Chapter 7: Outwitting Female Ghosts
Vaguely seeing the crying woman on the bluestone, Wu Chengxi was puzzled. In the heart of this simple mountain village farmer, the feelings for this woman are strange and sympathetic. The strange thing is that she didn't go home in the middle of the night, but sat on the bluestone of this barren mountain and wilderness, sympathizing with her that she was alone, hiding her face and crying in this gloomy and terrifying place.
"Whose kid are you? How did you get here? Wu Chengxi was moved by compassion, and only thought that the daughter of the family was lost in this barren mountain, so she strayed into the forbidden land of Longshan, and couldn't help but step forward to comfort him, Zhang Zefang hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop him.
Maoshan disciples will receive Taoist baptism when they enter, one of which is to open the eyes of heaven, and the disciples of Maoshan who have opened the eyes of heaven have different visual powers from mortals, at this time, Zhang Zeyi saw that the woman's back was full of shadows, psychedelic, and it could be concluded that she was by no means human.
"Girl, why are you crying?" Zhang Zefang will do his best, planning not to expose her true face first, in order to probe the other party's reality.
The woman stopped sobbing when she heard this, and slowly turned around, only to see that she was extremely handsome, with a fair complexion, a pair of big eyes looking forward to love, but there was more sorrow between her eyebrows, Zhang Zefang's heart moved slightly, and then stabilized her mind, and secretly scolded herself for being bewitched by the charm, it seems that her cultivation is far from enough.
The woman glanced at Zhang Zefang sadly, and got up slowly, wearing a gorgeous dress that showed more elegant temperament, but the knots and style design of the clothes were by no means the dress customs of the Republic of China. From this, Zhang Zefang concluded that this woman was either a ghost or a demon, but unfortunately there were no grapefruit leaves or willow leaves on her body, so she couldn't see her true face.
In the Maoshan Taoism, dip grapefruit leaves or willow leaves in the runic water of the psychic talisman, and then rub them on the eyelids, you can open the yin and yang eyes, and you can see the true face of demons and monsters.
"The little girl accompanied her father to Beijing to catch the exam, but she contracted an illness on the way, and it happened that my father's exam date had arrived, and he had no time to take care of me, so he entrusted the dart bureau to send me back to my hometown. Helplessly, they met robbers on the road, they coveted the beauty of the little woman, poisoned all the dart masters, intended to mistreat the little woman, in order to avoid humiliation, the little woman hit the wall in anger and died. The woman recounted the past leisurely, and at this point she began to weep again.
The woman's words startled both Zhang Zefang and Wu Chengxi, Wu Chengxi's fear was naturally because he didn't expect that the woman in front of him was actually a ghost, and Zhang Zefang was because the woman actually made it clear that she was a female ghost, and she tactfully told her miserable life experience, which was completely unexpected by him.
However, Zhang Zefang didn't believe the words of the female ghost, and he scolded angrily: "Nonsense! What exactly are your intentions? Let's make it clear! ”
The female ghost sighed resentfully, begging, and said, "I just want to ask you for a favor for me." ”
"What's the busy?" Zhang Zefang knows very well in his heart that the words of the female ghost can only be regarded as a deaf ear, if she listens to her, it is a ghost who is obsessed, but she still has to ask to understand, because the matter that a female ghost needs help from others is often something that has a restraining effect on herself.
"There's a mirror on the top of the stone lion's head over there, which I lost back then, can you help me take it down?" The female ghost's tone was weak and pitiful.
Wu Chengxi hid behind Zhang Zefang in horror, gently pulled the hem of Zhang Zefang's clothes, and signaled not to be fooled. This action is just a superfluous move in Zhang Zefang's eyes, if he didn't even understand the conspiracy of this female ghost, he would have been a Taoist priest for more than 20 years.
Not only that, Zhang Zefang also suddenly understood, why did the mana of the Seven Evil Soul Locking Array he saw when he first entered the mountain be weak, but he could still trap this female ghost? It turns out that there is another mystery on the lion head of the mountain guarding lion, this female ghost is talking about a mirror, then it must be a gossip concave mirror, which is used to absorb the light of the scorching sun during the day, and with the Seven Evil Soul Locking Array, even at night, it can also trap the ghost in the mountain firmly.
The Taoist Bagua Concave Mirror has the effect of gathering the spirit, and the Maoshan faction's Seven Evil Soul Locking Array is a very vicious one in the Maoshan Formation, which is guarded by the Seven Evil Spirits, the strongest of the formation is unpredictable, stepping on the eight doors, pulling a hair and moving the whole body, day and night to devour the souls detained in the formation, until the soul is scattered, just like human beings are tortured by thousands of knives, they will not die immediately, but will slowly dry your life, this formation requires the caster to have very high mana, Otherwise, it is impossible to drive the Seven Demons to lock the soul, and at the same time, the caster must be very ruthless or even cruel in order to attract the Seven Demons to drive the formation.
It was expected that the Taoist priest who set up the array back then must be a compassionate person and could not drive the Seven Evil Soul Locking Array, so the power of the Seven Evil Soul Locking Array was extremely weak, and he also knew this, so he placed the Bagua Concave Mirror on the key position of the mountain lion to gather yang energy, which suppressed the yin spirit in the mountain.
However, Zhang Zefang also understood one thing, there must be an extremely evil demon in this mountain, otherwise he would not have used the vicious and safest formation of the Seven Evil Soul Locking Array back then. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but sweat.
Seeing that he was silent in thought, the female ghost continued to beg: "It's just a mirror, just help me take it down." ”
"If I take the mirror down, will you take the opportunity to escape from this mountain and harm the world?" Zhang Zefang sneered, and directly exposed the tricks of the female ghost without any scruples, now that he has a basic understanding of the situation of the female ghost, it is only a matter of time before he tears his face. Besides, the most urgent thing at the moment is to recall Wu Zhiyuan's soul, and he can't delay too much time.
"How so? It was just my normal mirror for dressing. The female ghost was stunned, and continued to pretend, revealing a poignant expression.
"Hmph, isn't that a gossip concave mirror that gathers yang and controls yin?" Zhang Zefang snorted coldly, and at the same time put the paper flag in his left hand into the porcelain plate in his right hand, ready to do it.
Sure enough, when the female ghost saw that the conspiracy was revealed, she became angry and screamed, revealing her true face, only to see her hair scattered, green face and fangs, half of her face as if it had been skinned, and her flesh and blood were blurred.
Although Wu Chengxi couldn't see it very clearly, this sudden change still surprised him and cried out. In a hurry, Zhang Zefang turned around and stuffed the porcelain plate in his hand into Wu Chengxi's hand, took his left hand out of his arms, and added a Dao talisman between his two fingers.
Zhang Zefang recited the mantra: "Rush to follow the order of the ancestor Maoshan, sweep away the ghosts and evil spirits, rush to serve the order of the Taishang Laojun, and exorcise demons and kill demons mercilessly." I am as anxious as the law of Patriarch Sanmao! This spell was recited extremely quickly, only a second before and after, and Wu Chengxi, as a bystander, didn't hear a word at all.
As soon as the word "Ling" fell, Zhang Zefang's left hand shook, and the Dao talisman sandwiched between the two fingers spontaneously combusted without fire, and then the two fingers of the right hand aimed at the burning Dao talisman and pointed at the female ghost, and with a "whoosh" sound, a line of fire shot straight towards the female ghost.
"It turned out to be a Taoist priest!" The female ghost was not without surprise, Zhang Zefang was not wearing a Taoist robe, and it was not until the moment he showed the Dao talisman that the female ghost knew his identity, so she said angrily: "What else will you stinky Taoist priests do except Samadhi True Fire?" ”
The female ghost then showed her hands, the nails on her hands suddenly became longer, and she stretched out suddenly, and the sharp claws actually broke away from her arms, and flew towards Zhang Zefang like eyes.
Zhang Zefang took offense as defense, and once again used the Samadhi True Fire, the True Fire shot straight towards a ghost claw on the right side of the female ghost, the female ghost retreated, and the left arm was retracted, and the ghost claw returned to the female ghost's wrist. At the same time, Zhang Zefang's body turned to the right side of Lu, just avoiding the oncoming other ghost claw. The ghost claw swooped into the air, shoehorning into a pile of rocks behind it.
The female ghost roared and withdrew the ghost's claws that had been inserted into the crack in the stone. I saw her flash suddenly, and before she could blink, she came to Zhang Zefang, and suddenly stretched out her pair of sharp claws and choked Zhang Zefang's neck.
There is also a Taoist technique in this Maoshan faction that can be realized, called the shape-shifting shadow technique, but when you cast it, you have to make a trick and chant a spell at the same time, so the preliminary preparation is more cumbersome, and it will not be as fast as lightning like a female ghost, so Zhang Zefang was really taken aback by this instantaneous change of the female ghost, but before he could react, he only felt that his neck was getting tighter and tighter, and he was almost about to break.