fairy family

Chapter 4: Fire Chamber Refiner

The next morning, the sky was bright.

Yu Que traveled all night and arrived in Huangshan County.

After walking out of the wilderness, he saw the busy and bustling city and immediately felt at home. Even though he was hit by rickshaws many times while walking into the city, he was still in a good mood.

This is really worth rejoicing!

This time when he went out to hunt for ghosts, he not only obtained the materials of the household god without any danger, but also unexpectedly got a magic gourd, which was really beyond Yu Que's expectations.

However, Yu Que still needs to spend some time experimenting to find out what the magic gourd actually does.

He didn't plan to ask someone to help him judge.

Walking slowly all the way, Yu Que arrived at the clanging Youguima bus station. After getting his license plate, he did not choose to go home to see his relatives first, but went straight to the "Huangshan Seventh County School", just like taking a tram in his previous life.

Although Huangshan County is called a county, it is built around the thousand-mile Huangshan Mountain. It is a huge mountain city, not an ordinary "county". There is no division into states and counties in this world, only "36 cities" and "72 cities".

And because there are ghosts and gods engaged in production, the population is several million, divided into one market after another, with a total of thirteen markets, each with a population of hundreds of thousands. It would be difficult for ordinary people to complete the journey on foot in a day and a night.

There were thirteen county schools. The remaining households were registered in the seventh district, so the county school they could enter was naturally the seventh county school.

It’s just a pity that he is not a county student at all.

Only those who passed the minor examination were qualified to enter the county school to practice, and he was not worthy.

Sitting in the ghost carriage, Yu Que swayed for most of the day, until noon, when he entered the Seventh Block and came to the gate of the Seventh County School.

Yu Que looked at the plaque of the county school with envy, tightened his linen clothes, and then lowered his head and walked in.

Every county school is a place where local immortals are accommodated and trained, and it is also a treasure land with the most complete facilities for local spiritual practice.

The reason I came here was to borrow the fire room in the county school.

The fire room is where the crematorium is located. Corpses are burned inside every day and incense is gathered to suppress ghosts and evil spirits at all times. It is the best place for immortals to refine ghosts and bind household gods.

There were other fire rooms in the city, but none of them were as safe and secure as the one in the county school. And the use of each fire room required not only money but also a letter of introduction.

The reason why Yu Que dared to come to the county school to apply for the use of the fire room was not because he was rich or trustworthy, but because he had excellent results in immortal studies before and had the opportunity to visit and study at the Seventh County School.

Zhu, the county school teacher who had been with them for half a month, promised that if anyone wanted to borrow the fire room to sacrifice the first household god, they could use his name and put it on his account. When they were promoted to the county school or got a job in the future, they could slowly repay him.

"The master is currently in the process of cultivation and is not in a position to see guests. The master has already said that if you wish to use the fire room, just let the doorman, Mr. Qing, know."

A pretty maid stood in front of a house and spoke to Yu Que in a delicate voice.

Yu Que came here to visit Zhu Jiaoyu so as to obtain the right to use a fire room. However, he did not see anyone, and the other party did not intend to check whether he was really qualified to bind the household god, and directly agreed.

This made Yu Que both disappointed and happy. He quickly bowed to the maid and said, "Sister, please thank the gentleman for me."

"No problem, no problem." The maid looked at Yu Que and said with a smile:
"But it would be better to wait until you have mastered the family god and entered the county school, so that I can thank you in person."

Yu Que said seriously: "Thank you for your good words, sister."

He bowed and retreated, and according to his memory of his previous visit to the county school, he came to the fire room of the county school.

Before he entered the fire room, a strong burnt smell reached his mouth and nose. However, unlike in his previous life, as a living person in this world, Yu Que did not feel nauseous or sick when he smelled this smell. Instead, he felt particularly at ease. This smell proved that it was very safe here.

The fire chamber was built on a hill. The entire hill was hollowed out, like a huge stove. On the stove were nine-foot-high giant candles, burning day and night, with smoke lingering.

Yu Que paid a visit to the doorman who was in charge of the fire room.

The man was a plain-looking old man with his upper body exposed. He said without opening his eyes, "You are Xiao Zhu's half-student, right? OK. Come in, Room C, Room 17."

"Thank you, elder." Yu Que quickly returned the greeting.

Because he was poor, he had nothing to thank for, so after saying a few nice words, he held on to the number plate tightly and walked towards the fire room excitedly.

The doorman, Mr. Qing, raised his eyelids, looked at his excited figure, and couldn't help waving his palm-leaf fan, sneering:

"Another green-haired boy who has no experience, obviously a rookie... But it's good to be young."

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The fire room was not big, only about ten feet in radius, and the burning smell inside was extremely strong. There was a fire pit in the center that led directly to the crematorium. It was rumored that the fire was real fire. Yu Que was in it, and his whole body was hot. Even though he was mentally prepared, he was not used to it for a while.

Fortunately, his expectation of restraining the household gods made him ignore these things. He took out one object after another in a methodical manner, including fragrant maple and cypress wood, deer jerky, chicken heads and duck brains, human hair and claws... and placed them around the fire pit in a meticulous and appropriate manner, roughly forming a yin and yang Bagua shape.

After setting up the formation, he did not start to bind the household gods immediately. Instead, he followed what he had learned, first burning incense and bathing, silently recalling some lessons, and only started to practice when all the distracting thoughts in his mind were almost gone.

He was wearing a white linen robe, holding a white porcelain jar, sitting upright, chanting silently:
"I am a student who is pursuing the study of immortality. I am looking forward to the Three Wonders and Six Instruments, the Nine Palaces and Eight Gates, and the Dunjia... The great general of the heavenly gods will promote the holy martial arts and offer sacrifices to the family gods. I would like to ask for your help."

After reciting it nine times, he prostrated himself towards the four directions of east, west, south, and north, his face becoming increasingly solemn and majestic.

Suddenly, Yu Que opened his eyes, stared at the white porcelain jar, and drank:
"When there is resentment in the world, it is mixed with incense and becomes ghosts and monsters below and gods and spirits above."

After chanting the four lines, he jumped up enthusiastically, stepped on the Gangbu Dou in the fire room, bit his fingertips, and used his own blood to write on the white porcelain jar:
"Refine the Yin ghosts in Yang Qi, transform the evil spirits in true fire, the soul palace, ears, eyes and spirit should be reborn from now on, so that the spirit can move and be transformed."

A wisp of cold wind was already swirling up as he chanted the spell and wrote, and the ghost in the porcelain jar was also clanging and moving.

When Yu Que saw this, he showed a slight joy in his eyes.

With his other hand, he reached into his sleeve, grabbed a handful of incense and paper money, and threw them into the fire pit.

With a puff, the paper money burned and turned into ashes, releasing the incense hidden inside. The ashes were overturned, and it was as if snowflakes were rolling in the fire room.

The slight fire in the fire pit was immediately ignited, and Yu Que hurriedly did not avoid the flames and quickly put the white porcelain jar in the center.

As soon as it entered the fire, cracks appeared on the porcelain jar, ghost cries were heard, and there was a loud sizzling sound of frying, roasting and grilling.

The purpose of refining ghosts in the fire room is to use special flames to cook and burn ghosts and cleanse the ghost's body. Only in this way can the evil ghost be transformed into a god and then be bound into the body of the immortal.

Yu Que looked at the situation in the fire pit, his face flushed.

Next, he only needs to activate the fire to clean the cat-faced ghost with a human body, and then use his own energy to restrain the beast. If this ritual is successful, he will obtain his first household god in this life.

He spent nine full years studying, planning, preparing and practicing this step and this link!

I know what to do even in my dreams.

Snap! The cracks on the white porcelain jar became even worse and could break at any time.

Roasting with raging fire, pouring water and sweeping, repeating the process over and over again.

Finally, Yu Que's eyes lit up, staring like copper bells, and he was extremely excited.

Without any further hesitation, he reached into the fire pit and took out the porcelain jar.

The moment he got the porcelain jar, the body of the jar just broke and exploded into pieces, and a piece of the fragment even scratched Yu Que's cheek.

But he didn't care. He immediately opened his mouth, raised his head, held the incense ash in his hand, and swallowed it into his mouth one handful at a time, chanting an incantation in his mouth:
"I am the son of the immortal child Yu, and you are a lonely ghost. Today I grant you great fortune and accept you as a general of my family!"

Cackling!

When the incense entered the stomach, it did not feel dusty as imagined, but instead felt cold and astringent, like lead bullets, difficult to swallow.

At the same time, a sound of ghosts howling and wolves howling came out of Yu Que's mouth, and the shrill cat meowing continued to grow louder!
Although the cat-faced ghost with a human body was burned in the fire pit and its ferocity has been greatly reduced, it is still destined to be a slave and is struggling hard.

Fortunately, it was born not long ago, and Yu Que had made sufficient preparations for refining it, so this beast did not cause any trouble.

Then there was a click.

Yu Que's stomach suddenly started to rumble strangely, like an old cat in heat.

This made him hold his abdomen tightly, but his face showed great joy.

I saw a wisp of gray gas rising on his face, rising above his head, and transforming into a creature with a cat face and a human body that kept on screaming.

At the same time, white hairs as long as steel needles began to grow on Yu Que's cheeks, neck, and arms, which were very similar to the old woman's. He suddenly felt cold all over.

But this was not a failure to bind him, on the contrary! He had succeeded in binding him, and the family god had already entered Yu Que's body.

The ninth-grade zombie god with a cat face and a human body was bound successfully!

(End of this chapter)