Terrifying Heavens: I'll directly worship the Black Law of Fengdu!

Chapter 73 Transcendence
The moment the deep purple talisman fell out of the cement block, the entire rooftop was suddenly seized by an invisible force.

A chilling wind howled past, causing the hem of Li Xuan's suit jacket to flutter like a startled raven flapping its black wings.

He picked up the talisman and rubbed it between his fingertips. The rough texture of the paper indicated that it was indeed ordinary paper.

However, those wild cursive runes looked as if they were written with resentment dipped in blood ink, the dried scarlet glowing with a dull glimmer in the night.

The edges of the cement slab that was just dug up were grayish-white, forming a stark contrast with the weathered layer of the rooftop. This small seal had managed to maintain its supernatural integrity for more than ten years through wind and rain.

Li Xuan stared at the talisman in his palm, his memory flashing back to the rainy night at the Minxiong haunted house.

Both were talismans, but He Dexin's seal had weathered away and almost crumbled into dust in just sixteen years, while the one before him... He calmly clenched his fingers, and when the edge of the talisman brushed against his palm lines, it caused a burning stinging pain.

Arken cautiously approached, starting to believe that Li Xuan was a good person.

If it's a bad guy with a gun and evil magic, just kill the witness.

Why stay?

Arken was nervous as this was his first time meeting such a highly skilled person. He swallowed hard, looked at the obviously sinister purple talisman, and asked, "Excuse me, what is this?"

"Do you know why this building claims nine lives every July?" Li Xuan flicked the talisman with his finger, putting it into the purple-red gourd. He didn't answer the question directly, but instead asked him to think about it.

Arken thought for a moment and said, "Someone is setting a trap in the office building to harm people!"

"Um……"

Li Xuan pondered for a moment and said, "That's right, someone is setting up a trap to harm people! According to my calculations, there should be these talismans hidden in all four directions of this building. If we find them, we can break this trap."

Arken looked at the hole he had dug in the ground, stroked his stubble with his right hand, and said:
"Not many people come to the rooftop, and the clutter accumulates over time. No one will notice this slightly different colored piece of cement on the ground, which is only the size of a palm. If they see it, they will only suspect that it is a hole from a construction inspection."

According to you, the remaining three talismans are inside the building, probably hidden very well, otherwise they would have been accidentally destroyed long ago…”

At the spot where Ashan disappeared, there were still faint traces of a black humanoid figure.

Arken felt both regret and fear at Shan's departure. He clenched his fists, thinking that adults shouldn't be so timid.

"I want to help you find these talismans!"

"You should go home and rest early."

The courage she had just mustered was immediately dashed by Li Xuan's words.

Li Xuan admired his courage, but didn't support him doing it! This behavior was like asking the audience to go up and interact with the tiger in a circus; nobody knew what would happen next.

This is the world of horror movies.

There are far too many cases where someone is out of sight one second and dead the next.

Li Xuan took out a talisman, folded it into a triangle, and put it into Aken's pocket, saying, "You're having a run of bad luck. Don't go out unnecessarily lately. Stay home. Work is important, but your life is more important..."

The two people left the rooftop.

They took the elevator to the sixteenth floor, and Aken followed closely behind.

Li Xuan asked in confusion, "Didn't I give you the talisman? Just go downstairs and leave."

Arken said embarrassedly, "I'm actually a little scared. Ghosts are so deceitful. I might have died quietly in some corner before I even left the building. Since you're so amazing, I'll obediently follow you the whole time until we actually leave the office building."

interesting!
His IQ is back online.

Li Xuan was starting to admire him and said, "Then you can come along. But if something happens, I won't be able to help you. I can only say that your time has come."

Arken scratched the back of his head and nodded: "I'll be careful."

In just two hours, he first "annihilated" Sister Ba on the sixteenth floor, and then "annihilated" Sister Shan on the rooftop. The ghosts in the entire building were so frightened that they dared not move and temporarily hid. Li Xuan took the elevator back to the sixteenth floor and, sure enough, found the talisman in the last stall of the restroom.

Very creative.

The talisman was actually hidden inside the compartment of the grid, which took him a lot of effort.

The talisman on the other side of the sixteenth floor was hidden inside a ventilation duct. This location was even harder to find; the entire talisman was stuck to the curved part of the duct, covered with a layer of stone glue, making it almost unrecognizable. When he couldn't find it, he used an extended screwdriver to pry at the glue, and to his surprise, it was there.

Finally, we arrived at the first floor.

The glass door creaked and swayed back and forth.

Outside the security room, an old man with gray hair and few teeth was lying on a chair, snoring loudly.

The hall was very large, with nothing but a reception desk and tables and chairs. Li Xuan searched until he was almost red-hot, and finally, Aken had a flash of inspiration and found the talisman in the base of the chandelier.

Four talismans in hand!

Li Xuan turned to look at Aken: "Still a virgin?"

Arken scratched his cheek and said, "It was a stormy night..."

Understood.

Li Xuan took out a silver needle and said, "Spit out your tongue."

Arken didn't understand, but he did as he was told. As soon as he stuck out his tongue, the tip of his tongue stung. It turned out that Li Xuan had quickly pricked it, and blood immediately began to ooze out.

Li Xuan took out a brush, dipped it in the blood from his tongue, laid out four dark purple talisman papers in a row, drew a Tai Chi diagram on them, wrote the disaster-relief talisman in the middle, and began to recite the disaster-relief incantation:

"The Seven True Ones of the Big Dipper govern all spirits. East, west, south, and north, they protect life and guide us forward. The great sun at its zenith illuminates all living beings... The Way is in harmony with nature. So be it!"

The runes emitted a faint light, covering the four deep purple talisman papers. The original blood-red characters seemed to have passed through time, dissipating at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the papers turned to ashes.

The entire Star Ring Building suddenly emitted a lingering, resentful aura that had been building up for a long time, emanating from every door and window.

Arken pinched his injured tongue and said with a lisp, "Strange, the building is still the same building, but the air is much fresher and the atmosphere is not so oppressive."

Li Xuan said, "You have done a good deed by offering your blood from your tongue to draw the talisman. Now go home, because many ghosts will be coming later."

Aken wanted to learn something from Li Xuan, but he was terrified of ghosts and reluctantly said:
"Please be very careful, this isn't the only haunted building! I remember there's a Central Building in the Yau Tsim Mong suburbs that's also haunted."

I heard that in the early 1980s, human traffickers hid many children there, killing and horribly harming many. It's been haunted ever since; all the security guards who worked there, except for one who went insane, died.

Central Tower?

Li Xuan didn't have much of an impression, but he could go and check on things when he had some free time.

Watching Aken leave.

He glanced at the still-sleeping security guard, patted the purplish-red gourd, brought out the altar, burned incense and worshipped the gods, going through the simple procedures once. Then he tore off some paper money in the shape of copper coins from yellow paper and scattered it into the air. After that, he sat on the floor and began to recite the "Scripture of the Primordial Heavenly Venerable on the Exorcism of Sins in Fengdu".

The scripture was recited aloud.

The eerie atmosphere of the entire building began to surge downwards; it was the ghosts trapped inside. There were more than a dozen of them, almost all of them looking like office workers.

Li Xuan asked, "Aren't nine people supposed to die every year? Why are there more than a dozen here?"

One of the ghosts, who seemed to be a minor leader, said, "We weren't all killed by having substitutes found. It was because of labor disputes, such as wages not being paid on time, or being fired."

Earlier, over a wage dispute, a young man stormed into our office with a knife and started slashing at everyone he saw. Several people died during that incident.

(End of this chapter)