Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Chapter 23 Wandering Evil
Su Qing's face turned deathly pale, and cold sweat poured down her back.

He didn't think any demon beast or cultivator would be so bored as to kill someone and then hang a lantern at their door.

Only evil spirits would do that!

"Damn it, we shouldn't have let them come to the living area to kill demons. There's no magic array in the central area to isolate the blood demons and vengeful spirits, and there's no Foundation Establishment cultivator protecting us with their divine sense. Why wouldn't evil spirits want to come here!"

Su Qing cursed inwardly, thinking that the cultivators in this residential area had recently been blinded by the spirit crystal monsters and had not noticed the inappropriateness of the Gao family's butcher shop being located in the residential area.

He forgot that he himself was one of them. When the Gao family's shop opened, he only envied Gao Erqiang for making a fortune every day and never thought that what he was doing would attract evil spirits.

This is not surprising given his relationship with the other independent cultivators in the living area.

As far as he knew, evil spirits were divided into two types: earthbound evil spirits and wandering evil spirits.

Earthbound evils arise from certain special terrains and environments, transforming that place into an evil spirit domain. This evil spirit domain seems to be in this world, yet it is not. Its existence and demise are uncertain, and its true nature is unclear. Only by slaying the evil spirits can it be destroyed.

Weak earthbound evil spirits can be born anytime, anywhere. If rogue cultivators are unlucky enough to accidentally enter the evil spirit domain they form, they can only rely on exorcism talismans to save their lives.

Su Qing had heard that after a cultivator reaches the Foundation Establishment stage, they can use their divine sense to annihilate evil spirits, but she didn't know if it was true or not.

Fortunately, most evil spirit domains are not very large. A single flower, tree, brick, stone, old house, or shallow pond could be the home of some earthbound evil spirit.

If cultivators avoid walking at night, most of these evil spirits will be dispersed by the yang energy of heaven and earth when the sun rises.

As for those ancient, powerful earthbound evil spirits, they can cause trouble not only at night but also during the day. Not to mention that those who are in the Qi Refining or Foundation Establishment stages will not be able to save their lives if they encounter them, even Golden Core cultivators who accidentally enter them will have to flee by their legs.

Within Baiyun City, there are hundreds of thousands of cultivators. In every area, people are constantly on the move day and night. Even if there are one or two places where the Earthly Bound Evils are not easy to provoke, cultivators have already marked them with their lives. As long as you are careful to avoid them, you can stay away.

Therefore, for the independent cultivators of Baiyun Market, the threat posed by the Earthbound Evil is not high when they are active within the market area at night.
What terrified them was the Wandering Evil Realm.

These kinds of evil spirits are not bound by any boundaries, so they can appear anywhere!

Staying at home won't help!
Among the wandering evil spirits, those with a penchant for bloodlust are often found in places where two nations have fought bloody battles. For over a hundred years, no one has dared to linger there because such places are the easiest to attract wandering evil spirits. With evil spirits lingering there, naturally no one dares to go and risk their life.

Baiyun Market is located in the heart of the Yunshan Immortal Kingdom. To the west lies Yunluo City, which resists external enemies. Across the Hundred Beasts Mountain is Yunshan City, where the Yunshan Sect's mountain gate is located. After a long period of peace, coupled with the gathering of mortal cultivators, it is full of vitality.

Therefore, the independent cultivators did not realize that there was anything wrong with the Gao family's shop setting up a stall in the residential area to buy meat and dissect demonic beasts.

But now that Su Qing thinks about it, he realizes that the Gao family's shop has been open day and night these past few days, and when he was practicing puppetry at night, he could vaguely hear the sound of meat being chopped.

With such intense work, one can only imagine how many monsters they have dissected in that small shop these past few days.

Normally, there would be an enforcement team in the market to carry out exorcisms and ward off evil spirits on a regular basis.

But these past few days, the independent cultivators have been busy dealing with the demon beasts, and most of the market enforcement team members have been maintaining order in the central area, neglecting the situation in the residential area, which is why this mess was caused!
After thinking through the cause and effect clearly.

Despite being very curious about the Gao family's butcher shop, he dared not connect with the Wood Spirit servant.

He pulled out a stack of bright yellow talismans from the bottom of his storage bag and pasted one on each of the doors and windows before he felt a little relieved.

This is an exorcism talisman. In this world teeming with evil spirits, you don't usually need this kind of talisman, but you absolutely can't be without it. When he was having a hard time in the past, he would grit his teeth and buy one. After that, whenever he had a little spare money, he would buy a few more from the old Taoist priest.

Because he often stays at home, he has never encountered any evil spirits and has never used a single exorcism talisman. He has accumulated about seventy or eighty talismans in his possession.

"It's alright, Gao's butcher shop is three or five miles away from here, that evil spirit shouldn't be able to find me!"

Just when Su Qing thought she was safe and sound.

Suddenly, wisps of cold wind whistled out from the cracks in the doors and windows.

At the same time, the exorcism talismans pasted on the doors and windows spontaneously combusted without fire, and the doors and windows emitted a series of dull thuds. Bang! Bang! Bang!
It's like someone is knocking on the door.

Su Qing's lips trembled slightly, guessing that the wood spirit servant had been discovered by the evil spirit, which had followed the fluctuations of divine sense and come over.

Not daring to go to the doors and windows himself, he instructed the wood spirit servants inside the house to stick all the exorcism talismans they had on the doors and windows.

All the talismans were used up, and the doors and windows were completely covered with talismans.

He himself rode on the head of the lizard warrior, ready to break through the wall and escape at any moment.

Fortunately, the evil spirit seemed to have limited strength, and seventy or eighty exorcism talismans were really too many.

As the smoke from the more than twenty exorcism talismans on the door dissipated.

Both the knocking and the chilly wind gradually faded away.

"The power of talismans, twenty-eight in total?"

Unable to determine the strength of the evil spirit, Su Qing could only rely on the exorcism talismans he had consumed to assess its abilities.

At this moment, he leaned against the bedside, panting heavily, still shaken.

He never expected that the first life-or-death crisis he would encounter since his transmigration would be caused by evil spirits!

"Don't be so damn curious in the future. Why did you go over to look at the red shop that was glowing? What were you looking at?!"

Su Qing cursed angrily. This lesson made him realize that the wood spirit servants, which could be manipulated by divine sense from a distance, could not see everything.

Evil spirits can find you by following your divine sense, and so can cultivators at the Foundation Establishment stage.

Voyeurs never have a good ending!

He spent a sleepless night and couldn't calm down to continue crafting the puppet.

Even as dawn broke, he didn't push the door open. It wasn't until the midday sun was at its strongest that he carefully opened the door. On the door, the exhausted talisman paper scattered pieces of black ash, which felt cool and stinging when held in his hand.

Stepping out of the courtyard, he had expected the unusual activity at the Gao family's shop to cause a stir in the market, but he didn't see anything amiss.

Groups of two or three independent cultivators, still for convenience, were delivering the monsters they had hunted to the Gao family's shop.

Gao Erqiang still stood at the door with a smile, welcoming and seeing off the guests coming and going.

Inside the shop, the sounds of slicing meat and chopping bones still echoed harshly.

Apart from the two red lanterns that always hung in front of the door, and the two strong body cultivators who always followed Gao Erqiang, they were nowhere to be seen.

Everything seems to be fine.

Su Qing gripped his hand in confusion as he severed the head of the wooden spirit servant, rendering it useless.

He glanced again at the array master who was setting up an exorcism array on either side of the Gao family's shop.

He then spat fiercely in Gao Erqiang's direction.

"A money-grubbing bastard! A damned menace!"

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