Put Away Your Divine Techniques Now!-Chapter 940 - 278: Inviting a God Is Easy, Sending One Away Is Hard! (Part 3)
The chest was covered densely with countless wounds, some new and some old. The old ones had already formed scars, while the new ones still had fresh red flesh coated with ointment.
"I can’t sleep well every night. As soon as I close my eyes, I dream of that female ghost coming to claim my life! Begging doesn’t work, cursing doesn’t work, I can’t drive her away, scare her off, or plead her to leave..." Li Guohua trembled, his face mournful, "She, she just wants my life!"
Chen Yan frowned and leaned in closely to examine the wounds on Li Guohua’s body, all clearly left by self-harm with a sharp weapon.
The resentment of the female ghost wasn’t strong enough anymore; the power to confuse people in nightmares was fading. Otherwise, Li Guohua wouldn’t have survived until today.
This Li Guohua had nerves of steel, recklessly unaware of the danger, that a mere mortal dared to dabble in matters concerning ghosts and deities.
Don’t you know, it’s easy to invite gods but hard to send them away!
Li Guohua’s face was deadly pale, suddenly, he fell to his knees with a thud, and kowtowed to Chen Yan: "You must be a man of great skill, an extraordinary person! I beg you, save me! Save me!"
"Scared?" Chen Yan sneered.
"Scared! Scared! I’m really scared! I can’t die, I don’t want to die! I have a little girl, she already lost her mother, if she loses her father too, how will she survive?"
Li Guohua pleaded desperately, knocking his head on the ground repeatedly.
Chen Yan sighed, and coldly said, "Show me the page you stole."
Li Guohua hurriedly fumbled around his body.
He was quite crafty, after obtaining the page recording the talismanic technique, he knew it was a treasure and actually sewed a pocket in his undershirt to keep the page close to him every day.
Seeing him pull it out and hand it over to Chen Yan with both hands, it was indeed a yellowed book page. Holding it, Chen Yan could still faintly smell the sweat ingrained in the page from being kept close, wrinkling his brow.
Nevertheless, Chen Yan suppressed his irritation and examined it carefully between his fingers.
On the front was the [Resentful Ghost Curse], after looking at it, he subconsciously nodded.
It was an authentic talismanic technique.
There was a rune pattern drawn on it, and it taught how to make talisman paper:
Using pulp from grass bamboo and willow bark, dyed with turmeric juice...
This method of production was quite antiquated and crude, obviously far inferior to truly good talisman paper.
Like the difference between Adidas and Adi King.
Yet, despite being crude and low-level, it was nonetheless genuine talisman paper.
This [Resentful Ghost Curse] was made by crafting talisman paper, drawing the talisman, and adding a spell technique to form a complete talismanic practice.
The talisman paper is burned into ashes and then used with a spell technique to smear on the belongings of the deceased—preferably items frequently worn or used by the deceased, heavily imbued with their aura.
This would gather the deceased’s lingering obsessions or resentment, forming a "fierce ghost."
Actually, it’s not a true ghost, but rather the residue of resentment and obsession left by the deceased, gathered into one.
Moreover, the most sinister aspect is that typically, in talismanic techniques, casters must first be cultivators, having begun cultivation and able to mobilize the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi.
But this talismanic technique surprisingly doesn’t require Primordial Qi, instead taking a different path by using living blood and extracting the caster’s lifespan to cast the spell!
I suppose in this world, Primordial Qi is so scarce, cultivation is challenging, inheritance may inevitably encounter a generation unsuitable for cultivation, unable to begin, thus losing tradition.
Hence, they came up with such a self-harming and harming others method to forcibly cast talismans.
This thing is truly harmful!!
Just from this talismanic technique, Chen Yan felt the cultivators who left this page of inheritance were probably not good people!
Such malevolent and harmful spells are indeed likely from evil cultivators.
Yet when turning to the back of the page and seeing the [Rebirth Mantra] drawn there...
The Rebirth Mantra is meant to neutralize hostility, dissolve obsessions and resentment, allowing the fierce ghost’s animosity to dissipate and disappear naturally.
But after taking a closer look, Chen Yan’s expression became strange.
He instinctively glanced at the kneeling Li Guohua, the corners of his mouth slightly twitching into a peculiar smile.
No wonder... this [Rebirth Mantra] doesn’t work!
No wonder Li Guohua finds it easy to invite gods and hard to send them away!
He said that after burning many Rebirth Mantra talismans they were ineffective, he’s haunted night after night by Li Xin’s fierce ghost.
——The rune recorded on the page, was drawn incorrectly!!
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This page appeared to be quite aged, not a printed product, but a handwritten copy.
In this world, many cultivation inheritances are filled with errors or omissions. From ancient times to today, during transmission, errors occur, misrecorded, mistakenly transcribed, it’s not unusual—otherwise, there wouldn’t be so much lost knowledge.
Looking at the tormented, neither person nor ghost, Li Guohua before him, Chen Yan felt amused.
This guy’s misfortune lay in——the cultivation secret manual was incorrectly transcribed!
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Chen Yan pondered, then casually tossed the page into his Storage Jade Pendant.
Seeing the page disappear right before his eyes, Li Guohua grew more fearful, finding the young man before him unfathomably profound, his heart uneasy.
Chen Yan glanced at the time and sneered, "The hour hasn’t passed yet, there’s still some time, let’s take care of it tonight."
After speaking, he suddenly waved his hand lightly over Li Guohua’s face, his finger brushed over his forehead, Li Guohua suddenly toppled over, his eyes rolled back, collapsing to the ground unconscious.
Chen Yan lifted Li Guohua and placed him in the corner of the room, then took out the Li Huo Candle, scraping off a small piece of wax.
He heard the voice of the old Taoist emerging from the Li Huo Candle, "Do you have a task, Fellow Daoist?"
Chen Yan was intrigued—catching ghosts and subduing monsters, isn’t that the Taoist’s expertise? Having such a fellow around and not using him would be a waste.
He then chuckled, "Encountered a fierce ghost remnant formed from obsessions and resentment, old Taoist, do you have any ideas?"
The old Taoist sighed and slowly said, "If I were not dead, I’d be willing to assist the fellow Daoist. But now I’m just a wisp of a remnant soul, no entity, unable to do anything.
Faced with fierce ghosts, means are either to kill or suppress..."
Pausing briefly, the old Taoist added, "With your Cultivation and Tao Practice, such a minor fierce ghost remnant, exterminating or suppressing is not difficult. However, obsessions and resentment are leftovers from their life, fierce ghosts often have unfinished desires or wrongful grievances during their lifetime.
Extermination isn’t difficult, but it can be crude and violate the natural order.
If you can resolve obsessions and dissipate resentment, you might increase a bit of merit."
Upon hearing ’merit’, Chen Yan’s eyes instantly lit up.
After the old Taoist said another sentence, Chen Yan sighed, "Indeed, specialized tasks require specialists, old Taoist, your advice is excellent, my gratitude!"
Keeping the Li Huo Candle, Chen Yan gently smeared a piece of wax on the red woman’s skirt, with a twist of his fingers, a flame ignited, and the spot anointed with wax began to slowly emit a bit of emerald green flame.
Within the flame, the silhouette of a woman gradually appeared!
Chen Yan lowered his gaze, and sternly commanded, "Come out!"
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