Chapter 95: The news brought by Jueyuan

Jueyuan’s exorcism was not very successful. Although I personally think that Jueyuan’s exorcism skills have reached a new level, what is the environment here? His mental power is not as strong as the legendary high monk, who can travel through space, and even if the ghost is in the legendary hell, he can also use his mental power to offset a certain amount of sin.

No matter how hard Jueyuan tried, his spiritual power was always offset by an invisible yin energy here, and the effect was minimal.

In the end, Jueyuan was covered in sweat, as if he had just been pulled out of the water, and he had only managed to liberate three evil spirits.

“Chengyi, I’m sorry. My abilities are limited, so please help.” Jueyuan stopped his exorcism with a guilty conscience and said this to me.

I didn’t blame Jueyuan. After all, although his exorcism was ineffective, it was still beneficial to the ghosts and spirits because his mental power could alleviate their suffering to a certain extent.

I was about to intervene, but then Lushan suddenly said, “Let me do it.” Before I could react, Lushan had already begun to chant, but the hand gestures were unfamiliar to me. They were like Tantra, but also like Taoism, and they were shorter than Taoist incantations. In a short time, a strange Dharma image appeared behind Lushan. The Dharma image leaned over and exhaled, and a strong wind blew up. The evil spirits were all blown away…

“The soul-eating gale of the underworld, wherever it blows, the souls fly apart, Amitabha.” At this time, Jueyuan had already jumped from his boat to ours. I didn’t recognize Lu Shan’s technique, but Jueyuan was able to tell its origin in one sentence.

“Yuan is not the soul-eating wind, but only has its shape. These ghosts are incomplete ghosts. If they resist, my wind will not have much effect.” Lu Shan said this very calmly. In fact, he didn’t know that the only two times he had used his power, I felt it was incredibly mysterious and powerful.

Perhaps he was afraid that I would think too much about it, so Lushan suddenly said to Jueyuan, “I learned some other methods in my early years, but Taoism is ultimately where I belong. This is just a refined version of the spirit summoning technique that my master improved based on my situation.”

Improved spirit summoning? Can this be changed? Of course it can, otherwise Xiao Chengqian’s lineage would not have such a powerful spirit summoning technique. It’s just that changing the spell is naturally something that only a great master can do. What kind of master was Lu Shan’s?

Jueyuan looked at Lushan meaningfully, but in the end he didn’t say anything, but instead circled around me.

I had a lot of questions for Jueyuan, but when I saw his movements, I was speechless. This is clearly…

“Well, the clothes on your body look good, very handsome! Master Jueyuan, are you satisfied?” I said helplessly. Over there, because Jueyuan had been meditating for a long time, Chengxin and Xiao Chengqian, who had just woken up, heard me say this.

Then Chengxin said to Xiao Chengqian, “Do you think there’s something wrong with Chengyi’s ability to appreciate things?”

“Well, I think so! I couldn’t wear that suit if I were five years younger. By the way, I think that men should wear clothes that are simple but not plain, and that they should highlight a kind of aristocratic demeanor in the details.” Xiao Chengqian answered quite quickly.

“Well, the aristocratic demeanor is fine, but I think it’s about being clean as a whole, and matching your own temperament in the details. Wearing clothes in a messy way is even more terrible than not wearing clothes…” Brother Chengxin was also enthusiastic about this topic, and the two of them looked at me with contempt while discussing it.

I was helpless. I felt that I had once again become the target of their ridicule, but I realized that Jueyuan was already furious. He jumped in front of Xiao Chengqian and Chengxin and shouted, “Do you two have any appreciation skills? This is Jack Jones! It’s only sold in big department stores, or in big department stores in big cities. Do you understand? Look at my jacket, look at my jeans, they’re all 399 yuan each!”

When Hui Gen saw this scene, he helplessly slapped his head and shouted, “Brother, my teacher is here again…”

As for the girls, they were stunned. As for Ru Yue, she whispered in my ear, “Brother, what is that thing called ‘Ke’ and ‘Si’?”

“I don’t know. Two years ago, he still talked about Bonway and Benelux. You know I’m the kind of person who wears whatever I have, I don’t have the luxury of Xiao Daxia, nor do I have the taste of Chengxin Ge, so I don’t understand.” I also whispered to Ru Yue.

Chengxin didn’t understand why Jueyuan had such a big reaction. For a moment, he pushed his glasses and was speechless. However, Xiao Chengqian was calm. He stood up, straightened the wrinkles on the jacket on his body, and patted Jueyuan on the shoulder and said, “I don’t know that brand, but just like Burberry’s trench coat, Gucci’s belt, and LV wallet. I don’t like to wear them anymore. Nowadays, custom-made clothes are a little more comfortable to wear. You can understand this as a return to simplicity. A tailor shop with a lot of experience doesn’t need to use a brand to advertise anything, because it can cut out just what suits me, which is me, Xiao Chengqian, unique.

Jueyuan was suddenly dumbfounded. Xiao Chengqian stood at the bow of the boat, yawning and scratching his head. The image of him instantly became huge in front of him. He suddenly rushed to Xiao Chengqian, excitedly shouting, “Teacher, take me in. From now on, you will teach me how to dress.”

Hui Gen whispered to himself, “What a shame.”

Chengqing raised his eyebrows slightly and commented, “Are we on the lake of ghosts?”

As for me, I suddenly felt a stirring in my heart, and then rubbed Chengzhen’s head and asked, “Chengzhen, do you think that in your eyes, I am the kind of man who is the same whether he is wearing clothes or not?”

Chengzhen gave me a look and said, “Chengyi, you actually have a good figure. As for what you wear, you don’t need to care too much. Be good!”

I was about to burst into tears.

The lake surface returned to its original calm, but after listening to Jueyuan’s story, our hearts were far from calm. The reason was that we were now at the entrance to the Lake of a Thousand Ghosts, and all we had encountered were a few small shrimps. According to Jueyuan, there was no boundary stone at all!

“The distribution of ghosts here is somewhat regular, and it’s not like you think that there are ghosts everywhere! Just like our mortal world, it is also divided into cities and the wild. You can understand it as there are two cities here, and the rest is the wild. For example, the place where we are now is the wildest of the wild. Whether we will encounter ghosts is a matter of probability.” Jueyuan explained this little hell in this way.

As for the boundary stone, to put it simply, it was erected by an unknown sage many years ago, so long ago that no one can say exactly when.

“The boundary stones seem to have a magical power that can restrain ghosts in this little hell. In short, within the boundary stones is the city of ghosts, and outside the boundary stones is the wilds of ghosts. Like humans, ghosts always prefer to stay in the city, and the wilds are even worse than the lonely souls and wild ghosts.” Jueyuan explained very seriously.

“It’s too much to divide two cities within such a small area, isn’t it?” Xiao Chengqian asked.

Facing Xiao Chengqian, who had become his teacher, Jueyuan naturally did not neglect him, and said enthusiastically, “Actually, within the boundary stone, it is basically a restricted area for humans. In our lineage, there was once a virtuous and powerful monk who had entered it once. He said that within the boundary stone, it cannot be judged by common sense.”

Jueyuan said this very seriously, but he couldn’t explain how it couldn’t be measured by common sense.

So, after hearing this, how could we not feel heavy-hearted? It was just the entrance, just the wild outdoors, and it already got us into such a mess. What if we entered the boundary stone? That legendary city of ghosts?

And was the opportunity left by my master actually inside or outside the city? I frowned and fell into deep thought, but I had never been here before, so how could I possibly come up with a result? Before that, I had one more key question to ask Jueyuan.

“Jueyuan, how can you come and go here? Don’t you know it’s dangerous?” I asked Jueyuan.

In response to my question, Jueyuan suddenly chanted a Buddhist mantra and said to me, “Chengyi, I thought you knew.”

“How could I know?” Jueyuan’s words were too inexplicable, as if I knew it as a matter of course.

“Don’t you know that the high priests of our lineage who entered the boundary stones were with your master? They met at the entrance to the natural formation. This is a secret of our lineage, but is it also a secret to you? If you know this, you should understand why I am here.” Jueyuan said seriously.

What? I was stunned. Unfortunately, all of this was a secret to me! My master never mentioned it to me.