43. The forty-third talisman
The employer's home is obviously very important to metaphysics, furniture furnishings, decoration design are very particular about feng shui, the bright hall is bright, the layout is generous, the town house auspicious is also placed in the appropriate position, the windows are wide open and to the sun, the yin flows away with the wind, I have to say that they are all arranged very well.
The head of the family, a woman in her forties, opened a jewelry store in the South Island, and the business was thriving and thriving. The person who died was her husband, the two were busy with their careers and got married relatively late, and when they were about to adopt a child, her husband had an accident and drowned.
The body has been cremated, and only a box of ashes is still in the house and not buried.
Jiang Min believes in metaphysics in her life, and before she got married, she specially asked the master to calculate her husband's fate, which is a blessing and a fortune, although she was busy before the age of forty, but after the age of forty, she will grow higher and higher, climb step by step, become rich and noble, and she is a birthday star, and it is not a problem to live past the age of ninety. Originally, people have good and bad luck, Hades wants to take your life, no matter how good the fate is, she can't stop it, she didn't think about it so much. But if you ask carefully, there are several deaths in Nandao this month, and a few of them are either her friends or her friend's husband, all of whom are just as blessed as her husband.
Thinking of this, she felt that something was wrong, so Tong GuΓ² Interpersonal Relations found Sun Hao here and asked Sun Hao to help her see the pattern.
When Sun Hao came, her husband had no spark, the body was still there, and after seeing it, he did find something strange, and he had heard that someone in the South Island had died strangely and suspected that it was strange, so he was very sure of it.
But what is the troublemaker, after more than ten days, Sun Hao didn't see it.
Jiang Min was about to give up Sun Hao when he came, but Sun Hao led a young man to the door.
"It's hard to do it if the body has been cremated. After Zhou Tong entered the house, he first posed a few times at the portrait of Jiang Min's husband to show respect for the deceased, and then opened the lid of the urn to take a look.
The ashes that have been completely cremated have lost contact with the soul, and it is difficult to find any clues.
Zhou Tong walked around Jiang Min's house, and found a wisp of evil qi in the bedroom that had not yet dissipated, fortunately, the evil qi was very weak, and Jiang Min did not have such a good life like her husband, otherwise, she would have to lie down again.
"This little Heavenly Master, can you find out anything?" The person was brought by Sun Hao, and no matter how much Jiang Min doubted the other party's ability, it was difficult to say it, so he had to stare at Zhou Tong's movements step by step.
Zhou Tong shook his head and said, "If there is a corpse, you can still see something, and the ashes are not enough." He paused and said, "How long has your husband been dead?"
"Twenty days. β
"Tomorrow happens to be the ...... of Sanqi," Zhou Tong counted the days and said, "Sanqi is the day of rejuvenation, and I want to try to summon spirits." β
"What?" Jiang Min's eyes widened, even if she believed in these things, hearing them with her own ears was another feeling, Jiang Min looked at Sun Hao, Sun Hao walked over, pulled Zhou Tong's sleeve, and whispered, "Do you really want to summon spirits?
"Theoretically, yes. Zhou Tong smiled and nodded.
Sun Hao: "......"
Sun Hao said with a headache: "What do you mean in theory, how sure are you?"
Zhou Tong said seriously: "At least fifty percent." β
"Fifty percent ......" Sun Hao felt more and more that Zhou Tong was joking, but Zhou Tong was not joking at all!
Zhou Tong said: "It's okay, I have a way to make fifty percent become ten percent." β
Sun Hao: "?"
Zhou Tong smiled and said to Jiang Min: "Tomorrow Sanqi will cry and mourn, you prepare paper money and incense candles, and I will prepare the rest." β
ββ¦β¦ Ay. Jiang Min was confused by Zhou Tong's smile, and agreed in a daze without knowing why.
The next day, Zhou Tong planted a white flag all the way to the door of Jiang Min's house, until it was planted in front of her husband's spiritual seat, Jiang Min set up the incense candles for the memorial service, and asked, "Why do you want to plant the white flag?"
Zhou Tong explained with a smile: "Today is the seventeenth day of the lunar calendar, just in opposition to the seventh, plant a white flag to guide him, so as not to go to the wrong door and scare others." β
Jiang Min: "......"
Zhou Tong: "Please hand me the incense." β
ββ¦β¦ Good. Jiang Min handed the incense he had just bought to Zhou Tong, Zhou Tong took out a small box from his pocket, after the small box was opened, it was a gelatinous substance like amber. Zhou Tong shook slightly, the thing that seemed to be a gelatinous substance actually rippled like a liquid, Zhou Tong put one end of the incense stick close to the edge of the box, tilted slightly, and the clear and transparent incense liquid flowed into the incense stick, and it was absorbed by the incense stick in an instant.
Jiang Min was dumbfounded, and looked at Zhou Tong's eyes full of admiration.
"Are you really willing to do it, isn't this rejuvenating incense very expensive?" Ling Yuan glanced at the incense stick that had dripped a lot of rejuvenating incense and said.
"It's not expensive. Zhou Tong put the incense stick right after all the soul rejuvenation incense was absorbed, and said, "It should be used after it has been idle for so many years, otherwise, it is no different from waste." β
In fact, the refining process of this rejuvenating incense is very mixed, not to mention the rarity of raw materials, it takes a hundred years to boil it alone, but now there are not many people who can use and can use rejuvenating incense, because without an accurate estimation of aura, it is not good to use rejuvenating incense, and if it is not used well, not only can it not attract souls, but it will also bring disaster to itself.
Zhou Tong counted the hours, and when he saw that it was almost time, he lit the white candles on the left and right, opened the urn of the deceased, inserted the incense stick that absorbed the incense of rejuvenation into the ashes, picked up the candlestick on the right, and lit the top of the incense stick.
The fragrance suddenly overflowed, filling the whole room, Jiang Min shook, her head was a little dizzy, and before she could react, she fell on the sofa and fell unconscious.
Seeing this, Zhou Tong said, "This soul rejuvenation incense seems to be a little too strong for ordinary people......
"That's a corpse condensed, don't look so fragrant, it's actually the smell of corpses. β
Zhou Tongwaner: "Can you say something nice? We'll have to smell it for a while." β
Ling Yuan smiled in a low voice, and when he saw Jiang Min unconscious, he drew out a shadow and rolled it into the auspicious rui at home, and sucked the aura inside.
Zhou Tong said speechlessly: "You don't even dislike this?"
"One thing is a little bit. The old doesn't go, the new doesn't come, so much aura is piled up here, she is not blessed, and it is a waste, but it is better to supply me with a good way out. β
Zhou Tong shook his head, Ling Yuan looked at the door and said, "Come soon." β
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw an evil wind roll in from outside the open door, and then the evil wind rushed left and right in the house, and finally was trapped by the smoke of the rejuvenating incense in the house, and was escorted all the way to the incense burner, condensing into a vague pattern around the incense burner.
"Why are you so unstable?" Although it was the first time to summon spirits, Zhou Tong always felt that it shouldn't be like this, and after reflecting on the process, there were no loopholes.
"Help, save meβ" The soul roared in a hoarse voice, and Zhou Tong looked at the soul in surprise, only to realize that the soul was not complete.
The soul seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw, and a pair of black hole eyes looked directly at Zhou Tong: "Help, save me...... Please...... Help me...... Help me......"
"What's wrong with you?" Zhou Tong blew on the soul rejuvenation incense, the incense burned more violently, and the fragrance wafted out, soothing the soul's feelings.
"Lamp...... The lamp is burning me...... Is it a lamp...... Yes...... It's so painful...... It's so painful...... There is a light...... Lotus Lantern ...... You're burning me......" His voice was staccato and unclear from his fear.
Zhou Tong said: "You are fine now, look around, this is your home, this is where you lived before you died." β
"My family...... Are you okay?" The soul looked left and right, and finally calmed down after seeing the familiar scene, Zhou Tong seized the opportunity to ask, "Where did your soul go?"
"In the warehouse behind the stone arch bridge of the old East Gate. "My soul is there...... There are people there who have set up a formation, burning our souls with lotus lanterns, lotus lanterns...... It's all lotus lanterns......"
Before the soul finished speaking, it was extremely deformed, and the incense stick burning with the soul returning incense suddenly broke, as if it couldn't withstand the huge aura of the soul returning incense, and the incense ash was sprinkled in the ashes, and the soul was immediately ripped out by a mysterious force.
Feeling the pull of this force, the soul cried out in horror, "I don't want to go backβI don't want to go backβI don't want to !!."
Zhou Tong's brows furrowed tightly, recalling what the soul said.
Using the Soul Rejuvenation Incense like this was already the limit for him, and he couldn't stop his soul from being snatched away by that formation.
However, at least if you know the location, it's not a loss, right?
Zhou Tong found the old East Gate Stone Arch Bridge on the Baidu map, there is a famous food festival nearby, the stone arch bridge is relatively desolate in the future, it is an old community built in more than nine years, and there are only a few buildings left after demolition. The old warehouse is not a warehouse, but an old garage that happens to be stuck in a special location and cannot be demolished.
After checking it, Zhou Tong drew a few talismans and prepared to go there to have a look.
After walking to the place where the soul said, Zhou Tongduo kept an eye on it, didn't go in directly, pinched a pottery puppet and let it out, as his own stand-in to test the temptation first, maybe what kind of Longtan tiger's den was inside, closed his eyes and broke into it, isn't it looking for death?
The pottery puppet became exactly the same person as Zhou Tong, walked to the door of the warehouse, stretched out his hand and pushed the door, the door was locked, the chain was rusty and it was not easy to enter, Zhou Tong recited the spell, and the pottery puppet walked directly through the rusty door from outside the door and entered the garage.
Zhou Tong: "......"
Although he was not there in person, Zhou Tongtong GuΓ² Tao Puppet clearly saw the scene inside the warehouse.
There is a large array in the warehouse, there are a total of seven five-petal lotus lamps on the ground, in turn, according to the position of Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji, Tianquan, Yuheng, Kaiyang, Yaoguang seven stars in the shape of the Big Dipper, the lotus lamp is burning flames, although the fire is not big, but the fire is extraordinarily bright, almost the entire garage is illuminated without a shadow, but also the person lying in the middle of the lotus lamp is exposed at a glance.
There are five worlds in the world, heaven and earth, people, gods and ghosts, lotus is connected, and the lamp has the meaning of guidance.
"Seven-Star White Lotus Life-Extending Lantern ......," Zhou Tong muttered.
The seven-star life-sustaining lamp has long been circulated.
There is a record in the "Book of Returning to Life": "Forty-nine people led by armor, each holding a soap flag and wearing soap clothes, surrounded the outside of the house, and the caster prayed to Beidou from the tent." If the lamp is not extinguished within seven days, the life of the lamp will be increased by one epoch (12 years); β
But as long as there is a breath left, you can use the seven-star life-sustaining lamp to continue your life, if you are lucky, it is not a problem to continue for decades, but if you are unlucky, you will die on the spot.
If the Seven-Star Life-Extending Lantern is just a mystic technique that tries to change one's life against the sky, then this Seven-Star White Lotus Life-Extending Lantern is an evil technique that robs others of their lives and changes their own lives.
In addition to the seven-star lantern, the seven-star life-sustaining lamp also has forty-nine small lamps placed on the periphery to supply the seven-star lamp aura, and the seven-star white lotus lamp renews the seven-star lamp's aura by burning the soul.
Ordinary people can only see seven white lotus lamps burning, and one person in the middle is sleeping peacefully, although the scene is weird, but it is not frightening, but in Zhou Tong's yin and yang eyes, they can see clearly, one after another souls are being burned by the blazing fire in the seven star lamps, they let out a terrible scream, begging to look at Zhou Tong's pottery puppet. And the smoke that burned out of the soul spread from the Yaoguang at the tail of the seven stars all the way to the Tianshu, and finally penetrated into the nose of the sleeping person.
"It's really a vicious formation, it's not much better than the Blood Spring Chaos Stage!" Ling Yuan said coldly, "I can't imagine that now that there are fewer cultivators, this kind of evil art has been developed, it's really ironic." β
Zhou Tong let out a sigh of relief and asked, "I've only read this formation in a book, but I haven't solved it, do you know how to solve it?"
"Yes. The shadow said, "This formation is easy to solve, but it is also not easy to solve." β
"How?"
"See if you want to keep these spirits. If you don't plan to keep it, let their living souls fly away, just break up the Seven Star Array, if you want to keep it, you have to be a little troublesome, you have to cut the candles. β
"Candle cutting?" Zhou Tong said, "You said it in detail. β
"You understand what it means, but it's risky. Ling Yuan patiently explained, "If the candle burns for a long time, the exposed wick will become longer and bifurcated, and at this time, the candle needs to be cut to make the candle burn longer. However, if you don't cut it well, the fire will go out directly, which is a matter of degree. β
When Ling Yuan said this, Zhou Tong had already understood what he meant.
It is necessary to use the principle of candle cutting, with an appropriate degree, to naturally cut off the candle cores of these seven lamps and let the candles go out.
Zhou Tong said: "The difficulty lies in how to grasp this degree so that the soul is not harmed by the candle cutting. I guess that shouldn't be a problem. β
"It's not a problem. Ling Yuan said coldly, "The problem is the scissors that cut the candle." The scissors used to cut the candle must be a funeral thing, the ordinary scissors are too yang, no matter what kind of force you use, it will definitely affect the soul when cutting the candle, and the words of Yan zhΓ²ng will directly make the soul fly away. β
"......" This is very tricky, and it is necessary to keep the sharp scissors for the funeral...... Is he going to take a trip to the cultural relics circle of the South Island to have a look, or if he is lucky, he will come across one or two well-preserved scissors with repaired and rusty blades?
As soon as he thought of this, the corpse lying in the lotus lamp suddenly opened his eyes, and the pair of black and faint eyes with almost no whites looked straight at Zhou Tong who was transformed into a pottery puppet, Zhou Tong secretly screamed that it was not good and withdrew the pottery puppet, and the aura on the pottery puppet's body was sharply dissipated, and it fell to the ground and became an ordinary pottery puppet.
I don't know if it's been found...... Zhou Tong was a little apprehensive in his heart, and he realized that this matter could not be delayed.
Let's go back tonight, it's best to get scissors, if you can't...... Then I can't help these souls, if the seven-star lantern is not removed, then more people will be killed.
Zhou Tong thought about it for a while, and punched some aura into the gap in the warehouse.
The man who was lying flat closed his eyes again, and fell asleep as if nothing had happened, and in the garage, the flame of the lotus lamp became smaller, and the sound of foolish wailing also weakened, and the light in the room narrowed a little.
Zhou Tong turned back along the original road, and saw an old gentleman with strange behavior beside the stone arch bridge, the old gentleman was standing under a willow tree, driving something hand and foot together, Zhou Tong took a closer look, only to see a soul wrapped around the tree, the soul was stretching out his hand to hook the old man's coat, hooking his coat, all the way to the height.
The old man scrambled with him for his coat, but no one would give in, and the spirit suddenly let go, and the old man fell to the ground unexpectedly, and the soul climbed down the willow tree, and opened its bloody maw and bit at the old man.
"Hurry like a law!" Zhou Tong snorted, and the palm of the Yang Seal was covered in his hand.
Zhou Tong rushed over from the other side of the stone arch bridge and asked, "Old man, are you okay?"
"It's fine. The old gentleman waved his hand hurriedly, and was so tired that he sat down on the stone bench under the willow tree, and he was just about to sit down when Zhou Tong held him up, and Zhou Tong said, "Old gentleman, you are not in good health, don't sit in a cold place, let's go sit over there." Zhou Tong pointed to the wooden chair not far away and said.
The old gentleman glanced at Zhou Tong more, smiled and nodded, "Okay." β
It's not really because the old gentleman is not in good health and can't sit on the stone chair, but because the old gentleman has a special physique, especially attracts ghosts, and the willow belongs to the five ghosts, and the yin qi is extremely heavy, and some unjust souls will be entangled in the willow tree after passing by, thus harming people, therefore, people who are weak should not touch the willow tree lightly, so as not to be entangled by evil things.
But...... This old gentleman is really a little strange, he seems to be able to see things on the willow tree, and he is also afraid, but he is not afraid, which makes people very uncertain.
After the old gentleman sat on the bench, Zhou Tong patted the coat that fell on the ground during the scramble and handed it to the old gentleman, saying, "Old gentleman, you came alone?"
"yes. The old gentleman looked at Zhou Tong with a smile, his eyes were very like, he put on the coat, and said, "This coat was bought for me by my little granddaughter, but I can't rob it for that water ghost." β
Now that the other party has made it clear, Zhou Tong is not taboo, "Mr. You're weak, don't go to a place where the yin qi is too heavy in the future." β
"Alas. The old gentleman sighed, "People are old, they always think that they are still young, and they dare to go anywhere hahaha." β
Zhou Tong smiled and said gently: "Everyone will have a time to get old." β
The old gentleman seemed to be very satisfied with Zhou Tong's answer, and seeing that Zhou Tong's eyes were full of light, he asked, "Which child are you?"
"The surname is Zhou, Zhou Tong. β
"Zhou Tong?" The old gentleman thought for a while, and had an answer in his mind, his eyes showed some surprise, and then he looked at Zhou Tong as if he were looking at his son-in-law, with a satisfied expression.
Zhou Tong was a little embarrassed by his eyes, and was about to say something to ease the atmosphere when he saw the old gentleman looking left and right, quietly pointed to the front, and asked, "The garage in front, have you been there?"
Zhou Tong: "......"
Zhou Tong said bluntly: "I've been there." β
"What do you see?"
"Seven-Star White Lotus Life-Sustaining Lamp. β
"Tsk, sure enough. The old gentleman sighed and said, "This is troublesome, now in the South Island, I guess Han Zhi is the only one who can solve the lamp array without harming those wronged souls, alas, but unfortunately he can't find the north now, not even a young offspring, I have to talk to him." β
Seeing that Zhou Tong didn't react, the old gentleman raised his eyes to look at Zhou Tong's reaction and said, "You're not angry?"
Zhou Tong smiled and asked rhetorically, "What am I angry about?"
"I've robbed you of your chance to make a name for yourself!" said the old gentleman.
Zhou Tong felt that this old gentleman was really interesting, with a strange temper and strange speech, but by now, he had almost guessed the identity of the old gentleman.
The old gentleman raised his eyebrows and looked at Zhou Tong: "You young man, why do you have such a good temper, you don't fight for anything, if you want to change it, my little grandson is already in a hurry." He smiled, took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it to Zhou Tong, saying, "Young man, take this cigarette and go to No. 32 Sheep Roll Lane to find an old man surnamed Feng, he will give you what you want." β
"This ......" Zhou Tong took the cigarette from the old gentleman's hand, and the old gentleman patted his thigh twice, and finally stood up.
Not far away, a pretty girl shouted, "Grandpa, grandpa, why are you running around again!"
The old gentleman shrank his neck, winked at Zhou Tong, and said, "Oh no, I have to go." β
Zhou Tong couldn't help but laugh: "The old gentleman walks slowly." β
"Let's go, let's go. The old gentleman smiled and greeted the girl who was in a hurry.
The girl grabbed the old gentleman's arm and complained: "Grandpa, I've been looking for you for a long time, don't do this next time, you are not in good health, you can't run around, you know? β
"Got it, got it. The old gentleman couldn't bear the nagging, and responded again and again.
The girl glanced back at Zhou Tong, her face was a little red, and she quietly asked, "Who is that handsome guy?"
"You'll know him later. The old gentleman laughed, no matter how much the girl made a fuss, she didn't say a word, and her figure gradually drifted away.
"Who is that old man?" Ling Yuan appeared and said to Zhou Tong, "He looked at me several times, obviously knowing my sink." Don't say you don't know, I know you see it. β
"I can see it. Zhou Tong smiled and watched the old gentleman leave, his eyes were full of admiration, "The old lady of the Chu family, Chu Yunchen." β