Chen Yang was sleeping with his head resting on Du Shuo's arm when he was suddenly awakened from his deep sleep.
He opened his eyes and the light from the bedside lamp was enough for him to see the time on the alarm clock: 12:23.
He sat up, put on his coat, got out of bed, and put on his slippers. Du Shuo woke up when he got up, and without asking a question, he also got out of bed and put on his slippers.
"You felt it too?" Chen Yang asked Du Shuo.
Du Shuo said, "Go and have a look."
"Um."
He opened the door and walked out of the room. He found Kou Xuanling holding a palm-sized compass in his hand. He opened the door and saw them. He nodded respectfully to Du Shuo, and then looked at Chen Yang, "You also found something wrong?"
Chen Yang relies on feelings, not tools. However, it is inconvenient to explain it at this time, so he just nodded vaguely. Then the three of them set off and walked forward. Chen Yang and Du Shuo walked behind, while Kou Xuanling walked in the direction of the compass.
As soon as he reached the third floor, he heard a sharp scream, breaking the quietness of the villa in the middle of the night. Chen Yang paused for a moment, then ran faster. Kou Xuanling had already put away the compass and ran towards the room where the sound came from.
Kou Xuanling rushed to the front and kicked the door open. As the door opened, Chen Yang frowned.
Such a strong ghostly aura!
It was almost frozen into white frost, and when it saw life it surged forward, baring its fangs and claws like a ghost.
Kou Xuanling threw out a talisman and stuck it on the ceiling beam, then made a hand gesture with his right hand: "The root of all the energy of the Mysterious Sect of Heaven and Earth, the golden light will quickly appear to protect the real person, and the Jade Emperor will quickly send down his orders."
As soon as he finished speaking, the talisman on the beam emitted a golden light, breaking through the gloomy ghostly aura, gathering vitality, and making the room no longer cold and gloomy.
Kou Xuanling was chanting the Taoist Golden Light Mantra, which has the effect of warding off evil spirits, increasing yang and clearing yin, and resisting the entry of evil spirits into the body. Using the Golden Light Mantra is the most appropriate way to drive away the ghost spirit in the room.
Because the screams were so horrifying, they woke up everyone in the villa. After a while, Feng Yuan, Ge Qing and others came. Mao Xiaoli was one step faster than them, and she also felt the ghost aura and was very surprised.
"Why is there such a spooky aura?"
It is not easy for most Taoist priests to directly feel the ghost energy and yin energy. Once they can feel it without the help of tools, it means that the yin energy and ghost energy have become so strong that they have to be expelled with talismans.
Feng Yuan and the other two could not sense the ghostly aura, but after entering the room, they felt a chill rising from the soles of their feet to their heart veins. They could not help but shudder, "Why, why is it so cold? Ren Lin must have turned the air conditioner to zero degrees."
Ren Lin was the fourth person. He didn't look good when he saw Chen Yang and the others during the day, and he didn't come to the restaurant at dinner time. This is his room, and there is no air conditioning in the room.
If the ghost energy penetrates into the bodies of ordinary people, they will become seriously ill. Chen Yang turned to Mao Xiaoli and said, "Xiaoli, recite the Golden Light Mantra for them."
"Okay." Mao Xiaoli agreed readily, and then pointed her index finger at the three people's forehead acupoints and said, "The root of all the energy of the Xuanzong of Heaven and Earth, the golden light will quickly appear to protect the real person, and the Jade Emperor will send down an order as soon as possible."
Feng Yuan and the other two immediately felt their spirits clear, the coldness faded, and warmth gradually spread to their limbs. They looked at Mao Xiaoli and the others with a little more awe. Before, they had never met the Heavenly Master, nor had they seen Chen Yang and the others show off their power, so their attitudes were inevitably casual. Now that Mao Xiaoli showed off her skills, it actually intimidated them.
The most obvious one is Ge Qing, who is now feeling very regretful. Looking at the situation in the house, it is obvious that there is something dirty. If she agrees to live in the same room with Mao Xiaoli, what would she be afraid of with her protecting her
Feng Yuan: "This is Ren Lin's room. Did something happen to Ren Lin?"
"Nine out of ten." Chen Yang stared at the bathroom door, walked over and opened it. After a steady look, he walked away and returned to Du Shuo. He tilted his head slightly and said to Feng Yuan and the others, "He's dead. Do you want to go over and see?"
Feng Yuan and the other two's faces turned pale and pale.
Kou Xuanling and Mao Xiaoli walked in, took a look around, and walked out. Both of them looked unhappy, with a hint of disgust and impatience.
Ge Qing didn't dare to go over to take a look. Wei Changping and Feng Yuan went in to take a look and came out vomiting.
They found Ren Lin's naked body in the bathtub. The bathroom was splattered with blood, and the bathtub was full of blood. Ren Lin was soaking in the blood, with his head tilted back and his mouth wide open. Noodles were stuffed in his mouth and nostrils. His face was distorted, as if he had seen something horrible. One of his eyes had been dug out and could not be found. He was naked, and the skin below his neck was stripped off, exposing his flesh.
This probably explains why the bathtub was filled with blood. There were also two broken porcelain bowls and a bottle of scented oil on the bathroom floor.
Seeing them like this and smelling the strong smell of blood, Ge Qing almost vomited. She cried and asked, "Ren Lin was killed by those evil spirits, right? Aren't you heavenly masters? Aren't you going to protect us?"
Her crying also made Feng Yuan and Wei Changping feel despair. They had originally asked a Taoist priest for help, thinking that her life could be saved, but who knew that someone still died.
Chen Yang: "He was not killed by evil spirits."
"What was it that killed Ren Lin?"
"ghost."
"W-what?"
"He played the game of summoning ghosts."
The three of them fell silent immediately. This was a sensitive time, and Ren Lin actually dared to play the ghost-inviting game. He simply thought his life was too long.
Chen Yang's face was not looking good, with a hint of disgust in his eyes. He hated people who played with their lives. Before he was sixteen, the thing he thought about most every day was to survive. His greatest hope was to stay away from ghosts.
Some people don't cherish the things that others are eager to get.
Not only Chen Yang hates this, many Heavenly Masters hate this kind of behavior. This is equivalent to a drug addict standing in front of a drug enforcement policeman. Others want to stay away from him, but some people try every means to contact him just for excitement.
But they didn't hate him to the point of hatred, because they probably guessed the purpose of Ren Lin's ghost-calling game. He had the best relationship with Lu Nan. According to Feng Yuan and others, they seemed to have grown up together and were as close as brothers.
Ren Lin probably wanted to see Lu Nan again, so he played a ghost-calling game, but he unexpectedly called in a fierce ghost that wanted to kill him.
"What kind of ghost-inducing game did Ren Lin play?"
"The tub game." Chen Yang glanced in the direction of the bathroom and said, "The person playing the game enters the bathroom naked, prepares a bowl of longevity noodles, a bowl of chicken blood and sesame oil. He kowtows three times, pours sesame oil into the noodles, and kowtows three times. Then pours chicken blood into the bathtub, and kowtows three times. Finally, pour the chicken blood into the bathtub and lie in it. He will then see things that shouldn't be there."
During this period, no matter what you hear, you must not look up, otherwise you will be discovered if you see something, and the consequences are unknown.
Feng Yuan called the police, and everyone sat in the living room waiting. The living room was brightly lit, and a team of police came in. It was Kou Xuanling who notified them. For this kind of supernatural case, the police who came were veterans who had handled these cases, so they acted quickly.
The captain came over to ask if the body needed special treatment. Kou Xuanling looked at Du Shuo. Du Shuo lowered his eyes, focusing on Chen Yang's green fingers beside him, and said without raising his head: "No need. Notify the family to perform a ritual for him."
If a person is killed by a ghost, his souls and spirits will flee in fear. He will not know the way to reincarnation, and unless a ritual is performed to guide him into reincarnation, he will forget his past and become a wandering ghost, eventually disappearing.
The captain nodded and said they would comfort the family, then left and took the body away.
Chen Yang lowered his eyes and fell into deep thought.
Kou Xuanling wanted to talk to Du Shuo alone. Du Shuo glanced at Chen Yang and walked to the corner. Kou Xuanling followed. Mao Xiaoli saw that Chen Yang was alone and stepped forward and said, "Brother Chen, when did you realize something was wrong?"
She remembered Chen Yang said he could feel the ghost energy, so strong ghost energy should have become real in Chen Yang's opinion. However, the distance of one floor was too far to save the person in time.
Chen Yang was thinking about this question, and he said, "12:23. I think Ren Lin should have started playing the jar game around 12 o'clock and was killed around 12:20. However, I did not sense the ghost energy until Ren Lin died. However, by then, the thing that Ren Lin summoned had already run away."
"In other words, that thing can block the ghost aura?" Mao Xiaoli took a breath of cold air.
Ghost Qi and Yin Qi generally cannot be blocked, and most people cannot detect them. However, some people can still feel them, and some instruments in the Tianshi world can also collect ghost Qi and Yin Qi. However, ghost Qi and Yin Qi can actually be blocked.
Some ghost cultivators cultivate merit and follow the right path, which can conceal their ghost aura and yin energy. There are also some ghosts who rely on objects to cover up. The most common way is to possess objects with heavy yin energy, such as willows by the river and locust trees in the garden.
The willow trees by the river and the locust trees in the garden are naturally full of yin energy, and people can use magic to hide their yin energy by standing under the trees. Ghosts can also hide their own ghost energy and yin energy by possessing the tree.
Chen Yang thought about the ghost locust tree that Du Shuo had mentioned. The thing that Ren Lin summoned was not Lu Nan, but most likely the ghost locust tree.
Only in this way would he be unable to detect the existence of ghost energy and yin energy in time.
"Are there really ghost locust trees?" Mao Xiaoli searched for the entire afternoon but couldn't find any ghost locust trees with tumors.
"Let's look for it again after daybreak. Didn't we only look for the woods during the day? Aren't there still some locust trees planted in the courtyards of some houses that we haven't looked for?"
"Oh, I see. This incident is indeed difficult to handle."
Just one day after arriving, a life was lost.
Four Heavenly Masters, two of whom were third-rank Heavenly Masters, dared to act so rampantly. One can imagine how many people they had killed before.
Chen Yang looked at the frustrated Mao Xiaoli and patted her head: "If you solve this incident, you can get 10 million and accumulate merits. Maybe you can be promoted to Mengwei and become a fifth-grade heavenly master."
Hearing this, Mao Xiaoli's eyes immediately lit up: "I hope so."
She had been stuck at the sixth level of Dugong for four years, having already met the three-year requirement for Dugong to be promoted to Mengwei, but she still could not be promoted.
Thinking of this, Mao Xiaoli was quite motivated. When Ge Qing came to her out of fear and asked to sleep in the same room, Mao Xiaoli, who was thinking about 10 million and the promotion of Mengwei, agreed without saying a word.
Feng Yuan and Wei Changping were extremely jealous when they saw this. So they turned their eyes to Chen Yang, who said, "I have a roommate."
They looked at Du Shuo, and were filled with awe at his indifferent gaze. How could they dare to ask for cohabitation
So, only Kou Xuanling was left.
Universe straight man Kou Xuanling: "I don't care, as long as you don't mind."
"I don't mind, I don't mind at all."
But soon, they started to mind.