To Raise a Soul

The building where Chi Nan lives looks very high-end, which is very suitable for his status as a senior returnee.

The building has access control, and fingerprint authentication is required for the owner to enter and exit. Visitors cannot enter without the owner's permission.

Being held in Yin Yan's arms again, Yu Zhen was very puzzled: "So why didn't you just fall into Chi Nan's house?" Why did you stop outside the building for a while.

Yin Yan didn't answer, and the surroundings were spinning again.

When the environment was settled again, the two were already standing in a living room with simple decoration.

The living room is very large, with little furniture, probably because the owner hasn't had time to arrange it properly after moving in.

Unexpectedly, Chi Nan was still asleep. Although the living room was not lit, there was light coming from the direction of the kitchen, and there was the faint sound of cooking.

Still cooking so late?

Yu Zhen was puzzled at first, and then hurriedly pulled Yin Yan's clothes to signal him to take her away, and come back after Chi Nan fell asleep.

Yin Yan didn't follow him, took his hand and led him towards the kitchen.

Yu Zhen was shocked, and wanted to stop him but was afraid of alarming Chi Nan. Since he couldn't transmit sound into secrets, he could only express his resistance with actions, and grabbed Yin Yan's hand desperately to hold him.

"Chi Nan is unconscious now, so he won't find us."

Yin Yan comforted him, and while talking, he turned around and grabbed his waist to lift him slightly off the ground, and led him to the kitchen door to stand still.

Both feet suddenly flew into the air, and Yu Zhen stopped struggling. Feeling the temperature from Yin Yan's palm on his waist, his ears became inexplicably hot, like a cat being held by the back of the neck, obediently let Yin Yan take him to the kitchen door .

Contrary to the empty and unpopular situation in the living room, the kitchen is fully equipped with kitchen utensils, various spices occupy the shelves, and the atmosphere of life is very strong.

At this time, Chi Nan, who was wearing pajamas, was standing in front of the pot, holding a spoon in his hand, lowering his head and mechanically stirring the soup pot.

There was a smell of blood floating in the air, and Yu Zhen's eyes fell into the soup pot unconsciously, and then he was so disgusted that he almost vomited out.

In the thick red blood-like soup, some dark red blood clots are slowly rotating with the stirring of the spoon, probably because they have been boiled for too long, they are already very rotten and thick, and it feels like they will disperse and melt if you poke them Come.

Yin Yan took out a ball and fed it into his mouth, took a step forward to slightly block his sight, waved his hand lightly, and the smell of blood floating in the air dissipated immediately.

But the soup was still there, blood red and eye-catching.

With the help of the pills, Yu Zhen slowly stabilized his mind, frowned and endured the discomfort and took a step forward, standing side by side with Yin Yan.

The two of them appeared alive, but Chi Nan didn't seem to see it. He was still slowly stirring the soup pot, his eyes were open but out of focus, like a puppet being manipulated.

"What's the matter with him?" Yu Zhen asked, his fingertips had gathered golden light, and wanted to help Chi Nan get out of this weird situation first.

Yin Yan stopped his movement and said, "Wait a minute, watch him carefully and use discernment."

Yu Zhen stopped moving, and did not move obediently. Instead, he wiped the golden light from his fingertips on his eyes.

The world turned into a warm light again, and then a more terrifying side appeared in front of Yu Zhen.

In the warm light, Chi Nan was still stirring the soup pot, but as he stirred, the warm light around him seemed to be pulled by something, peeling off bit by bit, falling towards the soup pot, and mixed into the full pot Bloody.

What's even more frightening is that he was actually covered with a layer of light red light emanating from the pot. With the stirring of the soup spoon, the red light also rotated layer by layer, and finally twisted into a rope and entangled His neck stretched out strangely, and disappeared through the roof upwards.

The "noose" formed by the red light is still just a light and loose layer, but it is not difficult to imagine that when the warm light is peeled off and the red light is at its peak, Chi Nan, who is trapped by the red light, will end up in a mess. What will happen.

Everything in front of him was too weird, Yu Zhen choked in his throat, couldn't help but grabbed Yin Yan's hand, and said in a trembling voice: "He, he was..."

"Borrowing luck and borrowing life."

Yin Yan held his hand back, hugged him sideways, and said, "Let's go to another house to see."

The surrounding environment changed again, this time they landed in a family next door to Chinan.

There was a family of three living in the next door, and they were all asleep. Their breathing was normal, and there was nothing wrong with it. Yu Zhen breathed a sigh of relief.

Yin Yan was thoughtful, hugged him again, and passed it on to the next family.

The building has a total of 36 floors, with six households on each floor, divided into two units. This time, Yin Yan took Yu Zhen away from the eighteenth floor where Chi Nan was located, and went straight to the lower nine floors. In front of you.

The same kitchen lights, the same red light of the soup pot, the difference is that this time standing in front of the pot is a thin woman.

Yu Zhen took a look with discernment, and found that the warm light on the woman's body was also missing, but it was not as big as Chi Nan.

"It's a formation."

Yin Yan was sure, hugged him again, and began to teleport quickly in the building.

Yu Zhen has only practiced for a short time, and he has not learned anything related to formations. He only knows that after Yin Yan made the judgment of formations, every household he brought him to stay has soup pots and red lights. All of them are thin, mostly aged between 20 and 50, and live alone.

After walking around, Yin Yan took Yu Zhen back to Chi Nan's house.

Chi Nan was still stirring the soup pot, but his movements were much slower than before, and the red light on his body became more and more intense.

Yu Zhen became anxious, and the golden light condensed on his fingertips again.

"You can't move, if you break the formation rashly, the people in the formation will be severely injured." Yin Yan grabbed his hand, moved the other hand slightly, took out something from the space, and threw it into the soup pot.

With a stabbing sound, the red soup in the pot suddenly began to tumbling violently as if it had been stimulated by something. At the same time, the red light on Chi Nan's body suddenly stopped turning and began to twist and struggle.

"pay close attention."

Yin Yan hugged Yu Zhen, and before the red light disappeared, he grabbed the "red rope" twisted by the red light on the back of Chi Nan's neck with his bare hands, pulled it hard, and at the same time, borrowed the strength from his legs to shrink into an inch again. , rushed towards the end of the red rope.

Yu Zhen only felt his body vacated briefly, and then there was a crash, as if a film in front of him was suddenly pierced, and the night wind blew in his face, and the scene of the roof of the building was already in front of him.

"Who? Who broke my formation!"

A sharp and unpleasant voice came, Yu Zhen looked sideways, and saw a dry and thin old man squatting in the corner of the roof, in front of him was a strange spinning wheel with red ropes all over it, and blood dripping from top to bottom .

"It turned out to be a Taoist priest who starved to death."

Yin Yan let go of Yu Zhen, helped him gather the scarf, stepped forward under the fearful gaze of the Taoist priest, stretched his legs, and kicked over the spinning wheel in front of him.

"Ah! Stop it!"

The red thread was scattered all over the ground, and the blood was polluted by dust.

The Taoist's eyes were about to burst, and he wanted to stop him, but he found that he couldn't move. He raised his eyes and looked at Yin Yan in front of him, his expression was distorted, full of resentment: "Who are you! Dare to destroy my magic weapon and formation, I want you Die badly!"

Yin Yan ignored his anger, and with a wave of his hand, the spinning wheel spontaneously ignited without fire, and the blood on it was completely burned.

The Taoist priest's brain, which had been stunned by anger, was stimulated by his hand, and he regained a bit of reason, his eyes full of horror.

"True fire, you actually have real fire, no! That's impossible! Who are you!" He shouted out of composure, ignoring the destruction of the magic weapon, as if he saw something incredible, deep in his eyes And a hint of repressed greed.

"Ridiculous."

With a wave of Yin Yan's hand, a spiritual net suddenly appeared, covering the Taoist priest and blocking his mouth, which only knew how to yell.

The night wind blew even harder.

Before Yu Zhen could react, Yin Yan trapped the evil-looking Taoist soul in twos and twos.He glanced at the ashes left by the burning spinning wheel, walked up to Yin Yan, and looked at the Taoist priest.

The Taoist also looked at Yu Zhen, and as if he saw some treasure, the greed in his eyes could not be suppressed at all, and he struggled without fear of death.

Yin Yan's breath sank, and his fingers moved again, the spiritual net suddenly became denser and tighter, and now the Taoist priest couldn't even struggle.

After entering Taoism, although Yu Zhen was no longer so afraid of ghosts, he still had some maladjustment to the evil shown by such purely evil ghosts.

He turned his eyes away from the trapped figure of the Taoist priest, looked sideways at Yin Yan, and asked, "Is he that starving ghost?" He always felt that it was a little different from what he imagined.

Yin Yan nodded and explained: "He was a Taoist priest before he was alive, and he had a little bit of Taoism, but he starved to death on this rooftop and was trapped here. He has sins and cannot directly enter reincarnation after death. If he wants to reincarnate, he must first Atonement and debt repayment. But obviously he didn't want to do that, instead he got a crooked mind and used what he learned during his lifetime to come up with this formation of borrowing life and borrowing luck, in an attempt to avoid reincarnation from heaven."

Pointing to the Taoist priest's feet exposed outside the net, he added: "His figure is solid, different from ordinary soul bodies, and there should have been mortals killed by him."

Yu Zhen frowned when he heard that, and observed the figure of the Taoist priest. As expected, he stared very intently, like a stranger. Thinking of something, he hurriedly took out his mobile phone and searched deeply.

In the information age, if you search hard, you can always find what you want.

Simply enter the three keywords "B City", "Boli Building", and "Death" in the search bar, confirm, and then a lot of news reports jump out, and there are some forum discussion information below.

Yu Zhen glanced through it quickly, and her expression sank.

On the local forums, this Boli Building is also known as Single Killer.

I don't know when it started, but every year in this building, single young men and women ran to the roof to commit suicide by jumping off the building, news came out frequently, and there was a lot of trouble.

For this reason, the housing price of this building is greatly affected, which is much cheaper than other houses in the same area.

Superstitious people say that the feng shui here is not good, and the land where the building was built used to be a cemetery, which was connected to the underworld.Those who are not superstitious analyze that modern life is fast-paced and stressful. There are many young people living in this building, and it is a probability that people commit suicide every year.

Anyway, there's been a lot of talk about the building, and it's all about death.

Last year, for the first time in this building, no residents committed suicide, and there was a lot of excitement on the forum, saying that it seems that the economic boom has improved in the past two years, everyone's life is more comfortable, and the pressure is less, so there are fewer people who can't think about suicide. .

But what they didn't notice was that last year, the properties of Boli Building raised the fence on the roof again, removed all the things that could be stepped on here, and welded the door of the roof to prevent the owner from thinking about going to the roof.

And just after that, a single male resident died suddenly in his own house.

Now that the pace of life is fast, the probability of sudden death among young people has increased sharply, so no one has linked the sudden death of this young man with the suicide incidents that occurred every year by jumping off a building.

But Yu Zhen found out that the room where the male resident died suddenly was actually the room where Chi Nan lived now, Room [-] on the [-]th floor.

"Too many people died tragically, and the feng shui here has changed." Yin Yan looked around and said, "We must first save those souls who died in vain, otherwise even if this Taoist priest is exterminated, the residents here will still have frequent accidents."

Hearing this, Yu Zhen put down his phone and immediately began to attract souls, but nothing came.

"What's going on?" He looked at his hand suspiciously, and tried the soul-attracting spell again, only to attract Xin Xiaoxiao.

"Does the master have any orders?" Xin Xiaoxiao immediately asked respectfully after appearing.

Yu Zhen remained silent, expressing that she was fine, and looked towards Yin Yan after seeing her off.

Yin Yan saw his doubts and explained: "The victims all died tragically after their lifespan and luck were all borrowed. The fate determines what will happen to them after death. Without the luck, they are now just wisps of wisps floating around the building. Resentment, even the soul body cannot be condensed."

Yu Zhen frowned and asked, "Then what should we do now?"

"Kill the Taoist priest and let him spit out all the luck that he has absorbed." Yin Yan said, suddenly took a step back, and motioned: "You come."

kill……

Yu Zhen looked at the Taoist priest who started to struggle desperately after hearing their words, gathered his mind, and stepped forward to condense a golden light.

The golden light shrouded away, but it turned out to be useless. After the Taoist came into contact with the golden light, it seemed as if he had been bathed in the holy light. cried out; "Give it to me! It's all mine! Give it to me! I need more!"

Yu Zhen was taken aback and retreated reflexively.

With a wave of Yin Yan's hand, the spiritual net tightly bound the Taoist priest again, and after gagging his mouth, only his face was exposed.

"He had a cultivation level during his lifetime, and after he died, he became stronger by absorbing other people's luck. He is already a ghost cultivator. Ordinary methods of exorcising ghosts are ineffective for him." Yin Yan added, reaching out to hold Yu Zhen's shoulder, and gently Pushing forward, he said, "Yu Zhen, kill him and use the technique you learned."

Ghost cultivator, technique, kill him.

Yu Zhen looked at the face of the Taoist priest who looked like a living person, his fingers trembled nervously for a few times, then he tightened his fingers, and looked back at Yin Yan, "Yin Yan, I..."

Sending away the ghosts only requires him to release the golden light of merit, he doesn't need to do it himself, and he knows that most of the souls sent away will enter reincarnation and gain a new life, except for the evil ones.

But it’s different now, the Taoist priest is too much like a living person, he knows that the Taoist priest deserves to die, and he really wants to kill him, but to kill... It doesn’t matter if he is timid or cowardly and useless, he has abided by the law for more than 20 years, killing " "People" is too much for him.

"Stopping evil with violence is also a part of cultivation, Yu Zhen, this is a necessary process." Yin Yan walked behind him, held his shoulders and motioned him to look at the Taoist priest's face, and held his hand from behind, Slowly opening his clenched fingers, he said in a characteristic calm tone: "As a cultivator, one must not only learn to rescue the innocent, but also learn to eradicate the evil. Yu Zhen, is he innocent?"

Leaning his body against a broad and warm chest, Yu Zhen's constricted and hesitant heart slowly settled down. Following Yin Yan's gesture, he looked at the Taoist priest's face, and his gaze swept across his fearful face and greedy eyes. , shook his head and replied: "No."

Yin Yan tilted his head a little closer to him, and sprayed his breath on his face as he spoke, as if he was kissing, and continued to ask: "Are the people killed by him in the building innocent?"

Innocent, how could they not be innocent, what did they do wrong.

"Want to save Chi Nan?"

miss you.

"Want to save the residents in the building?"

of course.

"Then, kill him."

The warm body temperature and familiar atmosphere were all far away, Yu Zhen's body trembled, and he instinctively wanted to turn around and lean towards him, but reason made him stay where he was.

He looked at the Taoist priest's face, and slowly shifted his gaze to his eyes, looking at the greed that still existed inside, and took a step forward, convincing himself in his heart, but his hands trembled and he couldn't lift them up.

No, there are too many obstacles in my heart.

"Yu Zhen, maybe one day in the future, I will need your protection."

It was as if a heavy hammer hit the heart, smashing all the hesitation, hesitation, fear and retreat inside into ashes.

Yu Zhen's back straightened suddenly, and he clenched his trembling hand into a fist and slowly lifted it up.

That's right.

He looked into the Taoist priest's eyes, his lips were tightly pressed, his expression was tense, and his eyes became firm.

Yin Yan is just a remnant soul, not even his own body, walking in the world is more dangerous than his own.He can't stay behind the other party forever, relying on the other party's protection, and grow up like a flower in a greenhouse.

I want to be strong, I want to treat him well, I want to stay by his side for a long time.

I want to be able to fight alongside him the next time I encounter a similar situation, instead of hiding behind him, waiting for him to control everything, and then reaping the rewards.

[Xiao Zhen, the most important thing in life is kindness.This kindness does not require you to be a good person blindly, even if you are bullied, do not care about it and fight back, but requires you to know how to respect life and treat every life kindly. 】

[Of course, if you encounter a life that is really unsaved, you don’t need to be kind. After all, if you are kind to bad people, good people should suffer. 】

[You can be a kind person, but you cannot be a bad person.When encountering evil, you can even be a bad person. 】

What Grandpa said flashed through his mind, and Yu Zhen slowly let go of his clenched hand, and touched the pagoda, with a sharp look in his eyes: "How can there be a Taoist priest like you in this world."

He slowly drew out a simple mahogany sword, flipped his wrist, and unexpectedly learned it without a teacher, and gently pulled a beautiful sword flower.

"A villain like you, whether alive or dead, is not worthy of wearing this suit!"

boom--

The golden light composed of merit and the white light composed of spiritual energy exploded from his hand together, forming a white-gold light band along his hand, wrapping the sword body and burning it.

As soon as the mahogany sword was released, the greed in the Taoist priest's eyes disappeared immediately, and was completely replaced by fear. He struggled violently, and unexpectedly showed a more horrified expression than when he was trapped by Yin Yan. With protruding eyes, he broke through the blockade of the spirit net and sent out sound.

"Qing, Qing—"

puff.

The mahogany sword plunged into his chest with flames, his expression froze, his words stopped abruptly, fear and despair flashed alternately in his eyes, then his figure twisted for a while, swelled and exploded, turned into a cloud of black smoke, entwined and howled in the air for a while, Dissipated between heaven and earth.

The flame disappeared, and the mahogany sword returned to its inconspicuous old appearance.

Yu Zhen sat down on the ground as if exhausted, the hand holding the mahogany sword trembled slightly, but insisted on taking the sword back carefully to the pagoda, turned to look at Yin Yan, smiled uglyly, and asked, "Did I succeed?"

"You did very well."

Yin Yan stepped forward, raised his hand to the top of his head, rubbed it lightly, and then moved his fingers slightly, dozens of translucent ignorant souls formed in mid-air, crowded and stood together, and then a gust of breeze blew past , They floated to the ground and stood there blankly.

"The errand is coming, let's go home." Yin Yan bent down and hugged Yu Zhen into his arms, gently touched his back, and disappeared in place in a flash.

After they left, a faint ringing sound suddenly came from the void, getting closer and closer, and then dozens of black chains broke through the clouds, captured the souls, and led them to disappear into the clouds.

Under the building, a black car rushed to a stop, and then an old man with gray hair walked out quickly.

The old man had a solemn expression, looked up at the rolling black clouds in the sky that ordinary people couldn't see, and counted quickly with his fingers. After a long time, the solemn expression eased a little, and he suddenly let out a long sigh.

"Grandpa, why are you stopping here and not going up?" A young man followed closely from the driver's seat and looked up at the sky. He didn't see anything, wondering: "Grandpa, what are you looking at?"

The old man came back to his senses, glared at him angrily, and replied angrily: "See why you haven't enlightened yet! I don't know what your eyes are for. You have practiced for so many years, but you can't even see ghosts. Go out and don't tell others that you are my grandson, Feng Yuan, shame on you!"

"Grandpa, why are you suddenly angry? I don't want to be so ignorant..." The young man muttered aggrievedly, seeing a few more cars approaching, he quickly changed the subject and said, "Uncle Xiu and the others are here, I'll go meet them! "

The old man frowned and waved his hands, simply out of sight and out of mind, and walked directly into the building.

A group of cultivators from City B rushed to the rooftop one after another. Feng Yuan, the leader, carefully checked the situation on the rooftop, and finally stopped in front of a sword mark.

"It seems that someone has solved the ghost cultivator here before us, but I don't know where the expert can break through the formation alone." A middle-aged elegant man in a Tang suit stood in front of a pile of ashes near the sword mark, His tone was full of admiration.

Feng Yuan frowned, looked sideways at them, and said, "Take a look at this."

Everyone heard the words and stepped forward, looking in the direction he signaled.

There was a deep whitish scratch on the wall. The younger cultivators could only see that it was a sword mark, but nothing else. However, the expressions of the older cultivators all changed, and they exclaimed in unison: " This sword mark and breath, Qing Xuzi?"