Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 6: Lonely Souls and Heavenly Soldiers

"At that time, the Heavenly Venerable Savior of Suffering filled the ten directions, and often used his mighty power to rescue all living beings and get them off the wrong path. Living beings were unaware, like a blind man seeing the sun and the moon. I was originally in the middle of nothingness, and I led the boundless. The auspicious clouds opened the door to life, and the auspicious smoke blocked the door to death. I first sent out the mysterious origin to control the auspiciousness and sense the opportunity. I saved all sins and overcame all disasters. I was far away from the source of immortals, and I was naturally clear. All of them received the power of the great way to subdue the demons..."

Inside a temple on a hillside in Ishihara County, a young Taoist priest was reciting the Wonderful Sutra on the Salvation of Suffering by the Most High Mysterious and Spiritual Treasure Heavenly Venerable.

In front of him, there were several rows of densely packed black pottery jars. At this moment, as the scriptures were recited, a natural flow of energy occurred between the two sides.

A deep red aura seemed to spread from the young Taoist's body, covering these black pottery jars.

The trapped residual soul in the pottery jar greedily devoured the young Taoist's magical energy, which made it grow stronger and stronger. It even expanded so much that it wanted to break the seal and be free.

But then they were suppressed again by the magic power from the Taoist in front of them, which was more powerful than theirs.

As for other ghosts, accepting the magic power of the Taoist in front of them and listening to the ancient scriptures, their expressions gradually changed from ferocious to calm, even if it was for a very short time, and they seemed to have developed some spirituality.

Of course, Lu Cheng would not supply magic power indefinitely. After reciting the scripture three times in a row, he stopped the magic power.

Then he got up and went to another room, took out a basin of clean soybeans, and began to draw talismans on the long table.

After completing a talisman, place a yellow bean between the talisman papers, and then use magic power to burn it. After the talisman paper is burned, a liquid similar to gold paint will flow out and wrap around the yellow bean, forming a golden bean.

Lu Cheng lit the golden bean and put it into a black pottery jar. The ghosts in the jar swarmed over as if attracted by something huge, consuming the energy in the jar, causing the golden bean to gradually become dull and gray.

However, during this process, the ghosts in the pottery jar will bite and devour each other, and it won’t be long before only one or two ghosts with several times stronger aura will be left.

Under normal circumstances, the defeated ghosts in the pottery jar would be eaten to pieces. However, under the effect of "The Wonderful Sutra of the Great Master of the Mysterious and Spiritual Treasures for Saving Suffering", when those strong ghosts want to devour the weakest ghosts, extremely faint but clear scriptures will emerge from the weak ghosts, making the strong ghosts feel as if their mouths are burned, and they will throw the weak ghosts away.

This happened once, twice, ten times, and a hundred times. Even the ghosts gradually developed inertia and no longer completely devoured the weak ghosts and destroyed their souls.

Let them wander around in the pottery jar and coexist with you.

This is the virtue of God and a hint of hope.

Originally, these residual souls and evil spirits entrenched in Mang Mountain were unable to enter reincarnation because of the resentment in their hearts. Except for a very small number of them who had the possibility of entering the ghost path, the vast majority of them were either swallowed up or their souls were scattered with the passage of time.

Now they are restrained by Lu Cheng's Taoist magic, and they listen to Taoist scriptures reciting every day to dispel their resentment. One day they will be able to resolve the resentment in their hearts and enter reincarnation again. That will be Lu Cheng's merit.

Of course, this is not Lu Cheng’s purpose.

After all, this world is real. No matter how great a person's merits are, if he is killed by a knife, he is still dead. His merits cannot be materialized to help him block the knife.

"Although using Taoist scriptures to dispel resentment is the right way, it is too time-consuming. Up to now, no soldiers have condensed into human form for me to command."

He put the golden beans into the pottery jar one by one and then sealed it again with a talisman. Although Lu Cheng couldn't see inside, he could sense that the golden beans in the pottery jar were becoming darker.

Today was another day without any gains, but fortunately, practicing magic and accumulating merits had a positive effect on the state of my inner strength. "There are too many pottery jars, and the yin energy in this temple is gradually becoming fierce. But they cannot be exposed to direct sunlight, nor can they be fed with human blood."

Practicing magic, especially those spells that are useful to Lu Cheng, is not something that can be done overnight.

Based on his previous life's experience, Lu Cheng was confident that he could master the basic spells such as fire balls, flame tongues, ice air and ice cones within a few days, and use them skillfully, but they were of little practical significance to him.

The effects of these low- and mid-level spells are not as effective as just striking with a sword. It would be a waste to spend one more day on these spells, especially in the current situation.

He took out the gold, silver and jewelry from the Qiankun bag and buried them in the corner of the temple to make room. Then Lu Cheng put the black pottery jars into the Qiankun bag and left the Temple of Wang Lingguan.

For cultivators, worldly wealth is easily obtained, but if these pottery jars are smashed, the evil spirits and ghosts inside will be released, and all the evil deeds they have committed will be blamed on Lu Cheng.

After all, over this period of time, he has used his own magic power to nourish them, and cultivated them with secret methods, which has made these ghosts countless times stronger.

When he arrived in Ishihara County, Lu Cheng went to the familiar family to buy a chicken and draw blood.

But today, people gathered in Ishihara County, and many of them were gathering in one direction.

"What happened over there?"

"Lu Daoguan, don't you know? It's a caravan coming here. White rice, white flour, and all kinds of new things from outside are all in the caravan. Lu Daoguan, you can go buy some daily necessities."

He Lan, a woman who was already familiar with Lu Cheng, said this with a smile.

Since the arrival of this official Lu, her family's life has become many times better. Last night, her husband said that he wanted to hide her mother's age for two years so that he could support her for two more years, and she agreed with a smile.

Then he started crying again, thinking of his relatives who died on Mang Mountain.

"Hello, Officer Lu."

Behind He Lan, a little girl popped her head out and greeted Lu Cheng with a sweet smile.

The child was ignorant, but she also knew that since the appearance of this young big brother in front of her, her family could eat chicken from time to time, and her brother was more energetic than others when he went out to fight, so she also liked this big brother in front of her.

"Well, you too."

Lu Cheng looked at the little girl in front of him, then looked in the direction of the caravan going to the market, looking thoughtful, as if he had thought of something.

"The yin energy in the temple is too intense. We cannot use direct sunlight to bask in it, nor can we use blood to feed it. But I can use human energy to balance it out! Once the yin and yang are in harmony, the magic will be accomplished."

(End of this chapter)