Chapter 5 Section five

"In this way, Qingming, you..." Boya stuttered due to excessive excitement. "That's exactly what happened." "But, could it be that..." "It's a cypress tree that is thousands of years old. Of course, its spirit is extraordinary. It is also a ghost carved by a carver with superb craftsmanship. Besides, the ghost was completed before the god who was supposed to step on him. .In short, the truth will be revealed after a while. Look, the place ahead should be the top of the hill..." The two of them were already walking along a path in the miscellaneous woods.Grass grew overgrown on the left and right sides, Qingming and Boya's clothes were already drenched.

The leaves rustled overhead.Above the leaves was the dim moonlight with a halo. "Oh! Is that it?" Seimei paused and said. Boya stood beside Qingming, looking forward with her head.Against the hazy moonlight above, there is a faintly visible white thing ahead. "Let's go." Qingming stepped out as if nothing had happened. Boya swallowed a mouthful of saliva before following Qingming resignedly. When Qingming came to the hill, he saw a huge tree stump, and a naked boy stood beside the tree stump. Seeing Qingming and Boya, the boy smiled with reddish lips.White teeth flashed between red lips.

"Do you want to pass?" the boy made a small but clear voice. "Hmm... what do you think?" Seimei replied nonchalantly. "Do you want to pass? Or don't you want to pass?" the boy asked again. "Hmm..." Qingming replied. "What exactly do you want?" The boy's hair stood on end, and his eyes almost doubled in size. The lips still maintain the original light red color. "And you? What are you going to do? Do you want us to pass? Or don't you want us to pass?" "What?" The boy's voice turned into an adult's hoarse voice.

"We will do as you say." "No! I'm not going to do what I say!" "Then you're going to do as I tell you?" "No!" "You said yes?" "I didn't say anything!" The boy opened his mouth wide, revealing his huge tongue and fangs. "That's weird, what's going on?" "Are you here to fool me?" The boy's appearance is no longer that of a child.Although the body is small, it looks like a ghost, and every time it opens its mouth, blue flames will burst out of its mouth. The ghost left the tree stump, planning to pounce on Qingming.

"Qingming!" Boya dropped the torch in his hand and drew out the long knife on his waist. At this time—— Seimei stretched out his right index finger and middle finger to the demon pounced on him, and then drew a symbol in the air. "Om, Diha, Yacha, Tieda, Ha, Ha, Swaka!" Qingming chanted the mantra. Yaocha God obeyed.Bind up, bind up.Achievement. Suddenly, the ghost froze all over. "You...you...that is..." "It's Geng Shen's mantra." Before Qingming finished speaking, the ghost's body curled up and lay down in the grass. "Hey!"

When Boya rushed over with a long knife in hand, he saw a wooden carved evil ghost lying on the ground. The evil ghost's body was folded in half, and he lay prone on the ground, exactly in the posture of being trampled under by the Guangmu Heavenly King. "He was originally attached to that tree stump. If I don't let him leave the tree stump, I can't subdue him..." "Is this the evil ghost of the Guangmu Heavenly King carved by Xuande?" "That's right." "What about the spell just now?" "It's the Yamato mantra." "Yamato mantra?"

"The mantra is originally a mantra of Tianzhu, but the mantra I recited just now is a mantra of the Yamato Kingdom. The Buddha statue sculptors of the Shingon sect must recite this Gengshen mantra when they carve the four heavenly kings." "I see." "Exactly." After saying that, Qingming casually glanced at the tree stump beside him. "Huh?" Qingming walked to the stump and reached out to touch the bark on the edge of the stump. "What's wrong?" "Bo Ya, this tree is still alive." "Alive?" "Well. The rest of the tree is almost rotten and dead, but this part is barely alive. Probably the roots of this part are particularly strong."

Qingming stretched out his hand to stick to the bark again, reciting the spell in a low voice. After a long time, it was long enough to notice that the dim moon gradually moved westward.Seimei kept his hand on the bark, chanting a spell in a low voice. Then...the sound of the incantation stopped, Seimei slowly moved away from the tree stump. "Oh..." Boya couldn't help crying out. It turned out that where Seimei's hand was touching the tree stump, there appeared a small, almost invisible green bud. "In another thousand years, there will still be huge juniper trees standing here." Qingming muttered to himself, looking up at the sky.

The mist that had shrouded the moon suddenly burst open.A ray of blue moonlight quietly fell on Qingming from above.