Yin Yang Lantern Man

Chapter 80: Lightning-struck Wood, Consecration

"Have you packed everything you need to bring?"

Chen Ningan asked her, and Ye Dingwan nodded vigorously: "I have brought them all!"

"Well, let's go."

He lit the lantern, and under the red light, the two figures walked farther and farther away in the alley, and suddenly, they disappeared without a trace.

"There are new graves."

Chen Ning'an often comes here and found that some vacant lots had small mounds of earth rising from them.

Some of the tombstones in front of these small mounds are luxurious, while others are simple, but strangely, they seem to have been buried for a long time and it is completely impossible to tell that they are new graves.

"Brother Chen, what are you looking at?"

Ye Dingwan was curious, this tomb looked no different.

"I'm trying to see how to dig it up more easily."

Chen Ningan's words made Ye Dingwan chuckle, "Brother Chen is really good at joking."

But the next second, she saw Chen Ning'an took out a shovel from somewhere and really started digging.

He worked very quickly and dug out a new grave immediately. The female corpse inside was highly decomposed.

No fruit, unfortunately.

Chen Ningan covered the soil back with the dirt. Everything in this place was unreasonable.

He was sure that the graves here were new, but very old.

The two continued walking, the blood-red lantern swept across the tombstones, and soon Ye Dingwan saw the tree flashing with thunder.

Half dead, half alive.

Such a spectacle is shocking.

However... "Boom!"

A huge thunder fell, reaching the sky and the earth, with flashing white light.

Ye Dingwan felt dry mouth and tongue. Can a person really survive under such a thunder?

"If you're scared, we can go back."

Chen Ning'an was prepared for Ye Dingwan to back out.

It’s a pity that the woman died too early. If she hadn’t died, I could have used her experience.

"It's okay with me."

Although she was very scared, Ye Dingwan still spoke with difficulty.

"Why are you?"

Chen Ning'an felt that the other person's thoughts were completely different from those of normal people.

Ye Dingwan took a deep breath, stared at him without blinking, and replied: "Do you know how family feels?"

family?

Chen Ning'an shook his head, and Ye Dingwan also shook his head.

"I don't know either. I knew from childhood that I had no parents, even though I still had five or six brothers and sisters at home."

"We had to fight for food, water, and even books. We only had one set of books."

She stood in front of the thunder, and each roar struck her heart directly.

"As far as I can remember, I never knew what it felt like to be taken care of. Until those few days, Chen Ning'an, you were the only light in my life."

This world is too dark and her personality is almost paranoid.

Chen Ning'an's eyes did not move: "This is just a wrong perception caused by your life experience. It is a mental illness."

In his previous life, he encountered many such examples.

He shook his head: "I thought you would put forward some conditions to me, but now it seems that you are just motivated by a desire for self-salvation, and also a way to escape from the darkness of the current world."

"Ye Dingwan, please go away. I don't need your dedication."

What Chen Ning'an said was true, but Ye Dingwan shook her head.

"Brother Chen, tell me, in this world, is there any difference between me being dead and being alive?"

She couldn't stand it. She had to get up early every morning to go to work, be bullied, not be able to eat delicious food, have no rest time, and go home late at night.

She wanted to watch the sunset in the evening and breathe the morning dew at dawn.

Instead of spending all your time making money and surviving, then getting married, having four or five children, and if you're lucky two or three of them will survive.

"The weak are defeated by the world and are not fit to live in this world." Chen Ning'an answered her question: "And the strong, if they have luck, they will change the world. If they don't have luck, they will not be changed or assimilated by this world."

These words shattered Ye Dingwan's blind cognition into pieces.

Can the strong and the weak be used as a reference for this world?

She suddenly gritted her teeth and started taking things out of her bag.

Rubber suits, rubber shoes, gloves, etc.

Chen Ningan frowned, his eyes cold: "I said, I don't need your kindness."

"No, I don't mean it kindly."

There was still starlight in Ye Dingwan's eyes: "If I can help you get the lightning wood, can you make me as powerful as you?"

"I...negotiate terms with you."

There was something more in this girl's eyes, and the stars shone brighter.

Chen Ning'an hesitated for a moment and nodded.

"can."

The Great Talisman of the Human Body can be applied to the path he is currently taking.

"it is good!"

Ye Dingwan resolutely stepped into the minefield.

"boom!"

Thunder was falling beside her, her hair was flying in the air, and she took each step firmly and steadily.

Chen Ning'an sighed and took out one metal stick after another from the package he was carrying.

These were lightning rods he had specially prepared. He exerted force with his arms and inserted them all around.

"boom!"

The thunder fell and it worked as expected. The lightning rod took the thunder away.

There is no ghost in Ye Dingwan's body, so she is not as resistant as that woman.

I have to say, she was very lucky. She really broke off a branch and slowly walked back.

The steps cannot be too big, otherwise it will form step voltage, which is tantamount to seeking death.

"You actually came back alive."

Chen Ning'an was a little bit unbelieving. Even after making these preparations, he was not optimistic about the outcome.

"You said that I would become as powerful as you."

Ye Dingwan handed the branch to Chen Ningan without blinking.

This branch is smaller than the last one, only as thick as a thumb, but it is still more than twenty centimeters, which is enough.

"Come and see me the day after tomorrow."

Chen Ningan agreed to her, and the two of them finished holding the lanterns.

Watching Ye Dingwan leave, Chen Ningan looked into the distance.

There, there was a rolled earth platform that followed him all the way here.

"Mountain Mother, humph."

He extinguished the lantern and went home to start working immediately.

An offering table, three big incense sticks burning, incense, candles, paper money, and three knife heads, worshiping the sky.

Then recite the name of the gods again and pray for their protection.

On the incense table were the sharpened lightning-struck wood, wood powder, cinnabar, a mixture of rainwater and well water, talisman paper, and the brush.

And, eight newly purchased mirrors.

This is an inauguration ceremony, and at the same time, it is also a ceremony to bless these things with magical powers.

Is this the end?
No, this is just the beginning. Chen Ning'an took out thirty-six calming talismans and pasted them on the statue of the God of Self-Saving Fortune, using the curse to suppress himself to prevent being attacked by the Mountain Mother.

He went out with eight mirrors, reflecting the sunlight onto the lightning-struck wood powder and cinnabar on the altar.

Yang energy plus Yang energy shines for twelve days in a row, and there must not be rain in between, otherwise everything will be invalid.

Twelve days later is a day he favors, an auspicious day for consecration, and everything will go well.

And twelve days from now, he would teach Mother Shan a lesson for the price of trying to interfere with the balance of the transaction.

(End of this chapter)