Recap
Pu Xin nodded, his voice full of vicissitudes of life, “She is afraid that we will reincarnate and tell the underworld about the body snatching. When we are about to die, she will snatch our rightful bodies from us.”
“Senior Brother Pu Xing asked this humble monk to persevere and find a way to spread the truth before he died. But this humble monk waited for five hundred years and still could not help the people of Dayang Tianming Temple.”
He sighed, “I can’t fight, can’t escape, nor can I die. I just live life in such a muddle, helping that demon kill tens of thousands of people.”
Chu Shici extracted some key information from the words of the old monk.
The monks here are indeed able to subdue demons, and the abbot is one of the eminent monks who subdued snake yao.
He is probably the only monk in this temple who can suppress a thousand-year-old yao.
So at the beginning, the yao not only played a trick on Xunzhe, she also killed two birds with one stone.
According to the old monk, the yao who manipulated the monks and helped people do body snatching had obvious cracks on her face. She just wanted to eat Xunzhe’s white marble carving soul.
The yao who captured Xunzhe five hundred years ago wore a mask, probably to cover the cracks on her face that could not be hidden.
Chu Shici thought for a while.
Dayangtian gives children while Dataiyang snatches the original soul’s reincarnation spots. No matter how you look at it, there is some suspicious link between the two, and they should be the same person.
Opening two accounts, relying on body snatching to give children, and putting all the evil obstacles into the second account. The second account feeds the first account, accumulating a perfect merit score and ascending smoothly.
But if they were two people, Dayangtian hadn’t done anything bad, it was Dataiyang who had enmity with her. Using her name to commit crimes, trying to kill Dayangtian with the hands of the snake yao or other yaoguais?
This is not impossible either.
He couldn’t figure out what exactly it is but from the information they have gathered, there is a 90% chance that they are the same person.
Chu Shici no longer wants to figure out who is who. In order to prevent beating up the wrong person, their enemy will be called Stone Carving yao in the future.
After talking about what happened to Dayangtian Ming Temple, the old monk told them about the body snatching.
He has worked for the yao for five hundred years, and he has already memorized the process of body snatching by heart.
The first thing the Stone Carving yao did after controlling Dayangtian Ming Temple was to have them burn four babies to death.
It is not known where or who the yao stole the four babies from, none of them have been weaned and haven’t even opened their eyes yet.
She gave a special kind of wood, which she said was the corpse of a tree yao*.
*(for more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryad )
Stoke a fire out of this wood, throw a baby in it, and it will turn to ashes in a moment.
They should also take advantage of their statuses as monks to attract pilgrims to come to the temple door. To choose a man with a pure yang-aligned 8 characters of birth, and then find a few women with a pure yin-aligned 8 characters of birth.
After that, they should kill the man and stuff his soul into a breeder or other animals. Kill the animal and mix his blood with the ashes of the baby, apply it onto the food, and send it to the yao for blessing.
The ashes are limited, and when they are used up, they need to find new babies and burn them to ashes again.
The yao manipulated the women, engraved in their minds the obsession to ‘give a child for Lady Dayangtian’, and then fed them the food which was covered with the blood and ashes of the babies and the man.
These women don’t need men when they go back, they can get pregnant by themselves.
The children they give birth to are not under the jurisdiction of the underworld, alive but without souls, just empty shells. The yao call them fake fetuses.
The fake fetuses are also burned and put into a small jar. When couples come to ask for a child, they will put their 8 characters of birth written on a piece of paper and clothes under the tree nourished by human blood, and then pour the ashes of the fake fetus into the soil.
Using a unique secret art, the yao is able to give the person seeking a child to conceive a real baby in a short time.
The old monk has never learned such a dark art, so he could only talk about the general procedures, not knowing the inner workings of how and why it works.
When his senior brother was still alive, he told him that some people who came seeking a child were originally destined to have no children in their lifetime.
The stone carving yao messed around with their 8 characters of birth and used some means to give them a child they should never have.
When someone wants to do a body snatch and reincarnate into someone else’s place, they can just pick out a couple who is about to have a baby soon.
When the soul waiting for reincarnation in the underworld is about to come out of the underworld gate, the yao would eat them up, so that no one could compete with the soul snatching the body.
Even if some monks and Taoists found out that someone was snatching bodies and they wanted to stop it. All they need to do is to tell them that the original soul waiting for reincarnation is dead, if they don’t allow the soul into the fetus, the couple can only give birth to a stillborn child. This will give them no choice, and most of them will give up trying to stop it.
Excluding the first four babies, each of the fake fetuses born later can only give one child.
The women selected by the stone carving yao had to find various ways to cut off contact with their family. In the end, they either died in the delivery room, or were killed by a yao in the final act.
Over the past five hundred years, Monk Pu Xin has helped kill thousands of men with a pure yang constitution and harmed countless women with a pure yin constitution.
He has strangled countless babies with his own hands, and at night he always encounters bloody corpses in his dreams.
Monks with greater attainment of the dao* will snap out of the control halfway.
*(Tao or Dào (道) is the natural order of the universe, whose character one’s intuition must discern to realize the potential for individual wisdom, as conceived in the context of East Asian philosophy, East Asian religions, and related spiritual traditions. for more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao)
Some wanted to run out to find an expert to get rid of the yao while others wanted to die with the yao, but without exception, they all died in Dayangtian Ming Temple.
Their soul is eaten by the yao, and the body is buried in the grove, nourishing the tree with their flesh and blood.
When the original monks who resided in the temple five hundred years ago passed, it was time to recruit new monks. The believers who went up to the mountain with awe in their hearts would be met with the faces of foxes all around them as soon as they entered the door, turning into accomplices of the stone carving yao one by one.
Monk Pu Xin also woke up many times. He wanted to resist but was stopped by his brothers.
Before Senior Brother Pu Yuan decided to fight to the death, he consulted with him in private.
If all the monks in Dayangtian Ming Temple died, there would be no one who knew the truth in this world.
The senior brother asked him to endure, to live, and to find a way to pass the news on to the experts outside.
Monk Pu Xin’s consciousness was sometimes clear and sometimes blurred, and he waited for five hundred years in a muddle. During this period, some monks and priests passed by, and some people did notice something unusual.
But no one would have guessed that there was a thousand-year-old yao enshrined in such a well-known temple.
More than 30 years ago, three young Maoshan disciples saw the thick Yin Qi gathered in the temple and came together to eliminate the yao.
As a result, the two disciples were stuffed into two pig’s bodies, and tossed to the villagers who slaughtered and ate them. The youngest disciple pretended to give in, pregnant with a fake fetus, yet desperately fought against the yao. In the end, the stone carving yao only suffered a little skin trauma, while not even a bone was left of her.
This incident completely defeated Monk Pu Xin, and he began to give up resistance.
A few days ago, after seeing another woman in danger, Monk Pu Xin couldn’t help but warn her, trying to save her. Because of this incident, the stone carving yao became more aware of him.
His body was buried in the woods, his soul stuffed into a rooster.
The stone carving yao cast a spell on him so he couldn’t speak human language and could only wait to be taken to breed. Just when he gave up, Xunzhe and Chu Shici came over.
After the monk Pu Xin finished speaking, he thanked Xunzhe again.
A small smile appeared on his face, full of helplessness and guilt, without any relief.
“Also, if I could ask the benefactor to take this humble monk to the Underworld, and this humble monk will go to the Hall of Yama to file a complaint. If the Underworld doesn’t care about this, this humble monk will turn into an evil ghost Shura*, and he will fight to the death with that yao.”
*(Asuras are described in Hindu texts as powerful superhuman demigods with good or bad qualities. for more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asura)
After listening to what Pu Xin said, Chu Shici kept taking deep breaths.
He was very angry yet he didn’t know how to vent his anger. He was so angry that he stamped his feet on the hands of the snake yao.
Xunzhe lowered his eyelids and gently stroked the little monk’s head with his fingertips.
During the five hundred years of being sealed, he resented the monks who captured him.
Now he doesn’t hate them at all.
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Dayangtian Ming Temple cannot be left here, and there is no telling how many more lives will be lost if it is left here.
Xunzhe overturned the statue of Dayangtian enshrined in the main hall and uprooted a large number of trees in the back mountain.
When those thick-trunked trees left the ground, Chu Shici couldn’t help but curse.
There were corpses attached to the roots of the tree, there were both men and women, some of whom were wearing monks’ robes.
Exposed to the air, the corpse quickly shriveled up and turned into dust and drifted away in the wind.
Normally, if there are so many corpses gathered in a place, there will be an over concentration of Yin Qi. But this is not the case here as the deceased were even deprived of the right to become ghosts after death.
Xunzhe is not good at spell breaking, but he knows other spells.
He put all the monks in the temple into a deep sleep and planned to wake them up only after finding someone who can break the enchantment.
In order to prevent the stone carving yao from continuing to do evil in Dayangtian Ming Temple, Xunzhe set a fire.
Even if one Dayangtian Ming Temple is destroyed, there will be other temples.
As long as the stone carving yao is alive, she will think of other ways to continue to snatch the fetuses. In any case, one of her strongholds was finally taken away.
The raging fire engulfed the century-old temple, thick smoke covered the sun, and the red-clothed ghosts emerged again.
They walked through the fire, repeating, ‘Children, my children…’
Chu Shici looked at the ghost in red with complicated emotions.
They were manipulated and tortured to death by the stone carving yao in their lifetime, and they could not escape her control even after they turned into ghosts after their deaths.
The stone carving yao is so ruthless, knowing that they are no longer useful to her, yet she neither kills them nor releases them.
Letting these innocent souls wander around the temple day after day and to suffer forever.
Monk Pu Xin look at the temple quietly, with a ghostly aura coming out of his body.
This fire did not free any souls. Most of the people who died here were eaten, and the rest turned into fierce ghosts.
In this five hundred years span, all the tens of thousands of beings who have suffered will never be reincarnated.
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After returning to the hostel, Xunzhe explained to Monk Pu Xin.
People in the underworld can come up at will, but they cannot go down at will.
People in the human world have to take the yin and yang road to go to the underworld. In addition to the official passages of the underworld, there will also be some underworld officials or yaoguais who will open their own passageways for convenience to go to the underworld to do business.
Xunzhe is a snake who doesn’t like to socialize and only knows how to cultivate. He doesn’t have his own passageway and can only borrow others’.
It just so happened that since they were going to settle debts with the stone carving yao in the Fox Immortal Temple and Lingshan Mountain, he could just borrow a passageway from the coming and going yaos in those two places.
The soul of the monk Pu Xin floated down to the coffee table when he heard those words, he put his hands together, “This humble monk will listen to benefactor Xun, but this humble monk is a monk, will those yaoguais be willing to allow us to borrow their passageway?”
Xunzhe was very sleepy after not having a good rest for too long.
He lay on his side on the bed, propped up his head and looked at Pu Xin coldly, “They are very willing.”
As soon as Chu Shici saw Zhe-ge’s reaction, he guessed what he was thinking.
‘If they don’t want to, I’ll beat them until they agree, so this trip will go smoothly,’
The old monk breathed a sigh of relief: “This humble monk is sorry to trouble you, Benefactor Xun.”
Chu Shici fell asleep on the way down the mountain, so now he couldn’t sleep.
He lightly pushed the snake yao and saw that he was already asleep, so he ran to the old monk and chatted with him, trying to learn something.
The old monk Pu Xin is very talkative and look at him kindly despite his gloomy ghostly aura.
After he heard that he wanted to learn how to exorcise ghosts and subdue demons, he started to teach him how to recite the Diamond Sutra.
Studying Buddhism is very boring, especially for a person like Chu Shici who has no Buddhist nature at all. It is no different from a math class, he can’t understand it at all.
He studied for two minutes and slept for two hours. He had a very sweet dream.
After waking up, Chu Shici yawned and pointed at himself, “Do you know the origin of this wooden carving of mine?”
“This humble monk does have some knowledge. This humble monk has lived for too long, and his consciousness is not very clear. This humble monk only vaguely remembers that an eminent monk passed by and felt that there was a yao here. But he thought it was coming from the mountains from the snake yao. The eminent monk was busy dealing with other yaoguais and did not investigate carefully, leaving you to suppress the snake yao.”
The information was almost as good as what Chu Shici had. He turned around to reveal the dark stains on the back of his clothes.
“There’s something stuck on my body that can’t be washed off. What do you think this is?”
The old monk look at it for a while, “It’s dried blood. Someone used you to hit someone. The power of a magic tool that has hurt someone will dissipate little by little. You should be a wood spirit nourished by yao qi.”
The little wood carving showed its own little lotus, and Pu Xin was stunned.
Chu Shici is neither a magic tool spirit nor a wood spirit. He is an imposter.
Xunzhe slept until noon the next day before regaining some energy.
Both the Fox Immortal Temple and Lingshan Mountain are in the northeast, and Chu Shici was originally thinking whether to take the train or take the plane.
Xunzhe glanced at the map and frowned slightly: “It’s a little far away, we need to take a dirt road.”
Chu Shici was stunned, “Dirt road?”
Xunzhe still had no expression on his face, but a light pink coloured the tips of his ears, “I can’t fly, and neither can other snake yaos.”
He paused, pursed his lips and added, “Dragon can fly.”
Chu Shici discovered that Zhe-ge really wanted to become a dragon, and all his beautiful fantasies about the future were dependent on turning into a dragon.
This is not a good sign, if he fails to transform into a dragon, his obsession will completely collapse.
Chu Shici was a little uneasy, he caressed the snow-white scales of the snake yao, “Ge, it’s okay if you can’t fly, I think being a snake yao is also fine.”
Xunzhe didn’t answer, just nodded his head. He looked at the sky outside the window, and there was a little light in his usually calm golden eyes.
At the same time, a message popped up in the background.
[The vitality value is increased by 1, and the current vitality value is 36.]
Chu Shici looked up at the snake yao and then at the original text.
In the original text, the protagonist did turn into a dragon, so nothing should go wrong.
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It wasn’t until Chu Shici set off that he understood what Xunzhe meant by walking the dirt road.
He went to the mountain to catch two rabbit spirits and occupied their rabbit hole.
After asking which one was the burrow to the northeast, Xunzhe put the small wooden carving in his arms, holding Pu Xin’s soul in one hand, and the two shivering rabbits in the other, and jumped into the burrow.
He morphed into a giant snake and slithered forward, going very fast, as if flying close to the ground.
After slithering for less than an hour, when he came out again, he arrived at a village in the northeast.
The white snake stuck its head out of the rabbit hole and look around. After making sure no one was around, he crawled out of the hole and turned into his human form.
Spit out the rabbits in his mouth, pick up a branch and turn it into clothes to wear on his body.
He picked up a rabbit spirit, “How do I get to the Fox Immortal Temple?”
The rabbit spirit shivered in fear and pointed towards a direction.
Chu Shici was lying on the ground, the rabbit hole was filled with twists and turns, and the snake yao sped all the way. He felt like he had been on a roller coaster for nearly an hour.
He really doesn’t know why even when Xunzhe has this ability, he was so shy in the hostel before. What’s wrong with not being able to fly in the sky? Flying underground is cool too.
Xunzhe stepped on the tails of the two rabbits, picked up the small wooden carving, and fiddled with it twice.
Seeing that he was a bit listless, Xunzhe looked up at the sky, “It’s time to eat, you’re hungry.”
Chu Shici nodded, “A little bit.”
Xunzhe casually glanced at the fat rabbit spirit at his feet, and his eyes began to shine.
Chu Shici sat on the little lotus and pressed his palm against the tip of Xunzhe’s nose, “Ge, I know you’re hungry. But, we just borrowed someone’s hole, it’s not good to eat him.”
Xunzhe hummed.
As soon as he lifted his foot, the two rabbits swished into the hole and disappeared.
The sky was getting dark and the wind started to pick up in the woods.
The snake yao has a wood spirit on his head, and a ghostly monk floating behind him as he walks towards a nearby village.
Chu Shici grabbed Xunzhe’s silver-white hair and sat on his head while chatting with the system. After chatting for a while, he suddenly felt that someone was staring at him.
He turned his head and saw the dense forest behind him. Other than that there was nothing, there was deathly silence in the woods.
But he felt like someone was watching him.
Chu Shici thought for a while. Why is it so quiet? Are there no animals in the woods?
The shadows of the trees swayed under the night sky, and his eyes widened slightly,
Why does he feel like those trees were staring at him?
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T/N: Sorry for the delay today!
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