"A Xiu, don't do anything stupid!"
I slapped the Soul - Suppressing Spell I'd been pinching with my left hand hard onto Wang Yingxiu's blood - red soul form on the Thangka, holding her still on it. My injured right hand had already gone numb. I reached up and yanked the whole silk Thangka off the hook on the doorframe.
Fearing that Wang Yingxiu might do something rash, I rolled up the Thangka right away and pasted the Soul - Suppressing Talismans from the altar on it.
"Let me out!"
Wang Yingxiu was sealed inside the Thangka. Her blood - red spiritual consciousness as a fierce ghost was finally suppressed by me and no longer scattered recklessly.
But at this moment, I didn't have the time to deal with her anymore. The glaring headlights outside the window blinded me. I had to close my eyes. In the blood - red after - image in front of me, a huge eyeball was clearly reflected, staring at me malevolently.
"I, the Goddess with a Single Eye, have already admitted my bad luck and stopped looking for trouble with you. But you've gone too far! You even come to my shrine to cause trouble?!"
The voice belonged to a man. Immediately after, the glass door in front of me shattered with a loud "bang". Song Yixuan walked in smiling. The single eye hanging in mid - air was like a huge, open tail behind him... No wonder Si Jiangchen said he was a peacock. It was really an apt description!
"I'm just here to take someone home."
I raised my hand to shield my eyes from the blinding headlights. Squinting, I finally managed to see the situation outside.
Four or five heavy - duty Honda 750 motorcycles had their headlights all focused on our shop entrance. Several men with steel pipes followed Song Yixuan and stepped in over the broken glass.
"Take someone home?"
Song Yixuan was taller than me. He looked down at me disdainfully and sneered, "Wang Yingxiu wants to marry me in the underworld, right? Come on! I'm just short of a fierce ghost to satisfy my appetite! You've ruined my good deed! Tell me, don't you deserve to die?!"
As he spoke, the men behind him rushed in and started smashing the counter in our shop. The strong light and the loud crashing finally alerted the people in the yard.
Du Wenzhong rushed out of the inner room wrapped in a coat and was also blinded by the strong light.
"Sir, go back inside!"
I shouted and stood in front of him.
This was no longer something that supernatural powers could stop. The people in front of us were all flesh - and - blood humans, some hooligans from God knows where!
The steel pipes in their hands were far more lethal than illusions. A couple of blows to the head could kill a person... I couldn't let Du Wenzhong suffer any more in his old age!
"Hey! What's going on?!"
"Who's shining such bright lights? It's disturbing the neighbors!"
"Call 110!"
The yard was in chaos. Aunt Xu opened the big iron gate. Her little black dog barked and rushed out.
"Thud!"
One of the men brought by Song Yixuan raised his steel pipe and casually hit the puppy on the head. The puppy rolled over on the ground, kicked its legs a few times with a whine, and then went still.
"Go back! All of you go back inside!"
Song Yixuan had come with such a big show of force. He clearly wanted to fight me to the death. I couldn't let the whole yard of people get hurt because of me.
"Xiao He, I've already called the police! Don't be afraid of him!"
Aunt Xu was heartbroken about her little black dog. Furious, she shouted, "This is Beijing! How can you hooligans run wild here?!"
Saying that, she and a few kind - hearted uncles and aunts in the yard stood in front of me.
They couldn't see the single eye hanging in the dark night sky. They just thought it was like those hooligans who used to come to our shop to extort money.
"Aunt Xu, you can't stay here!"
When I looked up, the single eye had tilted its pupil and was looking down.
Aunt Xu and the others suddenly shivered, as if sensing something. They slowly looked up at the same time, and their gazes finally fixed on the direction of the single eye.
"Ah... Ah!!!"
Aunt Xu stared at the huge single eye in the night sky. The terror on her face gradually turned into ecstasy. "God! The god has appeared!"
Saying that, she suddenly knelt on the ground and began to kowtow with her hands clasped.
The uncles and aunts behind her also knelt down piously...
I didn't know how much power of faith the Goddess with a Single Eye had absorbed from Ma Su's Taoran Media. It seemed that she could show her so - called divine image in front of ordinary people!
In such a short period of time, she had become even more powerful than the clone I'd destroyed in the hospital!
"… Hum!"
The single eye in the sky glared again. Aunt Xu and the others seemed to have received some order. They immediately got up from the ground and turned to grab me. I saw their eyeballs rolling crazily in their eye sockets. They were obviously bewitched.
"The great star above the stage responds to changes without pause, expelling evil spirits and binding demons, protecting life and safeguarding the soul..."
I loudly recited the Heart - Purifying Spell.
This was the simplest but most useful spell in Taoism. All novice Taoists would recite it. It could not only cut off the inner demons and keep one's true self, but also help others get rid of evil thoughts for those with great abilities.
Now that I didn't have time to use talismans, I had no choice but to recite the Heart - Purifying Spell as a last resort, hoping it would be useful for Aunt Xu and the others!
As the spell left my mouth, I could feel a faint golden light floating around me. Aunt Xu, who was closest to me, had already grabbed my shoulder. Her wildly rolling pupils finally stopped. I quickly grabbed a Soul - Calming Talisman from the altar and slapped it on her chest.
"Aunt Xu! Wake up!"
With my shout, Aunt Xu coughed up a mouthful of foul - smelling blood. She gasped for breath and covered the talisman on her chest.
"Xiao, Xiao He, what's going on?!"
She stared at me in horror and wanted to look back at the sky. But I stuffed another handful of talismans into her hands. "Don't look. It's an illusion! Help me paste these on them!"
I pointed at the neighbors behind her whose souls had been stabilized by the Heart - Purifying Spell.
"Ah! Ah! Okay! Okay!!!"
Aunt Xu was indeed an experienced old woman. She listened to my words and, with her head down, pasted the talismans one by one on the chests of the neighbors.
These talismans were made by Du Peilin and Du Wenzhong. I trusted Du Peilin's skills, and the talismans were really effective. All the controlled neighbors coughed and regained consciousness.
Seeing that he couldn't control Aunt Xu and the others, Song Yixuan waved his hand. The hooligans behind him rushed over with their steel pipes.
Just as the hooligans were about to hit the uncles and aunts with their steel pipes, suddenly, another steel pipe of the same type blocked them with a "clang".
Song Yixuan, with a ferocious look on his face, was holding the steel pipe and standing in front of the hooligans.
"What are you doing?!"
These hooligans were all local loafers who had been paid to come and cause trouble for us. They had always been dissatisfied with Song Yixuan, this good - looking outsider. Now seeing him blocking their way, they immediately frowned and asked, "If we waste any more time, the cops will be here!"