Her small face was covered in blood, tears streaming from her eyes. The whites of her eyes were now stained a deep red, and her bare arms were filled with dark lines, as if they were her veins. It was a gruesome and terrifying sight.

"Master Zhang grabbed Mu Yu's wrist and had a slightly malicious expression on his face. 'My dear apprentice, today I'll teach you the simplest way to control and suppress ghosts.'"

Just when Mu Yu thought that Zhang Tianshi was about to teach him something from the "28 Classics," unexpectedly the old man pushed him out with one hand.

As soon as the little girl looked up, she fixed him with bloodshot eyes, causing Mu Yu's scalp to tingle.

I heard the voice of Master Zhang from behind saying, "Remember, hold the talisman in your left hand and recite the spell with your right hand forming the seal. Keep your steps steady, maintain a strong posture, and chant the Soul-capturing spell with complete concentration and determination."

The little girl moved slightly and Mu Yu was about to step back when he heard a shout from behind him: "Don't retreat! Do as I say and you will be fine!"

Muyu's eyes slanted backwards, and the sense of crisis engulfed his whole body. "Sir...I don't know the Soul Capturing Spell..."

"If you don't know, just flip through the book!"

Mu Yu looked at the little girl and reached into her bag with her right hand to take out a book. She hastily flipped through a few pages, then lowered her gaze and trembled slightly as she muttered, "Where's the fu talisman? Where's the fu talisman?"

"You have something on your shoulder!"

"Muyu pulled the talisman off his shoulder and shouted, 'Hand seal! Lord! Hand seal!'"

"Pinch the thumb and middle finger of your right hand together, while keeping the rest of your fingers naturally extended!"

As the girl was about to take step by step "steps" over, Mu Yue made up her mind and muttered, "Might as well die." With the corner of her eye she swept her hand-held book, straightened her back, held a talisman in her left hand, pinched her right hand, and quickly recited in her mouth:

"Elf elf, I do not know your name. I bestow upon you the five ghosts. Come to my altar, those who obey me are fortunate, those who go against me are unfortunate. Support my path, rectify my truth. I command you to move, go quickly. Those who disobey me will be punished severely!"

As Mu Yu stretched out his left hand, the talisman paper flew towards the little girl following the last character that he had written. At the same time, he felt as if his body had lost some strength, causing his limbs to feel weak.

Just as the talisman paper reached the girl's side, she was immediately frozen in place and unable to move.

Seeing the girl just one step away from him, Mu Yu couldn't help but relax.

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"In the tunnel, a few rounds of applause echoed one after the other. It was Zhang Tianshi and Li Mingyue clapping."

When the little girl appeared, Li Gang was so scared that even his mining lamp fell to the ground. It was fortunate that there were still a few lamps in the tunnel, otherwise Mu Yu would not have been able to see the curse written in the book.

Muyu turned his head to look at Zhang Tianshi, his face either nervous or frightened, already becoming a bit pale.

Master Zhang walked over with exceptional kindness and patted his shoulder, "My young disciple, your talent is truly remarkable. Those three students took one or two weeks to learn this curse, but look at you, you've mastered it in just one or two minutes."

Mu Yu squeezed out a dry and stiff laughter from her throat, "Hehe..."

"Li Mingyue felt some pity for him, walking over and patting his hair, 'It's okay, you will be staying with this old man from now on and you will get used to this kind of thing.'"

After speaking, Li Mingyue couldn't help but laugh to himself. Mu Yu immediately slapped his hand away and stared at him with a calm expression, no longer speaking.

Li Gang, who was still standing in place, suddenly let out a cry of surprise: "There's another one! There's still one more!"

Master Zhang quickly turned his head towards the pile of stones where a woman slowly appeared.

The woman's dress was flowing with blood, her hair drenched and tangled in strands. The blood continued to drip down as her eye sockets were empty, her body smashed flat and her bones twisted out of shape. Even her brain matter was splattered out of her shattered skull.

"Master... please spare my daughter and me... we have no ill intentions... and have not harmed anyone..."

"Mu Yu looked at the woman's appearance and could already imagine how she died. He felt a discomfort in his stomach."

"Ugh..." Murong Yu retched but didn't vomit, while Li Gang ended up throwing up. Even though Li Gang had never seen anything so nauseating, he was at least still a man and could only hold on and keep running without losing his footing.

"Master Zhang carefully looked at her for a moment and said, 'Tell me how you ended up dead in this place. You seem to have been trapped here for a long time. If you tell me the truth, I can send you and your daughter away from here.'"

The woman's flattened facial features surprisingly displayed a grateful expression. She knelt down before Master Zhang and said, "Thank you, Master...Could you please release my daughter first?"

With a wave of his hand, Zhang Tianshi took back the talismans on the girl's body. At that moment, the girl burst into tears with a loud "wow," seeming to have suffered a great injustice.

The girl turned around and rushed into the arms of the woman, crying and shouting in fear.

The woman held the girl in her arms, showing a clear sign of affection in her movements. She thanked the woman and began recounting the story of their past lives.

"My name is Yu Yan, and I'm a resident of this surrounding city. About half a year ago, I was planning to take my daughter to visit some relatives. However, the people at the train station said that the train we were supposed to take wouldn't come that day. So, I called a taxi, thinking we could just take that directly. But to my surprise, the driver dropped us off not far from here, saying that there were plenty of cars on the other side of the mountain and we could just take another one."

Li Mingyue said, "Did you guys take this tunnel to save time? That's why you were crushed to death by that train and nobody found you because it's so dark in here?"

"The woman gave a faint 'hmm' without any resentment or bitterness."

As Mu Yu heard these words, she swallowed hard and was crushed to death... crushed to death by a train... No wonder she looked so miserable in death, but she didn't seem to have any resentment or anger, so why didn't she leave? Why did she insist on staying here?

Master Zhang shook his head and took two puffs of dry tobacco. "If the people at the train station had told you that the train was coming and the driver hadn't abandoned you before the mountain, or if there were enough bright lights in this tunnel, you wouldn't be dying in this unclaimed place. Do you still have the right to complain?"

"There's nothing to complain about. I was already an unmarried mother, constantly criticized. I was planning to move in with some relatives half a year ago. However, now that I'm dead, it's also a kind of relief. I won't be a burden to others or suffer anymore."

Master Zhang quietly smoked for a while and then posted a talisman behind them to isolate the things behind them. Afterward, he started chanting the Buddhist chant for the dead.

In less than half an hour, the bloodstains on their clothes gradually disappeared, and their ugly death turned into their most beautiful appearance in life. The woman carried a small leather bag and wore high-heeled shoes, while the dark color on the little girl's arm faded away, revealing a cute pink dress that made her look particularly adorable. To the west of them, a golden light appeared out of nowhere, illuminating a path.

The woman tightly held the girl's hand and stepped onto the road, only hearing Master Zhang's voice from behind saying, "Remember, don't look back."

"Thank you, master..."

"As the golden light dissipated, all that was left before their eyes was a pile of rocks, with no trace of anything else remaining."

"Li Gang took a deep breath and held the mining lamp in his floating steps, continuously shining it on the two bodies, one big and one small, buried under the pile of stones. He was afraid that the bodies might jump out on their own later."

"Let's go out first and take a break. We'll come back tonight to see what tricks are here. " Zhang Tianshi paused and instructed Li Gang, "You call someone to move this pile of stones away and bury the body in a large coffin. You must be respectful to them."