Terrifying Heavens: I'll directly worship the Black Law of Fengdu!

Chapter 4 Keeping Promises
The female ghost was already in despair, never expecting such a turn of events. She was stunned for a long time, but the sizzling pain in her back, which continued to penetrate deeper into her body, pulled her back to reality...

It was the book under the incense table that gave the young man divine power through its incantations!

Unfortunately, this young man was neither a Taoist priest nor a monk, and had never practiced cultivation. He had no ability to control such a spell, so he overexerted himself and fainted.

He's dead now!

The female ghost servant struggled to her feet and slowly reached out her hands toward Li Xuan's head.

A fierce wind swept through the temple again, chilling to the bone, as if blowing from the depths of the netherworld. The smoke from the incense burner gathered in the wind and did not disperse. Suddenly, it condensed into a whip and lashed at the female ghost servant with lightning speed, its power so great that it cut her in two!
The female ghost servant collapsed to the ground, her eyes filled with astonishment, fear, despair, and confusion.

It watched helplessly as the eerie wind destroyed its two halves, gradually turning them into dust. As the smoke drifted back, it completely merged into it, disappearing into the burning incense stick...

Li Xuan lay on the ground, and in his daze, he seemed to hear the sound of bells ringing in his ears.

The temple doors creaked and groaned as they slowly closed.

In the darkness, the dim flames of the three incense sticks shone brighter and brighter towards the statues of the Northern Yin Emperor and the civil and military deities on either side, their eyes seemingly fixed on the young man lying on the ground.

Look carefully.

Look at his past.

Let's see what his future holds.

……

The next day, Li Xuan woke up from his coma and sat up abruptly. The female ghost servant was still alive!
Looking around, the female ghost servant was nowhere to be seen. There was a blurry human-shaped powder mark on the ground. Could it be that the female ghost who was the mastermind behind this had been killed by him with a scythe?
The Heavenly Canopy Mantra is too powerful!
Li Xuan was also somewhat frightened. The divine incantation was too taxing on the body. If the attack missed, he would be finished...

Light streamed in through the windowpanes. The temple gate was ajar, and the interior was completely different from the gloomy atmosphere of the previous night. Although it was dark, everything was clear.

It felt like the dark, harsh winter had passed, the ice and snow had melted, and the first dawn of spring had arrived.

The three deities on the altar still looked the same, but in Li Xuan's eyes, they had changed drastically since yesterday. Although they were still the same, they now looked gentle and approachable, like elders in his family looking at him.

Li Xuan opened the temple gate.

I noticed that the wound on my right wrist had scabbed over.

He was unsteady on his feet, his body was severely depleted, and he felt like he had been starving for three days.

After buying breakfast to fill my stomach, I went to the renovation company to hire workers to renovate the old and dilapidated parts of Beiyin Temple, such as the doors, windows and wall paint.

Li Xuan then hired people from a housekeeping company to help with the cleaning.

An elderly cleaning lady seemed to know something about the temple. While cleaning, she casually asked, "Young man, Beiyin Temple hasn't opened for more than ten years since the temple keeper passed away, and no one has taken over. I didn't expect a young man to come this time."

Li Xuan didn't know what to say.

He cannot simply say that he is.

To be registered in a local temple, even if it's empty, requires going through a lot of procedures, including approval from the association and authorization from local officials in Minxiong...

I thought about it.

He said, “The Beiyin Temple is very efficacious. I have been blessed by it, so I wanted to do my part to renovate it as a small token of my gratitude.”

The aunt nodded and said, "Yes, but the Northern Yin Emperor of the Northern Yin Temple governs good and evil, punishing the wicked and eliminating evil, unlike the gods of other temples and Taoist monasteries who control wealth and offspring. Therefore, there are very few worshippers. Most of them are people who have suffered injustice and come here to complain to the Northern Yin Emperor, hoping to seek justice..."

She was very emotional, and when her emotions got the better of her, she sighed, "People love money and are afraid of not having descendants. The line between good and evil is gradually becoming blurred, and slowly, no one cares anymore. In this society, kind people have to suffer more injustices. Is seeking justice so easy?" She realized she had said too much.

The aunt became silent, and seemed to have experienced some things herself.

The temple became clean and tidy.

Exhausted and covered in sweat, Li Xuan moved a chair to sit by the door to rest, holding the book "Tianpeng Mantra" in his hands and carefully flipping through it.

This book is not thick; the incantation content only takes up one page, and the rest are supplementary pages, which contain more information about the worship of the Northern Yin Emperor and some related deities, as well as the daily tasks of those who serve him.

Li Xuan flipped through the pages of the book, learning a great deal from it. He learned that incantations were mainly for emergencies, and the correct procedure for exorcising evil spirits and capturing ghosts involved burning incense and praying beforehand, setting up an altar, and reporting the evil spirits' deeds to the department under the jurisdiction of the Northern Yin Emperor, which had to be reported up the chain of command...

He understood that people become ghosts after they die.

The fear is that some people, relying on their ability to exorcise evil spirits and catch ghosts, will kill any ghosts they see on the street, or even set up schemes to use ghosts to harm people and profit from them...

Correct!
There are three people in this drama who are the most hateful!

The first is the matriarch of the He family, who favored sons over daughters; she is now in her sixties or seventies.

She had three children, but she couldn't treat them all equally. She favored her sons over her daughters and especially disliked her youngest daughter, who had a withdrawn personality...

Later, the son fell into the river and drowned.

In reality, it was the son, He Yiming, who drowned while helping his eldest daughter, He Shengxin, retrieve her shoes. However, He Shengxin, fearing the consequences, stole her younger sister He Dexin's shoes and wore them herself, falsely claiming that her brother had died while helping his sister retrieve her shoes.

He Dexin, who was barefoot, was considered the culprit, and no amount of explanation could change that.

She faced increasing condemnation from her mother, and influenced by the female ghost servant, she became increasingly neurotic. Her mother sent her to the sorcerer Wu Tiancai for treatment, which resulted in her being defiled by him and his disciples in turns. After returning home, she couldn't bear it and jumped into a well to her death...

The final straw that broke He Dexin's back was that after her death, Grandma He actually believed the words of the Taoist priest and thought that she was the jinx that caused the He family's tragic fate!
He actually dismembered her with an axe and then suppressed her...

As Li Xuanguang recalled the contents, his fist clenched unconsciously!

The remaining two are the sorcerer Wu Tiancai and his apprentice. They are somewhat skilled, but their hearts are not pure. In the movie, Wu Tiancai is eventually killed by Granny He, but his apprentice is not given a specific explanation.

just now……

By a twist of fate, he killed the eldest female ghost servant, making the rest much easier.

He was going to resolve He Dexin's resentment.

Deal with these three scumbags.

Li Xuan slammed the book shut, a cold glint in his eyes. He was a man of his word; having joined the Beiyin Temple, he was bound by his promise to punish the wicked and uphold justice…

The cemetery near the Ho family mansion.

It's called a cemetery, but there's actually no park. The entire mountain has been designated as a burial area, and any approved spot can be used to bury a body...

Li Xuan walked for a long time, his legs were numb and he was drenched in sweat.

He finally spotted a small, old shrine, about half a meter tall, by the roadside. It was sealed with crisscrossing talismans and placed there so openly...

(End of this chapter)