Chapter 197 Five Ghosts Help
"What exactly do you want?!" the old village chief asked in a low voice.

"Yun Chengsang should know what I want. I will help Yun Chengsang fulfill his wish, and Yun Chengsang will help me complete the matter of Shikigami." The man chuckled, and his actions were clearly reflected under the light.

Li Daoxuan stared at the shadow and could see that the old village chief sat down in a decadent manner.

The room was silent for a long time before the old village chief slowly spoke: "If you just want to complete your task, I will naturally help you. But you must promise me that you will not harm the villagers of Li Village again, otherwise I will not let you succeed even if I risk my life."

"Haha, Yun Chengsang, please rest assured. As long as I get my things, I will leave here. By then, Lijia Village will be safe and sound, and you will be able to continue to live a happy and fulfilling life. As for what happened before, we will just regard it as the past." The man laughed, his voice uncertain.

Li Daoxuan frowned as he listened, feeling that this person was not a good person.

All is well? If he hadn't seen the blood mist above the villagers' heads, he might have believed it. But when he thought of those shocking fortunes, he knew that the other person in the room might not leave so easily.

"Could it be that he wants to sacrifice the entire Lijia Village?!" Li Daoxuan was shocked and suddenly had an astonishing guess.

If this man's plan is really like this, then there may be even bigger troubles in Lijia Village.

"It is impossible for him to destroy Lijia Village without anyone noticing. If he is alone, he will need to use a formation to accomplish such a brutal act, unless he has other helpers. But I have checked the Feng Shui of Lijia Village many times. Is there something I have overlooked?" Li Daoxuan pondered and continued to listen. However, there was no more news in the house, and even the man's voice was gone. It seemed that the other party did not exist in the house and disappeared out of thin air.

"He's gone? Impossible!" Li Daoxuan was shocked. He was astonished at the departure of this Japanese magician. He was able to disappear from his perception without anyone noticing. Could this kind of strength be at the level of a Heavenly Master? !
But how many people in this world can reach the level of Heavenly Master? Even the one in the Heavenly Master Mansion of Longhu Mountain may not be a Heavenly Master.

However, if this visitor from Japan was really a wizard at the level of Heavenly Master, then there would be no need to plan so painstakingly and set up a backup plan in Lijia Village.

Thinking about it this way, how did this person manage to disappear from his perception without anyone noticing?

"Is there an underground secret passage in the old village chief's house?" Li Daoxuan thought to himself, and then he heard footsteps.

He calmed himself down, leaped lightly toward the roof, and crouched under the eaves like a spider, using his nightgown to conceal his figure. Even if the old village chief looked up, he would have difficulty finding his trace.

Looking down at the old village chief who had walked out of the house, Li Daoxuan watched him slowly close the door with a cane, then hold a lamp and walk along the aisle towards the side room, where he rested.

Lights on, lights off.

Accompanied by the rustling sound of the night rain, the old village chief fell asleep peacefully.

Li Daoxuan jumped down from the eaves, and after making sure that the old village chief was asleep, he planned to check out the place where the two had just met.

He tiptoed and pushed open the wooden door of the house, the cat crawled in, and then gently closed the door.

He looked around the room and saw various clay dolls placed on the left side of the room. Pairs of white-painted eyes stared at him without blinking, making Li Daoxuan feel his scalp tingling for a moment.

He made some hand gestures and recited the spell he had just used to ward off evil spirits from the house.

After getting rid of that feeling of being watched, I no longer felt the sense of being watched.

There weren't many things in the room. Apart from a few round tables, there was an antique shelf with statues of gods on it.

On the antique display shelf is placed the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, who saves people from suffering, and there are couplets pasted on both sides of the shelf.

Apart from the clay doll on the left, there was nothing else in the room.

After searching the house carefully, he didn't find anything special, so he turned his gaze to those strange-looking clay dolls and walked over.

These clay dolls are dressed in Oriental style like those placed in the yard, but the difference is that their faces seem to be more delicate. Although the eyes are painted white, they give people a more vivid feeling.

If they were not clay dolls, Li Daoxuan would have felt that they had intelligence.

"In traditional Oriental strange stories, there are indeed many gods made of clay dolls. Could it be that these clay dolls are used for such purposes? But there is no need for so many, right? I just heard what that person said. He is a very scheming person. I don't think he would do useless work and ask the old village chief to make some useless clay dolls. These clay dolls must have other uses, but I just haven't discovered them yet." Li Daoxuan felt that this Oriental wizard would definitely not make these clay dolls for no reason. These clay dolls can be placed in the house instead of outside, which means that they are more special than those outside. But he still didn't understand what their specific uses were.

Squatting down and looking at the clay doll carefully, Li Daoxuan reached out and touched the doll's face.

An idea suddenly occurred to him and he tapped his eyes with his fingers.

A flash of white light appeared in his eyes, and the clay doll in front of him took on a different posture.

There were more than ten clay dolls in the room, most of which had white mist hidden inside. The white mist was ethereal and changing, as if it had intelligence.

"This is..." Li Daoxuan blinked and felt horrified.

He suddenly thought of something and vaguely understood the function of these clay dolls.

"Could it be that you are using it for these purposes?" Li Daoxuan held the dagger and slowly inserted it into a clay doll. He dug open the doll's belly, and a round pebble rolled out from it.

This pebble is extremely unique, as smooth as jade, and feels a little warm to the touch.

He took it in his hand and looked at it carefully, and his mind could not help but recall the three round pebbles that fell out of the old drunkard's wine gourd when he first met him in Jinling.

He had taken a close look at the three pebbles at that time and discovered that each of them had a human face, but the face had its eyes closed and its mouth pursed, looking lifeless.

But today was different. Li Daoxuan actually felt a trace of soul fluctuation in this stone. It seemed as if a human soul was hidden in this stone, which surprised him.

Li Daoxuan took out a yellow talisman from his arms and held it in his hand.

"The sky is clear and the earth is spiritual. The soldiers follow the seal and the generals follow the orders. Disciple Li Daoxuan obeys the order of the founder of Maoshan... Hurry up and obey the order of the founder of Maoshan!"

After the curse was cast, the yellow talisman spontaneously burned out and turned into a wisp of ash, disappearing silently.

After a few breaths, a cold wind suddenly blew in the house, and there seemed to be the sound of crazy ghosts.

The curtains swayed and there were bursts of sobbing sounds.

There was smoke in the air, like the underworld.

Li Daoxuan held his breath and watched the changes in front of him quietly. Then he heard laughter in his ears and five white shadows appeared.

The white shadow changes unpredictably, sometimes it turns into a woman in red floating by, sometimes it turns into an old man in white taking a walk, sometimes it appears without a face, and sometimes it looks like a person being hanged.

This kind of scene is the magic of the five ghosts of Maoshan appearing.

Li Daoxuan used this method to summon human souls last time, and this time he used it to summon the five ghosts.

These five ghosts are Yao Bisong, the five central ghosts, Lin Jingzhong, the five northern ghosts, Cai Ziliang, the five western ghosts, Zhang Zigui, the five southern ghosts, and Chen Guixian, the five eastern ghosts.

The five ghosts can be driven by magic, and can move things and explore souls. However, it is not so easy to summon the five ghosts. If used improperly, they will backfire.

The old Taoist warned Li Daoxuan not to drive the five ghosts at will. If he suffered retribution and died, his soul would disappear. When the time came, even if he went to the underworld, his soul would become food for the five ghosts and he would not be able to be reborn.

But now he has an important use, so he calls upon the five ghosts for help.

(End of this chapter)