Yellow Stone Pinned the Turtle, the Turtle Held Fate in Check, an Evil Spirit Tore Out a Heart, One Heart for Another

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"": "The faces were drawn in simple lines, yet their features were so distinctive that a single glance was enough to tell who was who.

Then the old man took something out of the bamboo basket at his waist.

It was a Small Coffin about the length of a forearm. When he opened it, the interior was bleak and dark, and his vision grew blurred.

He casually tossed four talismans into the coffin, then snapped the lid shut.

The old man tucked the Small Coffin back into the bamboo basket hanging at his waist and took out something else. It was a Cloth Doll, shaped not like a person but like a dog, with a curled, upturned tail. Its head, however, was round like a human's, its eyes, ears, mouth, and nose outlined in simple strokes that formed a strange smile.

The old man wrapped the other two talismans around the oddly shaped Cloth Doll, bit his fingertip, and pressed it into the doll's mouth.

Blood soaked into the fabric. Strangely, although the doll's face had clearly been stained red, it still looked the yellowish white of ordinary cloth.

The old man casually tossed the Cloth Doll onto the ground.

From drawing the talismans to this final gesture, he had done everything in one seamless sequence.

Then he closed his eyes and clasped his hands behind his back, seemingly waiting in silence.

Luo Bin really had fallen asleep, and he had slept unusually deeply.

When he woke, sunlight bathed his face. The sky was not merely light-it was brilliantly clear, and the blazing sun had already climbed halfway up it.

They could see the sun here!

His arms ached and felt weak. At some point, Gu Yiren had shifted positions, hugging one of his