January 1st, sunny.
A plague broke out in the village, killing many people. The sick were sent to the temple.
The master took them in, but unfortunately, the plague was too strong. The master's medicine could only prolong their lives, and then he watched them die painfully one by one.
After those people died, the master placed their remains in the Buddhist hall, saying it was to prevent the spread of plague from the corpses.
I watched helplessly as the corpses rotted, emitting an unbearable stench, but my master seemed not to smell it at all.
I even saw what my master was doing secretly in the Buddhist hall in the middle of the night. Once, I got up to pee and bumped into my master. He just calmly told me to go back to sleep, but his eyes... were so scary.
February 7th, cloudy.
Something's wrong with Master!
Ever since we arrived at the new temple, my master has been acting very strangely!
My master told me not to go out at midnight, but he often went to the Buddhist hall full of corpses in the middle of the night.
My master told me not to go to the back mountain, but I saw with my own eyes that he was muttering to himself in the back mountain with a terrifying expression.
My master told me not to open the door when I heard a knock, but one day I vaguely heard a knock. Looking through the window, it seemed like my master was knocking on my door!
February 17th, the weather changed from sunny to cloudy.
I can't take it anymore!
There's definitely something wrong with my master! He's not the master I used to know anymore!
Last night I tried to peek at what my master was doing when he went out in the middle of the night, but he discovered me halfway and angrily took me back to the meditation room.
Just then, there was a knock on the door. It was my master's voice from outside. He asked me why I hadn't turned off the lights and gone to sleep yet.
A chill ran through me. The person knocking on the door was my master, but who was beside me?
I looked back and saw that my master's appearance looked slightly eerie under the light. I suddenly stood up but bumped into the corner of the table and passed out.
When I woke up the next day, I was still in the meditation room. I cautiously asked my master about what happened the night before, but he seemed to know nothing. He said that he had been chanting scriptures the whole time and had not left the main hall.
That calm expression made it seem like I was dreaming...
no!
I want to leave here!
"Something's wrong with Master. Something's wrong with everything here!"
Even through the words, Yang Cheng could sense the little monk's fear and panic.
However, the diary entry ended there, and Yang Cheng didn't know whether the little monk had escaped the strange temple.
Suddenly, Yang Cheng's ears twitched; he seemed to vaguely hear someone calling for help.
Yang Cheng walked out of the Buddhist hall and into the meditation room in the backyard. Following the sound, he finally discovered that the sound was coming from a wooden fish.
The wooden fish emitted vibrations, producing a strange sound by slightly modifying its frequency, but one could vaguely make out the words "save me".
Yang Cheng used his mental power to examine the wooden fish. It was just an ordinary wooden fish, without any power enhancement, but it did indeed emit sounds.
"Who are you? Why are you trapped here?"
The voice coming from the wooden fish said, "Are you a cultivator from elsewhere? My name is Mingxin. My master has been bewitched by the Ghost King and has become the Ghost King's incarnation in this world."
"Please, please save me! Help me get rid of the Ghost King so my master can be reincarnated soon!"
The wooden fish could only produce sound through vibration, and there was no discernible tone of voice, making it sound extremely awkward.
"A substitute in the real world? And how can I save you?"
The young monk Mingxin said, "The Ghost King is formless and shapeless. Only by finding a suitable substitute to merge with can it be truly revived."
My master built a temple here to suppress the Ghost King, but unexpectedly he was bewitched and invaded by the Ghost King and became his substitute in the present world.
Everything you see now is not real; it is all the manifestation of the Ghost King's power.
I was destined to die, but at the critical moment I abandoned my physical body and used a secret technique to trap my three souls and seven spirits inside a wooden fish, sealing myself away, which is how I survived.
If you help me regain my physical body and then break the wooden fish, I will naturally be able to be reborn.
At this time, the Yin energy has not fully recovered, and the Ghost King has not completely taken over my master's body. I know where my master's weakness lies, so there is still a chance to make a move now.
"Benefactor, this is a catastrophe for heaven and earth. I beg your help. On behalf of all living beings, I thank you!"
Yang Cheng picked up the wooden fish and said in a deep voice, "Don't say thank you for now. The Four Ghost Kings are not so easy to deal with."
First, I need to know exactly how to leave this place.
And that being who sealed away the four ghost kings, do you know where he is?
Yang Cheng didn't mention the words "divine succession," and the natives of this world probably wouldn't understand what divine succession was anyway.
Mingxin said, "This place is a manifestation of the Ghost King's power; everything here is illusory, yet also a distorted reality."
To find the true location of the Ghost King, one must peel back the layers of illusion to reveal the truth.
Since you were able to enter the main hall and the Buddhist hall, you have the opportunity to deal with other strange ghosts and find the true location of the Ghost King.
As for the power that sealed the Ghost King, to be precise, that power did not seal the Ghost King, but rather the Yin veins of this place.
My master discovered that this place was a branch of the Yin energy, which is why he tried to build a temple here to suppress the Yin energy.
Unexpectedly, a ghost king had already been born on a branch of the Yin meridian, thus controlling the master.
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