"Report this to the Heavenly Court and the Netherworld. If the officers and soldiers hear this request, they should quickly send down the Yin Gods to capture the Yin spirits and eliminate the evil spirits!"
This was the first time Chen Ling invited the ghost to come to the world of the living, and he felt excited and nervous.
Seeing that the two pieces of talisman paper were about to burn out, the incense was burning slower and slower. Realizing what he was doing, the earthbound spirit began to struggle again, cursing Chen Ling for his betrayal and playing dirty, and that he would die a miserable death.
Chen Ling sat cross-legged on the spot motionless, not affected at all, staring at the three incense sticks with his pupils slightly constricted.
He was unsure and worried that he wouldn't be able to invite the ghost messenger. After all, his master said that if he wanted the ghost messenger to come quickly, he had to burn more things. But the conditions didn't allow it now, so he couldn't burn anything even if he wanted to.
"Brother Ghost Messenger, I know I didn't burn anything. Why don't you come and solve the problem first? When you leave later, I will definitely buy you a big house, a super sports car, and hundreds of millions of dollars."
It was probably because this sincere bribe really worked, as most of the slowly burning incense was burned down in an instant.
In the quiet bathroom, a cold wind blew.
The wall paint and cement stones that fell on the ground were rolled up and swirled in the air. The light bulb above the head began to flicker, making a crackling sound of electricity, and the door of the compartment also flapped back and forth, making clanging sounds.
Chen Ling was stunned by the noise. He didn't expect the arrival of the ghost would be so grand.
The moment the three incense sticks were completely burned out, three shadows appeared in the bathroom. The shadows faced the bathroom door, and they swayed a few times, perhaps because they were not standing steadily or were affected by some other emotions.
Jiang Yu narrowed his eyes slightly, just enough to cover up the flash of dark light: "The three brothers are standing in the wrong position, please stay at the back."
The shadow stood stiffly for a long while, then bowed slightly, as if to kowtow, and then he heard the man opposite him speak again: "Please ask your people to stay in the back."
Jiang Yu seemed to have lost his patience. Seeing the shadow still standing there motionless, he frowned and his eyes became deep.
Light eye color can easily give people a sense of emptiness, but when they become dark due to certain emotions, the emptiness will be filled with inorganic indifference, and danger and violence will become synonymous with it.
The phantoms turned together and walked in front of Chen Ling in unison.
Chen Ling: “…”
He was the one who lit the incense and chanted the incantation, so how could he have mistaken the people after inviting them here? Could these three be interns
Chen Ling had a smile on his face, hiding all his mental activities, and respectfully recounted the causes and consequences of inviting the ghost spirit to the world of the living, as well as the despicable things Zhu Peng had done.
The three Yin gods are one from the Fourteenth Department, one from the Forty-eighth Department, and one from the Fifty-ninth Department - the Soul-Calling Department.
The Soul-Seeking Department is responsible for investigating ghosts who died unjustly. After these ghosts are registered and reported and the facts are verified and confirmed, this department will let the unjustly killed ghosts come to the human world to seek revenge.
The three parties have different functions, but now there is an evil ghost and an evil person.
How to divide
Chen Ling was also a little confused. He never thought that his first attempt to summon the Yin Gods would not only be successful, but he would be able to summon three at a time.
Hearing the origins of the three Yin Gods from their argument, he calmed down and came up with a perfect idea: "Three brothers, I have a suggestion. I wonder if you are willing to listen."
Forty-eight Division: "Just say it."
Chen Ling: "According to the existing laws of the Yang world, it is not possible to convict Zhu Peng for the crime he committed. I suggest that the eldest brother of the Fourteenth Department can punish him first. After Zhu Peng dies, the eldest brother of the Forty-Eighth Department can take his soul back and judge the suffering he will suffer in his next life according to the extent of his sins."
Zhu Peng, who had just woken up but was in so much pain that he couldn't speak: "..."
After a pause, Chen Ling turned his gaze to the third shadow and said, "Big brother from the 59th Division, Ms. Zhou did not do any evil in her life. As far as I know, she has donated to welfare homes and has personally worked with volunteers to take care of lonely elderly people. I hope you can find out Ms. Zhou's merits and demerits before deciding whether she should be punished for taking revenge without reporting it."
The earthbound spirit trapped in the copper coin formation looked straight at Chen Ling. She moved her cracked lips and looked quite shocked.
The young man's suggestion was reasonable and in line with the responsibilities of each department. The Yin Gods looked at each other and agreed in their hearts, but for some reason they were reluctant to nod.
Jiang Yu walked forward, and although he didn't make any overly intimate physical movements, his arm was leaning against Chen Ling's.
He said, "Do you have any doubts?"
"No, no." The three of them shook their heads. Finally, the Yin God of the 59th Division swung out an iron chain, tied up the earthbound spirit, and dragged it directly out of the copper coin formation. It disappeared on the spot and ran faster than anyone else.
Because they had to deal with Zhu Peng's issue, the 14th and 48th departments temporarily stayed in the world of the living, and soon they came out of the compartment carrying Zhu Peng.
As they passed Jiang Yu, they nodded slightly.
Chen Ling looked at the shadow that had already walked away, and said beside Jiang Yu, "I suspect you know each other."
"Yeah." The man did not deny it, "It's just that we are not very close."
"To what extent does 'not too deep' mean?" Chen Ling asked.
"We've met before, but we've never had a conversation." Jiang Yu said, then walked to the corner, picked up the inkstone that had fallen on the ground, reeled in the thread, and threw it to Wu Weiwei.
Wu Weiwei was still immersed in the shock of witnessing the appearance of the Seventy-Two Yin Gods. He was able to catch the thing entirely relying on his muscle memory.
Jiang Yu turned around and glanced at the cursed whip still in the young man's hand: "Put the whip away. It will be bad for you if you keep using it for a long time."
Chen Ling then remembered and hurriedly rolled up the whip and stuffed it little by little into the handle, leaving only a little red tassel exposed outside.
"What kind of magic weapon is this?" Li Hongyu suddenly came over. He had been curious about the magic weapon since the young man almost pulled the earthbound spirit out of Ding Junyuan's body with the first whip.
With such a violent temper, I wonder how many evil spirits he has beaten.
Chen Ling shook his head and told the truth: "I don't know either. My master gave it to me."
It was considered as a gift for changing one's mind after Zhao Xunchang became his disciple. When it was first handed to Chen Ling, he reminded him several times without getting tired of it: Your Taoism level is not high enough now, so you must not use it for a long time, otherwise you will easily be disturbed by the evil spirit of thousands of ghosts on the curse whip.
To this end, he also specially helped his young apprentice install a three-section telescopic stick engraved with suppression runes on the outside.
Previously, the telescopic stick was able to hit the reincarnated evil ghosts, relying on the magic power leaked from the cursed whip.
Li Hongyu frowned and said, "It's best to recite the Heart Purification Mantra several times before using it. You are not very advanced in Taoism now. If you use it for a long time, I'm afraid you won't be able to suppress it and suffer backlash."
Wu Weiwei next to him subconsciously whispered: "No wonder..."
When Brother Chen used the whip just now, his temperament was quite different from before, especially the last one or two whips. He seemed to be emitting black air all over his body and looked very fierce.
Even more vicious than when he bullied Zhu Peng before.
Chen Ling glanced at Wu Weiwei and smiled at Li Hongyu, "Thanks for the reminder, I'll make a note of it."
Li Hongyu felt embarrassed by the young man's laughter. It was not until this moment that he truly felt that this man really did not take the previous conflicts between them to heart.
After tying the copper coins again, Li Hongyu said, "I have something else to do. I'll leave first."
"Wait a minute." Chen Ling put the telescopic stick back, pressed it into the handle, and then reached into his trouser pocket. It was empty.
Remembering that his phone was left in Ding Junyuan's office, he hooked his finger at Wu Weiwei and called him over: "Please add Li Hongyu's WeChat." Then he looked at Li Hongyu, "Is it convenient?"
Li Hongyu gave Wu Weiwei a QR code and asked him to scan it.
With a beep, it's done.
After adding the person to the address book, Wu Weiwei said awkwardly: "Mr. Li, please approve it."
Although he didn't want to admit it, Li Hongyu was indeed quite capable. Not only was he the weakest in the small team of three, but even after adding an outsider, he was still the weakest.
Li Hongyu didn't want to pay attention to him. He said "Oh" and walked out while tapping his phone.
Ding Junyuan woke up at this moment. He held his head and wailed, then struggled to sit up. His body felt like it had been run over by wheels and was extremely sore, especially on his forehead and arms, which were burning badly.
Chen Ling looked at the red mark that stretched from his forehead to his chin, which was as thick as his little finger, with a guilty conscience. "Mr. Ding, it's over."
Ding Junyuan looked around blankly. There was blood on the floor of the cubicle and the cracked ceiling was covered with disgusting black mold. Except for Mr. Jiang, everyone else was surrounding him.
"What on earth happened..." he said hoarsely, "I only remember taking Zhu Peng upstairs to look for you guys, and then we ran into a dead end, and we couldn't walk down the long staircase..."
After a pause of a few seconds, he frowned hard, and then he remembered something with a horrified expression: "That female ghost! She entangled me with her hair and stuck to me!"
"It's okay, it's all over." Wu Weiwei squatted down, patted his shoulder and said, "Why don't you go wash your face with cold water and calm down?"
Ding Junyuan was still in shock. He felt cold all over when he thought of the cold and sticky touch. He wanted to take a bath on the spot and scrub himself hard with soap twice.
He got up from the ground. Because of the attack, his limbs were weak and his head was dizzy. He almost fell back. Fortunately, Chen Ling helped him up.
Chen Ling turned his eyes away silently, unable to bear to witness Ding Junyuan's reaction when he saw his face in the mirror.
"Ah!" Ding Junyuan shouted, "What's wrong with my face and my arms?" He opened his shirt and looked at his belly, which also had long dark red marks.
"Mr. Ding, I'm really sorry. You were possessed by an earthbound spirit at the time, and I had no choice but to use extraordinary measures." Chen Ling blinked, hoping that the other party could read his apology in his eyes.
When Ding Junyuan heard the word "upper body", his eyes were red with fear. How could he dare to blame him? He said gratefully with trembling lips: "It's okay, it's okay. You had no choice. Even if you had to do it a few more times, I can understand. I will never blame Mr. Chen."
Chen Ling: “…”
He was lucky to meet such an understanding customer.
After all, it's because I'm not proficient in using the whip and can't use it properly.
Master said that to whip ghosts with a cursed whip, one relies on the vicious energy of the ghosts themselves and the spiritual power of the person using it.
When the user's spiritual power reaches a level that is superior to the hostility of all ghosts, he will no longer use the whip itself to whip ghosts, but use his own spiritual power to drive the hostility of all ghosts to whip.
Needless to say, if it falls on the evil spirit, a layer of skin will be peeled off with one whip.
If it falls on a living person who has been possessed or taken over, it will hurt the evil spirit inside, but will never cause any harm to the living person's flesh.
Chen Ling put away the whip that had been disguised as a telescopic stick, and gently patted it twice through the backpack. "Brother, we still have a long way to go in the future. I hope we can cooperate better next time."
The carving studio had some damage to its building and Ding Junyuan was injured, so the settlement was temporarily postponed.
Chen Ling brought his financial manager and external liaison salesperson back to Yuhe Mountain first. Zhao Xunchang had already expected that his young apprentice would be back soon, so he opened the gate and placed tea on the small stone table to welcome him.
"Master." Before the person arrived, the obedient voice of the little disciple reached his ears.
Zhao Xunchang let go of the parrot that was pecking at him angrily and walked to the door. He immediately sensed the unusual aura on Chen Ling and pulled him in front of him: "Did you use the curse whip?"
"Yes, I used it." Chen Ling described the situation at that time, and talked about his experience and feelings of using it. It may be because he has been using it for a short time, except that he was unusually calm in his heart, there was no other abnormality.
"This is the biggest anomaly." Zhao Xunchang said, "When you swing the whip, no matter how the opponent screams, you remain calm. Isn't this scary?"
He sighed, feeling worried, but also somewhat relieved and proud. "But you are determined and have not been swayed by it. You even know when to stop... I think your first trial report on the curse whip is barely acceptable."
Chen Ling asked: "Can I still use it in the future?"
"Yes, but before your ability is greatly improved, use it less." Zhao Xunchang touched his little apprentice's shoulder lovingly, "Since you can summon the Yin God by yourself, Master can be a hands-off boss in the future."
Thinking of a detail his disciple had just described, he turned his head to look at Jiang Yu and asked in a low voice, "Did those three Yin messengers really face him first?"
"Yeah, what's wrong?" Chen Ling didn't notice anything wrong. Didn't he say that the evil spirit had recognized the wrong person
"Nothing." Zhao Xunchang shook his head and grinned, then shook his head again and said, "Nothing."
It was obvious from this reaction that something was wrong. The master was hiding something.
Chen Ling: "You are hiding something from me."
Zhao Xunchang's ambiguous smile disappeared, and his voice deepened a few degrees: "You know?"
"I don't know." Chen Ling was puzzled.
Zhao Xunchang winked at him and pointed at the parrot flapping its wings beside the stone table: "It's in heat."
"So that's why you laughed so strangely just now." Chen Ling said distressedly, "What should we do? Call the Forestry Bureau? It will be very uncomfortable if they don't do anything."
The hyacinth macaw raised by Zhao Xunchang looks quite big, but actually weighs less than three kilograms. Even a newborn baby is heavier than it.
He used to be very eloquent and would even cry out when he felt uncomfortable, but now he has become a silent little mute and can only swallow his discomfort.
The more Chen Ling thought about it, the more miserable it felt: "How about I go and fight it now?"
Zhao Xunchang thought about it and said reluctantly: "If I am taken away, I don't know if I can come back."
"That can't be helped." Chen Ling was also reluctant. "I heard that if a parrot is not satisfied during its mating period, it will become very irritable and will even mutilate and peck its own feathers. Master, you don't want it to become a hairless chicken, do you?"
Zhao Xunchang: “…”
Chen Ling asked again: "Has it not spoken in the past two days?"
Speaking of this, Zhao Xunchang was full of pride: "The little guy is very smart. I suspect that he was silent for the past few days because he was observing the situation. This morning, about half an hour after you left, he sneaked over to complain to me."
Chen Ling: "What did you say?"
Many times, animals are more sensitive to danger than humans. Chen Ling had previously suspected that the parrot was afraid of Jiang Yu and refused to speak.
The ancestor is now an investor and a financial manager, and the position was arranged by the master himself. He doesn't want the harmonious atmosphere to be disrupted by conflict because of this incident, so he buries the doubt in his heart.
Now, doubts are sprouting and are about to break through the soil and see the sunlight.
"It said it was scared." Zhao Xunchang snorted sarcastically, "What on earth has that old ghost become? He actually had the ability to scare a furry child into silence."
Chen Ling: “…” The old ancestor is a bit pitiful.
Cats dislike dogs, people are afraid of ghosts, this is probably him.