Chen Yang was unable to leave the room that night and spent the night with Du Shuo. The next day, he met Zhang Qiudao, who stared at him and wanted to say something, but didn't know what to say. After hesitating for a while, he said, "Are you doing this right by Du Shuo?"
Chen Yang was silent for a while, then said, "He knows."
"!! Can you bear it?"
"Du... Du Bei is also my partner. They both know each other exists."
Zhang Qiudao was surprisingly calm: "Are Du Shuo and Du Bei brothers?"
“I guess so.”
Zhang Qiudao nodded and said nothing more. However, when he looked at Chen Yang again, there was a hint of awe in his eyes. When he turned to look at Du Shuo, there was admiration and sympathy. In short, his emotions were very complicated.
Kou Xuanling and others went out early this morning to arrange for the salvation of the souls at Longdaogang tonight, and at the same time prepare to welcome the arrival of the Rakshasa woman. Night soon came, and warning strips were put up around Longdaogang, and police cars and police patrols were parked, and passers-by were not allowed to pass through this area.
They claimed to be investigating a case, and they actually drove the people away. However, one crew was not happy because they had rented an ancient house near Longdaogang long beforehand for filming tonight. Even when the police came to persuade them, they were not happy to leave.
After Chen Yang knew about this, he went to Gao Tianliang for help. Gao Tianliang was gone for less than two minutes, and when he came back, he made a "done" gesture to him. He Tianna also followed him, and the two seemed to be really talking.
Gao Tianliang: "The small crew rented the ancient courtyard house in Longdaogang, but failed to shoot today, so the money was wasted. I told them about the investment, and they left."
Chen Yang thanked him. Gao Tianliang asked, "Are you going to set up an altar and set up a formation? I got inside information that many heavenly masters came today. Are you going to perform a ritual to save the dead?"
"Yes." Chen Yang did not want to hide it from Gao Tianliang. First, it was not a big secret. Second, the strange things about Longdaogang were widely spread in Q City, and Gao Tianliang should have heard about it.
"Can I stay and watch?"
Before Chen Yang could refuse, He Tianna pushed Gao Tianliang and said, "You want to die? Why are you going to such a dangerous place? Don't you see the warning signs outside and even the passers-by are driven away? It must be dangerous. Do you still want to go?"
Gao Tianliang waved his hand quickly: "I just mentioned it casually, Master Chen, you think what I said is bullshit. Don't listen to it."
Chen Yang told them not to go out to see any noises they heard tonight, and to close the doors and windows tightly, and to stick the talismans on the doors and windows. After tonight, everything will be fine when the sun rises.
Gao Tianliang: "I see. Thank you Master Chen for the reminder."
After that, the two hurried back to the inn, and after dinner, they told the crew what Chen Yang had told them, telling them not to be curious and come out to see what they heard.
Although the others didn't understand the reason, they all nodded to show their obedience.
In the evening, Chen Yang personally cooked a table of dishes for everyone. Everyone praised him endlessly, especially Kou Xuanling who actually mentioned that if Chen Yang cooked every meal at the Dafu Branch, he would submit an application to transfer from the headquarters to the branch.
Chen Yang thought he was joking, so he agreed. But he didn't know that Kou Xuanling was indeed thinking about this possibility.
At eight o'clock in the evening, everyone set out for Longdaogang. After a day of preparation, it was already a grand ceremony site with dozens of Heavenly Masters. Some of these Heavenly Masters were invited by the Taoist Association from the nearest provincial capital to Q City, and some were originally invited by the developer of Longdaogang. Now that they heard the truth, they all volunteered to come and help with the salvation.
The scene is decorated with banners and other flags to call for souls, and a Yin-Yang altar is set up, on which flowers, fruits, tea, wine, food, ingots, candles, and paper money are offered. The salvation is divided into two parts: one is to summon the souls to rest, and the other is to help the lonely souls.
The former is to summon and comfort the spirits, that is, to summon ten kinds of lonely souls to the ten Dharma assemblies, to comfort their souls and save the lonely souls. The latter is to recite the economical refining of lonely souls, which is divided into two categories. Usually, the Zhengyi Dao uses the Lingbao Jilian section, and the Quanzhen Dao uses the Qingxuan Jilian Yankou Iron Can Food Offering Section. At this time, the Quanzhen Dao Qingxuan Jilian Yankou Iron Can Food Offering Section was used.
Chen Yang stood beside the square to watch, with Du Shuo and Zhang Qiudao beside him. On the square were the celestial masters in an orderly manner, led by Meng Fu, the master of the Fire God Temple in the Imperial Capital. The Fire God Temple held a large-scale ceremony every year to liberate the souls of the dead, so Meng Fu was very skilled in conducting the ceremony.
Everyone first fasted, calmed their minds, put on their robes, and arrived at the square. Meng Fu first performed the City God ritual, asked the local City God for instructions, informed the Ten Dharma Assemblies, and supervised the issuance of documents. He asked the City God to supervise the wandering ghosts, so that no ghosts who were unwilling to reincarnate would run out and hit passers-by. After informing the City God, he summoned the dead souls and Meng Fu began to chant scriptures.
Although it was difficult to hear the scriptures clearly from a distance, the melody was surprisingly pleasant, and I felt my soul was clear after listening to it. Then the soul-calling pennants and other flags moved without wind, the temperature at the scene dropped suddenly, the flames flickered a few times and then stopped moving, and the soul-calling pennants also stopped.
The square was so quiet that only the sound of Meng Fu's altar purification ritual could be heard. But Chen Yang knew that there were countless ghosts queuing up to see Meng Fu. Some of them refused to come but were forced here by the City God's ghosts.
Chen Yang turned around and saw Zhang Qiudao expressionlessly taking out his phone and filming seriously: "What are you doing?"
Zhang Qiudao: "Mao Xiaoli wants to know the process of the Ten Dharma Conference, so she asked me to film it and show it to her."
Chen Yang twitched his forehead: "Xiao Li, can't you just study hard for the sutras and wait for your promotion? Why are you joining in the fun at this time?"
Hearing this, Du Shuo lowered his head and glanced at Chen Yang.
The young wife completely forgot that she was also not studying hard to prepare for promotion, but instead came here to join in the fun.
When Meng Fu started to recite the sutras for salvation, all the heavenly masters below also recited the sutras. Listening to the sutras was a very comfortable thing for the lonely ghosts, so they all listened to the sutras quietly.
Next is to offer food and turn it into treasures, turning the food into food that ghosts can eat, burning gold ingots, candles and other things for them to use in the underworld. During the process of offering food, scriptures are also recited. There are also different types of scriptures to recite, some for the salvation of ghosts who died suddenly, some for the salvation of lonely souls, and some for the salvation of hungry ghosts with throats as big as needles.
After offering food and treasures, Fengdu is invited to open the eighteen levels of hell. All the lonely ghosts are first sent to the underworld through the Ghost Gate, and then the Ghost Gate is closed. After that, it is only opened once a year.
"The sky is round and the earth is square, the laws are nine chapters. The magic talisman is everywhere, and all ghosts obey the command. Enter the reincarnation quickly."
When the Fengdu Curse was recited, some ghosts did not resist, while others tried to escape. Some had incomplete bodies and might not be able to reincarnate immediately after entering the underworld. Some, because they had committed murder, did not dare to accept the Fengdu judgment and were afraid of going to hell.
Unfortunately, there was a Heavenly Master inside, and the City God's ghost messengers and Fengdu Hell were blocking the way outside. The evil ghosts who wanted to escape were either arrested by the Heavenly Master or forcibly taken away by the soul-binding rope. For a moment, countless lonely ghosts in the square that could not be seen by the naked eye fled in all directions, wailing everywhere.
A ferocious evil ghost took a fancy to Chen Yang who was standing by and watching, and rushed towards him with a roar. Before Chen Yang could make a move, he saw a soul-binding rope coming across the sky, which directly twisted the evil ghost's body and made it wail in pain.
The city god here put away the evil ghost, nodded to Chen Yang, and then quietly glanced at Du Shuo who was standing beside him and retracting his hand. He thought that this evil ghost was really bold to touch his wife in front of the emperor.
It's really bold.
After the City God took away the evil ghosts, he joined the battlefield, but he always tied up all the evil ghosts that approached Chen Yang intentionally or unintentionally with brutal means. Chen Yang and Zhang Qiudao were quite puzzled.
All the evil ghosts on the field were taken away, and the remaining wandering ghosts all walked into the gate of hell. When the gate of hell closed, with only a crack left, the surface suddenly trembled. Meng Fu and other heavenly masters changed their expressions: "Rakshasa woman has been born!"
The ground cracked and a stone coffin emerged from beneath the ground. Bright red blood filled the entire coffin and soon overflowed from inside. The lid of the stone coffin slowly slid down, making a heavy sound, and then suddenly fell off and smashed deeply into the ground, revealing the Rakshasa woman sleeping in the stone coffin.
The Rakshasa woman was beautiful, and indeed she was very beautiful. Her blood-red wedding dress and bridal makeup made her look extremely strange, with red lips like blood and two red marks at the corners of her eyes, which made her look strange and beautiful.
She suddenly opened her eyes, which were as still as ice. She scanned the entire place, and her gaze was like a knife cutting through them. All the Heavenly Masters were on high alert, and the atmosphere was tense.
The Rakshasa woman is an evil ghost that eats human flesh and blood. When she suddenly opened her mouth and screamed, her beautiful red lips instantly stretched to her ears, and a row of sharp teeth seemed to want to eat human flesh and blood. She jumped out of the sarcophagus, as if she wanted to choose someone to eat.
Meng Fu blocked the attack of the Rakshasa woman and saved the young man who was almost killed by her. Then he ordered the others to retreat quickly and not to fight with the Rakshasa woman to avoid unnecessary casualties.
Yi Wei, the abbot of the Changdao Temple in Sichuan Province, stepped forward to help, but unfortunately the two Three Caves and Five Thunders Heavenly Masters had just expended a lot of energy asking the gods to liberate the wandering ghosts, so together they were no match for the newly born Rakshasa woman.
The Rakshasa woman was originally an evil ghost, she had eaten countless people. She had committed many crimes before, and once a Rakshasa had been reformed by the Buddha, but the Rakshasa woman in front of her did not give her a chance to be reformed.
She was extremely powerful and agile, not afraid of ordinary spells or thunder and fire. The shriek she emitted made people feel that their eardrums were about to be shattered. She opened her mouth full of sharp teeth to a terrifying extent and bit towards Meng Fu's head.
In a flash, a red rope was wrapped around the Rakshasa woman's neck and dragged her back several meters. Everyone present looked closely and saw that it was a young Taoist priest who was pulling the red rope to fix the Rakshasa woman. That person was Chen Yang.
Chen Yang was watching from the spot, and he was quite anxious when he saw Meng Fu and Yi Wei were defeated by the Rakshasa woman. At this time, Du Shuo pushed him forward and said, "Go ahead. Fighting with the Rakshasa woman will tell you what level you are at now."
Upon hearing this, Chen Yang immediately took action. The red rope was wrapped around the Rakshasa woman's neck and tightened. The Rakshasa woman turned her head to face Chen Yang and let out a shrill scream that was unbearable.
Chen Yang endured the unpleasant scream, strangled the Rakshasa woman's neck even harder, and flicked out the humming copper coin hanging in front of his middle finger, quickly sticking it to the Rakshasa woman's neck. As soon as the copper coin touched the Rakshasa woman's neck, it immediately made a "sizzling" sound, and the Rakshasa woman's scream stopped abruptly.
But this angered the Rakshasa woman, who grabbed the red rope and didn't care about the burn on her palm. She pulled hard, pulling Chen Yang over. Her palm suddenly turned into a huge black and purple palm, tearing through her robe, and pinched Chen Yang's neck, which looked delicate compared to her palm.
Zhang Qiudao and Kou Xuanling were about to go to rescue him when they saw this. Unexpectedly, Du Shuo was faster and appeared beside the Rakshasa woman in the blink of an eye. He hugged Chen Yang's waist and picked him up, then kicked her in the face.
He kicked her into the sarcophagus, grabbed Chen Yang's red rope and wrapped it around the lid of the sarcophagus, pulled it out of the ground and put it back on, then stood lightly on it.
There were loud bangs coming from the sarcophagus, and the Rakshasa woman roared madly and angrily, but the sarcophagus did not move at all, as if it was supported by thousands of pounds.
Zhang Qiudao and Kou Xuanling looked at each other, and saw surprise and awe in each other's eyes. They had never expected that Du Shuo was so powerful that he could even kick the Rakshasa woman who no one could do anything to back into the sarcophagus.
Kou Xuanling knew that Du Ju was powerful, but he had never seen him take action. Today was the first time he saw him, and it refreshed his understanding of Du Ju. The reactions of the Heavenly Masters present were similar to those of the two, but the three temple masters were relatively calm, obviously having seen Du Shuo take action before.
Kou Xuanling was surprised and then asked, "Director Du has been holding Director Chen for so long, and he won't let go?"
Knowing the truth about a man serving two husbands. Zhang Qiudao looked at Kou Xuanling silently and said, “You know nothing about the distortion of human nature.”
Everyone present only saw Du Shuo holding Chen Yang and standing motionless on the sarcophagus, but they didn't know that Du Shuo was interrogating the Rakshasa woman at this time.
Du Shuo leaned behind Chen Yang, covered his ears and cast a silencing spell. Chen Yang looked puzzled and wanted to turn back, but Du Shuo's hands held him down, so he stared at the sarcophagus under his feet in a daze.
"Rakshasi, now that you have become a Rakshasa, you will submit to the underworld, command the evil spirits, and punish the sinners. Do you wish?"
Rakshasa is the general name for evil ghosts, and female Rakshasa is also called Rakshasi. Rakshasa belongs to the ghost world, and the Emperor of Fengdu controls all ghosts. Therefore, female Rakshasa is also controlled by the Emperor of Fengdu.
All ghosts have an instinctive fear and awe of the Emperor of Fengdu, and so does the Rakshasa woman. But her anger, unwillingness, and resentment prompted her to speak to the Emperor of Fengdu about her grievances: "I am only sixteen years old, and I have been married. But because of the nonsense of that wandering sorcerer, I was nailed to death in a stone coffin, and I was told that I could not reincarnate for the rest of my life. I am disturbed by the resentment of all ghosts all day long. How can I accept this? Emperor, you have always been famous for your fairness. You think I am a Rakshasa who eats human flesh and you want to kill me. Then the people who killed me back then, their descendants will live and work in peace! What about me? Who will redress my grievances?!!"
At the end, the Rakshasa woman screamed madly, and the sarcophagus even shook slightly.
Du Shuo was unmoved, his expression was calm and indifferent. At this moment, he was a real god, with only the law in his heart and no selfish emotions. He was not the great compassion of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, he was the Lord of Fengdu, and he saw many unfair things in the world every day, and he had seen things that were more miserable than the Rakshasa woman.
"You killed the person who harmed you. Your descendants for three generations were poor and destitute, and most died young. After accumulating merits for several generations, their fate was changed. And the person who harmed you is still suffering in hell to atone for his sins. The heaven will redeem you for your grievances. Those who were killed by you were also innocent. Who will redeem them?"
The Rakshasa woman was speechless.
She was indeed very pitiful, but she also avenged her enemies. The Heavenly Dao also recorded and evaluated the sins of those people for her, but the sins committed by the Rakshasa woman were also recorded by the Heavenly Dao one by one.
Over the past few hundred years, she has killed countless people. Aren't those people innocent? The Rakshasa woman has been trapped in the stone coffin for many years and cannot be reincarnated. She is being harassed by the resentment of thousands of ghosts day and night. Isn't this also a way to atone for her sins
Heaven is fair, and this is what it means. Anyone who commits a sin must atone for it, no matter what the reason or how many previous circumstances it has.
Now the Rakshasa woman has become a Rakshasa, the leader of the evil ghosts. Unless she listens to the sutras, washes away her evil spirit, and accumulates merits, she may be able to reincarnate. If she does not want to, she can also choose to become a ghost in the underworld, follow the Rakshasa, and cultivate the ghost way.
Du Shuo pointed out: "Submit to Fengdu and cultivate the way of ghosts. If you don't submit, you will be thrown into the hell of endless suffering."
The Rakshasa woman obviously knew that she was in the wrong, so she acquiesced to Dushuo's arrangement. If anyone else tried to persuade her, she would bite them to death. Even a ghost emperor could not make her feel in awe.
But the one who came was the King of Fengdu, who was terrified at the mere mention of his name. How could the Rakshasa dare to object? Moreover, for some reason, the Rakshasa felt that the King of Fengdu was murderous when he spoke, as if he expected her to deny it.
It was not until she became the underworld of Fengdu that the Rakshasa woman realized that the person she almost bit to death today was the emperor's marriage partner. She was so scared that she broke into a cold sweat on the spot. Fortunately, she did not really hit Chen Yang at that time.
Du Shuo ordered the Rakshasa woman to guard the Ghost Gate of Longdaogang. After the Rakshasa woman agreed, he jumped off the sarcophagus and took Chen Yang down with her. The lid of the sarcophagus slid to the ground, and the Rakshasa woman restored her original beautiful appearance, bowed to the Ten Dharma Assembly, and then closed the lid of the sarcophagus again. The sarcophagus drilled into the ground, and the surface closed.
Everyone present was stunned for a moment. They couldn't understand why Du Shuo was willing to guard the gate of hell at Longdaogang just because he stood on the lid of the sarcophagus for a while
Afterwards, Zhang Qiudao asked Chen Yang what happened during that time.
Chen Yang couldn't explain it either, he just shook his head and said, "I don't know."
"You are the closest, how come you still don't know?"
"Brother Du cast a silencing spell on me, so I didn't hear anything." Chen Yang touched his chin and muttered, "Could it be that he is afraid of Brother Du's anger? Brother Du is really scary when he is angry, so I am very afraid."
Zhang Qiudao glanced at Chen Yang. He called Dushuo "Du Ge" a few days ago, and now he called Duju "Du Ge". After a few seconds of silence, he said, "Duju is Dushuo, right?"
Chen Yang nodded: "Yes." He suddenly reacted and looked at Zhang Qiudao, who had an expression of 'as expected' on his face.
"Although I was shocked at first, I calmed down later and realized that the way you two get along is the same as the way Dushuo got along with you before. And Shuo is the north, so the two of them are the same person."
Zhang Qiudao was relieved. Director Chen was not a two-timing scumbag. He patted Chen Yang on the shoulder and said, "As for why the appearance is different, I understand. Director Du's identity is not ordinary. If you can hide it, hide it. Don't worry, I will keep it a secret for you."
Chen Yang: “…” Thank you. But he didn’t quite understand what Zhang Qiudao understood.
After the matter was settled, some people stayed behind to deal with the aftermath of the ceremony. Chen Yang and Du Shuo returned to the hotel to pack up their things, and happened to meet Gao Tianliang who hurried over to find him. Du Shuo went back to his room first, and Chen Yang stayed where he was.
"If you have something to say, please speak slowly."
Gao Tianliang said hurriedly: "Master, please take a look at the little baby spirit I brought with me in the Yin Pai and save him."
"Take me there." Chen Yang said as he walked, "What happened?"
"I couldn't sleep last night because I heard a scary noise outside. Tianna was also scared, so we stayed in a room until dawn. Then I heard your voice, and you told me to open the door. The voice sounded so much like yours, so I believed it and went to open the door. But there was an evil ghost standing outside the door, rushing towards us."
"Don't you have a talisman?"
"I got wet."
Chen Yang frowned and decided to let Mao Xiaoli study the waterproof talisman after returning. "Go on."
"There was only one talisman left, so I asked Tianna to hide in the bedroom with the talisman, hoping to lure the evil ghost out. But there were still many evil ghosts outside the room, and they all rushed in as soon as I opened the door. I didn't dare to open it, and I was almost killed by the evil ghosts. The little baby spirit suddenly appeared and saved me, but was also injured by the evil ghosts."
Walking into the bedroom, the doors and windows were tightly closed. He Tianna was sitting by the bed, looking anxiously at the looming baby spirit on the bed. The soul was too weak to survive, and next to it was the wooden horse toy that Chen Yang had burned for it two days ago.
The little baby spirit loves this toy very much and wants the wooden horse toy to be with it even if it cannot maintain its soul.
He Tianna stood up: "Master, save this child."
Chen Yang nodded and looked down at the little baby spirit. The little baby spirit's skin color was still dark and scary, but I don't know if it was because it had let go of its hatred, but it looked pitiful and cute.
The little baby spirit had a liking for Chen Yang, who burned the toys for him. When he saw him, he hummed twice, looking extremely weak.
Chen Yang instantly softened his heart, hooked the little baby spirit's illusory little finger, turned back and said to Gao Tianliang: "Give me your Yin card."
Gao Tianliang immediately took off the Yin card and handed it to him. Chen Yang: "Do you have jade?"
He Tianna: "Yes." She ran to look through the suitcase, took out a piece of imperial green jade from the box, and handed it to Chen Yang: "Is this one okay?"
"Okay." Chen Yang said, smashed the Yin card, took out a small section of the infant's body from it and pasted it on the jade, chanted a spell, wrapped it with yellow paper, and said, "Jade nourishes the soul. I want to put the soul of the little infant spirit into the jade, but I need blood to draw the talisman."
Gao Tianliang and He Tianna said at the same time: "Use mine."
Chen Yang looked at the two of them calmly: "The little baby spirit saved your lives and has a bond with you. If you use your blood to draw talismans, offer jade and stones, and pray for it, it will be able to reincarnate. It will be reincarnated as your child. Are you still willing?"
Gao Tianliang and He Tianna looked at each other, and the latter remained silent. He then asked, "Can I use one person's blood?"
"Can."
"Then use mine. It saved my life... maybe more than that. I like it very much. It's smart and loyal. I'd be happy if I had a child like this in the future."
Chen Yang nodded.
He Tianna looked straight ahead and said softly, "Take some of my blood, too."
Gao Tianliang suddenly looked up at her, his eyes sparkling with surprise. He Tianna looked at the little baby spirit tenderly: "It also saved my life."
Chen Yang drew a talisman with the blood of the two and sealed the soul of the little baby spirit into a jade stone. He then handed the jade stone to the two and told them, "Take good care of it, do good deeds and accumulate virtue. If nothing unexpected happens, you will be able to reincarnate in two or three years."
The two of them remembered.
The little baby spirit appeared on Chen Yang's shoulder and kissed Chen Yang on the face.
Chen Yang laughed: "Go back. This is your reward for your kindness."
The little baby spirit curved its eyebrows, and its cute and innocent appearance could be vaguely seen. It returned to Gao Tianliang and He Tianna, and was very fond of the future parents it had been waiting for for a long time. It kissed the two of them before returning to the jade.
Gao Tianliang and He Tianna looked at each other and shook hands silently. They were unexpectedly looking forward to the little baby spirit being reborn as their child.