Chapter 1: A Terrifying Dream
In the cold and dark corridor, the sound of clattering footsteps kept coming to my ears. An unspeakable panic spread in my heart, and I ran forward desperately, and a rotting female ghost was crawling towards me behind me!
"Help, help, is there anyone?" My desperate cries for help were heard far away in the hallway, but no one answered me, only the female ghost followed me silently, without making a sound.
Just as I felt like I couldn't run anymore and was about to give up, I saw a vague shadow standing quietly in front of the aisle.
"Dude, help me, there's a ghost chasing me from behind, hurry!" Like a drowning man grasping a plank, my exhausted body was once again full of strength, and I rushed towards the shadow.
"Ah~~~~~~h When I saw the man's face, a somewhat distorted cry came out of my mouth.
The "person" in front of me has no face!
It grabbed me by the neck, and the egg-like face actually said to me: "No one can save you today!" With that, it reached out and stabbed me in the chest, and it actually tore out my heart!
My body collapsed to the ground in an instant, my brain "buzzed", and I lost all consciousness.
"Get out of here!" I snapped my eyes open and found that I was still alive, got up and wiped the sweat from my face, and sat on the bed, listening blankly to the sound of my heartbeat of speeding running.
It's this dream again, every year in the middle of July, I always wake up by this nightmare, and every time I have a nightmare, I will be inexplicably injured, and after these two days, my life will return to normal.
My name is Yang Jian, the same name as the legendary Erlang God. I haven't seen my mother since I was a child, and I've heard that my parents divorced when I was very young, and I had to live with my father.
Because I don't look very likable, since I was a child, I was the kind of dead child that my uncle didn't hurt and my aunt didn't love.
I remember my father once told me that my family has offended others, and there is a man in every generation who does not live to be thirteen years old, and every year in July and a half, he will be riddled with nightmares, and in the end, often this unlucky person will choose to kill himself, and my generation, the unlucky person who has nightmares is me.
In the past few years, it was okay, although there were many nightmares, but they would not be repeated, but in the past few years, my dreams have started to become weird, and every time I dream that I have been pierced in the heart by that faceless demon.
It stands to reason that my father should go to the master and the masters to come and see my condition, but my father said that these masters would only ask me to drink some talisman water, and it was useless, so he delayed the matter.
As for me, I can't get rid of the nightmares I should have.
I'm in my first year of junior high school now, and on Saturday, there are no classes, so I turn on my computer and go on to the post bar to see if there's anything new.
"When I first arrived in your land, I gave you the best of you." Seeing such a post, linked to last night's nightmare, there seems to be an invisible force that drove me to click on that post.
It turned out that a Taoist priest from Sichuan came, who was unfamiliar with the place, and wanted to find some people with common words to chat with, and left his contact information.
When I saw this, I thought to myself, yes, why don't I ask him what I mean by this nightmare, maybe there will be some way to get me out.
When I called him and explained the situation, he offered to meet and talk.
In the afternoon, I met him, with short hair, big eyes, thick eyebrows, high forehead, he looked like he was in his fifties, but he felt very energetic.
When we sat in the teahouse, he first asked for my birthday, rubbed his fingers together, and then told me: "You, the man killed by your ancestors, came to ask for your life, but it didn't kill you because you were not yet thirteen years old!" They're going to torture you slowly. If you think about it carefully, do you see blood every year during the Midyear Festival? â
"What's the Midyear Festival?" I asked him, puzzled.
"There are so-called 'three yuan' in China's annual seasons: the fifteenth day of the first month, the middle yuan of the fifteenth day of the seventh month, and the lower yuan of the fifteenth day of October. And the Midyear Festival, which is what you often call the seventh and a half months, the Ghost Festival. The Taoist took a sip of tea and explained to me.
"This, to tell you the truth, I do have nightmares every year in the middle of July, and those days will be particularly unlucky, and I will be injured and bleeding inexplicably." I hesitated for a moment and told him my dream.
After hearing this, the Taoist shook his head: "I can't solve this problem for you right now, but I have two ways now, you can see which one to choose." One is that I will give you a talisman and come to me every six months to change it. The second is that you follow me back, I will teach you the Tao, and you will resolve this grievance yourself. And you're thirteen years old, so be sure to pay attention! This is the year when they come to claim their lives. â
With that, he picked up his teacup and looked at me quietly.
After hesitating for a while, my father would definitely not agree to let me follow someone else, so I asked him for a talisman, and then I told him what I thought, he smiled and took out a talisman from his waist bag and gave it to me: "Remember, the talisman should not be carried below the waist, and the woman's menstrual blood cannot be seen." â
I took the talisman and looked at it, it was a yellow talisman with some symbols written in black ink that I didn't recognize, but I could barely make out that there were three words written on it: "Shot, į , įžĄ".
I hurriedly thanked him and asked for his name. He said that my Dharma name is Shouyi, I am a disciple of Qingwei, I am older than you, you can call me Uncle Yi, you go back first, I have been in this city for the past few days, you can come to me if you have anything.
When I got home, I showed the talisman to my father, and told my father and uncle, who thought it was just a warlock, and didn't care, just told me to hurry up and eat.
At eleven o'clock in the evening, I lay on the bed, holding the talisman in my hand, thinking that it must work, and slowly fell asleep.
Sure enough, I dreamed of a female ghost chasing me again, and I still ran around like a headless fly, and when the egg face was about to reach out and pinch my neck, a flash of light suddenly flashed on my hand, and the egg face was blown out by this yellow light.
As if they understood the power of the yellow talisman in my hand, these two demons no longer dared to come near my side. We confronted each other until the two guys were gone. I opened my eyes and found that it was already morning, looking at the talisman in my hand, I thought that I finally don't have to be entangled by nightmares, and when I am in a good mood, people will naturally become lively.
I hurriedly called my dad to tell me about this, and my dad said that he would invite my uncle to dinner in the evening. At the dinner table that night, my dad thanked Uncle Yi for his kindness and said thank you Uncle Yi for handling this problem for me, but when my father saw Uncle Yi for the first time, his face was unnaturally distorted.
The first uncle shook his head and said to his father: I gave him a charm to cure the symptoms but not the root cause, and if you want to solve this problem fundamentally, you still have to rely on himself.
After speaking, Uncle Yi suddenly laughed weirdly at his father, and said the second method to his father. My father hesitated for a moment and told my uncle that I had been a single-parent family since I was a child, and I was reluctant to let me go.
When I got home after eating, I slowly fell asleep with the talisman in my hand. Again, the two guys didn't dare to come near me, and I laughed triumphantly in my dream.
Just as I was getting carried away, the light in my hand suddenly disappeared! This confuses me, what kind of routine is this?
Before I could react, the two guys grabbed me and tore me in half with both hands!
Lost consciousness again.
I don't know how long later, when I became conscious, I opened my eyes and found myself in a dark environment. Didn't Uncle Yi give me the talisman? How could this happen? Why is there no one around? It's so quiet, it's a little weird, I'm so scared! I want to go home!
I scurried around like a headless ant, but there was no one around, not a single thing, not a single grass, not a single tree, everything was so silent.
When I was younger, I cried urgently, but no matter how much I cried, I never felt any tears coming down.
At this moment, a person finally came in the distance, dressed in black and hat, with a pale face.
He's dressed horrible, but he's the only one I've ever met here!
I caught up and grabbed his clothes: "Hello, may I ask where this is?" Why are you alone? â
The man in black ignored me as if I didn't exist, and walked on his own. I couldn't hold him, and I didn't know what to do for a while, so I could only follow him all the time, and keep going.
I don't know how long I walked, the man in black also disappeared in front of me, I was still alone in the vicinity, when I was on the verge of despair, I suddenly saw someone waving to me in the distance!
I hurried to him, shouting as I ran, hoping he would hear me.
When I ran to him and he turned his head, I cried.
It turned out to be an uncle, and when the first uncle comes, I will definitely be able to go home, right? Thinking of this, my steps were a little faster. "Uncle Yi, help me!"
Uncle Yi's expression was so serious for the first time: "Do you know what kind of place this is?"
I was stunned by the question and subconsciously shook my head.
"The place where you are now is outside the ghost gate of the Yin Division!"
My uncle told me that the original world was divided into three worlds, heaven, earth and man, the heavenly realm was where the immortals and Buddhas were located, the earth realm was where the netherworld was located, and the human realm was the buffer point between the heavenly realm and the earth realm, and the place I am in now is in front of the ghost gate in front of the earth realm.
At the same time, because he twisted his body in his sleep and got the talisman to his feet, the talisman became invalid. Because I was killed by those two creditors, I don't belong to the end of my life, and now I'm in a state of suspended animation, and my uncle came down to save me, but fortunately he found me, otherwise if I stayed in this place for a while, I would have really died.
Speaking of passing through the yin, it is also a secret technique that can be used by gentlemen and Taoist priests with great skills, using the soul to go out of the body, doing things in the lower realm, etc., so I won't mention it here.
When I knew that Uncle Yi was here to save me, I was very excited and quickly thanked Uncle I.
Uncle Yi glared at me: "I'll teach you the method of returning yang first!" â
Uncle Yi told me that I should first believe that I have not passed away, and then recite the golden light mantra, and then there will naturally be a way for me to return to the yang world.
When I heard this, I asked Uncle Yi very suspiciously, "Won't you go back with me?" â
The first uncle replied to me: "You go back first, I still have a little thing to do in the underworld, and I will come back when I am done, by the way, I have already told your father, you are now in my house, don't run around after you return to the yang, wait for me to come back."
"On the way back to the yang, there will be a lot of ghosts who want to keep you, or frightened, or tempted, when you feel scared or can't help it, you will silently recite the mantra of purifying the heart in your heart, and you can naturally reach the yang world safely."
After speaking, Uncle Yi began to teach me the Golden Light Mantra and the Heart Purification Mantra, I don't know why, my brain that usually can't learn anything, this time I actually remembered it in a few clicks, which made me cry out for magic.
After I memorized the mantra, Uncle Yi took out a brass-colored bell from his body and handed it to me, telling me that when I returned to the yang world, if a ghost came to harm me, I would shake the bell vigorously and recite the golden light mantra in my mouth, so that I could protect myself.
After ordering everything, Uncle Yi urged me to go back quickly, for after a long time, I was afraid that my flesh would be eaten by wild beasts.
Seeing Uncle Yi standing next to me, I silently thought in my heart that I was not dead, I was not dead, and then shouted out the golden light mantra, and as the mantra was finished, a glimmer of light suddenly appeared in front of my eyes!
Uncle Yi told me to walk along the bright light, and then I could go back. I said goodbye to my uncle, held the bell tightly in my hand, and walked towards the light.