This actor is full of tricks.

Chapter 179: Crossing the Sin
Bringing the dead back to life?
Is it really possible to achieve this?

Lin Jue waited quietly for the shop owner's explanation.

"The temple where I practiced before was a Buddhist and Taoist temple. When I was practicing with my master, I saw a similar talisman before."

The old man's eyes were filled with memories. "That was before the fog appeared. A merchant's daughter died. Overwhelmed by grief, he gave up everything in the world and came to the temple to eat vegetarian food and chant Buddhist scriptures, hoping to accumulate merit for his daughter so she could be reborn in a good family."

"There was a period of time afterwards when he hid in the Sutra Library, and I don't know what he was studying."

"A few days later, the master drove him out and gave me a scripture and asked me to destroy it."

"I saw this kind of talisman in that scripture. It's a very strange thing. Not only does it need to have the deceased's birthday and memorial day written on it, but it also needs to be offered with incense."

"Not only that, you know the Eighteen Levels of Hell, right?"

Eighteen levels of hell...

Lin Jue's eyes flickered: "I know, there are also punishment scenes similar to the Eighteen Levels of Hell here."

"Is there one here too?"

Because Lin Jue had gone out without a backpack, the shop owner didn't know what was going on in the village. After hearing what Lin Jue said, the shop owner was shocked and clapped his hands suddenly: "That's right, someone wants to resurrect this Wu Xiumei!"

"Is there any connection between the Eighteen Levels of Hell and this talisman?" Lin Jue was a little confused. He only had a vague understanding of these metaphysical things. Professional matters still needed to be explained by professionals.

"In legends, why do people go to hell to be punished? Isn't it because they need to cleanse their sins from their previous lives so they can enter the cycle of reincarnation? Once in the cycle of reincarnation, the dead soul can be reborn as a human being."

Hearing the old man's explanation, Lin Jue frowned: "So this village imitates the punishment of hell and is constructing a hell to wash away sins?"

He still felt that this didn't make sense. "Are they going to throw Wu Xiumei's body into those hellish scenes? Or is Wu Xiumei turning into a ghost and going in to accept punishment on her own initiative?"

"You don't understand this." The old man said with a professional look: "I saw a word in that scripture, called 'du zui', which means 'smuggling'."

"The so-called salvation of sins means letting others accept the punishment of hell, so as to cleanse one's own sins. However, the number of people required is a bit too large."

That's it!

After listening to everything the old man said, all the speculations connected.

Wu Xiumei hanged herself and may have turned into a ghost, becoming the "god" who controls everything behind the village. She imitated the punishment of hell and smuggled her sins onto others, letting others be punished in her place.

He also used an altar to wrap talismans with his birthday and death anniversary written on them, and asked the villagers to worship them with incense.

Use two approaches at the same time to achieve your goal of resurrection.

"Can this really be resurrected?"

If it were in his previous life, Lin Jue would not believe in the resurrection of the dead, but in this world, anything is possible.

After a person dies, the mist can turn him into a strange thing, and that strange thing may be resurrected by some mysterious power and have its heartbeat and pulse restored.

"I don't know if it can be resurrected." The old man shook his head. "But this kind of magic is evil and against the laws of nature. It will be struck by lightning. This village must be very evil too. Boy, I advise you to run away quickly."

"Let's not talk about whether it's evil or not." Lin Jue stared at the old man with a sharp gaze: "Uncle, what else are you hiding from me?" The old man in the store said that he saw the content in a scripture that was about to be destroyed, but there was a logical loophole. Why didn't his master destroy it himself, but had to pass it on to another person to see it?

Moreover, did I just happen to see this passage in that scripture? And how could I remember it so clearly and comprehensively?
Therefore, Lin Jue reasonably suspected that the businessman the old man was talking about was himself. He must have studied it during his lifetime, so he remembered all the procedures.

The old man's face changed slightly, realizing that he had said too much. He started to cover his head and act crazy again: "Ouch, ouch, my head hurts so much, I feel like it's going to explode. Is this the consequence of forcibly restoring my memory?"

Lin Jue looked at the old man deeply. The old man definitely had not lost his memory and was hiding a big secret. However, this time he did not force him to tell it out and put it back into the raincoat.

……

In the middle of the night, Lin Jue, who was lying on the bed, suddenly opened his eyes and turned his head to look at the mirror.

The image reflected in the mirror began to distort, blood oozing out, and dry hair as thin as straw protruded from it.

Is the thing in the mirror finally coming out?

Lin Jue closed his eyes again, only opening them a crack, pretending to be asleep.

The raincoat next to him began to emit black smoke, and he was ready to call the old man out at any time.

Click click click.

The mirror seemed to be about to shatter, and as blood flowed out, the entire mirror turned scarlet.

Immediately afterwards, a pale woman's head emerged from the mirror. With the appearance of the woman's head, waves of resentment rushed out from the mirror.

However, this resentment is not strong, probably only at the level of E-level weirdness, and with my current strength, I can easily deal with it.

The woman's body slowly crawled out of the mirror. Her white dress was completely stained red with blood, and her exposed skin was covered with dense wounds.

She walked around the room barefoot, her eyes hidden under her messy black hair looking at everything in the room painfully, and she kept wailing: "My child, where is my child? Where is my child?"

With every step he took, a bloody footprint appeared on the ground.

This female ghost looks very young, probably in her early twenties.

Lin Jue's heart moved. Could this female ghost also be the bride who got married at the age of 23? She died after giving birth, and then turned into a ghost and hid in the mirror?

Moreover, the wounds on the female ghost's body looked like they were cut by countless knives, which reminded Lin Jue of the tower full of sharp knives on the other side of the river.

It is a replica of the Hell of Knives. According to legend, the souls punished in this hell will climb up the mountain of knives and endure the pain of having their bodies cut by countless knives.

The woman must have died on the mountain of swords outside. She must be the chosen one to carry her soul across.

Perhaps, every person chosen to carry the soul will be forced to endure the same fate as Wu Xiumei, as if creating a similar substitute to endure the punishment of "hell".

"Child! My child!"

The ghost girl staggered around the room, bleeding all over the floor. Finally, she stopped by the bed and slowly moved her face closer to Lin Jue, her eyes bleeding: "Have you seen my child?"

(End of this chapter)