Chapter 138: Summoning the Soul
The two watched as the servant followed a shadowy figure in another direction, exchanged a smile, and turned back to their courtyard.
Yue Huai arranged for Lu Yanning to stay in a room at the back, assigned two servants to attend to her, and then turned and left.
Jingwu returned to the house and took the female ghost from the daytime out of his Qiankun bag.
She propped her chin on her hand and carefully examined the person in front of her, then said, "You've been dead for a hundred years, why do you suddenly want to have a ghost marriage?"
The woman pursed her lips, somewhat reluctant to answer, but the person in front of her possessed profound cultivation, and she was no match for him, so she could only answer reluctantly.
"I've been in the underworld for so many years, and I'm still waiting in line to be reincarnated. My girlfriends have all had several ghost husbands, but I haven't had one. I'm so envious. So I appeared in my dream to my descendants and asked them to find me a husband. The master they found was quite capable; he could even pull me up from the underworld."
Jingwu twitched the corner of his mouth, then realized something was wrong: "You've been dead for over a hundred years, and you still haven't been reincarnated? I don't think you did anything heinous in your life, so why have you been delayed for so long?"
"How would I know? Anyway, ever since some official came to the underworld, the line for reincarnation has been getting longer and longer. I don't know when it will be my turn, so I asked my parents to find me a ghost husband to pass the time." The female ghost said nonchalantly with a charming face.
Jingwu frowned slightly and looked at the person in front of him, saying, "A living person marrying a ghost is against the laws of nature and will be punished by heaven, do you know that?"
“He accepted my betrothal gifts, so it was his own choice!” The female ghost immediately objected upon hearing this, counting on her fingers: “My betrothal gifts included fifty taels of silver, as well as many hairpins and jewelry. Tell me, how did I wrong him? Even living people don’t necessarily receive this many betrothal gifts when they get married.”
"No matter how you look at it, this matter goes against the natural order." Jingwu looked at the person in front of him, his eyes turning cold: "If you continue to be stubborn, don't blame me for smashing your soul to pieces."
"No, no..." The female ghost quickly floated up, waving her hands and pitifully pleading, "I just said it casually, I know I was wrong, Master Celestial, please don't hit me~"
Jingwu withdrew his gaze, realizing he couldn't get any truth out of her, so he activated the Ghost Gate, intending to send her down.
The gates of hell were wide open, and what emerged today was not the Black and White Impermanence, but another ghost messenger never seen before.
She was somewhat puzzled and asked, "Who are you?"
The ghost messenger looked at the girl in front of him, a strange glint in his eyes, and said, "The two lords, Black and White Impermanence, are off duty today, so I'm taking their place. May I ask what brings this sorcerer here?"
"Please trouble this brother to take this female ghost back to the underworld." Although Jing Wu was puzzled, he still followed the procedure and said.
The ghost messenger, with a serious expression, reviewed the female ghost's life story, hooked her up, and then prepared to turn and leave.
"Wait, Brother Ghost Messenger, are there any new requirements for reincarnation in the underworld these days?"
The ghost messenger paused, turned his head and looked at her coldly: "You're just a sorcerer, mind your own business."
As soon as he finished speaking, he led the ghost into the Gate of Hell, and the next second, the Gate of Hell disappeared into the air.
A hint of doubt flashed in Jingwu's eyes. Something was wrong. Could something have happened in the Underworld?
She sat on the chaise longue, frowning and thinking for half the night, when suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck her.
Since people are queuing up to be reincarnated in the underworld, and even ghosts from a hundred years ago haven't been reincarnated yet, Lord Lu's soul probably hasn't been reincarnated either. We can try to summon it.
Thinking this, Jingwu immediately felt refreshed and went to bed. When he woke up the next day, he saw everyone having breakfast in the front hall.
With the imperial examination just around the corner, Shao Chengrui and Yan Shengming hurriedly finished their breakfast and headed to the academy to study as much as they could.
Only Jingwu, Yue Huai, and Lu Yanning remained in the room, eating breakfast in an extremely awkward atmosphere.
Fortunately, after a short while, Lu Yanning spoke up after finishing breakfast.
"Then let's go to the ancestral graves."
“No rush, let’s try to summon your father’s ghost first.” Jingwu immediately spoke up, no, the two of them were planning to go to the cemetery.
Yue Huai looked puzzled: "Lord Lu has been dead for several years. Perhaps he has already been reincarnated."
"When I sent that female ghost to the underworld last night, I learned that there's still a queue for reincarnation there. Ghosts from a hundred years ago haven't even been reincarnated yet, so Lord Lu might not be one either. Why don't we give it a try? If that doesn't work, we can go to the ancestral graves?"
As Jingwu began to explain, he took out the birth date and time of Lord Lu, which he had obtained from Lu Yanning beforehand.
“Okay.” Yue Huai naturally wouldn’t object to this, and after responding, he stood beside her and helped her summon.
The two quickly cast spells and made hand gestures, chanting incantations.
A moment later, Jingwu opened his eyes, looked at the person beside him, and hesitated: "I couldn't sense his presence."
"Me neither? Could it be that they went to be reincarnated?"
Jingwu shook his head: "I don't think so. Why don't I summon the Ghost Gate again and call out the ghost messengers to ask them?"
Yue Huai hesitated for a moment, then nodded: "Okay."
Jingwu heard the response and immediately began summoning the Ghost Gate.
The Gate of Hell opened again in mid-air, filled with eerie ghostly energy, which terrified Lu Yanning, who was standing to the side, so much that his legs went weak.
A short while later, the ghost messenger from yesterday emerged from the gates of hell.
He saw the girl in front of him and said somewhat unfriendly, "What brings you here?"
Jing Wu frowned slightly, feeling puzzled. Why was it him again? Could it be that the Black and White Impermanence had been on leave for a long time?
"Ahem, what is it?"
Jingwu immediately snapped out of his daze and provided the birth date and time: "Please, Lord Ghost Messenger, help me check whether this person has been reincarnated?"
The ghost messenger glanced at the birth date and time, and after checking it, said, "No, this person's soul has never entered the underworld, and should still be lingering in the human world."
Upon hearing this, Jingwu frowned even more deeply. It was still in the mortal realm. There was no reason why she and Yue Huai couldn't find this soul.
Could it be that he has been detained?
Thinking of this, she felt it was very likely, so she thanked the ghost messenger, watched the ghost gate disappear, and then turned to look at Lu Yanning.
Yue Huai immediately realized what she was about to do and quickly said, "You're going to use the Blood Summoning Technique? This technique consumes a lot of cultivation. Let me do it."
"It's alright, I still have some cultivation." Jing Wu never liked to trouble others, so he smiled and patted the person next to him before walking towards the woman: "Give me some of your blood."
"Huh?" Lu Yanning was stunned for a moment and didn't react. The next second, he saw that there was a cut on his arm and blood was gushing out.
Without hesitation, Jingwu took her blood and immediately sat down cross-legged.
Using the blood of a close relative, one can accurately locate a soul; however, this kind of technique is extremely taxing on one's cultivation, and it will never be used unless absolutely necessary.
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