Above the Great Dao
Chapter 127 - 74: Someone in the Belly_2

Chapter 127: Chapter 74: Someone in the Belly_2

"This thing, it’s a treasure!"

Chen Shi was incredibly surprised, he put away the rat’s tail tip, thinking to himself, "I could sell it to those city folks who suffer from insomnia, surely someone would pay a good price! I wonder if there are more evil spirits like this near Black Mountain? I could gather some more."

Black Pot woke up and quickly moved away from him.

Chen Shi returned to the village to continue selling talismans. When evening came, just as he was about to close his stand, someone came rushing, shouting, "Talisman Master Chen, Talisman Master Chen! Our village is troubled by an evil spirit, please come quickly!"

Chen Shi asked, "What’s the matter? Don’t panic, tell me slowly."

The visitor took a few deep breaths, someone handed him water, and after drinking, he said, "In our village, Cui E is pregnant, heavily so. Counting the days, she’s due to give birth soon. Everything was going well until her husband decided to listen to her belly, and then he heard two people talking inside."

Chen Shi was startled, people talking inside a pregnant woman’s belly?

"It sounded like two adults, one older, sounding about forty or fifty years old, and a younger one, a woman, but she sounded about twenty to thirty years old."

The visitor said, "How can there be voices like that in a pregnant woman’s belly? It must be an evil spirit!"

Chen Shi immediately jumped on his wooden cart, pulled the visitor up, and said, "Hold tight. Black Pot, get on too!"

Black Pot jumped onto the wooden cart. Chen Shi activated the Armored Horse Talisman on the cart wheels, and what was a slow-moving cart now had its wheels spinning rapidly, whizzing out of the village as fast as a galloping horse.

"Which village?" Chen Shi shouted.

The visitor quickly responded, "Luwei Town!"

Chen Shi held the Compass, directing the cart, and the cart sped off, flying straight toward Luwei Town.

Luwei Town was about seventy miles away from Huangpo Village, also near Qianyang Mountain, situated at the foot of a chain mountain that from afar resembled the base of a deer’s, Luwei Town was right on the passage.

Since leaving for the monthly Festival to sell talismans, Chen Shi had no fixed plans and ended up near the villages very close to Luwei Town, about twenty miles away, reaching this town before it got dark.

Ever since his grandfather passed on to the underworld, his courage had greatly increased; he never would have dared to travel this far before.

Chen Shi stopped the cart, looking towards Luwei Town’s spiritual guardian.

Luwei Town’s guardian was an ancient bell tower, the first layer made of stone with steps leading to the upper floor, the second floor housed a pavilion with doors and windows on all sides, an old large bell hung in the middle, some parts bronze-colored, others showing greenish rust.

The villagers worshipped the bell tower, and over time, it developed intelligence, gathered extraordinary forces, and materialized into a good-looking young Taoist sitting under the bell.

It was this young Taoist that Chen Shi observed.

The Taoist sat straight and proper, his palms facing upward aligning with the universe, his spirit directed toward heaven.

He was extremely powerful, far surpassing the capabilities of any village guardian, his power enveloped an area over a mile wide.

"With such a powerful guardian here, how could an evil spirit enter the town and possess a pregnant woman?" Chen Shi wondered.

They arrived at the pregnant woman’s home, surrounded by people peering curiously into the yard, none daring to enter.

Chen Shi walked into Cui E’s house, his senses sharp, he could hear two voices whispering from afar.

"What do we do, Master? We can’t go back!" a woman’s voice said.

"Don’t panic, don’t panic, Master will think of something!" a man’s voice responded.

Chen Shi approached, seeing a pregnant woman sitting uneasy on a recliner, her husband standing beside her, looking quite nervous.

Chen Shi motioned for them to stay quiet, sat down beside Cui E, and heard a voice from her belly, saying, "Master, it’s been two days since we came out, if we don’t return soon, I worry my body cannot endure!"

"No worries, no worries, one can survive without food and drink for seven days, and it won’t kill you. Let me think of a way out... damn it, my teacher never taught me this! If all else fails, it’s not a big deal to kill this woman and burst out through the belly, returning to our original form!"

Chen Shi, with a smile, said to Cui E’s husband, "Five taels of silver."

Cui E’s husband appeared troubled.

Chen Shi said, "Go ask the elders to pool money, and tell them if your wife isn’t cured, other people in town will suffer from the Evil Spirit as well."

Cui E’s husband hurried off.

Chen Shi sighed in relief; exorcizing was indeed much quicker than selling talismans.

A woman’s voice came from Cui E’s belly again: "Here comes another fraud."

"You scare him away, just don’t disturb me."

Chen Shi smiled and said, "Could it be that you brothers are Nascent Souls that have emerged but ended up trapped inside a pregnant belly?"

Upon his words, a silence fell inside Cui E’s belly.

"How did you know we are Nascent Souls trapped after our emergence?" the man’s voice asked.

Chen Shi smiled faintly; his grandfather had told him about similar incidents.

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The wind would gradually dissipate the Nascent Soul, and lightning could obliterate it entirely.

But pregnant women or pregnant livestock are even more dangerous.

For laboring humans and animals, a belly is a natural place of reincarnation, the gate of mysterious femininity. Any Nascent Soul that nears it is sucked in without a chance to resist; opening its eyes, it finds itself transformed into an infant or a domestic animal like a cat, dog, cow, or sheep.

What’s more horrific is that the placenta, for the baby, serves as a natural meditation cushion, making it impossible to leave once seated. The amniotic fluid acts as the legendary Meng Po soup; once the Nascent Soul enters the womb, it initially resists but gradually loses its memory while soaked in the amniotic fluid, finally turning into an oblivious infant.

His grandfather once told him about a young woman who had an old lady crying in her belly. When he inquired, he learned the elderly lady had been cultivating her Nascent Soul, which slipped out to visit a friend and accidentally entered a home during childbirth.

The young woman was no more a maiden either; having grown close with the boy next door, she was secretly pregnant.

"Is there a way to save us, young brother?" asked the man.

The woman was also eager, adding, "If you can save us, master and student, we will never forget your immense kindness and will repay you like a spring welling forth forever!"

"I’ll reciprocate with my life!" added the man.

Chen Shi said, "Please calm down you two; I do have a way to help you return to your bodies. As for repaying, let’s talk about that later."

Cui E’s husband returned, bringing five taels of silver gathered by the village.

Chen Shi picked up a brush and wrote a line on paper, signaling Cui E’s husband to prepare.

Cui E’s husband, who could not read, hurriedly took it out; a literate villager read, "The Talisman Master instructs us to summon a midwife, prepare for the delivery, and remember, the midwife must not speak."

After a moment, the midwife arrived, asked Cui E to rest inside without exposure to wind, and had Cui E’s husband boil water.

Chen Shi, while grinding cinnabar, said to the two souls inside Cui E’s belly, "I will paint two talismans, one on this woman’s navel and one on her lower back, then I will perform a ritual to open a path back to your own bodies. If you see a bright light, rush out immediately without delay. If the light fades, you will not be able to return."

The man and woman eagerly agreed.

Chen Shi painted the talismans, one antiabortifacient charm for the navel and a Fertility Talisman for Cui E’s lower back.

As Cui E laid in labor, she dared not make a sound, the midwife moved about busily but silently.

Chen Shi stepped out of the room and after a short wait, suddenly, the midwife’s voice filled with joy rang out, "It’s a birth! It’s a birth! A boy and a girl, two chubby babies!"

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