Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Jiang Yuqi’s dormitory had six people. Because he was a cultivator, the dormitory was relatively clean. Fang Xushan searched around in his room and actually found five scriptures from the storage bag. In addition to the “Hunyuan Hongyang Piao Gaozu Linfan Sutra” that he read at Mr. He’s house yesterday, there was also the “Hongyang Enlightenment and Heart Sutra” and so on.
“These are the Five Great Sutras of the Hongyang Dao.” Shi Changxuan said, and he opened it and touched it. The paper quality was quite good, and even the cover had a great sense of design, with auspicious cloud patterns.
As expected, Jiang Yuqi’s accident was also related to Hongyang Dao.
Xie Lingya also picked up a book and turned to the first page. He wanted to laugh when he saw a note in brush calligraphy that said: “Bullshit.”
He looked in the trash can beside him and saw a few torn pages. It was torn from a book and was stained with oil. This explained why Jiang Yuqi did not throw away the scriptures after receiving them. It turned out that he was making use of them.
“So arrogant…” Fang Xushan’s face was so gloomy that water seemed to drip from it.
“Since they’ve attacked again, the person should still be here.” Shi Changxuan pondered, “The other party may not have thought that they only took one soul. We should find him quickly. It may be possible that the soul is attracted to the spirit.”
Everyone was also thinking. While the others were shocked. Yes, only one of Jiang Yuqi’s soul was taken away. There was still a connection between the souls, which had now become an opportunity to find the other. But it also needed to be done as soon as possible, otherwise when the other party came to his senses, who knew what would happen.
The people from the Jade Emperor Palace brought Jiang Yuqi back from the academy to the palace and placed him in the Jade Emperor Hall.
Fang Xushan notified Lian Tan again, and then Xie Lingya, who had the strongest sensitivity, cast the spell. He took a clean tea tray, filled it with millet, spread it flat, covered it with a red cloth, and then placed it on Jiang Yuqi’s chest.
“Wandering ghosts, where are they lost? The five mountain gods, the wandering generals, search carefully and help the real soul!”
After Xie Lingya finished the curse, he lifted the red cloth and put down his heart. After having this soul connection, it really happened just as he had calculated it. A small hole appeared on the originally flat tea tray.
The people from the Jade Emperor Palace brought out a proportional map of the city, put it on the tea tray, and then compared the points up and down to find the geographical location of the small pit, which was 20 kilometers away from the city.
Xie Lingya rubbed his hands and said, “Abbot Fang, bring all the Taoists in the temple, and let’s go for a group fight.”
Fang Xushan didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, “I do want to.”
In this kind of situation, one plus one was not greater than three. Fang Xushan found eight Taoists who had some skills in magic and set out together.
Xie Lingya did not bring the Three Treasure sword when he came out. So, he just borrowed a peach wood sword from the Jade Emperor Palace and took a lot of talisman paper with him before going out.
The Jade Emperor Palace had a van used for transporting goods. About ten people got on the van and drove to the agreed meeting place, and Lian Tan was also picked up.
In the car, Xie Lingya couldn’t help asking Lian Tan: “If a fight breaks out later, the monk should stay away.”
He suspected that there were more than one or two people on the other side. If a fight broke out, Lian Tan’s body would not be able to withstand it. It was also not certain whether they could eat it or not.
Lian Tan nodded calmly. He was still wearing the same monk’s robes and holding a string of Buddhist beads in his hand.
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It took more than an hour to go down the mountain from the Jade Emperor Palace, and more than half an hour to rush there from where we were. So, it was dark when they arrived. The houses in the suburbs were very sparse and you had to drive a while before you saw any buildings.
The Taoists followed the navigation to find the place. They then got off the highway and drove onto the dirt road. After searching for a long time, they finally found the place that should be marked on the map.
Just under the shade of a small forest, a three-story building stood quietly with lights on inside. From the outside, it looked like just an ordinary country house.
A group of Taoists and a monk got out of the car.
Most people had no experience in this kind of siege. Fang Xushan thought for a moment before commanding: “Split up and encircle them.”
But no matter how they split up, they would have to go into the forest. The small building was not far away. The forest here looked like a natural fence, blocking everyone’s way.
Xie Lingya and Shi Changxuan were more than ten meters apart and could be seen from both sides.
As soon as he stepped into the woods, he felt something strange. The temperature in the forest seemed to be lower, and even the light seemed to be absorbed by something, and his hair stood on end.
But this was also expected. Hongyang Taoists were proficient in evil magic. If this was really their stronghold, it would be strange if there was no protection.
Xie Lingya was still okay, but the other Taoists couldn’t help but swallow their saliva and chant spells silently.
Xie Lingya tightly grasped the peach wood sword. Because he had similar experiences before, his eyes kept moving around the trees, and from time to time he glanced at the sky, for fear that some hanged ghost, mountain spirit or the like would jump out.
Liu Lingtong hummed a few times and managed to say, “Abandoned bodies fill the forest.”
Before Xie Lingya could react, he stepped on the thick fallen leaves. And suddenly, a cold hand stretched out from below and tightly grasped him, holding Xie Lingya’s ankle tightly!
“Oh my god!” Xie Lingya blurted out, jumped to the side and swung his feet hard.
He then heard a few screams all around and it was obvious that no one was missing and everyone had suffered the same fate.
The hand stretched upwards, and Xie Lingya felt his feet go soft. The feeling of the ground just now disappeared, or maybe it was an illusion from the beginning. He now seemed to be stepping on something uneven and soft.
As the rest of the hand was revealed, Xie Lingya’s scalp tingled. It was a gray corpse with fallen leaves on its body. When he stood up, he could see piles of corpses underneath it…
The “ground” under his feet … It seemed as if it had started to move, and it kicked the corpse away with force, and the peach wood sword pierced into its chest and abdomen!
This corpse moved, but it didn’t look like a zombie, it was just a corpse that could walk. After being stabbed by the peach wood sword, his knees went weak and he lay down again.
It was not difficult to deal with. But, he didn’t know how much there was under his feet!
After a while, several hands stretched out from under his feet and pulled at Xie Lingya’s legs.
Xie Lingya saw that some of the hands had corpse spots, and some were simply rotten. He wanted to vomit, and he kept waving his sword and rushed forward, looking around, “Is Master Lian Tan okay?”
Lian Tan spoke slowly, and he seemed to be out of breath, just like when he ran fast the first time they met: “It’s okay. Everyone, this is a cemetery!”
This situation was unheard of by Xie Lingya. Fang Xushan didn’t explain, he just kept struggling to break free. Now hearing Lian Tan mention the origin, it seemed to be related to Buddhism.
As expected, Lian Tan explained: “The cemetery is a forest where corpses are abandoned. Literally translated, it is called ‘grave field’, or ‘cold forest’, where corpses are buried. But this place seems to be man-made.” The cold forest was not an evil place, but this was not a genuine cemetery.
“Where do so many corpses come from! How can the corpses chase people? Can it be solved?” Xie Lingya howled miserably. These corpses kept chasing living things, just like zombies. It seemed that their death dates were different. He didn’t know where they came from, and he didn’t know if they would transmit the same virus as zombies if they bit people.
The ground seemed to be shaking because of the wriggling of the corpses. The corpses were struggling to stand up, and it seemed that arms were waving everywhere.
While struggling with the corpses, Lian Tan replied, “This is the forbidden ‘Mudmanusha’ of Buddhism, which is the method of raising corpses. It incantates the corpse to rise. Gather together and wait for me to chant a scripture!”
Xie Lingya suppressed his nausea and stepped on the corpses to walk towards Lian Tan, only to see Shi Changxuan already beside the old monk, helping him block the corpses.
Shi Changxuan really respected the elderly and loved the young.
Xie Lingya thought about it and also stepped forward to protect the old monk. After a while, other Taoists also gathered together.
Xie Lingya saw a middle-aged Taoist priest accidentally stepping into the gap between the corpses, with one of his legs sinking halfway into the gap. Then a corpse suddenly rose from the dust and fallen leaves and hugged him!
The Taoist priest yelled, his lips trembling, and he pushed the corpse away with all his strength, then began to run, tumbling and crawling. Halfway through his run, he remembered that he had forgotten to take the peach wood sword, so he turned back to pick it up.
Xie Lingya felt both pity and empathy when he saw this.
Lian Tan was about to chant a mantra when he saw two skeletons coming from the west of the forest. They were without a trace of flesh and blood, and their hands were waving at strange angles. They were holding long, stick-shaped bones in their hands, and their postures were like dancing.
Lian Tan’s face changed and he said, “This, this is the guardian of the cemetery. This cemetery was created by evil dharma, how could there be a guardian of the cemetery to protect it?” He said to the Taoists who were somewhat confused. “The guardian of the cemetery seems to think we are thieves, and the bone club in his hand is destroying people’s minds.”
Seeing the white bones moving forward step by step, and the dead bodies on the ground seemingly about to rise from the ground, Xie Lingya’s mind went blank for a moment, and he grabbed the ordinary peach wood sword and swung it out: “Everywhere in the world, the Dao will respond!”
A faint golden light surged out like waves. Xie Lingya used the ordinary peach wood sword to cast the Jian sword from the Three Treasures Sword Technique, and actually made the surrounding corpses and the two skeletons take a few steps back, their skulls then tilted, and their black eyes stared at Xie Lingya.
Although the Three Treasures Sword was not in his hand, his uncle had said long ago that the Three Treasures Sword had always been about cultivating the mind. Although this sword did not have as many merits as the Three Treasures Sword, the swordsmanship still had some effects.
“No, this is probably a way to delay the fight.” Fang Xushan said, “It’s better to split into two groups!”
Seeing that others had noticed it, Xie Lingya said, “Abbot Fang and I will take a few fellow Taoists and Master Lian Tan to leave. Shi Changxuan, you take a few people and stay here.”
He thought about it over and over again, but he still felt uneasy. He could only separate himself from Shi Changxuan. He didn’t trust anyone else.
“Wait, you all go, I’ll stay here.” Lian Tan said suddenly.
“…Are you kidding?” Xie Lingya said speechlessly.
“Lend me your sword.” The old monk said as he looked at the guardian of the cemetery who was approaching step by step.
Xie Lingya hesitated for a moment and put the sword in his hand, “I can lend you the weapon, but you should come with us.”
“This way it will be more efficient.” Lian Tan murmured, holding the sword in both hands and chanting, “I now wish to help sentient beings in the future and those without merit in the last days of the Dharma, who did not cultivate virtue in their previous lives and committed sins, thus causing poverty in this life… to bind and destroy all ghosts and demons, and to eliminate evil views…”
On the sword body, gradually a flame-like light appeared, from faint to thick, and white bones were approaching, with dead bodies crawling on the ground.
Lian Tan held the hilt of the sword, and his skinny body suddenly stretched out. He did a somersault and floated behind Bai Gu, landing steadily on the ground. He then stabbed out with the sword, and flames blazed. The corpse fell to the ground and could not get up. Bai Gu had no time to avoid it!
Xie Lingya: “…”
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