While Gu Zhisang was dealing with the Feng Shui master, Ge Liaochan untied the tied children.
Some children, once the bandage on their mouths was removed, started crying and saying that their wounds hurt, they were scared and wanted their mothers.
In order to prevent the special event from leaking out and to prevent these children from suffering psychological trauma, Ge Liaochan found a kind of poisonous insect that was harmless to the body and could hypnotize humans to forget some memories, and planted it in them.
Soon under the effect of the poisonous insects, the children fell asleep with tears on their faces.
When they wake up again, they will have forgotten all memories of this period and will be sent back to their parents.
In the chaos, only she, Gu Zhisang, and the rescued little "witch" Ge Mi Dada were still awake.
"Tada, are you okay?"
Ge Mi Tada looked about fourteen or fifteen years old, wearing the costumes of the ancient Miao village, and was much calmer than Gu Zhisang and Ge Liaochan thought.
She shook her head with a round face, "I'm fine, Sister Cicada."
It was from Ge Mi Tada that Gu Zhisang and the others realized that the situation in the afternoon was dangerous.
It is recorded in the Feng Shui master's book that the blood of a virgin with a pure Yin constitution is the purest and is also a great tonic for evil creatures.
She also didn't know what method the Feng Shui master used, but the girls he captured all had pure yin bodies, especially since she was a descendant of the "corpse-raising" lineage.
The formation was set up around the stone forest in order to cultivate a 'human corpse' so that the evil creature could absorb the soul fetus fostered in this forest to strengthen and nourish the evil creature.
Hearing this, Ge Liaochan felt frightened.
If we fail to arrive in time, not only the hostages will be in danger, but also all the pregnant women and newborns in the nearby villages!
Ge Mi Dada said: "That man is a half-baked one. I knew Sister Chan would come to save us, so I tricked him into thinking that the talisman formation was difficult to draw, and also said that the 'sacrifice' must be kept fresh when raising the corpse to change the blood, otherwise the work would fail. That's how we delayed it for two or three hours."
No wonder the Feng Shui master didn't kill these hostages directly, but bled them slowly. It was all because of her manipulation.
Ge Liaochan patted her head and said, "You did a great job."
"This is Sister Gu Zhisang. It's all thanks to her that I was able to find you so quickly this time."
Ge Mi performed a Miao salute to express his gratitude, "Thank you, Sister Gu."
Her eyes fell on Gu Zhisang, with curiosity and admiration. She had just seen the scene where this beautiful sister killed the hairy zombies and the bad guys with a sword.
Gu Zhisang nodded at her, and then said to Ge Liaochan:
"I just checked this man's body and found something new. Do you remember I told you that the child corpse he raised was exactly the same as his birth date, except for the year. This was done to serve as a cauldron for his possession. After I re-analyzed the face of his corpse, I saw a completely different fate line."
Ge Liaochan didn't understand the physiognomy technique and asked in confusion, "What does this mean?"
Gu Zhisang explained: "From his face, his life trajectory should be a business, and has nothing to do with metaphysics. But his actual life trajectory is to become a famous Feng Shui master in both mainland China and Hong Kong, which is contradictory in itself. Unless..."
Ge Liaochan's eyes were filled with astonishment: "Unless he is not the owner of this body?! Has he already possessed someone else's body?"
"It's not hard to imagine, since he knows how to possess a relative, how can he guarantee that this body is his." Gu Zhisang said, "If I hadn't checked carefully, I probably wouldn't have discovered it. Only a blood relative can possess a body so delicately and seamlessly."
In other words, things were not as they thought, and the Feng Shui master failed to take over the body.
Rather, decades ago, he used this method to take over the body of his own blood relative and evaded the punishment from heaven;
Now he is using the same old trick again, using the body he has taken over to continue breeding offspring and cultivating the cauldron.
His real identity is actually the father or even grandfather of the body he is currently using!
Gu Zhisang said, "You'd better check his direct relatives. This guy should have lived this way for one or two hundred years. The sins he carries are far more than what you have found out."
Ge Liaochan nodded, "I will report this to the headquarters!"
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That evening, other members of the Hunan Province Spiritual Group arrived at the located stone forest.
By then, Gu Zhisang had already left.
She gave the corpse of the Mao zombie, the Feng Shui master, and the Huicheng Temple relic that she had taken out of the Mao zombie's mouth to Ge Liaochan, and went back to her apartment to rest.
The team members who arrived thought there would be a tough battle, but who knew that Gu Zhisang and the other two would solve all the problems.
They had no choice but to carry the sleeping children down the mountain and then clean up the mess on the mountain.
During this period, they also met some people from Xuanmen who had also come.
When those masters saw the remains of the hairy zombies in the stone forest and the broken formation, they were all filled with disbelief.
After realizing that all their belongings had been taken away by the Spirit Group and that their trip was in vain, the group of Xuan Masters looked livid.
Seeing them being humiliated, many members of the spirit team who had been bullied felt secretly happy.
The people from Xuanmen also wanted to know who broke the formation and killed the Mao zombie. Due to their aggressive attitude and the long-standing grudge between the two sides, they almost came to blows.
Gu Zhisang didn't know all this.
After she returned home, she soaked the jade finger bone in salt water to disinfect it, and then held it in her hand and looked at it for a long time.
Because of what Zheng Ruyu said and the small words engraved on the finger bone, she could basically confirm that the owner of the finger bone was her old friend Yan Huishan.
What happened after she failed to survive the tribulation? Why was Yan Huishan's frail body struck by lightning and left with a leg disease?
Gu Zhisang typed in a search on his phone and found that the few historical records all praised the kindness of this idle prince.
Historical records show that he never married or had children in his life.
Some say it was due to health reasons, while some unofficial history says that he had a crush on someone, but he refused to marry because the person passed away.
Perhaps because of the contact with the remains of the old people, Gu Zhisang had a dream that night that he had not had for a long time.
She dreamed about things from her past life.
At that time, apart from some little Taoist children, the only serious scholars in the Taoist temple were her and Taoist Junhong. Even so, it was the most prosperous temple in the world at that time.
When Gu Zhisang had been in cultivation for more than 200 years, he heard that a legitimate second son was born to the royal family. At that time, auspicious clouds descended from the roof of the palace, which was the best auspicious sign.
It’s a pity that he is weak and sickly.
Her master sat on the top of the observatory, watching the celestial phenomena, and marveled at them:
"It is not known whether it is a blessing or a curse for a man of good fortune to be born in a royal family for nine generations."
More than ten years later, a horse-drawn carriage swayed to the foot of the mountain. It was the emperor's sickly second son who could no longer be supported and came to the gate of the temple for help.
Taoist Junhong, who never allowed outsiders to enter the mountain, made an exception and allowed him to enter the temple to recuperate because of his destiny of being a good person for nine generations.
When Gu Zhisang first saw Yan Huishan, he was not even as tall as her shoulders.
The little boy had beautiful eyes and eyebrows, and his childishness showed his warmth and kindness. Due to illness, he was wearing a fur coat in the spring, with a sickly look on his face and red ears, he saluted respectfully towards himself.
'Hello, Master Gu. Sorry to bother you.'
In the following years, she often went into seclusion, and every time she came out, the sickly boy grew a lot taller;
In the end, he grew into a handsome young man who was unique in the world.
Perhaps because of his fate of being a good person for nine generations, Yan Huishan is the best-tempered and most easily influenced goody-goody Gu Zhisang has ever seen. Whenever he goes out, he will be cheated.
Whenever he returned to the mountain, he would bring her and Taoist Junhong valuable imperial jade liquid, various strange but expensive magic tools and ornaments...
Gu Zhisang also dreamed of himself coming out of seclusion many times, and the first thing he saw was the young man with smiling eyes;
He said in a gentle voice: "Master Gu, congratulations on your exit."
The end of the dream is when one is overcoming the tribulation.
Dark clouds covered the sky, lightning flashed and thunder roared, and a thunder with the power to destroy the world fell. This time, Gu Zhisang finally saw the situation at the moment before his death.
Under the lightning that was bright enough to temporarily blind people, she saw a figure in the distance, running towards the center of the thunder tribulation as if risking his life.
The moment she saw Yan Huishan's face, she suddenly opened her eyes and sat up after a while.
The jade finger bone at the head of the bed was still emitting a faint white light. Gu Zhisang looked at the bone with mixed feelings.
Looking back at the past from a third-person perspective in her dream, she noticed some details that she had never paid attention to before.
It was now bright outside the window. She picked up the mobile phone on the bedside table and found that the staff of "Spiritual Affairs" had sent her the script and shooting location of the fifth episode.
In order to prevent himself from thinking about this dream again, Gu Zhisang got up and started reading the script and packing his luggage.
The next afternoon, she boarded a plane to the filming location.
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At 7:50 in the morning, the "Spiritual Affairs" program team was preparing for the live broadcast in an orderly manner, checking the equipment and network.
Because the online peak of the previous live broadcast exceeded 8 million people, the subsequent two-hour official edited version also topped the hot list of variety shows. The show was a big hit, and now every staff member of the program team is full of enthusiasm.
"The players' live broadcast rooms must have smooth internet access!"
"Hurry up and take this baffle away. Is the private message channel open?"
“…”
Amid the hustle and bustle, it was the last three minutes before the live broadcast was to begin.
The directors were all a little nervous as they looked at the dark monitor screen. The assistant director kept rubbing his trouser legs and asked, "Can the number of viewers exceed 500,000 within five minutes of the broadcast?"
The producer said: "Of course it can. Last time it was over 400,000. I predict it will exceed 700,000 this time!"
"It's a bit much. No one is up yet this early in the morning."
While chatting, Li Chenghe didn't say anything, but just stared at the screen.
When eight o'clock arrived exactly, the cameras in the seven contestants' live broadcast rooms were turned on at the same time. Almost at the moment the screen lit up, the number of people in each live broadcast room began to grow rapidly.
【Finally the show is on!!】
[Come and see Sangsang’s wife solve the case and catch the ghost. Can there be some exciting content in this episode? ]
Among the dense comments, there were also a few eerie ones. The ghosts in the underworld who were waiting for the show to start were also very excited.
Just after five minutes, the total number of people in the live broadcast room exceeded one million. This data made the directors, who had been mentally prepared, tremble in their hearts and blush with excitement.
The assistant director suppressed his excitement and said, "Gu Zhisang's data is still the best. Half of the audience has flowed into her live broadcast room!"
Gu Zhisang in the lounge greeted the audience in the live broadcast room, and when almost everyone had come in, he spoke:
"Good morning, everyone. The interactive part of this episode is still one-on-one. I will start the random draw in two minutes. Audiences who are interested in participating in the interaction can click 'Participate'."
Outside the live broadcast room, in a studio on the top floor of a building
An old man in a Zhongshan suit with gray hair and beard packed up his magic tools and looked at the only man in the empty room and said:
"Mr. Yan, the evil spirit in your body is becoming increasingly difficult to control. At present, I can only help you suppress it and prevent it from getting out of control. If this continues, the situation will not be optimistic."
Although he was a living person, there was a hint of fear in the old man's eyes when he looked at him.
A young man was sitting in the main seat of the office, with his hands on the table and a look of forbearance on his face.
In the old man's eyes, there was a thick black aura lingering around this man, rolling and swallowing him whole.
If he hadn't known that this person's situation was special and his identity was also very special, he and the Xuanmen behind him would have treated him as a very evil creature and killed him long ago!
The old man continued, "A jade finger bone that can purify evil spirits was born a few days ago. If you can get it, it may be able to alleviate the evil spirits in you."
"I will help you inquire about its origin and try to buy it from the owner."
"Money is not a problem." The man raised his head and said coldly, "Then I'll trouble Master Xu to take care of it."
When he was the only one left in the entire office area, his brows furrowed slightly due to the torture of the evil spirit, and the air pressure around him became extremely low.
Just then, the phone on the table rang.
He glanced at the screen and a pop-up window popped up: The anchor you follow has started broadcasting~
Yan Cheng was stunned for a moment. When he saw the date and time, he remembered that today was the day when a new episode of "Spiritual Affairs" would be aired, so he quickly opened the software.
After entering the live broadcast room, a face with delicate eyebrows and eyes appeared on the screen, "...You will have about a minute to participate."
A 'Participate' button popped up and he clicked it twice in a panic. After he made sure it was clicked, his throat rolled and he unconsciously clenched his fists.
As time passed, Yan Cheng's heartbeat began to speed up.
When contestant No. 7 in the live broadcast room spoke again: "The draw is over. Is the audience member nicknamed 'Milk Tea Crispy Bobo' who participated in this interaction here? Can we chat via microphone?"
Hearing that it wasn't him, Yan Cheng breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time a hint of sadness appeared between his brows.
…
Three seconds after Gu Zhisang read out the nickname, a netizen with a pink avatar came on the microphone and said, "I'm Sangsang, I'm 'Milk Tea Crispy Bobo', I'm watching the live broadcast at home now, you can start the video directly."
From the voice, the other person is a young and gentle girl.