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

Chapter 387 Shaman? [Requesting Monthly Tickets]

At 10:00 AM, Zhou Yi drove off the Airport Expressway South Third Ring Road Interchange, made a turn, and arrived at the Jinsha Lake Golf Villa Community.

From the various vehicles on the highway and the different types of bridges to the viaducts and villa communities, the two country girls, who were visiting the provincial capital for the first time, were completely dumbfounded.

Aunt Gongsun rubbed her eyes and looked at the magnificent gate of the villa complex, asking:
"Do all the rich people in the provincial capital live in such luxury? It's even more impressive than the Taiji Palace... I have to take a picture of it so my grandson can see for himself."

Zhou Yi smiled and said:

"With housing prices falling continuously in recent years, the richer people are, the more they feel the pain."

The villas here used to be incredibly expensive, but now the prices have been halved. Coupled with the economic downturn, many business owners are in dire need of money and are willing to sell even at a 30% discount.

After saying that, Zhou Yi pulled the car over to the side of the road and made a phone call to the tailor's nephew.

Soon, a security guard drove a golf cart carrying a round-faced man with glasses in his thirties out of the residential area. Upon seeing Zhou Yi, the man with the round face and glasses hurriedly came over to greet him.
"Is this Master Zhou? My name is Tang Guilin. My uncle called me yesterday and told me that you have a very high status in the circle and that I should respect you as much as I respect my uncle."

The Book of Changes: ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Goodness, before the business has even started, we've already gained a nephew. That tailor is something else, isn't he afraid that his nephew will be rebellious by nature and always go against his elders?
After a brief exchange of pleasantries, Tang Guilin, riding in a golf cart driven by a security guard, led Zhou Yi's car into the residential area and parked it in front of a detached lakeside villa.

"This is my house. It took three years to renovate, but as soon as I moved in, I felt like there was someone in the house. I installed surveillance cameras and all sorts of things, but I didn't see anyone."

The security guard driving the golf course pointed to the nearby surveillance camera and said:

“Ever since the homeowner reported the problem, we have been monitoring the villa with cameras 24 hours a day, but we have not found any suspicious people approaching the villa.”

Zhou Yi took out a compass from his bag and pointed it at the villa. The needle began to swing wildly, indicating that there was indeed something unclean inside.

He tried other villas and the greenery in the community, but the pointer still pointed straight at Tang Guilin's villa... Clearly, the things here were so attractive to the compass that it couldn't be tested anywhere else.

Tang Guilin was startled when he saw the compass needle swinging.
"Is someone dead here? If so, I'm going to sue the developer."

Zhou Yi waved his hand at him:

"Don't be nervous, it might just be a cloud of yin energy. Let's take it in first and check the problem inside little by little."

This time it's to repay a favor to the tailor, so Zhou Yi didn't mention money. If it gets complicated, we can add more money later... Tang Guilin treats us like his uncle, so it's not a problem to ask his nephew for a red envelope, right?
After saying that, Zhou Yi took off the twenty-four black beads from his wrist and handed them to Xi Shi. Gongsun Da Niang, holding the Dragon-Slaying Sword, no longer needed to strengthen her defenses.

With everything ready, the three followed Tang Guilin through the villa gate, with a security guard carrying a baton following alongside.

After entering, the security guard shrank back:
"It's so cold, Mr. Tang, is the air conditioning on?"

Tang Guilin turned on the central air conditioning controller by the door and said:

"It's not open. I don't know why. During the hottest time of the year, I didn't sweat at all in the villa. I even needed a blanket to sleep at night. If it weren't for the fact that I often felt strangers moving around in the villa, it would be a perfect place to live."

Zhou Yi has a lot of old grievances to vent, but he doesn't know where to begin:

"It's not normal for the room to be cold. Didn't you ask your uncle?"

Tang Guilin muttered:

“My uncle said that tailors are associated with a lot of yin energy, so our physical sensations might be different from ordinary people… I forgot to tell you, I’m also a tailor. I usually make high-end dresses for people, and I also have a small clothing factory.”

Zhou Yi, holding the compass, began searching for the location of the evil spirit:
Why is your name Guilin? Were you born in Guangxi?

Tang Guilin said:
“I was born in Changzhou and I was named Guilin because my uncle said that I lacked the element of water in my Five Elements and that my fate was in trouble. To make up for it, he used the name Guilin to balance it out. As the saying goes, Guilin’s scenery is the best under heaven. Mountains can make up for trouble and water can save life. My uncle said that a mysterious fortune teller helped him choose the name. He even brought gifts to thank me at the time.”

A fortune teller? Could it be Grandpa?

If that's the case, then it's quite a coincidence.

Zhou Yi walked around the first floor and found nothing wrong, but he did notice that during the morning, the lake reflected sunlight onto the living room and the second floor, causing a glare effect.

This is common in the realm of metaphysics; it requires shielding from sunlight or using a deity to counteract it.

However, the glare is not the main cause. Judging from the amplitude of the pointer's swing, it would take at least twenty years of accumulated negative energy to produce such a large reaction.

Zhou Yi continued his search and found no major problems, but there were quite a few minor ones.

For example, there are oil paintings with blood-red as the main color hanging on the first floor, deer head specimens decorating the walls on the second floor, and Thangkas full of religious connotations in the study, all of which are somewhat problematic.

People with strong destiny don't care about these things and can treat them as ordinary decorations. However, once their destiny weakens, these small problems may lead to financial losses, bad luck, or even death. Based on the principle of solving problems, Zhouyi pointed out these hidden dangers one by one. Tang Guilin nodded repeatedly and hurriedly took down the painting, the deer head, and the Thangka.

Once everything was settled, not only did he feel better, but even the security guard exclaimed that the whole villa looked much more pleasing to the eye.

However, the core problem has not yet been solved. Zhou Yi carried the compass to the first basement floor, which was the entertainment room with a home theater, billiard table, and the like. Zhou Yi used the compass to look around and found that the position of the pointer kept changing, unlike before when it was fixed at one point.

That's strange, could it be a living thing?
Zhou Yi flicked out two golden talismans, and after the flames ignited, the compass needle immediately stabilized, pointing straight to the corner of the billiard table and no longer shifting.

Just as Tang Guilin was about to speak, Zhou Yi threw out another blank purple talisman.

As if it had a life of its own, the talisman flew to the corner and immediately began to flutter up and down, even trying to crawl towards the door, but Zhou Yi caught it in his hand.

Tang Guilin was so frightened that he hid behind the security guard, who gripped his baton tightly... Both of them were quite frightened by the scene.

With a clang, Granny Gongsun drew her Dragon-Slaying Sword and was about to strike the talisman when Zhou Yi stopped her.

"Wait a minute. This thing doesn't have any resentment or evil energy, and it's not afraid of our magical artifacts. Let me see what's going on first, there's no rush to deal with it."

Zhou Yi was intrigued that his side was armed to the teeth, yet the enemy was not defeated.

He took out a retrospective talisman from his bag, placed a blank piece of paper on it, and then silently recited a meditation mantra to enter a state of visualization, quietly looking at the two talismans.

Soon, he saw a middle-aged man dressed in shamanic attire brutally murder a seven or eight-year-old child by the once overgrown lakeside, then use a magical artifact to collect the child's resentment and refine the corpse into a magical artifact.

The child left behind only a lingering spirit, which wandered by the lake until the area was transformed into modern villas. Even then, the spirit did not leave, aimlessly wandering around the villas.

Upon seeing this, Zhou Yi suddenly realized that in the past, using the Rewind Talisman only allowed him to get a general idea of ​​what was happening, but now that he had accumulated more merit, using the Rewind Talisman was like watching surveillance footage.

I wonder if, when I accumulate over a hundred pounds of merit, it will directly transform into an immersive reenactment of the scene.

Zhou Yi put away the blank talisman that had sealed the child's soul and asked Tang Guilin and the security guard:
"Were there any children who went missing near Jinsha Lake about fifteen to twenty years ago?"

Tang Guilin shook his head:
"I'm from Changzhou, and I've only been doing business here for five or six years at most. I don't know anything about what happened more than ten years ago."

The security guard is from Qixian County, Kaifeng. He only came to Zhengzhou to work last year and knows nothing about the city.
"Let me ask the captain. He's a local, so he might know something."

The security guard took out his walkie-talkie to contact his captain, and soon an elderly man with gray hair arrived in a golf cart. When the topic turned to the lost child, he immediately started talking:

"Twenty years ago, five or six children went missing in our village alone. They were never found. We didn't know if they were abducted or what. A couple of years ago, when the whole internet was paying attention to child abduction cases, those parents also searched for a while, but they had no clues and there was no way to start looking."

It seems to be related to that shaman... Zhou Yi thanked the security captain, cast several purification spells on Tang Guilin's villa, and then posted several talismans for gathering energy and good fortune in the villa before preparing to take his leave.

Tang Guilin insisted on treating everyone to dinner.
"Now that everything is over, we should at least stay for a meal. I've made all the arrangements, and I hope Master Zhou will do me the honor of joining us."

Zhou Yi said with a smile:

“Your business is over, but mine isn’t… Now it’s become a feud between me and that wizard. I need to go back and do some divination to find him out.”

Seeing that Zhou Yi was determined to leave, Tang Guilin said:

"Do you have any suitable statues of deities for me? If so, I'd like to bring one home to help protect my house and prevent it from getting tainted by anything unclean."

Zhou Yi examined Tang Guilin's face and concluded that his full forehead indicated a blessed person who needed to be subdued by a powerful deity.

"You should invite statues of deities such as Zhenwu the Great, Wang Lingguan, Zhao Gongming, and Guan Shengdijun. This will protect your good fortune and prevent you from being taken advantage of by villains."

Tang Guilin thought for a moment and said:

"Then let's go with the True Martial Emperor. Do you have any statues of him? How much would it cost to hire one?"

Zhou Yi recommended an 88-centimeter bronze statue of Zhenwu the Great, charged him 50,000 yuan, and arranged to go to Hunyuan Palace next week for a consecration ceremony. Then he drove onto the elevated road and returned to Yunwu Mountain.

Inside the carriage, Granny Gongsun, gripping the Dragon-Slaying Sword, asked:
"Taoist priest, where is that shaman? Shall we go and kill him now?"

The Book of Changes says:

“I just used a coin to divine the future, and the child’s body will soon be returned to its roots. I guess that wizard might come to Zhengzhou soon… When he comes, I’ll make that bastard pay for his blood debt!”

(End of this chapter)