Chapter 21: Night Walk

I didn’t act immediately, but waited for about five minutes, estimating that the man and the old man had already gone far away, before suddenly unleashing the spiritual power that had been suppressed, forcibly breaking free of these ghosts, and standing up from the bed.

Although I had not been under the bed for long, it still had some effect. I felt dizzy and uncomfortable, as if I had suddenly woken up from a deep sleep, and my limbs were cold.

The ghosts that were repelled by me immediately and subconsciously came back at me, but I wouldn’t let them have their way. I immediately took two talismans out of the yellow cloth bag and pasted them on the windows and the door, blocking the ghosts’ escape route.

In the room, there were about 10 angry spirits, including the one that had possessed Brother Chengxin. I was able to handle this number of spirits with ease, but at this point I discovered a small problem. These spirits were somewhat similar to the spirits in the Lake of a Thousand Demons, in that they were purely ghostly bodies with very little self-awareness.

But the difference is that these ghosts don’t want to be like the ghosts in the Lake of a Thousand Ghosts, where their self-awareness is slowly eroded and then completely controlled by the lord of the castle. But the ghosts here give the impression that their self-awareness has become like this since they became ghosts… or rather, I folded the paper with the ghost in my hand into a triangle and put it in my backpack, but I was shocked by my own thoughts. the ghost paper folded into a triangle and put it in my backpack, but I was shocked by my own thoughts. I suddenly opened my eyes wide and wanted to open the paper immediately to release a ghost inside to study it, but things were urgent and I didn’t have time to do it!

My thought was that the spirits of these ghosts were incomplete, and the most crucial spirit that dominated their thinking was not there at all.

This state of affairs moved me so much because they reminded me of Xiao Chengqian’s eldest cousin, who had followed my master to search for Kunlun. After we brought him back, we carefully examined his condition and found that his condition was very bad. He only had a spirit, but no soul!

So he could make any kind of movement (the seven spirits correspond to the five senses and movements of a person), and even perceive the outside world. Unfortunately, without a soul, he had no ability to think or react to things at all! If his body were still alive, he would be… a zombie!

Isn’t this similar to the remaining soul here?

“Chengyi, what are you thinking?” I was able to collect these residual spirits very quickly, in just under two minutes. Chengxin, who was a doctor, did not have the advantage over these guys that I did, and it was only then that he finally woke up from the aftereffects of the ghost bed. But looking at me in the middle of the room, he couldn’t help but ask.

“The situation is a bit complicated, I don’t know how to say it.” I replied directly to Brother Chengxin. At this time, the voice of Yueyue sounded in the courtyard.

“Third brother, Brother Chengxin, are you okay?”

I quickly opened the door and saw that Ru Yue had already come out of her room and was now in the courtyard, walking towards us.

I already had an idea in my mind. After Ru Yue came in, I quickly said, “Something is wrong with the whole town. I suspect that many of the town’s indigenous people know what’s going on! I’m going out for a while, but don’t follow me.”

“You’re going alone?” Chengxin was a little surprised.

“Yes, if three people go, the target will be too big. And I vaguely feel that this matter is related to a major secret. Although we haven’t found Liu Weijun yet, I think we may also have a huge gain before that! However… as long as it involves a secret, it will definitely be accompanied by danger. If I go alone and don’t come back by 5 a.m., when it’s almost dawn, you should leave immediately and gather everyone to find help, okay?” My speech became faster and faster, and I glanced out the window at the fog (yin qi) outside. I quickly took out a red string from my bag and began to tie knots on my body with skillful hands.

The knot is a technique that my master is most adept at. It can be said that the method of tying several of these knots is a secret that only our Li family knows. For example, the lock-yang knot is used a lot, but it is the most magical! Many other families, and even the great Taoist families, must use talismans above blue to achieve this effect.

Why is it so magical? Because its effect is equivalent to an “invisibility spell,” which means that it makes you invisible to ghosts and zombies! Because it locks in yang energy, in the presence of these beings, I am like a ghost, a wandering soul!

“Chengyi…”

“Third brother…”

When they heard me say this, Chengxin and Ruyue both called out to me in worry. After all, from the way I was talking, this time it might really be very dangerous. How could they not be worried?

“This matter concerns the whereabouts of Master and the others. We can’t act recklessly. Everything must be done for the greater good. If we are all caught, the people outside won’t get the news, understand?” I tied the rope knot faster and faster. As the yang energy was locked up, my body began to feel cold. I had to hurry.

“Well, just in case, now I and Ruyue will stay here together until 5 a.m.” Chengxin made a decision quickly. After all, he is a man, and compared to women, he has to be more decisive and rational.

Ruyue still looked worriedly at me. I had already tied the knot by now, and with my cold hands I touched Ruyue’s hair like I did when I was a child, saying, “It’s okay. We’ve been through so many dangers together, haven’t we?”

After saying that, I didn’t dare to waste any more time, opened the door without looking back, and rushed into the courtyard and into the vast night filled with fog!

The courtyard was quiet, and the fog made the temperature here at least a few degrees lower than inside the house. It was as cold as a Sichuan winter. In order not to affect my activities, I didn’t have much clothing on, and because the yang energy was locked, I felt even colder after entering the courtyard.

I originally wanted to open the gate and leave immediately, but when I looked back, I saw that the main gate of the old man’s house was open. I couldn’t help but want to go in and take a look. During the day, when he left, he told us not to go in, and I didn’t think anything of it, but after such a strange thing happened, I had to suspect that there might be some secret in this house that I couldn’t see!

Time did not allow me to hesitate. After all, the old man and his wife had already gone far away, and I could not follow them at all. I could only investigate on my own, which would take time! In addition, if I kept wearing the yin-yang knot for a long time, my body would suffer from a lack of yang energy, and I could even die. So I quickly made a decision.

I sneaked into the old man’s main house. Because the lights were not on, it was dark, and there was a rotten, sour smell that had been emitted because it had not been cleaned for a long time. The fog blocked the moonlight, and I could not see anything. I was afraid to turn on the lights, so I could only find a lighter to light up the room.

The room finally lit up in the light of the lighter, but the first picture that came into view made me jump.

In the old man’s house, there was something like a shrine, and inside it was a half-human-sized skeleton, black with blood stains… a human skeleton! This immediately reminded me of Lin Jianguo, the things he once worshiped… However, this was different from what the old man worshiped, because what he worshiped should have been the bones of a monster, while the old man worshiped real human bones!

This… I was silent, then looked around with a lighter in my hand and found several photos on the wall, including a family photo, a photo of the couple, and two photos of the two children.

I only recognized one person in the photos, and that was the old man. It was probably a photo of him when he was young, and the other people in the photos were probably his family. The two children were two boys. I was very surprised. He clearly had two sons, so why did he say he was an old man living alone? Could it be that, apart from himself, all his family members had died?

I couldn’t think of an answer, and I wanted to explore the house carefully, but I realized that I couldn’t afford to waste any more time. I thought for a moment, picked up one of the items, and walked out of the house.

The thing in my hand was a black cloak. If there was only one, I would definitely not have touched it, but when I found two, I wondered if the old man used it often and prepared so many?

This strange thing must not be used during the day, so I thought of his behavior going out in the middle of the night… So, just in case, I took one with me.

I closed the door, and the alley outside the door was just as foggy as the courtyard. I looked up and around, and found that the fog had already filled the entire town, and the entire town was dark and gloomy. However, after going out, I could hear faint sounds coming from afar, as if many footsteps were rushing towards a place.

But the old man’s place was unusually quiet. There were a few families living side by side here. Could it be that they had all gone out?

There was no target to follow, but that didn’t bother me. After I discovered the scent of the wandering ghost in the alley, I thought of a way to find the target I was following.

That is to open the third eye!