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The Coffin Shop of Chen Siye suddenly trembled violently. The Soul-Suppressing Coffin crashed through the earthen wall of the backyard, and the seventy-two ghostly faces on the Coffin Lid chanted the Innocent Record in unison. Black Blood gushed from the air holes, forming the visage of Scholar Zhou, whose seven orifices bled: "Master Chen, it's time to return the Yin Contract."
The sound of Bangzi from the Hour of the Rat echoed from beneath the ground. At the end of the long street, a Bronze Giant Coffin, carried by sixteen men, emerged, its surface entwined with iron chains as thick as a bowl, with phalanxes wedged between the links.
Scholar Zhou's Li Gui sat at the head of the coffin, and on his decaying Official Robe's patch, a One-Eyed Heron suddenly took flight, its sharp beak clutching the tongue of the Current County Magistrate. "Twenty Years of Yang Life for a new Yin Contract; Master Chen truly is foolish," Li Gui's voice resonated like a chorus of vengeful spirits, shaking the eaves and tiles as if rain were falling.
He raised his hand and tore open his chest; the heart nailed with a Coffin Nail was revealed to be a miniature model of the county office. "Tonight, I will take this dog official's heart and liver to offer for my son's reincarnation!" The Current County Magistrate was chained at the tail end of the coffin, his official robe's hem ablaze with ghostly green Ghost Fire.
Suddenly, he laughed maniacally and pulled out an Underworld Judge's Seal from his bosom: "I have long sold my soul to the underworld; what can you vengeful spirits do to me?" The official seal pressed against his chest, and his flesh instantly revealed a dense array of Contracts of Selling One's Body.
The strangulation marks on Li Gui's neck suddenly burst open, revealing a rusty soul-reaping chain. The chain's iron hook pierced precisely into the magistrate's crown, pulling out a soul wrapped in talisman paper. Shopkeeper Zhang's Demon-Revealing Mirror reflected the truth—within that soul were seven substitute talismans embedded, clearly indicating that seven death substitutes had been sought with matching birth dates.
"What a clever technique of replacing peaches with plums!" Chen Siye's carving knife suddenly moved on its own, etching a series of Birth Date and Time into the bottom of the Soul-Suppressing Coffin. The coffin exploded with a thunderous roar as twenty-eight Yamen Runners' souls burst forth from it, each wielding instruments of punishment, tearing apart the magistrate’s substitute soul into shreds.
At three quarters past the Hour of the Tiger, a blood moon split open in a seam. Scholar Zhou’s ghost soared upward atop the bronze coffin, his decayed hands forcefully tearing through the membrane of Yin Yang Realm. Countless vengeful spirits surged into the foundation of the county office through the crack, dragging out twenty-eight corpses pickled in lime—the true culprits involved in that massacre years ago.
Shopkeeper Zhang’s Rebirth Banner suddenly ignited spontaneously, revealing the figure of Yin Si Judge amidst flames. The Judge’s face was strikingly similar to that of Chen Siye’s client; ink still stained his brush from Chen Siye’s corpse oil and cinnabar: "Debts in Yang must be repaid in Yin; I have come to collect your contract!"
The Yin Contract in Chen Siye’s arms suddenly came to life, its edges sprouting sharp teeth that bit into his wrist and drained his blood frantically. Shopkeeper Zhang’s Paper Man Army Formation instantly turned against him, paper hands transforming into blades poised at his neck.
In a critical moment, Black Blood from within the Soul-Suppressing Coffin began to flow backward, coalescing into Scholar Zhou’s former appearance: "This person bears Nine Yin Fate; leave him for me to nurture my ghost seal!" The Rooster Crow at Hour of the Rabbit was choked by Yin Qi. The Bronze Giant Coffin hovered above the Old Site of the county office, with countless Soul Hooks dangling from its seams, drawing in all vengeful spirits within a hundred miles.
The ghost of Scholar Zhou finished carving the last character for "injustice" on the Coffin Lid, and suddenly, the entire coffin transformed into a blood-red seal, inscribed with the words "Ten Thousand Ghosts Carrying the Coffin, Clearing of Injustice."
As the morning sun struggled to break through the clouds, only the Soul-Suppressing Coffin, split in two, remained on the long street. Chen Siye discovered a Blood Painting of a Rebirth Array at the bottom of the coffin, with an Ink Marker he had once used to make coffins for performers placed at its center. Shopkeeper Zhang's compass had been reduced to powder; when the wind blew, it revealed half of a Summoning Decree of the Underworld hidden inside.
On a rainy night three days later, someone spotted a Paper Sedan Chair at Luanzanggang. The Jiao Lian was embroidered with lifelike Egrets, and the four Paper Men carrying it wore neck pendants passed down from the county magistrate's family.
The Night Watchman reported that during the Hour of the Rat, as he passed by the Coffin Shop, he heard Planing Sounds from within, along with the clear recitation of poetry by a Young Scholar—the voice was strikingly similar to that of Young Master Zhou, who had paraded through town twenty years ago after passing his imperial examination.
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