Time reversed, back to the night when Chen Banshan raised the altar for Ma Xianglan.

That night, after Chen Banshan instructed Ma's father, he hurried to the grass house that the village chief said.

Perhaps he did feel the seriousness of the situation, and under the arrangement of the village chief, the villagers had already prepared the things that Chen Banshan wanted, just waiting for him to come to open the spirit, and Ma Xianglan's body, the village chief had already arranged for someone to carry it, and it was estimated that it would not be long before he came back.

For Chen Banshan, opening the altar for others has long been familiar with the road and extremely simple. With the help of the villagers, a rudimentary altar was set up in a short time.

After inviting all kinds of heaven and earth gods, various magic weapons and Ma Xianglan's spirit cards were arranged, Chen Banshan turned around and arranged to the village chief:

"Village chief, the 9 chickens that were caught, keep two here, and take the others outside and lock them up first. ”

Everyone knows a little bit about this funeral custom, not to mention that Chen Banshan is well-known in the Taoist profession, so no one will refute what he said. Not to mention that it is a special time. The village chief nodded in agreement and motioned for the villagers to do the same.

Chen Banshan continued: "Village Chief, after Ma Xianglan is brought over, you can arrange for a few brave villagers to stay and assist me, and the rest can go home to rest first, as for the rest, wait for my apprentice to come, you can't help if you stay here." ”

The village chief nodded worriedly and replied, "Daochang Chen, you see that you have been busy all night, and you haven't had time to eat, why don't we go back together and you will have a meal?"

Chen Banshan didn't have too much expression after hearing this, shook his head and said, "You can just send me the food, just send me more rice, and you can go back to eat and rest first." ”

Chen Daochang has already issued two eviction orders, the village chief is not eyesight, this point of sophistication still understands, he is not hesitating, with a stomach full of worries, with irrelevant villagers back to the village.

When a group of people just walked to the door, Chen Banshan stopped them: "Village chief, in the past few days when Ma Xianglan has not yet settled into the ground, you tell the villagers not to come out and walk around at night. Nothing else. ”

"This ......" After listening to Chen Banshan's advice, the village chief had a lot of worries and doubts in his heart, and he wanted to ask the worries and questions in his heart several times, but seeing that Chen Banshan had turned around and was busy, he had to swallow back the words that came to his mouth and took the villagers back to the village.

The village chief and a group of people had just left, and the Ma family and villagers came up carrying Ma Xianglan's body.

Under Chen Banshan's guidance, Ma Xianglan's body was placed on a wooden board that had been prepared in advance on the left side of the grass hall. Originally, I wanted to say that there should be another piece of white cloth or black cloth on this board, but the Ma family was poor and prepared in a hurry, so the board could only be settled.

Chen Banshan walked over and lifted the white cloth, carefully examined the corpse, called the father of the horse over to inquire about the rune paper, and after feeling that there was nothing wrong, he began to prepare for the altar, and a female dependent was already crying by the door, and the other bold villagers who stayed all stood aside, waiting to see the process of Chen Daochang getting up the altar, which can be regarded as a long insight.

Two chickens, one was killed for blood, and the other was caught in Chen Banshan's hands. I saw him standing in front of the spiritual table, holding the wings of the chicken in one hand, facing the head of the chicken to himself, and posing in the shape of a two-finger Zen with the other hand, and then pointing to the head of the chicken, chanting words in his mouth, and his fingers changed with the spoken language, drawing various Taoist seals in the air. After a while, Fa Cheng received the gift, Chen Banshan changed to holding the chicken with both hands, and made 3 gestures at the spirit card.

"Bring me the bamboo basket. One of the villagers listened to Chen Banshan's instructions and hurriedly handed over the bamboo basket that had been prepared in advance.

Chen Banshan took the bamboo basket and put the chicken that had done the law upside down under the spiritual table. Then he picked up the prepared earthen porcelain bowl, poured it full of lamp oil, recited the secret to light the oil lamp, and placed it at Ma Xianglan's feet. In this way, the preliminary ritual of opening the soul and attracting the soul is completed.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Banshan instructed the villagers to go out and scatter paper money, light up the incense candles and money paper, and took out a token from the cloth bag, and a drum that was a little bigger than the ordinary soup bowl, and carried a bench to sit on the side of the spiritual table, facing Ma Xianglan's body.

There was a crisp sound of "pop", and the token slapped on the spirit table, which scared the villagers, Chen Banshan didn't care at all, and with the sound of the drum, he began to officially open the altar for Ma Xianglan to attract souls.

Under the curious eyes of the villagers, Chen Banshan had already finished Ma Xianglan's Soul Attraction Method (commonly known as Soul Opening), instructed the villagers who stayed behind not to let the soul attraction lamp go out, and other precautions, he returned to Feifeng Mountain non-stop, and he didn't even have time to eat during the period.

Before dawn the next day, Chen Banshan had already taken his eldest apprentice Chen Chuang and his younger apprentice Jun Lingtian to Liuhua Village (the name of the village where Ma Xianglan was located). The three of them just drank a glass of hot water, and then rushed to the grass house, where should it be called Ma Xianglan's mourning hall now.

When he came, Chen Banshan carefully told the two apprentices the ins and outs of Ma Xianglan's death, as well as all kinds of changes. At that time, Jun Lingtian, who had not yet suffered a great change, was amazed to hear it, at this time he was just an ordinary little Taoist priest, although he had been in the master for several years because of the subsidy for his family, and he had learned a lot of theoretical knowledge, but he actually participated in things that might become a legendary ghost, this was the first time, in addition to being nervous, he was too curious.

At that time, after Jun Lingtian heard what happened to Ma Xianglan, he asked his master Chen Banshan why he didn't bury Ma Xianglan, who might have been transformed into a corpse, first, or cremate her. Chen Banshan replied:

"This Ma Xianglan's background is also pitiful, and she doesn't want to kill them all as a teacher, so she doesn't even give her a chance to be reincarnated. Second, although this Ma Xianglan will become a powerful ghost, but before she recovers her lost soul, she is not much harm, if she returns to the soul first and finds that the body is not there, she will definitely change due to resentment, and it will be difficult to deal with. Moreover, the body of Ma Xianglan could not be disposed of casually, and had to be burned with lychee trees. Due to the fact that there is too much resentment left in front of him, and many coincidences, this corpse will be a scourge even if it is buried, and it will be even more difficult to deal with if it is broken out of the ground one day. ”

"Master, if we really give Ma Xianglan a child and mother calendar, and the ghosts and corpses are one, do we have a chance of winning?" the eldest apprentice, Chen Chuang, asked worriedly.

"If you really give this Ma Xianglan ghost corpse unity, I don't dare to say it for the teacher! So the teacher brought you down, as long as you do what I told before, she shouldn't be able to become a climate. But ......" said Chen Banshan pinched his fingers and hesitated.

Earlier, he had calculated a hexagram, the hexagram was very bad, combined with Ma Xianglan's incident, Chen Banshan really had no bottom in his heart.

But if she is really a ghost and corpse, it can only be said that she is providential, and she has done her best for the teacher, and at that time, I am afraid that she will have to wait for the ancestor to descend to earth. After saying this, regardless of the stunned eyes of the two apprentices behind him, Chen Banshan left with a heavy face.

The three masters and apprentices only took a sip of hot water from Ma's house before leaving, and when they arrived at Ma Xianglan's Spiritual Hall, the sky was almost slightly bright. To Chen Banshan's surprise, in addition to Mrs. Ma and the villagers who stayed behind, the village chief was actually there, which made Chen Banshan think highly of him.

After a brief greeting with everyone, Chen Banshan said to the village chief: "Village chief, please call a few people to move 18 benches, and then the flower-tongued black dog that asked you to find that day has been found? ”

Hearing Chen Banshan's question, he turned to look at one of the villagers with inquiring eyes, and the villager hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Dao Chief, we have searched all over this neighboring village, don't say that there are no two pure black dogs!

Chen Banshan listened carefully to what the villagers said, and said calmly: "There is nothing nearby, you can go to a farther place to find it, as long as you find it before the first seven, and the few black dogs you are looking for will also be brought back first just in case." ”

The village chief stood up and patted the villager on the shoulder, and said in a pleading tone: "Liu San! You can take your brothers and men to work hard, look for them in a distant place, as long as they are found before the first seven days, there are still four or five days left, and we can't give up! This is related to the fate of the entire Liuhua Village." ”

Liu San nodded and said, "Okay, Dao Chief, Village Chief, then I'll go and call them and set off immediately." ”

After arranging everything, Chen Banshan called the two apprentices aside and instructed them: "Ah Chuang! You will go down with the magic weapon later, go to Ma's house first, and paste a ghost exorcism charm around them, this Ma Xianglan will definitely go to the home in front of him when he comes back." Chen Chuang nodded, indicating that he knew, and Chen Banshan continued:

"After you paste the talisman, ask the Ma family to find you a chicken, and let the person who knows the way take you to the place where Ma Xianglan threw himself into the pond, and put a soul-locking array there. This is very important, the first place Ma Xianglan went back was there, where she had to take back her life soul, you must rush ahead and lock her life soul. Then borrow the Soul Locking Array to consume her for a while. ”

"Master, rest assured, the disciple will definitely keep it. Although Chen Chuang swore an oath, Chen Banshan was still a little uneasy, and advised: "Ah Chuang! This formation can't be broken before the first seven, Ma Xianglan is dead in vain, and it doesn't necessarily have to be the first seven to come back, this is possible every day in the future, you have to keep an eye on it, especially at night, you must pay special attention to it, don't let her take away her life." ”

"Master, don't worry, the disciple will not be careless, and he will definitely defend the place. Once again, Chen Chuang showed strong self-confidence. "Well, pay more attention to safety, if you really can't do it, drag him with the soul locking array, and then rush back here, we'll find another way." Don't be reckless on your own. ”

"Well, the disciple listens to the master. ”

"Okay, you pack up and go early!"

"Okay, Master, Senior Brother, I'll go. With that, Chen Chuang picked up the guy and disappeared into the morning mist.