Du Yuanwai held a banquet at his home and entertained Master Xuanqing and his disciples warmly. After dinner, the sun was setting in the west and the sky was getting darker.

Du Yuanwai led the three masters and apprentices to the living room to have tea and rest. When the surroundings were completely shrouded in night and it was pitch black outside, Du Yuanwai asked Taoist Master Xuanqing to get up and check the so-called truth.

Xuan Qing followed Du Yuanwai to Mr. Du's bedroom. After entering the bedroom, he saw that the furniture and furnishings were no different. At this time, Du Yuanwai asked the servants to extinguish all the candles in the room, and the room suddenly fell into darkness.

At this time, Xuan Qing saw something strange in the house. There were dots of fluorescent lights everywhere on the floor, on the tables and on the window sills. Upon closer inspection, these fluorescent dots turned out to be the paw prints of the fox wolf beast.

, showing traces of a fox-wolf beast running up and down, left and right in the house.

Du Yuanwai led Xuanqing and others outside the house. They saw many fluorescent footprints on the bluestone steps outside the house. The footprints extended outward along the bluestone road, bypassed the front hall and gallery, turned to a corner, and then exited from the wall.

Go up and over and reach the outside of the wall.

"Ever since my son was seriously ill and died for a long time, I suspected whether there was an evil spirit at work. Later, I learned about a magic trick from outside, which said that using cinnabar can make evil spirits appear. So a few days ago, I asked my servants to sprinkle it all over the courtyard.

Cinnabar, this is what happened that night." Du Yuanwai told Xuan Qing the reason for the incident.

"In order to track down where this evil spirit came from, I asked my servants to take cinnabar outside the courtyard wall and spread cinnabar according to the footprints. Sure enough, wherever the cinnabar went, the footprints immediately appeared. Finally, I followed them all the way and found that the footprints were

It comes from the Qin family in the village. The Qin family has had a bad year. The elders in the family have died of illness one after another, and now there is only one teenage child left in the family. According to everyone's analysis, it may be because the family has insufficient yang energy, and evil spirits have taken advantage of it.

Gone is the boy’s soul.”

"Later, my son's illness became more and more serious. In order to save the incense of my Du family, I listened to other people's suggestions and decided to kill this monster. Then I went to the Wuming Taoist Temple in the back mountain and invited a mage to come to the village to do magic to eliminate the monster.

"Du Yuanwai described the cause and effect of the incident.

After listening to what he said, Taoist Master Xuanqing nodded and said, "In this way, Pindao has figured out the general situation. But what Pindao wants to say is that this boy is not a monster, nor is he possessed by an evildoer."

"Oh, didn't the Taoist Priest kill the fox demon captured from the boy in public today?" Du Yuanwai asked in confusion.

"The Taoist priest who performed the ritual, because he was ordered to get rid of the little boy, always wanted to bluff and make a fool of himself, so he used some trickery and used a potion prepared with alum to draw the shape of a fox on the white cloth.

After it was cured, no one could see anything strange, but when it was burned with fire, the mark drawn on the alum was revealed. This is the so-called demon's appearance."

"Pindao just wanted to save the little boy at that time, and didn't want to expose his trick in public and save some face for these charlatans, so Pindao took advantage of his trick and sprinkled some cattail powder on the white cloth to dissolve the marks on the white cloth.

That’s it, it’s not like you’ve got a monster, ha, ha, ha.” Taoist priest Xuanqing said with a smile, brushing his long beard with his hand.

Everyone naturally admires Taoist Master Xuanqing's superb skills, and respects Taoist Master Xuanqing even more.

"But how should we explain the fox demon footprints in my house?" Du Yuanwai asked still full of doubts.

"Ha, ha, ha, except Mr. Du, please rest assured. Since there is a monster in your house, Pindao will naturally help you get rid of it. But today is too late. Tomorrow at Xu time, Pindao will come to your house on time to cast spells to catch the monster. By then

This will make this true demon reveal its true form." Taoist priest Xuanqing still answered with a smile.

When Du Yuanwai heard this, he was overjoyed and immediately asked Taoist Master Xuanqing and his entourage to stay overnight in the Du Mansion, so that they could use the Taoist Master's profound magic power to protect the Du family, including the whole family. Taoist Master Xuanqing did not refuse, so he and his disciples stayed in Du's residence.

Come down.

Early on the next morning, Taoist Master Xuanqing said to Bukong and the two of them: "Today, I will personally prepare soup for Mr. Du, while you two go to the village to practice medicine for the villagers. By the way, I want to inquire about this little boy."

Regarding the boy’s situation, especially if his parents have any quarrels with anyone in the village, come back and report to me before dinner.”

At the end of the day, Taoist Master Xuanqing personally prepared five doses of decoction and asked Mr. Du to take it. In the evening, Mr. Du's complexion had improved greatly, and his mental condition had also improved a lot. Du Yuanwai saw it and was delighted.

In my heart, I was extremely grateful to Taoist Master Xuanqing, and held a banquet in the evening to entertain Master Xuanqing and his disciples.

After the meal, Taoist priest Xuanqing summoned Bu Kong and Zuozao to a quiet place and asked them about the situation they learned from the village that day. After listening to their reports, Taoist priest Xuanqing nodded with satisfaction.

Now I know it well.

By Xu time, it was completely dark. Taoist priest Xuanqing asked Du Yuanwai to place a chair in the front yard of Du's house, and then asked him to gather all the domestic servants and stand in the yard.

After everyone stood together, Taoist Master Xuanqing held a whisk and sat down on the chair in the middle. Du Yuanwai, some family members, Bu Kong, Xian Dao and others all stood behind the Taoist Master, wanting to see how the Taoist cast the spell.

Xuanqing then asked the servants and servants standing in the courtyard to come to him one after another. He waved the whisk up and down each person's body, and then asked them to stand on the other side.

Soon everyone was dusted by Taoist Master Xuanqing, and they still stood in the courtyard in an orderly manner. They didn't know what the chief's next step would be, and everyone was nervous and a little excited.

"First of all, I want to tell you that the people who left footprints in this courtyard are humans, not monsters." Taoist priest Xuanqing said.

Hearing this, Du Yuan and others were all shocked and confused about what he meant.

"As the saying goes, there is a way for everyone, and there is a way for monsters. You have at least seen how cats and dogs walk through the courtyard. Do they like to shuttle on the muddy ground among the grass, or do they like to walk on the stone road? And

The footprints left by these so-called fox and wolf beasts are all on the bluestone road where people walk. Have these fox and wolf beasts changed their nature, or has someone done this deliberately?" Taoist priest Xuanqing revealed the mystery in one sentence.

"Secondly, after these footprints entered the courtyard from outside, they led directly to the Du family's young master's bedroom. There were no detours at all, and there were no traces of patrols and explorations. Could it be that these fox demons and beasts were raised by the Du family?

Are you so familiar with the roads in Du Fu’s house?”

"These fluorescent footprints are basically the work of someone. In fact, it is very simple. You just need to make a mark on the ground with a potion prepared with yellow phosphorus in advance. This is invisible to the naked eye, but you only need to sprinkle some cinnabar powder on it.

The mark made in advance will gleam with fluorescence at night." As he spoke, Taoist Master Xuanqing stretched out his toes and stepped lightly on the ground.

Everyone looked up at the ground and saw no traces. "Everyone, please take a look." Taoist Master Xuanqing said as he dusted the ground with his whisk, and a group of fluorescent footprints immediately appeared in front of everyone.

"So this is just a man-made quackery, but only you servants and servants can leave the mark made by yellow phosphorus in Du's house and in Mr. Du's bedroom in advance. No one else can do this.

It's a chance." Taoist Master Xuanqing said loudly. After a moment's pause, he said seriously: "Pindao already knows who this person is, but I won't reveal it for now and give him a chance to surrender."

The many domestic servants and servants standing in the courtyard all looked surprised. They turned their heads and looked at each other, and then buried their heads in silence. For a while, the Du family courtyard fell into silence.
Chapter completed!