Acai's Sky

Chapter 872 The Little Nun Going Down the Mountain 14

Mopanshan Post Station, this ancient post station that has experienced many vicissitudes of life, reveals a hint of unusual strangeness in Acai's eyes.

She leaped lightly from the carriage, her eyes scanning the surroundings like a hawk, her brows slightly furrowed. Above the post station, a thick, sinister aura hung like a cloud obscuring the sun, making it nearly impossible to breathe.

This evil spirit is extraordinary, like a huge whirlpool, attracting all the resentful ghosts within hundreds of miles, forming a dangerous place where evil spirits gather.

However, the officials who came to stay at the post station wore official robes and exuded dignity, making it difficult for resentful ghosts to approach them; most of the merchants wore evil-repelling items, so evil spirits could not invade them; although ordinary people had no magic weapons to protect themselves, they were restricted by the rules of the post station and were not allowed to enter the forbidden area in the backyard, which helped to avoid many disasters.

Upon seeing this, Ah Cai quickly took out an exquisitely carved purple gold gourd from her bosom. This was the magic weapon to suppress ghosts that she had obtained from Xu Ming Temple.

She pointed the mouth of the gourd at the post station and silently chanted a spell. A faint light appeared around the gourd, as if it was an awakened spirit, slowly sucking in the resentful ghosts around it one by one.

"This place is only a few miles away from Xu Ming Temple. Why are there so many resentful ghosts staying here and unable to reincarnate?" Ah Cai's doubts grew deeper and deeper. She murmured in a low voice, and then followed Tong Jiayuan and his party into the post station.

Upon entering the post station, Ah Cai learned that it would cost a considerable amount of money to book the entire floor.

Money was not a problem for her. She booked all the rooms without hesitation and quickly arranged for everyone to settle down, striving to quell the strange phenomenon here as soon as possible.

Back in the guest room, Ah Cai couldn't wait to take out the ghost-collecting gourd. She squinted one eye and moved closer to the gourd's mouth, trying to peek into the true appearance of the vengeful ghost within.

"Oh, there are men, women, young and old, everything is included, but why are they all new ghosts? How can new ghosts harbor such strong resentment?" Ah Cai's doubts grew deeper and deeper.

A Cai gently placed the gourd on the table and rubbed its surface with her fingers, as if to appease the resentful ghost inside.

Her brows were still furrowed, the doubts in her heart lingering like the evil spirit of this post station. She walked to the window, opened it, and the night wind, carrying a hint of chill, blew in her face.

"Xu Ming Temple is a Taoist holy place. It should be hard for evil spirits to invade the area within a hundred miles. Why do resentful ghosts gather here?" Ah Cai whispered to himself, with a solemn look in his eyes.

Ah Cai slowly turned around and sat back down at the slightly worn wooden table. Her fingers gently brushed against the space talisman hanging from her waist. With a slight movement of her fingertips, a yellowed bamboo scroll quietly appeared in her palm.

The bamboo slips were engraved with intricate runes, and every stroke seemed to contain the ultimate truth of heaven and earth. It was the "Secret Record of Suppressing Ghosts" that had been passed down for a long time in Xu Ming Temple.

Her eyes fell on the bamboo slips, and her fingertips gently flipped through them, carefully studying the records inside.

After a moment, her gaze rested on a line of text, and her eyebrows raised slightly: "Where the evil energy gathers, it is often because the Feng Shui structure is broken, or there are evil creatures lurking. It needs to be suppressed by formations to be resolved."

"The feng shui pattern has been broken..."

Ah Cai murmured softly, a thought flashing in her eyes. She quickly stood up and walked to the corner of the room, her footsteps as light and silent as a sound.

She leaned over and tapped her fingers on the floor, as if listening to the echo from underground.

Sure enough, the moment she leaned over to take a closer look, a faint wisp of black gas seeped out from the cracks in the floor, quietly wriggling like a poisonous snake, as if something was stirring underground.

A hint of coldness flashed in Ah Cai's eyes, and the corners of her mouth curled up slightly: "Sure enough, there is something at work."

She quickly took out a yellow paper talisman from her bosom, tapped it lightly with her fingertips, silently recited the Taoist mantra, and then stuck it precisely on the place where the black air was overflowing.

As soon as the talisman paper was pasted, it made a slight "hissing" sound, as if it was burned by some evil power, and the edge of the talisman paper gradually turned charred black.

Ah Cai wasn't alarmed by this, but instead looked even more resolute. She quickly returned to the table and pulled out an ancient copper plate from her bag. The center of the plate was engraved with the Eight Diagrams, surrounded by the Five Elements symbols.

She placed the copper plate on the floor, then took out a few copper coins from her bag and placed them according to the eight trigrams. Then, she took out a white jade bottle containing the blood of the golden raccoon dog.

She tapped her fingertips lightly, and a drop of bright red blood fell onto the center of the copper plate. The moment the blood touched the copper plate, it moved among the eight trigrams like a living thing.

Ah Cai clasped her hands together and chanted the spell to suppress the ghost: "The sky and the earth are boundless, the universe borrows the law, suppress it!"

As she shouted softly, the Bagua pattern on the copper plate suddenly lit up, and a golden light shot up from the plate and hit the roof.

The golden light transformed into a huge Bagua formation in the air, slowly rotating and enveloping the entire room.

The evil aura in the room seemed to be suppressed by this force and disappeared in an instant.

Ah Cai put away the copper plate, his expression solemn: "It seems that the gathering of evil spirits here is no accident. We must find out the source as soon as possible."

She whispered to herself, then turned back to the table. She took out a paper crane and lightly tapped it with her fingertips. The crane seemed to come alive, flew up lightly, and circled around her.

She briefly told Zhihe about the Mopanshan Post Station, then whispered, "Go and tell Sister Fuxia about this."

Upon hearing this, the paper crane flapped its wings and flew out of the window, disappearing into the night.

Just as she was packing her bags, she suddenly heard light footsteps outside the door, as if someone was wandering in the corridor.

Ah Cai immediately became alert, quietly grasped the dagger at her waist, and stared at the door with lightning-like eyes.

"Who?"

She asked in a low voice, with a hint of coldness in her voice.

There was silence outside the door for a moment, and then a hoarse voice, like the rubbing of dead wood, came: "Miss, it's late, do you need some tea?"

Ah Cai frowned slightly, and became even more alert.

She walked slowly to the door, placed her fingers lightly on it, and felt the breath outside.

However, there was no unusual sound outside the door, as if the sound just now was just an illusion.

"No need, I've already gone to bed." She responded coldly, then quickly returned to the table, took out a piece of talisman paper and stuck it on the door.

As soon as the talisman paper was pasted, a slight "hissing" sound was heard outside the door, as if something was burning.

Ah Cai sneered, holding the [Ten Thousand Years Peach Wood Sword] in her hand, and slowly opened the door.

The moment the door opened, a cold wind blew in her face, making her clothes flutter and making it almost impossible for her to open her eyes.

"Humph, it's here as expected!"

She snorted coldly, and the peach wood sword in her hand was suddenly unsheathed. The sword light was like lightning, piercing straight into the black shadow in the gloomy wind.

The shadow let out a sharp scream, quickly retreated, and disappeared into the darkness of the corridor.

A Cai did not chase after him, but quickly closed the door, leaned against the wall, and looked around vigilantly.

She knew that this was just a test of the evil spirit, and the real evil creature had not yet appeared.

She gripped the peach wood sword tightly in her hand, a cold smile on her lips: "Come on, let me see what secrets you are hiding."

The night was dark, and the flickering candlelight in the room illuminated Ah Cai's resolute face.

Her eyes were as sharp as an eagle's, as if she had seen through the secrets in the darkness.