Chapter 52: The Offering Table

I had the feeling that while we were fleeing to the gate, the corpse was looking for us in the fog.

After it was far away, I tentatively took Liu Shangang and Liang Houzai back a few steps, and then stopped to listen carefully to the sound in the fog, it did not turn back, and the friction sound was gradually getting farther away. After that, I subconsciously quickened my pace, and we had to leave the temple before it found us.

Liu Shangang's feet were a little weak, and I couldn't keep up with my speed, so I could only hold his armpit with one hand, hold the sweater in my mouth, and only free the other hand to pull the yarn.

Because I walked too fast and couldn't see the road, I almost fell down a few times, and every time Liang Houzai felt that my center of gravity was unstable, he would reach out to help me.

Although Liang Houzai was also nervous, he was a disciple of the corpse chaser after all, and he was somewhat mentally prepared for encountering an evil corpse.

Along the way, none of the three of us dared to speak, but retreated with our heads down.

Every second has become a long time for me. Just as I was hoping to find my life soon, something hit me on my back.

It felt like something behind me was suddenly blocked when I was backing down, and it was a strange feeling, as if something behind me wasn't hitting me, but coming towards me.

Is it an evil corpse?

I was so shocked that I couldn't help but look back.

Behind me was not an evil corpse, but a yellow cloth table, and my waist was now on the corner of the table.

On the table was an incense burner with a column of unburned incense, as well as cinnabar, a brush and some yellow paper for drawing talismans, and a translucent glass jar with a note on the altar that read: Glutinous rice wine.

It is not uncommon for the Taoist temple to appear on the offering table, but the strange thing is that the jar of glutinous rice wine, in our place, does not produce glutinous rice, most of the bulk wine on the market is corn wine, sorghum wine, and ordinary people will not buy glutinous rice to make wine. What's more, such a jar of wine was actually placed on the offering table.

I was feeling strange in my heart, so I felt a sudden tightness in my hand, and I quickly looked at my hand, only to find that the yarn I was holding in my hand was broken!

At that time, I had a very ominous premonition, and when I looked at the ground, I saw the red wool I had laid on the ground and didn't know where it went.

The man hiding in the mist ripped off my yarn, this kind of thing can't be done by an evil corpse, it's definitely a human!

I looked at my torn sweater again, and now there was only one collar left.

Liang Houzai also noticed this, and he turned his head and looked at me with a pale face.

I didn't dare to speak, and pointed to the offering table behind me, Liang Houzai saw the cinnabar and rune paper on the offering table at a glance, and he immediately understood what I meant, and nodded at me.

Although I don't know much about the lineage of corpse chasers, I know that Liang Houzai has always retained the orthodox inheritance of Chenzhou Fu in their hands. The cinnabar and rune paper in front of us may be our hope.

The three of us lowered the sound of our footsteps and slowly made our way to the shared table. He didn't dare to speak, so he took a brush and dipped it in cinnabar and wrote on a piece of rune paper.

Liang Houzai picked up the pen and wrote on the paper: "There are evil corpses." His hands trembled slightly as he held the pen, and he wrote the three words crookedly.

I nodded at him, took the pen and wrote, "Corpse Suppression Talisman, Evil Talisman." "As I wrote these words, I tried my best to hold my hand. I can't show nervousness, otherwise Liu Shangang and Liang Houzai will not be able to hold on.

I had asked Liang Houzai for Chenzhou talisman at the behest of my master before, so I also knew that their vein was very proficient in the two spirit runes of corpse suppression and evil spirit, and their evil talisman could also be used to drive away the yin qi, and once the yin qi dispersed, the mist might be able to disperse.

Although I also know that Liang Houzai can only barely touch the threshold of Sicun now, it is not an easy task for him to draw these two kinds of talismans. But I still have to make a look of reassurance on my face.

Liang Houzai hesitated for a moment and nodded firmly at me.

I wrote on the paper again: "The evil corpse appeared, and poured it with wine." After I finished writing, I pointed to the wine jar and then to Liu Shangang.

Liu Shangang sighed and picked up the glutinous rice wine.

As for me, my master hasn't taught me how to make talismans, but I still have the Walking Gang and Tiangang locks, no matter how bad they are, I also have the black water corpse coffin on my back.

After that, Liu Shangang and I stayed at the offering table left and right, and Liang Houzai lifted the pen and froze.

On the surface, I deliberately pretended to be more relaxed, but in my heart I was very worried about Liang Houzai.

I once heard Master say that although Grandpa Li is a disciple of the corpse chaser, his real housekeeping skills are the ancient witchcraft that has been secretly passed down by the descendants of Yelang Kingdom. In terms of practicality and efficiency, the inheritance of the Zhengyi lineage may be better than Li Liang's witchcraft, but in terms of power and danger, those ancient witchcraft are not much better than ours.

The danger in Master's mouth is the backlash that the caster receives when he casts a spell.

I have personally experienced the danger of walking gang, and if it weren't for my weak mind, I would probably have taken my life on the spot.

I don't know if Grandpa Li mixed his ancient witchcraft into the Chenzhou talisman when he taught Liang Houzai's skills, but even if he didn't mix it, drawing the talisman was an extremely mind-consuming thing.

Liang Houzai held the brush and did not move, he deliberately made his breathing very long, as if he was really exploring his own mental power. I saw beads of sweat running down his forehead, and my heart became even more worried.

I wanted Liang Houzai to stop, but I didn't dare to interrupt him at this time.

Five minutes passed, Liang Houzai did not move, and ten minutes passed, Liang Houzai still did not move.

During this period of time, the friction sound of "banging and lala" appeared twice, and every time this sound appeared, Liu Shangang hugged the wine jar in his arms tightly, looking extremely nervous.

After a few more minutes, Liang Houzai suddenly dropped his pen and drew on the rune paper. After the painting was finished, Liang Houzai held the brush upside down, hit the talisman paper three times with the tip of the pen, and then clenched his fist, stretched out his index finger and ring finger, and drew the talisman.

After drawing a spirit rune, Liang Houzai stood motionless again, sweat had soaked his hair at this time, and even the tip of his nose was covered with beads of sweat.

asked him to draw two spirit runes at a time, but it was still too reluctant.

Another ten minutes passed, and when Liang Houzai put down the pen again, there was not even a little blood on his face, and I felt as if his whole person was about to be hollowed out.

The hand he held the pen was still very steady, and it was still done in one go.

But after drawing this talisman, Liang Houzai's body went limp, and the whole person collapsed. I rushed over to hold him steady, and he gasped, looked at me with a prostrated expression, and struggled to raise a hand, pointing at one of the talismans, and then pointing around.

I understand what he meant, this spirit talisman is used to dispel yin qi to ward off evil spirits, and the other is a corpse suppression talisman.

I knew that he would be weak like this after drawing the talisman, so I shouldn't have asked him to draw that corpse talisman. If you want to escape from here, it is necessary to dispel the yin qi, but that corpse suppression talisman, I just want to use it in the past.

Liang Houzai picked up the evil charm and pointed his finger at my forehead, he asked me to use my mental power to urge this talisman.

I temporarily handed over Liang Houzai to Liu Shangang to take care of, then picked up the evil talisman, took a deep breath, silently recited the Three Corpses Recipe and the Tao Te Ching in my heart, and repeatedly practiced meditation several times, and suddenly a flash of inspiration appeared in my mind.

This spiritual light is my mental power!

My cultivation is too shallow, and I can't accumulate my mental power like Master, and the moment this spiritual light flashes is the moment when my mental power is the strongest. I waved my hand and threw the spirit talisman into the sky, only then did I remember that I was in too much of a hurry just now, and I forgot to ask Liang Houzai how this talisman should be activated.

I was afraid that I would waste this talisman, so I quickly turned around to look at Liang Houzai, and saw that he nodded at me and gave me a thumbs up. I was relieved that nothing had gone wrong.

The talisman didn't turn into a golden light and gallop out as I had imagined. It only swung in the air a few times before falling lightly to the ground.

But just as it hit the ground, I could clearly feel that the yin qi around it had thinned out a lot, and even the fog had thinned.

Just when I thought that this talisman could really dispel all the yin energy, I realized that I was still too naïve. A moment later, the spirit runes on the ground suddenly caught fire, and in the blink of an eye, they turned into a pile of ashes, and the surrounding mist and yin qi began to slowly gather towards us.

Liang Houzai's Taoism and I are still too shallow after all.

My heart was heavy, but I still had to make a relaxed look on my face, so I turned around, intending to give Liang Houzai a smile on their faces.

But when my eyes fell on Liang Houzai's back, I couldn't laugh anyway.

In the fog behind him, I don't know when an unusually tall figure appeared, I couldn't see the appearance of the person clearly, I could only vaguely see him raise his arms, just his upper arms, which were thicker than an adult's waist.

I faced Liang Houzai, and Liang Houzai also saw the expression on my face, he realized the danger for the first time, kicked Liu Shangang under the offering table, and then shrank up and rolled under the offering table.

Just as Liang Houzai's body had just gotten under the offering table, the arm of the person behind him fell violently, and he saw an iron chain the thickness of a baby's arm, smashing on the ground with the sound of whistling wind.

There was a loud bang, and the heavy stone slab was smashed by the iron chain in an instant, and the broken stones mixed with dust flew everywhere, and even the offering table was swept upside down by the strong wind stirred up by this huge force.

The location where the chain hit was where Liang Houzai and Liu Shangang stood just now.

If it wasn't for Liang Houzai's quick reaction just now, if the target of this iron chain was the offering table not far away, I couldn't imagine what the consequences would be.

Liu Shangang kept getting up all the time, set up a beam and a thick load, and retreated to my side as if fleeing for his life.