Chapter 72 Hometown (ETL)
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Chapter 72 Five Ghosts Carrying a Coffin Part 1
And so, Gu Ye came to the pig farm with his family members. The Liu brothers had already started digging the flagpole. It was the second day of the Chinese New Year, and every household was visiting relatives so no one came to help. The two brothers were furious. The ground was frozen solid in winter, and the two brothers were sweating profusely. Soon, they knocked down the flagpole in more than 10 minutes.
“I’ll go down and take a look.”
Gu Ye wanted to get out of the car, and Gu Yang straightened his clothes and wanted to follow him. Gu Ye looked helplessly at his second brother who was driving elegantly on the rural dirt road with his chin in his hand, “Don’t come down to join in the fun, just stay in the car.”
Gu Lin smiled and opened the car door, “I’ll just take a look. I finally got a vacation (so I need to relax and have fun).”
Gu Ye rolled his eyes, “If I ask you to help dig the dirt pit later, please don’t be disgusted.”
Gu Lin smiled, and his expression clearly said: You think too much, this brother will not help.
Gu Ye sighed, why didn’t a brave woman stand up and take away this evildoer (marriage)?
The Liu brothers dug out a big pit on the ground. After Gu Ye came over, Liu Sheng said, “There is indeed something under the flagpole. It’s what we told to bury. There is nothing else.”
It was a blue and white porcelain vase, with the mouth of the vase facing inward.
Gu Ye squatted down to look, “Is this also what the master asked you to bury?”
“Yes, the old people in the village also said that there is nothing wrong with it. This is called a Feng Shui vase, which absorbs wealth.” Liu Sheng then asked with a bad expression, “Is there a problem with this?”
Gu Ye curled his lips, “There is indeed a Feng Shui vase in Feng Shui, but there are rules. The mouth of the vase must face outward, absorbing the wealth from outside. Your vase’s mouth faces the home, which means that it has absorbed all the wealth in the home. Moreover, this is not just a Feng Shui vase.”
Gu Ye took the shovel from Liu Long’s hand and slapped the vase. With a snap, the vase broke into several pieces. In the belly of the vase, there were many runes like unintelligible scribbles of talismans. Seeing that, Gu Ye had a cold expression and he started putting the vase together. Although it was not complete, he recognized what it was, “Soul-sucking array?”
Gu Ye frowned, “Can I go to your house to take a look? Are the memorial tablets still at home?”
“Yes! The custom here is to send off the deceased on the evening of the second day of the New Year. Right now, they are all still placed at home.”
Gu Ye had a gloomy face and had a bad premonition in his heart, “Let’s go and take a look.”
After arriving at the home of the eldest brother of the Liu family, it was just as Gu Ye expected. These new souls should not be reincarnated in such a short time. Now there is only evil aura on the memorial tablets, but no ghost spirit, which means that the souls are imprisoned somewhere.
Gu Ye’s expression turned cold, “Give me their 8-characters birth date, close the door, and draw the curtains.”
The two brothers of the Liu family did as he was told. Not long after, Gu Ye drew an array circle on the ground, took down the tablet of Liu Sheng’s wife, and drew a few more talismans.
Gu Yang was a little scared by the situation and asked cautiously, “Brother, what are you doing?”
Gu Ye pushed Gu Yang away with disdain, “Go away, you have too much Yang aura, it will affect my soul summoning.”
Hearing that, Gu Yang was scared and ran back to his other brother, “Second brother, let’s go, this is not fun at all.”
Gu Ye turned back and glared at his younger brother, and Gu Yang immediately hid behind his second brother. Gu Lin seemed very interested and watched with relish.
At this moment, in an old house in Zao Village, the door was closed and locked from the outside, and it looked like no one was at home. However, the door of the main room was ajar, and through the crack in the door, one could see a dozen clay figures on an 8-seaters table. The clay figures were painted with talisman and tied with red lines, and they were squatting on the table, in groups of 5. The group of clay figures were posed to work together to carry a golden coffin on their shoulders. The coffin also had a name written on it with a red cinnabar pen, which looked strange and unusual.
In the room, there is a man in his forties, with round and bulging eyes. His lower eyelids were slightly red under the eyes, which is a typical ‘snake eyes’ feature in physiognomy; definitely not a good guy. He was wearing a Taoist robe, sitting at the table, and making clay figures. This man was the half-immortal mentioned by the Liu brothers, and the villagers called him Ge Banxian (Half Immortal Ge)1. There was also a stove next to him, with a small grill on the stove, and a clay figure on it, drying.
With such a simple technique, the clay figure was also very clumsily made, but the magical thing was that the clay figure did not crumble or collapse. Picking up the clay figure from the grill, Ge Banxian picked up the brush, dipped it in red color ink, and painted a layer on the clay figure. The pigments were absorbed by the clay figure in the blink of an eye, and soon, a layer of bloody sheen appeared on the clay figure. This layer of pigment was actually blood!
Taking down the dried clay figure, Ge Banxian picked up the small bottle next to him and looked at it. With a greedy smile on his lips, he said, “We only need 2 more people to make 3 sets.”
The man opened the bottle cap, and a transparent soul floated out from it. In Ge Banxian’s hand, the blood-stained brush drew a circle, and with a lift of the pen tip, he tied the ghost and pulled it to his side. The ghost was only about 40 years old, clad in ghostly clothes, and struggled madly. If Liu Long saw it, he would definitely go crazy, because this was his wife who had just died 2 months ago, and it hadn’t been a hundred days yet.
Ge Banxian forcefully stuffed the soul of Liu Long’s wife into the clay figurine and then used a blood-stained pen to draw a talisman on the back of the figurine, so that no matter how the ghost inside struggled, it could not escape. He put the clay figure on the table again, and next to the two groups of figurines carrying a coffin, there were 3 more clay figures kneeling there. Just as Ge Banxian said, there were only 2 more clay figures needed to make 3 sets of ‘Five Ghosts Carrying a Coffin’.
Half Immortal Ge smiled with satisfaction, “We only need the souls of Liu Sheng and Liu Long to complete it.”
After finishing everything, Ge Banxian picked up the phone on the table and called a man named Boss Ma, “Boss Ma, don’t worry, I have already made the set of ‘Five Ghosts Carrying a Coffin’ you wanted. As long as you invite the set back home, I guarantee that you will make a fortune this year! You will see the effect within a month.”
“The price agreed in advance is 5 million per set… Is this price expensive? Believe me, it is absolutely worth the money. You can earn more than this amount in one business transaction.”
“It is definitely useful. If it weren’t for collecting materials, I wouldn’t hide in this small village, right? Don’t worry… Okay, you’ll send someone to get it, I’ll be waiting for you.”
After the call, Ge Banxian looked at the 3 sets of ‘Five Ghosts Carrying a Coffin’ greedily. This is 15 million yuan! As long as he sells them, he will have money. After collecting the materials, he will leave this darned place and live a carefree life in the big city for 2 years. He can do whatever he wants, find as many women as he wants, and no longer have to see these village women every day!
Just as Ge Banxian was imagining the beautiful scene of returning to the city, a clay figure on the table made a low ‘kacha’ sound. Ge Banxian looked at it in confusion, and his expression suddenly changed. In the set of ‘Five Ghosts Carrying a Coffin’ for Boss Ma, one of the clay figures actually cracked.
Ge Banxian stood up in shock and walked to the table to check, and his expression suddenly turned cold. The little ghost inside was gone. It was impossible to break through the shackles he set with the power of the little ghost alone. Ge Banxian immediately realized that other masters were snatching ghosts from him.
Immediately pinching his fingers, Ge Banxian tried to calculate where the little ghost went. At the next moment, another ‘kacha’ sound was heard, another clay figure cracked, and the little ghost was pulled away by an unknown force. Ge Banxian had no time to calculate again, so he picked up the blood-stained brush and wanted to deepen the confinement. At this moment, a golden light refracted on the clay figurine and directly bounced back to the brush, which caused the brush to immediately break into two pieces. The blood on the brush tip stained Ge Banxian’s hand.
Ge Banxian’s face immediately became solemn, and a bit of panic flashed in his eyes. He knew that he had met a worthy opponent, so he quickly took out a cloth flag from the drawer and covered all the clay figurines. A small clay figurine shook, but it didn’t crack. Ge Banxian finally breathed a sigh of relief. This was blocked.
“Aiyo~” Gu Ye stood in front of the soul-summoning formation, pinching his fingers and sneering, “You really have some skills, but it’s a pity that you didn’t use them in the right way.”
Gu Ye smiled, but his eyes became colder. He took out a cinnabar pen from his pocket and drew a talisman in the air. With a flick of the pen tip, the talisman flew to the magic circle and slowly pressed down. In the blink of an eye, the magic circle pattern that had been drawn before actually changed.
Everyone present was frightened by this weird scene. Although the sun was so bright outside, they still felt that there was chill from a lot of Yin aura in this room. Gu Ye raised his lips, drew another talisman, and hooked his finger, “Soul Binding Array, start!”
Since he can’t summon the souls back, then he’ll just capture them!
Ge Banxian heard a few crackling sounds of the clay figurine breaking into pieces. Then, a huge force rushed out from the clay figurine, and the cloth flag he had covered was directly knocked away, leaving a piece of clay figurine fragments on the table.
15 million yuan! Gone!
Ge Banxian’s eyes turned red in an instant. He picked up the cloth flag, and just when he was about to cast a spell, he found that there were already two holes in it, which were broken by the force inside.
“This is too much!” Ge Banxian cursed with gnashing teeth, and took out a bell with a strange red color from the drawer, “You dare to steal my 13 souls, use your soul to repay first!”
At the same time, a ghostly hand stretched out from Gu Ye’s formation, struggling out of the array with gnashing fangs and outstretched claws.
Gu Ye stared expressionlessly until the hand was fully extended and was about to reach him. Then, the corner of his mouth curved up as he raised the short boots that protected half of his calf, and kicked the hand hard with the hard sole, “Scram!”
This kick directly kicked the ghost back to the other side!
“AHH!” The Taoist screamed, holding his head with both hands, kneeling on the ground in pain. The bell lost control and rolled away for a long distance, but did not make any sound. It has become a dumb bell.
Gu Ye checked out the condition of the formation and picked up the cinnabar pen with a smile, “Since you want to touch my soul, you must be prepared to pay the same price…”
The soul-binding formation sent out a gust of cold wind again, and Ge Banxian from the next village suddenly felt that his soul was tied up by something, pulling out the strength in his body bit by bit.
Ge Banxian wanted to stand up, but his strength was taken away bit by bit. He was horrified to find that his consciousness could not even control his body. After a stumble, he fell heavily to the ground, and his body became colder and colder. This feeling of approaching death made him open his eyes in fear.
At this moment, a gust of cold wind blew open the door, and the cold air outside rushed towards him. No longer able to struggle, Ge Banxian’s soul left his body uncontrollably and was swept away by the gust of cold wind. In the blink of an eye, he came to a formation. When he looked up, he saw a face that was extremely delicate and young, looking at him with a smile.
“Did you want to bind my soul just now?” Gu Ye asked the man.
Ge Banxian immediately realized that the person who had taken away all his souls was the young man in front of him. Since he could appear here, it meant that his ability was far inferior to Gu Ye. His eyes flashed and he immediately shook his head, “It’s not me!”
Gu Ye went up and kicked Ge Banxian, “Bullshit, do you think I’m a fool? Tell me! Do you want to detain my soul?”
Ge Banxian’s soul was kicked down, and he wanted to hide to the side, but unfortunately, this formation was like a wall, leaving him no way to avoid it. He shook his head in horror, “It’s really not me!”
Gu Ye’s mouth curved, “I’ll beat you to death if you don’t admit it, but I won’t beat you if you tell the truth.”
Seeing Gu Ye raise his foot again and want to kick him, the soul-shaking pain was really unbearable, Ge Banxian quickly admitted, “It’s me, it’s me! Stop hitting me!”
Gu Ye’s sole landed heavily on the other person’s face, “You want to capture my soul! I won’t hit you, I’ll kill you!”
“Stop hitting me! This mystic master, spare me! I just want to scare you. You took away my 13 souls! That’s 15 million yuan. Please return them to me. How about we split the money? No, no need to split it. I’ll give you 10 million and I’ll only take 5 million. How about that?”
The smile on Gu Ye’s face gradually faded, “13, that’s 13 lives. You’re so bold.”
Ge Banxian quickly argued, “I didn’t catch them. They came to me on their own.”
Gu Ye was so angry that he laughed and kicked the soul twice, “Isn’t it very hard to create the ‘Five Ghosts Carrying a Coffin’? How many have you sold?”
Ge Banxian covered his face with his arms, “I don’t understand what you are saying. Let me go, or you will be punished by God!”
Gu Ye sneered, too lazy to talk nonsense with the soul. He took out a small bottle, and asked him, “Do you like this bottle?”
Ge Banxian felt the familiar ghost spirit in it and shook his head in horror, “No!”
Gu Ye chuckled and picked him up, “There are 13 souls in here that you harmed, go talk to them.”
The room finally returned to calm, there was no cold wind, and no sound of people talking. The people who watched the whole process took several minutes to recover. The Liu brothers asked tremblingly, “The voice just now sounded very familiar, it was the Taoist priest who came to check our Feng Shui.”
Gu Ye nodded, “He is in this bottle now.”
Gu Yang asked in horror, “Brother! Did you kill someone? His soul was captured by you!”
Gu Ye smiled, “Silly boy, people have 3 hun and 7 po. I didn’t capture all of his souls, so he is still alive. However, he will not be a normal person in the future, so that he won’t harm others again when he is conscious.”
The two brothers looked at the bottle in his hand and turned pale with fear. Liu Long suddenly reacted, “Is there also my wife in there? And my brother and my sister-in-law?”
Gu Ye nodded again, “This Taoist priest first used Feng Shui to kill people. Then he took away their souls, refined them into ‘Five Ghost Carrying a Coffin’, and sold them to rich people in need. I put them all in this bottle now, and send them to reincarnation at night.”
When the two brothers heard this, their eyes were red, and they gritted their teeth and said, “So many people died in my family, it was that Taoist priest who did it!”
“I want to kill him!”
The two brothers were almost mad with anger, and rushed to the door with red eyes, but were stopped by Gu Lin indifferently, “Think about it, if you kill him now, you will have to pay with your life.”
“So be it, I want to avenge my family!”
Hearing that, Gu Lin stepped away from the door and said, “Go then, your whole family died for him, calculate for yourself whether it is worth it.”
Gu Yang hurriedly persuaded, “Don’t go, you should have children at your age, can you bear to leave everything behind when the children haven’t grown up yet?”
The Liu brothers stood at the door, not knowing whether to go or not. Thinking of the children at home and the two children left by Old Third, they all hesitated. The two brothers collapsed and squatted on the ground, covering their faces. The suppressed crying seemed to be squeezed out of their throats. The two grown men looked like this, and anyone who saw it would be moved.
Gu Yang was kind-hearted and stood behind them to persuade them, “Let it go. As the living, you have to let it go.”
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