Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Not to mention Xie Lingya, even Shi Changxuan had never heard of Yin soldiers being able to fly airplanes. This was simply ridiculous.
If you break it down carefully, the theory should be this:
During the funeral ceremony, most of the rich people in ancient times buried real coins and utensils with them so that they could enjoy them after death. Commoners could only cut paper into ghost coins and make paper houses, but it was definitely not as good as the real thing, so ghosts often told their families in their dreams that they were not living well and so they should burn more things.
These paper things could be used in the underworld, but their durability was not that high and it was consumed very quickly.
Just imagine, this was a paper house, a paper fighter jet, if you actually build it and burn it, how many minutes can it fly?
Of course, it was useless to talk about all this seriously. The way Yin soldiers fought was completely different from that of humans. People had to fly planes to the sky, but did Yin soldiers still need to fly. People needed artillery fire, but Yin soldiers were very powerful with their own magic— As long as they didn’t learn the magic of worshiping ghost lamps like Qin Limin, who could only worship oil lamps.
Xiao Dian saw that the two of them were not talking and did not look pretty, so he thought they were scared.
“You… read more books.” Xie Lingya thought for a long time and said this. Anyone who read more books on Taoism would not believe that Yin soldiers could fly fighter jets.
Xiao Dian hummed: “I graduated from high school!”
Xie Lingya: “…”
At this time, Master Zhao had already drawn the talisman, and with the wind blowing under his feet, he walked towards the second floor with his sword pointed.
Mr. Zhu’s room was upstairs, and the younger Mr. Zhu quickly followed behind. Even though Master Zhao was a bit old, Mr. Zhu really couldn’t keep up.
When Ms. Zhu saw it, she also rushed to follow.
“Are you coming to witness the miracle?” Xiao Dian smiled and stepped forward calmly.
Xie Lingya: “…”
But staying down there was also staying. So, Xie Lingya and Shi Changxuan went up together. He just opened his Yin Eyes. After going up to the second floor, the first thing he saw was not Master Zhao or Mr. Zhu, but a room full of ghosts.
He originally wanted to go in but stopped at the door. It was too crowded.
Mr. Zhu was lying on the bed, his brows furrowed, and there were many ghosts on his body, and these ghosts took turns causing trouble for him.
Master Zhao didn’t notice anything. He sat on the edge of the bed and lifted Mr. Zhu up. He stuffed the talisman into his clothes, then drew the talisman on his body with his sword and recited the incantation.
Mr. Zhu and Ms. Zhu both stood by the bed and stared at the old man’s face, unaware that they were standing among the ghosts.
After a while, Mr. Zhu opened his eyes with difficulty and moved his body.
Xiao Dian looked over proudly.
But their eyes were attracted by Master Zhao’s action of drawing talisman, and Xie Lingya could see clearly that when Master Zhao was supporting Mr. Zhu on his back, he was drawing talisman with one hand but also pressing his back and neck several times with the other hand.
Mr. Zhu was just sleeping for longer and longer and was not completely comatose. Xie Lingya knew that Master Zhao could not summon the Yin soldiers at all. He felt that Master Zhao was not so much a magician, but knew a little bit of Chinese medicine, so he pressed Mr. Zhu’s acupuncture points to stimulate him and make him wake up.
“Boss, father…” Mr. Zhu shouted.
Both of them rushed forward, “Dad, Dad, are you okay?”
“I feel… so heavy.” Mr. Zhu said, took a few breaths, and closed his eyes again.
Master Zhao calmly let go of him and said: “Mr. Zhu has been haunted by ghosts for too long. Although I have subdued those Yin soldiers and put the magic talisman on the old man, he still only woke up for a moment and needs to be nursed back to health. Don’t worry, it’s over. It’s okay.”
Mr. Zhu was really convinced. It was funny to say that the master they hired before was really capable, but he had never fought before and even vomited blood. Then this Master Zhao didn’t do anything, and he was fine, he even woke up Mr. Zhu for a while, which made Mr. Zhu think that he was the most powerful.
Master Zhao patted his sleeves and said, “I will go to the provincial capital tomorrow to exorcise people from evil spirits, so I won’t stay any longer.”
“I’ll see you off, Master!” Mr. Zhu said.
“Wait, my dad hasn’t woken up yet.” Ms. Zhu stopped them. She was also dubious before, but she had a relatively straight personality. She didn’t think about so many twists and turns. Let alone wake up for a while, it would be completely fine if she waited. What?
“Didn’t you listen to what Master Zhao said? It’s fine now. All that’s left is recuperation!” Mr. Zhu shouted.
“If he’s okay, why doesn’t he wake up?” Ms. Zhu’s eyebrows were raised.
“…” Mr. Zhu was left speechless by her, “You are simply being unreasonable. Come on, can the person you invite make dad feel better immediately?”
“Come on, come!” Ms. Zhu yelled back immediately.
After she yelled, she realized that she didn’t seem to have asked Xie Lingya, but thinking about what Tang Qi said about him being powerful, she felt a little more confident. She coughed twice and said, “Teacher Xie, how about you two?”
Xie Lingya nodded, “Okay. Ah, then I’ll set up an altar on this floor.”
“Okay, let’s take a look!” Mr. Zhu said fiercely, and then said to Master Zhao kindly, “I’m sorry, please wait a little longer. I will send a car to take Master back later.”
Master Zhao was not afraid. He felt that at most the two young men must be charlatans like himself.
He had already made preparations. His talisman had been tampered with. He would go to the provincial capital tomorrow. If the old man didn’t get better in the future, Mr. Zhu would look for him. He would ask Mr. Zhu to take apart the talisman and look at it, and then say that someone broke his magic and that there was a spy in Mr. Zhu’s family.
Thinking about it, Master Zhao sat down aside with Xiao Dian very naturally.
“Teacher Xie, Taoist Shi, can you also invite those soldiers and horses?” Ms. Zhu said, “You have to retaliate tooth with tooth!”
She said this, first because a mage said that her father was haunted by ghosts, and secondly, Zhao Zhao just said that the Grandmaster invited Yin soldiers, and they wanted to compete with each other, so she asked this question.
Xie Lingya and Shi Changxuan fell silent for a moment.
Xie Lingya didn’t know how to do it, but Shi Changxuan did. Although it was not a technique that his family was good at, and he didn’t usually support Yin soldiers, he was still familiar with it.
There were indeed many ghosts in that room. Ordinary people may think that inviting a bunch of ghost soldiers to fight would make it more likely to win.
But they didn’t know how to explain to Ms. Zhu that it would take a long time to get the Yin soldiers to fight. After they finished fighting, it would be much faster if Xie Lingya went up with the sword and violently crushed them…
Ms. Zhu was speechless. She said it, then not wanting people to laugh at her, she whispered: “If there is any difficulty, I will add another hundred thousand.”
Xie Lingya: “Ahem, no, no problem.”
He thought about it, since Ms. Zhu had said this, let’s just try our best to meet the requirements.
Xie Lingya and Shi Changxuan discussed how to divide the work between them. Of course, it was Shi Changxuan who would set up the altar.
At this time, Shi Changxuan heard the Phytolacca God say in his ear: “Please ask God to bless the general and let Xie Lingya set up the altar.”
Xie Lingya saw Shi Changxuan hesitated, “What?”
Shi Changxuan whispered to him, Phytolacca God wanted him to set up the altar. This should also be the prediction of the Phytophthora God. It may be better for Xie Lingya to set up the altar than Shi Changxuan.
Xie Lingya couldn’t help but say: “But I can’t!”
Shi Changxuan: “…”
Xie Lingya: “…”
….
Xiao Dian sat next to the master and kept looking at the two people.
They laid out the bill, but they did not start practicing it immediately. Instead, one of them whispered something to the other person. The other person listened and made gestures, moving his mouth slightly, as if he was memorizing it silently.
Xiao Dian couldn’t help but say: “Are you guys learning now?”
This sentence could be regarded as asking the doubts in everyone’s mind. In fact, even Ms. Zhu was a little dazed. At first, she thought they were ready to work, but after preparing for so long, it really looked like he was learning on the spot…
When Xie Lingya heard this, he immediately retorted: “I’m not, I didn’t, we are discussing tactics!”
Xiao Dian said speechlessly: “How is it possible? It takes so long to discuss tactics, but you actually don’t have any, not really.”
Xie Lingya said confidently: “Without diamonds, can we take this porcelain job? Your Yin soldiers can fly fighter jets, so we can’t form a formation?”
Xiao Dian: “…”
When he thought about it, the first half of the sentence made sense. Although they were dawdling, if they really didn’t do anything, won’t they be afraid of being beaten out.
Xie Lingya quickly turned his head: “There are still a few paragraphs left, I’ll hurry up and finish memorizing them.”
Shi Changxuan: “…”
….
Xie Lingya was ready to invite the Yin soldiers and horses.
“A stick of true incense reaches all the wastelands, praying for good spirits to go to the altar!”
What surprised Xiao Dian was that his aura was not much worse than his master’s.
Even Master Zhao secretly thought in his heart, he didn’t expect that this boy was already a master at such a young age.
He had been in this business for so many years and had met many colleagues. As soon as he opened his mouth or set up an altar, he could tell the worth of this person from his gestures.
And looking at this young man’s momentum, you could tell that he could intimidate customers. No wonder he dared to take this job.
Xie Lingya didn’t know that he was being compared as a charlatan by Master Zhao. He was reciting a long prayer, holding a magic sword in his hand, as he stood up to recruit generals.
At this time, it was already a dark night outside. As Xie Lingya said “Greetings to Wei Ling”, the temperature in the entire room suddenly dropped several degrees. A gust of cold air came from nowhere, and everyone’s exposed clothes suddenly dropped and goosebumps appeared on the skin.
This abnormality did not happen when Master Zhao did what he did just now. He himself was a little confused. What was going on? Could it be that there was someone in the Zhu family cooperating with this person?
People like them travelled around the world, and they were full of deceptions, not to mention such deceitful methods which was also a kind of craft that had been passed down from ancient times to the present, and they had been using it to cheat people for generations.
There were some records in “Baoyang Notes”. When the masters of the past generations traveled, there were also scammers, and they also figured out what methods they might have.
Like inviting a fairy to come down to earth, it actually involved using a rope technique to move in the air. The black rope could not be seen at night, and some barriers, such as curtains, were placed between the people. Let the fairy wander around above, and then find various excuses to leave temporarily instead of coming down.
This was a relatively large-scale deception and required coordination and arrangement. So at that time, there was also a saying among the people that those who were smart enough became mages, and those who were not smart enough went to perform on the streets. There were some techniques between the two that were actually similar.
Of course, deceptions like the fairy descending to earth were difficult to use today, and some had also been exposed by science. However, the skills of scammers had also improved with the times.
Now when the temperature dropped, unlike others, Master Zhao’s first thought was – there were other people in Xie Lingya’s group, or they had bribed the Zhu family’s employees.
Xie Lingya looked over, wanting to see how many Yin soldiers he had recruited.
At this time, a man floated in from the window, wearing ancient clothes. After entering, he looked around twice, saw Xie Lingya, and floated over.
Xie Lingya looked behind him again and said disappointedly, “Are you the only one?”
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