"Chen Daochang, what's in this bottle? It feels cool and a bit piercing."

I pointed at the white porcelain bottle and asked Chen Yuanshan, curious about the paper talisman on the bottle's opening.

"Don't touch that paper talisman."

Chen Yuanshan shouted at me when he saw my movement.

My hand had just touched the paper talisman, and I immediately withdrew it.

"This bottle contains the soul of that old lady. If you remove the paper talisman on the bottle's opening, her soul will escape, and since souls fear sunlight, the exposure would burn her soul, preventing her from reincarnating."

"Chen Daochang, what exactly is a ghost?"

I asked Chen Yuanshan with confusion.

"When it comes to this question, you need to know that a person has three souls and seven spirits. The three souls are the Heaven Soul, Earth Soul, and Human Soul, also known as the Fetal Light, Radiant Spirit, and Subtle Essence. The seven spirits are the Corpse Dog, Crouching Arrow, Yin Sparrow, Devouring Thief, Non-toxic, Cleansing Filth, and Stinking Lung.

The three souls and seven spirits control a person's intelligence, health, emotions, joy, anger, sorrow, fear, hatred, and desire. A person's life relies on these three souls and seven spirits.

When a person dies, the three souls and seven spirits leave the body. The existence of these after leaving the body is what we call souls, spirits, or ghosts.

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Those who die from illness or old age experience a normal death. In such cases, when a person reaches the end of their natural life, underworld emissaries come to take their soul to the afterlife.

Suicides and those who die from accidents experience unnatural deaths, known as wrongful death. Souls in wrongful death situations, with lingering resentment, are not accepted by the underworld. These souls linger in the human world, and we call them lonely souls or wandering spirits. Most of the time, when encountering malevolent spirits, it involves these lonely souls or wandering spirits."

Chen Yuanshan explained while sitting on the sofa, looking at the white porcelain bottle.

"By the way, Chen Daochang, I have one more thing to ask you. Today, Li Lanying, who was possessed by a ghost, had a much more severe condition than I did. You gave her a bowl of talisman water, and she was fine. When you treated my illness, you insisted on using a hundred-year-old dragon liver. Are you and your junior brother trying to trick me?"

Suddenly, I felt like I had been fooled by these two senior brothers.

"Young man, do I look that unreliable to you?"

Chen Yuanshan squinted his eyes and asked me, his expression becoming serious.

"I... I..."

I stammered, looking at Chen Yuanshan, suddenly unsure of what to say.

Although I hadn't spent much time with Chen Yuanshan, only a few days ago, he was indeed a person with real skills. His fortune-telling was extremely accurate, something I witnessed firsthand. It wasn't something those frauds could compare to. Moreover, everything he said made sense. Being around him, I learned a lot and discovered some hidden truths.

"Let me give you a reasonable explanation. Li Lanying was possessed by her mother's soul, only suffering from Yin energy invasion. As long as she drinks a bowl of talisman water to expel the Yin energy and gets more sunlight, she will be fine.

In your case, it's different. You were haunted by a female water ghost. Not only did your body experience Yin energy invasion, but it also harbored intense resentment from the water ghost. It's a two-way invasion. If your body only had Yin energy invasion, drinking a bowl of talisman water would be enough. But since your body also has the water ghost's resentment, we needed to add a hundred-year-old dragon liver to the talisman water."

Chen Yuanshan explained, addressing my concerns.