Chapter 38
Shi also knew that Wang Sheng loved to sleep in, so he had been waiting for Wang Sheng at Wu's house to come over to join him. However, before he arrived, the heart-shaking spell on his wrist had already been permed. Without waiting for Pan De to lead him to Zhou's house, he followed the guidance of his hair and found Wang Sheng at the door.
When Wang Sheng saw that Shi Ye was fighting with Aunt Zhou, he wanted to go in and get the two children out first to prevent Shi Ye from being hindered.
But when he approached the gate, he couldn't move anymore. This round place in Shiye was so closed that even living people were restricted. He could only stand outside and wait.
Now, with the sky clear and bright, in broad daylight, many lethal spells were useless, or their power would be greatly reduced. Shi Ye grasped Wu Men and flicked his wrist. The sword shone like a rainbow, and Aunt Zhou floated away with ease, dodging every sword move with ease.
"Ghost hunter? No wonder I've been smelling a foul odor since last night. It turns out the ghost hunter is here." Aunt Zhou said grimly. Then, knowing that she was no match for Shi Ye, she tried to escape from the sky, but was stopped. She roared, "What did you do!"
Shi Ye retracted his sword, a golden gleam flashing from its blade. He was growing increasingly annoyed by the human skin's evasiveness, making it difficult to pierce. He paused, standing in the courtyard. He noticed that the human skin had been retreating to the shade since being struck back by the talisman, seemingly afraid of sunlight.
Wang Sheng shouted, "Master, look behind it!"
Aunt Zhou had been keeping an eye on Shi Ye, so she showed Wang Sheng her backside. It turned out there was a hole in the skin, which was why it was afraid to go out into the sunlight. Aunt Zhou opened her huge, pitch-black mouth towards Wang Sheng, and Shi Ye also saw the hole at the same time.
He directly threw out the Samadhi Talisman: "The Three Purities of Heaven and Earth, with the help of divine fire, burn." No matter how small the power is, it is still flesh. It seems that as long as this human skin is burned, the monster will have nowhere to escape.
Aunt Zhou was so anxious that she ran around everywhere. The two children were afraid that the bird would fly into the house, so they quickly closed the window.
Pan De, holding Chang Sun Yi, and the others searched for a long time before finally finding the person at Zhou's house. Chang Sun Yi ran to the door and put down the guard puppet, "Go, quickly protect Junior Master."
The puppet stood up and walked inside after hearing the order. Wang Sheng didn't notice what Chang Sun Yi was doing. When he found out, he thought that the puppet couldn't get in. As a result, he saw the puppet push himself over the threshold with both hands, ignoring the barrier.
At that moment, the entire barrier cracked at the puppet's center, beginning to crumble. Aunt Zhou was already ablaze, and seeing no other way out, she was trapped and dying. This gave it an opportunity. Its entire hide rolled up into a long, flowing string, bursting through the doorway and drifting away from the crowd, who hurriedly scattered and collapsed.
Shi Ye's face darkened. He almost caught it, but it escaped.
Chang Sunyi was stunned. How could this happen?! He knew he had done something wrong, so he hid behind Wang Sheng, lowering his head and not daring to look at Shiye.
Shi Ye: "Chang Sun Yi, I told you to work hard, and this is how you work hard? Don't you even know that you can't trespass into the barrier without permission?"
The round earth and square sky talisman can only stop ghosts and living things, but it cannot stop inanimate objects like puppets. Not only can it not stop them, the round earth and square sky talisman will also be destroyed by them.
Chang Sunyi whispered: "I know I was wrong, Junior Master..."
The uncle and nephew were in a stalemate, and Wang Sheng, caught in the middle, nodded. This matter was indeed Chang Sun Yi's fault, but there was no point in pursuing it now. He quickly looked back, "Where is Brother Zhou?"
Zhou Da squeezed out of the crowd and asked puzzledly: "I'm here, what's wrong, Master?"
Zhou Da didn't sleep much last night, and before dawn he and his wife went to the Wu family to keep watch, fearing that the Wu family mother and daughter would need help. Besides them, there were other families doing the same thing.
They arrived too late to see clearly what was floating out. Wang Sheng called Zhou Da's children out, and when they saw their father, they rushed over and said, "Mom and Dad, grandma has turned into a monster, and she wants to eat us."
Pan De thought he had misheard: "What? What, what's going on?"
Wang Sheng said solemnly, "I'm afraid that Aunt Zhou didn't listen to Brother Zhou's advice yesterday and insisted on leaving. That's why she was possessed by a ghost and turned into a human skin like Wu Lao Er."
Zhou Da stood there as if struck by a bolt from the blue. His wife suddenly burst into tears and checked whether the two children were injured.
"I was wondering, my mother is such a helpful person, but she went to bed so early last night. So that's how it is." Zhou Da, such an old man, stood there crying, unable to accept this fact.
Pan De walked up to Zhou Da, patted him on the shoulder, and let out a long sigh.
Shi Ye looked at them and said, "This is a skin-covering spirit. It's injured and urgently needs a new human skin. Now everyone go home and put the talisman paper on it. Don't come out if you hear any noise."
Everyone nodded repeatedly, not daring to disobey Shi Ye's arrangements, and dispersed to go home to guard.
After everyone left, Wang Sheng was a little confused: "Master, what is this skin-covering spirit you are talking about?"
Shi Ye: "Do you still remember the things you saw in the underworld?"
Wang Sheng nodded.
"There aren't just evil spirits and ghosts in this world. There's also another kind of creature called spirits. The ones you saw in the Wanxiang Cave were spirits. These skin-covering spirits can't stand sunlight or moonlight, so they simply steal human skins during the day, imitating their lives and feeding on human flesh."
Wang Sheng was surprised. Doesn't that mean the living have to worry about both evil spirits and monsters? How can they live like this?
Perhaps sensing the worry on Wang Sheng's face, Shi's expression softened slightly as he explained, "Most spirits won't harm people. Skin-covering spirits are a minority. Otherwise, if you commit murderous sins, you won't be able to be reborn as a human in your next life."
Wang Sheng sighed, "Then this ghost catcher not only has to deal with evil spirits, but also with spirit monsters. Why is it so tiring?"
As a person with more say in the village, Pan De was left behind as a guide to patrol the village.
Chang Sun Yi was left at Zhou's house with the two children, while Wang Sheng had a bunch of Samadhi Talismans in his pocket and was not afraid of the demon at all, so he suggested that they act separately. If they met the demon, they would just let their father-in-law catch it and burn it to ashes.
Shi Ye refused without a second thought. Wang Sheng was just a half-baked person. He didn't know who would take over when he met a swindler. Seeing that Shi Ye also disagreed, Wang Sheng turned around and waved back, saying that it was boring. He might as well go back to find Chang Sun Yi. Shi Ye then ignored him.
After Wang Sheng left, he slipped into an alley. He glanced back and made sure that he was separated from Shi Ye. Then he put away his usual lazy look and raised his eyes again, with an unfathomable light in them.
He sometimes gave the Samadhi Talisman, and as long as Shi Ye was not too far away, he could summon He Bo's concubine and Qingmian Jiang as his final trump cards. Maybe he could even kill the skin-covering spirit before Shi Ye. He could already foresee Shi Ye looking at him with admiration, hahaha!
Shi Ye watched Wang Sheng leave, then he lifted his sleeves and glanced down from time to time. Pan De didn't dare walk in front and become a target, nor did he dare walk behind, for fear that he would be captured by the monster where Shi Ye couldn't see him.
Seeing that Shi Ye was absent-minded and distracted, he thought that Shi Ye was also worried about not being able to catch the monster, so he said worriedly: "Master, I see that you are not very old. Are you sure you can catch the monster? Do you want to call your master to help?"
This was the first time that Shi Ye was questioned. He raised his eyelids and glanced at Pan De casually. Although he was calm, Pan De inexplicably felt that this person was even scarier than that leather spirit, so he immediately shut his mouth.
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"Oh, Dad! Why won't you listen? I've already told you there's a monster in the village killing people everywhere. Old Second Wu and Aunt Zhou are both dead. If you put up the talisman, everything will be fine. Why are you so stubborn?"
"I don't care about you, whether it's a ghost or not, this talisman is obviously bad for our family's feng shui, I don't think anyone would dare to put it up!"
The man who was opposing this twitched his beard and looked very shrewd. The man next to him kept trying to persuade him until his neck turned red, but in the end he still didn't dare to disobey him and put the talisman on.
Wang Sheng wandered here and unexpectedly saw a play. The red-necked man was Shen Dahong, who had scolded Shi Ye the night before. The son is like his father. Just as Shen Dahong was unbelieving back then, his father is just as stubborn now. Even Shen Dahong dared not disobey his father.
After watching the excitement for a while, Wang Sheng wanted to leave, so that Shen Dahang could suffer a little, so that he would not go and annoy other people in the future.
Shen Dahong had sharp eyes and spotted Wang Sheng over there. He quickly ran over and said, "Master, please help me persuade my father. He just doesn't believe there are any spirits in the village and refuses to put up the talisman. What will happen if he comes to my house?"
Wang Sheng stopped and said with aloofness, "Who looked down on us yesterday? I'm not that capable."
Shen Dahong knew that Wang Sheng was bringing up a score, so he apologized to him repeatedly and spoke nicely to him, which finally persuaded him to move.
Father Shen was originally very angry, fuming and glaring, thinking that he had given birth to an unfilial son who even dared to disobey his father. However, when Wang Sheng came over and saw that he was a Taoist priest, his attitude changed instantly, and he treated Wang Sheng more obediently than his own son.
Wang Sheng came over with a swagger: "What's going on? I heard that some people don't want to put on this talisman."
Father Shen was so excited that he almost knelt down to him: "So it's the Taoist priest, Taoist priest, it's not that I don't want to put it up, but this talisman will ruin the feng shui that I carefully arranged, so I didn't put it up."
Seeing his respectful attitude, Wang Sheng coughed and walked around the door. "I'm also good at feng shui. Let me take a look... Well, this house has a solid foundation. And look at the jade belt around its waist. It attracts good fortune while avoiding conflict. It makes me feel happy. It's indeed very good feng shui."
My father-in-law stood on his shoulder and flapped the chicken wings, repeating, "Very good, very good."
When Father Shen heard Wang Sheng affirm the feng shui he had arranged, he knew that this man must be a master of feng shui, so he straightened his back and looked at his son.
"However," Wang Sheng changed the subject, "no matter how good the feng shui is, it can't prevent the invasion of evil spirits. I'm afraid that if we're a step late, the family will be in turmoil and the people will be in panic."
"What?! Then, sir, can just applying this amulet prevent evil spirits from invading and keep my family safe?"
"Of course." Wang Sheng affirmed him.
Father Shen immediately turned around and said, "Dahong! Didn't you hear what the adults said? Put the talisman on quickly!"
Shen Dahang was stunned by what he said. Seeing that his father finally agreed to put the talisman on, he hurried over to put it on.
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