Chapter 93 Lingshan
Chapter 93 Lingshan
It was almost midnight when Cheng Shengfei knocked on the window and called Li Wuxiang out.
The ceremony was held in the backyard of Feiyun Temple, in a cleared utility room. When Li Wuxiang arrived, the child had already fallen asleep, held in Cheng Peixin's arms.
Cheng Peixin dried the five pieces of skin cut from Xu Daosheng's body and sewed them on the head, limbs and hands of a cotton and linen jumpsuit. Now the clothes were worn by the child, leaving only the eyes, mouth and nose exposed.
There was a small paper coffin in the utility room, with incense tables and offerings set up around it, arranged like a mourning hall. Cheng Peixin put the child in the small coffin, put the lid of the paper coffin aside, and then quietly walked out of the door.
Li Wuxiang saw a toilet bucket and a pile of drinking water in the utility room.
"He stayed in there for seven days?"
Cheng Peixin nodded solemnly: "Yes, the seventh day."
Then she closed the door and took a painting from Cheng Shengfei.
This painting depicts a door god, similar to a New Year painting, colorful. This door god is wearing armor, holding two whips, and his face is painted red, making him look ferocious and angry, which is consistent with his impression of his appearance, but there are not two, but only one.
Cheng Peixin pasted the painting on the door, but the front was facing inwards, with only the white background visible outside.
Then she stepped back two steps and took the magic sword from Cheng Shengfei. She was now wearing a white double-breasted robe with a pattern of auspicious clouds and pagodas embroidered on it. After waving her sleeves, she first worshiped the door god, and then a little talisman fire in her hand ignited silently, and immediately stepped on the spot, chanting something, and began to perform magic.
Li Wuxiang was now considered a serious practitioner, but he knew nothing about these rituals. He stepped back and only looked at Cheng Peixin and Cheng Shengfei.
The ceremony was more complicated than he remembered. From the beginning to half an hour later, the two did not stop. When Cheng Peixin first stepped on the Gang Step, it looked like she was doing a serious and solemn ceremony, but then her movements changed - it was like she began to imitate the movements of various wild animals, shrinking her head, shrugging her shoulders, bending her waist, sometimes walking on tiptoe, and sometimes making a long howl towards the sky.
Such a beauty's actions should have been considered funny, but at this moment, the whole courtyard became gloomy.
Every time she imitated an animal, there was a roar of that animal outside the yard, and the door of the backyard would clatter, as if something was scratching it.
After these voices rang out one after another, a strong wind blew outside the courtyard, mixed with whispers, as if someone was talking in his ear with a vicious and sharp tone. Li Wuxiang listened carefully and could actually hear a few words, but had no idea what they meant.
A quarter of an hour later, the door of the utility room where the paper coffin was placed suddenly banged, and the strong wind in the yard became even colder, but Li Wuxiang felt that his body was getting hot and trembling - the heat was from the small sword in his body, and the trembling was from the piece of talisman paper that contained the illusion of Ranshan, as if it had sensed something in the strong wind.
And his feeling - the sky seemed to be collapsing, he felt a little excited and trembling, as if he had seen someone or something after a long absence, he felt his skin swelling, as if a strange force had emerged in the space around him and was pulling him somewhere.
This feels somewhat familiar - similar to Zhao Qi praying to the Kitchen God in Jinshui.
But it was completely different - because at that time he felt something extremely heavy coming, and now he was the one being pulled.
But he didn't have time to appreciate this feeling carefully. The next moment, Cheng Peixin suddenly put away her magic sword and stood still. The strong wind stopped instantly, and all the sounds, emotions, and pressure disappeared.
Cheng Peixin was panting, her chest rising and falling violently several times before she calmed down. Cheng Shengfei quickly handed her a handkerchief, she wiped it, then turned to Li Wuxiang and said, "The Lingshan here is a little messy today, but it's not a big deal. We can come back at midnight tomorrow night and we should be able to get the real spirit."
Lingshan!
Before, when he was in Jinshui, Zhao Kui once said that he had "occupied an ancient cave in Lingshan"!
Seeing that Li Wuxiang didn't say anything for a while, she sighed, "We killed a lot of people in Ranshan a few days ago, and it became chaotic here. It's not that I don't want to do it for a while, but the people who come here now are wild gods with some skills. If we call them again, we will run out of energy." Li Wuxiang nodded at this time, "It's just that I have never seen such a scene in Jianzong. I was fascinated by it. I don't mean to blame you, it's really hard."
Cheng Peixin looked really tired at this moment, her eyes were red, her face was pale, and she kept yawning. She covered her mouth with a handkerchief and yawned twice more: "Then I will go back to my room to regulate my breathing. Fei'er, you stay here tonight and call me at dawn. Fellow Daoist, I will go back first."
Li Wuxiang smiled and nodded at her, then watched her go away before he slowly let out a breath.
Lingshan!
When Zhao Kui mentioned Lingshan, he thought it was some secret place. But Cheng Peixin just said "Lingshan here today", which seemed to imply that the word Lingshan did not refer to a specific place.
Cheng Shengfei was picking up the ashes and offerings on the ground, but he didn't dare to ask her. He didn't want people to think that he was not familiar with these things.
But even without asking, he felt that he could guess roughly.
Because Cheng Peixin also said another sentence - "If you call on it again, your energy will be exhausted."
Thinking of her tired look as she yawned just now, Li Wuxiang immediately thought of the "Exiled Man" in his previous world.
The "immortals" invited by the "out of the horse immortals" are mostly wild spirits and monsters, or perhaps ghosts. Those things are just a little bit of Taoism, and have their own caves somewhere. The more advanced ones also have soldiers and horses.
There are also soldiers and horses in this world. The wooden sword of the man he killed on the road contained soldiers and horses.
Thinking of what Zhao Kui had said before about occupying an ancient cave in Lingshan, Li Wuxiang realized that the word "Lingshan" should refer to another world different from the world where living people live. Cheng Peixin's previous state should be that she did not invite the door gods, but was possessed by those "wild gods" in turn, and then sent away.
But these are all common sense, he will know them sooner or later. What really made him feel a little throbbing in his heart were the emotions he just experienced.
That kind of... excitement and trembling, as if meeting someone or something after a long absence, that is the feeling when an external evil comes!
He had always felt that the external evil was on himself, but now he realized that the external evil might be a very powerful one among the wild gods in Lingshan. Whenever he felt the emotions of the external evil, he was actually possessed like Cheng Peixin just did!
Li Wuxiang couldn't help but smile in his heart. He wasn't in a very good mood in the evening, but now he felt happy all over again - the external evil is not in my skin or soul, I am still me, occupying the absolute control of this body!
This way, it would be easy. With the improvement of cultivation and realm, it shouldn't be so easy to make me want to cut off my hand like I did in the Xue family's firewood room!
He turned and glanced towards Chengdong: "Miss Cheng."
Cheng Shengfei immediately turned around and asked: "Sect Master?"
"I'm going out for a while and will be back later."
The years are long and he has to seize the day. He must now attach his divine consciousness to the Taiyi statue in the east of the city!
(End of this chapter)