As a group of Taoist priests began to burn incense and kneel down in worship, a low and vague sound of chanting could also be heard in the Zhulou.
I remembered what I saw and heard in Kuixing Garden. There were really monks chanting sutras above and Taoist priests chanting sutras below.
Everything about the Cao family is getting more and more bizarre, making people suspicious.
"Nian Sheng Wuji!"
The black-faced Taoist priest held three sticks of incense in his hand. After kneeling on the ground and kowtowing repeatedly, he suddenly shouted.
The voices of the eight Taoist priests chanting sutras behind him also suddenly rose to high pitches at this moment.
The flame of the red candle in the bone dish on the ground suddenly swelled and lengthened, and the flames in the Zhulou suddenly shone brightly.
The three incense sticks on the incense table, which were as tall as half a person, began to burn rapidly downward at a speed visible to the naked eye. The smoke quickly evaporated and enveloped the air.
At this time, there was no wind in the Zhu Tower, but the smoke was like a living thing, automatically condensing into a ball without wind, and slowly spinning.
Looking down from the beam, it looks like a rotating cloud.
But if you look carefully, you will find that the center point of the smoke rotation is the cyan disk placed on the incense table.
At this time, the black-faced Taoist priest shouted again, but the pronunciation was very strange, and he didn't know what he was shouting.
The eight Taoist priests behind them knelt and kowtowed faster and faster, and the sound of chanting sutras had a faint hint of sharpness, as if a wave was coming and was about to reach its peak.
But at this juncture, there was a sudden click, and the three sticks of incense on the incense table were broken!
The smoke that was spinning rapidly also shattered in an instant!
All the Taoist priests were shocked.
The black-faced Taoist priest hurriedly got up and looked at the three broken incense sticks. His face turned green and white, and he quickly asked someone to change the incense sticks.
Immediately, a Taoist priest came forward, removed the three broken incense sticks, and burned three more sticks on the incense table.
"Why are you panicking?" The black-faced Taoist priest snorted and lectured.
I looked down from above and saw cold sweat dripping from his forehead. I guess he was the most panicked right now, but he insisted on pretending to be calm.
After teaching the eight Taoist priests a lesson, the black-faced Taoist priest wiped the sweat from his face while turning around and started the ceremony again.
"Nian Sheng Wuji!"
As the black-faced Taoist priest screamed, the Taoist priests began to kowtow and chant sutras again.
But this time it was good, before everyone even had time to kowtow a few times, the three sticks of incense on the incense table were broken again!
When all the Taoist priests saw this, their faces turned pale.
"Brother, this is wrong!" Someone finally couldn't help but remind him.
"Don't I know yet?" The black-faced Taoist priest glared at him and stepped forward to look at the three broken incense sticks.
The other eight Taoist priests also got up from the ground and gathered around anxiously.
"Brother, did we go wrong somewhere?" a Taoist priest asked.
The black-faced Taoist priest closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, then opened his eyes and said, "Our process must be correct. Is there something wrong with this fragrance?"
A short Taoist priest was startled and said hurriedly, "There must be nothing wrong with this incense. We checked it repeatedly when we came here. This matter was confessed by Master himself. How dare we neglect it!"
"Then why does it keep breaking?" the black-faced Taoist priest asked solemnly.
"This... we don't know this either." The short Taoist priest said with a mournful face and looked back, "Brother, do you think there is something wrong with these coffins?"
"Coffin?" All the Taoist priests looked at the dozens of coffins parked in the Zhulou.
The black-faced Taoist priest frowned, led everyone over, pointed at one of them and said, "Open it and take a look."
"Senior brother, this is the Huangxian coffin." The short Taoist priest reminded.
"Can I not know?" The black-faced Taoist priest glared at him and said, "Open!"
Everyone did not dare to disobey the order and worked together to remove the coffin lid.
Inside was the yellow one with blue fur, nailed into the coffin by nine nails.
The black-faced Taoist priest leaned over and took a closer look, shook his head, and ordered the coffin lid to be closed again.
Then several more coffins were opened, but nothing unusual was found.
"It probably has nothing to do with the coffin." The black-faced Taoist priest frowned, "We're running out of time, let's try it again!"
The Taoist priests did not dare to neglect and quickly placed three more sticks of incense on the incense table.
"Brother, these are the last three sticks of incense." the short Taoist priest reminded.
"Do I still know?" the black-faced Taoist priest said angrily.
When everyone saw that he was angry, they all kept silent and quickly shut up.
The black-faced Taoist priest was more cautious this time than the previous two times. After carefully checking every detail, he led the other Taoist priests to kneel down, kowtowed to the coffin, and shouted, "Nian Sheng..."
As a result, as soon as the word "生" was spoken, the three sticks of incense on the incense table suddenly and strangely erupted into three flames.
Before the black-faced Taoist priest could react, the three sticks of incense exploded with a bang.
The fire splashed everywhere, and the black-faced Taoist priest jumped up with an "ouch". His face and body were splashed with sparks, and his hair and eyebrows were burnt a lot.
At the same time, the flame head of the red candle placed in the bone dish on the ground suddenly began to elongate upwards strangely.
The cyan disc that was lying quietly on the incense table suddenly made a buzzing sound and trembled violently.
I found that the originally stable aura around me suddenly became chaotic, like a turbulent sea, rolling and rolling.
"What's going on?" The black-faced Taoist priest was shocked and angry.
Although he extinguished the sparks on his body in time, he still suffered several burns on his face and neck, and his hair and eyebrows exuded bursts of burnt odor.
"Senior brother, it's so... such a heavy Yin energy, it's wrong!" The Taoist priests shouted in horror, all of them looking panicked.
"Calm down, there's nothing to panic about!" the black-faced Taoist priest shouted.
He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead with his hand, quickly looked around, looked up again, and finally set his sights on the coffin.
"Brother, there should be no problem here. There must be something wrong in the coffin. Did they put the wrong things in the coffin?" the short Taoist priest asked.
Another Taoist priest nodded and said, "Yes, the Cao family is a layman after all. Even if something goes wrong, it is still possible."
"Do you think..." Another Taoist priest interrupted, "It's a bit strange that Master asked us to come to Cao's house to handle this matter."
"What nonsense are you talking about?" the black-faced Taoist priest immediately scolded, "If you're not just praying for Boss Cao, what's so weird about that?"
"It's right to pray for Boss Cao, but this way of praying is too... too strange, right?" The Taoist priest couldn't help but said before.
The black-faced Taoist priest snorted coldly and reprimanded, "What do you know! Master has his own principles. Whatever Master tells us to do, we will do it!"
"Yes, yes, yes." All the Taoist priests nodded immediately after hearing him move the master out.
It seems that these people don't know what they are here for, they just think they are here to pray.
"Continue to open the coffin!" the black-faced Taoist priest ordered, "I want to see what went wrong!"
