Chapter 66: Deserted Village 8; Returning to the Earth
Translated by Shiya of Exiled Rebels Scanlations
Editor: Karai
The watchtower was quiet, even the original crying baby was quiet. The woman put the baby in her arms to sleep, hiding in the corner. The others did not dare to make trouble at this time, their brows were deeply locked and their faces were full of sorrow. They were not sure if the Tianshis could save them, but they knew that tonight would be a frightening night. The sun only shines at noon during the day, and there is certainly not enough sunshine. There were so many people, and two more people were here……
Zhao Yao asked the professor, “Professor, they’ve been staring at us many times.” They think they are not obvious, but who can’t see it? It’s obvious that they are complaining about adding two more living people to the tower.
The old professor said, “Rather than paying attention to them, it is better to organize the data, as well as think about why Zhao Gang was replaced for three or four days but you still didn’t notice.”
Zhao Yao said, “Professor, you did not notice it either?”
“Am I the same as you? Even if you were replaced now, I wouldn’t recognize it!” The old professor was so righteous and strong that Zhao Yao was speechless.
Liu Quanning laughed and said, “No one in their right mind would think of that, not to mention that Xu Ani must have prepared well in advance if she dared to pretend to be Zhao Gang.”
“That’s true.” Zhao Yao nodded her head, then looked at Tianshi Zhong who was resting his eyes under the moonlight, “Is Tianshi Zhong alright?” It almost feels like Tianshi Zhong was gonna turn into a Jiangshi any moment.
Liu Quanning looked at Tianshi Zhong, his expression was quite serious, “I hope he’s okay.” He also felt something was wrong. Tianshi Zhong only had hungry ghost poisoning, but in the moonlight, he still gave Liu Quanning an ominous feeling. Liu Quanning lowered his eyes, his gaze fell on the nails of Tianshi Zhong, and his pupils dilated in shock.
Tianshis have always been fond of keeping their nails long, but usually only the pinkie. Long nails are easy to break, causing difficulties for the Tianshis to make hand seals and draw talisman paper. Now Tianshi Zhong’s ten fingers are spread out in front of his belly, and his nails are about three centimeters long. This appearance is clearly Jiangshi transformation.
Liu Quanning went forward to look, and Tianshi Zhong suddenly opened his eyes and was caught off guard. Tianshi Zhong asked, “What’s wrong?” Liu Quanning replied without changing his face, “The moonlight is too strong there, it will make the corpse poison agitated. Why don’t we go to the dark place?”
Zhong Tianshi looked tired, “No, I think it is very comfortable here.”
The Jiangshi absorbed the essence of the sun and moon to cultivate, it is normal to feel comfortable. Liu Quanning suddenly grabbed both hands of Tianshi Zhong and dragged him away from the place where the moonlight shone. Tianshi Zhong was furious and threw Liu Quanning away with great force. He ran to the window and bathed in the moonlight, frantically absorbing the moonlight essence.
The old professor said, “Jiangshi transformation.”
Zhao Yao looked at her own wound in horror, wondering if she would also become a Jiangshi. The old professor dragged Zhao Yao to a place far away from the moonlight, “I don’t know if you are also poisoned by the Jiangshi blood, but it’s always good to stay away from the moonlight.”
Zhao Yao said, “Professor, if you didn’t study folk culture, I would have thought you were a Tianshi.”
The old professor sent her a blank stare, and when the two of them stepped back, they found that there were people behind them. It turns out that the six ordinary people saw Tianshi Zhong’s transformation and ran to the furthest place from him to hide. Liu Quanning and Tianshi Qian worked together to restrain Tianshi Zhong. They dragged him back to a place without moonlight.
Tianshi Zhong regained his consciousness and remembered his actions and said to them, “Tie me up. If I am completely transformed, stab my heart with a peach wood sword and burn it immediately.”
Liu Quanning tied up Tianshi Zhong and said, “I will not let you die.”
Suddenly someone pointed out the window and exclaimed, “there are many hungry ghosts downstairs!” His frightened breath drew the eyes of the hungry ghosts outside the building, and woke up the baby in the woman’s arms. The baby felt the ghosts and cried. Dark, dry and deformed child-eating hungry ghosts heard the baby crying, rustling to the front and climbing the tower, swarming on the window.
Several people are hiding in other places, but only the woman holding the baby was scared in place, trembling and legs weak with a pale white stare at the oncoming hungry ghosts. Liu Quanning saw the situation, threw the peach wood sword to Tianshi Qian, “Watch out.” Then with a few steps, he grabbed the woman’s shoulders and pulled her behind him, his other hand stuck a Five Thunder Spirit talisman on the hungry ghosts pouncing at them.
The hungry ghosts immediately burned to ashes, but it could not stop the influx of more hungry ghosts. Liu Quanning kicked up the wooden board on the ground to block the window. The hungry ghosts that came one after another made banging sounds.
“Ah, there are also some here!” Someone pointed to a hungry ghost climbing up the other side of the window, and it jumped up and bit him on the arm. He screamed in terror and the others avoided him. Zhao Yao grabbed the hungry ghost’s tail and slammed it to the floor, stomping down on its bulging stomach, and killing it.
The old professor, while panting, carried a plank of wood to block the window, using his old waist to hold the plank against the hungry ghosts banging to enter, he shouted. “You young and strong people come here to hold the plank. Are you really waiting for the Hungry Ghost to swarm in all at once and chew you up?”
Those few people held back their fears and leaned against the wooden board to block the hungry ghosts outside. Their hearts and lungs were almost knocked out of their throats when they touched the board. The old professor breathed a sigh of relief, holding his old back and slowly left, “I am cheering for you young people.” The words just fell, a sharp ghost claw went through the board to reach the professor, it was only two centimeters from the professor’s eyeballs.
The ghost claw in front of the professor made the action of pulling, the professor slowly back two steps away from it. His small heart almost jumped out and died of fright. The ghost claw stopped moving when it couldn’t get anything, and the few people pressing the board were too breathless to look at the ghost claw. The ghost claw suddenly turned and poked towards the left side, the man on the left reacted quickly by ducking down and looking up at the ghost claw above his head.
If he hadn’t reacted quickly, the claw would have penetrated not the board, but his skull. Then they heard creaking sounds behind them, so they all turned their heads to stare at the wooden board next to their ears. The next second they ran forward in unison. All the boards were pierced by ghost claws and fell to the ground with a sound. The two-meter tall hungry ghost crawled into the window with a rickety body. Seeing this Tianshi Qian threw his peach wood sword to Zhao Yao, he said, “Help me look after Tianshi Zhong.” Then he went forward to deal with the killing hungry ghost in front of him.
Liu Quanning, while holding the wooden board, mixed vermilion and put the talisman on the door board and splashed vermilion onto the edge of the window. Master Qian kicked out the killer hungry ghost and then leaned down to pick up the plank and put it on the window, biting his index finger to draw the evil spirit charm on the plank. The hungry ghosts hit the board with less force, but the talisman could not hold up for long, and the hungry ghosts kept coming.
Tianshi Qian shouted at Liu Quanning, “Lend me the vermilion.”
Liu Quanning could not walk away to give him the vermilion, so one person volunteered to come over and bring the vermilion to Tianshi Qian. Tianshi Qian drew the Evil Spirit talisman while splashing vermilion on the edge of the windowsill. Cinnabar is Yang in nature and can ward off evil spirits.
Zhao Yao was holding the peach wood sword and felt the atmosphere was tense and her heart was beating like a drum. Suddenly, she heard a rustling sound coming from overhead and looked up to see a small window open on the wall two meters away from the ground. The child-eating hungry ghost crawled in through the small window and stared at the baby in the woman’s arms with its limbs pressed against the wall.
Zhao Yao, “Shit!” She waved her peach wood sword chaotically, but the hungry ghosts were fast. Not only did she fail to hurt them but she faced a new hole that opened up. From the small window came in four or five more child-eating hungry ghosts. Liu Quanning and Tianshi Qian were each manning a window to block the hungry ghosts outside, they could not help her here.
Tianshi Zhong said, “You help me untie the rope, and I will deal with the hungry ghosts for you.”
Zhao Yao shook her head, “You can’t see moonlight.” The most important thing is that she doesn’t know if the transformed Tianshi Zhong will kill more people in the towers. She will not do such a risky thing, “You can teach me.”
Zhong Tian Shi glared at her round eyes, “Nonsense!”
“I’m the reincarnation of that Xu Ani, right? I have some talent. Teach me quickly, quickly!” Zhao Yao was so anxious that she couldn’t protect the baby behind her. Seven or eight hungry ghosts had already come in. If they did not solve the problem, they would really die.
Tianshi Zhong took a few deep breaths and treated a dead horse as a living one, “The Taoist sword, acting on behalf of heaven, expelling demons and cutting down evil. You have learned the sword?”
“My grandmother taught me the Tai Chi Sword, okay?”
“……Forget it, whatever. Listen up, the Tianshi Du killing sword incantation goes as follows: Tai Shang has a command, universal tell all the spirits……”
Zhao Yao paced herself with the incantation, “…… Wind and fire fight together, cut down the evil winnowing essence!” The peach wood sword swung out of her hand, like a long steel sword to cut the ferocious child-eating hungry ghosts into ashes. She was extremely happy, she turned back towards Tianshi Zhong and said, “See, I told you I can.”
Tianshi Zhong was amazed, so he also put his mind at ease. But he was reassured too early. Zhao Yao was not an ordained Tianshi in the end, and had only just been exposed to Taoist magic. Even though she had good talent, she only hit the hungry ghost two or three times with her sword. Moreover, the hungry ghosts were so fast and cunning that Zhao Yao could not even touch them. Soon, countless wounds appeared all over Zhao Yao’s body.
Four child-eating hungry ghosts wrapped themselves around Zhao Yao, while four others focused on the baby in the woman’s arms. One of them crawled up to the woman’s face and opened its mouth at the baby’s head. The woman screamed and bit down hard on the tail of the baby-eater. Although she stopped the child-eater, another one took the opportunity to climb up and open its mouth wide.
The crowd was too late to stop it, and the rest of the group closed their eyes in horror. The baby’s mother stared at the child-eating ghost in despair, her eyes full of hatred. The next moment, a red rope was placed around the thin neck of the baby-eating ghost and it was dragged to the wall. Chen Yang’s movements were very handsome as seven or eight hungry ghosts in the watchtower were all flogged into ashes. Then he asked, “Is anyone hurt?”
Zhao Yao excitedly replied, “No!” Tianshi Zhong and the others saw Chen Yang, they all showed a relieved and happy expression. Liu Quanning greeted Chen Yang, “Chen Xiao Yang, come and help me out.”
Chen Yang went over and lifted the wooden door and kicked the tall man-eating hungry ghost out. He moved very quickly to set up a spell by the window, the red rope formation, the center of an ancient copper coin buzzing. Yang Qi overflowed, hungry ghosts dared not approach.
Seeing this, Tianshi Qian asked Zhao Yao to throw the Seven Star Sword from his backpack over to him. The Seven Star Sword is one of the ten swords in Taoism, and is also the Taoist weapon of Tianshi Qian. The Seven Star Sword was inserted on the windowsill to temporarily suppress the body-killing hungry ghosts, and he turned around and asked Liu Quanning, “How are you going to deal with the hordes of hungry ghosts outside?”
Liu Quanning, “Send the ghosts into the earth. Let them go back to where they came from.”
The so-called “send ghosts into the earth” means you can use any formation and insert the dagger into the ground to achieve the unity of human and formation. Maoshan magic said, “All the law to the Yang to cure the Yin, all have the power of ‘sending to the earth’. The Yin is strong, the Yang will decay, but the Yang is strong, then placed in hell, not beyond life. That is to say, if yin prevails over yang, the practitioner will die. On the contrary, the evil spirits will be sent to hell and will not be allowed to live.
Outside the group of hungry ghosts was the most yin, Liu Quanning wanted to turn himself into the mostly yang and combine with the magic to send all the hungry ghosts back to hell. He took out a money pouch from his pocket and poured out seventeen pieces of the Tongmu from the pouch: “Have you heard of the Seven Stars Nailing Soul Formation? “
Chen Yang and Qian Tian Shi nodded, the Maoshan school was famous for its formations, one of which was known as the Seven Stars Nailing Soul Formation for cutting off the Seven Gates of Vital Energy and sealing off all ghosts. The seven gates are YunKen, ShangWan, ZiChen, ShangYang, TianYang, YuShu and TaiYu, which are the main gates for the flow of Qi in a region. Once the vital energy is blocked, the flow of vital energy in the whole area stops and falls into a deadlock. This is a formation that violates the order of yin and yang, hurting people and hurting themselves.
This formation requires the use of raw chicken bones to nail the eyes of the veins in the Seven Gates. The so-called “raw chicken bones” are the throat bones of chickens which are very strong in Yang energy. When the vital energy is “nailed” and cannot flow, it will affect the judgment of the evil spirits so that they cannot sense the vital energy and keep wandering in the same place making it difficult to move.
Chen Yang: “Now there is no time to go out and look for the seven gates of the village. “
“I know, so the Soul Sealing Array is used. The seventeen charmes instead of forging a small seven gates, trapping all the hungry ghosts outside in the formation, and then using the method of “sending ghosts into the earth” and sending them all into hell.” Liu Quanning held seventeen coins in his hand.
The coins were the ancient coins with a child’s eyebrow or blood on them. A child’s yang energy is the strongest. Child’s blood, child’s eyebrows, etc., the Yang Qi, vermilion and other things can not compare. The seventeen coins were used to forge the Seventh Pass, to seal all the Yin energy in the array, and then use the method of sending ghosts to the earth to send all the hungry ghosts to hell.
‘Clang’ , a sudden sound rang. Tianshi Qian looked and saw his seven-star sword tilted, “This group of hungry ghosts is really fierce.”
Chen Yang: “They are tainted with flesh and blood vitality, Their fierceness is normal.” Hungry ghosts have been starving for hundreds of years. It is not easy to get blood and flesh vitality so they will become more ferocious. The small window on top again let out mad squeaking sounds. In addition to the child eating hungry ghosts, a hungry ghost was trying to crawl in through the small window. But its big belly made it stuck and it could not get out.
“Good, it blocks other hungry ghosts. Tianshi Liu, just as you planned. We forge a small seven gates, sending ghosts into the earth.”
Liu Quanning gave 12 pieces of Tongmu to Chen Yang and Tianshi Qian respectively, leaving two for himself. Chen Yang and Tianshi Qian took the charms and left the watchtower to run in two directions. Some of the hungry ghosts, smelling the human breath, roared to the sky and ran after them.
The seven gates corresponded to the seven stars of the Big Dipper, so it was not difficult to forge them. Chen Yang quickly buried the Tongmu in the eye of the seven gates, on the other side of the village Tianshi Qian also buried the Tongmu. The two of them went back to the watchtower again and locked the door up and blocked it. Chen Yang blocked the door with his shoulder, and said to Liu Quanning: “The last hurdle is still missing.”
The last hurdle was for Liu Quanning standing in place over the pulse eye. When he buried the charm into the pulse eye to start the array, the breeze was still, all the vital energy in the array was still. Ordinary people were not too sensitive, however they just felt a little irritable and uncomfortable. The hungry ghosts outside the watchtower were greatly affected by the matrix, they stopped attacking one after another and stayed where they were.
Chen Yang pulled the door open a crack and looked outside. The two-meter tall hungry ghost lunged forward, opening its mouth pieces with sharp fangs. Chen Yang did not move, it looked at him, after a long time it turned around and continued to prowl.
They really can’t see the array. Chen Yang gestured an okay sign at Liu Quanning, the latter stabbed the dagger deep into the ground, then shouted, “Against my death,…… I am the true Yang! As urgent as the law!”
The ground cracked open to reveal magma hell, and the hungry ghosts were caught off guard and fell into the hell with a scream. The other hungry ghosts fled in fear or looked for a piece of land to stand on, but dry ghost hands reached out from the magma and grabbed the ankles of the hungry ghosts and dragged them in.
The ghosts in hell are numerous and suffer greatly. Once hell is opened, they are eager to climb up and often fall back down when they reach the top of hell. So when they encounter other things standing on the surface of the earth, they will be jealous and pull them into hell as well.
The yang energy gradually weakened. Liu Quanning borrowed mountain and river yang energy, but still could not resist the hungry ghost Yin energy. Although Ergui Ridge was a mountain and river, the yang aura has long been eroded by the yin aura, so there was less yang aura here. The ground where Liu Quanning was standing began to crack. If he lost footing, the ghosts would drag him into hell as well.
Zhao Yao stared and said, “Oh no!”
The professor glanced at her, “Aren’t you afraid of blinding your dog’s eyes?”
“How can my dog’s eyes be more important than the Tianshi? Although I can’t read the situation too well, it seems that Tianshi Liu is in danger.” Although she said so, in fact, the professor and other ordinary people could not see the golden light and hell at all. They only felt fear like the sky is boundless but for a big mountain pressing over the fear. They dared not breathe a breath.
Chen Yang dismantled the red rope knot formation and re-knotted it around Liu Quanning’s Yang formation. Bouncing the ‘buzzing’ ancient bronze coins, he took out half of the Fengdu Emperor Seal on his neck and combined it with the Fengdu Emperor Heart Seal to assist Liu Quaning. As the hell crack split open faster, the hungry ghosts felt the Fengdu Emperor’s seal as they fled. Some were so scared that they crouched to the ground. There were ghost soldiers in hell who heard the Great Emperor’s Seal, and came to catch the hungry ghosts. With the help of several parties, the hungry ghosts were all sent back to hell.
Some of the people glanced boldly at the window and shouted in surprise: “The hungry ghosts have all disappeared!”
Liu Quanning sighed with relief and settled down. His face was pale and his yang energy was insufficient. He said, “Let me take it easy first, I don’t have any more strength at my age.”
Tianshi Qian came over to help him up and said, “Your power has not grown after you became the president of Guang Yue Taoist Association. Just a small seven levels sending ghosts into the ground can make you deflated. If it was not for Chen Xiao Yang’s help, you would not be here now.”
At these words, Liu Quanning pushed away Tianshi Qian, “Go away, I am strong and healthy, one punch and I can kill a cow. No need for you to support me, go away.” Tianshi Qian obediently let go of his hand, Liu Quanning almost stumbled and fell.
Tianshi Qian and Tianshi Zhong saw this and laughed out loud. Tianshi Zhong was relieved at this point that he was not illuminated by the moonlight again and returned to normal. Chen Yang then mentioned to him that the well in the ancestral hall had Jiangshi blood added. Tianshi Zhong suddenly realized: “No wonder I have the symptoms of transformation.”
Chen Yang said, “Chief Wu Yi is overcoming the ghosts’ grievances and will be able to leave tomorrow morning. The corpse poisoning is not too deep, and can be pulled out.”
Hearing that tomorrow morning they can leave, the others obviously were relieved. They said, “After going back to the Taoist temple, we must ask for a spiritual talisman to drive away evil and bad luck. We just went out to encounter these evil things, such bad luck.”
“I used to not believe in ghosts and gods, but now I have to believe.”
The crowd was talking, tense nerves finally relaxed and they had the leisure to chat. Chen Yang smiled, Zhao Yao moved over and asked, “Tianshi Chen, did you catch my past life person?”
Chen Yang remembered the cat Gu that was crushed by the mountain of meat, coughed in a low voice, “Caught…… do you want to meet her?”
“No no, I feel that she is not a good person, she tame cat ghosts and Jiangshis. I am a good citizen, I stay away from the bad. I just want to ask Fatty something, he is the only cat that does not hate me.” Zhao Yao said excitedly.
Chen Yang glanced at Zhao Yao with squinted eyes, thinking that she was really confident. It was obvious that Fatty had just met her and already wanted to get her killed, “If you want to keep it, it’s better to give up this idea. It is a thousand-year-old cat Gu, it is not suitable to live with ordinary people. In the long run, it will damage your merit, luck and yang energy.”
“Oh.” Zhao Yao was not without regret.
Fatty’s head held high and under his buttocks was a helpless struggling black cat. From time to time his meat bounced. The black cat felt her internal organs were squeezed out, rolling her eyes and scratching Fatty breathlessly.
She thought she would die in the hands of a cynical Tianshi, or be escorted to hell for trial. Never would she have thought one day she would die under a mountain of meat. She was still struggling to crawl out as she did not want to die in such a humiliating way.
Fatty was steady as a mountain, suddenly his hair all erected. After a mournful scream from afar, Fatty nimbly leaped away. Xu Ani finally breathed out, before she could stand up she felt a horrible aura enveloped her.
The black cat trembled and curled up into a ball. Warily looked up and fearfully let out a trembling voice, “Greetings…… Great Emperor.”
Du Shuo lowered his eyes and kicked Xu Ani in front of the Five Rampant deity, “Escort it back to Fengdu.”
“Yes.” The Five Rampant deity squeezed the back of Xu Ani’s neck, who was trembling and did not dare to resist, and escorted her back to Fengdu.
Du Shuo suddenly raised his eyes to look in a certain direction mid-air. The tiny dot of light in the darkness paused, followed by a slow retreat. In mid-air was a small drone, it was taking long-range aerial photography of the whole village. Du Shuo quietly watched the drone fly away from the village. He broke off a section of a dead branch to throw at the drone when the other side was retreating.
“Fuck!” Wu Lingjiu looked back at the computer and found that ninety percent of the video recorded by the drone had been copied, leaving ten percent completely destroyed because the drone crashed. “That’s still enough.”
With a gloomy face, Wu Lingjiu decided to speed up the restoration of the ghost kingdom. The Great Northern Yin Emperor who had not been out of Fengdu for ten thousand years had unexpectedly appeared in the Yang world. He was afraid that the difficulty of implementing his plan would increase. Moreover, he seemed to have a close relationship with Chen Yang. Xu Ani was about to flee at that time, when Fatty fell from the sky. Wu Lingjiu missed the most important hint message, otherwise he would have given up the idea of attacking Chen Yang.
Chief Wu Yi spent two hours sending the ghost resentment to reincarnate. She brought the other four people to meet up with Chen Yang and the others. At dawn, they left the village. There were still Taoist Association personnel stationed outside of the Deserted Village and Ergui Ridge, and they immediately sent their men to help. As for the three young men who were originally villagers in the village, they were taken to prison for first-degree murder.
The incident in the village came to an end, but Wu Lingjiu was still on the run. The Daoist associations and Tianshis from all over the world cooperated tacitly to drive Wu Lingjiu to the south bank of the Xiangquan River in Alizada Province, which was the ancient site of the Guge Kingdom. In the past, Wu Lingjiu had turned the whole city into Jiangshi there, but now he is going to end up and receive his karma there.
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