You, a living person, are telling me I've served in the underworld for ten years?

Chapter 147 Ghost Drawing Talisman

Inside the funeral parlor, everyone stared in disbelief at the thirteen Xuanjia Netherworld Riders on Yumin Street!

wrong!

Now, besides Chen Yang, who else is in the funeral home?
That’s not right either…

Strictly speaking, even Chen Yang himself can't be considered a normal person now. Their group of ghosts, ghost messengers, river gods, and cat spirits are more appropriately called "ghosts and gods"!
Ta-ta-ta-ta! ! !

The once bustling Yumin Street has completely disappeared, with no traffic, pedestrians, streetlights, or city noise, leaving only thirteen Xuanjia Ming riders!

The thirteen eagles knelt down in unison, their expressions filled with excitement, thanking Chen Yang for the imperial decree and rewards, and vowing to be loyal to Chen Yang, even at the cost of going through fire and water!

Throughout their lives, they were bandits in the greenwood, and after death, although they became vengeful ghosts and did not harm anyone, they still robbed and plundered passing ghosts every day, and had a very bad reputation in the "circle of dead souls" in Xixia Prefecture.

Now that he has received an imperial decree from Chen Yang, although his name is not yet listed in the register of gods in the underworld, but...

Chen Yang bestowed the titles of Yin General and Yin Soldier with the Yin General Tiger Tally, which means that from now on, the Thirteen Eagles will be Chen Yang's personal guards, completely clinging to the coattails of "General Chen"!

"This this……"

Yang Shuai rushed out of the funeral home, looked at the Xuanjia Mingqi who was as tall as him, and exclaimed in shock, "Such a big horse?"

He flashed to Chen Yang's side again, staring intently at the tiger tally in Chen Yang's hand, and muttered, "Old Chen, how did you do that? This thing can even conjure up a horse?"

"This is the Tiger Tally of the Underworld Commander, a treasure bestowed upon me by the Great Emperor of the Northern Underworld of Fengdu. With this treasure, I can summon fierce ghosts from all directions and appoint underworld soldiers and generals!"

Chen Yang laughed and said, "These warhorses are Xuanjia Netherworld Riders, which were transformed from the Yin Commander's Tiger Talisman!"

"Black Armored Nether Riders?"

Yang Shuai stepped forward, wanting to stroke the warhorse, but almost got kicked. He said, "That's quite a domineering name. Does it have any origin?"

Chen Yang: "I, the commander, have the authority to command troops. My troops are called the Xuanjia Mingqi Guards, and these warhorses are naturally Xuanjia Mingqi!"

After explaining for a few minutes, Chen Yang looked at the Thirteen Eagles and said, "You don't need to worry about the Ghost Market for now. Focus on training and recruiting soldiers for me!"

Thirteen eagles obeyed the order and left the funeral home in unison.

They couldn't help but get excited when they saw those black-armored Netherworld riders!

"Big...Big...Big Brother!"

The stuttering Lao Ba said, "We brothers finally...finally...finally have our own mounts again!"

Herod! ...
The thirteen brothers mounted their horses together, their steeds rearing up high and neighing loudly!

Chen Yang said, "Go, summon the fierce ghosts from all directions for me. Remember, better to have none than to have the wrong ones!"

"What the world has in abundance these days are vengeful ghosts and wandering spirits!"

Thirteen eagles received the order and galloped away on horseback!

As the sound of horses' hooves gradually faded away on Yumin Street, the streetlights on both sides of the street lit up with yellow light again, and the street returned to its bustling state, as if nothing had happened.

Inside the funeral parlor, Yang Shuai said resentfully, "Old Chen, you can't be biased... The Thirteen Eagles all have Xuanjia Nether Riders, why don't we?"

"Shut up!"

Cat Lord scolded, "Yang Shuai, how dare you, a mere underworld official, speak to Chen Shuai like that? Are you trying to teach Chen Shuai how to do things?"

After saying that, he sighed again.

“Yang Shuai, I know that you and Chen Shuai are classmates and like brothers, but now that Chen Shuai has been appointed by the Great Emperor of Fengdu Beiyin to supervise the mortal world and wield the Tiger Seal of the Underworld Marshal, his number of underworld officials and deities will increase. When necessary, we must maintain our respect for Chen Shuai.”

Yang Shuai has a sharp tongue.

However, he always corrected his mistakes, and upon hearing this, he said, "Thank you for pointing it out, Master Cat. I will be more careful in the future."

"Alright, alright, why are there so many rules in our own home?"

Chen Yang said, "The Thirteen Eagles have been incorporated into my [Mysterious Armored Netherworld Cavalry Guard], so naturally they should be granted the Mysterious Armored Netherworld Cavalry. You are a ghost messenger... Have you ever seen a ghost messenger riding a horse?"

"........."

I've only met two underworld messengers, Li Ali and Ruyi. How would I know if underworld messengers ride horses?

However, in movies, TV dramas, novels, and legends, the ghost messengers who come to collect souls always emerge from the darkness and disappear into the darkness; there is indeed no mention of them riding horses.

Chen Yang added, "Furthermore, these Xuanjia Nether Riders are manifestations of the Yin Commander's Tiger Seal. Only Yin soldiers and generals who have been appointed by this commander and incorporated into the [Xuanjia Nether Rider Guard] can subdue and ride them. Even if I were to conjure one for you, you still wouldn't be able to ride it."

Yang Shuai then gave up.

Cat Master was very perceptive. It trotted over and brought a chair, saying, "Commander Chen, please sit down."

Chen Yang sat down with an air of nonchalance and asked, "During my absence, has anything happened at the shop?"

He came back too late last night and spent the night studying the "method of spiritual communication" with Li Ali until dawn. He's been busy ever since and hasn't had a chance to find out what's going on.

Li Ali stepped forward to report.

It is said that during this period, every midnight a group of ghosts and evil spirits would come to the funeral home, wanting to be reincarnated in the underworld, but because Chen Yang was not there, Li Ali could only deal with them for the time being.

Li Ali added, "It should be the ghost soldiers and spirits under the command of the Flying Ghost King of Jinlong Mountain."

"Midnight?"

Chen Yang took out his phone and glanced at it; it was already 10 p.m.

"Zi Shi" corresponds to the time period from 11 pm to 1 am. He immediately said, "Zi Shi is approaching, so let's wait a bit."

as predicted.

After 11 p.m., a cold wind blew by, and then an old man with white hair appeared at the shop entrance.

The old man, hunched over and leaning on a cane, saw Chen Yang as soon as he entered the door. He threw down his cane and knelt down, saying, "This old man, Wang Laoba, greets Your Excellency."

Chen Yang glanced at the hunchbacked old man and said, "You know me, General?"

The old man said respectfully, "Back in Jinlong Mountain, I saw your handsome face from afar."

"You old devil, you have a good eye."

The phrase "handsome face" put Chen Yang in a great mood. He immediately cast the "Rebirth Spell" to summon the Gate of Life and Death, saying, "Go... go down there and reform yourself well, and strive to be reincarnated as soon as possible."

As the hunchbacked old man entered the gate of life and death, he felt dizzy and disoriented, as if he had traversed time and space.

When he landed again, he had already arrived in the underworld.

A blood moon hung in the sky, and on the ground...

Before he could even observe what the ground looked like, a group of underworld officials rushed out and surrounded the old man. These underworld officials had originally intended to play a drinking game to decide who would capture the old ghost...

Pfft!
The hunchbacked old man bent his knees and knelt down on the ground.

He used all his knowledge to condense his Yin energy into a rope, binding himself like a dumpling, and cried out, "My lords, this old man is willing to go to the underworld to accept all judgments, and has no intention of escaping."

"........."

Hey!
This ghost... is such a damn coward!
………………

Inside a funeral parlor in the human world, Chen Yang cultivated on the first floor while waiting for the spirits and evil spirits to come to him. From 11:00 to 11:50, he sent down six ghosts. He then divided the "merit" of these six ghosts among Yang Shuai, Cat Master, Ali, and Ruyi.

It's easy to imagine that in the future, there will be no shortage of such "credits" delivered to our door!
Once I recruit a force of ghost soldiers, led by the Thirteen Eagles, to form the [Mysterious Armored Netherworld Cavalry Guard], and bestow titles upon more underworld officials and deities, I won't have to do anything. I can just lie in the shop doing my small business, waiting to deliver the souls of the dead and earn merit.

"certainly……"

"One must never neglect one's own self-cultivation."

Chen Yang circulated his divine soul, feeling its immense power and vastness. He secretly thought, "My current divine soul power has reached the limit of manifesting and possessing, and I am only one step away from the Ghost Immortal realm."

"According to Lord Cui's guidance, it is not enough for a ghost cultivator to cultivate into a Ghost Immortal by simply strengthening their divine soul power."

"This is a bottleneck, an insurmountable barrier. Only by comprehending life and death and breaking through the barrier can one comprehend the realm of a Ghost Immortal... But what exactly is this barrier of life and death?"

"Now that I have risen to the rank of Underworld Marshal, overseeing both the mortal realm and the netherworld, am I not considered to have broken through the barrier between life and death?"

Chen Yang could vaguely sense the constraints imposed by the "Ghost Immortal".

It's like a thin film.

But this thin film... I just don't know how to break through it.

He sighed and could only turn his attention to studying the "Qingwei Yuanjiang Dafa".

When the old man learned that his chosen successor, Gu Jinghui, had died in a car accident, he was very saddened. Fearing that the Taoist arts he had cultivated would be lost, he instructed Chen Yang to practice more in his spare time and pass them on to a suitable successor in the future.

With Chen Yang's current cultivation level, when he tried to cultivate the "Qingwei Yuanjiang Great Method", he found the Daoist methods and spells to be extremely simple, and he understood them after a little study.

The Great Law of Purifying the Primordial Spirit has three distinctive features.

One of them is the Pure Lightning Technique, which Chen Yang has already mastered.

The second is the Qingwei Talisman.

Chen Yang had tried drawing talismans when Gu Jinghui practiced before, but he only tried it once. The drawing was quite similar, but it did not contain the power of the talisman.

The third distinctive feature of the "Qingwei Yuanjiang Dafa" is the "Art of Spirit Summoning"!
The so-called "divine invocation" refers to communicating with the gods of heaven and earth and bringing their power into the human world for one's own use. This is very similar to the "invitation of gods" of Maoshan and the "divine strike" that is popular among the people.

Chen Yang studied it carefully and found that Qingwei's "Art of Divine Summoning" was very obscure and difficult to understand. The incantations required to communicate with different deities were different, and talismans also had to be used.

"It's worth learning... to see if it's really possible to invoke the power of the gods in the human world."

Chen Yang was very interested in the [Art of Spirit Summoning].

Not to mention the gods of the underworld... He wanted to try to communicate with the gods of heaven!

Just then, another gust of cold wind blew in.

An elderly man wearing a white hat walked in from outside the funeral home. He looked around the store with curiosity in his eyes.

Chen Yang was taken aback, then shouted upstairs, "Yang Shuai... your second uncle is here!"

Whoosh!
Yang Shuai flew down from upstairs, sticking out his tongue in surprise, and said, "Second Uncle, what brings you here?"

The old man glared and cursed, "You son of a bitch, didn't you tell me to come here sooner so I could be reincarnated sooner?"

As he spoke, he glanced at the shelf again and added, "Your great-uncle has lived for over seventy years, and this is the first time I've ever been to a store like this... What the heck, what's that paper doll? Why does it look so much like Lin Chi-ling on TV?"

Chen Yang glanced at it.

That was a custom-made doll modeled after Lin Chi-ling.

Yang Shuai was astonished: "Second Uncle, you know Lin Chi-ling?"

The second uncle waved his hand casually and said, "Alright, kid, didn't you brag to me about your connections down there? Hurry up and send me down... so I can be a rich kid in my next life."

"Ah this..."

Yang Shuai was a little embarrassed and scratched the back of his head, saying, "Second Uncle, that was all just me bragging... As for matters of reincarnation, a mere underworld official like me can't interfere."

Chen Yang chimed in, "Second Uncle, you're Hui... Do you Hui people also believe in reincarnation?"

"I don't believe it. Does that mean there's no reincarnation?"

The second uncle, still lucid, said, "I heard everything from Commander Yang; there's everything in the underworld."

Chen Yang laughed and said, "What I mean is, you don't believe in Allah... If I remember correctly, you Hui people don't have the concept of going to the underworld. You believe in either going to hell or going to heaven."

"You kid..."

The second uncle shook his head and sighed, "There's no need to be so serious about life... Besides, I'm already dead and a ghost now. We believe in Allah, but what can I do when my grandson is working in the underworld?"

"If I don't go to live with my grandson after I die, am I supposed to go to live with someone else?"

These words...

That makes a lot of sense, and Chen Yang was speechless.

Chen Yang immediately found paper and pen, wrote a "letter of introduction," burned it for his second uncle, and said with a smile, "Second Uncle, your grandson Yang Shuai is now an underworld official under my command. It's only right and proper that I put in a good word for you..."

"I can't interfere with matters of reincarnation, but this letter should make your life more comfortable down there."

Summoning the "Gate of Life and Death," Chen Yang sent Yang Shuai's second uncle down.

In the latter half of the night, there were no more ghosts or evil spirits "coming to the door".

Chen Yang locked the shop door, found some yellow paper and a talisman brush, and began practicing the Qingwei Talisman.

Taoist talismans may seem complicated, but once you understand their structure and composition, they are not as difficult as you might imagine. Generally, a Taoist talisman consists of five parts: the talisman head, the talisman core, the talisman frame (body), the talisman foot, and the seal.

The so-called "talisman head" represents an "edict," meaning to request divine authorization.

For example, the common three checkmarks represent the Three Pure Ones' Edict. A peace talisman uses the Three Pure Ones' Edict as its head.

Another common talisman head is the "Buddha character head," which is a fusion of Buddhism and Taoism. It is usually a lotus seat with the character "Buddha." There are also some specific talisman heads, such as the thunder talisman which is written as "Nine Heavens Responding to the Origin of Thunder and Universal Transformation Heavenly Venerable," and the plague talisman which is written as "Plague Department Righteous God's Decree."

Chen Yang tried drawing a peace charm.

The fifth step, the "seal," stumped him.

"The so-called seal is actually just a stamp. For example, the talismans of Longhu Mountain are stamped with the Celestial Master's Seal [Yangping Zhidu Gong Seal], and the Five Thunder Talismans and Rain Prayer Talismans are stamped with the [Thunder Commander Seal]..."

"I have the City God's Seal and the Northern Emperor's Demon-Subduing Seal. I wonder if they will work?"

Chen Yang's City God Seal was unearthed by the Special Administration Bureau and had no effect as it was not officially conferred by the underworld. So he took out the "Northern Emperor's Demon Subduing Seal" and stamped it on the peace talisman.

After examining the amulet for a few moments, Chen Yang felt... it looked like scribbles!

He continued practicing his talisman-making, and soon it was dawn.

After breakfast, Chen Yang was about to continue drawing talismans when Wang Lin arrived at the funeral home.

"Master Chen, the temple to the God of Wealth that you asked us to build is finished... When would be a convenient time for you to come and inspect it?"

Is the temple to the God of Wealth completed?
Chen Yang's face lit up with joy, and he said, "Let's go, let's go now... Oh, and remember to bring the idol I made for my dad!"

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P.S.: The power didn't come back on until 8 p.m., sorry. I'll keep writing and try to finish another chapter before 3 a.m.!
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