Lanpu

Chapitre 12

As soon as he arrived at the clinic, A-Qiang immediately regained consciousness and stopped binding himself with his hands. The doctor examined him and said there was no problem. With no other option, they sent him home.

After that, this self-strangulation would happen every evening. He would automatically let go after his family pulled him for more than ten minutes. Learning from this experience, A-Qiang never went to the hospital again.

Because they knew that Ah-Qiang was possessed by a ghost, they were busy looking for a Taoist priest. Coincidentally, the family had invited Master Xu for their ancestral worship ceremony, so they asked him to exorcise the ghost and exorcise evil spirits for Ah-Qiang.

Master Xu immediately performed a ritual and then communicated with the spirit of Ah Qiang through a spirit medium. According to the spirit and Ah Qiang, Ah Qiang accidentally encountered the spirit of an unmarried girl that day and did not apologize to her, which angered "her" and made her want him to be her husband.

The female ghost was a young girl who was raped and murdered by bandits during the Republic of China era. She always wanted to have a husband and wanted Ah-Qiang to come down and have a ghost marriage with her...

So that's how it is. Just because they bumped into each other, Ah Qiang has to die? That's just too much!

However, if the other party is a vengeful spirit of someone who was raped and murdered, their spiritual power shouldn't be that great, so why should we make such a fuss? I raised these questions.

---janeadam

Reply [22]: Xiaoyue nodded approvingly and said, “I have sensed the essence of this spiritual power from Aqiang. It is beyond what a dead spirit can achieve. If I’m not mistaken, it is a smart spirit, a weaker kind of ghost spirit. It tricked Master Xu and fooled him for more than a week. But I don’t know its attributes or where it is hidden. I can only deal with it when it appears tonight.”

Master Xu gave an awkward, wry smile.

With Xiaoyue around, time always flies by.

Master Xu instructed A-Qiang's father and his family, "No matter what time it is tonight, none of you are allowed to come out. No matter what you hear or what happens, just stay in your room. Under no circumstances should you come out."

At Xiaoyue's request, he stayed on the rooftop.

Xiaoyue and I sat cross-legged in the hall. After Xiaoyue's hypnosis, Aqiang was lying flat behind us, with a talisman for exorcising evil spirits and protecting his body symbolically stuck on his forehead.

Directly in front of the hall, there is a 21-inch color TV. Xiaoyue said that the place where the TV is located is where the four Yin energies converge.

At eight o'clock in the evening, the sky was unusually quiet, and there was no strong wind. Suddenly, the four strings of spirit bells that Master Xu had hung on the eaves rang together, "ding-ding-dang-dang," which sounded particularly eerie in the quiet night.

The bell rang continuously from the eaves, the corridor, and the doorway, as if some invisible force was moving around. Then it stopped for a moment in front of the hallway, as if it had discovered that Ah Qiang was lying behind us, and we had used our supreme spiritual power to form a protective shield around him.

Xiaoyue and I exchanged a glance and simultaneously sensed that powerful spiritual energy approaching us.

Then a string of spirit bells hanging in the living room began to shake violently. Suddenly, the entire string of bells fell down and exploded on the ground with a crash, creating an unusually terrifying scene in the quiet room.

Then, Xiaoyue and I focused our attention on the television.

The TV, which was originally off, suddenly turned on, but the picture was just static.

Then, the television screen became clear, and we saw a long-haired, faceless female ghost in white sitting sideways, slowly approaching us on the television screen.

The words "The Ring" immediately popped into my head. Holy crap, a Japanese horror movie, how did it become a reality here?

Its head was lowered, its face completely covered by its hair, and drops of blood oozed from its genitals.

Then, it slowly crawled out of the television. At first glance, it was truly terrifying, because its head was drooping, making its face impossible to see, which evoked endless fear. Its long hair, a large clump, dragged on the ground, and at the same time, the filthy blood overflowing from its lower body left a long trail. As it crawled closer and closer, one end of its hair was still inside the television, growing longer and longer, and the crimson blood trail seemed endless.

Xiaoyue and I are both used to seeing all kinds of evil spirits, but this kind of attire, this lukewarm way of transforming from the intangible to the tangible, and the atmosphere at the scene still made us feel a bit depressed.

I pretended to be calm and explained to Xiaoyue, "Honey, look, this is the Chinese version of 'The Ring,' vivid and terrifying, isn't it interesting!"

Xiaoyue then focused her spiritual energy to tightly envelop it. When it had crawled within a meter, she suddenly smiled and said:

"Stop pretending, I already know who you are."

The female ghost shuddered and stopped crawling forward.

"Moon, who is it? Isn't it the girl who was raped and murdered?" I think its outfit is quite similar, especially the blood flowing from its genitals, it's disgusting and vivid.

"It is not a female ghost at all, nor is it an ordinary spirit. It is the hair-eating ghost, one of the famous 36 kinds of hungry ghosts. But I don't know why it appeared at this time. Generally speaking, this ghost likes to eat the first hair of a baby. In particular, after eating the first hair of a baby, it will form a ghostly bond with that baby."

After hearing this, the hair-eating demon's original body, except for its head, collapsed to the ground like a puddle of mud. Its head, however, flew up on its own, its face now directly facing us. It was the face of a two- or three-year-old child, with drooling, snotty nose, pus in its ears, bleeding eyes, and its hair whipping wildly behind it.

"Give me your hair, I want my hair..." A baby's voice trailed off, cold and drawn out, sending chills down one's spine.

---janeadam

Reply [23]: Chapter Eleven Drunken Flower Shade

The hair-eating demon charged at us like a ball, then suddenly stopped, and its hair formed a giant whip that swept across us from the left.

I immediately stepped forward, channeling my spiritual energy to its maximum, and punched the whip.

With a "bang!", the whip flew out horizontally, and I was slightly shaken. The whip was not actually hair, but a spiritual energy that had transformed into a whip, just like my light energy.

And then, as I was catching my breath and regaining my strength, that head suddenly attacked me.

"You wretched creature! Now that I have discovered your identity, you shall submit at once!" Xiaoyue shouted, and five spiritual talismans flew up from behind her, transforming into five rays of light—red, yellow, blue, green, and cyan—that surrounded the hair-eating ghost in a circular pattern.

The hair-eating demon immediately spun around to avoid it, emitting a cry like that of a baby.

The five talismans were of the five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. They formed a five-element array with a radius of one meter and a dazzling array of colors, relentlessly pursuing the hair-eating ghost.

They flew around us, dazzling us. Apart from me staying by A-Qiang's side, Xiao-Yue had retreated to the doorway to prevent them from escaping.

A few minutes later, the hair-eating demon suddenly flew upwards, attempting to pass through the ceiling and escape upwards.

But it was wrong. Master Xu was guarding above and formed a Bagua Vajra Formation. A golden light was seen merging into the hair-eating demon in the ceiling, but it was then bounced back into the hall. The Five Elements Demon-Exorcising Formation had already tightly bound it and surrounded the center. Then, countless golden spears, wood poison, ice arrows, fireballs, and earth lightning attacked it all at once, causing it to scream shrilly and run around in all directions, struggling left and right.

Then, all the long hair suddenly contracted, forming a spherical black protective shield. For a moment, the magic power emitted by the Five Elements Talisman could not break through it, and the power of the talisman gradually weakened. I saw that Xiaoyue, who was gathering spiritual energy to maintain the formation, had a pale face, and I knew it was time for me to make my move.

I took out the Phoenix Pendant and recited the Heart Sutra, which I was most skilled at but which readers were tired of hearing, while injecting spiritual energy into it. A few minutes later, the Phoenix Pendant shot out a cone-shaped beam of golden light, enveloping the Five Elements Array in my golden light.

Before long, the spherical protective shield was peeled away and burned layer by layer under the combined attack of the Five Elements Array and the golden light of the Phoenix Pendant, finally revealing a dirty, shiny baby's head.

The hair-eating demon then transformed into the body of an infant, its face filled with immense fear and despair. Ignoring the combined attacks of wind, fire, thunder, and lightning, it repeatedly kowtowed and begged for mercy from us.

Seeing how pitiful it looked, I couldn't help but glance at Xiaoyue.

Xiaoyue nodded, and I retrieved the Phoenix Pendant. Xiaoyue also stopped the attack of the Five Elements Formation, but still surrounded it.