I nodded violently, and I didn't know if I felt like it from the beginning or if I felt like it when I was guided by Master like this.

Because at the beginning, the two villagers separately described the image of the black-robed female ghost, especially the person who witnessed it, so that I actually sketched a general appearance of this female ghost in my heart.

Seeing the talisman ashes in the bowl gradually put together into a human shape, it is really very similar to the one in my heart. But I told Master that there was a difference, because according to the villagers, the woman was very tall and wore a hat, and now the black shadow in the bowl is in the shape of a person, but the color of her head is much lighter, and it doesn't look like she is wearing a hat.

Master said that this is one of the water methods, and it is called the Circular Light Technique. Here, the bowl is used as a circle, and the water is used as a mirror, and the image in the water, under the guidance of the chanting mantra, will directly present an answer related to the ghost here.

This method can ask all kinds of things in the Three Realms and Six Realms, looking for people and things, and evil and ghost things, all of which can be checked. Therefore, whether the person in this water is the black-robed female ghost or not, it can be shown that there must be a connection between them at this moment.

What Master told me was a conclusion and judgment, for me there are too many processes that I don't understand, so I asked Master to explain to me a little more clearly, but Master said, this Yuanguang technique is one of the water methods, and it is also one of the most important means for our school to investigate and ask about things, it is relatively easy to get started, but it is more difficult to learn it, don't worry, after going back after this trip, this is one of your introductory homework.

Before coming here, I still remember Master's fleeting worry, and I think he clearly underestimated me at this moment, and I didn't flinch and be afraid of me when I first came into contact with this kind of incident, and I didn't act recklessly, so I guess he should be very relieved.

The master took out a small handful of rice from his bosom, picked seven of them, and sprinkled the rest around the bowl, but threw the seven grains of rice on the surface of the water in the bowl, and the dried rice grains naturally floated when they encountered the water. He said as if he was deliberately asking, dare to ask what kind of immortal this place is, the poor Dao wants to maintain the justice of heaven and earth here, I don't know if you immortals let me not let me!

Master's voice was a little low, probably because he was worried that the eldest sister would hear it. But he said it so literately, which made me feel a little funny. But if I laughed at this moment, I would have been beaten, so I could only endure it, and at this moment, the rice grains that were originally floating on the water suddenly sank into two grains. The master opened his mouth again and said, if the immortals heard it, they should sink one first, and then two.

A few seconds after the words fell, the rice grains on the water really sank one after the other, this time I couldn't laugh out, I thought it was too magical, since the master was asking, and the rice grains reacted unanimously with the master's questioning, which shows that at this moment, it is the ghost in the bowl that is controlled by the master's water method?

Master went on to say, those who follow me prosper and those who disobey me perish, if the gods obey me, they all sink, and if they go against me, they will float two grains of rice! I couldn't take my eyes off the water, because I knew that the next movement of the rice grains would almost determine what we would do next. I saw that the rice grains that had sunk at the bottom of the bowl swayed and floated up two more.

Master said to me expressionlessly, this is fun, this guy has done it with us, so it's okay, since you have to fight hard, it's much easier.

So Master stood up, threw out the water in the bowl with his hand, and said to me, let's go, go back and have something to eat, investigate it again in the afternoon, and come back to clean it up when it gets dark.

Judging from Master's tone, he should still be very sure about this matter, and I was a lot more relieved, and since I couldn't help with anything else, I could only follow Master back to Mr. Liu's house.

During lunch, the master briefly told Mr. Liu about the situation, and he said that according to the information we have so far, the strange things in the village should be related to the arrival of the construction team, which is a bit similar to the situation that everyone initially guessed, and it was indeed caused by the construction team lighting explosives, but it was not because they scared away the leopard women and ghosts, but because they blew up the cellar of the church.

There must have been something in the cellar that had been blown up, and we found evidence of the existence of the ghost at the scene, but the black-robed female ghost on the side of the hill and the grove didn't seem to be the one we found at the scene.

Mr. Liu was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, do you mean, there is more than one ghost in our village? Master nodded and said, "It is very likely that this is the case, judging from the strange things you have done in the grove before, including the villager who directly witnessed the female ghost, judging from your condition, you were only frightened, and you did not encounter any other harm. Ghosts often have a certain purpose, and every time they appear in physical form, they actually need to take a lot of risks.

So what you're going to happen feels more like a prank, and as for why, I don't know yet. However, the ghost we found in the cellar of the church had a clear attitude against me, and if we refused to let each other go, we would naturally have to fight each other, and this attitude was completely different from what you encountered in the grove.

Mr. Liu hurriedly said, could it be a lie to you? Maybe the ghost you found was just trying to scare you into playing a prank? Master shook his head and said, "That's impossible, the Yuanguang technique is equivalent to us borrowing an eye to peek at other people's secrets, since it is a secret, it must be something that is hidden and not revealed, since it is hidden, it must be a true idea, in other words, since it says that it will be against us, it will definitely be against us.

So I suggested Master, why don't you also go to the edge of the grove where you first saw ghosts? In this way, the two sides will be able to prove whether Master's guess is right or wrong. Master said that he would definitely go, so let's leave after eating.

He turned his head and said to Mr. Liu, I'm sorry for your old man, and I'll show us the way later.

After lunch, under the guidance of Mr. Liu, Master took me to the place where the incident occurred. It is the pass of a small hill, with another slightly higher hill on one side and a forest on the other, which covers the entire hill and stretches to the other mountain, although the locals call it a small forest, but it is not small at all. This place is a necessary way in and out of the village, and the narrow passage can only pass two ox carts in parallel.

Mr. Liu told us that they escaped from the grove that day, and they hid in the position where we are standing now, and the first sighting of the black-robed female ghost by the villagers was also in this place.

However, the several sightings that have occurred one after another are not in the current location, but they are not far from here. The Master looked around, leaned over to the edge of the grove, and sniffed with his nose.

Then the Master returned to the side of the road and took out a stack of paper money from his bag, a small wooden sword the length of a dagger, a token that turned red and black, a small wine glass, and a hand bell. I know this bell, the same bell that Master asked us to bring home when my uncle's teahouse was haunted.

I saw that the master divided the paper money into three piles and arranged them in a triangular shape, and then the master lit three sticks of incense and inserted them on the curb behind the three piles of paper money. Then the master picked up the small wooden sword, and the wooden sword passed through the smoke that rose from the incense, and the smoke began to swing with the swing of the small wooden sword. The master clasped his left hand and placed it flat in front of his lower abdomen, and his feet stepped on the gang, and the mantra in his mouth was accompanied by the dance of the small wooden sword.

Because the tone of Master's mantra is a bit like singing, but the words are obscure and not easy to understand, which roughly means that something is at my command. Then the master put the small wooden sword flat on the three piles of paper money, and took out a small handful of rice grains from his arms, and put them into the small wine glass, the ring finger of the middle finger of his left hand was bent, and the little finger of the thumb and index finger was stretched out, and he held the small wine glass filled with rice in his hand, and the hand became a wine cup holder, and then the master held the token in his right hand, and used the token as a pen, and wrote something on the mouth of the wine glass in his left hand.

Looking at the movement of that pen, it seems to have written a spell. After writing it, the master put the token back in his arms, grabbed the rice in the small wine glass in five times with his right hand, sprinkled a little on the south, east, west, and north, and then buckled the mouth of the wine glass down on the pile of paper money. At this time, the master was still holding the fingers in his left hand, and the bell began to be shaken with his right hand, and his body also circled in place slightly.

This is not the first time I have seen Master do this, there have been many white things Master will also take me to do chores on the side, and they all look similar, but this is the first time I have seen him use things like wooden swords, tokens, and bells.

Then the master stopped and said to me and Mr. Liu, let's wait a while, I have already sent out to investigate, it seems that there must be a ghost in this forest now, but this ghost is running around and uncertain, if you wait, there will be no time limit, but since this ghost appears in this area repeatedly, it can only mean one problem.

Mr. Liu and I asked in unison, what is the problem? Master said that either there was something that it could not give up during its lifetime was nearby, or its grave was buried here.

Mr. Liu said, but no, even if we locals die and want to be buried, we will not be buried in this kind of woods, because when the foliage season comes, the forest will be almost as dark as the night during the day, and we will not bury the dead here in a place where there is no light.

Master said that of course he knew about these customs, and if a grave was found in the woods, it meant that the person who buried the dead man did it on purpose. So either he hates this person and wants him to see no light after death. Either this person died strangely and was buried here not easy to find.

Master's words left us speechless, and Master added that no matter which of these two situations, it is easy for the deceased to accumulate grievances, and once they accumulate grievances, it is reasonable to make a haunt.

Mr. Liu stammered and asked, that... Who the hell did you send to find out about this? Master smiled and said, It's not people, it's my soldiers and horses, five rampant soldiers and horses.