Chapter 56
That night, Master Chunyang was sleeping soundly when he suddenly felt some movement outside the window.
He stood up and saw a baby climbing through the window. The baby exuded an evil aura, and upon closer inspection, he discovered it was a dead baby.
In Thailand, it is very popular to raise little ghosts. From officials to ordinary people, many people have little ghosts in their homes, especially those celebrities. Almost every family has one, and some even have more than one. This kind of little ghost is also called Kumantong in the local area.
There are two types of Kumantong: one is made by the Azan master in the temple, which is called the genuine amulet, and the other is made by the sorcerer, which is called the Yin amulet. The former is regarded as a Buddhist sacred object, while the latter is regarded as a sorcery.
The method of refining a Kumantong is extremely cruel. First, a stillborn baby, usually under two years old, or the body of an aborted fetus is selected. The corpse of this kind of abnormally deceased baby has extremely strong resentment and is the best material for refining a Kumantong.
First, the corpse is placed upright and the chin is burned with a special candle. This candle usually contains human fat. The chin is burned until corpse oil drips. The Azan master or the sorcerer will collect the oil in a bone bowl.
If you want to make the Kumantong's abilities even stronger, you can also dry the baby's corpse and stick a layer of gold foil on it. This will turn it into a gilded baby's corpse, which will have a better effect.
After the mummy is made, the corpse oil, ashes, skull cap, coffin nails, clay, etc. are placed together with the body into a small coffin or a Buddha amulet. The Achan master or the sorcerer will imprison the baby's soul in the container through mantras and chant sutras continuously for 49 days.
In the early stages, they need to be fed with the owner's blood, and in the later stages, they need to be soothed with various children's toys and snacks.
But raising a ghost is also risky. When the ghost fulfills the owner's wish, the owner must also fulfill the ghost's wish. This is similar to what we call making a deal with ghosts. If you fail to fulfill their wish, it will bring extremely serious backlash.
In addition, he cannot be neglected, otherwise he will get sick at best and die at worst.
Now, Master Chunyang was facing just such a little devil. He knew it must have been the work of the woman he had argued with today, but how could such a little devil be a match for Master Chunyang? He took it down with almost no effort.
Master Chunyang was inexperienced in the martial arts world. Seeing a baby like this, unable to rest in peace even after death, he considered that in our culture, whether the Kumantong was a genuine or a Yin, it was considered to be against the harmony of heaven. So Master Chunyang prepared to liberate the baby, but he didn't expect that the little ghost, fed by its owner's blood, had long been connected to the owner. It pretended to lose control and transformed into an ordinary baby corpse.
While Master Chunyang was praying for the soul to be reborn, his master controlled the little ghost and took advantage of Master Chunyang's inattention to injure him. At that time, Master Chunyang was young after all, and he realized that he had been tricked and took out the talisman to smash the little ghost.
But even though the little ghost died, he was also injured. The owner of the little ghost, that woman, was severely attacked and died.
Coincidentally, the woman's brother was a sorcerer. When he saw that the Kumantong he had refined was dead, he felt something in his heart and went home to check, only to find that his sister had been tragically killed at home.
He learned what happened through his evil magic and took revenge on Master Chunyang. Master Chunyang, who was already injured, knew that the woman was dead and prepared to leave Thailand.
Who would have thought that before he could even leave, the sorcerer's ghost came to his door.
This time, the imp was no ordinary one; it was a golden Kumantong, a gilded infant corpse. Furthermore, its master was an evil sorcerer. The two of them complemented each other, and with Master Chunyang injured, all these unfavorable factors compounded, putting Master Chunyang in a dangerous situation.
But good and evil will be rewarded in the end. Zhang Pingyin happened to be in Thailand at the time. He was invited by a local Chinese to check the feng shui of his shop, and happened to meet the injured Master Chunyang.
Anyone in the Xuanmen sect, if they were close to each other, would sense each other. Zhang Pingyin's cultivation was already very high, and coupled with Master Chunyang's intentional approach, they ended up meeting in the Chinese shop.
Master Chunyang was already seriously injured at the time. When he saw Zhang Pingyin, he fainted at the door. Zhang Pingyin recognized his clothing as a member of the Yunlu Palace and rushed to treat him.
When Master Chunyang woke up, he explained the whole story to Zhang Pingyin. All Taoist sects in the world were one family, so how could Zhang Pingyin stand by and watch? Moreover, Yunlu Palace and Tianshi Mansion had always had close ties. Although he didn't recognize the person in front of him, he could tell that he was a sincere person.
So that night, Zhang Pingyin set up an ambush and when the golden-bodied Gumantong came, he captured it in one fell swoop.
The two did not destroy it directly, but used it as a medium to find the hiding place of the sorcerer. Such sorcerers usually hide in the mountains because they also have enemies, and even if they go down the mountain, they will hide their faces.
Zhang Pingyin and his companions followed the clues and caught the sorcerer. It turned out that he was in a cave. After entering the cave, they were horrified to find that there were no less than ten infant corpses in the cave, and one was in the process of being refined.
If Master Chunyang hadn't been injured, he could have taken him on alone. Now with Zhang Pingyin, the sorcerer was completely wiped out. The two of them enforced justice and eliminated the sorcerer. As for the remaining Kumantong, since they had already been refined, their resentful spirits could not be reborn. To prevent anyone with ulterior motives from causing trouble again, the two of them set them on fire.
Zhang Pingyin's move made the Chinese shop believe in him even more, and his deeds of eliminating a sorcerer were widely circulated. For a time, more people came to him.
After they finished their business in Thailand, they returned to China together and became close friends.
I had heard about the practice of raising ghosts in Thailand a long time ago, but I never expected to hear Master Chunyang tell it in person. I couldn't help but feel a little curious about Kumantong.
"Master, can that little ghost really fulfill people's wishes?" I said.
"It is more of a psychological comfort. It is possible that the person's career is on the rise and he feels a little uneasy, so he invites a Kumantong back. When the job is done, he attributes all the credit to the Kumantong and completely forgets his own efforts." Master Chunyang said.
It is indeed true. If the Kumantong is really that effective, there wouldn’t be so many injustices in this world.
After that, I asked him, "Master, Kumantong is said to be very popular in Southeast Asia. Is it similar to our magical instruments?"
“That’s right, but Kumantong is against the harmony of nature. Even if it is genuine and blessed by the temple masters, it is still a vengeful spirit. If you have long-term contact with it, you will definitely suffer backlash.” Master Chunyang said.
As we were talking, the boy outside the door brought in tea and started pouring it for us.
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