The Legend of Situ Shankong.

Summary

The passage describes a supernatural encounter involving a Guanyin statue in an elderly lady's home. The narrator discovers the statue is spiritually empty, allowing wandering spirits to inhabit it. Using an incantation and soldier-horse incense, he successfully removes the malevolent entity, protecting the elderly lady. Later, he explains the ritual of properly consecrating divine statues to his companion, Big Brother Zhang, by filling the statue with symbolic internal organs. The story concludes with the narrator returning home and having a heated argument with Meng Dong Xue about his unexplained absence.

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