Cultivating Immortality from the Book of Life and Death

Chapter 8 [Ghost Controlling Technique].

Upon hearing this, Zheng Que immediately focused his attention and looked at Taoist Qu.

boom! ! !
The next moment, a figure with a strong physique and violent aura suddenly appeared beside Qu Dao Ren. He was wearing heavy armor, and his entire body was wrapped in thick armor. Only a pair of bloodthirsty eyes were revealed under the helmet. He carried a huge axe on his back, and murderous aura was overflowing from his eyes, like a veteran who had fought in many battles.

Zheng Que was stunned for a moment, but he quickly realized that this was the corpse puppet raised by his master. The night before yesterday, he was targeted by the "Calling Ghost", and it was a corpse puppet with a similar aura that led the "Calling Ghost" away.

Just as he was thinking about it, Taoist Qu spoke calmly, saying, "The first step is to capture a 'ghost'."

As soon as he finished speaking, the corpse puppet next to him immediately opened its visor, revealing a skinless, blood-red face. It opened its mouth and spewed out a cloud of turbid smoke with a fishy smell.

The cloud of smoke spread in the air and in the blink of an eye, it turned into a short ghost. It was about the size of a human child, with extremely strange facial proportions and looked very ugly. Its whole body was blue and white, and it was in a squatting position, with monkey-like behavior.

Looking at this translucent spirit, Zheng Que knew in his heart that this was the "grudge soul" or "lonely ghost" mentioned by his master. It had no intelligence and usually only moved at night. It was afraid of sunlight and was very weak during the day.

At this time, as soon as the "vengeful soul" landed on the ground, it immediately fled out of the temple.

Taoist Qu stretched out a finger and scratched the palm of his other hand, and blood immediately gushed out. He flicked his robe sleeve, and the blood on the palm of his hand immediately turned into a ball of blood-colored mist, which intertwined into a web and covered the head of the "vengeful spirit".

The "vengeful soul" was surrounded by the spiritual blood and immediately let out a shrill scream, as if it was extremely afraid of the spiritual blood.

Without giving the "vengeful spirit" any chance to struggle, Taoist Qu immediately performed a series of complex spells, while continuously explaining, "Step two, apply the blood seal."

"This ordinary 'ghost' has weak Yin energy and diminished abilities. We only need to apply a blood seal."

"If it's some powerful 'lonely ghost', you need to apply more than three layers of blood seals."

"Remember, the more layers of blood seals you have, the stronger your control over the ghosts will be."

"However, the blood seal is guided by the cultivator's spiritual blood, and the extremely yang energy in the spiritual blood will suppress the yin energy of the ghost. Therefore, the more layers of blood seals there are, the weaker the ghost will be."

"With your current cultivation level, you can only cast one blood seal. Don't provoke overpowered monsters..."

As he spoke, along with the changes in the magic formula in Qu Daoren's hands, the spiritual blood net that encircled the "vengeful soul" gradually transformed into special runes. After floating in the air, they were branded into the body of the "vengeful soul" in a certain order.

These words are like branding irons to the "vengeful soul". Every time a word enters its body, the "vengeful soul" will let out an extremely high-pitched scream. At the same time, the negative energy in its body will also weaken a little.

The "vengeful spirit" hysterically tore at the spiritual blood web, trying to escape.

But as more and more runes were branded into its body, its body became less and less under its control.

Gradually, the "vengeful spirit" stopped struggling and made no more cries.

As the last rune formed by the spiritual blood was branded into its body, the "vengeful soul" was covered with blood-colored marks of various sizes all over its body.

Taoist Qu immediately stopped the spell in his hand, and the blood marks faded away in an instant, as if they had never appeared.

Zheng Cheng watched all of this carefully, and had already memorized the key points and sequence of all the spells in his mind.

At this time, Qu Daoren spoke again: "The last step is to issue an order!"

As he spoke, he scratched another scar on his arm, then used his blood as ink to quickly draw a bird-like and insect-like pattern on his palm. It looked like some kind of special text. After drawing the pattern, he turned his palm over, pointed it at the position of the "ghost spirit", and gently slapped it: "Hey!"

The "vengeful spirit"'s body, which had been stiff, trembled for a moment, and then let out a shrill scream filled with despair and pain. While screaming, it pounced on the corpse puppet beside it without hesitation.

brush!
The "vengeful spirit" instantly tore off a piece of the corpse puppet's arm.

The armor made of fine iron seemed as fragile as paper in front of it.

Seeing that the "Grievous Soul" seemed to be going to attack again, Qu Dao Ren aimed his palm at the "Grievous Soul" again: "Collect!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the Taoist clenched his five fingers together, like a cage, and the "vengeful spirit" immediately turned into a streak of blood and disappeared into it.

Then, Taoist Qu turned to look at Zheng Que and said calmly, "This is the [Ghost Controlling Technique]. Have you learned it?"

Hearing this, Zheng Que came back to his senses and immediately replied, "Thank you, Master, for teaching me the Dharma. I have memorized it all!"

Taoist Qu nodded slightly and said slowly, "Since you already know how to do it, then go ahead."

"Come back at this time tomorrow."

"The master will test your results."

Zheng Que bowed respectfully to him again: "Yes, Master."

As he spoke, he tiptoed out of the temple.

The small courtyard outside the door was still deserted, with insects chirping among the long grass. The sunlight poured down, illuminating the inside and outside, as if there was no haze at all.

Zheng Que glanced around casually and was about to go home directly, but when his eyes fell on the dead old tree beside the courtyard wall, his pace slowed down.

The trunk of this old tree requires two or three people to hug it, and its crown stretches out in all directions like the ribs of an umbrella. When it was lush and leafy, most of the yard was under its shade.

Even though it has been dead for who knows how long, the remaining branches still give us a glimpse of its former glory.

Now its shadow falls on the walls and the ground, dappling the light and shadow, a lovely sight. The woman hanging in the shadow sways leisurely, her hair and clothes swaying in the breeze, as light as if about to fly away.

Zheng Que looked at the female corpse, his eyes moving slightly.

According to Master’s explanation just now, this female corpse hidden in the shadow of the tree should be the “vengeful spirit” among the “lonely ghosts”.

During the day, the other party hides in the shadow of this dead old tree. Only after the sun sets will the other party's true body appear on the branches of this dead tree.

Thinking of this, Zheng Que immediately changed direction and walked directly towards the dead old tree.

The "ghost" is greatly suppressed by the Yang energy during the day, and its strength is greatly weakened. This is a good opportunity to capture it!
Soon, Zheng Que stepped into the shadow of the tree. He stared at the shadow of the woman and approached step by step.

As he walked, he suddenly felt his body becoming lighter and lighter, and began to float upwards uncontrollably. He had to stand on tiptoe to barely reach the ground...

(End of this chapter)