Descending upon the terrifying heavens as a superman

Chapter 84 Taoist Priest, Please Join My Team

"They—like viruses—spread from one to another; once you come into contact with them, you're bound to be infected."

"It's like—a parasite, having its body taken over."

"We have no choice but to shoot them, otherwise they will continue to harm more people —"

"As for what happens after he's killed—"

Huang Yaozu gave a bitter smile and told Zhang Yue a painful truth: "They do die, but only for a period of time, and then they will come back to life."

"However, they will lose some of their memories after being resurrected, just like a computer being reinstalled—"

Zhang Yue asked, "So, they only die temporarily, but what if they continue to commit crimes after being resurrected?"

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Huang Yaozu lit a cigarette and said dejectedly, "What can we do? Keep killing, keep killing until—it is completely unable to revive, or until it stops harming the people."

"Fortunately, this situation is not common. Most ghosts will repeat the things they did in their previous life. Some are like earthbound spirits, which will not leave their territory and will not harm people. As long as we seal off the area and prevent the people from contacting them, there will be no problem."

"Very few people can wander around like Chen Fulai."

Zhang Yue nodded. He remembered the old man at the movie theater and the child who drowned in the swimming pool in the first commandment.

Both of them are like earthbound spirits, fixed in the place where they died in their previous lives.

Aside from crying at night and startling people, the child has never harmed anyone.

The old man had been guarding his movie theater for many years without incident. The reason for the sudden change was that someone wanted to demolish the movie theater.

If left undisturbed, the old man would simply be a bound spirit guarding his own movie theater his whole life, posing no real threat.

Moreover, judging from the plot, the old man seems to be like a program, unaware that he is dying, and keeps rambling to Huang Yaozu that someone came to his movie theater to steal things.

It wasn't until the female real estate agent came in that he was provoked.

As for Huang Yaozu's statement—to resurrect each time and then kill them, killing people like Chen Fulai until they stop harming others and disappear on their own—Zhang Yue disagrees.

When Zhang Yue thought about the ending of the First Commandment, a chilling thought popped into her mind.

Perhaps—they didn't just disappear because they were killed too many times.

Instead, it added————

"I'd like to ask, since you two have the ability to see ghosts, are you able to tell what they look like when they're possessing someone? This would ensure that you don't accidentally hurt others when you fire your guns."

Huang Yaozu and Li Guoqiang exchanged glances, somewhat confused by Zhang Yue's words.

"Mr. Zhang—oh no, Master Zhang, I don't quite understand what you mean?"

After Zhang Yue mentioned Chen Fulai's name, Li Guoqiang was completely convinced that Zhang Yue was a Taoist priest who, like them, possessed the ability to see ghosts; otherwise, there would be no way to explain how he knew about Chen Fulai.

"Humans have three souls and seven spirits. The three souls refer to the heavenly soul, the earthly soul, and the human soul."

There is also a folk saying that describes these three souls as three fires, which you can also understand as a person's vital energy and blood.

"And those who are possessed, my Yin-Yang Eyes" can tell at a glance—because their three flames are extremely weak, or even extinguished."

This is what he can't understand the most: the two of them clearly have the ability to see ghosts, yet they can't tell each other apart after being possessed by a vengeful spirit.

Who are they?

Especially in the finale, when Li Guoqiang was possessed, Huang Yaozu didn't even realize it, as if their ability to see ghosts was completely useless.

Well, or perhaps they've never cultivated before, don't know how, and no one has taught them, so their ability to see ghosts is completely left to their own devices.

Just like how the exceptionally talented Xu Zhu would have remained an ordinary person his entire life if no one had taught him.

After hearing Zhang Yue say this, the two fell silent.

"You mean—you can tell what happened to them after they were possessed?"

"But we've always been like this—"

"What I mean is, once the evil spirits possess someone, you won't be able to tell which person they're hiding in, right?"

"Yes----"

"That's right————"

Zhang Yue took a deep breath. "You guys—need to train and get special training."

"Training?" Huang Yaozu and Li Guoqiang exchanged bewildered glances. These Yin-Yang eyes could actually be trained?

If we could cultivate and become stronger, wouldn't the officers in the miscellaneous affairs department no longer feel as depressed and hopeless as before?

"That's right, I will give you special training so that your yin-yang eyes can distinguish between possession and non-possession."

Huang Yaozu took a deep breath, and the dejection and exhaustion on his face disappeared, leaving only the excitement of joy. He gripped Zhang Yue's hand tightly.

"Master, you absolutely must join my team—"

Miscellaneous Materials Department

The bespectacled guy in the miscellaneous department, who was originally sitting in a wheelchair, came over and handed Li Guoqiang a document he had just printed out.

"Officer Li, after you mentioned Chen Fulai's name, I found out the meaning of the string of numbers on your arm. It's a parking ticket you issued, and it happens to be from the day Chen Fulai died—"

"Without a doubt, it's here to find you—"

Li Guoqiang nodded. "I understand—wait, aren't you paralyzed in both legs?"

The bespectacled man rolled his eyes. "Just because I like sitting in a wheelchair doesn't mean I'm disabled—that's a vulgar view held by worldly people."

"By the way, you're taking this gentleman back to the miscellaneous affairs department—you're not going to perform a ritual, are you?"

The four-eyed guy looked at Zhang Yue.

At this moment, in the miscellaneous items section, as Zhang Yue requested, various Maoshan sect exorcism tools, such as yellow talismans, roosters, ink lines, peach wood swords, and Bagua mirrors, were laid out.

Zhang Yue said, "Yes, that's right, we need to perform a ritual. I'll set up an altar for you first and draw some exorcism talismans to prevent you from being possessed or having your bodies taken over while you're on a mission."

The most perplexing aspect of the First Commandment is that touching it will result in possession.

The male and female protagonists are no exception, but since Zhang Yue has come and has tested whether Maoshan magic is also useful in this world, he will naturally not leave it unattended.

The bespectacled man scoffed, "What era are we living in? Still—"

"What else?" Zhang Yue interrupted the bespectacled guy, retorting, "Do you still believe that Taoist priests can exorcise ghosts? I'm asking you, four-eyed guy, do you have the ability to see ghosts?"

"have----"

"Have you ever been to the mainland, just across the river?"

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"You've never been there, right?" Zhang Yue looked at the three of them and decided to tell them a cruel truth, "I'll tell you the truth: let alone a powerful spirit like Chen Fulai, you can't even see ordinary earthbound spirits over there—"

Li Guoqiang and Huang Yaozu were both stunned. "This—this can't be!"

"Nothing is impossible. If they don't have them over there, it's probably because Ox-Head and Horse-Face haven't been slacking off. And maybe they don't have them either in the British Isles—"

"Although I don't understand why this is the case, I can tell you one thing: in places where poisonous snakes roam, there is always an antidote within seven steps."

"Our Maoshan sect specializes in dealing with all kinds of dissent."

"If no one can truly cure them, then guess what will happen given the countless deaths that have occurred in the thousands of years of Chinese history—the countless deaths in the two World Wars?"

Li Guoqiang muttered to himself, "Could it be—that only Hong Kong Island is like this? Is this some kind of no-man's-land?"

Huang Yaozu thought about how he was about to step down and remarry his ex-wife. Hearing Zhang Yue say this, he immediately felt much more relaxed.

If that's the case, then he can travel the world with his wife without worry, and then find a place to settle down and retire.

Huang Yaozu joked, "Hey, maybe that's true. This is a colony. Before 1997, the Ox-Head and Horse-Face didn't care about these things, which is why there are such illogical and bizarre people like Chen Fulai."

Zhang Yue said, "Enough with the nonsense, I'm going to set up the altar and perform the ritual. Four-Eyes, get the rooster's blood—"

The bespectacled man paused, looking at the live rooster. "Get rooster blood? How do you do that?"

"Idiot, don't tell me you've never even killed a chicken?"

—

After collecting the rooster's blood, they began preparing the ritual.

"Heaven is round and earth is square, laws and decrees are in nine chapters. Now I wield my pen, and all ghosts will hide in fear. With my two pens and the ancestral sword, I invite the heavenly gods to mobilize the heavenly soldiers."

Three strokes and the fierce god is annihilated; what ghost dares to see him, what evil spirit dares to face him? Above, the Three Pure Ones; below, the human heart responds; heaven is clear, earth is spiritual, so be it!

Zhang Yue first had them bring over a memorial tablet of the founder of the Maoshan School, which was placed in the miscellaneous items section.

A memorial tablet is just a piece of wood, but it only gains a spiritual aura after being consecrated and invoking deities. It needs to be offered three sticks of incense every morning and evening with utmost sincerity, otherwise the spiritual aura on it will dissipate over time.

If they were skeptical when they first saw the yellow talisman drawn by Zhang Yue, they had no doubts after Zhang Yue performed the ritual.

A golden light, visible only to those with the ability to see ghosts, descended from the sky and landed on numerous yellow talismans drawn in Cantonese.

Immediately afterwards, the ancestral tablet, which had just been a piece of wood, also changed, seemingly giving people an extremely peaceful feeling.

"These are exorcism talismans—" Zhang Yue handed out the yellow talismans to them. "Remember, you must never put them down. As long as you wear them around your necks, Chen Fulai will not be able to possess you."

"And—" Zhang Yue suddenly revealed a wicked smile.

Li Guoqiang had a bad feeling. "What else?"

"And also—the three of you will undergo special training—"

Special training?

The four-eyed guy looked completely bewildered.

The eerie will-o'-the-wisps illuminated the black rocks, while a cold mist lingered in the distance, and all that could be heard was the endless wailing all around.

The blue-faced, fanged underworld official, wielding a cold iron curved blade, approached Four-Eyes expressionlessly. Then, to Four-Eyes' horrified gaze, he used the sharp blade to slit open his eye sockets, gouging out his eyes and slowly removing his eyeballs.

A crow, born to fly, landed precisely and pecked out his eyes.

Then the four-eyed boy howled in pain, struggled for a moment, and his eyes grew back.

Immediately afterwards, the underworld messengers stepped forward once more—

The torment of having one's eyes gouged out is endless, and one cannot escape the karmic obstacles.

"I'm not playing anymore, I'm not training anymore, I want to go home, I want to go home—" the four-eyed boy wailed in pain, struggling and crying, his pants were wet.

Like him, Li Guoqiang and Huang Yaozu also felt regret; they felt they had been deceived by Zhang Yue.

They believed Zhang Yue's words and were also curious about what Taoist cultivation was like, so they came together.

"This, this is your Maoshan Sect's cultivation method?" Huang Yaozu asked in a trembling voice. This is more like a heretical cultivation method.

What happened to the Maoshan Sect being a prestigious and righteous sect?

"Ahem, don't worry about the details—" Zhang Yue coughed and said to them, "Your mental strength is too weak. Even the most basic Yin-Yang Eyes seem to be passive, so we need to use some strong ingredients."

"This is how you improve quickly—"

Zhang Yue was naturally not teaching them the orthodox cultivation methods of the Maoshan Sect; it would have been useless anyway, as orthodox cultivation is extremely slow. What he used was naturally the cultivation method of the True Immortal Temple.

The righteous path is ten times slower, while the heretical path is ten times faster.

Give each of the three a longevity pill, then use fungi to help them enter the Eye-Scratching Hell.

Although the Longevity Pill contains heavy metals, its effects are undeniable. After taking it and cultivating once, one can significantly improve physical fitness and mental strength.

With only two bloody holes remaining in Li Guoqiang's eyes, he gritted his teeth and shouted, "Tell me, is this hell or not?"

"Of course not, this is an illusion. Just treat this as an illusion—"

"Is this how you usually cultivate?"

"Of course not." Just as Li Guoqiang and Huang Yaozu were about to curse, Zhang Yue said something that made them even more horrified.

"What I'm eating now is an elixir of immortality, ten times more potent than a longevity pill, so the pain—is also ten times yours—"

Zhang Yue chuckled. Even Chen Fulai, that psychopath, couldn't withstand ten times the torture after being dragged into the illusory hell; his soul was scattered. That shows the level of suffering.

However, in order to slow down the severity of heavy metal poisoning, Zhang Yue only took one Immortal Elixir a week.

When they finished their training, the three of them were covered in sweat from head to toe, as if they had just climbed out of a swimming pool.

"Finally, finally I'm back—" Li Guoqiang lay on the ground, muttering to himself as he touched his eyes.

"Water—I want water—" the bespectacled boy struggled to crawl toward the water dispenser.

"I—I will never believe the nonsense of you Maoshan Taoists again—" Huang Yaozu's eyes were lifeless, and he felt completely drained.

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"You'll thank me soon enough—"

Zhang Yue said with a smile, "By the way, there are heavy metals in the Longevity Pill, so remember to go to the hospital for check-ups on time."

"What? Heavy metals too?"

"Hmm, don't worry about heavy metal poisoning for the first few days. Take eight or nine pills and then go for a checkup. Alright, drink some water, rest a bit, and continue your cultivation. This time, I'm taking you into the Fiery Hell—"

"besides!!?"

"No way, boss—"

Three days later————

"There"

Li Guoqiang, with a bright and piercing gaze, pointed at a girl hidden in the crowd, pounced on her forcefully, and pinned her to the ground.

Huang Yaozu, who was accompanying him, followed closely behind, handcuffed him, and then took out his identification, saying to the exclaiming crowd around him, "Police investigation—"

The girl, who was being held down by the two men, had a ferocious expression and was gripping their feet tightly, trying to possess them.

But the electric shock it received left it with a puzzled expression.

"It's useless, save your breath." Li Guoqiang smiled slightly. This time, they no longer had to worry about being possessed by each other if they touched each other.

Soon, the girl possessed by the evil spirit was put into a police car and taken back to the miscellaneous goods department.

Upon arriving at the miscellaneous items department, Li Guoqiang excitedly pushed open the door, shouting as he walked, "Master Zhang, we've caught another one! Can you see if this one can be saved?!"

But when they opened the door, they saw three people: Zhang Yue, the four-eyed guy from the logistics department, and a third person.

"Wait!" Huang Yaozu suddenly grabbed him, looking at the man with the flower on his shoulder with a surprised expression, "Sir, what brings you here?"