Please call me Huanxian

Chapter 225: Doing Good Deeds Must Be Complete
Accompanied by the butler and a guard, Xu Yuanchang took a quick tour of the four-story mansion.

Mr. Xiong was over sixty years old and not very energetic, so he sat in the main hall in the courtyard and waited.

The whole house seemed deserted and cold, giving off an old atmosphere. After listening to the housekeeper's brief explanation, I learned that in recent winters, Rich Man Xiong sent his descendants and their families to live in another courtyard so that they would not be disturbed.

The ancestral home was guarded by the rich man Xiong, his housekeeper, three brave guards, and five servants.

The rewards were generous, and apart from the fear, there were no mistakes.

The ancestral home should not be abandoned, someone should live in it to gather energy.

Xu Yuanchang stopped in the backyard, collected some Yin energy, and asked the guard to bring incense, candles, money and paper.

He had already investigated clearly and found that there were no damage or loopholes in the invisible aura of the house, so outside evil could not get in. It was clearly a ghost that was causing trouble in the house, but strangely, he could not find where the ghost was hiding.

Zeng Shanlang skillfully placed the small incense burner and the three small animals on the ground in the backyard, and lit a white candle and inserted it into the incense burner.

Xu Yuanchang took the four incense sticks, lit them up with a flick of his hand, and silently chanted a spell while holding the incense towards the air.

He used Yin energy as a guide and used the "ghost summoning spell".

If he cannot summon the haunting ghost, he will cast the "ghost-hunting spell" and search the village inside and out. If that doesn't work, he will ask the local ghost officials to come forward to deal with the lingering ghosts. He now has plenty of means to deal with ghosts in the world of the living.

The night sky was dark and the wind was raging.

The housekeeper and the guard holding lanterns noticed that Taoist Xu lit incense out of thin air.

They had seen other magicians perform this skill, so they did not find it strange. However, the four wisps of fragrant mist rose straight into the sky, not affected by the cold wind at all, which made them secretly amazed.

After three years, they have seen many different methods used by magicians and Taoists, and have become quite knowledgeable.

Suddenly, the guard's voice trembled and he whispered, "Here...here!"

The housekeeper also sensed the strange eeriness and hurriedly followed the guard's gaze towards the northwest wall of the courtyard. His mind buzzed and he saw a blurry figure in a red wedding dress slowly floating out of the darkness.

The yellow talismans of varying ages pasted on the doors and windows of the attics in the backyard fluttered in the air.

I was so frightened that I couldn't even finish my words.

"Ghost... ghost..."

This time, I really saw a ghost disturbing the house.

It's so scary.

Xu Yuanchang looked at the female ghost in red with a ball of black air lying on her shoulder and sighed in his heart. They were a rare pair of mother and child ghosts.

The female ghost in red floated closer, knelt down, kowtowed, and sobbed.

The black gas on the ghost girl's shoulder turned into a baby with only a blurry and shapeless head. Faint fire came out of its dark eye sockets. The ghost baby lay on the ghost girl and started crying sadly, which was very creepy.

The housekeeper trembled all over, and finally recognized the female ghost in red. He screamed, "Fifth Young Madam...it's you..."

I didn't expect that the ghost causing unrest in the ancestral home was actually a family member who had passed away many years ago.

Liu Xianfeng was invisible in the air, circling around the female ghost and looking at her. She had trapped the entire backyard. The weak female ghost with low cultivation and the ghost baby filled with resentment could not easily escape from her palm.

The female ghost in red seemed to sense the abnormality and danger in the air, so she hid the baby inside her body and just kowtowed and cried.

Xu Yuanchang guessed that it was another dirty business in a wealthy family's mansion. He was earning merit by taking action, and he was most reluctant to meddle in other people's affairs. He was not a judge.

To help the ghosts lingering in the human world be liberated to the netherworld is a clean and efficient process, in line with the Taoist approach.

The female ghost in red seemed to have identified the Taoist priest who summoned her, and she sobbed and kowtowed repeatedly.

"Butler He, please go and invite Mr. Xiong over. He... has something to say, otherwise he won't leave in peace."

Xu Yuanchang couldn't bear to use physical methods to exorcise the female ghost who was begging for salvation, and there was also an unformed ghost baby.

The ghost baby formed by resentment has never seen the light of day and it is difficult for it to enter reincarnation.

No wonder the country wizards and Taoist priests never come again after coming to exorcise ghosts once, because they cannot find any powerful ghost babies and do not want to ruin their reputation.

Except for charlatans like Taoist Luo who know a little bit of martial arts.

Butler He turned around and ran away quickly.

The guard didn't dare to look at the terrifying female ghost who was kowtowing, for fear that his soul would be remembered by the female ghost.

The miserable crying sound made him feel creepy and he would definitely have nightmares at night. It was not easy to earn a generous monthly salary.

With the help and escort of his housekeeper and two other guards, Mr. Xiong trotted into the backyard. Looking at the blurry female ghost in red kneeling on the ground, he tentatively called out, "Mother Fang Hui?"

The female ghost in red floated up. Her cultivation was not high enough, and the ghost talk she spoke was incomprehensible to ordinary mortals.

Liu Xianfeng guessed that there was a hidden story behind this. She felt compassion and whispered a few words to the female ghost. The female ghost in red quickly turned aside and bowed to express her gratitude. Liu Xianfeng used up a bit of her energy to allow the female ghost to speak human language. She had previously upheld justice for the ghost of Hu Sanniang, so she was very familiar with doing these things.

"Master, let me ask you one question. I am not a ghost from the Xiong family. How can I come and go freely in the Xiong family's ancestral home? No matter how many talismans are pasted on the walls and how much grain incense ash is scattered on the ground, can they stop the external evil? Can they stop me at all?"

The female ghost in red asked with hatred.

Mr. Xiong threw away the housekeeper who was supporting him, slammed his cane, and shouted angrily, "Only three months after your wedding, you have killed my youngest son, are at odds with your sisters-in-law, and have caused unrest in the harem. You still have the nerve to argue with me about 'living as a member of the Xiong family and dying as a Xiong family ghost'? Even if you abandon the ancestral home, I will not allow you to become a Xiong family ghost."

Faced with the ghost that has been haunting his house for three years, Mr. Xiong takes a tough stance.

The red-clothed female ghost laughed miserably and cried, "They slandered me, bullied me, humiliated me, and accused me of evil, but you, sir, just listened to them and believed them. I was depressed and died of illness. It was not until a few years after my death that I learned that my husband passed by the forest outside Shigongpu and encountered a big tiger and died in its mouth.

"You slandered me as a jinx, and my unborn child would not let you go. If I hadn't stopped them, how could those gossiping women survive? Giving them sleep paralysis and making them bedridden for years is just a light punishment."

Rich Man Xiong was a little confused, "Your son..."

The red-clothed female ghost roared towards the howling night sky: "I hate it so much. I didn't know I was pregnant... I caused my unborn child to lose his life and prevent him from entering the reincarnation cycle. I hate it so much."

A dark ghost baby quietly appeared on the ghost girl's shoulder as the ghost girl got angry, crying and rubbing its head against her.

Rich man Xiong staggered back and almost fell.

He was not afraid. The earth had buried him halfway up to his neck, and he had let go of everything.

The only thing he loved most was his youngest son, who died without any incense left. This often woke him up in the middle of the night, causing him great distress and regret.

When he heard Fang Huiniang's cruel truth from her death, he almost suffocated with anger.

The housekeeper and the guard hurriedly supported the master, trying not to let anything get into trouble.

"you you……"

Rich man Xiong pointed at the female ghost in red, but when he saw the pitch-black ghost baby baring its teeth and threatening him, he put his finger down dejectedly. It seemed as if all his energy was drained away. He was so sad that he burst into tears and beat his chest and stamped his feet.

"My poor grandson, my poor son."

The red-clothed female ghost laughed miserably, stroked the ghost baby's head, and shouted, "So what if you don't recognize me as a ghost from the Xiong family? Your grandson is not a ghost from the Xiong family either...you still don't recognize me?"

The mother and child ghosts are connected by heart, and the red-clothed female ghost's laughter turns into sobbing.

She was not fighting for fame for herself, but for her son to avoid reincarnation.

Before he died of illness, he deliberately wore a red wedding dress to show his resentment and humiliation, and he would not give up on the Xiong family even as a ghost.

As a result, two lives were lost in one corpse, and the resentment turned into a ghost baby. Her soul was implicated and could not enter the underworld, and she dared not abandon the ghost baby. She suffered in agony, but it was too late to regret.

"I admit it, I admit it, but it's too late, too late."

Mr. Xiong was filled with remorse and looked very old.

Liu Xianfeng watched a big drama, it was so complicated.

Xu Yuanchang spoke at the right time: "Fang Huiniang, do you have any unfinished business? Tell us all."

The red-clothed female ghost was not at all happy when she heard that the rich man Xiong was willing to acknowledge his grandson.

She had been stranded in the human world and suffered for many years, and finally won a place for her son in the Xiong family, hoping for a slim chance of entering the underworld.

He bowed to the Taoist priest who was in charge of the life and death of the mother and son and said, "Please make the decision. Dig out our bodies and burn them. Just as if we had never been in this world. I will die with my son. What if I don't enter the reincarnation cycle?"

Digging up the bodies and burning them is equivalent to cutting off their roots in the human world.

The north wind and yang energy are everywhere in the world, and lonely ghosts cannot survive for long.

Xu Yuanchang nodded: "I agree."

The red-clothed female ghost knelt down again and said, "My short-lived husband was killed by a tiger. His soul could not leave and became an accomplice of the tiger. My cultivation is low and weak, so I dare not get close to the tiger. Please help him to be free. Fang Hui Niang has no ghost in the next life, so I have no way to repay you. I kowtow to you a few more times."

Press the ghost baby's head to the ground and kowtow together.

Xu Yuanchang held out his hand and said, "This is not difficult. Where is the tiger that harms people?" The red-clothed female ghost floated up and hid the ghost baby in her body. She said, "Go northwest to the mountains a hundred miles away. There are three small lakes. That's where the evil tiger hides in winter."

Mr. Xiong said, "That place is called 'Yehu Ridge', which is rarely visited by people. Please help me, Taoist priest."

He was about to kneel down, but was held back by Xu Yuanchang.

"The tiger ate human souls and refined them into ghosts. It has become a spirit. Since I have encountered it, I will just kill it. It is nothing."

Helping the ghost to free himself is also a merit. Xu Yuanchang looked at the female ghost in red and continued, "The ghost baby cannot enter the cycle of reincarnation. I will cast a spell to ask the ghost to see it. Please wait for a moment."

He also told the rich man Xiong that he wanted an offering table, wine, and new sacrifices.

Rich Man Xiong immediately gave orders to prepare quickly.

When the items were moved to the backyard, Xu Yuanchang asked all strangers to leave, and even Zeng Shanlang went back to the front yard.

He placed offerings, water and wine, lit white candles, burned four incense sticks, held the incense in his hands, and chanted an incantation to ask the ghost to appear. He was already very familiar with it. He watched the offerings quickly lose their color and the drifting incense go straight up, and felt a different kind of eerie.

Xu Yuanchang waited for a moment, inserted the remaining incense into the incense burner, clasped his fists and said, "Excuse me, Master Ghost Messenger."

A blurry black shadow appeared in the air, and the faint ghost-fire glanced over the female ghost in red and the ghost baby in her body. His majesty as a ghost catcher had already made the female ghost in red and the ghost baby tremble in fear.

"Thank you, fellow Taoist."

The ghost was much more polite to the young Taoist priest in the third floor.

If the ghost does not commit serious crimes and rarely goes out, it is impossible for the ghost catcher to patrol such a large area every night. In addition, there are some resentful ghosts who have not yet left the mortal world, so the ghost catcher sometimes turns a blind eye.

The Taoist priests in the human world perform rituals to inform the ghosts and gods, and the ghost messenger has to come forward and take the stranded ghosts away.

Xu Yuanchang asked politely, "Excuse me, Mr. Ghost Messenger, to which ghost world does the Netherworld below belong?"

The ghost said briefly: "Reincarnation ghost world."

Xu Yuanchang guessed that Elder Chang might also be in the reincarnation ghost world, and said, "Please ask the ghost officer to hand them over to the ghost general Chang Wuhui and say that they were entrusted by my old friend Xu Yuanchang."

The female ghost in red pressed the ghost baby's head and knelt on the ground and kowtowed again.

The female ghost was very grateful for not being able to die.

I was also thankful in my heart that I didn't let the ghost baby's violent temper run wild, otherwise I would have lost all hope.

Over the years, she has been suppressing the ghost baby, waiting for the arrival of the master.

The ghost messenger muttered a few words, "Chang Wuhui Ghost General", as if he had never heard of this title.

However, the reincarnation ghost world is vast, with numerous forces and masters, so it is normal not to know each other.

The ghost catcher agreed without thinking, and according to the rules of the ghost world, he took the mother and child ghosts who had fulfilled their earthly ties to the ghost world and detained them for a hundred years. When he met them again, he would hand the mother and child ghosts over to the ghost general Chang Wuhui. It was not a big deal anyway, and there was no need to offend a fifth-level ghost general.

Mother and child ghosts are not uncommon in the ghost world.

Ghost babies who have never seen the light of day will not be reincarnated. They are born out of resentment and are unruly and difficult to tame.

The only restraint is the mother ghost, so it is difficult for the mother ghost to enter reincarnation.

Ghost babies are born with defects, but everything in the world is dependent on one's own actions. Ghost babies can absorb resentment and turn it into evil. They have special talents, so some ghost generals specifically collect mother and child ghosts with excellent qualifications for training.

The ghost officer waved his sleeves and a black gas swept over, instantly carrying the red-clothed female ghost and her son away into the backyard.

In the dark night sky, there was a crackling sound of snowflakes falling.

The wind was still strong and it was snowing.

Liu Xianfeng watched a drama that had no ending yet. As her cultivation level improved, her fear of the third-level ghost messenger no longer existed. She said, "I hope I can hand it over to Senior Chang."

She likes a happy and harmonious ending.

Can't bear to see the suffering in the world.

The rabbit, who had been sulking in the ring space for most of the day, took the opportunity to say, "You are such a good person. Are you going to travel through the snowy night to hunt tigers in the mountains and forests, and work hard to eliminate harm for the people?"

His tone was full of sarcasm.

The little guy is even more nosy than those old baldy guys.

Just go through the experience, and watch from a high position with your eyes. Why do you need to be involved in so much worldly matters?
Xu Yuanchang had long since taken back the calming energy that he had used to wrap the ring.

He was just teaching the rabbit a lesson. Don't think he has no way to deal with you.

He walked slowly towards the gate of the courtyard, and replied calmly, "How come Liu Xianfeng was able to break through and advance to the third level at such a young age? If you and I don't care about the worldly affairs, what is the point of practicing Taoism? Are you cultivating the heart of a lonely person with withered bones in a grave?"

His understanding of being desireless and having no demands in his current state means having no desire for the world and no demands for the mundane world.

However, the resources in the world of cultivation must be fought for and sought after.

There is no contradiction between the two. Trampling on the weak will only drag one's own realm into the dust, so he will not do that.

The rabbit stared with his eyes wide open and made two “uh uh” sounds, and was unexpectedly speechless.

People with different ideals cannot work together, and verbal disputes...

Isn't it cheap to argue about this with a junior?

Xu Yuanchang walked back to the courtyard of the mansion in the wind and snow. The housekeeper and the guards were like gods. They hurriedly and attentively invited him to sit in the living room, boiled water and made tea for him. They were very warm and hospitable.

The rich man wiped his eyes silently, propped himself up and stood up, bowed and said: "Excuse me, Taoist priest, how are they...?"

"I used my magic to send them to the netherworld. They all passed away peacefully and will never return to the world again."

"That's good, that's good, thank you for your hard work, Taoist Priest."

"Boss Xiong, please arrange for someone to take out the bodies of Fang Hui Niang and her son in the morning, and burn them on the spot with firewood. I will perform a simple ritual to eliminate future troubles."

Xu Yuanchang didn't have the time to beat around the bush and got straight to the point: "I will set out at noon tomorrow and head to Yehu Ridge to get rid of that vicious tiger. I won't be coming back later."

Mr. Xiong discussed with the other party, "Master Xu, I want to send guards and hunters to help. What do you think?"

"They can't keep up with our pace, so if they want to go and have a look, they can go on their own."

Xu Yuanchang did not refuse. He understood that Mr. Xiong wanted to take revenge. He talked for a while, drank two cups of hot tea, and went back to the guest room with Zeng Shanlang to rest.

It snowed heavily overnight, and the sky and the earth were covered with white.

After breakfast, Xu Yuanchang, accompanied by everyone, walked on the snow to the mass grave outside the village west of the village.

Those with a bad reputation or those who died suddenly are not allowed to be buried in the village cemetery.

Fang Hui Niang's family even came to make trouble because of this.

"The Taoist priest is here. We can dig away the last layer of soil and open the coffin to take out the bones."

When the housekeeper saw that Taoist Master Xu had arrived, he suddenly became bolder and asked the young and strong men who had been digging for a long time to hurry up. Many villagers around braved the cold weather to come and see the novel, whispering to each other and discussing in low voices.

Some people burned incense and paper money.

Soon, the thin wooden coffin was opened, revealing a lifelike female corpse with her eyes closed as if she were alive.

Strangely enough, he was wearing a bright red wedding dress, which turned out not to be his funeral clothes.

The many coffin diggers were so frightened that they dropped their hoes and shovels and retreated screaming as if a nest of fire had exploded.

The villagers who were watching the excitement scattered like birds and beasts, running far away and then stopping.

This excitement is so thrilling and exciting that it makes your scalp tingle.

Rich Man Xiong was nearly knocked to the ground by the running man, but was fortunately supported by the security guard. He staggered forward and burst into tears when he saw the corpse of the woman in red. Who should he blame for the extinction of Wu'er's lineage?

Xu Yuanchang signaled Zeng Shanlang to place the offerings and light the incense and candles, and he performed a ritual and prayed.

Zeng Shanlang piled nearby firewood on top of the female corpse and poured castor oil on it.

Xu Yuanchang took the lit torch and threw it away.

Amid the dancing snow, the fire was raging, fueled by the wind.

If the female corpse that had become a zombie and the baby in her belly were not burned, and Fang Huiniang lost control of them, over time, the mother and child zombies would absorb the death and resentment of the mother and child zombies in the mass grave forest, and who knows what kind of disaster would happen in the future?
Xu Yuanchang had already anticipated this, and he wanted to watch the zombies cremate into ashes with his own eyes.

Doing good deeds must be done from beginning to end, only then can the merit be fulfilled.

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(End of this chapter)