Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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“How’s Xiao Xie’s hand?” Professor Zhu asked with concern. Because he had known about Xie Lingya’s deeds for a long time, he didn’t dare to assign Xie Lingya too much homework.
“It’s almost healed.” Xie Lingya said.
“It’s like this…” Professor Zhu hesitated and said, “Don’t you open a Taoist temple? Can you introduce me to a Taoist priest?”
“Do you want to perform a ritual? The Taoist priests in our temple are good at different things.” Xie Lingya didn’t expect that his tutor, who also taught this, would believe in this, but it was not surprising, as many scientists ended up believing in God. He asked calmly.
“The kind that can drive away evil spirits.” Professor Zhu said.
Xie Lingya was surprised and said, “Exorcism? Can you tell me what it is?”
Professor Zhu was a little embarrassed, but it didn’t hurt to tell Xie Lingya. The Taoist temple was his and he would know sooner or later. “Alas, some strange things have happened in our community at night recently. There were people calling people’s names from behind, and there was nothing to see when they turned around. There were also ghosts behind their backs. The worst one was my neighbor, who is also a teacher in our department. He was frightened until he fell ill. He is still lying in the hospital.”
Xie Lingya asked seriously, “How did he get sick?”
Professor Zhu said, “I asked him. He was walking in the community on his way home at night. Suddenly, he felt that something was following him, so he called the community security. But before the security guard came, he found that his shadow was not right. The movements were not synchronized with his own, and he was so scared that he ran desperately.”
“But what is meant by like a shadow? The shadow is right under his feet. As he ran, the shadow was still posing in different postures… Then he fell to the ground and fainted. Later, the security guard sent him to the hospital, and he was in a daze.”
“This isn’t just one or two people, but it has to be resolved, and the property management can’t do anything about it. Then I remembered that you run a Taoist temple, so I came to ask.”
After all, Baoyang Temple was somewhat famous in the city. After Professor Zhu inquired about it, he thought that it was opened by his students, so he naturally came to find Xie Lingya.
“Professor Zhu, if you don’t mind, I’d like to go with you,” Xie Lingya said.
Professor Zhu hasn’t reacted yet: “Are we going to the Taoist temple to find someone?”
Xie Lingya said again: “Go to the community and have a look.”
Professor Zhu was stunned, “You? You can do this?”
“I learned some from my uncle. I think it’s not good to ask a Taoist priest to go and let others see it,” Xie Lingya said, “and it will be bad if some news comes out and causes unrest.”
Professor Zhu’s community was close to the school, and many teachers had bought houses there. If a university teacher found a Taoist priest to perform a ritual, outsiders may say something.
Professor Zhu thought so too and asked, “Do you have the confidence?”
Xie Lingya smiled and said, “I quite do.”
Professor Zhu believed it and did as Xie Lingya said. He first took Xie Lingya to the hospital to visit his colleague, Teacher Cui from their department.
Teacher Cui was only in his thirties and was lying on the hospital bed with a blue face. His wife was taking care of him. When she saw Professor Zhu, she stood up and greeted him.
The two families were neighbors. When Teacher Cui’s wife saw that she had never seen Xie Lingya before, she asked about him.
“This is my student.” Teacher Cui said, “He has another identity. He is the person in charge of Baoyang Temple.”
Teacher Cui and his wife looked at Xie Lingya in surprise.
Xie Lingya smiled shyly, “Hello, Teacher Cui, have you been having nightmares recently?”
Teacher Cui nodded subconsciously, “…Well, I didn’t rest well, I feel uncomfortable, and we can’t find the cause.”
Now the hospital was urging them to be discharged, but Teacher Cui felt that he was not well yet and refused to be discharged. Besides, if he moved back, he would have to worry about encountering something like that again, and he would be so scared that he would have a heart attack if it happened again.
This was a very typical sequelae of being frightened by an encounter with evil spirits. It was not the first time that Xie Lingya had encountered this. He performed the Lingguan Jue skillfully and pressed the Shanyuan between Teacher Cui’s nose.
“You also need to wear a talisman.” Xie Lingya originally wanted to say eat one, but considering Teacher Cui’s acceptance, he decided to do the next best thing. He took out an amulet, taught Teacher Cui how to wear it, and then asked him to recite the Lingguan Mantra with him several times.
In fact, when Xie Lingya was doing those movements just now, Teacher Cui felt that there had been some improvement and even suspected whether it was a psychological effect. However, after wearing the talisman and chanting the spell, the cold and discomfort in his body was really dispelled more obviously.
Teacher Cui unknowingly began to recite louder.
When Professor Zhu and Mrs. Cui saw that it seemed to be useful, they were surprised and happy. They didn’t expect that Xie Lingya, who looked so young, was actually quite capable. He was worthy of being the owner of a Taoist temple.
After Xie Lingya led Teacher Cui to recite the mantra seven times, he said, “You will be completely healed if you wear the talisman in three days. Stay in the sun more. But don’t go back tonight. Wait until tomorrow to be discharged from the hospital.” He would go to the community tonight to find out what was going on.
Teacher Cui nodded repeatedly and smiled gratefully, “Thank you for your hard work.”
….
Xie Lingya had dinner at Professor Zhu’s house. There were only him and his wife at home, and his daughter was studying abroad. Mrs. Zhu didn’t know what Xie Lingya was doing there at first. Students came to the house from time to time, but Xie Lingya did not leave early. So, she asked Professor Zhu if he wanted his student to sleep here. To this, Professor Zhu said, “Didn’t I tell you that I’m going to invite someone.”
“You said you wanted to invite a Taoist priest, why did you bring your student here?” Mrs. Zhu was speechless, “What do you want Xiao Xie to do?”
“Don’t look at Xiao Xie like this, he’s really a little mysterious. Today I took him to see Xiao Cui, and Xiao Cui got much better in a few minutes.” Professor Zhu whispered, “Think about it, would you dare to take on a porcelain job without the right skills?”
That’s true, especially since Xie Lingya was Professor Zhu’s student. Mrs. Zhu couldn’t help but nod and said, “Then let the child be careful too.”
It was late at night before Xie Lingya and Professor Zhu went out together. The three swords was too conspicuous, so Xie Lingya did not bring it. He only took the scepter, talisman paper and cinnabar.
Originally, Xie Lingya wanted to persuade Professor Zhu to wait at home, but Professor Zhu was worried about his student being alone and said that his yang energy was strong and he had not been possessed by evil spirits like others in recent days.
Xie Lingya had no choice but to stuff a talisman into his hand and let him take it with him.
Although there were street lights in the community at night, there were still many dark corners. The green area seemed to be large during the day, but at night the swaying shadows of the trees made people feel eerie. He wondered if it was because of the preconceived notion that this place was haunted.
After hearing so many stories about his colleagues, Professor Zhu still felt a little nervous, but his sense of responsibility made him insist on following.
Xie Lingya drew the eyes of a spiritual official on his forehead, then observed the yin energy, walked in one direction, and asked, “What place is that?”
Professor Zhu replied, “That’s the community swimming pool. Speaking of which, I heard that the delivery man came in at night and somehow jumped into the swimming pool.”
There were many landscape trees planted around the swimming pool. When Xie Lingya walked around, he heard a scream. He hurried forward, ran two steps and remembered Professor Zhu, who turned back and pulled him up.
Fortunately, Professor Zhu also exercised regularly and could keep up with him.
Xie Lingya was a little ahead. When he turned a wall in front of him, he saw two figures in front of him, almost bumping into each other. Professor Zhu was scared so much that he thought he had seen a ghost.
Xie Lingya was also frightened, but he soon saw clearly that the person he had bumped into was clearly Shi Changxuan. Behind him was Shi Changxuan’s mentor Xie Fan.
“It’s okay, it’s okay, I know him.” Xie Lingya turned around and said, “That’s also a teacher in the school, Professor Xie from the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, do you know him?”
Professor Zhu didn’t know him, but they all worked in the same school, so they knew each other by sight. He nodded with lingering fear.
Xie Fan also said: “I don’t live here. A colleague said something happened here, so I brought people to take a look. I didn’t expect it to be such a coincidence.”
This reason was very sufficient. The residents here were all trying to find a way out. It was not surprising that other teachers found Xie Fan. He was a teacher of religious studies after all, so of course they would find him if they knew him.
Xie Lingya glanced at Shi Changxuan and introduced him to Professor Zhu, “…This is my senior brother.”
“Huh? That’s really a coincidence. You brothers didn’t know that the other party was here too.” Professor Zhu laughed.
How could he know that Xie Lingya and Shi Changxuan were in a very awkward situation now. In the past, Xie Lingya would go to Shi Changxuan for everything, but of course he wouldn’t do that now.
“No more talking, let’s go in and take a look first.” Xie Lingya was still thinking about the shout just now, so he mumbled it over.
The two turned towards the swimming pool and saw a woman struggling in the water and crying miserably. Xie Lingya jumped in and found that the water in the pool was not deep at all, but the woman still swallowed the water mouthful by mouthful and struggled upwards.
Seeing someone coming, the woman had a glimmer of hope of being rescued, “Save me, save me!”
She reached out to grab Xie Lingya, but she was not that close.
Xie Lingya knew what was going on and subconsciously turned around to look at Shi Changxuan.
This had become a habit, and Xie Lingya himself didn’t even react. After the two looked at each other tacitly, Shi Changxuan threw the sword over. Xie Lingya reached out to catch it, took a deep breath, dived into the water, and opened his eyes underwater.
He then saw a large mass of black hair at the bottom of the water, wrapped around the woman’s feet.
Xie Lingya swam over, and a strand of hair separated from the bunch of hair and stretched out towards him. He took the initiative to thrust his sword and wrapped it around the strand of hair. The hair shrank back in fear as if it had life, but Xie Lingya had already entangled it. The sword reached into the thick hair, rolled it up and pushed it downward.
At the same time, Shi Changxuan had already jumped into the water and swam to the nearby area, dragging the woman ashore.
Xie Lingya wanted to go up to take a breath, but the curly hair seemed to know that this was a good time, and a strand of hair was separated to wrap around Xie Lingya’s waist.
Xie Lingya was not nervous. He shook his pocket open a little, opened the bag of cinnabar inside, and the water immediately turned red.
Xie Lingya stirred the red cinnabar with his fingers, then led it to the side, leaving a red trail, and drew a Lingguan talisman in the water.
After the talisman was completed, the trajectory of the cinnabar was condensed and did not disperse. Xie Lingya pushed it forward and it hit the bunch of hair, and it dispersed after the collision.
The thick hair parted, revealing a dark green face
….
On the shore, Professor Zhu and Xie Fan were comforting the woman. They saw some red in the water and became nervous. However, they did not shout out because they saw Shi Changxuan’s calm expression.
The next moment, Xie Lingya floated out of the water, pulling the invisible Yin object with him, put the thing on the sword and threw it ashore, then he climbed up himself, but he came ashore from the other side of the swimming pool.
“It has been caught. You can send this lady away first.” Shi Changxuan also took everyone’s tolerance into consideration. Just because you can’t see it now doesn’t mean you won’t be able to see it after the evil object appears.
Professor Zhu felt a little nervous but seeing that they had two people to take care of each other, he did not refuse and helped the woman leave with Xie Fan.
Xie Lingya sat by the pool and gasped for breath. Seeing Shi Changxuan coming over, he said, “That’s it. It looks like a vengeful spirit, and it’s amphibious.”
Shi Changxuan: “…”
There seemed to be nothing wrong with this description. It could hide in other people’s shadows and live underwater. It just seemed to have lost its mind, otherwise why would it catch and punish anyone without any rules?
The long-haired female ghost ate a talisman cast by Xie Lingya and was unable to move. She thus looked at them with resentment.
Seeing that Shi Changxuan didn’t say anything and just looked at him, Xie Lingya’s natural attitude just now suddenly became a little awkward. He avoided his gaze and whispered something nonsense: “I didn’t know you would come…”
The night wind blew, and the place was very quiet. They were the only two people left. He had avoided the embarrassment of being alone with him in the temple before, but he couldn’t escape it now. It seemed bad not to say something at this time, but he didn’t know how to express his thoughts accurately.
Shi Changxuan also felt a little awkward for a moment, “I also didn’t tell you.”
Xie Lingya said dryly, “I haven’t thought about it yet.”
Shi Changxuan remembered what his friend said, that he had always rejected confessions resolutely in the past, but now he said pitifully that he hadn’t thought about it yet. It seemed he was actually a little moved. After all, they were different. He felt that he was being childish, so he lowered his eyes and said, “It’s okay.”
Xie Lingya said nervously, “I, I’ll think about it as soon as possible.”
Shi Changxuan comforted him, “It’s really okay.”
The female ghost who had been left alone for a long time said coldly, “I have something to do. Are you going to kill me or not?”
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