Shen Muqing became serious. "Master, how do we break this barrier?"
"It can be broken, but it's a bit tricky. Four people need to go to the four corners at the same time. There should be something buried in these four corners. We need to dig it out, pour fresh chicken blood on it, and then we can break the formation."
"After the formation is broken, you all quickly find a place to hide. I will perform a ritual to help these evil spirits pass on, understand?"
Including Cang Jin, there are exactly four people, which is just right. Luckily, Xiang Sui Ning came.
"Go and call her, start digging now."
"Good, Master."
Shen Muqing ran over and told Xiang Suining what was going on, and told her what to do.
"You two sisters can catch up later, let's get down to business first."
Xiang Suining followed Xiang Suian with reluctance, saying, "Sister, wait for me, I'll come find you in a bit."
"Go ahead, your sister will wait for you here."
"Um."
She wiped away her tears, gave Sui'an a deep look, and then followed Shen Muqing away.
"The three of you dig down at the spot I marked, and see if you can find anything."
Kongkong stood on the left side of the ancestral hall and had already started digging.
"Received, Master!"
Cang Jin dug easily, while Xiang Sui'an looked at Shen Muqing with a puzzled expression: "Aren't there only three people here?"
"Of course there's another ghost you can't see. Don't worry, he's my little brother and won't hurt you."
Shen Muqing found a wooden stick and started digging in the empty marked spot. The soil was still very hard, making it a bit difficult to dig.
The four people were digging intently in their respective positions. Xiang Sui'an looked at the wooden stick and soil that had suddenly appeared in the corner and couldn't help but shudder. He never thought that he would be working with ghosts one day. It was fantastic.
An hour later, Shen Muqing still hadn't found anything. Exhausted, she sat down on the ground, not caring how dirty it was.
"Master, why haven't you found anything after digging for so long?"
With his empty hands, still clutching the wooden stick, on his hips, he took a breath.
"Almost there! Perseverance is key to victory! Keep going!"
Shen Muqing felt that if they dug any deeper, she could fall asleep inside and bury herself.
Finally, their hard work paid off, and they began to see some things.
The thing in the soil had a very strong, foul smell, and it was wrapped in a layer of cloth.
"Don't touch this thing with your hands, wait for me." Kongkong stared at the thing in the soil, unable to bear looking at it.
He quickly took out the chicken, slit its neck, and collected the splattered blood in a bowl, filling the entire bowl.
He then took out some things that Shen Muqing didn't recognize from his bag and threw them in, before finally turning to face Shen Muqing and the others.
"Master, what are you doing? Do you want to taste it first?" Shen Muqing asked.
In the quiet night, the empty sound was particularly loud. Shen Muqing and Xiang Suining understood what he was doing and were speechless.
"A master cannot urinate or defecate anywhere."
After finishing his meal, Kongkong didn't even wash his hands, and instead stirred the bowl of somewhat disgusting-looking food with them.
"What do you know? This is precious virgin boy urine, specially used to deal with these evil spirits. I don't usually give it to people."
"This bowl is worth a fortune."
"We'll need this to break this formation later."
Kongkong first poured some into his own pit, and then poured it into the pits of Shen Muqing, Cang Jin, and Xiang Suining in turn.
It was exactly one bowl, no more, no less, so there was no waste.
The things in the pit came into contact with the liquid and began to emit black smoke, indicating that the barrier was weakening.
"Go to that tree quickly, ghosts can't get in!" Kongkong shouted.
"good."
Shen Muqing grabbed Xiang Suining and ran towards Xiang Suian without looking back.
Kong Kong waited for the barrier to completely dissipate before drawing the bronze sword from his bag, a sword passed down to him by his master.
The bronze sword cut his hand, and he walked around the ancestral hall, splattering blood as he went. A new formation was formed, slowly enveloping the ancestral hall.
It gets smaller and smaller until it encircles all the ghosts in a circle.
"Mission accomplished." Kongkong, pale from blood loss, leaned on his sword.
It was only a matter of a minute, but Shen Muqing felt that Kongkong was amazing; she had found a treasure.
Inside the ancestral hall, all sorts of ghosts struggled within the array, their eyes bloodshot and their minds extinguished.
"You guys come here and protect me, I'm going to perform a ritual to help them pass on to the afterlife."
"They're here."
Shen Muqing carefully went inside. It was the first time she had ever seen so many ghosts, and she was quite scared.
"The people behind the scenes might arrive soon, so be careful."
"Huh? Isn't Zhou Linqian not here?"
Kongkong slowly sat down, took out talismans and talisman paper, and wrote on them with blood.
“The formation is broken. The person who set it up will sense it, but it won’t amount to much. The backlash he will suffer from the broken formation will probably be quite significant.”
The gentle chanting came from Kong Kong's mouth, ethereal and beautiful, making one feel pure and clean.
Cang Jin stood at the entrance of the ancestral hall, holding his sword, protecting the group inside.
The person behind the scenes in the neighboring city was refining a new person's soul. As soon as the formation broke, he spat out a mouthful of blood and realized that something terrible had happened.
He quickly found Zhou Linqian, and the two hurriedly returned to the secret room in their home, activated the formation, and headed to the Zhou family ancestral hall.
"What's wrong with the master?"
The man in black robes said in a hostile tone, "What happened? Your house was robbed?"
The teleportation array quickly transported the two to the outside of the ancestral hall. Zhou Linqian immediately spotted the woman floating under the tree, and a look of pity flashed in his eyes.
Xiang Sui'an was extremely excited to see Zhou Linqian. Despite the formation's ability to knock her away, she floated up again and again.
"Zhou Linqian! You finally dared to come see me."
"Zhou Linqian, where are you going? Don't you even dare to see me?"
"Zhou Linqian, do you know that I was carrying your unborn child when I died? How could you be so cruel?"
Xiang Sui'an's voice was so mournful and desolate that it brought tears to people's eyes and infected them with her emotions.
"Lin Qian, look at me, don't you think I'm alright?"
Tears welled in Zhou Linqian's eyes. He genuinely loved Xiang Sui'an, but he chose the latter over his career.
"Are you sure you want to waste your time here? If you keep dawdling, ten years of your hard work will be wasted."
After being reminded by the black-robed master, Zhou Linqian no longer hesitated and followed the master into the ancestral hall.
As a result, he was blocked by Cang Jin standing at the door.
"So it was you. It was such a pity I didn't manage to refine you last time."
The black-robed man summoned a ball of black fire from his palm and shot it toward Cang Jin, without saying a word and immediately started fighting.
Zhou Linqian, holding a knife, slipped inside while they were fighting and saw Shen Muqing and the other two, especially Sun Ning, whom he did not expect.
"Sun Ning, what are you doing here? Weren't you supposed to be on vacation?"
Why can't I be here?
"Have you forgotten who provided you with your life as a wealthy wife? Are you crazy? Don't you want wealth and luxury anymore?"
Zhou Linqian did not believe that she would betray him.
“I am not Sun Ning, I am Xiang Suining, Xiang Suian’s younger sister.”
“Every day I spend with you is utterly disgusting.”
"I approached you to find my sister's whereabouts, but now that I've found her, you're useless to me."
Xiang Suining stood coldly in front of him, holding the stick she had just used, as if she was about to strike him at any moment.
Shen Muqing looked at the two of them and regretted throwing away the stick. Her hands were empty; what could she use to fight him? Her gaze fell on the candle on the table, and she picked up the candlestick and held it in her hand.
"Xiang Suining, hahaha, I knew you were Xiang Suining a long time ago."
Zhou Linqian was born suspicious. How could he not investigate a woman's identity and background before marrying her? He knew from the beginning that she was Xiang Sui'an's sister. It was probably his guilt towards Xiang Sui'an that made him marry Sun Ning.
"We're husband and wife, do we really have to end up like this, all battered and bruised?"
"Husband and wife are one, if I'm not having a good time, you shouldn't expect to either."
"So what? As long as you die, I don't care what happens to me." Xiang Suining was already prepared to break off all ties with him; as long as he died, she didn't care what happened.
Zhou Linqian chuckled softly, "Since that's the case, today it's either you or me who dies."
He had a knife in his pocket, and he immediately drew it and swung it at Xiang Suining.
The two started fighting, but there was a significant difference in their strength; ultimately, the woman's strength was no match for the man's.
Just as Zhou Linqian's knife was about to slit her neck, a sudden, violent blow sent him sprawling to the ground, clutching his head.
"Hi, Teacher Zhou, long time no see!" Shen Muqing successfully ambushed Xiang Suining from behind and rescued her.
Fearing he would get up, Shen Muqing swung the candlestick and struck Zhou Linqian's head twice more, causing blood to flow freely and Zhou Linqian to faint.
Shen Muqing knew that too much talk would lead to mistakes, so she didn't waste words with him and went straight to the candlestick to make sure he was really unconscious.
"Look for a rope in Suining's eyes and tie him up."
But how could there be ropes here? There are only candles and incense at most.
Taking advantage of Zhou Linqian's momentary lapse in consciousness, Shen Muqing and Xiang Suining searched the surrounding area for a rope, but they couldn't find one.
Oh right, Shen Muqing might have something in his empty bag.
Kongkong was still performing a ritual to help the ghosts pass on when Shen Muqing took it upon himself to open his bag, and what he did was devastating.
The dead chicken was actually in the bag. Damn, she rummaged through the bag and sure enough, found the rope at the very bottom.
Zhou Linqian was eventually tied to a pillar by the two of them, with many tight knots that he knew he couldn't untie himself without their help.
Outside the ancestral hall, the black-robed master was knocked to the ground and retreated step by step, his face filled with fear. How could a soul that could not even be called a soul be so strong?
Cang Jin had avenged his previous defeat; he pointed his sword at the man in black robes and forced him inside.
Seeing this, Shen Muqing grabbed a candlestick and attacked, delivering another powerful slam that knocked him unconscious.
Then, with a look of disgust, he kicked him, saying, "Serves you right for being so pretentious, for hurting people."
Two people were tied to the pillar: Zhou Linqian and the man in the black robe.
Shen Muqing couldn't stand the black robe and wanted to strip it off, but who knew what kind of trouble he might cause later.
"No, Qingqing, don't look at what's improper, I'll do it." Cang Jin stopped her hand.
"Okay, you do it. I think it's dirty."
The matter was resolved very smoothly, much to Shen Muqing's surprise, thanks to Master Kongkong.
As the ritual for the deceased was nearing its end, a burst of bright light appeared, and all the ghosts vanished.
"Finally, the ritual is complete. I'm exhausted."
Performing rituals to help more than a dozen ghosts pass on at once is a huge undertaking. He'll need to replenish his blood and body when he gets back.
"Master, and my sister too, please save my sister."
Xiang Suining knelt at the empty ground and begged him.
"Oh dear, what are you doing? I've already been paid, no need to beg." Kongkong helped her up. "Come on, let's go save your sister."
"Thank you, Master! Thank you, Master!"
Kongkong led Xiang Suining to the tree. Kongkong first observed the formation of the barrier, then quickly broke it, and Xiang Suining finally came out.
"Should we perform a ritual for your sister's soul?"
"Yes! But could you give us some time?"
"At most an hour, it will be dawn soon."
"good!"
Time passed both quickly and slowly. Shen Muqing had called the police in advance. The number of lives Zhou Linqian and the other man had committed was enough to warrant their execution. Shen Muqing and the others had no right to kill Zhou Linqian privately.
Xiang Sui'an was eventually helped to pass on to the next life by Kong Kong, and she is probably going to the next cycle of reincarnation. I hope she can be happy in her next life.
The police responded quickly, and Shen Muqing explained the cause and course of events. When the police saw the things dug out from the four corners, they had no choice but to believe him.
The four corners were filled with human hands and feet, a scene of extreme bloodshed and horror.
These items need to be taken back for genetic comparison to determine the deceased's identity.
Kongkong reminded them to cremate the body immediately after the comparison, as it was considered unlucky and its continued presence in the world would have a negative impact.
Things buried underground haven't rotted after so many years; they look as fresh as if they were just cut off.
After a final discussion, everyone decided to burn down the ancestral hall. They felt it was filled with yin energy, which would attract many wandering ghosts, and the incense offered there would also bring in unclean things.
From then on, there was no Zhou Clan Ancestral Hall in Zhoucun, as it was burned down completely by a large fire.
"Kongkong, what use is this dead chicken to you?"
Shen Muqing was almost startled when she saw the dead chicken in his bag, and then put the dead chicken back in the bag.
"Eat it, don't waste it. This chicken is very nutritious; it's been raised for several years."
Kongkong said nonchalantly, "Although blood is the most precious part of a chicken, it can still be used to make soup."
"It has to be you, Master, you're truly amazing."
In the end, Zhou Linqian seemed to have foreseen that his actions would be exposed, and had prepared a divorce agreement in advance, and transferred a lot of property to Xiang Suining's name.
Xiang Suining gave all of this money to the families of the deceased as compensation. She stayed in Zhoucun; it was her home.
"How much does the master charge?"
When it was time to pay the bill, Shen Muqing looked at him, thinking that the master's fee must have been very high.
"Five thousand, transfer or cash?"
"transfer!"
Shen Muqing immediately transferred the money to him, afraid that he would change his mind. The master was quite conscientious and did not overcharge.
"Okay, got it. If you need anything like this again, I'll give you a 15% discount."
"Thank you."
"You're welcome." Kongkong smiled at her, then looked at Cangjin beside her. "I wish you both well, and hope you will have a good outcome."
Cang Jin embraced Shen Muqing, his expression unwavering; of course, he and Qingqing would be happy.
......
"Please prepare yourself, host. This mission has been successfully completed. Please proceed to the next world."
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