Look at those footprints, it's clearly just one person, and that person has already been identified as A Fa.

  A lame person walks with one foot light and one foot heavy, so the two footprints will show one deep and one shallow.

  Chaozi took a glance at the cliff outside, this height, this knife-cut surface generally flat right angle, even members of the "Military Knife" special forces unit, known as the soul of the military, would absolutely be unable to climb up with their bare hands.

  "There's something off about this, take a closer look, there's still some issue with this footprint."

  "What's wrong?" Cha Wenbin asked.

  "Zhuo Xiong crouched down to take a closer look at the footprint, pointing to the toe area and said: "This footprint, the heel is obviously deeper than the toe. Normally, when people walk, the toe is the last part to leave the ground, so it should be higher than the heel. So..."

  "So, this Ah Fa is walking in backwards!" Chao Zi was also made aware of this issue by his words.

  The next discovery immediately confirmed this guess. A Fa was lame in his right foot, but the footprint on the ground was obviously deeper on the right side than on the left. Think about it, how could a lame person walk backwards in this dark and unfamiliar complex environment? It's absolutely impossible for a normal person, because the back of the head can't grow eyes.

  Cha Wenbin said: "People who are possessed by evil spirits actually don't need their eyes, because their bodies have been controlled by another person. That person is his eyes, and his eyes can't see anything either. His brain is a complete blank. Most people who wake up from being possessed can't remember that period of time when you ask them about it. I'm a bit curious, how did he climb up here?"

  "Never mind, let's go in and catch the ghost?" In Chaozi's eyes, this kind of lonely soul was just a appetizer for Cha Wenbin, and it was lucky that he escaped yesterday.

  The ground was thick with bat dung, and stepping on it made one feel extremely uncomfortable due to its slipperiness and stickiness. It's unknown how many thousands of years these creatures have occupied this cave, but the dung underfoot could be considered relics by now.

  If it were a normal tomb design, this would be the tomb passage. It's clear that this hanging coffin is not the same as an ordinary hanging coffin. Ordinary hanging coffins usually have the coffin hung near the entrance of the cave, and the depth is generally no more than two or three meters, just enough to keep the coffin from getting rained on. Firstly, excavating a mountain is a major project, and in ancient times, it was almost impossible to dig out a hole like this from granite.

  The ingenuity of nature lies in the fact that the granite, which is least likely to be eroded by running water, has a hollow inside, and this hollow was utilized by humans, making it look like a natural tomb passage.

  Using a great mountain as a tomb, this momentum is not something an ordinary person can achieve.

  Walking less than a dozen meters inside along the footprints, a burst of "clank, clank" sounds suddenly came from underfoot.

  Cha Wenbin's footsteps stopped immediately, and Chaozi was about to ask something when he heard Cha Wenbin say: "Lend me the knife for a moment."

  With a dagger, gently pry open the bat dung underfoot, and a long, pointed thing appears, mixed with those black, fermented dung, which can no longer be discerned what color it is, but its general shape can still be vaguely made out.

  "It looks a bit like human ribs, and it's been dead for quite some time." Zhang Wenbin said.

  This was clearly a human skeleton, rotting in the bat dung for who knows how many years. Just now, with that one kick, I happened to step on his ribcage.

  Chaozi furrowed his brow and said: "How can there be human bones? This cave has even seen loss of life."

  "It's not that people are in danger, it's just that we're wrong. Seeing this thing on Yongdao doesn't count as too strange." Zha Wenbin began to realize for the first time that things weren't as simple as he had thought.

  "What's wrong?"

  Zha Wenbin looked at the cave in the mountains and thoughtfully said to Chaozi, "This is not a hanging coffin tomb. You should know about Wu Zetian's tomb?"

  Qianling?

  Zha Wenbin nodded, Qianling is the only tomb in the world where two emperors of different dynasties are buried together, but what does this have to do with anything?

  "They all opened mountains as tombs, taking the entire mountain as their own tomb chamber, which was both ingenious and indestructible. They could use golden nanmu wood for coffins, with bottoms painted with dragons, how could this be an ordinary hanging coffin tomb? I should have thought of it earlier, standing at the top of the mountain, from a distance, it looks like a green dragon coiled here. I've heard that there's a Dragon Pool here, which is extremely effective for praying for rain. In the past, I once brought Old Wang to see this mountain range, but didn't understand why such a remote and small mountain village would have records of the 'Like-minded Book'. Now it seems that this village was indeed glorious in the distant past, or rather, there were Daoist masters who came here seeking enlightenment. Egghead Monk, being able to take root here, must have been attracted by something. Cultivators value most a place with spiritual energy in its mountains and waters, also known as a 'cave heaven'. The 72 Cave Heavens of the Daoists, which ones aren't located in famous mountains and great rivers? Which ones don't have such and such legends? This place must not be so simple either."

  He found a relatively clean stone platform, and Cha Wenbin carefully laid down a layer of yellow paper. Chaozi thought it was for him to sit on, but unexpectedly he was scolded by Cha Wenbin.

  "Big mountain, put those paper people flat on it."

  That paper man, under the illumination of several spotlights, looked particularly pale. If it weren't for Cha Wenbin, according to their actual thoughts, they would have thrown him off a cliff long ago.

  She took out a small flower bowl and placed it next to the paper man, then pinched a wick, lit it, and said: "You all turn off my lights."

  In an instant, the cave was left with only that one bean-sized flame still flickering.

  Zha Wenbin then put the exorcism bell on the paper, tied it with a red thread strung with copper coins to the bell, and tied the other end to the left hand of the paper man.

  "Borrowing a corpse to return the soul" is not an idiom, but a real thing, at least in Cha Wenbin's experience, he has encountered it before. This will be told slowly later. However, what Cha Wenbin revealed this time is more suitable for "borrowing paper to return the soul".

  Zha Wenbin made a gesture, indicating that they all retreated backwards: "All of you retreat a little, don't make a sound, just watch."

  Originally, Afana's soul was locked inside the evil bell, with this thing protecting her, as long as time doesn't drag on for too long, it's not a big deal.

  Paper man is naturally motionless, even if the soul really attached to it, it's still a paper man. In folk there is a commonly used phrase called: This is just a trick to cheat ghosts.

  That's right, this is used to cheat ghosts.

  He then pulled out a small bottle from his sleeve, which contained "First Tears". It was extremely difficult to collect even one bottle of this.

  "What is 'first tear'? When a child comes out of the mother's womb and cries for the first time, that one drop of tear. It is said that this tear is for the reluctance of the previous life, it is produced without being influenced by anything in this life. If rootless water is clean water, then this 'first tear' should be the purest water in the world."

  This thing is usually entrusted to a midwife for collection. If an adult in your family tells you that when you were born, a Taoist priest gave you a talisman, it's probably the gift he sent after collecting your "first tear".

  A drop onto the bell of exorcism, mouth reciting incantation: "One pre-life tear, three souls return to their position! The Supreme Old Lord's urgent order like a law!"

  Qī xīng jiàn tiāo le yī zhāng fú yǔ, jiàn qǐ fú rán, rào zhe nà líng dōng shàng fāng tǎi huái sān quān, zài fàng píng jiàn shēn, rén màn màn wǎng hòu tuì, nà lèi zhū yě kāi shǐ cóng líng dōng shàng kāi shǐ gǔn luò dào nà hóng xiàn zhī shàng.

  Tears began to move slowly along Zhang Wenbin's Seven-Star Sword, passing through the middle copper coin. The implication of the copper coin is that the sky is round and the earth is square, which can also be understood as the two places of yin and yang. After passing through the middle, it was out of the underworld, and the other end connected to it was the human world.

  When those tears hit the paper man, the talisman also burned out, and the jumping long sleep lamp went out immediately.

  At this time, those who were watching A Fa's wife at home were anxiously waiting for news from the mountain. Originally, the woman was just closing her eyes, as if she had fallen asleep, and several nieces were guarding her.

  These seventeen or eighteen year old girls, how could they understand so much? They thought Auntie was just sleeping. One of the servant girls wanted to comb her hair for her, but before she even touched her hair, that woman's eyes suddenly opened wide, as big as ping-pong balls. Then the corners of her mouth started twitching nonstop, and after struggling a few times, her jaws were locked tightly shut, and then there was no more movement. This scared those several niece who were guarding her at home so much that they cried out loudly, rushing out of the room and crying: "Scared to death! Auntie died with her eyes open!"

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