The moment Guan Qingyan closed her eyes and stabbed herself with all her strength, the green aphid dart in my hand also flew out of my hand and knocked the dagger out of the opponent's hand in mid-air: "Remember these three daggers and return them to me after the business is over."
Guan Qingyan was slightly shocked, and then she knelt down: "Mr. Wu, I'm sorry."
I wanted to move my body, but finally I held back and calmly accepted the other party's greeting.
In fact, anyone with a discerning eye can see that I cannot kill Guan Xingyu now. At least, I cannot touch a hair on his head before I deal with the female ghost in red.
The red-clothed female ghost's origin is unknown and she is extremely dangerous. If I kill her target before I kill her, the female ghost will inevitably go crazy and lose control. At that time, I will become the target of her revenge. This result is not so much a loss as a gain. It is better to say that I am actively eliminating the disaster for the Guan family. I will not do such a thing.
However, I just can't let Guan Xingyu off easily, so I propose the rules of the underworld just to give each other a way out.
Guan Qingyan must have understood this truth the moment I knocked the dagger out of her hand. She knelt down to apologize, just to protect Guan Xingyu from disaster. The third generation of the Guan family's talent was all taken by a girl. I really don't know whether old man Guan, as the head of the family, should cry or laugh.
I turned and looked at Jiang Yan: "The first account has been settled. Now it's time to settle the account between us?"
Jiang Yan was startled: "Between us... Mr. Wu, there is no deep hatred between us. I think there is no need to be so tense, right?"
I looked at Jiang Yan and sneered, "You created a fake Taoist priest and caused trouble for me twice, so this is revenge."
"Fake Taoist priest? Impossible!" Jiang Yan shouted, "That was a master I invited from Mount Maoshan through connections. How could he be a fake Taoist priest?"
I crossed my arms and sneered, "Then let me ask you, why did that female ghost insist on getting rid of us instead of the old Taoist priest?"
"This..." Jiang Yan didn't know what to say for a moment, and after a long pause he said, "Maybe... maybe it's because you took over Guan Xingyu's business..."
I said in a deep voice, "How about this! You call old man Guan and tell him that we are in trouble here, and ask him to quickly get Taoist Lingxu over here."
"Okay!" Jiang Yan seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw, and quickly hid aside and dialed the phone. After a while, Jiang Yan came back with a bitter face: "That old man is a liar. He stole an antique bronze mirror from the Guan family and ran away. Before he left, he left a note, saying that he wanted Guan to tell you 'see you later'."
"Tell me we'll meet again?" The image of a person suddenly flashed through my mind. "Gu Yan! What else did that person say?"
Jiang Yan said with a pale face: "There is nothing else, only the word 'Gu' is written on the signature of the note."
As expected! No wonder I felt a little awkward when I first saw Ling Xu Laodao, and he was extremely repulsive to me. It turns out that he is Gu Yan. No wonder he stood up to speak for me when Guan Xingyu insisted on driving me away.
The old man was not afraid that I would not leave, but that I would come back to take revenge. If that happened, we would be facing each other head-on, and he would not be able to pretend any longer.
Guan Qingyan asked anxiously, "What about Guan's workers? Who is saving them now?"
Jiang Yan smiled bitterly and said, "Those workers were not possessed in the first place. It was all that liar's doing. He said in the letter he left for Guan Lao..."
"The earth slope outside the small temple and the stone coffin under the temple were all made by him. Even the black gas coming out of the coffin is just a nauseating stench. Anyone who is sprayed by the black gas will be fine as long as they spit it out."
"Later on, he drugged the workers, which caused black spots to appear on their bodies. In order to make the Guan family anxious, he even instigated the workers' families to block the gate of the villa. In fact, as long as the workers drank the antidote for their strange diseases, everything would be fine."
Jiang Yan was a little afraid to look at me: "Before leaving, the liar left the antidote for Guan."
This is indeed the style of the Yaomen group - to make money but not to kill, and to leave a way out when doing things.
The bronze mirror of the Guan family must be a valuable item, otherwise, the old man wouldn't have gone to so much trouble to get it.
What’s hateful is that Old Man Guan played a trick on me before he left.
He left that note, seemingly intending to clarify our relationship to the Guan family, but in fact he was telling Old Man Guan that we knew each other. If Old Man Guan was more suspicious, he might come to cause trouble for me.
Seeing that I had remained silent, Jiang Yan thought I was angry, so he said softly, "Mr. Wu, this matter... this matter was my fault. I apologize to you. If you need any compensation..."
I looked at Jiang Yan coldly: "I'll say it one last time. If you don't cause trouble to me, I won't cause trouble to you. Do you understand?"
"I understand, I understand..." Jiang Yan agreed readily. He dared to challenge me before because he believed in the Taoist Lingxu played by the old man as a god; now that his biggest support has become a joke, he is naturally much more honest.
I looked up at everyone's faces and said, "Now, check if there is anything different on your body, such as any extra pictures or marks. If not, you can leave at daybreak!"
I asked them to examine themselves to see if they were marked by ghosts or gods.
The so-called ghost mark is a mark left by ghosts or gods on people. Once the mark is touched, it means that the person has become the prey of ghosts and gods, and no one else can touch them. Similarly, they will be hunted down by ghosts and gods endlessly, and even if they flee to the ends of the earth, ghosts and gods will follow them.
As for the three of us, we were already involved in this matter from the moment we came back to look for Guan Xingyu, and we can no longer get rid of it.
From the moment Guan Qingyan drove us away, the contract between us was officially over. As long as I stay away from her, I won't have anything to do with the Guan family's misfortunes.
However, as long as we return, the cause and effect between us and the Guan family will be linked together again, and we cannot hide even if we want to.
Originally, I thought about just leaving, but I couldn't swallow this anger. Even though I knew that there would be troubles if I came back, I still wanted to fight with that female ghost.
The dignity of a warlock cannot be insulted.
While a group of people were busy searching around, Monk Shi asked, "Brother, do you think that female ghost is not an ordinary ghost?"
"I suspect it was an evil nightmare." As soon as I finished speaking, Monk Shi took a breath of cold air: "Really?"
Many people have heard of nightmares, and most people simply regard nightmares as ghosts that can enter people’s dreams, and also call nightmares “sleep paralysis.”
In folk legends, nightmares are caused by ghosts who do not remember or believe that they are dead after death. Because they always want to prove that they are dead, they will constantly press down on sleeping people and ask them if they are dead. However, living people cannot hear them talking, and the only thing they can feel is that they are pressed down by something and cannot move, which is what people often call sleep paralysis.
However, the evil nightmare mentioned in Taoism is not "sleep paralysis", but an extremely ferocious ghost.
Legend has it that when a person dies, he is in great anger, hatred and fear, and after death his resentment will not dissipate and he will turn into an evil ghost or even a "nightmare".
There is a saying in Taoism that "nine ghosts make one nightmare", which means that even if nine evil ghosts appear in the world, they may not necessarily form one evil nightmare, and the ferocity of nine evil ghosts is not as great as that of one nightmare.
The main reason why nightmares are difficult to form is that the external conditions for their formation are too harsh. If there are no large-scale deaths of people and animals, it is impossible to form a condensed and persistent resentment; moreover, the bodies of the dead must be preserved as they are, without rotting or drying out, and without any other treatment, so that the evil spirit can attach to their bodies and form nightmares.
However, once a place is filled with resentment and a large number of resentful ghosts appear, they will devour each other, and in the end, both sides will suffer losses, and only the intact ghosts can become nightmares. Therefore, evil nightmares are almost rare.
In the past, evil nightmares could only form in places that had suffered a massacre or were ravaged by plague and had been deserted for many years, with no passing of great monks or masters of magic.
Once the evil nightmare is born, it is very difficult to subdue it. Ordinary warlocks will try their best to avoid it, let alone kill it.
Monk Shi said anxiously, "Brother, tell me quickly, what is going on with that ghost?"
I held the puppet I had found on Guan Xingyu and said, "Let's talk about the puppet first. Although nightmare magic is also a secret method of the witch sect, it requires a long time to practice. The method of practicing nightmare puppets is not only extremely demanding, but also requires the collection of a large number of ordinary nightmare ghosts formed naturally. Even in the witch sect, few people can practice it."
"Not only did three nightmare puppets suddenly appear on Guan Xingyu's body, but they were also created by someone at random. Do you think the person who did this was the Great Wizard Tongtian or the Evil Nightmare?"
Monk Shi shook his head and said, "It's definitely not the Great Wizard. If the Great Wizard wants to deal with the Guan family, there's no need to go through so much trouble. He can just send a few of his disciples and no one will notice even if they kill all of the Guan family."
"Well!" I continued, "Do you remember what Xiao Yuan said? She clearly saw herself being strangled to death, but because of a word from that female ghost, she forgot how she died. Isn't that the evil nightmare enslaving the ghosts?"
Legend has it that evil nightmares are natural kings among ghosts. They can enslave other ghosts and even create new nightmare ghosts for their own use.
Xiao Yuan forgot his death, returned to his body, and spent three days with us like a normal person. Isn't he just an ordinary nightmare ghost
It’s just that Xiaoyuan’s ghost aura was concealed by someone, so he could not be discovered under our noses.
The one who can help a new ghost to restrain its negative energy must be at least a big ghost at the level of a ghost soldier, or even higher.
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