Put away your magical powers now!.

Chapter 284 [Inviting a god is easy, but sending him away is difficult!]

Chapter 278 [Inviting a god is easy, but sending him away is difficult!]

Chen Yan looked at the emaciated, dejected man in front of him and sighed inwardly.

They've all turned into vengeful ghosts, so what reason is there left to reason with them?
Do you really expect something like a "vengeful ghost" to tell you about the principle of "every wrong has its perpetrator and every debt its debtor"?

If a vengeful ghost doesn't harm people indiscriminately, then is it still a vengeful ghost?

What's more...

You dug up her grave, stole her ashes, and disturbed her peace.

Is this no longer an enemy?

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Li Guohua was already terrified and was further intimidated by Chen Yan's series of bizarre methods.

He immediately spilled the beans, revealing everything.

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The red dress, just as he confessed, was something he secretly broke into Li Xin's maternal grandmother's house when no one was home, and found among Li Xin's old clothes.

Then, in the middle of the night, he went up the mountain, dug up Li Xin's grave, stole a handful of ashes, and used a secret spell to smear the ashes on his red dress.

This resulted in the creation of a magical artifact capable of gathering the resentment and obsession of the deceased in life, transforming them into a vengeful ghost!
As for how he buried the red dress under his enemy's bed...

This is actually the simplest part.

The house next door was under construction at the time.

The workers repaired the house during the day and stopped working at night. Even the Li family father and son stayed outside.

If you want to secretly bury something underground, you have plenty of time and opportunities.

Once the time is right, after the house has been built up to the master bedroom and the floor is mostly finished, they can sneak over in the middle of the night when no one is around, dig up the still wet cement, and then bury the red dress.

Then, the cement was reapplied...

Unknowingly.

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Li Guohua did these things because the long-standing hatred between him and this family finally gave rise to murderous intent in his heart.

Adding to his rage was the fact that his leg had been broken earlier, which made him wish he could kill the whole family.

Then I remembered the few quack "talisman" techniques I had learned.

This method of using talismans came from a strange encounter Li Guohua had when he was a long-distance freight driver in his early years.

In the first two years of his driving career, he met an old man in a cheap hotel room.

Li Guohua was also unlucky at the time; his truck broke down, and he had to find a nearby repair shop to fix it.

The place was very remote, with no villages or shops in sight. There were no good places to stay nearby, only the cheapest hotel near the repair shop where truck drivers or deliverymen would temporarily stay.

Li Guohua had no choice but to stay at this shop to rest and wait for his car to be repaired. He stayed there for two days.

Those hotels were hardly better than dormitory-style dormitories; the conditions were very poor, and several beds were often crammed into one room to create a multi-person room.

To save money, travelers and truck drivers are very frugal and hardworking when they are out and about. They often share a room with others and only have one bed.

As luck would have it, Li Guohua stayed in a double room, paying for a bed, and the only other passenger in the room was a sickly old man.

When Li Guohua checked in, the old man was already ill with a persistent high fever.

The shopkeepers and other customers were all too busy to avoid the area. This left the old man's double room empty, with no one checking in anymore.

Actually, when Li Guohua first checked in, he also stayed in another room, but he stayed in a four-person room to save money.

He was a free spirit, and after checking into the four-person room, he quickly struck up a conversation with the three other travelers. Since they were all traveling, when they had nothing to do in the evenings, they would ask the owner for two decks of cards, and the four of them would play in the room.

When you play cards, you're bound to win a little something.

Li Guohua is a gambler who loves to gamble. He's also short-tempered; after losing a few dollars, he gets angry and starts cursing.

This angered the other three guests who were playing cards in the same room, and the two sides started arguing.

The three people were a group of people traveling together. Li Guohua couldn't win the argument alone, and he was also angry because he had lost money. So, in a fit of pique, he didn't want to stay with these people anymore, and asked the shop owner to change his room.

The owner was impatient with our request to change rooms in the middle of the night, and there were no other beds available.

So he told Li Guohua that there was a double room with one empty bed, but the roommate was an old man who was sick these days, so he could stay or not if he wanted.

Upon hearing this, Li Guohua realized that exchanging a four-person room for a double room meant he was definitely getting a good deal.

As for the fact that there was an old man in the room, that's not a big deal.

So Li Guohua checked into that double room in the middle of the night.

When he went in, the old man was already asleep. Li Guohua didn't get a chance to talk to him and went to bed by himself.

Before dawn, I was awakened by the old man's coughing, only to find him slumped over the edge of the bed, nearly passing out.

I don't know what got into Li Guohua at the time, but he actually had a rare moment of kindness and poured the old man a bowl of hot water. He always carried a few medicines with him when he traveled around the country, for treating colds and fevers, anti-inflammatory drugs, and diarrhea.

Li Guohua was reckless; he simply fed the old man two fever-reducing pills.

The old man was delirious with fever, but fortunately, after Li Guohua gave him two antipyretics and he slept for two hours, he actually regained some of his senses.

So the old man grabbed Li Guohua and begged him to do something for him.

The old man said he felt very unwell and didn't know if he could make it through this.

He has only one wish right now: to drink a bowl of mung bean soup. He asked Li Guohua to get him a bowl.

Li Guohua was a wild child and not a kind person, but for some reason, he had a rare moment of compassion that time.

Moreover, he was truly audacious, actually daring to do it.

That was many years ago, and the social atmosphere was different from today. In those days, society was still a bit more simple and honest.

If it were now, and you encountered a sick old stranger, would you dare to give him medicine or other food?
Aren't you afraid of being extorted to death?
At the time, Li Guohua's thinking was quite simple: he had already given hot water and fever reducers, so giving him an extra bowl of mung bean soup wouldn't be a big deal.

If it's rare to be a good person, then be a good person to the end.

in fact……

The real reason in his heart was that Li Guohua thought the old man's face looked somewhat similar to his deceased father.

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So Li Guohua borrowed a stove from the hotel owner, bought mung beans, and cooked a small pot of mung bean soup himself.

Actually, they were all slightly burnt.

But the old man didn't mind the bowl of mung bean soup; instead, he thanked Li Guohua profusely.

Unexpectedly, after the old man drank a bowl of mung bean soup, he gradually regained his energy after getting up to have diarrhea and vomiting several times within half a day! That night, he was even able to sit up in bed!
The next night, Li Guohua was woken up in the middle of the night by the urge to urinate, and saw the old man in the room secretly doing something.

The old man is burning talisman paper!

He lit the fire with trembling hands, burned a talisman, poured the ashes into a bowl of water to dissolve and stir, and then gulped it down in a few mouthfuls.

The old man was doing these things secretly, but Li Guohua, who woke up in bed, saw it all!

What surprised Li Guohua even more was that the next day, the old man seemed to have fully recovered! He was even able to get out of bed and walk normally!

Li Guohua was convinced that this old man probably possessed some strange abilities!
Li Guohua is a long-haul truck driver. This industry takes him all over the country, and he has seen and heard many strange and unusual things.

Now that he had discovered the old man's secret, he couldn't help but have some thoughts.

I had a feeling that the old man was hiding some kind of treasure in the bag where he kept the talismans.

So, on the day his car was repaired, he seized an opportunity and, while the old man was away, stole the old man's backpack from the room.

Then, they drove off!

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That's why people with such wild personalities are often not good people.

Such people don't have a fixed standard for doing good or bad; they act purely based on their momentary mood.

However, Li Guohua himself did not feel any remorse for stealing other people's things.

He felt that he had saved the old man's life, and taking a little something from him would be enough to repay the debt of saving his life.

He seemed perfectly at ease with himself.

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There was nothing of value in the stolen backpack.

There were only a few talisman papers, but no talismans were drawn on them.

A small box of cinnabar and a calligraphy brush that was almost completely worn out.

as well as……

A handwritten page from a book!

It was a tattered page, as if it had been torn from some book.

Only two "talismans" were recorded above.

The first one is the "Wraith Curse"!! It involves mixing red clothes with ashes to gather resentment, allowing the resentment of the deceased to accumulate and transform into a vengeful ghost... These methods were learned by Li Guohua from this "Wraith Curse".

Li Guohua had never used this method before because it came at a high cost.

He was an ordinary person without any vital energy, so it was impossible for him to cast spells—even if he had a spell manual, he wouldn't be able to.

But this curse of vengeful spirits is quite malevolent; even without vital energy, it can be cast at other costs.

The caster's own blood!

It involves using blood to cast a spell, and it will consume some of the caster's luck and lifespan.

Li Guohua had never used this spell for many years, not even when he had conflicts with others—after all, the price was the loss of his own lifespan.

He wouldn't have been so enraged if he hadn't fallen into a deep feud with the father and his two sons next door, and hadn't even had his leg broken. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been willing to sacrifice his own lifespan for revenge.

The second talisman recorded on the fragment is a method to counteract the previous [Wraith Curse].

It's called the "Rebirth Mantra".

The previous step was to create vengeful ghosts.

The next step is to dispel the evil spirits.

Upon hearing this, Chen Yan immediately understood the underlying meaning.

This is like creating a vengeful ghost, using it, and then destroying it!
The Rebirth Mantra is used to dissolve the malevolent energy and vital energy of vengeful ghosts, allowing them to be reborn in a better realm. Once their resentment dissipates, the vengeful ghosts disappear.

The issue is……

As expected, an unexpected event occurred.

Li Guohua used a curse to create a vengeful ghost named Li Xin, which then killed the father and his two sons next door.

When he tried to use the "Rebirth Mantra" to exorcise and dispel Li Xin's vengeful spirit...

It's not working anymore!!

In recent days, he has burned countless talismans for the "Rebirth Mantra".

But Li Xin's vengeful spirit never dissipated, and it continued to torment Li Guohua every night, causing him endless nightmares.

He was even controlled by nightmares in his dreams, and he hurt himself with a knife several times.

Fortunately, Li Xin's murderous aura had dissipated somewhat after killing the father and his two sons, and it was no longer so intense.

Therefore, Li Guohua attempted suicide several times in his dreams, but the sharp weapon pierced his skin, causing him pain that woke him up and saved his life.

Even so, the daily torment made Li Guohua suffer unspeakably, and he lived in constant fear.

At this point, Li Guohua ripped open his shirt, revealing his thin, bony chest.

His chest was covered with countless wounds, some new and some old. The old ones had already scabbed over, while the new ones still showed traces of ointment applied to the bright red flesh.

“I can’t sleep well every night. Whenever we rehearse together, I dream that the female ghost comes to take my life! I beg her, I curse her, I can’t drive her away, I can’t scare her away, I can’t beg her away…” Li Guohua trembled and cried, his face full of grief: “She, she just wants my life!”

Chen Yan frowned and leaned closer to examine the wounds on Li Guohua's body. They were clearly left from self-inflicted injuries with a sharp weapon.

In other words, the female ghost's resentment was no longer strong enough, and the bewitching power in the nightmare had faded. Otherwise, Li Guohua really wouldn't have survived to this day.

This Li Guohua was incredibly audacious and ignorant of his own limitations. As a mere mortal, he dared to manipulate matters of gods and spirits.

Have you not heard the saying, "It's easy to invite a god, but difficult to send him away"?
Li Guohua's face turned ashen. Suddenly, he knelt down with a thud and kowtowed to Chen Yan, pleading, "You must be someone with great abilities, an extraordinary person! Please, save me! Save me!"

"Scared?" Chen Yan sneered.

"I'm scared! I'm really scared! I can't die, and I don't want to die! I have a little girl who has already lost her mother. If she loses her father too, I don't know how she will survive!"

Li Guohua pleaded and kowtowed repeatedly.
Chen Yan sighed and said coldly, "Show me the page you stole."

Li Guohua quickly patted his body.

He was also cunning; having obtained the page recording the incantation, he knew it was a treasure, so he actually sewed a pocket inside his undershirt and kept the page close to his body every day.

As he pulled out his hands and handed them to Chen Yan, it was a yellowed page. Chen Yan took it and could still feel that the page had been kept close to his body and had a faint smell of sweat. He couldn't help but frown.

However, Chen Yan suppressed his unease and examined the two fingers carefully.

The front side read "The Curse of Vengeful Ghosts," and after looking at it, he subconsciously nodded.

It is indeed a genuine spell.

It had a rune pattern drawn on it, and it also taught people how to make talisman paper:
Paper pulp made from straw, bamboo, and willow bark, then dyed with turmeric juice...

The method of making this is very old and crude, and it is obviously far inferior to the real good talisman paper.

Just like the difference between Adidas and Adidas King.

Although it was crude and low-grade, it was still a genuine talisman paper.

This "Vengeful Ghost Curse" is a set of talismanic spells formed by making talisman paper, drawing talismans, and adding a spell.

The talisman is burned to ashes, then infused with incantations and smeared on the deceased's belongings—ideally items that the deceased wore or carried frequently during their lifetime, as these items are more likely to be imbued with the deceased's aura.

This allows the deceased's lingering resentment or obsession from their lifetime to coalesce, thus becoming a "vengeful ghost."

They are not actually ghosts, but rather remnants of the resentment and obsessions left behind by the deceased in life, which have been gathered together.

Moreover, the most insidious thing is that most spells require the caster to be a cultivator, to have entered the realm of cultivation, and to be able to mobilize the primordial energy of heaven and earth.

However, this talisman can actually be cast without using vital energy. Instead, it takes a different approach, using the life essence of a living person to draw upon the caster's own lifespan to cast the spell!
It seems that the world is full of sparse spiritual energy, making cultivation difficult. In the process of passing down the lineage, it is inevitable that some successors will not be good at cultivation and will not be able to enter the path of cultivation, thus losing the lineage.

They then resorted to a different approach, devising this harmful method to forcibly cast the spell.

This thing is really harmful!!
Just by looking at this one talisman, Chen Yan felt that the cultivators who left behind this page of the book were probably not good people!
Such evil and harmful magic is definitely a form of heretical cultivation.

However, when I saw the "Rebirth Mantra" drawn on the back of the book...

The Rebirth Mantra is used to dispel malevolent energy, resolve obsessions and resentment, and allow the resulting vengeful spirits and resentment to dissipate and disappear on their own.

However, after taking a closer look, Chen Yan's expression turned strange.

He subconsciously looked up at Li Guohua kneeling on the ground, and a strange smile twitched at the corner of his mouth.

No wonder... this Rebirth Mantra isn't working!

No wonder Li Guohua is so difficult to send away even when he invites a god!
He said he burned many talismans with the "Rebirth Mantra" afterward, but they had no effect, and he was tormented by Li Xin's vengeful ghost every night.

—The symbol recorded on the page is drawn incorrectly!

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These pages look very old; they're not even printed, but handwritten.

The cultivation traditions in this world are often incomplete and flawed. It's not uncommon for errors to have been passed down from ancient times to the present – ​​otherwise, so many traditions wouldn't have been lost.

Looking at Li Guohua, who was tortured to the point of being neither human nor ghost, Chen Yan couldn't help but find it amusing.

This guy's bad luck lies in the fact that he wrote the wrong thing in the cultivation manual!

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After thinking for a moment, Chen Yan casually tossed the page into his storage jade pendant.

As Li Guohua watched the young man flick his wrist and a page of a book disappear right before his eyes, he grew increasingly apprehensive. He felt that the young man before him was unfathomable and his heart was filled with trepidation.

Chen Yan glanced at the time and sneered, "The time hasn't passed yet, there's still some time. Let's deal with Shi Qing tonight."

After saying that, he suddenly reached out and lightly waved his hand across Li Guohua's face, tapping his forehead with his finger. Li Guohua gulped down, his eyelids rolled back, and he fell straight to the ground, unconscious.

Chen Yan picked up Li Guohua and placed him in the corner of the room. Then he took out a candle and scraped off a small piece of wax from his fingertip.

Then the old Taoist's voice came from the flickering candlelight: "Fellow Daoist, is there anything you need me to do?"

Chen Yan's heart skipped a beat—catching ghosts and exorcising demons, isn't that a Taoist's specialty? Having such a guy by his side would be a waste not to use him.

Then he laughed and said, "What can you do if you encounter a vengeful ghost or remnant spirit formed from resentment and obsession?"

The old Taoist priest sighed and slowly said, "If I were still alive, I would be very willing to serve you, fellow Daoist. However, now I am just a remnant soul without a physical body, so I cannot do anything even if I wanted to."

Whenever encountering a vengeful ghost, the methods are nothing more than killing or suppressing it…

After a pause, the old Taoist priest added, "With your cultivation and Taoist practice, it is not difficult to kill or suppress mere vengeful ghosts and remnants of spirits. However, resentment and obsession are left behind from their previous lives. Most vengeful ghosts were accompanied by resentment or cries of injustice in their previous lives."

While execution is not difficult, it is inevitably simplistic and brutal, and goes against the natural order.

If one can resolve their obsessions and dispel resentment, they can actually accumulate more merit.

Upon hearing the word "merit," Chen Yan's eyes immediately lit up.

Then the old Taoist priest said something else, and Chen Yan sighed after hearing it: "Indeed, professional matters should be handled by professionals. Old Taoist priest, your suggestion is very good, I thank you in advance!"

After putting away the candle, Chen Yan gently applied the wax from his fingernail to the red dress. With a rub of his fingers, a small flame slowly rose from the wax-coated area.

A woman's figure appeared and disappeared amidst the flames!
Chen Yan lowered his brows and said in a deep voice, "Come out!"

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(End of this chapter)