely staring at her mother and constantly grinning with her rosy little mouth. This reaction made Gong Lanfang’s heart ache a little, and she resolved never to let her daughter suffer at the hands of that old lady again!

Initially, Gong Lanfang intended to take Situ Shuangshuang all the way home, but Situ Shuangshuang didn’t want that, so she got off halfway, used a Thousand Miles Talisman, and in the blink of an eye, she was at her doorstep.

When Situ Shuangshuang arrived home, there were four plates of stir-fried vegetables with warming talismans on the table inside. Although they were all vegetarian dishes, they were all her favorites. Her master, Chen Qi, sat by the table watching the news, and the warm feeling that rushed over made Situ Shuangshuang’s heart warm up involuntarily.

Seeing her little apprentice return, Chen Qi immediately got up and carefully examined Situ Shuangshuang from head to toe, concernedly asking, "Shuangshuang, how are you? Was it easy to handle this time? Did you have to take action? Was the opponent tough? Are you hurt?"

Situ Shuangshuang’s facial expression was stiff and cold from years of restraint, but her tone carried much warmth as she said, "I’m fine. This time it was just our class teacher, Teacher Gong’s child’s Life Soul leaving the body, which was easy to handle. It’s just that the child’s physical body was quite far away. Teacher Gong and I had to travel a distance overnight, which delayed my return home."

Hearing Situ Shuangshuang talk so lightly, and since returning a Life Soul to its body indeed posed no danger, Chen Qi also felt relieved, then continued earnestly to remind Situ Shuangshuang.

"As long as you’re not hurt, that’s what matters. No matter what, safety comes first. In the future, if you encounter powerful ghosts, demons, or monsters, if you can take them down, then do so. But if not, prioritize your safety and run away quickly! There’s nothing more important than your own life!" 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Situ Shuangshuang didn’t know how many times she had heard these words from Chen Qi since she was a child. Still, every time, she listened earnestly, feeling touched, and made sure to agree wholeheartedly, repeatedly assuring that she would never overestimate her abilities or attempt to train demons and spirits she couldn’t handle, until Chen Qi was satisfied.

Situ Shuangshuang went back to school the next day, and Gong Lanfang, who also rested for a day, returned to work. Jiajia was sent to kindergarten; she was initially visiting her grandmother’s place on leave.

Kindergarten isn’t like primary school; there are no mandatory attendance rules. Now that she’s back, after canceling the leave, Jiajia could just go back to continue her classes.

After school, Gong Lanfang found Situ Shuangshuang and gave her thirty thousand yuan as payment for helping to save her daughter. Situ Shuangshuang didn’t refuse.

She and her master primarily worked as Heavenly Masters, with major skills in capturing ghosts, subduing demons, and removing evil spirits. They didn’t make money from simpler practices like acupoint massage, feng shui, or fortune telling.

In short, the Heavenly Master profession seems mysterious, but it’s actually a trade that relies on skills for sustenance. Situ Shuangshuang didn’t care about money when helping others, but she was happier to get paid. After all, she also needed to eat and support her master! If someone with money paid more, she wouldn’t refuse, but if someone couldn’t afford it, she would return the excess, essentially adjusting her fees based on the situation.

This thirty thousand yuan wasn’t much for Gong Lanfang, who was an elite teacher, so Situ Shuangshuang accepted it with peace of mind.

Patting the money in her bag, Situ Shuangshuang happily planned that when she got home, she would first go to the market to buy some ribs and beef her master liked, and prepare some lamb skewers. Despite Chen Qi being quite old, he was still a meat-lover, only having had to cut down due to financial constraints. It had been a long time since they’d had meat.

Situ Shuangshuang’s business hadn’t been great lately; she had been capturing ghosts four or five times in a row, always helping out families that weren’t well-off, not even middle class. While they were willing to pay, she couldn’t take money they couldn’t spare, so she only accepted a little to cover living expenses for her and her master. Although this thirty thousand yuan wasn’t a huge sum, it was one of the bigger earnings Situ Shuangshuang had seen in the past two years.

That evening, Situ Shuangshuang bought a large amount of meat and spent several hundred yuan in one go. It wasn’t that she became extravagant with some money; buying in bulk came with a discount, saving quite a bit. She sliced the meat into pieces and stored them in the fridge, so they wouldn’t spoil.

With both hands carrying bags full of various meats, Situ Shuangshuang walked along calculating that this meat should be enough to fill the fridge. She wondered what kind of meat they should eat for dinner!

Giggle giggle! Giggle!

A burst of baby laughter suddenly interrupted Situ Shuangshuang’s train of thought. She slightly turned her head and saw a chubby baby lying on the second-floor balcony of a nearby apartment building!

The baby’s little arms and legs were as white and tender as lotus roots. Its small body was bare, without any clothing or blanket underneath, just directly lying on the balcony.

The laughter had come from this baby. When the baby saw Situ Shuangshuang looking at him, he giggled a few more times, looking at her with big black eyes and waving his lotus-root-like little hand at her, waving and laughing.

Looking at the baby’s innocent and pure smile, Situ Shuangshuang couldn’t help but feel her heart melt. It was a little spirit baby!

Once a person gets pregnant, and the life inside succeeds in forming, a spirit baby is created as a soul without previous memories entering it.

A human embryo doesn’t fully mesh with its soul within the first five months in the womb. Thus, spirit babies often exit the body to crawl around until after five months, when the soul fully connects with the body and becomes locked inside, unable to wander.

Now this spirit baby lying outside indicated that there was a pregnant woman in this household who was less than five months along. Hence the spirit baby exited the body, wandering outside to play on its own.

The spirit baby’s mind is blank, existing only with instinct, just like a real infant. Continuously coming out like this isn’t good as it may attract evil, causing the baby’s future body to be weak and prone to illness once born.

Situ Shuangshuang put down her bags and pointed her index finger at the little spirit baby, allowing a wisp of white light to fly out, lifting the baby and sending it back to its mother’s body, preventing any mishaps from it wandering outside.

With her Divine Sense perceiving that the little spirit baby had safely entered a young girl’s belly under the protection of her mana, Situ Shuangshuang withdrew her Divine Sense, picked up the bags she’d put down, and hurried home. She still needed to cook dinner and hand over the reward from Gong Lanfang to her master, Chen Qi.