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Five round cylindrical stones about a metre tall were stuck in the ground. As I approached, I brought the burning talisman closer to the stone.

There was a baby carved on the stone, and it was so lifelike that the moment I got close, I almost thought it was a real kid staring at me and laughing.

I was so frightened that I took two steps back. My master immediately supported me and smiled while shaking his head at me.

I touched my nose, a little embarrassed.

Then, Master went closer to take a look, but I really didn't notice anything. When I got closer, I braced myself to look, and saw a faint red mark on the stone, it looked a little like blood, but I didn't know if it was blood.

Master then brought me to look at the other four stone statues, and found that of the remaining four stone pillars, three had the same situation.

His Master gradually frowned.

I looked at the five stone pillars and asked Master, is this the Five Ghost Birth Spell?

His master did not speak. No one knew what she was thinking about.

I felt that this should be the Five Ghost Creatures Evil Formation that Master mentioned. This pillar also has five pillars, and it seems to have matched up to the previous one.

My master told me that he should have already left, but we were a step too late.

"Bad people?" I asked my master.

Master nodded and said yes. He also told me that everything here had been hastily dealt with. From the looks of it, the other party should also be someone who had some true ability.

These stone statues explained quite a few things. He said that it was fortunate that the child on the fifth stone pillar hadn't changed color yet, or else it would really be time to burn his eyebrows.

I wanted to ask if my master was a bad person or if he was strong, but after thinking for a bit, I didn't seem to be suitable, so I didn't ask.

His master's hands formed a series of incantations that I could not understand. Then, for some unknown reason, he took off his shoes and fiercely slapped the four red stone pillars three times.

I didn't understand what Master was doing, so I asked him.

The master said it was something a child (shoe) craftsman had taught him, and that he himself was a child (shoe) craftsman.

This move was called "Yin Boy (Shoes) Lead the way", and it was meant to dispel the remaining resentment on the stone statue. Otherwise, if the unlucky one were to come here and touch the stone statue, he would inevitably fall gravely ill.

His master had said that the craftsmen of the people were all powerful figures, especially those who were older. They had a very thorough understanding of their own profession.

If I were to meet him in the future, I would have to respectfully call him senior and consult him properly.

He said that in addition to being a doctor, he also had Yin Yang, Feng Shui, a carpenter, a child craftsman, a mortician, and other professions.

As Master said this, I recalled how he travelled around China a few years ago, asked around for experts, and finally found the Maoshan.

My master told me that children alone do not dare to walk in the night.

The child craftsman was not only a living child (shoe) but also a dead person's shoe, so like most other craftsmen, the child craftsman had to eat both yin and yang, so the child craftsman wore a dead person's shoe with one foot, and if there was no protection, the child craftsman would most likely be enchanted by ghosts.

Master said his main identity was still Mr. Yin Yang. He had many means to guard against those little ghosts, so even as a child craftsman, he was not afraid to walk in the night. Just now, Master had used his shoes to dispel those resentments.

I asked Master what those were.

The master said it was most likely the resentment of four of the Five Devils, but the meaning of the stone pillar that remained empty was a little irritating.

After hearing Master's words, I wondered if my younger brother had also left some resentment towards me in these stone pillars.

However, he was dispersed by his master, but my brother's soul is still in his hands.

This was what Master told me on the way back, and it was the result of his carelessness.

At that time, he had broken that scarecrow, broken that little old man's technique, and transcended my mother, but he had forgotten that my younger brother's soul was still in the blood basin.

After the spell failed, my little brother's soul slowly broke free from the blood basin with resentment.

If my previous speculations were correct, then my brother might have already been captured by someone, and that person might very well be that little old man from before.

"Huh?"

Master's surprised voice pulled me back from my thoughts.

"Master, did you discover something?" I asked my master.

Master said that it wasn't that I found anything, but that there was some trouble here. It was probably something that was hastily arranged by that person when he left.

"Humph!" He said, "You want to trap me with something like this? What a joke."

Both of my eyes opened up the Nether Path, and after looking around in a circle, I still couldn't see anything. Then, I started to feel a little confused as to what Master was talking about.

Master bit his right index finger while I was feeling so much pain, and said to me: "Xiao Fang, watch, master will draw five runes on these five stone pillars."

When I heard that Master wanted to draw talismans, I immediately stared at him and nodded.

"Pure Land Void Mountain Symbol!"

"Rain Master Water Shift Talisman!"

"Evergreen World Talisman!"

"Astral Flames Talisman!"

"Heavenly Vajra Curse!"

While he was reciting, he drew five runes on the five columns with the blood on his fingers.

The surface of the stone was very rough, and the place where his master had been bitten had become larger due to the friction of the stone after he had finished drawing the rune.

Master looked at the five runes on the five stone pillars and nodded his head in satisfaction, then said to me: "Xiao Fang, I am using a simple Five Elements Talisman Formation with offensive power, I only need these five runes, take good care of this!"

After saying that, his Master walked to the middle of the five stone pillars. She pressed her index finger, which was still dripping with blood, to the ground and simultaneously shouted, "Urgent order!"

I saw the five runes on the five stone pillars emit five different colors of gold, red, black, green and yellow at the same time.

In addition, the light was extremely strong. The spot where his master's finger had pointed towards, suddenly spread out five lines towards the five stone pillars, emitting a terrifying blood-red light.

The light from the five pillars shined down on the area with Master as the center. Only then did I see the faint layer of black substance beneath my Master's feet, which was also within the five stone pillars.

I can't say what it is, but it feels like waves.

At this time, the five Five Elements Talismans emitted a faint light as they broke through the thin film covering the practitioner. The thin film seemed to be unable to endure for long under the effect of his master's Five Elements talisman formation.

Five blood-red lines rapidly extended to the bottom of the stone pillar and then entered the rune.

All of a sudden, a strange dark red color began to seep out of the five rays of light. The layer of film that was struggling to hold on began to slowly dissolve under his Master's feet.

What I couldn't believe was that as the thin film slowly melted away, the originally ordinary mountain ground started to slowly change.

The originally dry and yellow grass was also gone. What replaced it was a piece of ground without any weeds that seemed to have been dug with a hoe. There were also many footprints on the ground. It was obvious that there were people frequently walking around.

The range of view grew larger and larger. At this time, the master also stood up, wiping his forehead, and said with a smile, "Looks like I have no choice but to admit defeat. I haven't even done anything yet, but my body is actually feeling a little uncomfortable."

"Master, you said that you're only forty to fifty years old, yet you call yourself old every single day? "Everyone wants to be young, but you're still weird!"

The master laughed as he pointed at the last piece that had yet to be dissolved. "Look over there. That is the place we are looking for tonight."

As soon as he finished speaking, the place where his master had pointed to completely melted away, revealing a tunnel.

I dumbfoundedly looked at Master and asked, "Master, what is the situation like?"

"I don't know. It's not like I'm going down. I want to know what's going on. We can go down and have a look."

After saying that, his teacher took the first step down the stairs.

I hesitated. Although I was a little scared, I still followed him since Master was here.