When Yan Xiang saw it, he was terrified. This was not just a simple evil spirit, because there was an evil eye on each of the child's buttocks. The child cried so hard that his throat was hurt. Yan Xiang couldn't figure out what the evil spirit was, so he covered the eyes on the buttocks with moxa leaves and tied them with a red rope, and the child stopped crying.
Mugwort can block the eyes of ghosts and evil spirits, just like Ermao holding it with his hands, so that the child will not feel pain and will not cry. He hurriedly ran to the master for help. The master immediately said that this was the night demon eye, and it would kill the child in seven months. Yan Xiang hurriedly asked what to do, and the master sat there for a long time without saying a word, just like him.
After a while, he said that the source of the Night Demon Eyes was in the Netherworld. To solve this evil eye, one must uproot it, but since thousands of years ago, no one has ever reached into this place. There are other ways, but that is to use the blood of boys and girls, apply it to the eyes, and then perform rituals for 49 days to dissolve the Night Demon Eyes with the blood of the yin and yang in the world of the living.
This yin and yang blood cannot be made from the blood of just any boy or girl, but from a pure yang man and a pure yin woman. What is a pure yang man? A man born in a yang year, yang month, yang day and yang hour is called a pure yang man, and the same is true for a pure yin woman. The horoscopes of the two children cannot conflict with each other. This is very difficult to find, and is about the same as the chance of winning the lottery.
But the master loved his apprentice very much. In order to help him solve the problem of his future daughter-in-law's family, he said that he could solve the problem of Yin Yang Blood. After more than ten days, his master came to find him, but he was seriously injured. When he arrived at his house, he fell to the ground and vomited blood. He asked who had injured him. The master only said that he was injured by a beast. Fortunately, he got the spiritual blood, which could replace the Yin Yang Blood. After that, he died.
He was extremely grief-stricken at the time. His master had died because of him. He wore mourning clothes for the old man and held a funeral. Then he took the small bottle of spiritual blood to his in-laws' house. He first set up the altar, poured out the spiritual blood and dripped a drop on each eye of the child's buttocks. The eyes immediately screamed in pain and closed and refused to open again.
He knew it worked, so he started to perform the ritual. But after 49 days, the demon eye on the child's buttocks did not disappear, but opened wide, splitting the child in two. He still remembers the tragic scene vividly after so many years. When he said this, he became uncharacteristically uneasy and picked up the wine bowl in front of me and drank it in one gulp.
I was wondering if the spiritual blood that Master found was wrong, or if he did the ritual wrong? His face was full of pain, and I suppressed my curiosity and didn't dare to ask.
After a while, Yan Xiang calmed down and continued. Because of that incident, his in-laws wanted to sue him in court, saying that he had killed the child. At that time, it was not uncommon for fake fortune tellers to kill people, and many people were sued. He was so scared that he fled overnight and has not dared to return home since then.
During the twenty years outside, he visited many famous teachers and finally figured out how the child died. Although he didn't know where the spiritual blood came from, the blood should be fine, because when orthodox Taoist magic is powerless, they often use folk remedies to replace it, which can also achieve its purpose. The key mistake is the dripping of blood.
There are some rules for dripping blood on the Night Demon's Eye. You can't just pour blood from the bottle and drip it into the eye. Instead, you have to soak an iron nail in the blood for a while before dripping it. In this way, the blood contains the iron nail's gold gas, which will blind the Night Demon's Eye. Then, perform a ritual, and the Night Demon's Eye will gradually shrink until it disappears.
Because the master died too suddenly and did not explain the method of dripping blood clearly, this spiritual blood was not the blood of yin and yang. Instead, it was used by the Night Demon Eye. After the ritual, the eyes became even more evil and cut the child into two pieces immediately.
After listening to him, I became even more worried. Although I knew there was a way to remove the Night Demon Eye, it was the same as having no way at all. Where can I find a pure Yang man and a pure Yin woman? I'm afraid if I can't find them, Ermao will be dead.