Ghost Stories

Chapter 41

He casually picked up the "Incantation Manual" and began to read it absentmindedly. Out of the corner of his eye, Ah Mao, who had finished eating, was already boasting wildly in front of Xiao Bing, making Xiao Bing bewildered. Finally, because what Ah Mao said was too mysterious, he began to disbelieve it.

"I knew you wouldn't believe me." Ah Mao grinned mischievously and reached into his pocket, pulling out the ancient gold coin. "Here, this is the proof!"

Xiao Bing carefully took it, examined it for a while, and said, "It's just a tiny, broken copper coin. I have plenty of those at home!"

Ah Mao said, "It's true, I risked my life to pull it out of that zombie's mouth, and its corpse fumes almost sprayed onto my face."

Little Pancake: "Hmph, don't listen to your nonsense!"

Ah Mao: "￥##%—……**（”

Gu Feng smiled from the bottom of his heart. These two must have known each other longer than he had. He had heard that they were distant relatives who had played together since they were very young. Ah Mao was really silly. He could have just made up a story without making it sound so mysterious. It made it so that no one would believe the truth.

A line of incantation in the book in his hand suddenly caught his eye. Looking at the description beside it, it seemed to enhance the power of Taoist magic. Feeling that it might be useful in the future, he memorized it...

Shi Xin was peeling off the overlapping talismans one by one: "Some of them are moldy, I don't know if they'll work."

Ah Mao: "Didn't they say on TV that the longer a talisman lasts, the more effective it becomes? It might actually be very powerful. By the way, Sister Xin, are there any talismans in there that help you get rich?"

Shixin flipped through it for a while: "These are all symbols I don't understand, I don't know anything about them!"

Suddenly, a brilliant idea flashed in Gu Feng's mind: "Symbols!"

He thought of a place: the big pit in front of the construction site! The place where the vengeful ghost was trapped. Aren't there several strange rocks nearby? Perhaps they serve some purpose!

Strange Shadow

Gu Yuehan, June 22, 9:47

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Chapter 67 of Volume 3: Encountering a Past Life

He quickly led the three of them to surround the deep cave. Because of that strange incident, the construction site had been shut down, and the kendo dojo, whose foundation had just been dug and was about to be built, was left here in such a mess.

Gu Feng discovered that the rope that had been hanging down into that strange hole last time was still there, so he saved himself the trouble and simply told the three of them to wait up there for a while while he grabbed the rope and climbed down.

The inside was still dimly lit, unchanged by the fact that it was daytime. However, he had come prepared, and the powerful flashlight he had brought was now proving useful.

Gu Feng wore tall boots, so even when Chu Yun'er stepped on the myriad spirit ash, he didn't feel any discomfort.

Shining a flashlight around, it was exactly the same as last time. The strangely textured yellow stones were still neatly arranged around the ancient cave, and the three statues in the center were still as ferocious and terrifying as ever!

Gu Feng leaned forward and carefully examined the symbols carved on the slightly translucent yellow stone. Under the strong light, they were completely visible, and they looked very similar to the patterns on the pile of talismans he had just found in the drawer. However, the stone in front of him seemed to possess a certain spirituality, and even he felt a sense of Taoist naturalness in it.

If we surround these people with these stones, perhaps the ghosts won't dare to come near!

Thinking this, Gu Feng tried to pry open the gap between the stones with a small knife he carried with him. Unexpectedly, the stones were stacked one by one without any adhesive. Gu Feng pried off a middle stone with almost no effort. Although this was indeed much easier than expected, he immediately noticed something was wrong. The entire stone wall had lost its balance because he had pried off a piece, and it began to sway precariously. The two stones on top of the stone slab that Gu Feng had pried off had already fallen off.

Oh no! Oh no!

Gu Feng knew it was too late to turn the tide, so he retreated as fast as he could. Although the stones weren't large, they could still kill someone.

Just as he retreated to a safe area, the entire wall in front of him collapsed with a roar, scattering the thick layer of talisman ash throughout the ancient cave, causing Gu Feng to cough incessantly.

Hearing the noise from above, Ah Mao curiously peered into the cave entrance and discovered that Gu Feng, who had retreated to his feet, was instantly shrouded in a "black cloud." Thinking it was some kind of ghost, he screamed exaggeratedly in fright.

When Shixin rushed forward, she discovered that Gu Feng was covered in black soot, looking like a coal miner. She realized it was a false alarm and burst into laughter at his embarrassing appearance.

Gu Feng patted the black ash off his face and clothes, and began to consider how to move the stones down into the pit and then hoist them up. Suddenly, he noticed a terrifying scene behind the collapsed wall...

This time, he wasn't frightened. Apart from being somewhat surprised when he saw it, he felt more of a surge of emotion in his chest and a tingling, sorrowful feeling.

Behind that wall, there was a space about a meter deep, with a straw mat on it, and a skeleton wearing a blackened white Taoist robe lying on it?!

Gu Feng approached him in a daze. He had a feeling that he was very familiar with the corpse in front of him, so familiar that he even wanted to lie down next to it and sleep together...

He suddenly felt a wave of exhaustion, and a void force field beyond his control penetrated his body and spread to the skeleton.

Gu Feng was astonished to see... it sat up!?

Strangely, he showed no surprise at seeing such a bizarre scene. On the contrary, he knew he should stand quietly and listen to the profound esoteric discourse about to be uttered from the other side!

...

No one knew what Gu Feng was doing silently downstairs. Half an hour had passed and there was still no movement. They wanted to call out, but a strange feeling clearly reminded them that Gu Feng was doing something they couldn't understand. If they rashly woke him up, there might be unpredictable consequences!

Gu Feng didn't see the skull's mouth move, but he "heard" every word of its difficult speech. He didn't understand most of it, but Gu Feng had already figured out one thing from its words, something he had always doubted but couldn't be sure of: the corpse before him that felt so familiar was indeed the righteous master "Zheng Yangzi" from a hundred years ago. In other words, Gu Feng was now facing his past life!

Zheng Yangzi clearly told him that the Sandao Society was now in great danger, as a puppet controlled by a vengeful ghost was lurking dangerously around him!

Gu Feng asked him why, since the so-called vengeful ghost had already escaped its confinement, it didn't appear directly but instead hid everywhere.

You can sense Zheng Yangzi chuckling softly: "The Three Realms and Six Paths are all predetermined. Demons and evil spirits defy the heavens, and to avoid suffering heavenly calamities, they can only be resurrected and slaughtered after certain overwhelming formations are activated!"

Gu Feng asked in surprise, "A vast array?"

"According to the Celestial Master's personal instruction, this calamity was predetermined by Heaven. It is said that 'the hand that covers me will be reborn.' After destruction and rebirth, three major formations need to be activated before the great success can be considered achieved."

Upon hearing him mention 'My hand was covered, my hand was born,' Gu Feng sighed, 'I am ashamed!'

Zheng Yangzi: "You don't need to blame yourself. This is the calamity of heaven; there's no way to avoid it!"

Gu Feng knew the crucial question was coming: "Then what should I do?"

"Do your best to prevent the other two formations from activating!" Gu Feng asked curiously, "Weren't there supposed to be three formations? How come there are only two left?"

"The first one is the 'Ten Thousand Bones Soul-Binding Array,' which has already been activated!"

Gu Feng sighed in shame again, realizing that the activation of that formation was somewhat related to him.

Zheng Yangzi said, "The various Taoist techniques I created during my lifetime can help you accomplish this great task. Yun'er is already developing your potential, but you need to memorize some hand gestures and incantations."

Gu Feng nodded solemnly. Even if it means rote memorization, I must remember it!

...

Encountering a past life

Gu Yuehan, June 22, 16:13

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Volume 3, Chapter 68: I Guarantee

Gu Feng was already feeling a bit dizzy. Memorizing hundreds of hand gestures and incantations for various Taoist techniques was no easy task. Even with his usually sharp mind, he was starting to feel lightheaded.

Zheng Yangzi: "I know it's really asking too much of you to memorize all this, but... I've already been summoned by the immortals and saints of the Daoist world, and my time in the mortal realm is running out. The upcoming ghost tribulation will depend on you people to shoulder the burden."

Gu Feng: "I understand, but... don't those people in the heavens care?"

He found it very strange that someone in the scientifically advanced 21st century would talk about "people in the sky"! If others found out, they would laugh their heads off, and even he himself felt very awkward!

Zheng Yangzi: "Everything is preordained. If it develops to the point where the Heavenly Realm has to solve it, the Nine Provinces will have already been devastated, and it will be too late!"

Gu Feng rubbed his dizzy head: "You... Hey, hey, I haven't finished asking my question yet! Damn it, how can you just leave like that?"

After the skeleton finished speaking, before Gu Feng could ask any further questions, it suddenly seemed to lose its backbone and collapsed. Gu Feng felt a pang of heartache; after all, those were "his" bones (how awkward!). Leaving them there all alone was simply inhuman. So, while moving the yellow stone slabs outside, he also hoisted the skeleton up, frightening Ah Mao and Xiao Bing into cursing. In his impatience, Gu Feng kicked them both. He couldn't very well say that this was his skeleton from a past life, could he?

He directly chose a "feng shui treasure land" in the old forest behind the mountain, dug a pit and buried the bones. This world is really in chaos. I am burying myself.

Back at the dojo, Gu Feng arranged the yellow stones around the competition mat, warned them not to go outside the stone formation unless necessary, and then began to mentally recall the hand gestures and incantations that Zheng Yangzi had taught him.

He picked up the book "Recitation Techniques" and compared it with the text. It actually contained many of the techniques of the Zhengyang Sect. It was indeed a good thing. Although practicing according to the book was difficult, it was not so uncomfortable.

Ah Mao and Xiao Bing saw Gu Feng gesturing wildly and chanting "spells" all the time, wondering what he was up to.

"He probably thinks he's a Persian cat," Ah Mao suddenly blurted out after watching for a while.

Xiaobing looked at it carefully for a few moments and said, "Come to think of it, the gesture he's making now does resemble an old cat's claws. Hmm, this incantation does sound like a cat's meow."

Just as they were talking animatedly, the sky gradually darkened...

For dinner, Gu Feng made do with the bread and soda that Xiao Bing had bought at noon. As he chewed the bread, he gradually noticed that something was wrong with his surroundings. The premonition he had when he came out of the bathroom at noon resurfaced in his mind. He gave Xiao Bing, who was drinking soda, a meaningful look.

Don't worry, with my ancient style protecting you, nothing can harm you in the slightest!

I promise!

The temperature around them began to drop sharply, and Gu Feng shouted, "Come over here quickly, let's huddle together!"

They were already a little suspicious about the sudden drop in temperature, and when Gu Feng called out so urgently as if something was about to happen, their assumption became even more certain: something was about to happen!

Just then, the lights dimmed at the opportune moment. Gu Feng gestured for them not to panic, picked up three stacks of talismans, and distributed them to them one by one. He gave the thickest stack to Xiao Bing: "Here, take this one and be careful."

Ah Mao looked at the talisman she received from Gu Feng, which was less than half the size of Xiao Bing's, and said unconvinced, "Brother Feng, you're so biased. He has twice as many as I do."

Gu Feng coldly surveyed his surroundings: "Enough nonsense, take it back if you don't want it."

Ah Mao wasn't that stupid. She quickly pretended she hadn't said anything and kept quiet, but she was still extremely resentful. If Gu Feng had given the largest portion to Shi Xin, she might not have said anything, but he gave it to Xiao Bing? How could Brother Feng, who is usually quite fair, be so biased?

Gu Feng held the "money sword" in his hand, not caring whether he knew how to use it or not. Of all the things he had, it seemed to be the most useful!

A chilling wind had filled the entire Taekwondo dojo, making them shiver...

I promise

Gu Yuehan, June 22, 16:52

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Volume 3, Chapter 69: How Strange

A sharp, unpleasant screech suddenly rang out overhead. Startled, they looked up, only to find it pitch black and they couldn't see anything.

Since his encounter at the General's Tomb last night, Gu Feng's eyesight had improved many times over compared to ordinary people. He spotted something clinging to the main beam of the dojo, its eyes gleaming with a terrifying, malevolent red light…

He bought it and used it immediately, silently reciting the "Spirit Fire Incantation" that Zheng Yangzi had just taught him!

He mumbled a string of incantations, brought his five fingers together to form a palm, and uttered a loud "pardon" before unleashing a palm strike with overwhelming force... After all, it was his first time using it... Ah Mao and the others looked up and down, and it seemed that Gu Feng was casting an extremely sophisticated spell, but... why couldn't I see any changes?

Gu Feng looked at his straight hand pointing to the sky with a frustrated expression, then smiled awkwardly at Shi Xin and the other two who were looking at him with confusion. In his heart, he cursed Zheng Yangzi. How could he teach me something fake?

After this brief delay, when Gu Feng looked up again, he was surprised to find that the strange figure had vanished. He looked around countless times but still couldn't find it... However, he had a feeling that it was still around him... very close!

He suddenly thought of a hypothesis, which immediately revealed a flaw that made him break out in a cold sweat and send chills down his spine!

Although the surroundings were filled with stone formations, I had just seen it... the monster was perched on my head; it could easily have charged down from there... and then...

He probably realized why he felt that aura was so close. Could it be that one of the three people behind him... had been possessed by a ghost?!

It seems that the thing Gu Feng least wanted to see has still happened. The tragic scene of Sun He being stabbed to death by his grandfather is still fresh in his mind. Could it be that... it will be repeated among the four of us?

Of course, his first suspect was Xiaobing. Gu Feng turned around and looked directly at the three people nestled behind him...

Shi Xin noticed his strange look: "Why are you looking at us like that?"

Ah Mao: "Did your shout just now twist something and you need our help?"