Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Wei Xi didn’t take the original ghost residents of Gangyue Building seriously at first, but he didn’t expect that their business ability was surprisingly good.
The mediation activity received a warm response as soon as it was launched. Many local Taoist temples even extended olive branches to Taicang Sect, an unknown sect that had just been established, through Kuang Zhiming. After all, these days, each Taoist temple had to encounter similar difficult but unavoidable businesses. When encountering such a Taoist temple, everyone’s mentality was actually similar to that of Kuang Zhiming.
Wei Xi also heard a little story from the industry from Kuang Zhiming.
The protagonist of the story was Taoist Master Feng of Fengnian Temple. A few years ago, a believer came to his temple to ask for a ritual. The reason was that the family was haunted by evil spirits and the family was frightened and unable to sleep or eat. When Taoist Master Feng heard this, he immediately followed to perform the ritual, set up the altar, and asked the ghost of the believer’s family to leave on their own. But the ghost was very stubborn and refused to leave no matter what. Her attitude was very fierce and it was impossible to communicate with her. She even tried to attack the owner of the house. Taoist Master Feng didn’t know what was going on. Seeing this, of course he wanted to protect humans, so he picked up a peach wood sword and fought with the ghost. His original intention was to drive the ghost out of the house, but he accidentally stabbed the ghost and her soul flew away.
The female ghost was very weak before she disappeared. Such that she couldn’t even speak. And she could only stare at Taoist Feng with bloodshot eyes and tears.
When the owner’s family learned that the ghost had disappeared, they were very grateful to Master Feng and gave him a 30,000 yuan eternal lamp. However, Master Feng was puzzled by the ghost’s tears before she died, and he still felt uneasy after a long time. So when he had the chance, he asked someone to inquire about the owner’s situation.
The final result was unexpected. The wife of a hero lived in the house before the renovation. Her husband left home to fight in the war and had no news. She stayed at home all year round and was unwilling to leave until her death. Before she died, she was worried that her husband’s soul would not be able to find her after returning home, so she asked her relatives to bury her in the soil in front of the door.
The owner of the house that invited the Taoist temple later said that he had secretly built a basement before encountering evil spirits. During the excavation process, the construction team dug up a skeleton that had been buried for who knows how many years. The owner was worried about bad luck, and because his house was built illegally, he did not dare to call the police, so he asked them to take the skeleton away and throw it away.
After that incident, Master Feng fell seriously ill and felt extremely guilty. In fact, he almost wanted to give up running the Taoist temple.
With a single thought, he destroyed a ghost that had been buried deep underground and waiting for her husband for decades. However, even if this happened to Kuang Zhiming or any other Taoist, what would they do?
The contradiction between life and death was sometimes just so irreconcilable. If a living person made a big mistake unintentionally, was it not wrong? But as cultivators, could they watch their family being liquidated and tortured?
The responsibility of Xuanmen was far heavier than people imagined. When right and wrong were unclear, any choice on either end of the scale carried an indelible sin.
However, this time, the owners of the three coffins were finally persuaded by several old ladies. On the condition of a Taoist offering and sacrifices during the next three years, they voluntarily agreed to cremate their bodies and bury them in a local collective cemetery.
The current owner of the house would certainly be delighted, but if this had not happened, given the tough attitude shown in the early stages of the mediation, Kuang Zhiming would have had no choice but to drive those family souls away and turn them into wild ghosts against his conscience. How could there be the win-win outcome they had today?
Therefore, although Kuang Zhiming still felt that the mediation team organized by Taicang Sect was very speechless, he was somewhat grateful in his heart. He not only helped Wei Xi connect with several other familiar Taoist temples, but also took the initiative to invite them: “Daoyou Wei, have you received any rituals recently? If not, I have a well-paid job here. The believers have invited many Taoist temples. I can recommend you to join.”
Wei Xi: “Huh? What dojo?”
Kuang Zhiming said, “It was an invitation from a film crew. The crew’s investor is very wealthy. I don’t know if you have heard of him. The person in charge is named Qiu Guokai. Their company recently invested in a supernatural fantasy movie. It is said that many strange things happened after the filming started.”
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As a result, Qiu Guokai came on his own without anybody’s active recommendation.
After not seeing him for a while, he had become even fatter and looked as if oil was oozing out of him.
Wei Xi only took a glance and whispered to the second disciple beside him: “It seems that after his mother bought your talisman, she really touched the spatula.”
The second disciple had been sitting quietly beside him the whole time and was unmoved by what he said. He only stretched out his arm to stop Wei Xi from approaching when Qiu Guokai rushed over to greet him as enthusiastically as before.
Poor Qiu Guokai, who had been studying abroad since childhood, had never been able to successfully hug Wei Xi since they met. His forehead was pressed, and he couldn’t help but turn his eyes away from Wei Xi, looking at the little apprentice next to Wei Xi who was equally handsome but exuded a temperament that was not easy to mess with. After thinking about it, he still backed off and hugged the next best thing.
Tuan Tuanyi warmly hugged his shoulders and said, “Mr. Qiu, you look very rosy-cheeked and in good spirits!”
“Don’t mention it.” Qiu Guokai showed a sad expression, “We are finally divorced, and she took the child away. Fortunately, it was not discovered by the media. Oh, how could this happen? She was so innocent before the marriage, but she was so hysterical during the divorce… It really broke my heart.”
His father was so angry that he beat him up.
However, when he thought about being able to reunite with his mother who had passed away many years ago, Qiu Guokai regained his spirits and looked at Wei Xi gratefully: “Master Wei, I am taking the liberty of coming to your house this time, but I actually have something to ask of you.”
After struggling to sit down, he slowly explained, “Our company invested in a fantasy movie called Scream at the beginning of this year. It tells the story of ancient goblins and ghosts. We just started shooting two months ago, but unexpectedly, accidents kept happening, making the crew panic.”
He sighed, “It was fine at the beginning. The first part of the show was shot in a studio, and at most it was a little bit difficult at that time. Later, when we started shooting on location, the entire crew moved to Maohua Mountain in the neighboring province, and then the problem got bigger. From the hotel in the mountain to the shooting site, the staff often complained that the environment was gloomy. Our company didn’t pay much attention to it at the beginning. As you know, ghost movies have some elements of that. In the past, many ghost movie crews have also reported similar news. They all said that the actors stayed in the crew environment for a long time and were too immersed in the role, so they had similar hallucinations.”
“I thought so, too. But last week, the crew had to shoot a large-scale fight scene, probably a battle between gods and demons. The crew didn’t have enough people, so they pulled two cars of extras in from outside the mountain. Who knew that not long after these extras entered the mountain, they all said they had encountered ghosts and felt they were being stared at by ghosts. Some of them said they heard cursing, and some said their costumes were inexplicably torn to pieces. Then, probably because they were scared, they refused to shoot the scene, paid for their own travel and ran away, and soon passed the news to the paparazzi. Anyway, this matter is now a hot topic on the Internet. Some netizens scolded us for hype and some scolded us for not taking actors seriously. It has a very bad impact.”
“In fact, I wanted to invite only you to go at first.” Qiu Guokai said, “But the company’s board of directors said that the truth of this matter is not clear at the moment, so it’s better to make a bigger show. You don’t know, several actors in the group are scared and want to run away. If more of you go, it can also make them feel at ease. You don’t have to worry about the remuneration.”
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