To put it more clearly, it means that you will be entangled with the soul of the deceased, and in your consciousness you will become the deceased person himself, and experience all the events of the day before death, including the death process.
As a father, Zou Guangmao couldn't have been unaware of the evil that Zou Yingguang had done, so Gu Lingze locked up the yang energy around him that day and asked Zhao Chengmo to put him in the coffin, all for the sake of 'empathy'.
"What's going on in that painting?" Under the circumstances, Prefect Yao no longer wanted to investigate the matter of their prison escape.
Gu Lingze's face was as cold as ice, and he sneered and said, "Zou Yingguang, that beast, deserved his death."
Half an hour later, Prefect Yao returned to the government office with an angry face.
"Notify Lu Gaosheng as quickly as possible and prepare all the troops to meet me at Zou's Mansion." Prefect Yao pointed at Constable Ge and said.
"Yes, sir."
Prefect Yao led the rest of the people and angrily left the government office.
When they arrived at the Zou Mansion, Gu Lingze and Zhao Chengmo were already there. Prefect Yao signaled a constable to go forward and knock on the door.
When the gatekeeper opened the door, he was shocked to see a large group of people standing there.
"My master has ordered that there's a funeral in the house and the doors are closed to visitors. You don't need to come to pay your respects." After saying this, he was about to close the door, but the constable quickly blocked his way.
Prefect Yao sneered and said in a cold tone, "Zou Yingguang is worthy of this official coming to his house to offer condolences."
After saying this, he signaled for the constables to go forward and push the door. The servant couldn't stop him, so he had to run as fast as possible to inform the master.
When Zou Guangmao hurriedly rushed to the main hall, Gu Lingze was looking at the elegiac couplets hanging on both sides with a sarcastic look on his face.
"If you fail to achieve your ambitions on earth, you will first build a white jade tower in heaven."
Prefect Yao snorted coldly, "Qing Yun Zhi? It's really shameless to use it to praise such a violent and ruthless person."
Zou Guangmao, who was feeling somewhat guilty, suddenly flew into a rage and said, "My son has already died, why are you still speaking ill of him?"
Zou Guangmao was immediately shocked when he heard this, but he pretended to be calm and said, "This is my family matter. Do I need to report it to you in detail?"
Seeing that he was still denying everything, Prefect Yao became even more furious. "Someone, search for me!"
"Let's see who dares!" Zou Guangmao shouted angrily, and the numerous servants and guards in the mansion, all holding sticks, blocked the way of the constables.
"Zou Guangmao, are you trying to commit insubordination and stop me from handling the case?" Prefect Yao glared at him.
"Sir Yao, I'm just a sixth-rank official in the Ministry of Justice, and I'm certainly not as good as you, but my brother is a third-rank Right Deputy Censor-in-Chief." After saying this, he looked at the other person arrogantly.
"We two brothers have not separated. Although my brother is far away in the capital serving the emperor, this is also his residence. As a fourth-rank official, do you have the right to search it?"
Prefect Yao laughed out of anger and said the word "OK" three times. When the stalemate was just about to begin, Lu Gaosheng walked in with a group of people.
"You've arrived just in time. Tie these people up and take them away. Put them in the jail first."
"Then Lord Zou..." Lu Gaosheng hesitated.
"Take them all away!"
"Yes!" Since the prefect said so, he naturally had nothing to be afraid of and tied up Zou Guangmao himself.
When Prefect Yao heard the other party was still shouting, he said with disgust: "Shut his mouth for me."
After a period of chaos, the scene returned to calm.
Gu Lingze nodded slightly to Prefect Yao, then walked towards the Zou Mansion Garden with Zhao Chengmo.
The two walked side by side, and Zhao Chengmo asked thoughtfully: "Everyone in the world who does bad things will be punished?"
Gu Lingze pursed his lips slightly, thought for a moment and said, "There is no old age and death, and there is no end to old age and death. Karma and retribution, reincarnation is endless. Whether it is retribution in this life, retribution in this life, or retribution in the future, you must be responsible for what you have done."
"Good and evil will eventually be rewarded, it's just a matter of whether it comes early or late. Appearance is determined by the heart, and destiny is created by oneself. Zou Yingguang was so careless about human life that he got the retribution immediately and lost his life."
Zhao Chengmo looked at him intently and said, "Then I must have been a very kind person in my previous life."
Gu Lingze didn't know whether to laugh or cry after hearing this. He just thought it was a joke, pushed away the branches at the side of his head and continued walking forward.
'I have seen you before.'
'Where?'
'In the past life, I was reincarnated, and in this life, I am under the plum blossoms.'
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The two walked to the side of the pond in the garden. Gu Lingze looked at the rising and falling black air inside and frowned, saying, "This is it."
After saying that, he took out a bottle, made a gesture with one hand, tapped the bottle, and held the mouth of the bottle towards the pond. He did this for a while, then Gu Lingze plugged the bottle and pasted talisman paper on it.
"Walk."
As for Prefect Yao, he found a lot of blood-stained clothes in Zou Yingguang's room. The owners of these clothes should be young, about eight to twelve years old.
Yao Zhifu looked at these things with great sorrow. At this time, Gu Lingze came over and said, "Sir, we have found the place where the body was buried. It is in the lotus pond in the garden."
"Go and dig it out carefully for me, and try not to damage the body." Prefect Yao ordered with gritted teeth.
Everyone went to the lotus pond with digging tools. The water in the pond had dried up by then, and they dug out more than twenty corpses in one afternoon.
Everyone present frowned and cursed Zou Yingguang's cruelty in their hearts.
Prefect Yao instructed his subordinates to take the bodies to a beautiful place for proper burial, and then he dismissed everyone, leaving only Gu Lingze and Zhao Chengmo.
Prefect Yao stood beside the lotus pond, sighed deeply, and looked solemn.
Zhao Chengmo moved a table and placed it under the willow tree beside the pond. He then took out the scroll from the package he had brought with him, opened it and spread it on the table.
Gu Lingze said softly to the scroll: "You two can come out now."
After saying that, he handed the two talismans to Zhao Chengmo and Prefect Yao.
After the two of them were pasted together, two thin figures floated out of the painting. When Prefect Yao saw them, he looked reluctant.
When Gu Lingze came, he was carrying a sword on his back. Now he took it off and held it in his hand, ready to start the ritual.
Three kinds of tea and four kinds of wine, three kinds of meat and four kinds of vegetables, incense, candles, rice and steamed buns were placed on the table. Gu Lingze personally painted the soul-calling banner and placed it beside the table.
After everything was ready, Gu Lingze held the sword in his right hand, and used his left hand to draw a line across the sword. Then he closed his eyes and chanted the "Taiyi Abolishing Sins Fengdu Blood Lake Miraculous Scripture".
After chanting, take out three incense sticks, light them and insert them into the incense burner.
Gu Lingze took out three talismans from his sleeve, lit them and raised them up, then sat down cross-legged, calmed his mind and clasped his hands together.
"Gu Lingze, the 42nd generation disciple of the Guiyi Sect, appeals to the Great Lord of Rescue to open the Five Directions of the Underworld and lend me my disciple to liberate the souls of the dead."
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