Fujishu, Akagi
Taoist monk Bai Xu and two of his disciples were performing rituals to exorcise evil spirits in a newly-purchased house of a family. They found a strange corpse with its head and body separated from the dry well in the backyard. It seemed neither alive nor dead. Although it had no breath of life, it could still speak and move, which was extremely terrifying.
The Taoist with white beard went down into the well and struck a flint to illuminate the bottom of the well. He saw a pair of red eyes rolling around on the face and a mouth with sharp blood-sucking fangs opening and closing.
"What a shame."
The Taoist picked up the moving corpse from the well and said to his disciples, "It's a pity that this child was born in the wrong place and at the wrong time. He was clearly a divine fetus and should have become a clan god to protect the family. However, he has been wandering between life and death for many years in this well filled with yin energy, and has become an immortal corpse. He has changed from a 'ghost god' to a 'ghost monster'!"
Tens of thousands of years have passed since the first "clan god" of the Shang clan appeared. For some reason, in the past few hundred years, no one has heard of any clan giving birth to a clan god.
For a Taoist monk like Baixu who has achieved great success in cultivation, he vaguely sensed that this was a sign of heaven changing the earth's atmosphere. The clan gods and clans were already beginning to slowly decline. Perhaps in a few hundred years, all clan gods would completely disappear from the world.
It just so happened that at this time and place, he discovered a divine fetus. The birth of this divine fetus at this time was a mistake. Even the will of heaven would not allow him to become a clan god again. Not only that, if he was not controlled, he might bring disaster to the world and become a great disaster.
The Taoist with white beard was going to kill him with the sword passed down by his ancestors, but he suddenly felt compassion, so he put away the sword and took him back to the Taoist temple in the mountains.
"I will accept you as my disciple. From now on, you will be called Kusheng."
Another hundred years passed.
Yizhou, a wealthy businessman named Qi in Cixi County, has been having a lot of weddings and funerals in their home recently, making it very difficult for them to live in peace.
A few days ago, the son of the Qi family got married. The bride, Zheng, was the daughter of a butcher in the town. She was favored by the son because of her good looks and they got married. But when the sedan chair was approaching, the son of the Qi family got off his horse to help the bride, but suddenly he fell to the ground and died on the spot.
Now, the happy event turned into a funeral, and the red lanterns in front of the Qi family’s door were hurriedly replaced with white lanterns.
Master Qi died at a young age without leaving any descendants, which was naturally unacceptable in a place where people attached great importance to the continuation of the incense and bloodline after death. So, in addition to their grief, the master and mistress of the Qi family decided to follow local traditions and let one of Master Qi's two cousins inherit both houses - that is, to let Master Qi's cousin inherit his wife, and after leaving behind a bloodline, be counted as Master Qi's descendant.
Mr. Qi's two cousins had already married, so having two wives was like having an extra wife for free. When they heard that the new bride, Zheng, was a beauty, they were naturally willing and even fought for her for a while.
However, not long after, the two cousins met with accidents one after another.
One nearly drowned in the river and was only breathing his last breath when he was rescued, and was still being kept alive with medicine; the other was hit by a beam that suddenly collapsed, causing his head to bleed and he lay in bed unable to get up.
Then, after the bride, Zheng, who had attempted suicide and was rescued, she suddenly became a different person, as if no one remembered her. She sat there, either crying silently or talking and fighting with the air around her with a sneer, as if there was really an invisible ghost beside her.
The maids who were serving her saw that she was sleepless day and night, talking nonsense and had no life at all. It was really creepy and no one dared to get close to her.
"It must be haunted by a ghost!"
"It must be your Wenyou who has returned. He is reluctant to part with his new wife, and is also unwilling to let his two cousins inherit two houses at the same time, so he is harming them!"
"This has been the rule since ancient times. Everyone else is willing to do it, but why is Wenyou unwilling? He even wants to turn into a ghost to harm his relatives! What a sin! Why didn't I see before that he is such a black-hearted and selfish ghost!"
The Qi family quarreled over this matter every day, and the brothers and sisters-in-law quarreled with each other.
The elders in the families of the two cousins who met with accidents asked for a Taoist master to come and get rid of the evil ghosts, but Mr. Qi's parents were unwilling to do so. Their son had already died, so how could they have the heart to ask a Taoist priest to kill their son again.
"I don't think this has anything to do with my son. It's all because of Zheng. She is a jinx. She killed my son before he even got married. The reason why my two nephews suffered is also because of her. I might as well bury her and send her to Wenyou, so that my son Wenyou won't be alone in the underground!" Madam Qi covered her aching heart and said gritting her teeth.
"We don't care about that! Your own daughter-in-law is your family anyway. You can bury her in the same coffin as you want. But my nephew Wenyou died suddenly. Who knows what he has become now? Will he continue to harm us? We must find a Taoist priest to take him away!"
"Yes! If your third brother and his wife don't look for it, your second sister-in-law will help you find it!"
Sure enough, within two days, an old Taoist priest from a Taoist temple on the nearby Shishi Mountain came.
The old Taoist who called himself Zhenren Qiyan had received a lot of worship from the wealthy families in Cixi County, so he had to come as he could not refuse. As soon as he entered the Qi family's door, he was shocked.
"When the young master of the Qi family died suddenly, he still had a breath of resentment in his mouth. He has turned into a fierce ghost! If we don't disperse him, I'm afraid the entire Qi family will die!"
"Hurry up and set up an altar for me so I can lure out the evil spirit and capture him!"
In the large courtyard of the Qi family, yellow talismans and green smoke were scattered everywhere, and the sounds of crying, shouting and catching ghosts were mixed together. In a small house in the backyard of the Qi family, a woman was sitting alone.
Although she had her hair in a bun, she looked young, about 16 or 17 years old. She had a widow's peak, a hibiscus face, peach blossom eyes, and a white linen mourning dress that made her look even more beautiful. She sat alone in the shade with a wooden expression, ignoring the bustle coming from across the courtyard walls.
She was Zheng, whose husband died on their wedding day. Or to be more precise, this body was Zheng's, but the soul inside had been replaced by another person a few days ago. Now, a ghost named Luo Yujing lived in Zheng's body.
Luo Yujing was not from this era. She came from several hundred years later and died by suicide, but she did not end her life there. Instead, she became Zheng, who was trapped in the backyard of the mansion, and continued to live in her place.
These days, she often wondered why she was still alive in this world
Was it because she regretted it before she died
When she jumped down from the building and saw the several pots of flowers on her balcony blooming so beautifully, she suddenly felt very regretful.
She can't die, she shouldn't die!
The feeling of relief and even revenge only lasts for two brief seconds, before being overwhelmed by reluctance and guilt.
She and her sister depended on each other for survival, but she left her sister alone in order to escape. Because of a momentary impulse, she now has to continue to face more intense psychological torture and pain than before.
Tears overflowed from her slightly swollen eyes and Luo Yujing cried uncontrollably. As she was crying in the wind, a fierce ghost with a ferocious expression, bulging eyes and wearing wedding clothes appeared.
That was Qi Wenyou, who became a fierce ghost because of his sudden death. The reason why Zheng "committed suicide" a few days ago was because Qi Wenyou wanted to take her life.
Although Qi Wenyou killed Zheng, Luo Yujing came again. The evil ghost Qi Wenyou was unwilling to let her go and wanted to let her die again.
At that time, Luo Yujing had just come to Zheng and was in extreme pain. The way Qi Wenyu pounced on her touched her sad memories. Her face instantly became more ferocious than Qi Wenyu's, and she went up to fight with him.
She didn't know why she could see and encounter evil spirits, but she didn't care - everyone died a violent death, why should I be afraid of you? !
She vented her anger and pain on the evil ghost Qi Wenyu like a madman. When she regained her senses, Qi Wenyu had already escaped. The maids who served her were trembling with fear at her crazy actions.
In the past few days, Qi Wenyou would occasionally appear. The evil ghost had no sanity, only obsession and malice. He wanted to take away his "wife" and relatives, and he would never give up halfway, so Luo Yujing was annoyed by his entanglement.
This evil spirit would cover her mouth and nose to suffocate her when she was sleeping, try to drown her in a basin of water, or make her fall and die on the stairs... Luo Yujing never let him succeed once.
Seeing him appear again, Luo Yujing's eyes turned red. She slowly stood up from the table, muttering to herself: "Do you all think I'm easy to bully, again and again? Why? You are just like those men, you are not good people, you all want me to die."
"Am I afraid of you? Do you really think I'm afraid of you? Come on! Come on!"
At this moment, Luo Yujing, who was full of hostility and rushed forward to fight with the evil ghost Qi Wenyou, looked three times more miserable than Qi Wenyou.
In the Qi family compound, Taoist Qi Yan was trembling as he burned yellow talismans, concentrating on using magic to exorcise ghosts; in the Qi family's backyard, Luo Yujing was using her hands, feet and teeth at the same time, and the physical exorcism was in full swing.
"Puff—" After performing the "exorcism" process, the Taoist master Qi Yan in front of the altar of the courtyard spat out a mouthful of blood and said tremblingly, "Oh no, this evil ghost is too fierce! I can't deal with him!"
After saying this, his head tilted and he fainted. His Taoist boy hurried forward to support him, and left quickly regardless of the Qi family's attempts to persuade him to stay.
When they got back on the carriage, Master Qi Yan finally opened his eyes and wiped his lips: "I didn't get any reward for this trip, and it was all my stuff. I didn't expect this newly dead evil spirit to be so resentful. I can't handle it. It's better to leave early."
The carriage passed by a man on the road.
The man had a long sword on his waist and went straight to the Qi family's yard. He walked very fast and arrived at the place in a moment. He did not go through the front door, but went around to the backyard and jumped onto the high wall with just one leap.
He came here following the vibration of the Sword of Demon-Slaying at his waist. The yard below happened to be the yard where the Qi family imprisoned Luo Yujing. At this moment, she was fighting with the evil ghost Qi Wenyou. The fight started in the house and ended in the yard. It was so intense that Qi Wenyou was slightly at a disadvantage.
Crouching on the wall and seeing this scene, the man drew out the trembling sword of extermination with one hand: "Just right, I didn't expect that there would be two evil spirits fighting here, kill them together!"
However, the sword that could kill evil spirits without hesitation stopped in the air, unwilling to stab the evil spirit hiding in the human body.
With no other options, the man changed his hand gesture and stabbed the sword diagonally, avoiding Luo Yujing and stabbing into Qi Wenyou's forehead. With a sharp scream, the evil ghost Qi Wenyou turned into twisted green smoke and was killed on the spot.
Shocked by this incredibly powerful sword from outer space, Luo Yujing came to his senses and looked, and saw a strange man squatting on the high wall.
His black hair was messy and growing freely, tied up casually with a straw rope. There were two red marks on his eyelids. A silver-grey iron mask engraved with strange runes tightly covered his mouth and chin. There were messy stitches and a deep red word "Chi" on his neck.
—It looks extremely weird.
The man squatted on the top of the wall, stepped on the thin wall and leaned forward and said: "You are a fierce ghost, it is useless to hide in a human body, come out and let me save you!"
Luo Yujing, with disheveled hair and a blank expression, replied: "Get lost."
The man squatted there thinking for a moment, and saw two broken bamboo baskets for firewood placed by the wall. He suddenly jumped off the high wall, picked up the bamboo basket, stepped forward and put Luo Yujing's head into the bamboo basket, then flipped her over and let her fall headfirst into the bamboo basket.
Luo Yujing: “…Poof!”
The man stuffed her skirt and legs into the bamboo basket like he was packing firewood, covered them with another bamboo basket, and then jumped over the wall and walked away carrying the basket on his back.
The maid who had heard the noise and came to see it happened to see this scene and screamed, "Ah, the young lady has been kidnapped!"