I nodded, a little relieved, at least, Weiyang should still be in the village. Then, I said, "Daoist Li, can you set up a formation around this village to prevent the evil cult from taking Weiyang away." This matter, we had better deal with it in the village, we have to go out, the scope is too large, and things will be more troublesome. ”

Li Daochang thought about it for a while and said, "There is a way, as long as there are enough willow strips and cinnabar powder." ”

After listening to Daochang Li's words, the goddess said, "What's so difficult about this. There are willow trees everywhere on both sides of the Fengxi River, and there are as many willow strips as there are. Cinnabar powder, I also have it there, enough for you. ”

"That's good." Li Dao said.

Then, the two of us followed the goddess to the upper reaches of Fengxi to pick willow sticks, and there were no people living upstream, so that this matter was not easy for others to discover, so we would not startle the snake.

Li Daochang said.

The willow strips are exquisite, the south of the river is yin, the north of the river is yang, the so-called Shannan Hebei is yang, the north of the mountain and Henan is yin, thirty-six roots have to be the yang willow of the north of the river, and seventy-two have to be the yin willow of the south of the river.

There are a lot of willow trees along the river, so it's not difficult to accomplish this.

When we were done, we followed the goddess to her house.

Li Daochang used cinnabar powder and light ink to grind cinnabar ink, which was carved on this one hundred and eight wickers.

I've never seen what he depicts, but I just think it's a bit like an astrological chart, as if there are rune patterns. He was skillful and fast, and the goddess next to him was dumbfounded, and from time to time asked me which mountain the two Taoist masters were learning from.

In about an hour, Daochang Li completed the carving of these one hundred and eight wickers. Then, the two of us were led by the goddess Wang to find the corresponding star positions around the village.

I don't understand, but the goddess seems to understand this.

What do you say that the Tiangang position is thirty-six, nailed into the yang willow wood, and the earth evil position is seventy-two, nailed into the yin willow wood.

Every time he found a place, he nailed the willow sticks to the soil and buried them. After all the one hundred and eight positions were nailed, Li Daochang said: "The Tiangang Earth Evil Formation, based on the Yin and Yang willow wood, with this formation, whether it is a person or an evil person in the village, no matter which way you go, you can't go out, and you will go back the same way." ”

The heavens and the earth are in a terrible formation, and it sounds quite powerful.

It's a bit like a ghost hitting a wall, Li Daochang told me that in fact, it's similar to a ghost hitting a wall, and the ghost hitting the wall relies on confusing people's own natural perception of the evil spirit of heaven and earth, and they will lose their original sense of direction, and they will get lost.

I see, however, the goddess said, "I wonder that the evil cult in the village will definitely not leave now." In our Fengxi Village, there are few people who go out to work, so the strong men live in the village. The evil man has eaten the sweetness, and he is probably reluctant to leave! ”

What the goddess said makes sense, but if you don't go out to work, you don't see any livelihood in this village.

The goddess said that there are gold mines in the mountains near the village, and most of the people in the village make a living by alchemizing gold and beneficiation privately. No wonder, this seemingly remote village is basically a two- or three-story building, which is much richer than our village.

There is Li Daochang's magic circle, which is equivalent to multi-layer insurance. Once we make a move, the evil may escape, and when we leave, the evil may come back and harm others.

Everything is ready, Li Daochang and I, go to Wu Xiaogang's house with Wang Shenpo first, and understand the situation first.

Wu Xiaogang's parents died early, and he was the only one in the family. However, there are relatives in the village, and his relatives help him to do all this white thing. The goddess's surname is Liu, and as soon as she entered the door, Wu Xiaogang's relatives went over to greet this Liu goddess, who still has some status in the village.

"Lady Liu, you still have to worry about Xiaogang's affairs. He didn't have a strange person, if he was buried like this, I am afraid it would be difficult to be buried in the ground! Wu Xiaogang said to his uncle.

There is an old custom in Fengxi Village that those who die have to keep seven days and stop for seven days.

Now it's summer again, and if you really stop for seven days, people will stink.

Therefore, it is generally up to the goddess to do things and redress the grievances of the deceased, and then, after a day of rest, you can be buried. If you don't do things, you're afraid that something will happen.

It is said that Fengxi Village had an accident in the Ming Dynasty before, an old lady fell into the river and drowned, and died at the end of her life. Who knows, crawling out of the grave at night, biting the necks of his family, a family of seven, all died overnight, and became extinct.

Therefore, in the village, there is such a custom handed down.

This is precisely the reason why Mrs. Liu has a status in the village. And Liu's family has a heritage, from the Ming Dynasty to the present, the village is her Liu family as a godmother.

After Wu Xiaogang and his uncle finished speaking, Mrs. Liu thought for a while and said, "Ah Zhong, don't worry, I'm here to do this." "Wu Xiaogang, his uncle's name is Wu Azhong.

After Mrs. Liu finished speaking, she took out a pair of white paper shoes with jute soles and said, "Put these shoes on Xiaogang, go to the underworld, the road is far away, and other shoes are not used." ”

Wu Azhong immediately did so, and thanked Mrs. Liu again and again.

When I came, Mrs. Liu told us that Wu Xiaogang was not very popular in the village, and he always made trouble after drinking, so there were relatively few people here.

Li Daochang and I followed Mrs. Liu, the purpose is mainly to see the faces of the villagers, of course, I won't read it, Li Daochang understands this. If the evil is going to harm people, it will definitely be targeted in advance, and then act at night, and those who know how to do it will naturally be able to see who the targeted person is. After finishing this and preparing to leave, Wu Azhong asked, "Lady Liu, when can the Dharma be done?" ”

"Don't worry, I'll go to the pillar's house first, and I'll do it when I come back, don't worry, it's broad daylight now, nothing will happen!" Mrs. Liu said.

Wu Azhong nodded, the bizarre death of people is more taboo about this.

When she arrived at the gate, Mrs. Liu asked in a low voice, are there any problems with the villagers in the courtyard?

Li Daochang said: "There is a young man sitting in the corner of the courtyard, and he must be him tonight." I glanced back, I didn't think it just now, but when I glanced at it, I found a man squatting in the corner. The man was in his early twenties, and he had been sitting in the shade of the corner, his head bowed, and he was weak, and he did not have the vigor that a young man should have.

Mrs. Liu said that the man was Wu Xiaogang's cousin, named Wu Xiaochao, and he liked to drink with Wu Xiaogang.

Li Daochang nodded and said, "This thing is a bit strange, his seal hall is black, and there is a great omen." However, there is no yin and evil spirit on the body, and the one who is haunting is not a ghost or a demon! ”

"It's not a ghost, it's not a demon, what could it be?" I asked.

"I don't know about this yet, let's go to another one first." After Li Daochang finished speaking, Mrs. Liu led the way, and we went to Chen Ligen's house.

Chen Ligen's wife was sitting in the mourning hall, and the whole person was like a lost soul.

Seeing Goddess Liu passing, Chen Ligen's wife got up, cried and asked Goddess Liu to save her husband, and knelt down for Goddess Liu, which made Goddess Liu very helpless. However, this scene is sad to watch.

Several relatives of the Chen family, including Chen Ligen's father, were able to persuade Chen Ligen's wife to talk about it.

Liu Shenpo took out another pair of white paper shoes with jute soles, gave them to Chen Ligen's father, and asked Chen Ligen to put them on.

And told Chen Ligen his father that the two of us are expert friends of the goddess in another village, with high skills, and they were invited by the goddess Liu, and came to see Chen Ligen's corpse, I am afraid that if the time of burial is not right, the corpse will be raised, and it will be troublesome.

As soon as he heard this, Chen Ligen and his father immediately agreed to take me and Daochang Li over. People have become skin and bones, and this death reminds me of my uncle, and I can't help but feel a little uncomfortable.

The autopsy is actually a request made by Li Daochang, and only by looking at the corpse can the cause of death be judged.

After Li Daochang inspected, he said in his face: "Don't worry, it's not strange, but it's not a big deal, just wait for Divine Mother Liu to do the Dharma and bury Ansheng." ”

In private, Li Daochang couldn't help frowning and said, "It's really not ghosts that harm people, nor are they demons. It is a kind of evil art that picks yang and replenishes yin. This kind of evil art is the first of the ten forbidden techniques of the Daomen, and it has disappeared for more than a thousand years, but I didn't expect it to appear again! ”

It's no wonder that the other family, Wu Xiaogang's cousin Wu Xiaochao, was targeted, but there was no yin and evil spirit on his body. It turned out that the person who entangled Wu Xiaochao was not a demon or a ghost, but a person who practiced evil arts.

Li Daochang said.

This kind of evil art is similar to sneaky and demonic things that absorb people's essence, but this kind of evil art is used to harm people in order to improve their own cultivation. The deceased is a man, which means that the harm must be the evil cultivation of Kun Dao, and he used the technique of collecting yang and replenishing yin. Practicing this technique, those young and strong men, is an excellent medicine for them to improve their cultivation.

This is the real cause of death of Chen Ligen and Wu Xiaogang.

Of course, these are all things that Li Daochang said in private, and naturally they can't be spread.

To figure out this, I asked Daochang Li, is there a man who is being targeted in Chen Ligen's yard? Actually, Li Daochang had already seen it, and he said that the man was not in the courtyard, but in the back room of Chen Ligen's house.

I walked over and took a look.

In the back room sat a man, about twenty-two or three years old, wearing glasses, sitting with a dull face. His face was stained with tears, his eyes were red, and he had just cried.

I asked Mrs. Liu, and I found out that this person was Chen Ligen's younger brother, named Chen Litao. Chen Ligen was very good to this younger brother, in order to raise money for his younger brother to go to school, he didn't go to elementary school himself, so he went to refine the ore for other families. Chen Litao had just returned from school at noon, and he had been crying when he saw that his brother was gone.

It seemed too sad, and at this moment, he looked a little sluggish.

Li Daochang said that he was overly sad because of his brother's death, and he was easily targeted. However, he looked sluggish, not because he was overly sad, but because he had been secretly cast a magic spell.

Therefore, the other person tonight is Chen Litao.