I am a person who is particularly insecure about invisible places such as my back, neck, and the back of my head, so that I feel extremely sensitive in such places.
When this subtle feeling came from my neck, I initially thought it was something like a spider web, so I stretched out my left hand to touch it out of habit. It didn't matter, but I directly touched a few dry ones. Cold fingers.
I was shocked and quickly took my hand away, then I stood up with my neck shrinking and a step away. When I turned around to look, there was nothing there. There was a strange sound in my ears. I couldn't tell which direction the sound was coming from. It even felt like it was surrounding me in all directions. This sound is somewhat like the low sounds coming from a cat's throat before it becomes angry.
The lights in the room were already dim, and the door was shut tightly, so you could hear the noise but not see the ghost. Although this feeling was exciting, it was also creepy. Seeing that the incense in my hand was almost burning out, but the ghost in the room refused to show up, I knew that I could no longer dodge and I had to take the initiative. You can only die if you sit still and wait for death, but only the desperado can live!
Since I was locked up in this room, although I have witnessed ghosts continuously, it was just a fright in the end and did not cause any harm to my body. Even the initial fright that made me hit my head against the door was all because of my own actions. Not caused directly by ghosts. When I thought about this, I suddenly realized that as long as I could not be afraid, I would have a way to deal with them.
In most of the ghost incidents in the past, the ghosts I encountered were basically quite cooperative, but this time it was different. They had no intention of cooperating. Instead, they attacked me more aggressively. There are only two reasons for this. One is that the three ghosts are simply acting unconsciously and instinctively, just like moths flying into the flame, with no regard for the consequences. The second thing is that they don't take me, a little Taoist, seriously at all.
Each of the three ghosts in this room was hit once by me, but I can't confirm how many are left in the room now, or whether each of them still exists, but I didn't see them. That’s all. So I slowly moved to the center of the room, with the dim little lamp above my head. The sound in my ears continued to come, and it felt closer and closer. I opened my hands slightly, so that if something happened, I would Able to quickly throw away the weapon in hand. Then I raised my voice and chanted the mantra loudly:
"Five stars suppress the color, illuminating the mysterious world. Thousands of gods and saints protect my true spirit. Giant beasts in the sky subdue five soldiers. Five devils in the sky destroy their bodies. Wherever they are, all gods welcome them. Be as urgent as the law!"
This mantra was originally part of the curse to expel ghosts. The so-called exorcism means to drive away, not to destroy. My current abilities are not enough to "annihilate" the ghosts, and I really have no reason to do so, but this spell allows me to use the power of the ancestor's spirit to protect myself and force the ghosts to reveal themselves.
The appearances here are not necessarily in the form of humans, but they allow me to clearly see their traces. When my master taught me this mantra, he told me that among the whole series of mantras for exorcising ghosts, this one is the easiest to remember, relatively short, and easy to use. Anyone who has learned this mantra can use it. When ghosts hear this mantra, After the spell, I will become restless and even run away. When they run away, it is my chance to subdue them.
Sure enough, after I finished reciting this mantra, the lamp above my head suddenly started to flicker on and off. This was obviously affected by the power of ghosts. Then, some well-placed things in the room, such as on the table, The porcelain water cup and the photos hanging on the wall began to shake one after another, and then fell to the ground. At this time, I saw three black shadows on the ground quickly escaping against the corner. It looked like a big black fish on the shore looking at the water. I could tell it was a fish, but I didn't know it was a fish. Like any fish.
So without any hesitation at that time, I jumped towards the three groups of black shadows, held down one of them with my left hand, and then stabbed the incense stick in my right hand into the group of black figures like a sword. film.
Have you ever seen burning cotton? The flame was small, but the cotton burned with black smoke and shrank rapidly. When my incense pierced the black shadow, the black shadow appeared like this, but there was no obvious flame. Instead, it was the same as before, just flickering with small sparks and crackling. , a small but crisp sound, accompanied by a painful scream that I couldn't tell whether it was male or female. It seemed that the male and female voices overlapped at the same time.
I knew I would succeed this time, so I pulled up the incense sticks, but only two sticks were pulled out, and the remaining stick was inserted into the black shadow. Strangely enough, the black shadow was lingering at the bottom of the incense stick, flowing slightly, and seemed to quieten down, but did not disperse. The incense sticks upright illogically, as if stuck in the soil.
This success greatly improved my courage. I found that although I was afraid of them, they were also afraid of me. This confirms what Master said to me at the beginning. If a person is afraid of ghosts, his yang energy will be weak and the yin energy of ghosts will be strengthened, which will lead to danger. But if this fear can be overcome quickly, then The roles will be reversed.
So I began to actively chase the other two fleeing ghosts. After being forced to take effect by my exorcism spell, their activities could only be like shadows running around on the ground. Soon I caught another one and packed it away in the same way. The last one hid under Old Man Wang's bed. The gap was very narrow and I couldn't get in. Even if I got in, I couldn't move my hands and feet, so I had to go higher. I recited the incantation loudly several times, forcing it to come out obediently. However, when it came out this time, it slowly moved to my feet, and then stopped moving on its own. It seemed to have given in, so I didn't hit it again. Instead, within the range where it was, I pinched it with two fingers and drew a formation on the three recovered ghosts. This formation is like a spider web, or a prison cell. As long as the ghost can be suppressed by the caster's ability, as long as it is covered by this formation, it will not be able to escape.
While drawing the formation, I read:
"Open the heavenly gate, close the earthly household, leave the human door open, block the ghost's path, pierce the ghost's heart, break the ghost's belly, cross the golden beam, and erect the jade pillar!" Every time I read a sentence, I would draw a stroke. The seal used to seal the formation is like hanging a lock on the cell, except that the seal is the character "鸸" drawn on the palm of the hand.
Immediately afterwards, I released my rampant soldiers and ordered these three ghosts to be taken away. Although I don’t know why the three of them died and why they became ghosts after death, I know that they died a long time ago. Since I can’t verify their life experience and motives, I can only keep them as rampant soldiers for the time being. They will be purified in the future. Sent away together.
Calm returned to the room, and the door that had been closed tightly now creaked and opened slowly, as if a gust of wind suddenly came in from outside and blew the door open. The three incense sticks I brought into the house have all been burned, but the smoke that has not completely dissipated slowly floats in the air under the reflection of the electric light.
Although it was thrilling, it was finally solved smoothly. Logically speaking, I should feel more relaxed at this moment. But after I calmed down, my feet suddenly became weak and I sat on the ground panting. I wanted to stand up, but found that my feet were shaking slightly and I couldn't use any strength at all.
So I simply lay down flat on the already dirty ground, opened my hands, looked at the electric light swinging in the smoke, and rested quietly for a while. About ten minutes later, I recovered my troops, turned around and walked outside the house. I looked back at the two sticks I had inserted on the ground and realized that the black shadow had disappeared, and the ground was no different from other places except for those two sticks. The root is fragrant and stands like a strange force.
When I opened the door to the main room, it was already starting to light up. The three children of the Wang family were already standing outside the door. It seemed that the movements I made in the room just now were heard by people outside even though they were separated by two doors. . When the three children of the Wang family saw me coming out, they were startled at first. Then probably because they saw that I was dirty, they thought that I had suffered a lot, so the third child asked me, how are you, little brother? Has the matter been resolved?
I dusted myself off, nodded, and then sat down on the threshold of the hall. I asked the boss, "Do you have any cigarettes?" Give me one. The boss quickly found one for me and lit it for me.
I am a non-smoker, but at that moment, the relief in my heart made me feel that I must take a puff. Although I almost coughed up my lungs from choking. I tell the three children of the Wang family, if nothing happens, your father's problem will be solved. It is already the next day, and the funeral should be tomorrow morning. Tonight, you should follow what I did last night. , sprinkle flour at every entrance and exit, close the doors and windows, and check the footprints on the flour before the funeral tomorrow. If they are human footprints, come back to me, because that means they have not been cleaned. If it is the footprints of an animal, especially a chicken, it means that the old man can walk with peace of mind.
The children of the Wang family thanked them repeatedly, and the third child took out the money directly from his bag and tried to give it to me. I refused. It was not that I didn’t like money, but that money was actually of little use in this small mountain village. . So I told her that after tomorrow, there will be no problems and the old man will be buried safely. If you bring me a basket of eggs to Aunt Xu's house, it will be considered as a thank you gift.
After bidding farewell to the three brothers and sisters, I walked to Aunt Xu's house at dawn. Before I left, I pinched Liao Yuxuan's face and said, "Little boy, don't wander around in places where people have died. If you get into trouble next time, there may not be anyone around to save you."
When I returned to Aunt Xu's house that day, the couple had just woken up. They looked at me and looked as dirty as a beggar. They thought I had suffered a lot. I told her that I was fine and that I had helped others solve the problem. matter. Although Aunt Xu blamed me for being the first person, her expression still looked very happy and proud. She asked me to take off my clothes quickly while he washed my clothes.
So after I handed her the dirty clothes, I went back to the house, fell asleep and didn't wake up until the afternoon.
