Chapter 205: First Night at the Haunted House
In the twilight, Shenluo City becomes more lively, and the men and women on the streets are all walking briskly. Even in the early winter when snow is falling, various vendors can still be seen on both sides of the road. On both sides of the main road running through the north and south, there are even more tourists.
Although there is still more than a month before the official opening of the Huadu Convention, many tourists from all over the country have already arrived here. When the doors of the brothels open in the evening, a warm air with the scent of powder and rouge is first baked out.
At this time, the literati and scholars on the street would often feel that it was too cold outside and had to go into a brothel to keep warm.
But when they got to the brothel, they often felt that the heating was too strong and they had to take off their clothes to cool down.
After taking off clothes, you often feel cold and need to move around.
After all.
It’s all because of the weather in Shenluo City, it’s really unpredictable.
The guy from the tooth shop led Li Chu and the fox girl to the house in the south of the city that was said to be haunted, and told them a lot along the way.
"The ghost in that house is strange. It's not a particularly powerful evil spirit. It was the first time it was haunted, so the owner asked the immortals from the nearby Taoist temple to get rid of it."
"I thought it was just a ghost, but the next night it haunted me again, and every night since then, no matter how hard we tried, we couldn't kill it all. The owner had no choice but to invite a cultivator to stay at home for a while, but he still couldn't find the cause. He had no choice but to sell the house. Otherwise, how could such a good house be sold at such a low price?"
"Haunted every night, can't be killed no matter how hard you try?"
Li Chu's eyes became brighter.
The clerk looked at his sudden excitement and thought to himself, why does this little Taoist priest feel a little strange? However, seeing that he seemed to be practicing, the clerk did not persuade him. According to Li Chu and the shopkeeper's agreement, they would stay here for one night. If they felt it was okay, they would discuss the specific details of the room tomorrow.
When the man was brought to the big house in the south of the city, the waiter handed a bunch of keys to Li Chu.
"Each bunch of keys has a mark on it. You can go in by yourselves, young Taoist priests. If you like one, come to our store tomorrow. If...if there is anything, just go out and run forward. There is a Nancheng Temple not far away..."
The waiter gave a few more instructions. It was getting dark and a cool breeze blew over, and he shivered.
"Okay, thank you." Li Chu took the key and nodded.
The guy left in a hurry.
Li Chu took the fox girl into the house again and took a look.
But I didn't know that this mansion was much bigger than it looked on the sand table. It was very spacious as soon as I entered the door. The yard was empty except for a well, which looked quite clean. After crossing the entrance, the backyard was even more spacious, and there were corridors connecting the wing rooms.
The fox girl said happily: "Such a big house can be renovated into a Taoist temple, it will be very grand."
"Yes." Li Chu agreed, put down his bag, and said, "Let's see what happens first."
He scanned the area with his mind, but didn't find any place with strong yin energy around the house, so he simply gave up looking.
Instead, he took a chair and sat down in the yard, placed the sword bag on his legs, and closed his eyes.
He placed the sword across his knees and closed his eyes to rest.
Then the sky gradually darkened. The sun set.
In the well in the courtyard, a cloud of yin gradually surfaced. Surprisingly, this cloud of yin seemed to appear out of nowhere. This kind of situation had never been encountered before.
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A cold hand grasped the edge of the well. The nails on this pale hand were broken and bloody, as if it had been grabbed from the bottom of the well.
"It smells like a living person—"
Along with a faint ghostly cry, a face covered with black hair slowly rose up, followed by a plain white robe.
Pop.
With her face covered by black hair and clothes in white, the woman crawled out of the well and then moved forward using all four limbs in a strange posture.
She smelled it, she saw it.
There is a fresh breath of life ahead.
She approached slowly.
Li Chu opened his eyes and observed the ghost quietly.
It was a bit strange. How did this ghost come into being? The ghost also looked up at Li Chu.
It’s a bit strange. Isn’t this person afraid of me?
The two sides just stared at each other, and the situation fell into a strange stalemate for a while...
After a while, the ghost probably felt that he was a little embarrassed and thought he should be more confident.
Anyway, she moved first.
She shook her head, letting her scarlet eyes peek through her hair, and she shouted grimly, "I died such a miserable death—"
"How did he die?" Li Chu's expression remained unchanged, and he replied, "Tell me more about it."
Hmm? The ghost girl's simple intelligence obviously had no record of how to deal with such a reaction.
So she yelled in an even colder voice: "I've been waiting for you for a long time——"
"Oh? Really?" Li Chu still looked neither sad nor happy, and shook his head and said, "I don't believe it."
“……”The female ghost was completely furious.
I climbed out from the bottom of the well with great difficulty, and you think I'm just chatting with you here?
When she got angry, she used all her limbs to twist her body and rushed towards Li Chu quickly! Li Chu was naturally not afraid of this kind of ghost that was equivalent to dozens of lantern monsters, but he was still very wary.
because……
If you can't control the force well, you may destroy the house...
This will be our own Taoist temple from now on.
So he carefully drew out the Pure Yang Sword, carefully squeezed out one tenth of his spiritual power, and carefully handed it over, holding back the spiritual power...
Bang.
The ghost exploded as soon as it came into contact with the tip of the sword, but the strong pure yang sword energy still broke several blue bricks on the ground after killing the ghost.
"well."
Li Chu sighed silently.
It seems that my micro-management still needs practice.
But one tenth of the spiritual power is already too weak, and it is really difficult to separate it into a smaller part.
In response to this situation...
Li Chu thought about it for a while and felt that perhaps "dilution" might be a solution.
However, how to dilute the spiritual power and whether it is feasible will still require a long period of trial and error.
Later, the fox girl came out of the house and asked, "Master, is everything settled?"
"Well, you can tell the master now." Li Chu nodded slightly.
The fox girl did as she was told, took out a jade incense burner from her bag, and then took out three long incense sticks, inserted them into the jade incense burner, and lit them.
The smoke is curling up.
The rising smoke floated for a while, and suddenly condensed in the air, turning into a vague human face, and gradually revealing the scene in the backyard of Deyun Temple.
The locust tree, the stone table, and the old Taoist priest under the tree...
It turned out that this jade furnace was the treasure that Li Chu brought back from the Hulu Cave, and it could be used in conjunction with a magic mirror he got later.
Now, the magic mirror is in Yu Qian'an's hand, and any object facing the magic mirror can be presented through the smoke.
But in Yu Qian'an's palm, the magic mirror showed Li Chu's appearance.
A very practical communication tool.
"master."
Seeing the familiar old face full of master's demeanor, Li Chu called out softly.
"Haha, it's dark already? How is everything going?" Yu Qian'an asked.
"Everything is going well." Li Chu said, "We should be able to build the Deyun branch soon."
"That's good." Yu Qian'an smiled and twirled his beard. "Opening a branch temple in an unfamiliar place is a long and arduous task. We still have to be careful about everything. In addition to being careful of evil spirits, we also have to be careful of our companions."
"Disciple knows." Li Chu replied.
"By the way, I gave Xiaobai three magic bags before I left. Are they well kept?" the old Taoist asked again.
"Yes." The fox girl next to her nodded immediately.
She took out three exquisitely crafted brocade bags from her bag, held them up for Yu Qian'an to see. They were all bulging and it was unknown what was inside.
"I cannot go there in person, so the three sachets are my small help to you. If you encounter any difficulties that you cannot solve, just open one," Yu Qian'an reminded.
"Of course, don't open it if you don't have anything to do. Don't open them all at once, save them for later use."
"Um."
“Also, don’t just focus on your work.” Yu Qian’an smiled and said, “Always pay attention to the combination of work and rest, and go out for a walk when you have nothing to do. I heard that the top ten courtesans last year were of very high quality. Hua Qiluo... Yuan Yayi... should participate again this year. They are all very famous in Hangzhou Prefecture. Hehe, if I were twenty years younger...”
"Master, there's not much incense left." Li Chu looked at the incense stick that had burned down to one percent and said calmly, "How about... let's talk about it next time."
"Alas..." Yu Qian'an sighed, and finally said: "No matter what, you must bring my son back safely."
"Yes." Li Chu nodded solemnly: "Disciple will definitely bring Guo Xiaobao back to Deyun Temple safely."
(End of this chapter)
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