Chapter 294 Taotie
Why did Zhu Rongrong choose this critical moment to show Yu Ning this painting of this unidentified mythical beast? It seems to have nothing to do with cows and horses.

"Ah, this sheep with a human face! I know it!" This sudden voice successfully attracted everyone's attention.

Everyone looked towards the source of the sound.

The person who spoke was Bao Yang.

After Bao Yang took refuge with Yu Ning, he had no chance to speak. He just followed along and exclaimed when he saw the painting.

"This is the animal from Pet Shop of Horrors!"

"What?" Yu Ning frowned, as this touched upon her blind spot in knowledge.

Yu Ning, who is well-read, has never heard of this.

"It's a comic from the bookstore. It's really good. It's in the form of a unit drama, and each unit has an animal. The name of this human-faced sheep in the comic is A-Che, and it looks exactly like what she drew."

"So, what is the prototype of this sheep?" Yu Ning asked.

"Hu Zhen! It eats people, and was later adopted by the protagonist and kept by his side throughout the whole play. I often read comics, and I sincerely recommend you to read this comic, it's good!" Bao Yang answered very confidently.

"Hu Zhen.?!" Yu Ning frowned again and looked at Lin Zheng, who also shook his head.

I have never heard of this name and have no idea what it is.

It’s definitely not in the Shan Hai Jing.

“I’ve read the comic you mentioned, and I’ve even cosplayed the beautiful snake girl in it. Now that you mention it, I remember that there is indeed a character called Ache, but what was his prototype—” As a makeup artist, Lou You is also an old fan of the second dimension.

When Bao Yang mentioned this, she had some impression of it, but she had watched too many anime and had forgotten some of the details. It took her several seconds to remember them.

"Ache is a glutton, right?"

"Haha, are those two words pronounced as taotie? I've always pronounced them as huzhen." Bao Yang laughed awkwardly. Reading is like that. If you don't know a word, just make up a pronunciation and that's fine.

“Taotie?” Yu Ning suddenly remembered, “Although the mythical beast recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas is called 狍鸮, Guo Pu of the Jin Dynasty annotated that “狍鸮” is Taotie.”

This is one of the four great beasts, vicious and greedy. Many ancient bells, tripods and bronze vessels were engraved with Taotie as decoration.

"If such a powerful beast is made into fruit, it will definitely be more powerful than a weakling made into fruit, right? If our next opponent is it, then there is no point in fighting." Xiao Kui felt suffocating despair.

The decisive battle with the Night Wandering God will be held tomorrow. Zhu Rongrong has revealed such important information. One wave of troubles has not yet subsided when another one comes. We can’t even deal with one opponent, and now here comes a more powerful one. We have no chance of winning such a desperate battle.

Lou You was also completely desperate. The mountains before him were one after another and he simply couldn't climb over them.

"Don't be so anxious. I think there's still hope. You two withdraw your Taoist energy and I'll take a look." Yu Ning did not share the despair of these two men.

She strolled around downstairs and came up. She had a hidden card that she didn't reveal.

Moreover, she had a hunch that the information Zhu Rongrong gave her, plus the image she saw from the Three Lives Stone, put them together and added her trump card, she might be able to overcome the difficulties.

Xiao Kui and Lou You released their energy at the same time. Yu Ning glanced at them and nodded.

"It's all right, so don't be afraid."

"But if you encounter a fruit that can change your face, your face won't be accurate anymore, right?"

Xiao Kui accompanied Yu Ning all the way, knowing full well that the face might be affected by the fruit. There were many crises ahead, and just looking at the face might not be effective.

"We must maintain an optimistic attitude towards the unknown. If we really encounter difficulties, we must believe that our ancestors will bless us." Yu Ning looked up at the sky and said devoutly, "If we encounter difficulties, we must believe that our ancestors will bless us."

"." Xiao Kui and Lou You were silent at the same time, treating Yu Ning's words as a cold joke.

"I am serious. Our ancestors will bless every devout younger generation." Yu Ning emphasized again.

"So what are we going to do next?" Xiao Kui was feeling very frustrated. If tomorrow was the day she would die, could she leave her body for a while and go back to say goodbye to her boyfriend?
The Night Wanderer will be here tomorrow, but they still seem to have no idea what to do, and things are getting more confusing.

"Burn paper and offerings." Yu Ning was confident.

“Huh?!” Xiao Kui and Lou You looked at her in unison. What kind of hellish joke was this?

"Since you are asking for forgiveness from our ancestors, you must be sincere enough - Ah Zheng, you contact the ghost money factories. I will take over the stocks of five factories and burn them to offer sacrifice to our ancestors according to the time I calculated."

"Are five factories enough?" Lin Zheng has no shortage of money.

"I don't know if it's enough, but the amount of merit we have now is the limit. If we burn more merit, it won't be enough. Xiaoyou, go to the Hu family and mobilize all the spirits who can communicate with yin and yang in the Hu family in the name of Amber's fiancée."

"Huh? When did I become Amber's fiancée?"

"When you are out there, you give yourself an identity. In an emergency, you have to resort to some means. Send all those spirits who can communicate with the Yin and Yang to hell."

"What are you going down for?"

"Our ancestors can't carry so many paper money and offerings at once. We need to give them decent gifts. Find someone to help carry them. It's a one-stop gift delivery."

After Yu Ning finished speaking, everyone fell silent.

I even had the illusion that Yu Ning might have become mentally disturbed due to excessive stress and started talking nonsense.

Just look at her magical operations, which are unprecedented and probably will never be surpassed in the future.

He rented out several banknote factories, took out all the stock in their warehouses and burned it, and even mobilized the family of exorcists to help transport the money.

The movement was too big.

“Why do we need to send a shaman down? There must be many people in Ningshan who can understand yin and yang, right?” Xiao Kui still didn’t understand Yu Ning’s intention.

After a brief moment of surprise, Lin Zheng seemed to have some enlightenment.

"Giving gifts also requires avoiding suspicion. She said it was to take care of the ancestors, so naturally we can't use our own people to help carry it."

Yu Ning nodded, A Zheng understood her.

After returning to the Taoist temple, Yu Ning bathed and fasted, then changed into formal Taoist robes. He tied all his hair up and pinned a simple wooden hairpin on his head, a standard Taoist attire.

This was the first time Lin Zheng saw her dressed so formally, which was the standard attire for sacrifices.

Just behind the Taoist temple, she ordered people to quickly build a tall altar, which was solemn and pious.

She held incense and bowed at the altar, performing the ancestor worship ceremony in an orderly manner. The five ghost money factories located across the country selected by Lin Zheng had almost prepared the mountains of paper money and ingots.

The calculated time had arrived and Lou You had also made arrangements. It was almost time, so Yu Ning gave the order to start the fire.

In an instant, five small mountains of offerings were lit at the same time. Although Yu Ning could not see the grand occasion from where she was, she could imagine how spectacular it would be.

In the mental hospital, the detained Jia Qingqing complained bitterly and was angry and confused.

The offerings burned fiercely with flames shooting up into the sky.

On the altar, Yu Ning performed her unique ancestor worship ritual with sword techniques. The smooth back of the peach wood sword reflected her steady face.

This time, she can win.

　Speaking of this typo, I was very sad once, and my good friend comforted me by saying, "Don't be sad, everything will turn out well." After she said that, I suddenly stopped feeling sad, and I thought she was inexplicably cute.

　　(End of this chapter)