Inheriting a Taoist temple, the story begins with Wu Zetian offering incense.

Chapter 132 Dismantling the Altar, Sending Away the Lost Souls! [Seeking Monthly Tickets]

Upstairs, Zhou Yi pondered for a long time and finally found a relatively reliable method. Standing in front of the Kun position of the Bagua altar, he contacted Huo Qubing using a walkie-talkie:

"Five seconds later, smash the doll in the Qian position."

"Roger that!"

After answering, the master and apprentice, separated by more than ten floors, silently counted to five. One grabbed a peach wood sword, and the other drew a cavalry saber hanging from his waist, and simultaneously slashed at the ceramic doll in front of them.

“Crack!!!!”

The ceramic doll shattered instantly, and some gray powder and remains spilled out. The resentment in the room began to grow wildly, and cries and laughter mingled and drifted through the room.

Zhou Yi poked at the remains among the porcelain shards with his peach wood sword, and couldn't help but swear:

"Damn it, these ceramic dolls are filled with the ashes of people who died violent deaths, and they contain a lot of resentment... They deserve to die!"

The ashes are preserved in a ceramic doll using a secret method, and with the addition of an array, it becomes the core of the array for cultivating Yin spirits.

And after the Yin God descends to earth, these massive amounts of resentment will become an excellent tonic for the evil god to rapidly strengthen... The person who designed this formation is too vicious.

Zhou Yi glanced at the remaining ceramic dolls and sighed silently.

An altar has eight directions, requiring eight ceramic dolls to suppress the evil spirits. Two altars would then have sixteen... sixteen people who died violent deaths. No matter where this is placed, it would be considered a major case.

Li Qingzhao was somewhat incredulous as this was her first time participating in something like this:
"They killed sixteen people?"

Zhou Yi shook his head:

"Perhaps it's not just that, because the birth charts of these deceased people must be very special, and they must have died at a specific time."

As he spoke, Zhou Yi took out a calming talisman from his bag and placed it on the corpse. He then picked up a compass and measured the time of death of the corpse, finding that it was more than 30 years ago.

"This was... made in the 1990s?"

The 1990s were more chaotic than now. Sun Erfa from the town once said that back then, when his relatives raised cattle, they either slept in the cowshed at night or brought them to the house. In short, the cattle could not stay overnight alone, otherwise they might be taken away.

Tractors are highly sought after; families who buy tractors will immediately widen their doors to make it easier to drive them into the house.

Zhou Yi sighed, silently recited the *Taiyi Jiuku Jing* to help the departed soul find peace, then picked up the walkie-talkie and contacted Huo Qubing:

"The ceramic doll contains ashes. Don't touch it directly with your hands. Shiliu, draw out the Tai Chi sword to calm the resentment."

We can't go to the 32nd floor to perform the ritual now, so we can only use the Tai Chi sword to suppress the spirits for now. Once all the dolls are broken, we can perform the ritual one by one to help these souls escape from suffering and enter the cycle of reincarnation.

As for the ashes, let's just take them back and bury them on the back mountain. Anyway, the soul has already been delivered, and it's fine as long as the ashes can be buried.

The souls of the deceased, after being delivered to the afterlife, will regain their senses. If they have any close relatives still alive, the Heavenly Venerable Taiyi Jiuku will guide these children to send a message to their loved ones in a dream to say goodbye... Some parents may have been searching and hoping for decades, and they deserve an explanation.

Composing himself, Zhou Yi stood at the Dui position of the Bagua (Eight Trigrams), picked up the walkie-talkie, and said to Huo Qubing:

"Five seconds later, break the ceramic doll in the northeast position. Don't hit it too hard, and try to keep the ashes intact."

"Roger that!"

Soon, the master and apprentice, separated by more than ten floors, attacked simultaneously.

One is the Dui position, symbolizing a lake, and the other is the Gen position, symbolizing a mountain... In the Eight Trigrams, these two trigrams, like Qian and Kun, are opposites.

The ceramic doll knocked open the door, and the room was filled with resentment once again.

Zhou Yi calmly took out the Tranquilizing Mantra to perform the ritual of deliverance and purification, and also deduced the identity of the ashes in the Dui position... It turned out that they were born in the 1980s, almost twenty years older than Zhou Yi.

While the people upstairs were silently dismantling the formation, a completely different scene unfolded in the monitoring room.

The gray-haired security guard, trapped in the illusion by the blind man, recounted in detail the steps he had taken over the years to abduct children and make ceramic dolls.

They spent decades finally collecting enough ceramic dolls to raise the evil god.

At the time, they wanted to raise spirits in places like cemeteries, but these places were almost all where martyrs were buried, so they couldn't do evil. They had no choice but to do the opposite and chose the Golden Sun Shopping Mall.

This place is a land of extreme yang. As long as an array is used to transform it, the yang energy will turn into yin energy, which will then nurture evil spirits, and then use the evil spirits to nourish evil gods.

The blind man asked:

What is your relationship with Director He?

There is a director of the Feng Shui Folk Association named He. He appeared when the blind man was selected for the association last time. As soon as they met, the blind man noticed the evil spirit on him.

Today, the blind man used an illusion array to trap Director He. He originally intended to send Director He to jump off a building to end the matter, but after searching his memory, he discovered that there was actually a security guard at the Golden Sun Mall who was the one who carried out the plan.

After throwing Director He into an illusion, the blind man rushed back to the mall and dragged the gray-haired security guard into the illusion for interrogation.

At this moment, the old security guard still thought the person in front of him was a successfully descended evil god, and was trying to show off his achievements:
"Some parents are still looking for their children, but unfortunately they are looking in the wrong direction. Their children were not abducted, but turned into ritual objects... Hahaha, I laugh until my stomach hurts whenever I see related news."

The blind man considered himself a master and rarely lost his temper, but today, he couldn't suppress his anger. With a slight raise of his hand, a group of wronged spirits rushed towards the security guard from all sides of the illusion:
"Give me back my life!"

"Give me back my eyes!"

"Where are my legs? Where did you put my legs?"

"..." These conjured vengeful spirits chattered incessantly, sometimes appearing as cute children, and other times as menacing evil spirits, which terrified the security guard. He thought these ghosts had come seeking revenge, and without saying a word, he rushed out of the monitoring room.

The wronged spirits behind him relentlessly pursued him, demanding their bodies and limbs back from the security guard.

The security guard ran and ran, rushing out of the Golden Sun Shopping Mall. He spotted a particularly dense clump of bushes by the roadside and jumped down, intending to hide in the grass. But when he jumped in, he realized there was no grass around. The path he had been on was the Qingshuihe Bridge near the mall. He had just jumped off the bridge and was plummeting rapidly...

"Oh no, someone jumped into the river!"

"Quick, call 120! Why did he suddenly jump down?"

"I guess something's bothering her."

"They might have bought stocks with leverage, just like me."

"How much leverage could a security guard like him have? Maybe he was diagnosed with cancer and didn't want to burden his family, so he jumped into the river and committed suicide."

"..."

On both banks of the Qingshui River in the center of Yiyang City, crowds of onlookers gathered, discussing the security guard who had just jumped into the river. No one noticed that the blind man had secretly thrown a Soul-Binding Spell into the water.

"Having committed so many evils, wash away your sins at the bottom of the river!"

After saying this, the blind man tapped the ground with his cane, went to the roadside, took a taxi, and left the riverbank, intending to go back and interrogate that Director He properly.

Upstairs, the I Ching has reached the Zhen position, which represents thunder and is opposite to the Xun position, which represents wind.

On Huo Qubing's side, it was Chen Tang's turn to make a move. Gongsun Da Niang, who was originally eager to try, now held the Tai Chi sword and felt that the area around the sword was warm, while the rest of the area was filled with cold air and the sound of children crying.

Finally, when the last ceramic doll shattered, a large number of yin spirits and yin energy gushed out from the Bagua altar, completely interrupting the process of the descent of the yin deity.

After Zhou Yi finished performing the ritual to guide the spirits of the deceased, he said to Wu Zetian and Li Qingzhao:

"Let's go. First, let's go upstairs to perform a ritual to appease the souls of the dead, and then go to the top floor to dismantle the temple and bestow a blessed land."

The building is now filled with yin energy and spirits. It may not be a problem in the short term, but if it is not dealt with before dark, it will be dangerous for those living in the building.

The only solution is to decree the entire building as a blessed land, using the properties of a blessed land to completely purify the evil spirits and yin energy within the building.

Upon arriving at the elevator lobby, Zhou Yi pressed the button for another elevator.

After the elevator doors opened, he used a copper coin to divine the situation and confirmed that everything was fine before leading the two beautiful women inside, all the way to the thirty-second floor.

As soon as Zhou Yi stepped out of the elevator, he sensed that the hallway was filled with resentment.

On the 18th floor, each ghost that appears is immediately released from suffering, and there is no accumulation. But the 32nd floor is different. There are currently eight ghosts here, as well as a lot of resentment. The entire floor is almost impossible to approach.

Zhou Yi held up the twenty-four black beads on his wrist, dispelling the surrounding resentment, and made his way to room 3278. He first performed a ritual to release the spirits from the dead, and then purified the resentment.

Gongsun Da Niang put down her sword and said:
“There were children crying and making a fuss just now, which gave me the creeps. I couldn’t help but think of my younger brother… Immortal Master, when we return this time, can I ask His Majesty to change my family’s household registration to commoner status?”

In the eyes of nobles, commoners are as low as dust. Only princes who have committed serious mistakes will be demoted to commoners and lose their former status.

But for another group of people, the common people are an unattainable existence.

Being a commoner meant being able to farm, being eligible to study and take the imperial examinations, and being able to join the army as a son of a respectable family to earn military merits and secure titles for one's wife and children.

The Book of Changes says:

“I’ll write you a note when we get back. You can give it to Li Longji, and he will take care of it.”

Aunt Gongsun asked with a gossipy look:

"Are you planning to use your support for Little Taiping as leverage?"

Zhou Yi didn't answer directly, but pointed to the rooftop and said:
“Let’s go up and demolish the temple, confer a blessed land, and then take all these ashes and remains with us so they can be laid to rest.”

Li Qingzhao asked:
"Can't we report this to the authorities?"

Zhou Yi shook his head:

"It's easy to get tangled up, and the blind man will most likely execute the mastermind behind it all..."

After he finished speaking, he led everyone to the rooftop to look for the small temple the blind man had mentioned.

Guided by the compass, Zhou Yi climbed over rows of huge central air conditioning units and finally came across a small temple... or rather, a large shrine, only about the height of a person and very small in area.

The small temple enshrines a black-faced monk with a sinister expression and blood-red eyes, who looks somewhat similar to the Buddha amulet in Xu Tian's computer case.

Zhou Yi took out his phone, took a picture of the Buddha statue, and then used an image recognition app to search for it. He found that it was a Buddha statue enshrined in a temple in Thailand.

"These idiots are shoving everything into China; they'll never know how they're going to die."

Zhou Yi silently noted down the temple's address. Later, when he went to Thailand, he would visit the temple and either demolish it or decree it as an inauspicious place.

After doing all this, he said to the eager Chen Tang and Huo Qubing:

"Foreign evil spirits are not worthy of receiving incense offerings. Demolish the temple and smash the Buddha statues!"

(End of this chapter)