The Demonic Taoist Priest Emerges from the Mountain

When the two men burst into the room and saw me on the floor, my father froze, as if struck by lightning.

Even Master Qin's expression was extremely unpleasant.

Following their perspective, I also saw what I looked like when I was just born.

At that time, my whole body was covered in blue marks. These blue marks didn't look like bruises from being beaten, but rather the same blue as grass.

Even more outrageous, I have a silver-white horn growing on my forehead.

Seeing myself like this, even I find it hard to bear, let alone a midwife.

No wonder she called me a ghost doll.

This is not an exaggeration at all!

After a brief moment of shock, I heard Third Master Qin shout at my father, "Quick! Go prepare a bowl of Baicaoshuang (a type of herbal remedy) and a basin of well water to dissolve it!"

The so-called "Hundred Herbs Frost" was just ash from the bottom of a pot. In those days, there was no gas, and every household used a stove, so "Hundred Herbs Frost" was easy to obtain.

Although my dad didn't know what to do with it, he still obediently did as he was told.

After preparing all these things, when I returned to the room, Master Qin had already drawn a large talisman array with cinnabar next to me.

He didn't say much to my dad, took the things, and threw me directly into the basin.

Then he took out more than a dozen pieces of yellow paper with different symbols drawn on them from his pocket and quickly pasted them on the joints of the cinnabar array.

"The three scenes of Shangqing, all govern the upper realm. They bring calamity to the lower realms, driving away the afflicted body!"

Master Qin roared.

Immediately afterwards, the basin carrying me suddenly began to boil.

Master Qin frowned.

"You wretched creature! Get out of here now!"

His voice was loud and clear.

The water in the basin was boiling more and more.

It started to overflow continuously.

Master Qin frowned and snorted coldly, causing the dozen or so talismans stuck to the ground to burst into flames.

As the talisman burned, the boiling water slowly began to calm down.

The blue color on my body faded away, and the single horn on my forehead loosened and fell off.

The whole process only takes a few minutes.

As the blue faded and the horn fell off, I, lying in the basin, burst into tears.

Qin Sanye seemed completely exhausted and plopped down on the ground.

"This child carries the aura of the Water Official, and was entangled by an evil spirit right after birth. His life has been temporarily saved, but he still won't live past the age of two, and he will be targeted by the evil spirit every full moon!"

"I'm a little weak," said Third Master Qin.

My father's heart, which had just been at ease, is now filled with anxiety again.

"What should we do then?"

He was so anxious he was pacing around in circles.

Third Master Qin stood up, looked at me, then at my father, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "There's another way we might be able to try!"

Before my father could ask any further questions, Third Master Qin took out a talisman from his pocket and slapped it into my father's hand.

He seemed very anxious, speaking quickly: "Don't open the door before dawn, no matter who knocks."

"If your child develops blue spots again, burn this talisman immediately, dilute it with water, and give it to him to drink."

"I won't be back until noon tomorrow. If I'm not back by noon, you absolutely must not exchange a single word with me."

"Did you remember?"

Third Master Qin stared at my father with a serious expression.

My dad nodded.

Then Master Qin left.

My dad hugged me, slammed the door shut, and then sat there at the door without going back to his room.

Not long after, the first knock came at the door.

An aged voice came from outside the door: "Old Qin, open the door. Your Guixiang just gave birth, so I prepared two free-range eggs for her to help her recover."

When my father heard this, he bit his lower lip hard and didn't say a word.

The "person" outside the door waited for a moment, then the knocking grew louder and louder.

"Open the door! Open the door!"

The kind voice began to change, becoming impatient.

My father's expression changed.

He was now even more certain that what was outside was not human.

The warning from Master Qin carried increasing weight.

"As long as the door doesn't open, we can just wait until dawn."

My father held me tightly and murmured.

The knocking stopped shortly afterward.

It became quiet outside.

Little did they know, this brief silence was just the beginning.

A few minutes later.

The knocking started again.

This time, the sounds were even more chaotic and louder, as if many people were lying by the door, frantically banging on it.

The knocking shook the doors of the house.

A few specks of dust fell and settled on my father's hair.

He was completely unaware.

At that moment, my father's eyes were bloodshot, his whole body was trembling, and he kept muttering, "Just hold on until dawn, just hold on until dawn."

I could sense that my father was very scared and desperate at that time.

But he had to hold on; he had to earn me a chance to survive.

The dull, chaotic knocking woke my mother up as well.

When my mother came out of the bedroom, she still had blood on her body.

She looked at my father, who was slumped on the ground, with some confusion.

"Honey, who's outside?"

My mother asked.

My father suddenly raised his head.

His face was covered in sweat.

He gestured for my mother to be quiet.

She lowered her voice and said, "These things outside are all here to take our son's life!"

After hearing this, my mother's face turned even paler.

After that, my father told my mother everything that Master Qin and he had said.

When my mother found out, she sobbed softly.

They took me from my father.

They keep saying it's all their fault, but they want me, an innocent child, to bear the blame.

Seeing this, my heart aches.

I've been following Master Qin since I was a child.

I can say that I have never met my parents.

But in this dream, I could truly feel the love my parents have for me.

The knocking on the door continued.

They kept knocking until midnight.

My father and mother looked very haggard.

My mother, in particular, was as white as a sheet of paper.

My father felt sorry for my mother and told her to go and rest.

But then he suddenly noticed a bruise on my neck.

That one glance startled my father so much that he shuddered and quickly took out the talisman that Master Qin had given him.

It was placed in an earthenware bowl, and then lit with a match.

After the talisman had completely turned to ash, my father hurriedly asked my mother to dilute it with water and force-feed it to me.

I don't know what kind of talisman this is; at least I've never seen one before.

But the effect is really good.

Before long, the bruises on my body faded away.

As the bruises on my body disappeared, the knocking outside stopped abruptly.

This time, it's really stopped.

The knocking stopped by morning.

The sky was gradually brightening.

My dad breathed a sigh of relief.

He and my mother, who had been on edge all night, could finally relax a little.

Just when they thought everything was alright, the heavy knocking on the door started again.

My father and mother's expressions changed immediately, and their eyes stared straight at the door.