Zheng Wenjie did not intervene. He wanted to see how this vengeful spirit would start killing people, and what choices would make it start killing indiscriminately.
But after observing for a period of time, Zheng Wenjie was a little disappointed. He didn't want to directly wipe out the ignorant intelligence of this vengeful spirit, nor did he want to directly control this vengeful spirit to kill.
Zheng Wenjie does not believe in the existence of karma in the world. Because he has reached his current level of cultivation, he has a deeper understanding of all things in the world.
If we really want to be picky about this so-called karma, it is actually just the power that results from the resentment that arises from killing a living being towards the murderer. This power will follow the murderer until he dies. This power has both advantages and disadvantages.
The downside is that when the murderer is nervous or has to make a major decision, the power of resentment will invade the murderer's heart and cause him to make wrong judgments and decisions. This is what is commonly known as the inner demon.
But the stronger this power is, the more it can frighten all living beings in the world, and they will instinctively stay away from the murderer, or dislike the murderer in various ways. Perhaps this is the resentment of the murdered creatures towards the instinctive goodwill of all living beings in the world, but it does have the benefit of keeping all evil away for the murderer.
This kind of power exists in Zheng Wenjie, and it is very strong and powerful. If Zheng Wenjie had not concealed and shielded this power, people like Shen Cihang or Makoto would probably be suppressed by this dragon-like power when they see Zheng Wenjie, and they would not even be able to control their magic power or spiritual power. This was contributed by the hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers and civilians at the time.
The blood jade that was refined at the beginning perfectly suppressed this power, and now that Zheng Wenjie has broken through to the Red Eye True Immortal Realm, this power has become just a useless help to Zheng Wenjie.
If you directly control this vengeful spirit to kill people, this power will continue to increase.
But if Zheng Wenjie allows this power to grow endlessly, the resentment of all living beings will sooner or later erode Zheng Wenjie, even if he is in the true fairyland, he will be eroded.
If one day Zheng Wenjie couldn't figure it out and wanted to destroy the world or do something, Zheng Wenjie knew that no matter how powerful he was, this world would teach him a lesson.
That's why Zheng Wenjie has been observing this vengeful spirit, trying to figure out the reason why it kills people, and then guide it to go on a killing spree. Now it is just at the age of four or five, with the ignorant intelligence of a human, and it cannot think.
Now Zheng Wenjie is very clear about what to do to make this vengeful spirit completely crazy and start killing people.
This vengeful spirit is the Polu Demon, a real vengeful spirit that was born out of rumors. Just as people who believe the rumors think, it can take away children, but not for the purpose of killing. Its instinct is more to bring happiness to these painful, weak, and sad children. But the children taken away by it are actually dead, and only their souls are sleeping in the playground built by the Polu Demon. The more children it takes away, the stronger it becomes.
To a certain extent, this vengeful spirit tends to be neutral. As long as the children are not harmed or abused and the family is harmonious, it will not come to the door. But as long as it comes to the door, someone will die.
The reason why Saori, the child of Hideki and Kana, can still live successfully until now is because in Zheng Wenjie's eyes, Saori is a truly kind child. According to Buddhism, she is a good person for nine generations.
Saori is unable to hate anyone from the bottom of her soul. Even if her parents ignored her, beat her, and starved her, she would only blame herself for being a bad child. That's why Hideki and Kana met like this.
Saori deeply attracted Pokémon, and it instinctively wanted to merge with Saori, giving birth to true intelligence, with hatred and kindness blending together, just like the yin and yang sides of the world. In that way, it could become a true god, and perhaps even break through to the celestial fairyland with the help of Saori.
In fact, now Pakumo and Saori have begun to merge. Pakumo is also instinctively dispelling its own useless power and using its true self to merge with Saori. That's why its ignorant intelligence can truly feel how Hideki and Saori, the parents, treat Saori.
In fact, the Pok-luk demon had been enduring for a long time. Normally, it just made Hideki have nightmares in the hope that Hideki would treat his family well. But when Hideki pasted the demon-attracting talisman on the eaves of the entrance, it really irritated it. It didn't care whether Hideki was deceived or not. It only cared that Hideki pasted the demon-attracting talisman and would harm Hideori. It was completely enraged and started to take action.
What Zheng Wenjie has to do now is to lure the Polu Demon into anger, and the Polu Demon's current weakness is Saori. As long as Saori dies, not only will it be unable to make any further progress, but it will also be seriously damaged after being born for a thousand years.
So, Zheng Wenjie turned his gaze to Meiyue who was sleeping soundly in her room.
The early morning sun quietly sprinkled on the sleeping Makoto, gently caressing her skin. Her short pink hair became softer under the sunlight. It was not until a scream and a noise were heard, and the whole apartment was filled with noise, that Makoto slowly opened her eyes. She used her white forearm to block the sunlight from her forehead and sat up from the bed in a daze.
Suddenly she shuddered, opened her mouth in surprise, and looked up at the ceiling. She was not surprised that the Polu demon had killed someone.
She had deliberately wanted to follow Zheng Wenjie and Meiyue home last night in order to protect the family upstairs who were entangled by the Po-Xuan demon, but she did not expect that she slept very soundly last night.
Thinking that the person was dead, Makoto opened the door with some anger, and what he saw was Mitsuki lying on a cushion practicing writing Chinese.
Mitsuki looked up at Makoto at the sound, no longer showing her smiling mask, and frowned in confusion as she asked, "What's wrong with you?"
Makoto ignored Mitsuki. Not seeing Zheng Wenjie around, he rushed over and opened Zheng Wenjie's door. It was empty as well. Then he loudly asked Mitsuki, "Where's Zheng Wenjie?"
Mitsuki put down her pen, stood up and looked at Makoto expressionlessly: "What do you want to do?"
Makoto's breathing became heavier as he looked at Mitsuki and asked in a deep voice, "Do you know that a vengeful spirit killed someone last night? It was just upstairs, just a few meters away. A vengeful spirit killed someone right above our heads!"
"I know. The police cars are here. The house upstairs where the dead person lives has been cordoned off by the police." Mitsuki said as she stepped forward and stared at Makoto: "So what? I took you in to sleep in my house for one night, not to let you go crazy and cause trouble for my father as soon as you wake up."
Makoto was a little mad, he sat cross-legged on the ground, and whispered: "I followed you on purpose last night, and I found out yesterday morning that the Pokémon had entangled the family upstairs."
"But I couldn't have slept so soundly. The vengeful spirit was killing people so close to me. There was no way I couldn't wake up. It must have been Zheng Jun who did it." Makoto looked up at Mitsuki: "Why? Why did I have to watch that person being killed by the Pok'u Demon?"
Miyue snorted, but she was not so angry anymore, and said indifferently: "Because he deserves to die. Why would someone who deserves to die intervene to save others?"
"why?"
Mitsuki sat back on the cushion, picked up the pen and continued to practice Chinese characters, saying, "Why? There is no why. Those who my father didn't save are the ones who deserve to die."
Makoto took a deep breath, stood up and was about to leave when he heard Mitsuki's voice.
"You talked so badly yesterday, I thought you were the same as me, but you are not as lucky as me because I met my father."
"What do you mean?" Makoto asked, turning to look at Mitsuki.
Mitsuki wrote the big words on the paper stroke by stroke, then looked up at Makoto: "Your sister is here. She came before dawn. She must have just got off the plane, dragging a suitcase with her."
Makoto was silent for a moment before continuing to ask, "Where is she?" "With my father, in the dead man's house upstairs."
Makoto was silent for a while, sitting on the sofa behind Mitsuki without saying a word.
"Aren't you going to take a look?"
Makoto shook his head. "My sister is here, so I'm not needed."
"I can see that your sister cares about you and loves you very much. And she is indeed as you said, very powerful. She is so powerful that I can clearly feel the spiritual power fluctuations wherever she goes."
Makoto laughed at himself and said, "Unlike a half-baked exorcist like me, my sister is the number one exorcist in Japan who inherited the Higa family name."
"Higa?" Mitsuki turned around curiously and looked at Mitsuki. "I remember Higa is the surname of an Okinawan, right? He's very famous in the exorcist world. Is he very powerful?"
"Do you know Yaobikuni?" Makoto asked back.
Mitsuki hummed, "A nun who ate mermaid flesh and became immortal and lived for eight hundred years."
"You're really rude. You were very polite when we first met, but did you let out your true nature because you're familiar with me?" Knowing that her sister was coming, Makoto's anger dissipated. She didn't know what her sister meant to her, nightmare? Treasure?
The reason why she was ignored was because she had a brilliant sister. In fact, she hoped that her sister would ignore her like her parents, instead of always caring for her. In this way, she could blame everything on her sister and hate her.
Mitsuki snorted and looked at Makoto nonchalantly and said, "That's because you're not a threat to me. My father doesn't care about you at all."
"Ah, Mitsuki-chan, you're really good at talking. You can really make people angry." Makoto pouted and changed the subject: "Yaobikuni is not actually immortal as the legend says, eating mermaid meat."
"In fact, it was because of the favor of Amaterasu, who granted Yaobikuni immortality and powerful strength, allowing her to maintain world peace in the human world."
"At that time, people called exorcists Onmyoji, and Yaobikuni was a great Onmyoji who was active at the same time as Abe Haruaki, the number one Onmyoji at the time."
"And Higa is the name of Yaobikuni Onmyoji. From then on, the most powerful female exorcist recognized by the exorcist world would be given the surname Higa."
Mitsuki couldn't help but look up at the ceiling and then back at Makoto: "I understand."
"Huh? It seems like what you understand is different from what I said." Makoto felt a little depressed as he felt Mitsuki's sympathetic gaze.
"I was right. I am indeed luckier than you... Although you have a sister who loves and protects you, this sister who attracts all the attention in the exorcist world is also the source of what you are experiencing."
Makoto pretended to nod casually and said nonchalantly, also explaining to Mitsuki: "So no matter what kind of evil demon I encounter, whether I can deal with it or not, I will step forward. This is not only to prove to my father that my existence is valuable, but also because I don't want to see anyone killed by evil demons."
"By the way, there was another reason why I followed you home yesterday. Do you know why Nozaki and I broke up? He has a child, a child he had with another woman while he was dating me. What about me? I can't have children. I was injured in the abdomen during an exorcism and can never have children again."
Mitsuki stood up and walked towards the kitchen, "I have toiletries prepared for you in the bathroom. I also prepared sushi. Wash it and come eat."
Makoto looked at Mitsuki's back, blinked his eyes and said with a grin, "Thank you, Mitsuki-chan."
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With her long leather boots stepping on the half-dried red liquid, Kotoko, wearing sunglasses, glanced at Hideki's body that was cut into two pieces, and finally looked at a talisman pasted on the eaves of the entrance.
"This is a demon-attracting talisman. Whenever there is a demon, it is possible to attract evil spirits. If you put this talisman at home, sooner or later you will encounter disaster." Kotoko's voice was cold and confident, with a power that made people believe it involuntarily.
Zheng Wenjie hummed, "He put it there himself. He was deceived and mistook the magic-attracting talisman for an exorcist talisman."
Kotoko took out a pack of cigarettes from her simple leather coat, put one in her mouth, and then handed the cigarette box to Zheng Wenjie.
Zheng Wenjie took out a cigarette and held it in front of his eyes: "This is a special supply of tobacco, the mouthpiece is longer than the body of the cigarette."
Qinzi didn't reply, and Zheng Wenjie didn't care and put the cigarette in his mouth. The cigarette butt caught fire and flickered with flames.
Kotoko tore off the demon-attracting talisman and lit it. She lowered her head slightly and used the fire from the talisman to light the cigarette. Looking at the burning talisman in her hand, Kotoko gently exhaled a long stream of smoke, and then threw the burning talisman into the air.
The burning demon-attracting talisman burst into flames, and the red liquid mixed with Hideki's blood and water on the ground quickly turned clear and transparent.
"You are amazing. You are worthy of being Japan's number one exorcist, Kotoko Higa. You can directly use the magic charm as an exorcist charm." Zheng Wenjie looked at Kotoko with admiration: "So what is Miss Kotoko going to do next?"
Kotoko gently hugged her chest with one hand, her fair and delicate skin formed a sharp contrast with the black leather coat. The other hand leisurely held a cigarette, which swayed gently between her fingertips, emitting a faint smoke.
"Many people would torture and kill animals, ants, insects, butterflies when they were young. I don't know why they are easily attracted to death."
"Similarly, dead souls often yearn for living souls and even want to take their lives. This is also one of the reasons why evil spirits appear around living people."
"The traces here tell me that the Polu Demon has been here for a long time. The little girl in this family is called Saori, right? The Polu Demon wants to take her life, merge her soul, and occupy her body."
Qinzi suddenly tilted her head, her long black hair slid down her shoulders, and she looked at Zheng Wenjie through her sunglasses: "I don't know who you are, and I don't want to know. But please don't have bad thoughts about my sister, otherwise, I will take your life too." (End of this chapter)