Their eyeballs were gouged out, their noses, lips and ears were cut off, leaving two bloody eye holes and white teeth dripping with blood. You would have felt horrified if you hadn't seen this horrific scene in person!
Thoughts were racing through my mind, recalling previous experiences: digging out people's eyeballs was for making seven-star tombs, cutting off people's lips was for zombie makeup, but cutting off noses and ears was something I had never encountered before. Why would the murderer do this after killing someone
There must be something fishy!
Sure enough, after a careful look, I discovered another situation, that is, everyone has a long needle inserted in the sole of their feet. There seems to be one in the palm of their hand, and I understand that this is to open the acupuncture points to collect souls. There must be a needle on the top of the head, but it is not visible from this angle. And these Taoists have long hair on their heads, which makes it even harder to find.
Opening acupuncture points to collect souls is a branch of evil magic outside the Five Ghosts and White Spirit Sects. It is very cruel and takes away the souls of people before they die. There is a distinction between the three souls and seven spirits. One is the living soul and the other is the dead soul. As the name suggests, the living soul is the soul of a living person, and the dead soul is the soul of a dead person.
This soul-taking and soul-losing have something in common. If the soul is taken away before the person dies, the underworld will not know that the person is dead, and the heaven can be concealed and not punished. The soul of this person can be used for transformation, such as implanting it into another person's body, livestock, flowers, trees, or anything else in the world. Then, it can be refined with sacrifices and become an unexpected evil spirit!
Even though this branch had few disciples and was not famous, this evil magic alone made other major branches of the evil sects fear them and call them the "Gate of Life and Death"! There was a saying among the evil sects that it was better to meet the Black Killer God than to enter the Gate of Life and Death. This showed how much they feared them.
I heard about the Gate of Life and Death from my father, and I saw the effects of the living soul and the dead spirit from the Great Infinite Art. However, the Great Infinite Art only collected the more representative evil arts of the Five Ghosts and the Bai Ling School. It seems that these things from the Gate of Life and Death have not been passed down because of the scarcity of disciples, and the book also lacks records of what is done to take the living soul.
I stared blankly for a long while, not knowing when Shen Bing got close to me. I screamed and said in horror, "How horrible! It looks like a ghost cave!"
I held her hand and looked around the hall. Apart from the statue, the hall was empty and there was nothing else to attract attention. So Shen Bing turned around and walked down the stairs, and found that Niubizi was still standing there in a daze, staring at the door.
"Master..."
As soon as I shouted, he suddenly raised his left hand, signaling silence. I knew something was wrong, because at this moment I could also feel a cold breath floating around.
"Squeak..."
A heavy sound of a door closing came from the darkness, which sounded frightening. It turned out that it had become dark without me noticing!
The gate of the Taoist temple was closed without any wind, which looked extremely strange and eerie.
Shen Bing pulled her hand back and quickly pulled out the copper coin sword that Lu Fei had given her when she got on the train. She asked me nervously in a low voice, "Is there a ghost? Please open your eyes for me."
Open your eyes? I'm afraid you'll faint if you see a ghost face more terrifying than the corpse in the hall. I shook my head and took out the eye-dotting pen to open my own Yin-Yang eyes. Who knew that before the tip of the pen touched the spiritual orifice, a flame suddenly burned from the front, more ferocious than my fire bell spell, and scared the three of us to jump aside in a hurry.