"Get out of the way!"
Yuan Ying shouted and quickly threw seven copper coins into the well.
The moment the money was aimed at the pottery jar, the steel bars in the well wall buzzed, and the lights in the entire building flashed simultaneously.
I didn't dare look anymore and climbed up as fast as I could.
Behind me, I heard a rustling sound, as if something was quickly crawling up and trying to grab my feet.
"Walk!"
As soon as I climbed up, Yuan Ying grabbed me: "The pottery jar at the bottom of the well is just the key to the formation. The real soul-binding jar is hidden deep in the foundation, nurtured for thirty years by the energy of the entire building..."
Her voice was quickly drowned out by the vibrations of the floorboards.
The cement platform in the storage room is slowly sinking, revealing the deeper blue brick well wall.
The top is engraved with countless birth dates and times, which are the names of all the residents of this building.
It turns out that Baldy's fate-altering scheme began when he bought the house.
He utilized the steel and concrete structure of the apartment building to transform the entire building into a vessel for nurturing souls.
The vitality of each resident is the nourishment for the soul of reincarnation, while Xiuxiu and my birth charts are merely the keys to open the gates of the underworld.
Yuan Ying used the bone-revealing mirror to look at the water's surface. The mirror reflected the pottery jar at the bottom of the well, with the same red thread wrapped around the jar as the one behind Xiu Xiu's ear.
With a "bang," I bumped into Yuan Ying's back.
That's strange. Weren't they supposed to be leaving? Why did they suddenly stop?
"Ah! Look ahead... ahead!"
Xiuxiu suddenly grabbed my arm, looking ahead in horror.
It was only then that I noticed that there was no road ahead, but a cliff.
how so?
How could there be a cliff in our residential area?
Is it a hallucination?
I looked at Yuan Ying.
Yuan Ying knew what I was going to say and said in a deep voice, "It really is an illusion."
I said, since it's an illusion, why don't we just walk over there?
Yuan Ying said calmly, "It's fine as long as you can walk across, but if you're thinking of it as a cliff while you're walking across, you won't be able to walk across. Not only that, you'll fall into the real cliff."
"What do you mean?" I was a little confused.
"What I mean is, if you can't overcome your inner demons, then even if what you're seeing is an illusion, you'll still fall into the abyss. Tell me, what would happen if you fell off a cliff in reality?"
I said, of course it will fall and be smashed to pieces.
"That's right!"
Yuan Ying said in a deep voice, "If you don't believe for a second that this is an illusion when you walk over there, then your body will crack inch by inch, just like when you fall off a cliff, and you will die here!"
this……
Upon hearing this, I gasped.
Looking back at Xiuxiu, I saw her terrified expression, and I knew she definitely wouldn't make it.
I said, is there really no other way?
Yuan Ying nodded and looked at the well: "There is a 'Money Soul Array' at the bottom of the well, which is nourished by the blood of a substitute."
Yuan Ying bit her fingertip and drew the character "open" on the well opening: "Chen Yan, take the Soul-Guiding Jade down, remember not to touch the well water, and use the jade surface to cover the mouth of the jar."
Is it going to rain again?
Seeing that Yuan Ying remained silent, I sighed helplessly and said, "Fine, let her go."
As soon as I arrived at the well, I felt the biting cold, many times colder than before.
However, the burning heat of the Soul-Guiding Jade in my arms made me feel much better.
By the light of the torch at my waist, I saw that the pottery jar was surrounded by piles of paper babies.
Each baby has Xiuxiu's and my birth dates and times pasted on their chest.
Just as the pottery jar was touched, the sound of a baby crying suddenly came from the water.
The paper baby's eyes turned to me at the same time, and thin red threads, as fine as hair, emerged from the dark eye sockets and wrapped around my ankles.
Don't look back!
Yuan Ying's voice came from the well.
I gritted my teeth and pressed the Soul-Guiding Jade against the mouth of the jar.
Who knew that as soon as it was pasted on, the red thread suddenly tightened.
I looked down at my palm and saw that, without me noticing, the joint lines of a paper effigy of a young boy had appeared.
Holy crap!
Is it my turn?
At the critical moment, the sound of a peach wood sword piercing into the well was heard, and the red thread snapped instantly.
As I climbed up the well platform carrying the pottery jar, Yuan Ying was using cinnabar to inscribe a soul-sealing spell on the jar. Suddenly, a delicate baby hair mark appeared on the jar.
It turns out that the fetal soul that Baldy the Third stole back then had already become entangled with Xiuxiu's life soul.
"Open the jar."
Yuan Ying handed over a cow hair brush.
The moment the earthenware jar was opened, a wave of eerie energy mixed with the smell of burnt paper money surged out, and half a tattered talisman fell out, which was the fortune-telling that the half-immortal had given to Baldy the Third back then.
"For ten lifetimes of reincarnation, one must borrow the karma of twins born in the underworld to bear the debt; one must be a biological daughter, and the other must have conflicting birth charts..."
We were then shocked to realize that my birth date and time and Xiuxiu's birth date and time actually matched the "twin Yin life" pattern, and that Bald Laosan's substitution of fate had laid out double insurance from the very beginning.
If Xiuxiu's soul cannot hold on, my life will become the next vessel for the Reincarnation Soul.
That ancient well was the very spot of the Yin Eye in the mass burial ground. He buried the Fetal Soul Jar there to nourish the Reincarnation Soul with the Yin energy of the earth's veins.
...
Back at the shop, Yuan Ying placed the fetal soul jar next to the shrine and surrounded it with seven ever-burning lamps.
The strange phenomena in the mirror did not stop.
The paper-mache figures of boys and girls on the shelf began to pair up, their blood lines at their eye sockets forming the characters "Chen" and "Xiu".
Xiuxiu's palm lines gradually became clearer, and they even turned into the Li trigram symbol on the fetal soul jar.
Every time I look in the mirror, I see a crack at the corner of my eye, just like Yuan Ying's, as if something had forcibly torn it open from the mirror.
Two days later, bad news came from the alley entrance: Grandpa Zhao, who runs a hardware store, suddenly fell seriously ill. Before he died, he pointed to the wardrobe and said, "The red vest is waiting for someone." There were also paper lines on his palm when he died.
After checking, Yuan Ying discovered that his birth date and time clashed with the date of Bald Lao San's death.
It turns out that the karmic debt of the Reincarnation Soul had already begun to backfire on everyone who had come into contact with Bald Old Man San, following the yin energy of the earth's veins.
"The 'Earth Vein Yin Net' must be broken before 49 days ago."
Yuan Ying opened the tattered pages of the "Lu Ban Classic": "The trap set up by the semi-immortal back then used the mass grave, the ancient well, and the paper offering shop to form a triangular yin eye. We need to find the location of the third yin eye."
Xiuxiu suddenly pointed at the bone-revealing mirror and exclaimed, "The paper baby carriage in the mirror is moving!"
The mirror image shows the stroller moving along the alleyway.
The wheel tracks formed an equilateral triangle with the locations of the mass grave and the ancient well.
Finally, it stopped under the old locust tree at the end of the alley.
However, for some reason, upon seeing this scene, Yuan Ying, who hadn't shown a smile in a long time, finally broke into a smile.
"Yingniang, is there some good news?" I asked.
Yuan Ying nodded and smiled faintly, "This means that things are about to end. That is the location of the third Yin Eye. Once it is broken, everything will calm down."
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