Chapter 69: Mercy
I turned off my flashlight and watched the figures in the middle of the graveyard quietly.
There were four fires in total, and there were two people with the same division of labor on each side of the fire.
One squatted on the ground and kept burning paper money, and the other was holding an unknown branch with his back to the fire and circling in circles.
The branch in his hand kept waving up and down.
There are words in the mouth, and because the distance is too far, I don't know what I am reading.
While I was still observing, the Iron Egg following us bypassed me and began to walk slowly that way.
I reached out and grabbed the iron egg and pulled it back.
It shook its head and pointed to the paper-burning men in the middle of the graveyard, a look of longing on its face.
Ya Dan also walked up slowly, grabbed Tie Dan's hand and said inarticulately:
"Don't go ......"
"What's going on?" I habitually asked my sister.
Senior Sister frowned and said:
"Those people are very strange, judging by the reaction of the iron egg, they should be summoning spirits!"
I instantly understood that Iron Egg is not a ghost, and will be attracted to those things.
And Yadan is a ghost, and he won't be interested in things like paper money.
As a devouring ghost, Tie Dan can't help but want to go over there, which shows that these people are really summoning spirits.
I drew a soul-stabilizing spell on Tie Dan's forehead with my hand to prevent it from being drawn to it any further, and asked with a strange expression:
"What are they trying to do by luring the spirits around them?"
Senior Sister shook her head and said:
"I don't know, let's see."
I nodded, hunched over and pulled my sister into a small bush, and began to take a closer look at the men.
There were nine people in total, in pairs and twos, in the cemetery.
Four fires lit with paper money.
If the cemetery is divided into four equal parts of the same size according to the field grid, then each fire is exactly in the middle of the four equal parts.
Each fire has one person spinning in circles before adding to it.
In the very center of the cemetery, a man in a yellow robe stood on top of what looked like a coffin.
Holding a large spirit banner in his hand, he has words in his mouth.
"Senior brother, why don't we go over and ask?" Senior sister said abruptly.
I shook my head and said:
"No, let's see what they're going to do."
After about ten minutes, the shouting of the man in the robe in the middle became louder and louder.
One by one, the ghosts slowly emerged from the grave bag, and a rough count showed that there were about twenty or thirty of them.
After the ghosts came out, they slowly gathered into the nearest fire.
I don't know why, but Iron Egg started to get excited again after seeing those ghosts.
If I hadn't been holding its hand, I guess it would have run over.
After the ghosts gathered in front of the fire, the few people who circled with their backs to the fire also stopped their steps and the movements of their hands, and stood motionless.
The person who had been putting yellow paper money in the fire also stopped moving.
Suddenly, those people seemed to be pointed, stunned!
One by one, the ghosts passed by the fire in an orderly manner, and then bent down and grabbed it with their hands.
According to my estimation, they were grabbing the burned paper money, and after grabbing it, they lined up to gather in the middle of the man wearing a Taoist robe and holding a spirit flag.
The mantra in the middle was shouted over and over again.
We heard it more and more clearly, but we didn't understand what the mantra meant.
The ghosts from all four directions slowly gathered towards him, and then stood in front of him in four rows, as if they had gathered in the army.
Unlike the soldiers, the ghosts all bowed their heads.
"I'll go, why is it a bit of a ghost king."
The senior sister sighed: "This pomp, do you welcome King Yama?" ”
"Probably not, just read it and you'll know."
I stared intently at the center of the cemetery, for fear of missing something.
After all the ghosts were lined up and stood still, the man shook the spirit banner three times, then pushed it behind him, and the spell in his mouth stopped at this moment.
He grabbed a peachwood sword at his feet, raised his head and pulled it down abruptly at the sky, and shouted:
"There are many sentient beings who have been wronged, the grievances are deep and difficult to solve, the first life has been wronged, the third life has never stopped, I am now preaching the wonderful law, the reincarnation is self-detached, the roadless person stays by himself, and the person in the coffin seeks to reincarnate for humanity, and unravels the grievance in turn, as urgent as the law!"
"What kind of spell is this?" Senior Sister asked aloud while staring closely.
I said casually:
"It's a bit like a curse, but it's not exactly, the reincarnation leaves by itself, and the pathless person stays by himself, the meaning is obvious."
"It seems that these people are not bad, they have let go of all the yin spirits with reincarnation paths, leaving some lonely souls and wild ghosts."
Senior Sister nodded and said.
Sure enough, after he uttered the spell, a dozen or so of the twenty or thirty ghosts broke away from the group and burrowed into their own graves.
Some friends may ask when they see this, why are there ghosts in these graves, and don't these people go to the underworld after they die?
In fact, the ghosts in these grave bags are basically not the souls of the owner of the tomb bags.
This place gathers yin, and the tomb bag allows some geists to find a place to live.
After the owner of the grave bag goes to the underworld, these wandering spirits, who have no reincarnation path, will enter the tomb to hide from the sun during the day.
Just like when we take the bus, there is no one in this position, so you can sit casually, and if there is someone, you will not rush to sit down.
Of course, if the owner of the tomb comes back occasionally, the ghost who lives in the tomb will have to give up the tomb.
After all the reincarnation spirits were gone, the Taoist jumped off the coffin, and the other eight people also recovered from their static state and gathered towards the middle.
They arrived at the coffin almost at the same time, and together they opened the lid and lifted it, and gently placed it on the ground behind them.
Once they were placed, they all took three steps back, keeping the same distance from the coffins as the ghosts.
The Taoist held a peachwood sword and whispered a mantra as he tapped on the coffin.
This time I couldn't hear what it was.
But what happened next made me understand what he meant.
A ghost broke away from the group, walked slowly towards the coffin, and climbed inside.
It only took a few seconds to crawl out again.
The second one repeats the same action.
The third, the fourth, the fifth, and each of them.
The ghosts that climbed in and out did not leave, as if they had been trained, but slowly returned to the middle of the group.
"What are they doing? Try the coffin? ”
The senior sister looked at it for a while, and asked a little confused:
"Whoever is suitable for sleeping will give it to whom?"
Just as I was about to speak, one of the ghosts had been in for almost a minute and hadn't come out.
The Taoist hurriedly took the peachwood sword, drew a lot of sword talismans on top of the coffin, and then beckoned the others to cover the coffin.
"They're looking for a suitable resentful soul with no reincarnation, and they've found it."
I said.
Senior Sister nodded and said:
"Well, I also understand it, if you find it, let's leave quickly, this piece of resentment has been recruited by them, and we can't find anything else if we want to find it."
"yes."
I said I wanted them to go soon, too.
It's already very late, and if they don't leave, we really don't know where to find the Yin Soul to use to fight Master Chen in a short time.
"Taishang Laojun, teach me to kill ghosts, and ...... with me"
While I was still expecting them to leave sooner, I suddenly heard the Taoist start shouting the ghost killing spell.
I couldn't care so much anymore, so I said to my senior sister to put the iron eggs into the wooden card, got up and rushed out of the bushes.
"Be merciful, senior!"
I shouted as I ran towards the middle of the graveyard, these ghosts were going to be killed by him, where would I find them?
Seeing me walk over suddenly, several of them were stunned for a moment.
But they didn't move, they just stood there and waited for me.
The Taoist also stopped the incantation in his mouth and looked at me suspiciously.
I quickly walked to the middle of the graveyard and said to the Taoist:
"The seniors are polite, and the juniors Liu Dagger has worshipped, it's good to leave three of these resentful souls for me, I'm useful."
When I walked in, I found that the Taoist was in his fifties and sixties, with a kind face.
He doesn't look like a treacherous person.
And before he took the initiative to let go of those ghosts with reincarnation, which made me feel even more good about him.
The Taoist looked me up and down and said:
"Hehe, you are also a Taoist? What is the school? Who is the family teacher? ”
He speaks Mandarin very non-standardly, with a thick Hong Kong accent.
"Yes, seniors, juniors live in the Taoist temple on the mountainside, the family teacher has been feathered, please be merciful to the seniors, let me take away the three yin spirits, I have other uses."
I said respectfully.
Seeing that my tone was sincere, the Taoist nodded and said:
"I don't have to break up these ghosts, but you have to tell me what you're doing with them, and if they're tortured, I won't agree."
"Senior, family master Wu Guang, we want three yin ghosts this time to punish the wicked, please fulfill the seniors."
Senior Sister's voice came from behind, and there was firmness in her tone!
"Wu Guang? Brother Wu! Are you a disciple of Brother Wu? ”
The Taoist looked surprised, put down the peachwood sword in his hand and walked quickly in front of us.