Chapter 5 No matter how many people die, I don’t care!
Dongfang Yan was reprimanded by the emperor for missing the morning court session because he had to take a bath.
In the evening, he drank with a few court officials he had just won over, and did not return home exhausted until after midnight.
As soon as I stepped into the door, I heard the servant come to report: Something happened to Princess Qing'an!
When he rushed to the back garden, he saw Princess Qing'an trying to rush into the lake, and only five or six guards pulled her back from jumping.
Dongfang Yan thought she was making a fuss about being grounded, and shouted, "Qing'an, what are you doing? Come here!"
Princess Qing'an paused and looked towards Dongfang Yan faintly.
He still looked like Qing'an, but the smile on his face was particularly strange.
She grinned and said, "The lake is so cold, my body is soaked. Come down and keep me company, I'm really cold..."
There was an indescribable chill in the voice.
Dongfang Yan felt something was wrong, that was not Qing'an's voice!
"Someone, go to the Xuanjing Division and ask for the Evil Detective!"
Xuan Jing Si was founded ten years ago to observe the strange energy of heaven and earth and to exorcise evil spirits from the world.
Jianxieshi is the chief official of Xuanjingsi, and holds the fifth rank.
Most of his subordinates are talented people recruited from the people, who are knowledgeable about yin and yang and good at catching demons and evil spirits.
In less than half an hour, a man in his thirties with a white face and long beard hurried over with several subordinates.
This person is none other than the second-in-command of the Xuanjing Division, Xie Shouzheng, a fifth-rank evil appraiser.
Before Xie Shouzheng even got close, a loud voice rang out: "Where is this evil spirit? You dare to commit crimes under the feet of the emperor? Do you think our Xuanjing Division is just eating shit?"
Dongfang Yan couldn't help but frown when he heard the rude shouting from afar:
I'd heard long ago that the people in the Xuanjing Division were all born into the underworld, with no manners or rules. They were doing shady work, so the nobles didn't like to deal with them unless absolutely necessary.
However, since he had something to ask for today, Dongfang Yan naturally had to be more polite.
"Thank you, sir, for your late-night efforts. My sister, Princess Qing'an, has suddenly become a different person. She keeps trying to jump into the lake, and her strength has also increased. I suspect she's been possessed by an evil spirit."
"Don't panic, Your Majesty. Allow me to investigate."
When we arrived at the lake, we saw Princess Qing'an tied to the pillar of the pavilion with her hair disheveled to prevent her from jumping into the lake again.
She was still struggling violently, her hands and feet were bleeding from the ropes, but she was completely unaware of it and just kept roaring. She didn't act like a human at all, and was clearly like a trapped beast.
Xie Shouzheng took a look and understood: "It is indeed the evil spirit that has taken over him, and the resentment is quite strong."
Dongfang Yan hurriedly asked: "What should we do then?"
"It's all right, Your Highness, please step back and watch." He stretched out his hand and shouted, "Where's my bloody whip?"
The men hurriedly handed over a scarlet whip.
Xie Shouzheng took the whip and swung it in the air, making a deafening "crack".
Dongfang Yan's expression changed: "Master Xie, what are you going to do?"
"Exorcism." Xie Shouzheng felt that his question was nonsense. "Your Highness, please make way and don't block the road."
Dongfang Yan asked, "You don't want to whip my sister, do you?"
Xie Shouzheng raised his whip and said, "This is not an ordinary whip. It is specially used to beat evil spirits. Let me whip it a few times, and the evil spirit will come out of the princess."
Dongfang Yan asked worriedly, "Will anyone get hurt?"
Xie Shouzheng said: "It will at least bring some injuries."
Dongfang Yan said, "How can that be possible? Try another method!"
"I can't change it, this is the only way. Your Highness, don't you trust me? If you don't trust me, then I won't care. I was dragged out of my lair by your people in the middle of the night. How could I have such an easy time?"
He kept nagging and really put away the whip and prepared to go home.
Dongfang Yan had no choice but to say, "This prince believes you, but my sister is a delicate woman. Please show some mercy, sir."
"Don't worry, it's just a few whips, you won't die."
"My Lady, I'm sorry for the offense."
He said polite words, but when he whipped him, he showed no mercy.
Princess Qing'an screamed immediately, and a bloody whip mark appeared on her body.
Dongfang Yan felt distressed when he saw this, but he had no way to stop it.
Xie Shouzheng whipped him one whip after another, cursing as he beat him: "One whip on the hand will make your hands ruthless. Two whips on the heart will make your heart cruel. Three whips on your soul will make you reflect on your own mistakes and not harm others..."
Dongfang Yan frowned as he listened, "Master Xie, you don't have a grudge against my sister, do you?"
Xie Shouzheng hurriedly said, "Your Highness, please don't misunderstand me. I am beating the evil spirit from the princess, not targeting her!"
"Well, look, has the princess calmed down now?"
Princess Qing'an was indeed no longer struggling or roaring, but she was also dying.
Xie Shouzheng handed the whip to his men, then took out a gourd, opened the seal on the gourd mouth, and shouted: "Enter my magic gourd and I will take you to the afterlife. Come, come, come——"
"Hey, you won't come? Why are you so stubborn? You're going to die anyway, so why bother making such a fuss?"
"Come into my magic gourd and I will take you to the afterlife. Come, come, come—"
“Come, come, come—”
After shouting a few times, Xie Shouzheng said helplessly to Dongfang Yan, "Your Highness, that evil spirit is deeply obsessed and holds great resentment. I can't call it over right away."
Dongfang Yan asked, "What should we do then? Master Xie can't even do anything to a little ghost, right?"
Xie Shouzheng said: "This is not an ordinary little ghost, but has transformed into a 'li'. Why don't you wait for me to perform a ritual and ask her what the feud between her and the princess is and why she is obsessed with it. If I can properly help her to be liberated..."
"Why do we need to save the evil spirit that harms people? I want its soul to be shattered, shattered to pieces!" Princess Qing'an has regained some consciousness at this moment and roared loudly.
Xie Shouzheng said, "Even if it's an evil spirit, it was once a human. To just casually disperse it would be detrimental to the harmony of nature and would be a very bad idea."
Princess Qing'an turned to Dongfang Yan and begged, "Brother, she's been pestering me so much. I don't care. I want her soul to be shattered and she will never be reborn!"
Dongfang Yan said to Xie Shouzheng, "Do you understand what the princess said? No matter if it's a human or a ghost, if they dare to hurt my sister, I will send them to hell!"
The next moment, a cold wind wrapped in dead leaves suddenly rushed towards Princess Qing'an. Princess Qing'an's face became ferocious again. She looked up to the sky and roared. With a "bang", all the ropes trapped on her body broke.
Xie Shouzheng's face changed drastically: "Oh no, the evil spirit is about to be dispelled!"
When a person dies, his soul remains. The newly deceased soul becomes a wandering soul. Obsession gives birth to a "ghost". After a mutation, it is called "fierce and fierce". Above the fierce and fierce is "evil".
Although "Li" is fierce, he still has some humanity.
"Sha" will completely lose its humanity, and its strength will increase dramatically, indiscriminately attacking anyone it sees.
In addition to strong obsession and resentment, dispelling evil also requires some opportunities, so it is relatively rare.
I don't know why this happened tonight.
Xie Shouzheng was also very troubled, but he had no choice but to go ahead.
As he swung the whip, Princess Qing'an caught the tail of the whip and swung it hard, sending Xie Shouzheng flying.
Xie Shouzheng jumped up and scrambled to his feet, rubbing his sleeves as he cursed, "Damn it! I told you to just resolve it, but now you're forcing it like a disaster! Oh, you're going to kill me!"
Princess Qing'an slapped her palms a few times, sending more than a dozen palace guards flying, and then pounced on Dongfang Yan.
Dongfang Yan also learned a lot of martial arts, but before he could use any of his moves, Princess Qing'an grabbed him by the neck and lifted him up like a chicken.
"Die, all of you die! All of you die!" Princess Qing'an screamed, her eyes crimson, sharp fangs growing from her mouth, her face extremely ferocious. It was obvious that she had been possessed by the evil spirit.
"Qing'an, wake up... Thank you, sir, save, save this king..."
Xie Shouzheng was still rummaging through his sleeves, mumbling, "Where's my demon-subduing hammer? Did I forget to bring it? Oh, Your Highness, please hold on a little longer. I'm looking for it. Where's the hammer... Oh, I found it!"
He pulled out a fist-sized hammer, his expression stern, and shouted, "Death, you evil spirit!"
A hammer fell with the power of thunder, and half of Princess Qing'an's body immediately caught fire.
She screamed "Ah--" and left Dongfang Yan and hurried to put out the fire on her body.
Dongfang Yan shouted, "Don't hurt my sister!"
Xie Shouzheng came over and kicked Princess Qing'an into the lake, and the fire on Princess Qing'an's body was extinguished.
But she was also floating in the water and was about to drown.
Dongfang Yan shouted, "Hurry up and save the princess!"
Xie Shouzheng said, "Even after all this, the evil spirit still refuses to get off the princess. I'm afraid the fight will really end to the death."
Dongfang Yan asked, "What does it mean to fight to the death?"
"If the evil is not eliminated, the entire palace will be slaughtered soon. It is better for the whole situation to be saved by one person's death."
As soon as he finished speaking, his men quickly formed a formation, drew their bows and arrows, and aimed at Princess Qing'an in the lake.
Xie Shouzheng's tone suddenly turned cold: "Although I don't want to perish together with you, but the Xuanjing Division has been ordered by the emperor to maintain peace in this area, even if it is necessary..."
Before he could finish, Dongfang Yan drew his sword and said, "No one is allowed to harm my sister!"
"Save her!" he ordered, "Save the princess at any cost!"
The palace guards received the order and jumped into the lake one after another.
Princess Qing'an was still struggling in the lake, but when the guards who came to rescue her approached, they suddenly reached out and pushed their heads into the water.
They wanted to save people, but Princess Qing'an was possessed by an evil spirit and wanted to drown them!
Dongfang Yan was only concerned about his sister's safety, but ignored the guards' lives and ordered more people to rescue Qing'an.
Xie Shouzheng was annoyed: "Prince Jin, Dongfang Yan! Those guards are also human beings, born by their mothers and raised by their fathers. How could you kill so many people because of one person?"
Dongfang Yan said coldly, "People are of different ranks. If their lives can be exchanged for my sister's, I don't care how many people die!"
"You!" Xie Shouzheng was so angry that he was dumbfounded, but he could do nothing about it.
At this moment, a clear voice came from afar: "Although Yin and Yang are separated, sincerity can connect. Three souls are far away, seven souls are boundless, gather and return to the spirit, listen to my command! Dongfang Qing'an, come ashore!"
Lin Qingyue walked out from the darkness, wearing a black dress that seemed to be condensed from the night. When her clothes fluttered, the dark golden butterflies on the hem seemed to come alive.
Princess Qing'an, who had been mad and ferocious, trembled all over when she heard her voice, and actually obeyed the order and climbed ashore.
The guards who were nearly drowned by her luckily survived.
Princess Qing'an walked to Lin Qingyue's side, all wet, with her eyes lowered, looking exceptionally well-behaved.
Xie Shouzheng was astonished. "She actually listened to you? How did you do that? Oh well, I'll put it away first. If she goes berserk again, it'll be troublesome!"
Lin Qingyue said, "There's no need to collect it. Once you've resolved her obsession, you can naturally send it away."
"But she has already transformed into a demon. How can she let go of her obsession? Could it be..."
Xie Shouzheng stared at Princess Qing'an carefully and was momentarily surprised. "Her resentment had subsided a lot, but now it's back again? How is that possible?"
In Xie Shouzheng's cognition, any ghost that has turned into an evil spirit is like a living person who has died, and cannot be saved.
"Who are you? What did you do to bring back her humanity?"
Is it just based on the few words I just read?
Lin Qingyue was too lazy to explain too much to him, so she turned to Dongfang Yan and said, "Her obsession is with you. Do you want to know?"
Dongfang Yan was full of suspicion: "Why is it on me? And how do you know all this? Since you can stop this thing from harming people, why waste time?"
Lin Qingyue sighed softly, "Your Highness truly has no desire for knowledge at all."
"This king is indeed not interested in the affairs of those wandering ghosts. But if my cooperation is required to save Qing'an, this king will naturally not refuse."
For some reason, Dongfang Yan felt a little strange when he saw Lin Qingyue like this.
"You're really not interested." Lin Qingyue smiled and lowered her head, then suddenly pulled out the golden hairpin on her head and stabbed it into Dongfang Yan's chest unexpectedly.
Dongfang Yan was horrified and tried to block it, but the hairpin still managed to cut through the flesh on his chest, and bright red blood immediately oozed out.
"Lin Qingyue, you are so bold!"
Lin Qingyue said nothing more, and stabbed the hairpin into Princess Qing'an's chest.
"Lin Qingyue!" Dongfang Yan was furious and drew his sword.
Lin Qingyue said, "It's just a little blood. It won't be fatal. If we delay any longer, she will turn evil again."
As expected, as soon as the words fell, a tyrannical look appeared on Princess Qing'an's face again, and she roared at Dongfang Yan with bared teeth.
Lin Qingyue took the blood of the two of them and then asked Xie Shouzheng, "Do you have any talisman paper that you can borrow?"
"Yes, yes, yes!" Xie Shouzheng hurriedly took out a few pieces of yellow paper and handed them to Lin Qingyue.
Lin Qingyue used the blood on the golden hairpin to quickly draw a talisman.
Then he threw it into the air, quickly formed seals with his hands, and shouted: "Everything in the past life is just a dream. Use blood as a guide to trace the dream back to the shadow!"
In an instant, everything around was like a reflection in the water. After swaying for a few times, it suddenly turned into a long bluestone street with bright lights and crowds of people on both sides.
It looks like the Lantern Festival.
"What is this place?" Dongfang Yan felt it looked familiar.
Lin Qingyue's voice drifted over: "Don't panic, Your Majesty. This is Princess Qing'an's recollection of her past memories."
"Tracing Dreams and Returning Images" is a unique skill that Qingyue Immortal Lord created when he was free in the world of immortal cultivation.
It allows people to immersively see the memories of another person.
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