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Chapter 150 Talisman Water
The green flames seemed to come from the underworld. They were clearly burning fiercely, but people could not feel any light or peace of mind. Instead, an inexplicable chill emerged from the bottom of their hearts.

Everyone around was startled and gasped involuntarily, and some even screamed in fear.

"It looks like there's really an evil spirit!" Someone in the crowd suddenly shouted.

This voice was like a stone that caused a thousand ripples. The sound of discussion immediately spread out and became a buzzing sound.

Zhou Kuang squeezed in front of Situ Jing and said to him, "General, look... this... this beautiful fire, how come it has turned into this color!
It seems that our camp is really not clean and there are evil spirits in it!

Fortunately, we invited an expert to exorcise the evil spirit, otherwise... the consequences would be disastrous."

Situ Jing looked at the blazing green fire and seemed to be shocked by the sudden scene before him. He did not open his mouth to refute Zhou Kuang's theory of ghosts and gods.

Zhou Kuang was very satisfied with this. Although he still looked anxious, he could not hide the pride in his eyes.

The master roared and chanted again, burning handfuls of talisman paper. The group of disciples he brought with him, all holding long swords, gathered around him, jumping and dancing. After a while, a straw man taller than a real person was carried out from the side and stood next to the campfire.

The red-haired and blue-eyed ghost-faced man held a sword and chanted a spell. He pulled out a gourd from his waist and took a sip, which he sprayed on the straw man. Black air then came out of the straw man. He swung his sword and chopped at the dummy. Blood marks appeared on the places where the sword had been chopped, as if it was not a man made of straw, but a real person.

The soldiers standing by, not knowing whether they were frightened by this series of strange scenes, stopped talking and just stared in amazement.

Zhu Yu was not too surprised by these things. In her opinion, things like flames changing color and paper figures bleeding were just old stories told by charlatans that she had heard so many times that her ears were callused.

Instead, her gaze was more focused on her followers.

She didn't know whether it was because the hairy leather armor made it difficult to move, or for some other reason, but she always felt that the disciples seemed to move clumsily and slowly, not as agile as the master who was performing the ritual in front.

After finishing all these, the master asked his disciples to bring a tripod, put it on the bonfire, and put the straw man in the tripod to roast it on the flames. Soon the straw man was burning in the tripod. After the straw man was burning, the originally green bonfire gradually returned to its original warm yellow flame.

It was as if there really was some evil spirit bound up on the straw man, and the exorcism ritual just now had burned the evil spirit to death, so the flames returned to normal.

The disciples used several long wooden sticks to lift the tripod down from the campfire and placed it next to the table. Inside the tripod were the ashes of the straw man.

The master poured the liquid in his gourd into the cauldron, and then directed his disciples to carry several large jars that had been prepared from the side. Each of them was covered with various talismans and the jar mouths were sealed tightly.

The disciples lifted the talisman paper on the mouth of the jar, held the jar and poured the water inside into the cauldron. The disciples took large bowls, scooped the talisman water from the cauldron, and stood in a row behind the master.

The master raised his hand towards Zhou Kuang, who hurriedly stepped forward and listened attentively to the master's instructions. Then, his face filled with joy, he hurriedly shouted to those around him, "Brothers! As you have just seen, there is indeed an evil spirit in our camp, but now the evil spirit has been trapped in the straw man by the master and refined into ash!
Later, the master will distribute talisman water to everyone, and everyone must drink it. This will eliminate the evil spirits that have been on each of our bodies during this period and avoid problems in the future!
After today's ritual, no one in our Lizhou camp will be possessed by evil spirits and lose their lives anymore!"

Upon hearing this, the imperial guards gathered around the bonfire erupted in cheers. Zhou Kuang was very pleased with their reaction and quickly and politely asked the master to have his disciples deliver the talisman water to everyone.

The followers wearing ghost masks walked towards the crowd with large bowls and personally fed the talisman water to everyone's mouth. Their attitude was very serious, as if they didn't want to miss anyone.

Including Situ Jing, Lu Qing, and Zhu Yu, it didn't take long for everyone to drink the talisman water in the cauldron.

The disciples returned to the master and surrounded him. The master looked around, and the red mane on the ghost mask trembled. Then he raised his sword, made finger gestures with his hands, and looked like he was continuing to perform rituals and chant spells, but he did not make any other movements.

Seeing this, Zhou Kuang turned around silently without saying a word, wanting to leave quietly while everyone's attention was still on those people.

As soon as he turned around, Lu Qing grabbed his arm.

"Where is the deputy commander-in-chief going?" Lu Qing asked.

Zhou Kuang was startled when someone grabbed him. He turned around and saw that it was a personal soldier of Situ Jing. He calmed himself down a little and tried to pull his arm out of the other person's grip.

However, the opponent's grip was so strong that he couldn't pull it out successfully at once, and it could even be said that it didn't move at all.

"Let go." He lowered his voice with a hint of threat, and while speaking, he quickly glanced at Situ Jing who was nearby. Seeing that he was not looking in this direction, he pulled his hand back with force.

"If I saw it correctly, why didn't the deputy commander drink the talisman water?" Lu Qing asked without loosening his grip at all.

The voice of his words was quite loud. Although he didn't shout it out loud, it was loud enough for everyone around him to hear clearly.

For a moment, everyone around looked at Zhou Kuang, some in surprise, some in confusion.

Suddenly, someone in the crowd screamed, and the people around him suddenly dodged to the side.

Lu Qing and Zhou Kuang were also pushed and shoved, staggering back a few steps. Zhou Kuang found the right moment to break free from Lu Qing's grip, struggled to squeeze out of the crowd, and ran away in a hurry.

Lu Qing had no intention of chasing him. The crowd was in turmoil at the moment, so after he let go of Zhou Kuang, he immediately pulled Zhu Yu to his side to prevent the two of them from being separated by the crowd if they got in chaos.

I saw three people who rushed out of the crowd amid the crowd and pushing, and were now sitting in front of the crowd. Their eyes were bloodshot, their faces were very red, their breathing seemed particularly rapid, their eyes were a little blurred, and they looked not very sober.

"That's not right! Didn't we just exorcise the evil spirits?!" Someone in the crowd noticed something and was horrified. "Why do they still look like they're possessed?!"

(End of this chapter)