home

search

Chapter 59: Treading Snow in Search of Foxes

  The Rooster, also known as the Chicken, is mentioned in the "Xuanzhongji" of the Jin Dynasty. According to legend, on Mount Dushuo, there was a heavenly rooster that would crow when the first ray of sunlight hit a large tree at dawn, and all the chickens in the world would follow its call. Therefore, chickens are considered to be quite spiritual animals, and it is said that the crowing of yellow chickens has the effect of warding off evil spirits. On the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, some places in Henan still kill chickens to scare away ghosts. It is said that King Yanwang releases the ghosts until they are collected again on Qingming Festival next year. The people believe that ghosts are afraid of chicken blood and that chicken blood can ward off evil spirits, so they kill chickens on the first day of the tenth month to scare away small ghosts. As the saying goes: "On the first day of the tenth month, kill a little rooster."

  In many Yin Yang masters' earth methods in the past, Huang Ji was often used, and among them is the trick I'm using now, 'Golden Rooster Lures Night Fox'.

  Under the night sky, the residential area had fallen asleep. I sneaked into the compound and arrived at Song Jia's mother and son's building. Their home was on the fifth floor, so I looked around for a convenient place to move about. Fortunately, the environment in the compound was not bad, and there was a square similar to a garden under their building. The square was filled with trees, but since it was winter, the leaves had fallen off, and the streetlights were not very bright. It was dark and I hid behind a tree, so no one should have been able to find me. I trudged through the snow to get to a tree, first taking out the box of three-inch nails, counting out 49 nails, referring to the shape of a plum blossom, with the nail points facing upwards, evenly burying them in a circle on the ground. Then I took out that jar of honey, tore open the bag of sugar and poured it into the honey jar. I picked up a tree branch and stirred it a few times, then licked it with my tongue - damn, it was sweet.

  That yellow chicken was still tied up with its legs in the bag, I held it by the wings and took it out. The chicken was quite lively, struggling non-stop, looking like if I untied the rope it would run all over the place. So I just put it into the nail cage like this. Anyway, I used another thin rope to tie one end to its leg and hold the other end in my hand. As I said before, I'm only using it as bait, won't let it die.

  I took that jar of honey and thickly applied a layer to the crown of that yellow chicken, thinking to myself, Brother Chicken, you'd better not move around later, or else I won't be able to protect your life.

  After everything was ready, I came to the back of the tree with a rope in my hand and took out a "Ding You Wen Gonglu Symbol" from my bag. I stuck the symbol on my forehead and silently recited: "The Three Pure Ones are above, today the disciple Cui Zuofei is exhausted from slaying demons, specially inviting the Six Ding Yin Sheng of the Upper Realm to descend into the world to assist the disciple in opening up the underworld."

  I muttered to myself and softly shouted: "Hurry up, as if it were an imperial decree!"

  I only heard a "slap" sound, and the surface of the 'Ding You Wen Gong Lu Fu' symbol that was stuck to my forehead had already turned dark. I thought to myself, it's done! I removed the symbol, and at this time, I had completely covered up the lamp on my forehead. The flames around me also quickly subsided.

  "'Ding You Wen Gong Lu Fu', is a talisman that can help people reduce their inner fire and see evil spirits. With it, things are much more convenient, no longer needing to use willow leaves on the forehead or blood to smear the gate of the brain. Moreover, this talisman is very convenient, even in an extremely dark night, it can help me vaguely see the surrounding objects."

  After everything was done, I opened my eyes wide and stared at the window of Song Jia's mother and son on the fifth floor. God bless, it must be a night fox possession! Otherwise, I would have been busy for nothing!

  But on the left and right, that pitch-black window didn't make a single move, ten minutes had passed, my heart couldn't help but start to feel anxious. Could it be that I made an error in my calculations? That thing wasn't actually a night fox? Or was what Ninth Uncle said about this folk trick not effective?

  Twenty minutes have passed, and I'm thinking gloomily that it seems like there's no chance tonight. Maybe this is fate, and the mother and son are destined to suffer this disaster. The nighttime temperature was very low, and despite being fully dressed, my feet were still numb from the cold. Just as I was about to pack up and not wait any longer, I suddenly thought I saw something flash by in the window of the fifth floor apartment.

  I immediately became vigilant, holding my breath and staring intently at the window. Sure enough, after a short while, a small head poked out from the right side of the window.

  What the...?! What is this?! I thought 'Night Fox' would be something similar to a fox, but what I'm seeing now has nothing to do with a fox at all!! That's clearly just a bald kid! He's staring in my direction with a sly look on his face, nodding his head as if sniffing out something.

  In an instant, it pierced through the window and jumped down. It was only then that I clearly saw its appearance, to be honest, although I had seen terrifying ghosts or monsters before, none of them were as frightening as this one in front of me. Its appearance was no different from a three or four-year-old child, except that it wasn't wearing clothes, its whole body was deathly pale, and seemed to be covered in blood vessels. It had a bald head, no eyebrows, and looked like a peeled rotten egg. Its small eyes shone with a faint green light, just like the eyes of dogs at night. After jumping down to the floor, it continued to nod its head and sniff around.

  This is really too evil! Although I had already made sufficient preparations before, it still gave me a chill. I thought this child looked really disgusting, just like a deformed baby in a horror movie. It's true that the lazy frog doesn't bite people but each has its own retribution.

  But afraid of returning to fear, nausea returns to nausea, no matter what it looks like, as long as it is the yellow chicken that I put out to lure it out, then it must be a night fox. So I held my breath behind the tree, my left hand grasping the rope tightly, and my right hand reached into the bag to take out an "Auspicious Jade Pendant". Just waiting for this unlucky kid to take the bait!

  As expected, it walked towards us while smelling the fragrance emitted by the yellow chicken. When the distance between us was only 20 meters, it discovered the yellow chicken under the tree. At this time, I, who was behind the tree, had already tensed up my nerves and was ready to rush out at any moment to give this little guy a surprise attack.

  The yellow chicken under the tree seemed to have sensed the danger too, and with its feet tied up, it could only struggle non-stop under the tree. I thought to myself, "Oh dear dad, don't mess this up, if you knock over the nails I've worked so hard to bury, that would be terrible."

  That little monster stared at the yellow chicken, constantly making a fuss, and even smiled in a gloomy and strange way. The extremely piercing voice drilled into my eardrum, I thought to myself: you little beast, go ahead and laugh, later on, I'll make you cry so hard that you won't be able to find your tune!

  That little monster seemed to have laughed enough, and then it opened its big mouth and quickly jumped up towards the yellow chicken. Of course, all of this was seen by me. Just as I saw that it was about to land and grab the yellow chicken, I took aim from behind the tree and suddenly pulled the rope with force, instantly pulling the yellow chicken behind me.

  That little monster saw the yellow chicken and suddenly flew away, and before it could even react, it had already fallen into my trap. Although the three-inch nail buried in the ground was just ordinary iron and had no effect on it, it was arranged using the Five-Plum Blossom technique. In those days, Jing Xian Dao Ren and Ninth Uncle used this method to capture the night fox, so you could say that this is a simple formation.

  Just as the little monster landed, it stepped on a nail and cried out in pain. I saw my chance and thought to myself, "If not now, when?" So I rushed out from behind the tree with all my might and struck it with a "Jia Wu Yu Qing Po Sha Fu" on its back! With my shout of "Ji Ji Ru Lu Ling!", the power of the Six Jia Yang Shen instantly blasted it flying away!

  It succeeded! I secretly rejoiced. Only to see it fly far away and crash to the ground, wailing loudly, my cold sweat immediately flowed down. Although all of this was within my expectations, I still couldn't help but admire how unexpectedly resilient this little beast was.

  So I quickly ran over, took out another "Jia Shen Wen Chang Zhu Xie Fu" from my bag, and stuck it to its back before it could get up. Then, instead of attacking it again, I quickly retreated a few steps and stood in the direction of Song Jia's mother and son building. As for why I did this, let me keep you in suspense for now, and I'll tell you later.

  Only to see that little monster struggling to get up, it was crying and staring at me with extremely vicious eyes. Seeing that I was dead set on the direction of Song Jia's mother and son, it seemed to have realized that it was impossible to return to Huang Siyuan's body again. So it let out a few strange cries and then ran northward. Due to its speed being very fast, in just a short while it disappeared from my line of sight.

  After seeing it run away without a trace, I secretly thought to myself, "I hope the ancestors will bless me and let me get rid of these monsters smoothly tonight."

  To know that cutting grass without removing the roots, the spring wind blows again. Ninth Uncle once said that when a group of monsters are born at night, if I had killed that little beast just now, those remaining monsters would still harm others. So I came up with a plan to let go of that little beast and lead me to find those big beasts.

  When I thought it was about time, I packed up my things and grabbed the yellow chicken, running out of the compound. I hailed a night-shift taxi and got in. Sitting in the car, I scratched the back of my left hand with my fingernail, then dipped my right hand in the blood and drew an "甲申文长诛邪符" palm symbol on the center of my left palm.

  He said 'Jia Shen Wen Chang Zhu Xie Fu', but I didn't understand the name, because it's actually a tracking symbol, yet it has a name that doesn't match its function at all.

  This makes sense just like the Qing An technique. Just now, I stuck a talisman on the back of that little monster, and now I've drawn another one on my own palm, two talismans representing the child talisman and the mother talisman, the one I drew on my palm is the mother talisman. I also took out a pair of chopsticks from my bag, after the battle at Mirror Pond, I fully understood the convenience of this thing. I placed the chopstick flat on the palm of my left hand that was drawing the talisman, and saw that the chopstick trembled for a few times before the end that picks up food suddenly pointed towards the northwest.

  So I asked the taxi driver to head northwest. It was almost one o'clock in the middle of the night, and I sat in the car with a thin layer of snowflakes outside the window, illuminated by the streetlights on both sides of the road, which gave off an orange-yellow color.

  I gazed out of the car window and thought, let me put on a show tonight, treading snow to find foxes.

  [[[CP|W:408|H:268|A:C|U:file1./chapters/20104/18/1529640634072190578189068910410.jpg]]]

Recommended Popular Novels