Chapter Twenty-Eight: Excess
If Chen Xiao and Yuan Huaxing were in the same class, presumably Yuan Huaxing might secretly pay attention to Chen Xiao's every move as soon as he was free.
However, they are not in the same class, so at the back door of the second class of liberal arts on the fourth floor, Yuan Huaxing can always be seen.
There was something inexplicable in her heart, which made her a little upset, she always wanted to see Chen Xiao uncontrollably, she felt that she was going crazy.
Chen Xiao's coldness really hit her hard.
She didn't know what was wrong, she didn't dare to ask, her guesses were unfounded, and the so-called friendship between them had only been around for a few days.
Yuan Huaxing decided to follow his feelings and would not be discouraged.
Chen Xiao was still carrying out the tasks given by the bureau, secretly observing Yuanhuaxing.
No matter what the purpose of the bureau is, she has already had a strange feeling for Yuanhuaxing in the subtle past few days.
But Chen Xiao knew in his heart that this kind of feeling needed to be stopped in time, not because of gender, but because of the vague fate.
After studying at night, Yuan Huaxing saw a familiar figure at the door of the building, it was Chen Xiao, and Chen Xiao also saw her at the same time.
Yuan Huaxing didn't run away this time, she walked towards her.
"Together?" Yuan Huaxing wanted to make himself as natural as possible.
Chen Xiao shook his head, and Yuan Huaxing's heart still sank when he saw it.
Chen Xiao saw Yuan Huaxing's gloomy expression, a little unbearable, and hurriedly said.
"No, your father and they are waiting for me, superordinate."
Yuan Huaxing suddenly said, "Yes, I forgot about this, is it tonight?" ”
"Hmm!"
"It's going to be late, will you be back that night?"
"When I came back, I told the dormitory manager that it was okay. I've got to go, the car is waiting for me over there! ”
Yuan Huaxing had another impulse in his heart, "Can I, can I go with you?" ”
Chen Xiao looked at Yuan Huaxing's eager eyes and said softly, "I'll just go."
Yuan Huaxing didn't know why, and his mood suddenly fell.
"Oh, how's your uncle doing?"
"He went back to his hometown, and someone in his hometown will deal with it."
There is no longer a topic for Yuanhuaxing.
Chen Xiao watched the playground gradually empty, and there were not many students lingering, and said to Yuan Huaxing.
"Go back to the dorm, it's time for me to go."
"Hmm!"
Looking at Chen Xiao's back, Yuan Huaxing's heart was so empty, that feeling came again, she didn't understand what was wrong with her, she was obviously happy the moment she saw Chen Xiao, but she became sad when she left.
Yu Haibo's Mitsubishi off-road vehicle soon arrived at Qiheng Street in the suburbs and stopped in front of a bungalow shop.
After a while, the lights in the bungalow went out, and a middle-aged man came out of it, this person was not very tall, but his pace was steady, with a flat head, a square face and a broad forehead, probably because of his eyebrows, and he was very upright. He put a large package in the trunk of the car before getting in.
He sat in the co-pilot, looked back at Chen Xiao behind him, and said with a kind face: "You are Chen Xiao, right?" I am Yuan Huaxing's father. ”
Chen Xiao smiled politely, "Hello! Uncle Yuan. ”
As the car was moving, Yuanyou tilted his head slightly, "Little girl, what are we going to do, you should understand, right?" ”
"Hmmm! Beyond the light. ”
"Okay, just know, maybe you haven't seen this kind of thing before, go for a while, you just listen to my arrangement, don't be afraid if you meet someone you haven't seen, I'm here."
Although Chen Xiao saw Yuanyou for the first time, she suddenly had a sense of déjà vu in her heart, and she answered.
And Yuanyou also felt inexplicably in his heart that the child sitting behind him had an indescribable aura, and he didn't look timid at all.
The car soon arrived at Yu Haibo's doorstep.
Luo Baifan and Zhong Ye were waiting for them downstairs, Yu Haibo had already gone up to the roof to clean up some things, Yuanyou picked up the big package, and Chen Xiao followed behind him.
Chen Xiao saw the two men in front of Yuanyou, one of them was burly, with a deep and calm face, although he hadn't shaved for a long time, his eyes were sharp, as if he wanted to see through people at a glance.
He stared at Chen Xiao for a moment, and then smiled at her, Chen Xiao nodded slightly, but she always felt that there was something hidden in that look and smile in her heart.
Yuanyou raised his eyes and looked at Luo Baifan, and muttered in his heart, "What is this old Luo doing?" ”
After that, several people went up to the roof together.
Around the moon tonight, there is a large circle, inner infrared violet, which is the lunar halo.
As the saying goes, the sun is coronated with three more rains, and the moon is dizzy at noon, and it seems that the sky will change tomorrow.
Because the moon has a cold halo, the moonlight is blurred, and the roof is not very bright, but it can still be barely seen.
Yuanyou didn't talk nonsense, and put the big cloth package on the ground and spread it out, there were several things in it, and the others were watching from the side, not because they didn't want to help, but they really couldn't intervene.
In their imagination, they think that tonight's transcendence should be like a movie.
At the table where the practice was made, Yuanyou was wearing a Taoist robe, holding a peachwood sword, and stepping on the seven stars.
But in this large package, everyone present really didn't know anything.
The snow on the roof of the building was swept away, revealing the concrete floor.
Yuanyou took out a cloth bag, pulled out the rope, grabbed a handful of red powder from it, the powder was sprinkled from his hand, and sprinkled into a large circle on the ground, the circle was not closed, leaving a mouth, which was towards the direction where Yu Hui jumped off the building, and after the painting, four symbols like branches were scattered around the circle.
Then from the package that was lying on the ground, he took what looked like a wooden tripod and placed it in the middle of the circle.
Then he picked up a small folding thing, opened it and restored it to its original state, it was a four-sided paper lamp, which looked like paper, but it seemed to be more resilient than paper, and after the lamp was placed on the tripod, Yuanyou silently lowered his head and thought.
"The three souls return to the three lines, the seven spirits return to the body, the two souls of heaven and earth are always outside, and only the soul lives alone."
After reading it, he bit his finger with his mouth and flicked it into the lamp, and strangely enough, the light came on.
This lamp is called the Soul Gathering Sky Lantern, and its light is emitted instead of the sun, moon, and stars, illuminating the netherworld with divine light, and illuminating the road to transcendence for the lonely ghosts and souls.
This magical scene made Chen Xiao stunned, and even more stunned those present.
Then Yuanyou picked up a very high white and yellow flag, with a lot of incomprehensible small seals written on it, and asked Chen Xiao to stand on the right side of the circle with this flag, and used a few strands of her hair to wrap it around a streamer in the middle of the flag, telling her not to speak no matter what happened.
Then he took out a teacup-shaped brass bowl with a true picture of the five mountains painted around the bowl, placed it behind the circle, and poured some liquid into it.
instructed Yu Haibo, Luo Baifan, and Zhong Ye to stand back and not make a sound.
After Yuanyou finished shopping, I saw that his face became serious.
At this time, it is the time of the child, the alternation of yin and yang, and the beginning of excess.
Yuanyou stood behind the circle, rubbed the center of his eyebrows with the fingers he had bitten just now, and then pinched the soul-attracting technique with his hands, stepped on the soul-attracting step, and recited the soul-attracting mantra in his mouth.
"Wandering souls, where to stay, the three souls are coming, the spirit is coming, Yu Hui Xiao'er, the soul is back!"
The sound is not loud, but it is sonorous and powerful, and it has a sense of intimidation.
At this time, the night was thick, and after reading that sentence, there was no change, Luo Baifan and they looked at it from a distance, they didn't see anything, they seemed to be a little restrained, and there was still hair in their hearts, and they couldn't help but glance at each other.
And Chen Xiao's side is different, she is a little further forward than Yuanyou, although she didn't see anything abnormal, but something in her pocket moved.
Chen Xiao remembered that it was the yellow rune paper that he picked up on the sundeck.
Immediately after that, a thin cry came, everyone present seemed to hear it, crying in the middle of the night, it was really terrifying, Yuanyou frowned, he glanced at Chen Xiao, Chen Xiao didn't move, but the rune paper in her pocket moved so badly that it seemed to break free.
Yuanyou didn't care about the direction of the voice, he urged the soul attraction spell again, this time, in the direction of the opening that was left in the circle, suddenly something flashed there, it was a phantom, a strange human form, wearing a blue and white school uniform, unable to see clearly, like a lost person.
It lowered its head, looked very heavy, and slowly walked towards Chen Xiao, and when it was about to reach the flag, the rune paper in Chen Xiao's pocket, as if it was called by something, flew out, and then there was a faint sound in the air, and the phantom disappeared as if it was frightened.
Chen Xiao was stunned, she didn't know that this broken rune paper would have an impact on the excess, and when she saw that the phantom was gone, she was also confused for a while.
The three people in the back didn't see it too clearly, and Yuan You looked at the broken yellow talisman that fell to the ground, and exclaimed, "Five Thunder Talismans?" ”
Yuanyou's father left several ancient books, which recorded this kind of "symbol".
What is this thing? This is a kind of "Maoshu" charm used during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Before the unification of the five elements of Taoism, the folk used all kinds of witchcraft and magic, which were collectively called "five elements and six arts" at that time, among which the "six techniques" were also called "ancient six arts", which respectively referred to the six categories of occupation, phase, mao, hexagram, Gu and inlay, which became an influential early witchcraft since the Xia and Shang periods.
Among them, Maoshu was originally a spell that focused on protecting the body and driving away evil spirits, but when it came to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, people who were strong in Taoism but had improper mental skills were studied and reformed and became a spell to control people.
In the early days of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the soldiers were very brave on the battlefield, often smeared with blood, shouted slogans, "invulnerability", regarded death as home, looked ignorant, but extremely brave, so they defeated the Qing army.
If you go to check these soldiers after the war, you will find that they are not really invulnerable and full of mutilated limbs, but why they are so afraid of death, in fact, the secret lies in the yellow hats they wear.
In the mezzanine of the yellow hat, this kind of magic charm is hidden, or it is directly drawn in it.
In the later stage of the development of this kind of magic talisman, it was once again improved by people with ill intentions, specializing in collecting people's souls, refining and raising ghosts, and driving them for themselves, and the souls that were collected and refined will never recover, never be reborn, and become ferocious.
Coming back to his senses, Yuanyou thought to himself.
How did this stuff end up here? What does it have to do with Chen Xiao's child?
At the moment, Yuanyou didn't hesitate anymore, picked up the half-broken rune paper, and quickly knotted his fingerprints, fortunately, this rune was broken, and the power was not great, otherwise, Yuanyou didn't dare to think about it, whispered something in his mouth, put his finger on the rune paper a little, and then said softly "Break", the rune paper suddenly burned, and there were suddenly a few screams inside, much like the sound of the monkey piercing the sky, and the rune paper turned into ashes.
Yuanyou ignored the ashes, and recited the soul attraction spell again, this time, a small whirlwind suddenly blew on the ground, and the wind rolled up the ashes of the burning rune paper just now, forming two human figures in the air.
One appears to have long hair and the other has short hair.
Yuanyou frowned, how could there be two souls in this talisman, the long-haired one should be a girl, and the short-haired one should be Yu Hui. But this kind of talisman can generally only hold one soul, how can there be two at the same time?
The long-haired human form is slightly sluggish, and it seems that the soul is not sound.
And the short-haired humanoid is very manic.
At this time, the two figures made the same movement, one slow and one fast, towards Chen Xiao.
Chen Xiao's face was cold, and he wanted to improvise.
But seeing Yuanyou's angry eyes, he shouted, bit his finger again, quickly drew runes on his hand, and opened violently towards the two figures in the shape of a fist, like popping out an invisible net, covering them instantly.
The humanoids were manic and twisted, but the invisible force in the air made their movements gradually lose their strength and slowly fell silent.
The three of them in the distance were scared and cold, looking at this strange picture, if it wasn't for Luo Baifan pulling it, Zhong Ye would have run away.
And although Chen Xiao frowned and was alert, he never moved, which made Yuanyou a little surprised, this kid is not ordinary! Don't panic when you encounter this kind of thing.
He thought about it, but without hesitation, he quickly retrieved a small bottle from the package on the ground. This bottle is called the "Seal Charm Bottle", and it is specially used for temporarily storing souls.
The bottle is not long, it is black, the bottle mouth is wrapped in yellow cloth, there are vermilion symbols on the yellow cloth, and the bottom of the bottle is a gossip pattern.
He continued to use his sword fingers to pull another short-haired humanoid into the flag, and not long after the humanoid entered the flag, several cyan balls flew out of the strange symbol in the middle of the flag, and flew through the gap in the circle into the Soul Gathering Sky Lantern.
At this time, the light in the sky lantern was integrated into this thing, and the light suddenly flourished, and a dark gray figure slowly appeared from it after a while, but the appearance was quite strange, it was the whole body inserted into the legs, which was what Yu Hui looked like when he died.
Who is that not a son? Yu Haibo didn't control it and was about to rush forward, but Luo Baifan held his shoulder, he felt his body trembling, and Yu Haibo's eager face and teary eyes looked at him, he shook his head and motioned him not to disturb Yuanyou. The tears kept flowing, and his heart was very excited, but after enduring it, Yu Haibo retreated.
Yuanyou looked at Yu Hui like this, and took out another yellow talisman with symbols and words on it.
He opened his mouth and read: "The Ten Wounds Talisman is perfect, may I wish the sentient beings an early transcendence!"
This charm is the "Ten Wounds Talisman" in Taoism.
These ten wounds are dedicated to the death of the soul of the suicide accident, these lonely souls are very obsessed with death, difficult to get rid of, and caused limb disability in the accident, so after death, it is also very painful, to put it bluntly, it is the time of excess, used to remove the karma before death, to reduce the negative painful impact.
After Yuan You finished reading, the dark gray human form turned into a dark gray phantom.
Yuanyou's left hand middle finger ring finger bent into the palm, thumb, index finger, little finger stretched upward, knot three clear fingers leaned over to buckle the water bowl, right hand knot sword finger into the water bowl, dipping the water and throwing towards the phantom.
The mouth recites "the nectar is moist, sprinkled all over the emptiness, the degree is indulged, and the cold abyss is not stagnant." ”
This water purifies the karmic dirt and removes the dust from the invisible. This water is also called nectar, which symbolizes the universal nectar and the relief of the souls of the dead.
Yuanyou's set, the dark gray phantom gradually turned blue-gray, exuding a faint cold, becoming much clearer, and already had the appearance of life, but this repaired soul didn't seem to be able to see other people in his eyes, and looked ahead blankly.
Yuanyou didn't stagnate much, the soul in front of him had already been overdone, and he was only one step away.
He read a few words aloud in a chanting-like tone.
"High merit transmission of the ring, it's not when to stay at this time, Tianzun will lead the soul to ascend to heaven."
The soul gathering lamp glowed with a hazy blue and white light at this time, I don't know if it was an illusion, Yu Hui's yin soul had a moment of faint a serene smile on his face.
When Chen Xiao saw this, his eyes slowly closed, and then opened them again with a bitter smile.
Yu Hui disappeared.
Yu Haibo didn't rush forward this time, and when he saw his son's soul disappear, he was a big man who knelt on the ground and cried silently.
Yuan You exhaled and turned to look at Chen Xiao, "How can you have a five-way thunder talisman?" ”