In our long-standing and historically rich land of China, many professions have their own rules and taboos. This is especially true for ancient and mysterious crafts.
For instance, when engag...
If I can't handle it myself, I definitely won't force myself.
At most, I would go home and talk to the ancestral tablets in the shrine.
The City God of Ma Yi is compassionate, and the five great shamanic masters are impartial; they will not allow evil spirits to run rampant.
When Zhao Youliang and his group arrived at the location as instructed by the grasshopper spirit, they were immediately stunned.
"This...this is the 'Skeleton Array'?!"
"Isn't the person who set up this formation afraid of shortening their lifespan?!"
The Skeleton Array, also known as the "Fire Evil Array," is an evil and extremely powerful array in sorcery.
The vengeful spirits and evil ghosts are bound to haunt only their own corpses.
Offending a corpse will either cause one to suffer from vengeful spirits and fall seriously ill, or cause one to be haunted by ghostly energy.
The principle of the "Skeleton Array" is to first kill a person horribly, mostly by burning or smoking them out.
Water fumigation involves first throwing the person into a container filled with water, then heating the container to boil them alive.
Then, the deceased's bones are used to reconstruct a "false body" for them, and their soul is attached to it.
Simply put, it's about creating a fake tomb for evil spirits, so you can often hear people talking, crying, and other sounds around the "corpse array".
They even saw human-shaped figures.
If you stay around the "corpse array" for too long, you might also encounter other visitors.
Even within the realm of sorcery, this kind of formation is considered a grave taboo, a form of "blasphemy against gods and ghosts." The person who sets up the formation will inevitably suffer a shortened lifespan, even more so than if the spell were cast directly on a living person...
"Zhuangke" refers to a living person encountering a ghost or evil spirit.
From Chapter 25 of "Dream of the Red Chamber": "If there are devout men and women who make offerings, their children and grandchildren will be forever safe and sound, and there will be no more disasters caused by evil spirits."