At midnight, Tiaozi quietly left the house while Lili was asleep, just in case, he took Hu Jiayi's soul to an ancient post station called Taoshuilou.
Liu Tian arrived as scheduled, with a lot of guys on him.
He carried two wooden swords on his back, one of peach wood and the other of jujube wood.
The two materials are different, but they are daring to each other in terms of function, and he wears a copper gossip mirror on his body, which is the same as the normal appearance seen on the door frame on that day. The seal has three colors, yellow is the most, followed by cyan. And purple. He was also carrying a black backpack behind him, probably with some other props.
Liu Tian is the descendant of the Qusha Division, and the Qusha Division is actually a variant of Taoist priests, but it does not originate from the Southern School of Maoshan, but the Northern School. branch.
The old craftsman Liu Xianji was originally from Laoshan, Shandong, and an orthodox heir of the Northern Church of Maoshan. After the Japanese invasion of China, he was forced to move south and settled in this area to help the villagers drive out ghosts. Therefore, the local master respected him. Tiaozi asks, this Liu Tian's background is not small, Liu Xianji will never accept apprentices easily. To be his apprentice, he must have the gift of learning.
Compared with Liu Tian, Tiaozi’s outfit was much simpler. Except for the necessary runes, he only brought a rune sword. Since the blood whip was lost, this ancient sword became Tiao’s only weapon.
"Just brought this thing?" Liu Tian looked at the note, with a trace of amazement.
"I don't have so many props, so I can only bring these." Tiaozi shrugged helplessly.
Liu Tian had to sigh slightly, believing that he was a little disappointed at what amazing things the patron could bring, but Liu Tian couldn't just because this incident affected the progress of the matter, so he drew out a peach wood sword to make the sliver self-defense.
"The Ghost Festival will be in a few minutes. When the ghost gate is open, the road to the west cannot be walked. It is very troublesome if the ghosts who get out of the customs enter the body."
Liu Tian took out a talisman seal, sprinkled some glutinous rice in the center, folded it into a triangle and handed it to the strip.
"Put it in your pocket and don't fall out."
Tiaozi took Liu Tian's seal and turned his head slightly. If anyone with common sense of writing knows what Liu Tian meant, and put it in his pocket, then the passing ghosts would not dare to approach it.
Just in case, the slip was also folded into a larger talisman seal, and the talisman seal Liu Tian handed over to him was wrapped in it to achieve a double effect.
Half an hour later, on the day of the Ghost Festival, the two of them were walking on a small mountain road in Donglai Village. Suddenly a cold wind blew on the road, and a heavy rain fell on the Lili. They were caught off guard without rain. .
"Strange, I decided to do it before I left today. It won't rain on the Ghost Festival, why is it so big suddenly?" Liu Tian felt weird that the weather would be good for daily life, and the result he calculated today is the weather. It's sunny, you shouldn't bump into heavy rain. Is it possible that something is missing
And the rain is not only cold, but also has a faint fishy smell.
"Let's go faster and go to the village to hide from the rain!"
Under Tiaozi's suggestion, they speeded up their pace, but the more they headed towards the village, the stronger the wind blew, and the rain hit them almost vertically in the back.
After finally holding on to the end of the path, the rain stopped suddenly, as if the sluice of a faucet was screwed on suddenly, and there was no transition in the middle.
The full moon that had just been blinded by the dark clouds suddenly appeared in the sky, and the moonlight fell radiantly, illuminating the originally dark dirt road.
Tiaozi stopped, trying to dry her wet cheeks and hair, and her body revealed a faint mist for no reason, with a fishy smell like rain.
Tiaozi was taken aback, and when he looked at Liu Tian beside him, he also saw fog all over his body.
"Liu Tian, what's the matter with us?" Tiaozi had no knowledge of this abnormality, so she had to ask Liu Tian.
"This rain should be blowing from the underworld. It is water from the Heihe River, not from the sun. It will evaporate immediately when it encounters the moonlight."
Tiaozi was stunned and wiped his cheeks again. The rainwater on his body did evaporate under the shining of moonlight. It was still wet in the first few seconds, but now it was mostly dry, and the damp concrete road immediately became foggy and colored. Slightly green, making the surrounding environment hazy and weird.
"The ghost door is open! A business trip on the dark side! Avoid the ghosts! The strangers have self-respect!"
There was a sharp roar from a man, and the sound of gongs came from the front of the strip.
At the end of the path, a group of people in white mourning clothes appeared suddenly, holding a gong, all of them covered their faces, unable to see their appearance or gender. Every time they took a step, they struck the gong in their hands, and their voices were humming. The sound is piercing and unpleasant when added up, making the note feel physically uncomfortable after listening to it, and I can’t help covering my ears.
"Take your hands away!"
Liu Tian broke the hands of the note to prevent the note from covering his ears.
"The sound of gongs and drums on patrolling, pretending not to hear, covering your ears will draw their attention."
Liu Tian’s warning note has also been heard. Every year on the Ghost Festival, there will be a ghost patrol to maintain the stability of the ghosts in a certain area. The ghost gate opens to the west, and the ghost visits from the east, but every time it comes and goes. Not the same, the previous note has never been able to hit this situation, but now it hits it, and it is inevitable to be lost.
Liu Tianzeng and Master had encountered such a situation when they visited the Ghost Festival, so they knew how to get through.
Taking out two yellow talisman seals in his hand, Liu Tian used the cinnabar pen he carried with him to write the same type of talisman seal on the talisman seal, and put the two seals on the forehead of the strip and his forehead respectively.
The blue light flashed, and both were wrapped in a mask of the same color.
Knocking on the gongs, percussing on the gongs and drums to move on, came to them in less than 2 minutes, a magical scene happened.
The bad group actually ignored their existence completely, and the body went straight through them.
Tiaozi only then realized that Liu Tian painted an invisibility talisman. This is a kind of talisman that is rarely used in Taoism. It can hide the body and spiritual power of a person, so that people can’t detect it. How can you think of this trick? Actually, it is also useful for the difference. However, Tiaozi didn’t know that one of the gangsters lifted the veil. It was a woman's face. He glanced at Tiaozi, her expression suddenly changed a little, but after all he did not stop, staring at it for three seconds. , He closed the veil again and continued to walk in the direction of the team.
When the bad guys walked away, the strips were relieved, and they took off the talisman seals on their foreheads. Looking around, the mist had gradually dispersed, and all the water on their bodies had evaporated and disappeared.
"Zhang Tiao, let's go! The road that the bad guy has walked is very yin air, you can't stay for long!"
Tiaozi nodded, and as Liu Tian left here quickly, he ran towards Donglai Village, where a dozen villagers to the north of the village actually waited here again.
It turned out that Liu Tian had greeted the village long before he left to live, and his expression was full of excitement when the note came.