fairy family

Chapter 38: Tempering the Heart and Soul, and the Spirit Leaving the Body

Yu Que looked up at the top of the fire chamber, not daring to move.

At this moment, he suddenly felt regretful and thought that he shouldn't be so cruel.

If other people saw this scene and this mood, they might think he had some peculiar hobby.

But since he had already started, Yu Que couldn't let himself go. Not only would his suffering be in vain, but his cultivation would also come to an end.

"According to Master Huang, when setting up the lantern ceremony, some people would choose to strangle their own necks directly, creating a suffocating feeling, and either live or die, which is even more extreme.

Some people even peel off their own skin when they practice... I am just piercing my tongue and hanging it from a beam, so just treat it as having a tongue stud."

Thoughts surged in his mind, and then he endured the pain, closed his eyes slightly, and recited the sacrificial text in an unclear voice.

"How about hanging your head in a fire room? There is no fear, no light! How about pointing your tongue toward the underworld? There is no pain, no perseverance!"

After drinking several times, Yu Que thought he had gotten used to the pain on his tongue, so he began to shake his head, as if a hanged rat was still twitching instinctively.

Suddenly, he opened his eyes abruptly, a gleam of light came out of his eyes, wisps of gray air surged to his face, and his pupils immediately dilated and turned into a pair of cat's eyes.

In an instant, Yu Que was possessed by the household god and turned into the appearance of a cat corpse.

After the cat corpse appeared, unlike usual, it no longer obeyed Yu Que's orders. Instead, it was stimulated by various things, became irritable and restless, and looked at the rotten meat and dirt hanging around with greedy eyes.

Yu Que even lost control of his body for a moment, and his consciousness was pushed aside.

It was because of the temptation of the altar and the sacrifices that the household god in his body became restless and temporarily took over his body.

This situation is extremely dangerous. Although Yu Que will not be "possessed" tragically, if the family god does not take care of his body, after the possession ends, Yu Que himself will be the one who becomes disabled or seriously injured.

Fortunately, no matter how much "Yu Que" howled, roared, or went crazy, the ritual was effective and his tongue was hung firmly on the top of the fire chamber.

His body was like a fish on a hook, unable to escape.

Yu Que himself was watching this scene with his consciousness, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

This scene was within his expectations and was also the beginning step of the ritual.

However, no matter how well the ritual book is written, everyone will worry about their own safety if they have never actually performed it.

Fortunately, a mere piece of wire is enough to tie up the physical body and make even the irritable household gods powerless.

The tension in Yu Que's heart was mostly relieved.

"With this iron wire, even if the ritual fails, there will be no danger to life."

He stopped hesitating and silently visualized the "Huangshan Precious Pine Visualization Method" given to him by the Alchemist Guild. A huge sacred pine tree immediately appeared in his mind, with twisted branches and majestic power like an abyss.

With the help of this visualization method, his consciousness squeezed back into his body.

Yu Que's low roar was heard from the fire room: "You beast, surrender quickly."

Xiao!
The sounds of cats and people shouting were heard constantly in his mouth.

After the two of them neighed for a few breaths, they slowly subsided, and Yu Que's eyes changed, returning to a completely human expression. It was he who successfully suppressed the cat-faced family god again.

The next moment, his face became solemn, with gray air crawling above his head, he suddenly stood up and paced barefoot on the altar.

Cackling!

I saw him tilting his head back and grabbing the rotten meat and dirt hanging on the wire with his chicken claw-like fingers, as if he was about to swallow it.

This action made the household spirit in his body restless again. It came out of his body and transformed into a little ghost with a cat face and a human body, squatting on top of Yu Que's head.

But Yu Que did not actually eat it. Instead, he pretended to eat it while dancing in a strange way.

He crushed the meat with his hands and smeared it down his throat, onto his chest and abdomen.

"Heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys, fire, wood, earth, metal, water, quickly take this medicine and refine it, and return it to my immortal body!"

Yu Que growled in the void, rubbed a rotten heart against his left chest with his sword finger, and then rubbed a rotten liver against his abdomen.

He did this step by step, applying all the internal organs hanging on the wire on his chest like applying medicine, including a piece of pig brain, which he painted on his forehead and cheeks like applying rouge and powder.

His facial expression became more greedy and horrified, as if he had really eaten so many organs, with an extremely evil aura.

The cat-faced household god squatting on top of Yu Que's head changed from being impatient and anxious at the beginning to being extremely excited, as if he had eaten those internal organs.

The gray energy from his divine body seemed to be boiling, emitting smoke and gas, making Yu Que's entire body covered in mist and clouds, and giving him an eerie ghostly aura.

That’s right, the action of taking food that Yu Que had just done was actually intended to feed the cat-faced house god in his body, using rotten meat and rotten organs to stimulate its ferocity as an appetizer.

After all, next, he would sacrifice a century-old ghost to the cat-faced family god.

If the cat-faced household god is not too ferocious and accidentally falls victim to the hundred-year-old ghost, then it would be a disaster.

Meow!

The shrill sound of a cat's cry continued to echo in the fire room.

If this family god had not tried and failed just now, it would have occupied the remaining body again at this moment.

Seeing that it was in good condition, Yu Que calmed down, sat cross-legged on the cat-faced household god, and took out a sealed porcelain jar next to it.

The porcelain jar was made of celadon, with talismans painted on it that looked like twisted snakes and insects, and it was sealed tightly with yellow paper.

What is stored here is exactly the century-old ghost that he carefully cultivated and selected with gray water.

A hint of hesitation appeared on Yu Que's face at last, but his hands did not hesitate.

He stretched out his finger and took a sip of blood from the tip of his pierced tongue. He rolled his eyes, mumbled something incoherent, and drew talismans on the porcelain urn with his fingers.

As soon as the blood from the tip of his tongue fell on the surface of the porcelain jar, it turned black and dry, as if it had fallen on charcoal fire.

After Yu Que drew a few talismans, he stopped moving his hands. Then, a crisp snapping sound was heard again in the fire room!

He was holding the porcelain urn of ashes and slapped himself on the forehead.

Waves of incense ashes fell from the porcelain jar, landing on the altar and on his tongue.

These incense sticks formed strange tooth marks on the surface of the altar.

Yu Que's eyes, which were originally rolling up, suddenly changed and turned completely pure white, which was extremely creepy.

His tongue suddenly stretched out a lot, like a cow's tongue, which was not something an ordinary person could stretch out.

A trace of Yin energy appeared on his body, making his whole temperament instantly become gloomy, as if he had become a different person.

"hungry!"

Yu Que was seen staring with two white eyes, making sounds from his mouth, with a foolish and evil look on his face. He was indeed a different "person".

This was exactly what happened after he smashed the urn, and the century-old ghost in the urn entered his body and possessed him!

If this happened to an ordinary person, it would be like seeking death, not to mention that the one possessing him was a hundred-year-old ghost. Even if it was a weaker one among the hundred-year-old ghosts, formed by an old man hanging himself, it still had a strong yin energy and could suck all the yang energy out of a person in just a few bites.

But Yu Que is not an ordinary person, he is a cultivator who has stepped half a foot into the threshold of the immortal world, and at this moment he is carefully performing the ritual. He does not need to do anything himself.

A sharp cat cry sounded in the fire room.

The cat-faced household god squatting above Yu Que's head suddenly turned into gray gas and quickly drilled into Yu Que's skull like a snake or worm.

Yu Que's head was shaking as a result, and his face showed a ferocious look repeatedly.

If he had not been hanging by the wire, he would have covered his head and immediately fallen off the altar, rolling on the spot in the fire room.

At this moment, the cat-faced family god was inside his head, fighting with the century-old hanged ghost who had just entered, competing for the remaining flesh and blood.

A ghost and a god, a fight between a dragon and a tiger, made Yu Que feel like the top of his head was about to be blown off.

However, it was precisely because of the fight between the ghost and the god that his consciousness returned and he was able to control his body.

At this moment, Deng Yi has reached a very critical moment.

Yu Que didn't care about the pain inside or outside his body. He tilted his head back and chanted the Heart Purification Mantra loudly:
"Tai Shang Tai Xing, constantly adapting to changes. It drives away evil spirits and traps evil spirits, protects life and body. Wisdom is clear and pure, and the mind is peaceful. The three souls are eternal, and the soul has no loss."

The sound of chanting resounded throughout the fire room, repeating endlessly. No matter what sins the ghosts and gods in his mind had committed, he kept chanting.

At this moment, the incense sticks and paper money placed around by Yu Que also fluttered in the wind, like fallen leaves and snowflakes, swirling in the fire room.

The incense, paper money fell onto the rat-oil lamp on the wire, and it ignited with a puff, releasing wisps of incense, causing the pale green flame to flicker violently and burn more and more vigorously.

"The Seven Corpses' Last Lights" is completely ignited!
The next period of time was a time of torment for Yu Que.

He needed to endure seven days and nights, and the corpse lamp in the fire room did not go out. He had survived the "first seven days" and had successfully completed the ritual.

And with the blessing of the lantern, his cat-faced family god will extract great benefits from the hundred-year-old hanged ghost, which will double his familiarity and affect his own soul.

But during these seven days and nights, although he no longer needed to do anything, he just had to simply endure it.

But this stage is also the most difficult one in "The Ceremony of the Seven Corpses' Last Lights".

Because during the seven days, Yu Que could clearly feel his vitality gradually fading away, even his breathing became lower and lower, almost stopping, and even his body temperature dropped, becoming more and more like a corpse.

This kind of torture is not comparable to having your tongue pierced suddenly.

It will make people feel panic and constantly doubt themselves.

Emotions such as suspicion, worry, terror, and laziness would be magnified several times and would entangle Yu Que's mind tightly, making him want to terminate the ritual at any time.

Huang Guishan had previously briefed Yu Que and suggested that if he really couldn't bear it any longer, he could choose to terminate the contract.

After all, one of the advantages of this "Seven Corpses' Last Light Ritual" is that it has a proper termination method, and there will be no aftereffects after termination.

However, at this moment, Yu Que, who was trapped in the lantern ceremony, felt a surge of ruthlessness.

Not only did he not think about ending the ritual, but he also despised himself, wondering why he had written down the method of ending the ritual so that he would have a way out.

He was hunched over, with a crazy look on his face, and he was screaming:

"How can a mere method hinder my heart! When the light returns to the body, the seven corpses will be resurrected.

"Refine! Refine! Refine! Refine for me!"

So, he hung himself in the fire room, with his eyes wide open, waiting for the effects of the ritual to appear little by little.

One day, two days, time passed.

After three days, the cruelty in Yu Que's heart had completely disappeared, and he couldn't even utter a cruel word.

His expression became dazed and his consciousness began to blur.

But he still persisted and kept chanting the spell.

The immortal path of this world contains great terror in itself. If he wants to gain immortality, how could he, Yu Que, not even be able to break through this small barrier of entry!
Time continued to pass, four days, five days, six days...

Finally, the seventh day arrived, and the entire fire room was filled with a gray gas that was swirling around.

The cat's meowing sound echoing in the fire room has changed greatly. It is like the sound of a tiger or leopard, containing the sound of thunder.

Yu Que's face looked extremely haggard at this moment, and he was barely breathing.

There was not a single thought in his mind at this moment. The ritual methods he had arranged in advance were just moving on their own. His body and mind were like a dead tree, motionless.

But at the end of the seventh day, a ray of light slowly appeared in Yu Que's mind.

His withered body suddenly came back to life like a dead tree coming back to life, absorbing the gray air in the fire room and his skin became plump.

Then wisps of yellow light emerged from his head, forming into the shape of a pine tree, shining brightly!

Yu Que's soul also gradually awakened in this light.

Whoosh!

As he breathed, a flame suddenly surged out from the fire pit under the altar and covered his entire body.

As soon as the flame appeared, it swept away all the eerie ghostly aura in the entire fire room, clearing away all the filth, and there was no longer any trace of the eerie and terrifying feeling from the past seven days.

At the same time, two screams suddenly rang out in the fire room, one of which was the most shrill.

An old ghost face suddenly jumped out of Yu Que's mind, and he tried to avoid it as much as possible.

But as soon as it broke away from the remains and fell into the fire room, its ghost face twisted and it screamed in the raging fire and turned into ashes, leaving only a wisp of resentment from the incense.

The "Ceremony of the Seven Corpses' Returning Lights" that Yu Que arranged this time, although its beginning was weird, it was actually a serious ritual for the salvation of the soul.

Now that the ritual is over, we must use real fire to burn the ghosts, clear out the evil spirits, and leave no hidden dangers!
Even if the cat-faced family god was not Yu Que's household general, no matter how much benefit it had just gained, it would have been burned to death by the raging fire in the fire room.

On the altar.

Yu Que's consciousness flickered, and he turned into a white light, rising slowly from above his head. He was sitting cross-legged on the yellow sapling, looking solemn, like a solemn little statue of a god.

This thing is his soul, and he has successfully left his body.

The yellow glowing sapling under which he sat was the sprout of the precious pine tree that he had been visualizing day and night.

The two are intertwined and integrated. Baosong will serve as the skeleton of his three souls and seven spirits, maintaining his soul and spirit so that they will no longer be scattered, but will become the body of Baosong's Yin God.

Yu Que realized it slowly and came to his senses, realizing, "This means the seven-day period has come."

As soon as he thought about it, he found that the three feet of his body were covered by yellow light. He did not need to use his eyes or ears, and the altar, the fire pit, his own bones and muscles all appeared in his mind.

Every detail is clearly visible, even the dust can be detected, it is truly amazing.

These strands of yellow light were his spiritual consciousness spreading out.

A look of great joy appeared on Yu Que's face.

This time, his ritual practice was successful at one go, allowing him to step foot into the ranks of immortals with both feet!

(End of this chapter)