On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, applique flowers and hair on the face.

This is probably a custom inherited in most places in China.

Decal flowers are actually stickers for New Year pictures, Spring Festival couplets, window grilles, etc.

However, what most people don’t know is that the custom of pasting Spring Festival couplets originated from the ancient “peach charms”!

Peach is the essence of the five trees, so it suppresses evil spirits!

Peach wood can be used as a tree to ward off evil spirits, and peach charms bring this effect to the greatest extent!

As for why this thing is posted on this day, there are some details. The main reason is to adapt to the changes in the weather. At this time, the great cold has passed and the beginning of spring is approaching. It is the end of the one-year cycle and the coming of the next year.

At this time, the silent earth veins began to accumulate strength for recovery. At the time of the Waking of Insects, spring thunder sounded, and the spring rain as precious as oil poured down, and the earth veins were completely revived.

Precisely because it is in a recovery stage, everything is being prepared, so evil spirits are suppressed, and it is also suitable for observing the weather, time and place in the coming year, and divination of good and bad luck.

This day is exactly the divination date determined by my master after discussion with the Fourteenth Patriarch.

When the sky was just getting light, Brother Yaozi and I got up and started "decorating flowers".

However, what we post is not the ordinary New Year pictures, Spring Festival couplets, window grilles, etc.

Our New Year pictures are door-god paintings, which were drawn by my master with gold and ink. They contain the spiritual power of a great sage on earth. The dark runes on the door-god paintings were drawn by me. They are used in the Sutra of Ten Thousand Burials.

A formation diagram that absorbs the energy of the earth and unleashes the power of spiritual beings.

Combining the two, this divine painting is probably even more powerful than the magic weapon. My master's spiritual power can drive away evil spirits and bind charms, and it will be invincible. The formation diagram I draw will absorb the earth's energy and serve as a blessing and backing for my master's spiritual power.

And our door god paintings do not depict the common folk Qin Qiong and Yuchi Jingde, but Shen Tu and Yu Lei. Shen Tu is painted on the left door and Yu Lei is painted on the right door. It is said that these two people were originally in ancient times.

They are a pair of brothers, both good at catching ghosts. Once an evil ghost comes out to harass the people, the brothers will subdue it and catch it to feed the tigers. Later, they became the gods of the underworld and the Eastern Ghost Emperor among the five directions.

The Ghost Emperor governs the two places "Zhitaoshan" and "Guimenguan", and his magic power reaches the sky. My master believes that since no one has seen real gods, their existence should be the closest to the gods.

Solemn and ward off evil spirits.

Even the most ferocious ghosts who are unwilling to enter the underworld will feel fear once they see the Eastern Ghost Emperor's Dharma Appearance, because the Dharma Appearance is formed when one reaches the highest level of cultivation, his mind feels the heaven and earth, his appearance changes, and he finally gets close to the heaven and earth.

Yes, it is powerful in itself. Once the Dharma appears, it can subdue all spirits.

This is the way to truly get closer to the gods.

In a sense, the Five Ghost Emperors are indeed gods, but they are different from the gods we expected, such as the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother of the West. None of us have seen these, but the Five Ghosts

Emperors absolutely exist, and their origins are very clear. They are people who were born with extraordinary abilities, and who gradually began to practice after death.

The door god drawn by my master borrowed the appearance of the Eastern Ghost Emperor.

In addition, we also made a lot of Spring Festival couplets. These Spring Festival couplets are not made of paper. They are all made of peach wood and handmade by my master. They are actually equivalent to extremely powerful talismans. On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the earth's energy begins to

To accumulate strength for recovery, the special event node of All Evils Retreat is posted, and the strength can be a little stronger.

All of this is just a precautionary measure, because conducting such a huge divination is likely to cause some unexpected events.

As for the actual preparation for divination, it was completed by Xiaozhi under the guidance of the Fourteenth Patriarch.

By the time the sun fully rises, all our preparations are complete.

Peach wood charms are posted in every room of the Zhenwu Temple, and there are dharma signs from Shen Tu and Yu Lei at the door to suppress them. With this arrangement, any evil spirit that enters will never return.

At the entrance of the main hall, the Zhenwu flag was planted there, making a hunting sound.

In the center of the courtyard in front, a two-meter-high altar stands. The altar is shaped like a pyramid with the top cut off, with a small top and a large bottom. The entire body is made of square peach wood, with each piece of peach wood on top.

, are engraved with dense runes, and those runes are all dark red, obviously not the ink we usually use, but blood!!

Yes, that’s blood!

The Fourteenth Patriarch said that blood should be used as a matchmaker to see good and bad fortunes. The best is the blood of some psychic things, the second is human blood, the best is the blood of practitioners, and the third is the blood of black dogs and roosters.

, and the third level is the blood of three animals. The quality of the blood determines how much you can see. If the blood is psychic enough, you can even see clearly what the source of danger is when receiving the heart of a ghost!

When the Fourteenth Patriarch asked me to collect blood, I happened to be playing with Xing Guili. When I heard this, I picked up Xing Guili by the fur on the back of his neck and asked, "How do you like this?"

The Fourteenth Patriarch was stunned for a moment, looked at Xing Guili with some sympathy, nodded and said: "Great kindness!"

I grabbed the back of Xing Guili's neck and walked to the kitchen. When I took out the butcher's knife, Xing Guili screamed like an erha.

Zhang Xinya then took out a large jar of honey from the room and placed it in front of Xing Guili.

Xing Guili stopped struggling, but was still screaming.

So Zhang Xinya released the second jar of honey, and Xing Guili's screams became quieter.

Zhang Xinya released the third jar of honey. Xing Guili stopped screaming, but looked at me with unyielding eyes.

Finally, when Zhang Xinya placed ten jars of honey in front of Xing Guili, plus twenty kilograms of candies we bought for the festival, Xing Guili said nothing and stretched his neck in front of me, indicating that he would chop it casually.

In the end, I still couldn't cut off its head cruelly, but I just poured a basin of blood from it. If that big basin of blood had been drained from my body, I guess I would be dead. Xing Guili looked very weak.

, but looking at the happy look when it was chewing the candy, I felt that its dreams at night were sweet, which made my guilt quickly subside.

Xiaozhi was sitting on the altar. Opposite her, an awning was erected. The person sitting cross-legged in the shed was none other than Wan Niang'er.

Her soul... all appeared from Zhang Xinya.

In the four corners below the altar, Brother Yaozi, Wushuang, Zhang Xinya, and Brother Shuisheng all put on Taoist robes and waited quietly with weapons in their hands.

In the toilet next to the woodshed, Lao Bai was squatting in the pit with a look of despair...

Ever since he was almost killed by a bomb in the urinal, Lao Bai has been bedridden. He has no choice but to do it. His butt is full of toilet debris. He can't get up even if he thinks about it. But today we pulled him up, and

Decisively stuffed it into the toilet.

Just because there was a Feng Shui eye, a Feng Shui eye with evil spirits surging in the Zhenwu Temple. It was imprisoned in a place and it was already dirty anyway, so we simply made it into a toilet...

If something unexpected happens during divination, it will definitely be the place where the evil energy first invades and surges.

Ordinarily, there should be a person with the most murderous aura suppressing him there. Wushuang, me, Brother Yaozi, and Brother Shuisheng can do it. I have my own work and I can’t leave. Guarding the four corners of the altar is also very important. Brother Shuisheng

They couldn't leave. After weighing the matter, my master decided to let Lao Bai go. He also thought that Lao Bai might be more suitable than us. There was only one reason - Lao Bai had a lot of troubles in his life, but he had a very hard life.

So hard, so hard that the front four and the back eight drove past his face, but he could lie right in the middle and be safe!!

With him here to suppress it, he will be safer than us!!

So, at five o'clock in the morning... Lao Bai was stuffed into the toilet, and now he is so smoked that he has no love left.

My master, a man with a golden sword, was sitting in the pavilion. As for me, I was sitting cross-legged outside the pavilion.

After everything was ready, my master looked at me and asked me how I was doing. I nodded, indicating that I was ready.

So, my master and I stood up at the same time, and Brother Yaozi and others also turned around and saluted the Zhenwu flag planted at the door of the hall: "Welcome ancestor!!"

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Chapter completed!