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  What Cha Wenbin wanted was quickly obtained by me, and Cheng Ziyin's things were not many, it can also be seen that this woman's days in the Zhou family were indeed very poor.

  Early in the morning, those students were all watching, I kept driving them out: "Go, go, go, play with mud at the door, kids can't watch adult things!"

  Don't mention it, when I get angry, it's still quite useful. Who let the old man have a thing in his hand and drove all the people in the house away? It wasn't until then that Cha Wenbin said to me: "She was possessed by a demon, and this is also my first time seeing such sorcery."

  "Guà tóu?" I've only seen this stuff at roadside stalls before, didn't think there was actually such a thing as "guà tóu" in this world.

  Cha Wenbin helped Cheng Ziyin sit up, and now she was very cooperative. On the surface, this woman was no different from Yuan Xiaobai beside her, and even had a few more points of beauty than Xiaobai.

  "Descending head is different from losing soul and being possessed, just looking at the surface can't see any problem, this is also why I didn't discover what was wrong with her until now, and that black air between her eyebrows, finally figured it out, thanks to Xiaobai."

  "Xiao Bai?" When did this girl still understand this?

  Yuan Xiaobai was praised, and she was naturally very happy. She said: "This morning when I was combing Sister Cheng's hair, looking at her face made me feel that her face is really beautiful, and I couldn't help but take a few more glances, especially those big watery eyes of hers. But I found something not quite right in her eyes."

  I laughed and said: "Isn't it normal? Who wouldn't take you seriously? Haha."

  Zha Wenbin picked up the conversation and said: "Xiao Yi, look at my eyes now. Can you see your reflection in my pupils?"

  I said: "Yes, that's right, isn't it all like this?"

  "That's what I reminded you, and you would go to see it. If I didn't say this detail, how would you notice?" I admit that Cha Wenbin is right, who doesn't have anything to do with staring at people's eyeballs to see the reflection inside, but what does this explain?

  "Ordinary people's eyeballs look at a picture, it's actually upside down, and after the brain translates it, it becomes positive. So when you see me in my eye, you're actually an inverted image, head up, feet down."

  He said that, and I became interested. Upon closer inspection, it was indeed the case. So I went around to Xiaobai's side, and the pupil in her eye was also upside down. This discovery, I had never known before.

  Zha Wenbin looked at Yuan Xiaobai and said, "Xiaobai is indeed a bookworm, she understands these principles, and as a girl, she's meticulous. She discovered that the pupil of her eye in Cheng Niangzi's painting was upright, not inverted."

  "Is there such a thing?" I thought it was strange, so I also wanted to go and try, but Cha Wenbin pulled me back and said: "Don't be like a child, I've told you it's true. This morning, I specially flipped through the book and found something. The book says that people who have been cursed with '降头' are also called '丝罗瓶'. During the day, they are no different from normal people, but at night, they will go out and become wandering spirits without a master. According to ancient books, they bring their intestines with them when they go out, and their stomachs are always hungry, searching everywhere for children's feces to fill their hunger. Any child who has been eaten by them will have a declining fate, either dying or falling ill, or suffering from disasters."

  "Such a heavy taste..." As soon as I thought of Miss Cheng, whom I saw in the toilet last night, my god, I didn't dare to think about it anymore. Could it be...

  "Of course, this is also a saying, so in the past, in the Miaozhou area and the Nanyang area, when children went to the toilet outside, their parents would teach them to pick up small twigs or grass after defecation, make a cross shape, and put it on top of the feces. This way, the Siluo bottle wouldn't dare to eat it. People who have been cursed look no different from ordinary people, but according to the book, they only have one characteristic: there is no inverted image of the other person in their pupils."

  "Doesn't the book say how to rescue her?" Ye Qiu asked.

  "However, as far as I know, this Gu technique isn't particularly advanced. There are similar techniques recorded in Mao Shan Taoism. Of course, I've only heard about it, but supposedly a high-ranking practitioner from Mao Shan once derived an evil technique from one of the methods, allowing him to detach his head from his body and suck blood for 49 days. On the seventh day, he would need to suck the blood of an unborn child in a pregnant woman's womb to complete the ritual. Although this technique is recorded, very few people have successfully cultivated it. In our Taoist community, some sayings are true while others are false. Nevertheless, I think that Gu techniques and witchcraft ultimately originate from the same class of evil arts. As long as we treat the symptoms correctly, there's still a chance of success."

  Cha Wenbin's approach is that the influence on a person's thinking must be achieved through some means of control. Just like China's "扎小人" (a type of voodoo doll), the connection between people is not limited to language, actions, and sounds, but also includes a connection that transcends distance. According to Taoist understanding, "things follow their causes, and objects move according to their natures." All things have causal relationships and must be connected. When a traveler from afar dies in a foreign land, his mother thousands of miles away can feel an intense, indescribable unease... This is what people call the "sixth sense," intuition, or instinct. Many people possess this feeling, which is often strong and accurate. Why? In fact, the intangible connection transcends distance.

  Going down is a kind of connection that can use the hair, fingernails, and even clothes you've worn to affect someone. In Cha Wenbin's view, this is obviously not as good as their Mao Shan technique, because Mao Shan only needs to get the opponent's birth date and time to put them in danger, which is naturally shameful and prohibited.

  So, Cha Wenbin decided to follow the vine and touch the melon. Since you use a trick, I'll also draw a gourd to counter it. Let's see who has higher skills and stronger abilities.

  Soon, Cheng Zi's clothes were arranged in a circle on the ground according to the order of wearing, and a human shape was formed. The clothes were all filled with straw, and the mask from yesterday was simply buckled on the head and propped up with a stick at the back, standing in the corner of the wall. From a distance, you really can't tell if this is a person or not.

  This room was specially chosen by Cha Wenbin, with only one small window, which I covered with a wooden board. As long as the lights are off, it's pitch black in here. There were only two people inside, him and Cheng Ziyin, and another room similar to this one, where that straw-filled dummy was placed. In this room, there were just me and Ye Qiu, and Cha Wenbin said we only needed to stay with it.

  It was around 8 o'clock in the morning, Cha Wenbin first waved his hand in front of Cheng Ziyin's eyes to confirm that she was still unconscious. Now what needed to be done was to cut off her connection with the outside world first, otherwise Cheng Ziyin would easily be discovered and disturbed by others during the spell-casting process, which would render all previous efforts useless.

  In the art of witchcraft, as long as you use a silver needle to seal a person's seven spirits, you can create a fake death scene. Three souls can be lost and one soul is harmless, but the seven spirits must not be missing one, lacking one is unacceptable, otherwise this person may die suddenly at any time. This is a great test for the practitioner, the seven spirit acupoints are all major acupoints of the human body, the accuracy of the needle insertion is related to the life of the person being practiced, and it cannot be deviated by half a millimeter.

  Cha Wenbin still had confidence in this, as Ma Suifeng had taught him not only Taoist magic but also traditional Chinese medicine since he was a child. Ma believed that there was an intricate relationship between traditional Chinese medicine and Taoism, so Cha had been able to locate the corresponding acupoints with his eyes closed since he was in his teens. After the seven silver needles were inserted one by one, Cheng Ziyin's eyes slowly began to close, and when Cha stretched out his fingers to check, he found that her breathing had stopped, and the pulse on her wrist had also ceased to beat. At this point, he had about ten minutes to cast his spell; if he pulled out the silver needles after that time, it would be too late.

  According to Taoist teachings, the three souls and seven spirits are first scattered, then dispersed. Now that he has sealed away the seven spirits, these three souls suddenly feel they have no master to rely on, and will inevitably fall into chaos. When a soul is without a master, it will immediately leave the body. What Cha Wenbin wants is to extract Cheng Ziyin's soul and spirit from this brief moment.

  As expected, before Cha Wenbin could even catch his breath, he felt the Seven Star Sword in his hand tremble slightly. Any magical artifact would have a reaction to the sudden appearance of something from the underworld. Cha Wenbin immediately took out the Summoning Bell and gently shook it, saying: "Lingbao Heavenly Respect, comfort the body; female soul, five internal organs mysterious; Blue Dragon White Tiger, arrayed and fluttering; Vermilion Bird Dark Tortoise, attendants advancing, hurry up, hurry up, urgent like a law!" After speaking, he took out a small blue bottle and placed it under Cheng Ziyin's nostrils, gently shaking it towards the top of her head. At this time, looking at her, she seemed to have really stopped breathing, as if even her soul had been taken away by Cha Wenbin.

  After finishing this step, he immediately came to the room where I was, and Ye Qiu suddenly understood and pulled me to the other side. At this time, Cheng Ziyin, who had no soul or spirit, could not be disturbed, and any shock might cause her seven spirits to disperse, requiring 100% protection. I stood outside the door with a five-six rifle, while Ye Qiu was inside holding Han Yue. I guarantee that even if my own father came, I would fire into the sky.

  Cha Wenbin judged that the ultimate goal of Guigong was to control people's souls, just like witchcraft. So he decided to move Cheng Ziyin's soul into this fake body. He also judged that the person who cast the spell must have taken something from Cheng Ziyin's body, such as hair or clothing. Therefore, he imitated everything she used daily, at least during this period of time, and the controlled soul could not distinguish between true and false for a while.

  Zha Wenbin held a talisman in one hand, and with his fingers pinched it in mid-air, the paper suddenly ignited. He held the burning talisman to the mouth of the bottle, circled it once, and shouted: "Three births of the divine, eight scenes already clear; I now summon you, return spirit and soul; from the origin enter existence, clearly restore form! As one with the law! Come out!"

  With a "whoosh", it seemed like a burst of air shot out from the bottle mouth, bringing with it a flame that rushed straight at the grass man. He quickly put the charm into a bowl of clear water on the ground and stirred it with his finger, then picked up the bowl and shouted before opening his mouth to spray water at the grass man.

  "Pffft" sounded like a spray, all the way until the entire bowl of water was sprayed out, completely drenching the straw man. Only then did Cha Wenbin hold the bell and say to the straw man: "Yang does not restrain the soul, yin does not control the spirit; three souls quickly arrive, seven spirits urgently descend!"

  "Ding" sounded a bell, Cha Wenbin gently touched the "forehead" of the grass man and said: "Endure it, Sanmai True Fire can burn through both Yin and Yang realms."