Chapter 130: Soul Banner
Wang Dalang told me that we need to use the incense ashes we brought to sprinkle on both sides of the river where the driftwood appeared. (Good Novel)
When sprinkling incense ash, sprinkle the incense ash on both sides of the river in a linear shape, so that you can save some incense ash and try to lengthen the length of the incense ash covering.
After Wang Dalang finished talking about this, he took out the hemp rope he had braided with eight strands of braid from his satchel, and said that after sprinkling the incense ash, he also needed to use the hemp rope to connect the incense ash threads on both sides of the river.
There is no bridge on both sides of the river in front of you to pass, so if you want to complete Wang Dalang's requirements, you must cross the river.
Wang Dalang is a cold leg, the most taboo is to be cold, how can I not let Wang Dalang wade across the river. Even though it's spring, the temperature outside is still a bit low today.
Although the water in the river is crystal clear, and there is nothing unusual in the daytime, it is because of the driftwood problem, and I still have a heart to wade across the river.
When I looked at the river in front of me, Wang Dalang had already taken off his shoes and rolled up his trouser legs to prepare for the water.
Wang Dalang laughed, praising me for being considerate, he was blessed, and he didn't refuse my suggestion.
Dividing the incense ash in two, I carried a backpack on my back, carried one end of two hemp ropes, and half of the incense ash, and began to wade across the river.
The temperature of the river water is different from the cold of ordinary river water outside, but it is cold to the bone. The first time I stepped into the river, I couldn't help but shiver.
Wang Dalang voiced behind me, saying that if he couldn't stand the cold, then he would have come. I shook my head and said it was okay and continued wading across the river.
The river is shallow, and the deepest part is only up to my knees, but the more I go to the middle of the river, the more I feel that the water temperature is lowering, and the cold is my teeth fighting.
I could clearly see in the reflection of the river that I was at the moment, my lips had turned blue and my face was pale.
I was already sick to the river, but now I feel the extraordinary temperature change of the river, and when I see myself at the moment, I just feel a little numb in my scalp.
I waded across the river faster, no longer looking at the reflection of the river, and only wanted to reach the other side of the river as soon as possible.
When I finally arrived at the other side, I pulled the hemp rope and walked in the same direction with Wang Dalang, and after walking a long distance, I nailed the end of a hemp rope to the ground.
Wang Dalang was on the other side of the river, and he also nailed the hemp rope I nailed to the ground. [A lot of good novels]
On this side of the riverbank, the ground is full of mud, and the nailing action is easy to solve, but the riverbank on Wang Dalang's side is a beach, and his nailing action is not so easy to complete.
I watched Wang Dalang on the other side of the river and kept digging the sand, until he reached the soil under the sand, and Wang Dalang nailed the other end of the rope into the ground.
Wang Dalang raised his voice and told me that I could start, and I followed the end of the hemp rope and began to sprinkle one with incense ash, along the line on the bank of the river, until the incense ash was used up, and then I nailed the end of the other rope into the ground.
Straightening up from the ground, I looked in the direction of Wang Dalang, Wang Dalang's side of the incense ash has not been used up, but because I have no incense ash to continue to draw the line, Wang Dalang also stopped sprinkling the incense ash, and was cutting sand and nailing.
I waded across the river again and joined Wang Dalang.
After crossing the river, I wiped the water off my legs and put on my shoes and socks so that I could feel warmer.
After putting on my shoes and socks, I told Wang Dalang that the water was cold to the bone, and the temperature dropped significantly in the center of the river.
After listening to my words, Wang Dalang's forehead wrinkled, and his eyes glanced at the river again.
Wang Dalang told me that the hemp rope he used was specially made.
These hemp ropes were all hemp ropes that had been soaked in menstrual blood for two hours, and as I could see, the hemp ropes were braided together with eight strands.
Menstrual blood is considered by many to be the most filthy thing in the world, but it has many wonderful uses.
Soaking hemp rope with menstrual blood can enhance the mana of hemp rope to ward off evil spirits.
The hemp rope is braided together with eight strands, which copes with the echo of the eight immortals crossing the sea and the eight directions, which can also enhance the power of the hemp rope to ward off evil spirits.
Wang Dalang said that this formation is called the hunting array, although it looks simple and cannot harm the aliens, but it can trap the aliens that appear in the encirclement of the formation, so that they cannot escape.
After Wang Dalang finished speaking, he took out a finished soul-attracting banner from his satchel.
The soul-attracting banner that Wang Dalang took out is a universal soul-attracting banner of the Manchus.
A red cloth more than three feet long, the red cloth is torn into three pieces, the middle width is wide, and the sides are narrow and slightly shorter. The upper end is inlaid with a triangular black cloth flag, the lower side is inlaid with five-fingered black smut, and the lower middle is inlaid with serrated black smut.
The soul flag is a symbol of Manchu funeral, a flag that hangs vertically and is used to attract ghosts during funerals.
It is propped up with a long bamboo pole and placed next to the body until the deceased is left for funeral.
At the time of the funeral, the eldest grandson or eldest son generally holds up the soul flag and walks at the forefront of the funeral procession. When holding the Soul Banner, its rod rests against its chest, but it grabs over its head.
After the deceased is buried in the grave, the soul banner will be inserted on the tomb until it is gone with the wind.
Ordinary people use soul-attracting flags at home, but because of their customs, they cannot play a role in attracting souls.
In order for the Soul Attracting Banner to play a real role in attracting souls, it is necessary for someone who knows how to attract souls to cast spells.
Wang Dalang took out a bamboo pole to prop up the soul-attracting flag, and explained to me that the Manchu soul-attracting banner is the most effective of all the soul-attracting flags.
The driftwood that only appears in the river at night must be haunted by ghosts, but the haunting ghosts appear in the form of driftwood.
The ghosts of those who die in this river are most likely to be controlled by driftwood ghosts in order to strengthen their own strength.
The driftwood in this river is very old, and it should have killed many people. Prepare a Soul Banner to lure souls and weaken the power of driftwood.
Wang Dalang erected the soul-attracting banner on the river beach, and then returned to Chen Li's house with me to rest, just wait for night to fall, and then we will return to the river.
Wang Dalang and I returned to Chen Li's house, and all the people gathered at Chen Li's house gathered around and asked Wang Dalang and me if they were ready to deal with the driftwood in the river.
Wang Dalang frowned unhappily, and Chen Li immediately pronounced it to silence everyone.
Chen Li let me and Wang Dalang into the main room to drink water, and went outside to dismiss everyone, telling everyone that they want to know the result and hurry up early tomorrow, don't disturb the master here.
Everyone left, and Chen Li's family quieted down. Wang Dalang and I rested at Chen Li's house until five o'clock in the afternoon, and after dinner, we went to the river again.
When he arrived at the river, Wang Dalang took out a paper man and a brush dipped in cinnabar from his satchel, and took out a belt-like object from his satchel and tied it around his waist.
I looked at the object, the pure black leather surface, and I didn't understand what kind of weapon Wang Dalang was.
Wang Dalang smiled and said that this is the bottom of his pressure box, if it weren't for Chen Li's miraculous talk about this driftwood, he wouldn't have used this object lightly.
Based on my understanding of Wang Dalang, he is now purely covetous, and he will not tell me what the object is and what it is used for.
Night has finally arrived.
Wang Dalang lit the yellow mounted paper, then erected three sticks of incense on the river beach, stood next to the soul-attracting flag, urged the soul-attracting flag with a spell, and then threw a few paper figures at the river, staring at the paper figures hovering above the river, unable to take his eyes off it.
I clenched the Soul Eater whip in my hand and waited for it.
The driftwood in the river did not show the surface of the river when night fell, as Chen Li said.
In such a situation, let me and Wang Dalang look at each other, I saw that Wang Dalang's eyes were cautious and affectionate, and my mood was also raised.
As time passed, there was no movement on the surface of the river, but the icy breath overflowing from the river water became more and more intense and obvious.
The incense lit on the river beach was changed five or six times, and the yellow mounted paper that Wang Dalang and I carried with us ran out, and the soul-attracting banner finally began to be windless and automatic.
Wang Dalang told me not to leave him for a while, and when the driftwood appeared, I would keep urging the soul attraction, and the spell would not stop for a moment, so I nodded in response.
At this moment, the sky is dark, there are only me and Wang Dalang on the river beach, and there is silence around, so quiet that Wang Dalang and I can hear each other's breathing.
In such an environment, my nervous palms were sweaty, and my vigilant gaze was watching my surroundings.
The spirit banner is windless and automatic, and the paper figure hovering above the river rotates even faster, but the driftwood on the river still does not appear. Until the time of the child, the driftwood finally appears.
When I saw the driftwood floating on the surface of the river, my scalp tingled.
Because the ghosts in my eyes are all the same as when they were dying, and the driftwood in my eyes is an enlarged version of the swollen body of a drowning man, lying face up on the water. The level of the driftwood ghost is beyond the level of the ghost of the devil.
On the driftwood, as Uncle Wang said, there were dense ghosts standing.
Looking at the appearance of those ghosts soaked in water to puffiness, the dense state was intuitively presented in front of my eyes, and I felt sick to my stomach in horror.
The paper figures hovering above the river, the moment the driftwood appears, surround the driftwood and rotate around it.
The windless automatic soul attraction, the flag at this moment is straight, and it has been 90 degrees from the ground.
I clenched the Soul Devouring Whip and began to urge the Soul Attracting Banner incantation continuously according to Wang Dalang's prompts, not within three steps of Wang Dalang.
Wang Dalang quickly drew the characters on the paper figure with a brush, and threw all the paper figures in his hand in the direction of driftwood.
I noticed that as I began to uninterruptedly urge the Soul Banner spell, the white and swollen face of the Spirits on the driftwood turned to the Soul Banner and began to agitate. It's like trying to get out of driftwood but can't do it, and the ghost is unstable.
Seeing this, I accelerated the Soul Attracting Banner spell.
Wang Dalang quickly completed the engraving of the paper figures in his hand and threw them all in the direction of driftwood.
The paper figures circled around the driftwood, the ghostly aura on the driftwood becoming more and more unstable, and the driftwood spinning rapidly on the surface of the water.
The rapidly rotating driftwood splashed and wet the paper figures hovering around it, and the paper figures fell to the surface of the water.
The driftwood ghost, with a rough laugh, actually stood up from the water.