Chapter 4 fourth quarter

A young monk named Huizhen came out to lead the way. Zhixing Naigu lay on his back in the mattress on the floor, Qingming and Boya sat beside his pillow. "Yesterday and the day before yesterday, monk Ruishan was invited to chant scriptures and pray for Master..." Huizhen said. "There is no change in the result, right?" Seimei replied nonchalantly. "Yes." Huizhen nodded. "Why did you invite Monk Ruishan?" Boya asked. "In the past, Master Ennin welcomed Chishan Myojin from the Tang Dynasty, and enshrined them in the Chishan Shrine in Mount Hiei. The main god of the shrine is actually Taishanfu Lord." Qingming replied, "It should be the emperor who ordered them to hold a formal Taishanfu Sacrifice to the king."

"Is anyone coming from Mount Rui today?" Boya asked Huizhen. "I have sent someone to inform Master Qingming of his upcoming visit, so there should be no one coming today..." "That's great." After speaking, Qingming looked at Zhixing who was lying on the bed. Since others had been avoided beforehand, apart from Zhixing, there were only Qingming, Boya, and Huizhen in the room. Zhixing's face looked very thin, the flesh on his cheeks seemed to have been sliced ​​off with a knife blade, leaving only skin and bones.The shape of the round eyeballs is clearly visible, and the skull seems to be covered with only a piece of skin.

Not only is there no breath, and I can't feel the beating of the heart when I feel the pulse, but the skin is still moist and the muscles are also very soft. Reaching out to touch Zhixing's cheeks and neck, you can feel that the muscles are not cold, and it seems that there is still some body temperature. Seimei stretched out his right palm to cover Zhixing Neigong's face, and then slowly moved it to the neck, chest, abdomen and other places. Soon, Qingming withdrew his palm and said, "There seems to be something inside the inner donor." "Is there something?" Huizhen asked.

"What?" Boya also stepped forward and asked. "I don't know if something is possessed or something else has invaded. The actual situation is not clear, but there is indeed something there." "..." "Zhixing Neigui is still alive." "That……" "I could save his life, it's just..." "Just what?" "Why did Master Daoman propose the name of Lord Taishan? I am very concerned about this." "meaning is……" "Among us, someone may be in danger of life." "Between us? Hey, Seimei, who are you talking about?"

"It's either me or you. Otherwise, it's Master Huizhen's life." Qingming said. "If it were me, I don't care about my own life. I have been in Mijing Temple for more than 20 years. Although I practice every day, I can't get satisfactory results. If such a useless body can be sacrificed for the Lord, it is my wish That's enough." Huizhen replied. "Since you are determined to do so, can you please prepare a pen, ink, paper and inkstone..." After Qingming finished speaking, Huizhen immediately prepared something and came over. "What I want to do now is to hide the truth from my Lord God, Lord Taishan." Qingming explained while rubbing ink, "If I miss, my life will be in danger. However, before the matter is settled, let Lord Taishan Focus on you for now."

"What should I do?" "Please wait a moment." Seimei dipped the brush with the ground ink, picked up the paper, and wrote something on the paper. "Seimei, what are you writing?" "All in shape." "What's the status?" "A sacrificial oration written in Tang script for the Lord of Mount Tai." After finishing writing, Qingming handed the paper to Huizhen and said, "Could you please write down your name by hand?" Huizhen took the brush and wrote her name at the end of the sacrificial oration. "Put this sacrificial rite in your arms, and then erect a screen over the narrow corridor, hide behind the screen and chant scriptures."

"What scriptures do you want to recite?" "The Lotus Sutra or the Prajna Heart Sutra is fine. Keep reading until I tell you to stop. Otherwise, both your life and mine will be in danger." "yes." Hye Jin exits the room.Soon, there was the sound of Huizhen chanting sutras. "Qingming, what did you do?" "The meaning of the sacrificial oration is to let Master Huizhen act as a substitute for Zhixing's internal offering, and dedicate his life to Lord Taishan..." "Then, Master Huizhen..." "Don't worry, as long as he keeps chanting, he'll be fine. In the meantime, we'll just solve the problem here."

"How to deal with it?" "This way." Seimei stretched out his left hand to pick up the remaining paper, then took out a small knife from his pocket, and started cutting the paper with that knife. "what are you planning to do?" "Just watch, Boya." Qingming deftly cut out two things with a knife. One was a small paper figurine, which looked like a fully armed warrior in armor, with a long knife on his waist, and a bow and arrow in his hand.The other is a paper dog the size of a bean. "First this..." Qingming stretched out his left hand, opened Zhixing's lips with his fingers, then pried open his teeth, and stuffed the little paper figurine into Zhixing's mouth.

Then deal with the paper dog the size of a bean. Qingming lifted the hem of Zhixing's clothes with his left hand, and stuffed the paper dog in his right hand into the hem. "What the hell are you doing?" "I want to stuff this dog into Lord Zhixing's noble backyard." Seimei seems to have completed the movement very quickly, and when she withdrew her right hand, the paper dog was no longer between her fingers. Then, Seimei whispered the mantra in his mouth. Then, Zhixing's lower abdomen suddenly moved. "Hey, hello, Seimei, my stomach just moved."

Seimei didn't respond, and continued to chant the mantra. Zhixing's abdomen moved again. "It moved again." Boya called out. twitch. twitch. The thing in Zhixing's internal donor began to wriggle around, and gradually moved to the upper body. "what is the problem?" "That dog is chasing after the things in Zhixing's body." After Qingming answered Boya, he recited the mantra again. Soon, the tendons near Zhixing's throat seemed to be pushed out, and they began to wriggle out.It's like some kind of little beast is rampaging in the throat.

From time to time, Zhixing would stick out his fangs between his lips and then retract them.Moreover, it seems that two horns are about to grow near the forehead, which rise up from time to time and then flatten again.The flesh has split open, and even drops of blood ooze out. "Hey, hey, Seimei, Mr. Uchiko is going to turn into a ghost..." "Don't be nervous, Boya, just stand aside for now." Sure enough, as Seimei said, the protruding and retracting fangs, the horn on the forehead, and the rampaging things in the throat all gradually quieted down. In the end, everything stands still.Seimei said, "It looks like it's over." Qingming stretched out his left hand to pry Zhixing's lips open, then pried open his teeth, and spread his right palm in front of Zhixing's mouth. I saw a warrior with a dog coming out of Zhixing's mouth. "Sunny!" The samurai jumped onto Seimei's right palm together with the dog.Looking closely, the samurai is holding a ball the size of a sparrow egg in both hands. "It's over." As soon as Qingming finished speaking, the samurai and the dog returned to the original little paper man and paper dog.On Seimei's right palm, there were only two blank sheets of paper and a white egg left. "What the hell is this? Seimei." "It's something in Zhixing Neigong's body." "Something inside?" "It can also be called a bug, or it can be called a disease. In short, it is the evil spirit that inhabits the body of Zhixing's inner donor." "Why does it look like an egg?" "In order to temporarily immobilize the evil spirit, I turned the evil spirit into an egg." "Can't move?" "That's right. If the evil spirit moves and attaches itself to you, Boya, this time, I'll change you into Master Zhixing Neigou." "Then, what about Master Zhixing Neigong?" "It's all right. Look, isn't he breathing?" Hearing what Qingming said, Boya looked at Zhixing who was on the bed.Sure enough, Zhixing's chest has begun to rise and fall slightly. "Master Zhixing Neigong will wake up sooner or later." Qingming said to Boya, "Boya, it should be fine, please go and ask Master Huizhen to come over."