Psychic Tattoo

Chapter 84 Life With All Nine Concentrated Yin Elements
After Chen Yuhao threw away that stone, a sudden fierce wind began blowing through the whole villa area.

Oh-o-ooh.

We could faintly hear sad and shrill cries which definitely did not come from humans. Later, yellow sand rolled up into the air.

The whole area was filled with yellow sand and we couldn’t see anything in front of us.

I looked at Feng Chunsheng and asked: “What’s happening?”

“That weasel has really good skills.”

Feng Chunsheng told me this was all rather ominous; then he told me secretly: “Look at Chen Yuhao… He seems to be a little nervous, which means that it will be very hard even for Brother Yu to deal with the weasel.”

Then Chen Yuhao turned around and said to us: ”The weasel is not supposed to be so fierce. There must be some reason he suddenly became so… Entering the house could be very dangerous. Do you want to do it now?”

I looked at Mimi and Liao Min, nodded and said: “Yes.”

“Is it very dangerous?” Feng Chunsheng asked Chen Yuhao.

Chen Yuhao sneered; he said the ghost business was always dangerous. The reason we existed in this world was to turn calamities into blessings.

The ghost business was no easy job.

Then I asked him: “So what should we do now?”

“Go into the sandstorm.” Chen Yuhao said to me.

What? Going into that sandstorm would be madness!

“You have a fully Yin fate, so who else but you can go in there?” Chen Yuhao said to me.

I opened my eyes wide and asked him what a fully Yin fate was.

Now Feng Chunsheng clutched his stomach and laughed: “You were born with this fate and that’s why your master chose you and taught you the art of Yin and Yang tattoos. How do you not know about this?”

He told me that when I did Yin and Yang tattoos, I had to deal with souls… How could I withstand dealing with Yin and Yang tattoos for so long if I was not fated to?

So it was. But my master had never told me about this. I felt he hid many secrets from me.

I was a little confused.

Feng Chunsheng counted his fingers and told me I was born on the dark side of a hill on a cloudy day in a Yin minute of a Yin hour on a Yin date in a Yin year. My mother also had a Yin fate, so that’s why I was born with a fully Yin fate.

Then he asked me, “Why is there only one Yin and Yang Tattoo master in each generation? Because it’s pretty hard to find suitable students – finding even a single student with a fully Yin fate in a lifetime is already good.”

A person who studied Yin and Yang tattoos but didn’t have a fully Yin fate wouldn’t live long.

Then Feng Chunsheng asked me: “When did your master die?”

“He died at forty six,“ I replied honestly.

Feng Chunsheng smiled: “That’s it… Your master died at forty six; that’s not so old. Do you know why? Because he didn’t find any apprentice with this fate in his whole life, before you. But he couldn’t live longer since he didn’t have a fully Yin fate himself.”

So it was.

I knew my master was well and in good spirits during the last month of his life, but on the last two or three days he didn’t feel well and died. Well, that might have been caused by his fate.

Chen Yuhao said: “As the one with a fully Yin fate, you can find that ghost with your senses. The weasel won’t dare attack you when you are three inches away from me.”

“Well, OK.”

I had to go since they insisted. I had to be brave since I was a man.

I would go.

I went inside the yellow sand and asked: “So… what’s next?”

Chen Yuhao asked me: “What’s the color of the sand? Yellow or red?”

I looked around. “It’s yellow.”

Chen Yuhao nodded: “Chase the wind and clutch at shadows in the miles of yellow sand. Well, the weasel is not so fierce right now. Mr. Feng, please prepare the talisman; and Shui, you can come back now.”

“OK…”

I couldn’t stay inside the yellow sand alone; it was not safe.

I backtracked and found Feng Chunsheng sitting on the ground and writing on a piece of yellow paper.

I checked it carefully, but couldn’t recognize the words. They were like seal characters.

After several minutes, he stood up and shouted: “Burn it now.”

Then he set fire to the talisman.

Then, Feng Chunsheng shouted again: “Everyone, get down.”

We all kneeled, except Chen Yuhao, who was standing there with his hands behind his back.

At that moment, Feng Chunsheng cried out to the sky: "Chen Yuhao, Feng Chunsheng, and the successor to the Yin and Yang tattoos, Yu Shui, are paying a visit to the weasel. Please remove the sand barrier and let us enter.”

As he spoke the words, the yellow sand immediately disappeared and the villas all reappeared in front of us.

But all that sand had condensed and formed a word in the air - death.

The weasel was telling us we would all die if we entered his villa.

“Just move in.” Chen Yuhao took us four and went forward.

Mimi took me by the hands and told me it was she and Liao Min who sold this house one or two months ago, and this house cost thirteen million with a high commission… The rate was five percent, and the seven women got thirty five percent of the money as a commission.

Feng Chunsheng felt a little puzzled and asked Mimi: ”Who’d be foolish enough to buy a house here? There aren’t any property companies and there are so many haunted houses around!”

Well, other villas were OK, but that haunted house was no good.

Mimi said she couldn’t understand it either, but after those women had frequent discussions with that customer, he signed the contract and paid the money the next day.

Feng Chunsheng thought for a while and said: “I understand… They used the tricks of the evil priests; they just sifted through bones.”

“Seduction is only a part that trick,” Feng Chunsheng told me. “You are only a gimmick, and actually, your two bosses are the initiators.”

After walking around for some times, we stopped in the middle of the villas.

Those villas were big and gloomy and we couldn’t see them clearly since they seemed to be covered with a layer of fog.

Then Chen Yuhao said: “We have come with the talisman, so why don’t you show yourself now?”

As he spoke, the fog disappeared.

I saw there were four people hanging on the gates of the villa. They were hoisted with their hands behind their backs. They hung from iron chains with hooks at the end, which pierced their wrists.

They were naked, with their chests cut open and their viscera removed.

There was a strange tattoo on their faces. It was like a weasel in a wedding dress.

“Well… They are the family members who bought the house.” Mimi cried out suddenly.

“Why… why are they like this like?” Liao Min said hopelessly.

I turned around and spoke to them: “Do you know how big the sin you committed is?”

Feng Chunsheng told me not to blame Mimi and Liao Min - their bosses were behind all this.

Chen Yuhao said: “The weasel shouldn’t be so fierce… Well, Mr. Feng, can you check… if there is anything unusual around?”

Then Chen Yuhao asked me: “You know a lot about tattoos; what do those tattoos on their faces mean?”

I told him that it was a rare tattoo; no one ever wanted it.

“Are those Yin and Yang tattoos?” Chen Yuhao asked me.

I shook my head and said: “That’s not a Yin and Yang tattoo, but a bearded needle tattoo. It was very popular and special in Minnan, but the art has been lost long ago.”

Though it didn’t fade easily, it left very big and ugly needle holes. What’s more, it was very time-consuming. As a result, it had fallen out of use, and nobody learned how to do this kind of tattoo anymore.

Chen Yuhao said: “So, what does this tattoo pattern mean?”

“I don’t know… The weasel got married? Maybe it means something,” I said to him.

As we talked there, there came a sudden, sharp, and strange sound from the villa.

“Huang Erlang came here from afar to ask for favors, but he was treated unjustly. Odious, it’s so odious.”

Chen Yuhao said: “The weasel must be persecuted to death.”

Then Feng Chunsheng said immediately: “I can remember… Yes, I remember this place. The five elements defeat evils.”

“What’s that?” Chen Yuhao looked at Feng Chunsheng.

Feng Chunsheng said there was a Taoist ritual called ‘The Five Elements Defeat Evils’. Five mirrors were hung on the Wu Xing places in the villas: metal, wood, water, fire and earth… There should be a mirror in each Wu Xing place.

‘The Five Elements Defeat Evils’ could suppress ghost and devils for a short time… but then the evil thing would fight back and its power would be improved greatly.

“Oh.” Chen Yuhao nodded and asked Feng Chunsheng to look for those Wu Xing places while he stayed at the gate to block the weasel who was now in the villa.

If we didn’t find the five mirrors of The Five Elements Defeat Evils and remove them, we wouldn’t stand a chance, since the weasel harbored such great resentment.

Feng Chunsheng immediately took me, Mimi and Liao Min to look for the mirrors.

I asked him: “The weasel came here for appreciation, but why did he attack this time?”

He said he didn’t know either. Anyway, this whole situation was full of weird and bizarre things.

“I will be quick, I cannot stand without Brother Yu.” After saying this, Feng Chunsheng took out the compass and searched those five mirrors according to the direction the compass showed.

When we were about to reach those Wu Xing places, Feng Chunsheng suddenly pointed to the front and said: “That’s an extremely strange place… Besides ‘The Five Elements Defeat Evils’ of Taoism, masters of Yin from Miao Jiang have also come here before. Things will be more difficult now.”