I desperately tried to open my eyes to look at something, or to use my limbs to quickly get up and escape, but no matter how hard I tried, it was all in vain. I still didn't move an inch.
Just when I was in despair, a light suddenly shone in front of my eyes, and the footsteps that were approaching me immediately disappeared, followed by a loud bang, like the sound of meat being smashed into the ground.
Strangely, at the same time, I found myself floating in the air. I can see my body, but I can't control it.
I saw my body lying beside a pile of minced meat, and many maggots had already climbed up, their hands and faces covered. And that evil spirit, just as I had heard it say, lay paralyzed on the ground, writhing and struggling back and forth.
Suddenly, the Evil Spirit's struggle became even more intense, as if something had crawled out of her body. She laid on the ground and screamed, and her hands grabbed onto the ground, grabbing onto her body.
She was screaming a bit sharply, so I didn't hear her clearly. However, some words were still understood. She seemed to be shouting something like "Don't snatch it away!" "You are not allowed to take it!"
To steal what? Who fought with him for what? Was she remembering something? Or did she think I was going to steal something from him?
While I was lost in my thoughts, a figure suddenly floated out from behind me. I was startled, but when I saw it clearly, I was stunned.
It's actually the old man who gave me the dark book!
I saw him standing behind me with a smile. He had his hands behind his back like an old grandpa who had just brought me home. However, it was obvious that this expression of his was a bit different from the current situation I was in.
"Why are you here!" Although he didn't know his identity, the last time he read in Shen Tuo's book, he had a feeling that this old man was not ordinary and could possibly be an elder or something like that.
The old man was still smiling as he looked at the book in my hands. "I heard the summons. Your friend who was sealed in the book was also very anxious. I came to see what had happened."
I just realized that even though I looked like my soul left my body, I was holding the book in my arms and not with my body.
"This book is not an item in the mortal world. It can follow the soul."
As if I didn't understand, the old man explained.
At this time, the Evil Spirit that was just struggling on the ground suddenly let out an even more miserable shriek and actually began to twitch. But very quickly, after the twitching ended, it quieted down.
And it was terrifyingly quiet.
I was quite frightened by her appearance. Thus, I humbly and quickly asked the old man who had been floating by my side. "What's going on?"
The old man unexpectedly stopped smiling and looked down with a serious expression. "This child has found the wrong body. How can he find a body with such a vicious aura as his container?"
As the old man spoke, he formed a hand seal with one hand and pointed towards the evil spirit that was about to stand up. A golden light followed the old man's finger and struck the evil spirit like a sword of light.
With a "pu" sound, the Evil Spirit seemed to have hit a target. It instantly froze on the ground, maintaining its posture as if it was about to stand up.
My eyes lit up. I had always felt that this old man was powerful, but I didn't expect him to be this powerful. With just a single decision, he managed to subdue the evil spirit that used the most powerful rune!
"Quickly, he has stopped us! We have to hurry and seal him!"
I hastily grabbed onto the book and was about to rush down, but the old man stopped me and said, "Don't go. It's not the right time right now. It can't be sealed."
"Didn't he already get nailed down?" I asked, puzzled.
The old man put away the scroll in his hand and raised both of his hands into the air as if he was raising them upwards. He suddenly flipped his hands towards the evil spirit and smashed it into the ground with a bang, creating a layer of bloody mud. The back of his spine had been twisted by the heavy fall, revealing the white bone where his spine had been.
Ever since I clashed with this evil spirit, this is the first time I saw him suffer such a huge loss! If he didn't take advantage of this opportunity to seal her in place, he might not have another chance like this in the future!
I anxiously waited for the old man to retract the spell and then used the Book of Yin to give him a final blow. But before the old man could retract it, he suddenly said to me, "Do you know how to subdue him?"
I was stunned!
"Isn't it the same as last time when I sealed the red-clothed resentful ghost?"
The elder shook his head and said, "The one you took last time still has a soul to help you delay him. But what are you using to stop him now?"
I immediately reacted and cursed myself for being careless. How could he forget about this most important matter!
I hastily asked the old man, "Then do you know how to seal him?"
The old man paused for a moment and retracted the decision in his hand. The evil spirit had already frozen on the ground and was unable to move.
"To remove the bell you still need to tie it up with someone. To seal him, you can only find the person he hated the most when he died! Let that person atone for his sins until he forgives that person. "
I suddenly thought of Yang Xu who was lying on the bed. For a moment, I didn't understand. I asked the elder, "Then, do you mean to use that person's life to get rid of her resentment?" Isn't that the same as killing Yang Xu! No way, we're protecting her now, how can we kill her!
The old man looked at me and said, "No, to remove the hatred toward a child, one doesn't have to kill. Perhaps as long as that person sincerely apologizes, or lets time go back to the most painful point in time before his death or the incident that he wanted to change the most, and then changes everything that happened, letting her know in her heart that her resentment for such a long time was actually just a dream of her own. To make her question her existence, this is the time when he is the weakest. This is the best time to seal him."
Apologize? Looking at Yang Xu's expression, he probably apologized to this evil spirit quite a few times in the past. He truly didn't know about it, but it was related to his own life, so this apology was definitely not fake, and she was still tortured in the end. This means that apologizing could no longer take place, so the only thing left was to return to the past and change the thing that caused him the most pain in that period of time.
However, it seemed somewhat impossible!
Everyone in the world knew that time would never come back. It was impossible to go back ten years ago, even a minute ago!
Doesn't that mean that there's no way to seal this evil spirit?
I was at a loss for a long time before I asked, "The first of the two methods you mentioned is to get others to apologize. It seems that her mother has already been too modest, but she has still made it very miserable.
The old man turned around and looked at me steadily. "You're right. Time cannot flow back, but everything is not absolute. There are some things that can distract others from seeing the real world. Besides, the mortal world can produce flowers from the real world."
I was stunned for a moment before a light suddenly flashed in front of me. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Right! I can use the ghost flower to make her hallucinate. Then, I can create a fake scene and change her memories! "
When the old man saw that I had given him the answer he wanted to say, he smiled slightly. "I can't participate in the other matters. Princess, please take good care of me. This old man will go back first."
When I recovered, the old man had already disappeared from my sight, and I was no longer in the air.
Something with a sharp black tip suddenly appeared in front of my eyes. There was a sticky and itchy sensation under my eyelids. A 'boom' resounded in my head as I abruptly jumped up from the ground!
After that, he patted his body back and forth like a madman, only stopping after he had slapped down all the maggots on his body.
"Princess!"
The old man's voice suddenly rang in my head again. My pale face flushed a little at his words.
After the old man heard my response, he continued, "After killing so many people, this evil spirit is no longer an evil spirit. Now, we should call him the Skinner. But my magic won't last long. You'd better leave before he can do it again! Also, remember, if you want to seal him, seven days from now will be a good time. At that time, the child's soul will regain control of his body, and because of the chaos in his memories, he will be weakened.
I was confused.
Did that old man mean that the soul in this body now was not the child but the butcher? But this butcher won't be able to control it for long, not more than seven days. Wait until the child comes back on some day during the month of that month, and then we'll have to act on our own, changing the scene where she was raped by her stepfather when she was young, and then I'll seal her when she has a nervous breakdown and can't tell the difference between reality and fantasy.
Regarding the scene restoration, Yang Xu would definitely be able to do it. As for that stepfather, he can let Shen Tuo handle it for him. Therefore, the most important thing is that I only have seven days to find Ye Qianqian and make her trust me so that I can obtain the flower's pollen!
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
He had been so excited about escaping earlier, but now he felt a headache coming! Ye Qianqian, where can I go?
Unknowingly, it was already afternoon. The most vicious days of summer began, and the stench of rotting flesh and blood in the small steel building began to emanate even more.
I immediately retched and hurriedly escaped from the inside. However, just as I escaped behind the steel building, I accidentally bumped into a skeleton! The skeleton's head was still broken, and after I crashed into it, the skull bounced back and forth on the shelf and fell to my feet.
There was a small bruise on my foot when I was in there. It was a perfect blow to the skull, and I almost jumped as I gasped in pain.
Then the head rolled two more times before stopping. I don't know if it was a coincidence, but he just happened to be facing me, and his two dark eyes were looking straight at me.
The huge sun was hanging in the sky. When I saw the skull, my entire body broke out in a cold sweat! The first reason was that he had forgotten where he was going!