Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 336 Stupidity
A misty fog drifted outside the Wuzhai Pass.

After rushing out of Wuzhai Pass, Ran Qing immediately shook her right little finger, triggering the red thread tied to it.

A faint red string extends from his little finger all the way to the outside of Wuzhai Pass.

As Ran Qing pulled the red rope, Mo Li and Long Zongshu, who were far away in the mortal world, immediately sensed it.

Beside the coffin with the red lid, Long Zongshu quickly lit the guiding talisman left by Ran Qing.

As the guiding talisman burned, Ran Qing, who had just rushed out of Wuzhai Pass and entered the forest in the mountains, was instantly enveloped by a strange thick fog.

The thick fog obscured everything; Ran Qing was instantly surrounded by mist, with no trees or soil in sight.

Even the mountain road that was originally downhill suddenly became flat.

Ran Qing ran frantically through the thick fog.

He had entered the boundary between Yin and Yang, where the mist was pale and empty, with nothing at all.

Running wildly through the thick fog, Ran Qing could clearly feel the aura of the Wujiang Ghost Realm rapidly receding behind him.

At the end of the red rope ahead, the aura of the mortal realm is approaching.

Even so, Ran Qing dared not relax or be careless, and even ran even more frantically.

Because of the eerie winds behind him, and the blood-red ghostly figure relentlessly pursuing him, it actually chased him to this place where yin and yang meet.

Ran Jianfei's soul lay dazedly on Ran Qing's back, thankfully without any weight.

Finally, Ran Qing, who was running wildly, successfully broke through the thick fog.

The red coffin lid on the dark open space came into view, along with Mo Li and Long Zongshu, who were guarding the temporary altar.

Upon seeing her two companions, Ran Qing didn't have time to exchange words.

He immediately rushed into the altar, quickly extended his fingers, and swiftly extinguished the three candles arranged in a triangle at the same time.

As the candle was extinguished, the incense smoke burning in the altar suddenly stopped.

The next second, the pungent smoke quickly dissipated and disappeared without a trace.

The eerie, sinister wind that Ran Qing rushed out of abruptly stopped.

A blood-red, ghostly figure stood silently in the smoke and glanced at Ran Qing.

But as the smoke dissipated and ceased to clump, the path between the realms of Yin and Yang was completely severed. The ghostly figures on that path also vanished from the three's sight.

Even a fleeting glance allowed Mo Li and Long Zongshu to clearly see the female ghost's face.

That is indeed...

"Aunt Ou?"

"Ran Qing, is it really Auntie..."

Both Mo Li and Long Zongshu were somewhat worried.

They knew very well how deep Ran Qing's feelings for her mother were.

For Ran Qing, witnessing her mother turn into a ghost was undoubtedly the cruelest punishment in the world.

But Ran Qing, who had escaped back carrying Ran Jianfei's soul, calmly shook her head and said, "She is indeed my mother, at least in appearance."

He wasn't overly sentimental, after all, he had already experienced sadness before.

At this moment, Ran Qing quickly carried Ran Jianfei's soul towards the coffin.

"While the ghost is trapped on the Yin-Yang Path, let's quickly revive Ran Jianfei."

The burial site of a vengeful ghost is a place where the yin and yang realms are interconnected.

If the ghost doesn't chase after her and remains inside the earthen fortress, then not long after Ran Qing returns to this open space, the ghost will be able to quickly chase after her through the fortress.

But now the ghost has chased him to Wuzhai Pass, far away from his own ancestral home.

If it wants to find Ran Qing again, it must return the way it came, first going back to the Yin House Earth Fortress deep in the Wujiang Ghost Realm, and then returning to the human world from the earth fortress.

This process was enough for Ran Qing to revive the person.

Inside the eerie coffin, Ran Jianfei's body lay quietly, lifeless, just like a real corpse.

Ran Qing carried the soul directly into the coffin, rummaging through the canvas bag as she went. She dipped a brush in the goat's blood from a mineral water bottle and used it to write words on Ran Jianfei's forehead.

Then he lifted Ran Jianfei's shirt and wrote the "Resurrection Spell" on his chest.

Finally, he took off both shoes and wrote the "Resurrection Spell" on the soles of his feet.

The six crooked characters are the resurrection spell mentioned in "The Art of Witchcraft and Spirits".

After finishing all this, Ran Qing looked up and said, "Be careful of Chuan Zeng Danji. When I bring Ran Jianfei back to life, Chuan Zeng Danji might return..."

The ghosts in the ghost city are currently trapped on the path between Yin and Yang and cannot descend.

The only remaining danger in this ghost town is the mysterious and eerie old man, Kawamata Tankichi.

This sacred place with its red coffin lid was created by Kawamata Tankichi.

He couldn't possibly stand by and watch Ran Qing destroy this nurturing ground.

However, the old man was wary of the ancestral tablets of the spirit medium and never dared to directly provoke Ran Qing.

But now that Ran Qing needs to revive Ran Jianfei, she needs to set up an altar and perform a spell, which is an excellent opportunity.

Ran Qing climbed out of the coffin and opened a new ancestral altar next to it.

Candles, incense sticks, and the ash from spirit mediums' rites together form an extremely simple altar for the dead.

Ran Qing, sitting in the Yin Altar, took out a small drum and gently struck it.

dong dong dong-

The dull drumbeats echoed in the darkness.

The Resurrection Spell doesn't require chanting, because the incantation is already written on Ran Jianfei's body.

Ran Qing sat indifferently in the Yin Altar, rhythmically and slowly striking a small drum. As the drumbeats echoed, a certain kind of echo came from the coffin.

The sound was none other than the beating of Ran Jianfei's heart.

The sounds of heartbeats and drums gradually overlapped.

Finally, the drumbeats almost blended into the sound of a heartbeat.

The soul lying on Ran Jianfei's body visibly fell downwards and slowly merged into Ran Jianfei's body.

A cold wind swept across the open space.

Long Zongshu and Mo Li stood warily outside the Yin Altar, watching the surrounding darkness.

Three burning flames danced on Zongshu's shoulder.

However, Kawazaki Danji, whom Ran Qing was on guard against, never appeared.

The strange mountain monsters and evil spirits did not attack Ran Qing while he was performing his ritual.

The eerie drumming stopped in the darkness, and Ran Qing tidied up the simple shrine and got up. The attack that the three of them were on guard against did not occur.

Everything went so smoothly that Ran Qing even felt a sense of unreality, as if she were in a dream.

That strange and mysterious old man, Kawamasu Tanikichi, actually gave up so easily?

This sacred place with its red coffin lid is extremely difficult to create.

Failure can also have a backlash on the person who cultivates evil spirits, causing them harm.

Even so, why didn't that mysterious old man, Kawamasu Tōkichi, try to salvage the situation?

Ran Qing felt confused and puzzled.

Is this Kawamata Tōkichi so cautious that he's unwilling to take any risks at all?
As I was pondering this, a noise came from the coffin beside me.

After the resurrection ceremony ended, Ran Jianfei sat up from the coffin with a blank expression.

In the dim light, the selfish middle-aged man scratched his head and stared blankly at the three people beside the coffin.

After staring at each other for a few seconds, Ran Jianfei asked blankly, "Who are you?"

(End of this chapter)