Da Zaojun

Chapter 76: Nightmare Ancestral Spirit
[Evil-Suppressing Spell]

Song Wuji used the stove fire to light the last Nuo mask he found.

The eight Nuo masks are combined into one, but it is still [Nuo masks. Community performance].

It’s just that wearing the Nuo mask allows you to cast more spells.

The flame ring behind Song Wuji's head became even brighter.

The eight magic spells of the land god are all on the Nuo mask.

To calm the spirits, perform Nuo dance, quell evil spirits, exorcise evil spirits, protect the house, protect livestock, purify water, and send dreams.

Including the ghost soldiers on the land staff, there are a total of nine spells.

Although most of them are auxiliary spells with average power, these things represent the complete authority of a territory lord.

Now, is it time to understand what happened?

After the great changes in heaven and earth, demons slaughtered villages, occupied land and temples, and fought for godhood. What was their purpose and what was the benefit? Were these gods truly dead, or could they be resurrected? Or how was the secret realm formed? What was the truth behind the great changes in heaven and earth?

As long as you know these, you can make various decisions for the future, strive for more vitality, and gain more power.

Song Wuji captured a soul-deprived man and fed him a tranquilizing pill. Then he took his staff and began to perform the Nuo dance. While performing the Nuo dance, he cast several spells one after another: exorcising evil spirits, calming evil spirits, and calming the nerves.

Song Wuji was seen jumping around, just like King Jiji.

The soul-deprived man was shaking violently, as if he had been electrocuted.

"Return to the soul!"

"Return to the soul!"

Song Wuji stomped his feet and chanted spells, but the soul of the lost man just didn't come back.

"It seems that I missed an important step and did not release the soul taken away by the Dream Soul Demon."

Song Wuji stopped casting spells to avoid wasting mana, and then sent out the ghost soldiers to search the entire village. If they couldn't find the boss, they would have to face the boss of the land temple directly.

But the most important thing is that although Song Wuji can see the images of nightmares and ghost soldiers in the stove book, there is not much description of the dream soul demon. After all, there is no definite origin.
Nightmare: Whatever you think about during the day, you will dream about at night. The people will be frightened and their lives will be miserable, which is a nightmare.

Yin soldiers: the soldiers and horses of the local lord.

The ghost soldiers rummaged around, and Song Wuji entered the house with them. Life in the house remained the same as usual, except that most families had some weird calligraphy works.

[Heaven Official's Blessing, No Taboos]
[Auspicious gods protect the house and children are at peace]
[Don't be startled when a cat comes, and don't bark when a dog comes]
It's strange, how come there's no one here with a name? The names on deeds, marriage certificates, and fate books have all been erased...

"It seems we can only go to the ancestral hall to look for clues."

Besides the land temple, the ancestral hall is the second place that makes Song Wuji feel uncomfortable and receives malicious gazes.

But perhaps it was because the soul-lost people lost their names first, and then they lost their souls. Song Wuji wanted to see if there was something like a family tree that could be used to find the names of the soul-lost people.

If there is no ancestral hall, then you can only go to the land temple.

However, if you turn the secret realm upside down, you will always gain something.

For example, you may occasionally see glowing mushrooms [nightmare mushrooms]. This is a food ingredient with a "dream" effect, strong hallucinogenic ability, and an extremely delicious taste.

Similar to seeing the green hand.

There are also orange candies, winter melon candies, and grapefruit peel candies that children treasure.

Although these three kinds of candies are not the five flavors of "sweet, sour, bitter, spicy and salty", they also have some special effects.

Orange Candy: The orange orchard is still there, and the summer cicadas are chirping.

Winter Melon Candy: The autumn frost is very cold, and loving mothers advise us to put on more clothes.

Pomelo peel candy: It doesn’t taste bitter at first, and the aftertaste is even sweeter.

This seems to be one of the few sweet tastes in the nightmare.

Song Wuji casually ate an orange candy and felt inexplicably moved, as if he was back in the orange orchard in summer. His parents were busy while he lay in the shade of the trees, looking up at the sky. The clouds were rolling in the sky, and the gentle wind was blowing the dog grass on his face, making him feel itchy.

At the same time, there's a state of "carefreeness," allowing one to temporarily forget their troubles. "What's the point of being temporarily worry-free?" Song Wuji thought to himself. "It's just a little sweetness to survive after being scarred. Even this is a precious relic of a beautified childhood."

But when I think about it, this world is too bitter, and it is hard to taste these candies.

There are no lions or flower drums at the entrance of the ancestral hall, only a fence.

There is a drum hanging in the fence. The drum is glowing white and is called the "Tang Drum". By beating the Tang Drum, you can summon the lost souls in the secret realm.

As I passed through the gate of the ancestral hall, I could hear a child crying: "Ah~ah~ah~"

The cries from all directions echoed through the walls.

"Please bless us, our ancestors!"

"Many children have lost their souls. That thing is hiding in the village!"

"The land god's head was broken off. It's over... We are all finished..."

"I don't want to die~~"

"Don't sleep! Don't close your eyes! The monster is in your dream!"

In the ancestral hall, there was only a monster with layers of heads and layers of hands and feet, like a human centipede. Each head looked like an old person, both male and female, and was covered in black air.

The sounds just now were what they repeated.

[Nightmare Ancestral Spirit]
This thing has an average aura, comparable to the level of a civil or military lackey, but it looks very disgusting.

Seeing Song Wuji, the ancestral spirit screamed, "Lin's Ancestral Temple! Outsiders stay away!"

As they spoke, the candlelight floated in the air, but it was all dim light.

Immediately afterwards, the heads separated and turned into flying heads, biting towards Song Wuji.

Six ghost soldiers surrounded them, holding spatulas and hitting the heads off like playing baseball.

Song Wuji quickly looked around the ancestral hall and found a glowing family tree, but this family tree was enshrined in the center of the tablet in the ancestral hall.

Song Wuji didn't really want to destroy other people's ancestors, but these things had clearly become nightmares, just like the land gods, and were no longer their original selves.

Song Wuji paused with his staff: "Exorcise the evil spirits!"

The magic power was consumed for a while, but the authority of the local lord brought by the community fire Nuo mask also brought natural suppression to these ancestral spirits.

"Lord of the Society!"

"Lord of the Society!"

Among the nightmare ancestral spirits, an old man's head cried out, "Lord of the community! The incense of my Lin family is about to be cut off!"

The other head said, "He's not the Shezhu! The Shezhu has been eaten by the demon! We saw it with our own eyes!"

But what greeted them were balls of fire. The incense was activated, and the nightmare ancestors wailed in pain as they were burned by the flames. At the same time, they briefly returned to their original nature and immersed themselves in the illusion of liberation.

"Kids! Hide your names!"

"Once your soul is called away, your head will be chopped off!"

"Don't answer!"

"Don't answer!"

"You can't sleep! Keep your eyes open! Keep your eyes open!"

"He's in my dream..."

As the flying heads of the ancestors were set on fire one by one, the entire ancestral hall was engulfed in flames.

At the same time, the Dream Soul Demon in the sky finally revealed its form and let out a roar.

(End of this chapter)