Inheriting a Taoist temple, the story begins with Wu Zetian offering incense.

Chapter 73 An Unexpected Encounter with the Stone Fairy! [Seeking Monthly Tickets]

Zhou Yi took out a high-level talisman from his bag, flicked his fingers, and the talisman lightly landed on the small Buddha statue.

As soon as the cover was put on, Nan Nan on the bed suddenly let out a scream, her whole body trembling, and she made a sound of her teeth chattering, as if she was enduring great pain, or as if she was about to bite someone.

The couple outside the door and Hu Lijun were terrified. They wanted to come in, but were worried about interfering with the ritual.

Zhou Yi calmly took out a seal the size of a mahjong tile from his bag and gently placed it on Nan Nan's chest. The little girl was immediately unable to move. This seal, which weighed less than an ounce, seemed to weigh a thousand pounds at this moment.

Taking advantage of the break, Zhou Yi took the four-faced Buddha statue wrapped in talismans into his hand, then took out another talisman and wrapped the Buddha statue in a net-like pattern.

Then, with a gentle toss, the Buddha statue and talisman burst into flames, emitting eerie, blood-red flames.

Nan Nan let out a piercing scream and struggled violently. Then she began to beg for mercy intermittently, mixed with Thai. Zhou Yi didn't understand Thai and couldn't quite understand what she meant.

"Master, what's wrong with my Nannan?"

The parents, still worried, rushed in.

Zhou Yi pointed to the Buddha statue that was about to turn to ashes and said:

“She’s possessed. The source is this Buddha statue… Your daughter is usually quite healthy, so evil spirits have no chance to take advantage of her. But after she was frightened yesterday, she gave the evil spirits an opportunity, and that’s why she became possessed.”

Hu Lijun peered through the door and asked:
"What happened by the river yesterday? He was fine at first, but then his lips turned purple, like he was possessed."

The Book of Changes explains:
“During the days that Wenyan Canal was blocked, a large amount of death energy and evil spirits accumulated in the water. When it was first opened, the evil spirits poured down with the water flow and rushed towards the little girl.”

When Nan Nan was first rescued, she was filled with joy, but after the joy came endless fear, which gave the evil spirits in the river the opportunity to possess her.

After arriving home, the evil spirit inside the Buddha statue, drawn by the smell, swarmed over, and Nan Nan's condition began to worsen.

Hu Lijun muttered:

"That river has been blocked for who knows how many days..."

Before he could finish speaking, Nan Nan's father suddenly said:
"Thirty-eight days, we were stuck in traffic for a full thirty-eight days."

"How do you know it?"

“This is the project I contracted… Last week, the water conservancy bureau notified us to dig up the dam. A friend of mine contacted me and said that a feng shui master hoped I could keep the dam open for a few more days, promising a generous reward afterward. So I waited two more days, but who knew that it would hurt my daughter.”

Zhouyi: "..."

Wow, we've found the contractor's house.

Seeing that Nan Nan had stopped struggling, he picked up the seal and thoughtfully placed a sleep-inducing talisman by her pillow. Nan Nan's breathing gradually calmed down, and she soon fell asleep.

Zhou Yi put away the seal and looked at Nan Nan's father, asking:
"Is that feng shui master surnamed Xie?"

"Yes, his surname is Xie, he's some kind of association president, my drinking buddy of mine brags about him like crazy..."

"Why did you dig up the river dam ahead of schedule yesterday? Didn't you know your daughter was downstream?"

Nan Nan's father said with a look of annoyance:

“Yesterday was a small job. I was downstream with some technicians surveying the greenway. I told two excavator operators to start at three o’clock, but they insisted that a leader was coming and told them to start digging quickly and not wait. But when we asked them what the leader looked like afterward, neither of them could describe it. The police officer in charge of maintaining order at the scene gave them a lecture, and that was the end of it.”

Nan Nan was fast asleep when Zhou Yi waved his hand, signaling everyone to go outside to talk.

As soon as they entered the living room, Nan Nan's mother busied herself making tea, and Hu Lijun began to recount the gossip he had heard:

"A couple of days ago, the head of the psychiatry department at the city's mental hospital suddenly went crazy. He kept kowtowing to a child and was taken to the electroshock room where he was repeatedly shocked. As soon as he regained his senses, he was dismissed on the spot... I heard that he had uremia and didn't want to die, so he consulted a fortune teller about ways to prolong his life and spent tens of thousands of yuan."

With those tens of thousands of yuan for dialysis, he could probably live a little longer. It just goes to show that those who do many evil deeds will surely perish. Now that he has been dismissed and has no income, coupled with uremia, the future of that department head is predictable.

After drinking a cup of tea and confirming that Nan Nan was alright, Zhou Yi took out two talismans to enhance the soul from his bag and handed them to Nan Nan's mother, asking her to secretly slip them into Nan Nan's clothes or schoolbag.

"I will come to the county in three days and bring her a protective bracelet that was once enshrined in the Dongyue Emperor Temple. This will prevent such a situation from happening again."

Nan Nan's father was very savvy; after clarifying the price, he paid three thousand yuan without hesitation. After chatting for a few more minutes, Zhou Yi wrote down the name of the temple in Thailand, then got up to say goodbye. Hu Lijun also prepared to go back; he had to go to work in the afternoon and couldn't stay any longer.

Nan Nan's father was extremely grateful for Hu Lijun's help. Yesterday, Hu Lijun rescued a person from the river, and today he helped find a master to save his daughter's life. He immediately gave Hu Lijun a red envelope containing 10,000 yuan and brought over a case of Moutai liquor.

Hu Lijun refused to accept the offer, so the couple considered having Nannan recognize a godfather. However, the little girl was still asleep, so it wouldn't be too late to discuss it in a few days.

Leaving Nan Nan's house, Hu Lijun was filled with emotion:
"I never expected to have another daughter. No wonder you said my luck has been favorable to water lately. It's really true."

He dreamed of having a daughter, but he had two sons. He thought he was destined to never have a daughter, but then he rescued a little girl by the river and his dream came true.

As the two arrived at the entrance of the residential area, Zhou Yi was about to go out when he suddenly felt a chill run down his spine. The surroundings were eerily cold. He turned his head and saw a middle-aged or elderly woman with a strange appearance walking towards him not far away.

She was described as middle-aged or elderly because she looked to be around fifty years old, but her hair was completely white. She wore a hairstyle commonly seen on Taoist priests and a very strange red headband with an ancient jade piece inlaid in the center.

This outfit, paired with the bright red Qing Dynasty-style jacket, exuded an indescribable eeriness and chill. Coupled with his pale face, devoid of any color, he looked from a distance like a moving corpse.

What the hell is this thing?

Hu Lijun did recognize her:
"Hey? Isn't this the Stone Fairy from Sanlizhuang? I heard she was beaten up in the street a while ago, but I didn't expect her to recover so quickly."

Is this the Stone Fairy?

Zhou Yi hadn't paid much attention to it, but since it was the renowned Stone Fairy, he had to take a closer look.

Just then, Fairy Stone came this way, and Zhou Yi discovered that the deathly aura on her body originated from the ancient jade on her forehead... If he wasn't mistaken, this jade should be a jade plug used by ancient kings and nobles to seal the nine orifices of corpses. It was something dug out of an ancient tomb, and it was extremely yin in nature.

Abbot Zhou's lips twitched; he didn't know how to comment.

You might say she doesn't understand, but she's a well-known sorceress; you might say she does understand, but she actually has a dead person's object on her forehead and parades around in public with it on.

If this continues, she won't need the patriarch to save her; she'll send herself to the underworld... She'll get what she asked for.

After parting ways with Hu Lijun, Zhou Yi was somewhat worried about the newly opened Wenyan Canal, so he drove over to check it out. He discovered that the feng shui of the entire river had been straightened out, and even Ding Zhenhua's flour mill had changed its fortune, no longer appearing as lifeless as it had a few days ago.

After reading this, Zhou Yi drove back to Yunwu Town.

At the same time, in the world of Emperor Yuan of the Great Han Dynasty, on the riverbank twenty miles west of Wensu City, Chen Tang tied a loud and boisterous foreign bandit to the support of a solar cooker and began interrogating him.

After returning last time, he did not take immediate action, but changed his strategy and traveled overnight with Gan Yanshou.

Just as the bandits were discussing how to escape in the chaos, Chen Tang took action. At midday, when the sun was at its hottest, he set up a solar cooker, tied the hands of a minor leader to the cooker's support, and began the interrogation.

The Kangju prince, who had previously injured the Wusun prince, volunteered to act as the translator.

"Who sent you here?"

The bandit leader rattled off a string of words, and Chen Tang turned to look at the Prince of Kangju, who was used to the spicy and flavorful food of Wang Shouyi's cuisine. The prince quickly translated:
He said he was a warrior of the gods and knew nothing about the word fear.

Upon hearing this, Chen Tang immediately burst into laughter:
"Good, you've got guts. I like tough guys like you..."

After saying that, the guy took the laser spotlight that Zhou Yi had given him, aimed it at the "warrior's" eyes, and pressed the switch.

The intense sunlight shone into his eyes, and the junior leader burst into tears on the spot, saving the need for a translator:

"I'll tell you everything, please spare my life!"

Chen Tang looked smugly at Gan Yanshou, hoping he would praise him, but Old Gan said with a pained expression:

"Wasting electricity on such a piece of junk is such a waste..."

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The initial plan is to release it on June 1st. I also have recommendations for Xiaolaba and Sanjiang to come up with, but these two recommendations can't be released in the same week. Normally, it would be more appropriate to release it on June 4th or 5th, but I can't wait any longer. Release it on the 6st so you can enjoy it. I'll also try to save up as many chapters as possible and strive for a big release... Here's the second update. Please vote for me, brothers!

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