I opened my eyes, and the zombie Luo Tianhe had vanished.
I touched my neck again; it wasn't injured.
At this moment, Master Jin had already placed the obsidian steadily three inches above Luo Tianhe's head.
Looking towards the main entrance, they saw Su Mingyang kneeling on the ground with his eyes closed, constantly putting paper money into the brazier.
I don't know what he saw just now, but he cried his eyes out, tears streaming down his face, completely immersed in a sad atmosphere.
As if moved, Jin Ye turned his head and glanced at us, then piled the remaining glutinous rice around Luo Tianhe's body into a small hill.
After waiting for the small hill to be built up, he placed the black-feathered rooster on top of the glutinous rice.
As soon as it was put down, the black-feathered rooster seemed to sense something, its feathers bristled instantly, it let out a terrified cry, and frantically flapped its wings.
"Quick! Call Xiao Luo's soul back!" Jin Ye shouted at us.
"Luo Tianhe, come back quickly! Luo Tianhe, come back quickly!"
Su Mingyang and I shouted at the top of our lungs.
The black-feathered rooster's crow grew increasingly shrill.
"Master Jin... Master Jin, the egg... the egg has cracked!" Su Mingyang shouted in terror.
I turned my head and saw that the eggshell wrapped in red thread had strangely developed fine and intricate cracks, like a spider web.
It’s over!
Jin Ye once said that eggs should not be broken.
But what Jin said next was completely unexpected.
"This is a good thing. Keep shouting. If the egg cracks, it means it's working. If the soul returns, the egg will explode and the string will break. If the soul doesn't return, the egg and the string won't break."
What are we waiting for? Let's shout!
Su Mingyang and I shouted with all our might, "Luo Tianhe, come back quickly!"
"Luo Tianhe..."
Jin Ye held the snake's head, which read "Wife Remarried Snake," and chanted it rapidly.
"Luo Tianhe, your soul has gone to the west, so return from the west; gone to the north, so return from the north; gone to the east, so return from the east; gone to the south, so return from the south; gone to the center, so return from the center; wherever it went, return from there."
As he uttered the word "return," he suddenly threw the snake onto the black-feathered rooster.
At first, the snake was obediently coiled up in a ball.
But as Master Jin read faster and faster, the snake suddenly lunged and bit the black-feathered rooster's neck.
As the snake venom continued to be injected, the black-feathered rooster stopped flapping its wings and collapsed onto the pile of glutinous rice.
Seeing that Master Jin was starting to pack his things, I hurriedly asked, "Master Jin, is Brother Luo alright?"
Jin shook his head: "Just like you, my soul is gone, and I can't bring it back!"
The soul is gone?
I asked him, "So all that work was for nothing?"
Jin sighed again: "The condition for summoning a soul is that it must have been frightened or its soul taken away. His [heavenly soul] was eaten by the tomb-accompanying demon, so there's no way to summon it!"
As he spoke, he pointed to the snake that was swallowing a black-feathered rooster, which was described as a "snake whose wife had remarried."
"The black-feathered rooster is of pure yang nature, surrounded by yang energy, just like a bright lamp, which can light the way home for lost souls in this chaotic place of yin and yang."
"In the tradition passed down from our ancestors, that snake is a messenger of the underworld, responsible for monitoring the order of the yin and yang realms."
“Normally speaking, if the snake does not devour the chicken, the soul still has a chance to return, which means that the balance between the Yin and Yang realms has not been completely broken, and the underworld has not yet completely imprisoned the soul.”
"But now, look at this snake swallowing the chicken. This is an ominous sign. It's because the underworld has already learned of the soul's incompleteness and determined that it can no longer return to its original place. So it tacitly allows this underworld messenger to act recklessly, completely cutting off the possibility of summoning the soul."
I asked Jin Ye, "If the [Heavenly Soul] is gone, how can Brother Luo still be alive?"
Mr. Jin shook his head and said decisively, "Of course not!"
"So you mean... Luo Tianhe is dead?"
No sooner had he finished speaking than Luo Tianhe, who had been lying quietly, suddenly sat up straight in bed without warning.
Has it come back to life?
"Brother Luo?"
I patted him on the shoulder and called out tentatively.
Who knew that if I hadn't shouted, things would have been better. As soon as I did, Luo Tianhe suddenly raised his hand and viciously grabbed my neck.
"Luo... Brother Luo, it's... it's me, let... let go."
I tried to pry his fingers off, attempting to break free.
Ke Luotianhe's strength was astonishing. His fingers gripped my neck tightly, as if cast in steel, and in just one second, I felt dizzy.
My breathing became increasingly difficult, my vision began to blur, and all I could hear was the sound of my own rapid heartbeat and my increasingly faint cries for help.
Just when I was about to give up, Jin Ye suddenly shouted.
"If you don't let go, don't blame me for being ruthless!"
"Bang!"
Before he could finish speaking, Luo Tianhe grabbed Jin Ye's hair and yanked it hard, slamming Jin Ye's head against the wall.
After a dull thud, Jin Ye's body went limp and collapsed to the ground.
I closed my eyes and felt dizzy.
Su Mingyang, who was burning paper money, froze on the spot when he saw this scene.
"Hey, what's going on? Can anyone tell me if this is a hallucination or real?"
With my last ounce of strength, I clung tightly to Luo Tianhe's waist, pushing off the ground with my legs, trying to drag him to the ground.
But at this moment, Luo Tianhe was like a wild bull, and every struggle almost made me lose my grip.
Seeing Su Mingyang still watching the show, I yelled at him at the top of my lungs, "Don't fucking stand there! Brother Luo [Heavenly Soul] is gone! He's delirious right now! Come and help!"
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