Chapter 22: The strange young man

I went downstairs to take a look at the things they had bought. The rooster was quite spirited, and the chili peppers were also bought from the sky. The brush was also suitable. These people were quite good at doing things.

I thought to myself, no wonder so many people love being bosses. It’s so comfortable to have people running errands for you. When will I be able to become a Taoist boss?

When Su Rou came down, a very generous man gave him 200 yuan. I gave him a wink, and Su Rou immediately tactfully found an excuse to send the employees away.

After all, these employees and An Yu are just an employer-employee relationship, not family. Su Rou said an excuse, and they left obediently. As for what they were thinking, we couldn’t care less.

Only Su Rou and I were left in the room. Su Rou grabbed the big rooster and said, “I’m the best at killing chickens. Sanwa, are you going to make a pot of tonic soup for An Yu? First, I want to eat half of it. I haven’t eaten anything yet.”

“It’s fine if you eat the whole thing, but now get An Yu’s business done.” After I said that, I went into the kitchen with the bag of chili peppers.

Su Rou followed me with the big rooster in his hand, not quite sure why I was going into the kitchen.

I didn’t bother to explain, took out a few chili peppers, washed them, then chopped them up on the cutting board. I put them in a bowl, added some boiling water, and set them aside.

Su Rou looked at me as if I was making chicken with chili peppers, and was about to say that I should add some garlic. After I finished making the chili water, I didn’t have time to explain anything to Su Rou. I took the big chicken from Su Rou and said, “Sorry, brother chicken.”

I cut the cockerel’s comb and squeezed out the blood in it.

There wasn’t much blood in the comb, just a little bowlful. After I squeezed the blood out, I handed the rooster to Su Rou, then picked up the blood and the chili water and said to Su Rou, “Lock up the chicken, hold my pen, and come help me.”

Su Rou hurriedly agreed, but looked as if she was very sorry that I didn’t make chicken with chili sauce.

When we got to An Yu’s bedroom, we found that An Yu was no longer in bed, but was struggling on the floor. It was hard for him. He was possessed by a ghost and had no control over his body. He had rolled from the bed to the wooden floor, and he was bound to be bruised and swollen.

I put down the chicken blood, picked up the chili water, and then said to Su Rou, “Help An Yu up.”

Su Rou did as he was told, supporting An Yu up to a semi-sitting position. It was hard work for Su Rou, as the boy kept struggling, but there was no time to worry about that. I walked over and, together with Su Rou, opened An Yu’s mouth and poured the chili water down his throat.

In an instant, An Yu’s face turned red from the heat. At that moment, he came to his senses and looked at me and Su Rou with an excited look, as if to say that he had finally been saved.

But the next moment, he started coughing violently, and then his whole face became extremely uncomfortable, the kind of uncomfortable struggle.

Seeing this, Su Rou was a bit unsure and said, “Sanwa, are you going to use the chili peppers to kill him?”

I stood up and pulled Su Rou away, saying, “Wait a minute. He should be coming to his senses soon. Don’t do anything rash.”

Su Rou must have trusted me, nodded and stood quietly next to me.

After about half a minute, I saw that An Yu’s expression was sometimes struggling and sometimes scared, so I knew that the time was almost right. I said loudly to An Yu, “I’m here to help you. Wait a minute. Try to control your body with your will. Do you hear me?”

At this point, a miracle happened. An Yu nodded very lightly.

“Put him on the bed,” I said to Su Rou, and then we both carried An Yu onto the bed.

On the bed, An Yu was still struggling, but after just a dozen seconds, he slowly stopped struggling and instead began to tremble all over, but he was still able to control his body.

I picked up the bowl of blood and then the brush, and shouted to Su Rou, “Hold his feet first.”

Su Rou did as I said, and I dipped the brush in the blood and drew a symbol on An Yu’s sole. After the symbol was drawn, An Yu’s foot stopped trembling, but his whole body trembled even more.

Su Rou looked at me and couldn’t help but ask me what was going on.

But I didn’t have time to explain to Su Rou, so I took the blood and began to draw the patterns on An Yu’s body. If the blood is not preserved in a special way, it will lose its yang energy after being removed from the body for too long, so I had to hurry.

As for the location of the patterns, it is the same as the location of the patterns drawn by the corpse-carrier when raising the corpse.

The difference is that the corpse-carrier is sealing the remaining soul in the corpse, while I am using the most yang of the blood to force out the thing that has possessed An Yu.

The faster I drew the symbols, the faster I finished the first few places, leaving only the spirit altar.

At this point, An Yu began to scream loudly, his veins bulging, his head swaying back and forth, and he kept shouting, “My head hurts, my head hurts!”

This was not necessarily because An Yu had come to his senses, but because he was instinctively screaming.

The brain is a very vulnerable part of the human body, so forcing the creature into the brain is a very dangerous act. If I delay for a moment, An Yu will definitely go insane. I took the pen and shouted at the meat: “Get out, now! The creature is coming out!”

If it accidentally got on the body of the crispy meat, it would be a very troublesome thing.

Su Rou did not dare to delay, and quickly ran out, carefully closing the door behind him. At the same time, my pen also fell on An Yu’s spirit altar.

After the last symbol was drawn, I threw down the pen and quickly took a few steps back.

The room fell into a short period of silence, and I dared not delay for a moment, but opened my heavenly eye in an instant.

As soon as I opened my heavenly eye, the first thing I saw was a red mist surrounding An Yu’s head, struggling in great pain, as if slowly being squeezed out. The next moment, the state of my heavenly eye stabilized, and I saw a baby with a strange bright red skin crawling out of An Yu’s head.

Its appearance was very terrifying, or rather, its expression was very terrifying, fierce and hideous.

I sighed in my heart, I had calculated everything, but I had missed one thing. It was my mistake, and it was also An Yu’s fate to have a disaster.

Faced with such a fierce, infant spirit whose skin was already bright red, I knew that there was no longer any possibility of salvation. Once the spirit is completely controlled by resentment, its essence is actually resentment. At most, it can only return to a brief moment of clarity, and then it will be scattered to the four winds.

Just like Li Fengxian in those days!

I don’t know what kind of vicious way the person who set up the trap used to dispose of the original corpse of the infant spirit to make it look like this, but I couldn’t help but curse in my heart.

When the spirit completely climbed out of An Yu’s body, my hand gestures had already finished. This time, I could not show mercy. I was using the Golden Knife technique that my master had once used. When the Golden Knife technique is used, the spirit usually has no chance of survival.

My skills are not as good as my master’s, and I don’t have his control. When the spirit is in the body of a living person, I dare not use the Golden Knife Technique, and can only try to force it out.

As soon as the spirit child climbed out, it moved very fast, making a sound like a cat and pouncing at me. At this time, my Golden Knife Technique also fell heavily…

After a few seconds, I retreated a few steps. The Golden Knife Technique was too taxing on my energy, and I was barely able to perform it, which is why I felt unsteady on my feet after the hand gesture.

I don’t know if it was my illusion, or if I wanted to believe it was real, but when the Golden Sword Technique cut through the spirit, I saw it break apart, and there was a look of relief on its face.

Or, being scattered to the four winds is not the worst outcome.

I gasped for breath, then sat down against the wall. Within a minute, An Yu on the bed let out a groan, and it seemed that he was slowly recovering.

I lit a cigarette and was about to call Su Rou to come up when I heard a muffled sound outside. I suddenly thought of something and, despite my fatigue, quickly jumped up, ran to the window and opened the curtains.

At this moment, I saw the back of a young man. I couldn’t help but shout, “Stop!”

After I shouted, I felt terrible, but I didn’t expect him to run at all, but instead turned and looked at me.