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“Daoist Master Yanchu, what… what is going on here?” The village chief of Guanyu Village asked in a trembling voice.
Why was there a woman’s corpse at the bottom of the river!?
Li Yanchu said calmly, “It’s murder. Someone dumped her body in the river. This must be reported to the magistrate’s office.”
A human death was no small matter, it had to be handled through official channels.
The villagers looked horrified, whispering among themselves. The body looked lifelike, and to think she had been lying under the swift waters of the Wei River, the very thought made their skin crawl. It was too strange and sinister.
Li Yanchu took a yellow talisman from his robes and pressed it onto the woman’s forehead. It was an Exorcising Talisman, written in cinnabar mixed with rooster’s blood, capable of driving away malevolent spirits and suppressing wicked energy.
It was the same kind of talisman he’d once...
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