Devouring Evil Martial Arts, Eliminating Demons from All Heavens

Chapter 2: Chasing to the grave to keep the guest

Ding ding ding clang!!!

Amid the sound of wind chimes, Boss Li stood there frozen with one foot inside the door and one outside.

Although his expression was strange before, it could be attributed to lack of rest and excessive worry and anxiety.

Now stimulated by the sound of the wind chimes, his expression became more and more abnormal. He stretched his neck forward very hard, and the blue blood vessels under the skin could be seen.

His temples were swollen, the skin on his forehead was stretched tight, his eyes were bloodshot and his eyeballs were bulging, his chin was stretched, his lips were stretched, revealing his scarlet gums.

And as his head stretched forward, his shoulders hunched, his back arched, and his breathing became heavier, as if he was pulling a broken bellows.

"Go to class, go to class... study hard, take the imperial examination..."

Boss Li's words became more and more vague, and his eyes changed between confusion and ferocity for a long time. His cloudy, scarlet eyeballs rolled, and his gaze fell on Li Xu's back.

"Unfilial son, I enrolled you in a cram school, but the books you copied as punishment are still not enough. Yes, you should be punished by hanging yourself from the beam and pricking your thigh with a thorn, or using thorns and vines..."

Mother Li and Teacher Qiao outside the door both felt something was wrong.

"Husband, what's wrong with you?"

Just as Mother Li was about to take a step forward, she was grabbed by Teacher Qiao and moved back further.

It was fake that Li Xu was possessed by an evil spirit, but it seemed like his father was possessed by a real evil spirit!
The sound of the wind chimes became more rapid.

Chu Tianshu stared at Boss Li without averting his gaze from beginning to end. Instead, a needle-like gleam appeared in the depths of his pupils.

"Do you have door-to-door delivery service now?"

Chu Tianshu smiled, and for some reason, his expression showed a hint of excitement, but his left hand quietly touched something on the table.

"Brother, you are not advanced enough to be provoked into revealing yourself by my Wind Chime Bagua. You can't even speak clearly after you have possessed someone else's body."

"I'm sure you were a failure as a human, and an even greater failure as a ghost."

He took a step to the right and walked away from Li Xu, holding a handful of silver needles in his right hand.

"Come on, hit my silver needle. It would be better for you to be reborn as a dung beetle as soon as possible. It would be more promising than your current situation!"

The curse is too dirty.

Boss Li's eyes flickered, and he couldn't help but look away from Li Xu. He growled at Chu Tianshu and made a gesture to pounce.

But when he jumped, before his feet left the ground, his eyes suddenly turned white and he could not see anything clearly.

Boss Li subconsciously raised his hands to cover his face, and suddenly felt a pain in his chest.

Chu Tianshu took a big step and came in front of him, and stabbed the silver needle in his right hand directly into his chest.

He holds more than a dozen needles in one hand and inserts them into the body by twisting his fingers. He inserts only one needle at a time, and inserts more than a dozen needles in a row, distributed at different acupuncture points.

Chu Tianshu spent more than half a year practicing this skill alone.

In the blink of an eye, silver needles were inserted into Boss Li's chest, shoulders, and forearms.

He had just covered his face with his hands, and now he couldn't make any other movements. He felt his limbs were paralyzed and his whole body was stiff.

Teacher Qiao outside the door was watching nervously, and only then did he see clearly that there was a flashlight in Chu Tianshu's left hand.

When a person is possessed by an evil spirit, he will appear to be as strong as an ox and tireless.

In fact, this is just an illusion formed when the body's senses are affected by dirt.

For example, if an ordinary person scratches a wall or someone else's clothes with his fingernails, if the fingernail is slightly chipped or lifted up, it will hurt so much that he can't help but retract his fingernails.

A person who is possessed does not feel pain, is not afraid of bruises or fractures, dares to rush and smash things, and can exert great strength, which makes him appear to be much stronger than a normal person.

It's like turning people into beasts.

But the weaknesses of the beast were also magnified.

For example, people in this state often don’t know how to use tools, and they are also afraid of light!

Boss Li looked so creepy from behind just now, and like a demon from the front.

But Chu Tianshu stopped the taunting with a few words, flashed the flashlight, and poked with a silver needle, and the opponent was subdued without causing any damage.

"what!!"

Boss Li suddenly screamed, and the clothes on his back tore along the midline of his spine.

A cold wind blew out from behind him for no apparent reason.

The mist outside was blown violently by the wind.

Boss Li has a rough voice, which Mother Li is already used to. But the voice just now clearly sounded like that of a strange man with a very thin voice.

She was at a loss, and didn't dare to go forward, so she quickly shouted, "Master, what happened to my husband?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Mother Li couldn't help but dry heave.

Teacher Qiao next to him also covered his nose.

After the cold wind blew past just now, the yard in front of the door seemed to be filled with a foul smell.

It's the smell of cheap ink.

There are calligraphy classes in junior high school, and the ink sold to students in the school canteen is all that smelly.

But to smell so bad, it would probably have to be the smell of dozens of bottles of boiled ink.

Fortunately, the stench came and went quickly. In just a few seconds, it faded away very quickly.

Chu Tianshu also smelled the stench. Holding his breath, he walked to the table and quickly took out a silver needle that was twenty centimeters long.

He held the silver needle at the head and tail in his hands, and stabbed it into Boss Li's head, who was still unable to move. He inserted it all the way to the end, twisted it slightly, and after a while, pulled out another section.

The tail of the needle was left seven or eight centimeters long, standing upright on Boss Li's head.

After the other silver needles were removed, Boss Li's hands immediately dropped, his eyes were lifeless, and his face was blank, as if he was sleepwalking.

Teacher Qiao came over and asked, "What's going on?"

"Whatever was attached to him escaped."

Chu Tianshu said, "That thing hasn't become very powerful yet. For it to be able to attach itself to this person, it must have been exposed to him for a long time without him realizing it."

“When it leaves this man’s body, it cannot enter another’s body. It must return to its own bones.”

"While it's daytime and heading towards noon, I'm going to go straight there."

Teacher Qiao was surprised: "So urgent?"

"To deal with this kind of ghostly evil spirit, you must seize the best opportunity. If you miss it, it will cause a lot of trouble."

Chu Tianshu put his hand on Boss Li's shoulder and turned him around. Without much effort, Boss Li turned around and started walking outward like a puppet.

"Mrs. Li, your son's needle will be in for more than half an hour. Please stay here with him and don't move around. I'll go take care of your husband's problem."

Mother Li was looking at her husband and son, feeling a bit hesitant to choose. But when she heard Chu Tianshu had everything arranged, she immediately nodded: "Okay, okay!"

This is a little trick. Take the initiative and take the lead when the customer is in a panic. Everything you do will go more smoothly.

The business of exorcising evil spirits is not common, but if you are confident in taking the order, you can often make a big profit in your account balance.

However, Chu Tianshu doesn't like being repeatedly questioned by customers, having to explain a lot, trying to gain their trust, and then being able to find and remove the ghosts.

If we do that, we might miss the opportunity and add more trouble.

Therefore, when he encounters this kind of business, once he makes a judgment and enters the working state of making big money, he will act decisively and try to take the initiative.

"Let me be clear in advance, my fees are not cheap."

Chu Tianshu said this, raised his hand to the customer's psychological expectations, and walked towards the bridge, "Teacher Qiao, I remember you have a driver's license, can you help me drive?"

Teacher Qiao used to like to be around Grandpa Chu and worked as his assistant for a long time, which was considered his first pot of gold when he was young.

Today's scene gave him a familiar feeling, so without further ado, he followed Chu Tianshu across the bridge.

Boss Li was stuffed into the passenger seat.

The key was still in the car. Teacher Qiao started the car and asked, "Where are you going?"

"There's still some evil energy from that thing in his body, so it's a good opportunity to sense it."

Chu Tianshu sat in the middle of the back seat. He could see the scenery in front of the car directly through the gap between the driver and the co-pilot. His eyes were sharp, his lips moved, he recited a spell, and pointed at the back of the co-pilot seat.

"Teacher Qiao, just look at the needle on his head."

Above Boss Li's head, a seven or eight centimeter silver needle swayed slightly, and seemed to have a darker green hue, and slowly bent toward the right front.

Teacher Qiao drove along the cement road up the high slope east of the village, turned and returned to the road.

The needle tail on Boss Li's head is like a special compass, constantly adjusting his direction as he moves forward.

Based on this, Chu Tianshu judged whether to move forward, turn, or reverse back to the previous intersection and reminded Teacher Qiao in time. In just over half an hour, Teacher Qiao drove the car to the outskirts of the city.

There are areas where the government has converted farmland to forest, and there are also many factories.

Next to the road where the car is parked is a magnolia forest. To the south of the forest, you can see a classic large factory building with white walls and blue tiles and a blue corrugated stainless steel roof.

Where Boss Li pointed was between the factory building and the woods.

There was a large open space there, which was the back door of the factory. There were a lot of alloy waste piled up there, as well as broken plastic buckets and worn-out mops and brooms.

What is more eye-catching is a stone tablet covered with moss.

To ordinary people, it is just an old stone tablet.

Chu Tianshu stared at that place for a while, and could see that there was a kind of ink-colored smoke curling and swaying on the stone tablet.

Whether it is spiritual communication or learning martial arts, the first hurdle is called "opening the mind".

This awakening of the orifices, of course, does not mean to actually open up a certain orifice, but refers to a state in which the seven senses are sublimated as a whole.

It was as if all seven orifices were covered with dust before, and all the scenes they saw were dim and unclear. But when they opened up overnight, the world seemed to be washed clean, and it became extraordinarily bright and colorful.

Only when a martial artist has gained enlightenment can he hear the sounds of his internal organs moving and begin to master the fine-tuning of his flesh, blood, and bones.

Only when the psychic is awakened can they, according to their own sect, use various methods such as chanting mantras and drawing talismans to purify their minds and see those inhuman ghosts and evil spirits.

The depth of a psychic's spiritual attainments is often determined by the total length of time he can maintain an open state within a day.

Chu Tianshu has been practicing until now, and he can be enlightened for more than five hours a day.

In terms of his skills alone, he can be considered a master in the Jianghuai region.

It's just that he has a problem, he only learned unconventional skills, and he doesn't have many powerful magic weapons, so he is not well-known.

After staring for a while, Chu Tianshu had already realized that the ghost's corpse should be buried under the stone tablet, less than two meters deep.

Chu Tianshu didn't rush to get out of the car. He said first: "Call Mrs. Li and ask if this factory is hers."

Teacher Qiao dialed the number and the call was answered quickly.

Sure enough, that factory building was Boss Li’s factory.

Mrs. Li also knew about the stone tablet behind the factory.

It is an old stele that had been erected there before the site was chosen. No one has maintained it. I heard that it was from the late Qing Dynasty. It does not have much cultural value and could have been demolished at will.

But Boss Li noticed that what was written on it seemed to be the deeds of a child prodigy, and he thought that keeping the stele was a good omen.

In the past two years, Li Xu has been in high school. Boss Li even put an incense burner in front of the child prodigy monument and often goes there to burn incense to bless Li Xu to get into a good university.

"The words on the stone tablet are completely blurred. He could only recognize a few sentences. Could he only recognize the two words 'prodigy'?"

Chu Tianshu shook his head and laughed, "Boss Li is quite brave to offer incense to such a thing of unknown origin."

Teacher Qiao said, "I guess he doesn't really believe in this kind of thing, and certainly doesn't know the taboos. He just tried to hit the jujube without any result, and ended up hitting a bad jujube."

Teacher Qiao paused and said, "Now that we've determined the location, why not just call an excavator, knock over the tombstone, and get the bones out to dry. I did that once when I was with your grandfather, and it was the easiest time."

After he reached middle age, Grandpa Chu came to believe that the best way to exorcise evil spirits was to avoid meeting people at all.

Whenever you meet face to face, there is always some risk.

"The situation is different. The one possessing Boss Li still has some ability to think. If you don't use some ruthless tactics on him and just try to dig up his grave, it will only fuel his resentment and cause it to explode. If you harm the person operating the excavator, it will be difficult to resolve."

Chu Tianshu explained a few words, then got up and got out of the car.

"Teacher Qiao, please stay here. I'll go take a look."

He walked through the woods toward the clearing.

Although there was a lot of garbage piled up on the open space, the area two or three meters around the stone tablet had obviously been cleaned up. A few pieces of iron sheets were laid around the base on the ground, creating a relatively tidy area.

A golden handicraft incense burner the size of a casserole is placed in front of the stone tablet, with a lot of incense ash and incense sticks accumulated in it.

Chu Tianshu half-knelt down, picked up a handful of incense ash, looked at the color, and dug his fingers into the incense burner twice. The ash on the surface was basically new.

Burning incense so diligently is like a person praying to a ghost. No wonder that thing, which obviously doesn't have much ability, can possess Boss Li and travel during the day.

Looking at the words on the stone tablet again, most of them are mottled and unclear. It is obvious that it was erected in the late Qing Dynasty, but it has been severely weathered.

The first few paragraphs are easier to identify.

He was proficient in classics at a young age, and could compose poetry at the age of seven. He was hailed as a child prodigy in his hometown, and when he grew up, he took the imperial examination...

It was probably based on this that Boss Li concluded that this was an inscription praising a child prodigy.

After all, apart from boasting, monuments are generally not erected for other situations related to child prodigies.

Unfortunately, Boss Li met an unusual person.

Chu Tianshu placed his fingers on the stone tablet and looked at the inscription from the perspective of a psychic.

On the mottled blue-gray stone surfaces, we can analyze the previous shapes and trends of the characters.

After reading the whole text, we can see that this is a story about a scholarly family in the late Qing Dynasty. When the family fell into poverty, they placed their hopes on a child prodigy at home. However, the child prodigy failed to pass the examination to become a scholar despite repeated attempts.

His family did not allow him to be distracted and insisted that he study hard. When he was in his forties, he had not made any progress in his studies and had not achieved anything else. He was emaciated and died of depression.

...yet he has been in dire straits for twenty years, and has not even been awarded a single blue collar. Your father has reprimanded you day and night, and has subjected you to constant abuse and scolding, hoping that you will become a capable person through hard work...

Who would have thought that you would become even more stubborn, squandering your youth, and eventually die suddenly of a mad disease...

Failure to enter the civil service and repay the Emperor's grace is disloyalty; failure to provide for one's parents and loved ones in fine clothes is unfilial; failure to bring honor to one's community by having one's name published in the county annals is unrighteousness...

Such a disloyal, unfilial, unrighteous, and unbrotherly person actually wanted to escape death. I now engrave this stone as a warning to future generations...

A full seven parts of this inscription are insults, insulting this useless scholar who is buried underground.

The person who erected the monument was the scholar's father. He cursed the scholar all his life and continued to curse him even after his death.

He actually used a stone tablet with insults as his son's tombstone.

"No wonder there's such deep resentment."

Chu Tianshu stood up and said, "Boss Li's high expectations for his son and his high-pressure education must have reminded you of your father."

"You are a poor man too."

"But, after you possessed Boss Li, you didn't do it to punish the father, but instead targeted Li Xu!"

Chu Tianshu lowered his eyes and looked at the ground.

"Instead of punishing a father who is similar to him, you are urging this father to do more to harm his son."

"You can't even find the right target for revenge, and you're still so weak even as a ghost. Then, isn't your ghost... a waste?!"

As soon as the words fell, there seemed to be silence around.

In the woods, the sound of insects suddenly disappeared. These little guys are always particularly sensitive in some aspects.

In a blink of an eye, there was a gurgling sound coming from underground, like the sound of boiling water.

The black smoke surged upward along the stone tablet, from wisps to clumps like cotton wool.

Ghosts with residual thoughts are easy to be fooled.

Chu Tianshu was wearing a shirt, trousers and a denim jacket today. His eyes remained unchanged and his hands were in his jacket pockets.

Actively break away from the corpse and come to the surface. In this state, you can be attacked by a few more fierce ones, and then ask the excavator to come over, and there will be no problem.

call! ! !
The cold wind blew, black air swirled around the stone tablet, and white mist rose from the ground.

A layer of white mist floated in the soil of the surrounding woodlands, as if a curtain had been lifted.

Chu Tianshu's expression changed slightly and he looked up.

This stone tablet was only about ten meters away from the factory building.

Now he couldn't even see the factory building, only a layer of white fog as thick as silk.

He knew without looking back that the view of the woods and cars behind him had also been blocked out.

The sky was also thick white, as if a large amount of white cloth was used to enclose this open space.

Only the scenery in the open space is still clear.

"This is... the overflow area?!"

The needle-like gleam in Chu Tianshu's eyes seemed to expand. He stared at the stone tablet in front of him, his body slightly bent, ready to strike.

"Wow! This kind of thing really happened!"

(End of this chapter)