Although the distance wasn't close, I could see Du Xiaolan visibly trembling. Seeing that she hadn't recovered, I called out again, and she hesitantly walked over.
When she approached, I pointed behind the grave and said, "There's a spirit giving birth over there, go help."
Du Xiaolan tiptoed to the back of the grave for a look, then quickly recoiled, nervously saying, "Mingyang, are you kidding? I don't even know how to deliver a baby, let alone a ghost!"
What she said was true - spirits were different from humans. They were extremely fragile during childbirth and a slight mistake could lead to disaster.
With no other option, I quickly dialed my grandfather's number.
As soon as he picked up, I hurriedly said, "Grandpa, I found a ghost about to give birth in the cemetery, tell me how to handle it."
My grandfather's voice was very surprised, "What ghost?"
I quickly said, "Zhao Xiaocui, it seems like she's about to give birth!"
"What?" My grandfather was extremely surprised, muttering to himself for a moment before urgently calling out to me, "Mingyang, you both come back quickly, do not get involved in this matter, come back to me quickly!"
Before I could come to my senses, my grandfather had already hung up, leaving me breathless. I looked at Du Xiaolan and said, "Let's go back quickly, grandfather doesn't want us to get involved in this matter."
Du Xiaolan seemed eager to leave and hurriedly turned to walk back.
Although I felt reluctant to leave, my grandfather's voice was very anxious, obviously indicating that this matter was extraordinary.
Turning to follow Du Xiaolan's footsteps, I had only walked three or four meters when Zhao Xiaocui's cries of distress reached me again: "Mingyang, save me, I feel really unwell."
I shook my head forcefully, forcing myself not to listen to her voice. But Zhao Xiao Cui's voice seemed to come from the depths of my heart, and I couldn't ignore it.
After a few more steps, her cries still echoed in my ears. Suddenly, I stopped in my tracks and quickly turned back to run towards her.
At that moment, Du Xiaolan's voice came through: "Mingyang, where are you going?"
"You go back quickly, if this matter is not resolved, I will not be able to live with my conscience." I said loudly and without looking back, I went to Zhao Xiaocui's side.
Vaguely, I heard Du Xiaolan sighing, and walking towards me with light steps.
The production of a spiritual body absolutely could not come close to even a trace of yang energy. Seeing that there was nothing blocking the yang energy, I rose and ran towards the grave that had just been dug.
Although the wet mud in constant contact with the coffin was less yin energy than the coffin wood, the yin energy was still not to be underestimated, and it could block the infiltration of yang energy.
Jumping into the grave, I grabbed a handful of wet mud and climbed back up, rushing towards Zhao Xiaocui.
Du Xiaolan had already made her way to Zhao Xiaocui by the time I got there. She didn't seem afraid and held Zhao Xiaocui's hands, encouraging her, "Put in some effort, it will be okay soon."
Seeing this, I was almost scared out of my wits.
Du Xiaolan was a living person, and Zhao Xiaocui was a spiritual body. And at this moment, she was at her weakest. If Du Xiaolan's yang energy clashed with Zhao Xiaocui, the consequences would be unimaginable.
I told Du Xiaolan not to touch her for now, and with my hands covered in wet mud, I closed my eyes and put my hands on Zhao Xiaocui's legs. Her legs were very cold, and when I touched them, it was like touching a block of ice just taken out of the refrigerator.
As Du Xiaolan continued to encourage Zhao Xiaocui, time passed by minute by minute, and Zhao Xiaocui's cries were making my ears ache. Until her voice became hoarse, I heard Du Xiaolan let out a gasp.
At this point, I didn't care about the appropriateness of touch between a man and a woman. I abruptly opened my eyes and saw that Zhao Xiaocui's belly had split open, revealing a creature covered in black hair wriggling inside.
"Mingyang, what is this thing?" Du Xiaolan exclaimed, and hastened to my side.
I had never seen such a thing before. I quickly stood up, picked up the coffin, and shouted, "Run!"
Before the words had even left my mouth, the creature from inside Zhao Xiaocui's belly suddenly leaped out and pounced on the ground.
It was so close that I could see that it was the size of a baby, but looked very fierce and terrifying. It had a mouth with two three-centimeter long fangs, its whole body covered in finger-length black hair, and a pair of copper-bell-sized eyes staring dead at me.
Du Xiaolan had already run off, and I felt my legs go weak at the sight. The instinct to survive forced me to run forward quickly.
The wind whistled in my ears as we ran, and the creature's strange cries continued to close in from behind. I had already prepared to defend myself with the coffin, and I was confident I could use it to fend off the creature.
Under the frenzy, we reached top speed. When we entered the village, the creature finally stopped in its tracks, and menacingly bared its teeth at us.
Feeling sure that it dared not go any further into the village, I finally breathed a sigh of relief, patted my chest, and made my way home.
Standing at the door, the grandfather saw me coming back and asked anxiously, "Is Zhao Xiaocui still in the graveyard?"
"No," I shook my head and told him everything that had just happened.
The grandfather's unwavering body trembled slightly, his face extremely unpleasant as he muttered to himself.
I was extremely puzzled and asked him what was going on. The grandfather said not to worry about Zhao Xiaocui's matter for now and that it was most important to resolve the matter of Yu Rubing.
Although I was very curious, since the grandfather did not want to explain, I could only swallow my further inquiries.
The yard had already changed, with countless red threads arranged in a Bagua formation, each with a burning red candle.
Yu Rubing stood at the center of the formation and smiled at me when she saw me return, as if beckoning.
Handing the coffin to the grandfather, he took a dagger and carved on it for a long time, finally carving out a small figure twenty centimeters high.
He motioned for me to bring paper and pen, and he wrote Yu Rubing's name and her date of birth on it. After completing these tasks, he handed the coffin figurine to me, along with a red thread, instructing me, "Go and connect the figurine with her hand."
I nodded, and after completing these tasks, the grandfather asked me to go back to the room.
I was very interested in what was happening in the yard, so I leaned against the window and watched the grandfather tightly holding three sticks of purple incense, chanting under his breath, and finally inserting the incense into a bowl of raw rice, then pointing his fingers at the coffin figurine.
The next moment, the coffin figurine began to tremble slightly.
As the coffin figurine trembled, the red thread connected to Yu Rubing's finger also trembled violently.
"Rise!" the grandfather shouted, and the coffin figurine lying on the ground suddenly stood up.