Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Shi Changxuan reacted very quickly, picked up a talisman with his sword, quickly identified what kind of talisman it was, and read: “The gods bow their heads, and the evil spirits are brought back to justice!”
The talisman suddenly floated towards the ghost and seemed to stick to it. The ghost’s body turned into mist as it rolled, and its painful face flickered from time to time.
Behind, Xie Lingya was also learning and practicing, picking up talisman paper with his sword and letting it fly onto the bodies of those fierce ghosts.
Moreover, he was even more generous, unlike ordinary people who were cautious when using magic charms. With the boldness of a wholesaler, he stuck seven of them on each one, not believing that they could still move.
The Taihe Temple Taoist priest who was the only one who was awake had fought hand-to-hand with his two possessed colleagues for a long time. Seeing that the situation was improving, he breathed a sigh of relief and sat down in exhaustion. He looked at Xie Lingya with a grateful look in his eyes.
“Little beast!” The old woman gritted her teeth and seemed to hate him very much. She didn’t know where Xie Lingya came from. He seemed to be a disciple of Taoism, but she couldn’t see which branch.
There were many sects of Taoism, including Quanzhen, Zhengyi, Maoshan, Laoshan, etc., not counting their respective branches. According to the ancestors and founders worshiped, there were Zhengyang sect, Chunyang sect, and Natural sect, etc.
Xie Lingya was serving Wang Lingguan, and he belonged to a minority among the minority. Of course, the old woman couldn’t recognize his sect for a moment.
But Xie Lingya was unhappy when he heard the old woman scolding him. “I’m afraid you’re worse than a beast, old witch. It’s already miserable enough to let someone die, but you’re still detaining him.” He knew in his heart that this person was probably the one who had cast the curses on money, and he had been fighting with Chen Sansheng, the master of Taihe Temple, but he still pretended not to know, and said to Shi Changxuan and the Taoist priest of Taihe Temple: “I heard that a Taoist priest jumped from the building here, and I didn’t think it was right, so I came in to take a look.”
“Thank you very much, Mr. Xie.” Taihe Temple Taoist priest sat on the ground and cupped his hands.
“Don’t be too happy too soon.” The old woman had a vicious look on her face, she twisted her hands together to form a complicated hand seal and was about to recite a spell.
Xie Lingya, with quick eyesight and quick hands, bent down to pick up a brick left over from the decoration and threw it at her.
“Bang!” There was a muffled sound, and the old woman was caught off guard. Although she dodged for a moment, blood still appeared on her face.
Xie Lingya: “Huh? You’re in pretty good shape!”
Shi Changxuan: “…”
Taihe Temple Taoist priest: “…”
Xie Lingya was confused: “Why are you looking at me like that, I couldn’t wait for her to finish reading the mantra, could I?”
How many seniors’ experience told them that you must not wait for the enemy’s skills to finish loading, otherwise you would lose. It was a pity, he didn’t expect that even though the old woman was old, her reactions were quite fast. If this had hit her, wouldn’t he have carried everyone?
The old woman’s expression became even more resentful after being hit, and she wiped the blood from her face onto the face of the old man’s body on her knees, then she herself looked visibly tired.
Xie Lingya saw that the sinister aura on the corpse was getting stronger and stronger, and then he sat up all of a sudden. Several places on his face were rapidly decaying, and his whole body was exuding a foul odor.
The face of Taihe Temple Taoist priest changed and he cursed: “You are so crazy that you are even refining your husband’s corpse.”
Xie Lingya didn’t understand, but from the Taoist priest’s tone, it might not be a good thing for the ghost to be refining and controlling the corpse.
The old woman was leaning against the wall. She had no energy left to speak. The move just now had drained all her energy.
Shi Changxuan frowned. He didn’t expect her to be so crazy. He whispered to Xie Lingya, “Seal this place up.” He nodded, leaned over, gathered up all the talismans, and ran to the side.
This place was located in a bustling business district. He pasted these spiritual ancestor amulets on the doors, windows and exits. The spiritual ancestor amulets had many uses. They could ward off evil spirits, suppress ghosts, and also protect the body and provide health care. They were very versatile.
It was a good thing he brought a lot of talismans with him. This place was too big. It might have been used as a supermarket. Most of the first floor was open, and it was not enough to put one talisman on it.
Shi Changxuan and Taoist Priest Taihe Temple fought hand-to-hand with the walking corpses with their swords. Xie Lingya applied talismans everywhere, and there were still a few missing. He was anxious, so he simply took out the remaining cinnabar and dipped his finger in the cinnabar to write on the wall.
The preparation here had not been completed, and the windows had not been sealed in many places. Xie Lingya turned his back to draw the talisman, only to hear the Taoist priest from Taihe Temple shout “Be careful!”, and then he felt the Yin Qi coming at him from behind, so he quickly turned around and raised his sword to block it.
A group of green shadows collided directly, pressing firmly on Xie Lingya’s Three Treasure Sword. With a scream, the figures disappeared directly. There was the only ghost that escaped back to the ghost tank before left behind.
Xie Lingya felt a shock, his body fell backwards, and half of his body fell out of the window. He had already decided that he would have go to the hospital later to keep company with the Taoist Priest from earlier.
But at this moment, a force was placed on Xie Lingya’s back, pushing him up!
Xie Lingya was stunned. When he looked back, he saw that it was the jumper who had led him the way before. Now he was leaning on the window sill, looking at him tremblingly. Because of the force exerted just now, the figure seemed to have become darker.
“Thank you!” Xie Lingya quickly completed the talismans. Looking at it now, Shi Changxuan and the two were still in a stalemate with the walking zombie.
The zombie was extremely strong. One of his hands was holding the Taihe Temple Taoist priest’s arm, and it had already made several bloody holes. The other hand was held by Shi Changxuan, with his peach wood sword pressed against its waist, but he could not move forward at all.
Xie Lingya rushed over, hugged the zombie’s neck with one hand, and thrust the Three Treasure sword at him. It was clearly a wooden sword, but it dug into his chest an inch deep.
The zombie roared and let go of Shi Changxuan and the Taoist Priest Taihe Temple.
After Shi Changxuan withdrew his hand, he immediately thrust his sword across the walking corpse’s waist, and the tip of the sword came out from the other side!
A large amount of evil energy escaped from the zombie’s mouth, and it completely lost its original strength and fell back.
The three of them panted, and the only thing left in the room was the faint and shrill cries of the evil ghosts suppressed by the talismans.
….
The reinforcements from Taihe Temple finally arrived. A dozen Taoist priests came in to help the injured, and to clean up the corpses. There was also the Taoist priest who was grabbed by the zombies, and the bloody holes on his hands were all black, so he had to have the poison removed.
This Taoist priest of Taihe Temple was called Mao Zhengqing, and he was one of the members of the Management Committee of Taihe Temple. In an older concept, it could be considered that he was equivalent to an elder of some martial arts sect.
While using glutinous rice to remove the poison, he thanked Shi Changxuan and Xie Lingya again and again. If Xie Lingya hadn’t come to help and Shi Changxuan hadn’t painted the talismans with blood, his vitality might have been seriously injured, but Shi Changxuan had been helping them from the beginning.
Mao Zhengqing thought that Xie Lingya didn’t know the inside story, and said to him: “That old couple is a Daoist couple, you know that, right?”
But not every one was like them, making money by casting evil curses. Many of them treated people’s illnesses and asked questions about their ancestors.
“They were the ones who put a curse on the money that Mr. He picked up last time. People from other provinces have done this many times in Queshan. In order to make money, they killed several people.” Mao Zhengqing explained, “The evil curse was broken by Taoist Shi, and the old man suffered a backlash. Only then did we realize that there was another person, so we came here.”
He omitted the fact that Chen Guanzhu failed to break the curse and caused his own accident. Xie Lingya did not say anything about it and sighed with emotion while saying: “That’s it. Look, I hit the brick correctly.”
Mao Zhengqing: “…”
To be honest, this young man’s boldness in using the talisman and his roughness left a deep impression on him. It seemed that both of them were good at drawing talismans, but this one and Daozhang Shi had completely different styles of acting!
Although Mao Zhengqing had some ideas in his mind, he was so worried now that he didn’t say anything.
Xie Lingya seemed unaware. After Mao Zhengqing walked away, he quietly asked Shi Changxuan: “Is Guanzhu Chen okay?”
Shi Changxuan shook his head, paused for a moment and then said: “Thank you.”
Xie Lingya waved his hand: “Thank you for what? When the road is rough, you should draw your sword to help!”
After saying that, he found Shi Changxuan staring at the sword in his hand, and then changed his words: “Draw your sword to help, draw your sword to help.”
His fingers were very slender and white, and when he held the hilt of the sword, together with the old dark sword hilt, the fingers under the moonlight looked as smooth as jade, with a sense of transparency. But just now, when he was upstairs, pointing at the ghosts with his sword, he was clear and decisive again. If you looked carefully, you could see that there was bright red cinnabar on his fingertips, which was the same as the center of his eyebrows…
Shi Changxuan lowered his eyes and looked at his fingers for a long time before taking his gaze back: “…Thank you.”
Xie Lingya inexplicably felt like wanting to shrink his hands back. He came back to himself and said with a dry smile: “Hahaha, you’re really welcome.”
The author has something to say:
After Teacher Xie rushed out, most people: Damn, the pretense was interrupted again!
Daochang Shi: (Some confusing psychological activities) …Thank you.
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