Chapter 1: I Came from the Mountains
There is Kunlun in the west, Kunlun Mountain and Hanhai are 800 miles, and the Hanhai Sea is uninhabited and endless.
In November, the Yuxu Peak of Kunlun Mountain has been blocked by heavy snow, and there is no boundary of snow white as far as the eye can see.
On the mountainside of Yuxu Peak, at an altitude of about a thousand meters, a helicopter flew at a low altitude, the cabin doors on both sides were opened, and two people were sitting on both sides of the hatch, searching with binoculars in their hands.
The pilot of the helicopter looked at the fuel gauge on the dashboard, turned back to a middle-aged man who frowned and said: "Boss, we can hold out for a maximum of an hour, the fuel is not enough, and we must return after thirty minutes."
The middle-aged man wrinkled his brows and said "um", patted the assistant holding the telescope next to him, and said softly: "Be attentive, look for it carefully, I just heard someone describe the approximate location, it should be around the middle of Yuxu Peak, look for it here"
"Understood, boss!" the two subordinates took binoculars and gestured to the driver: "Fly to the northwest, go around that small hill, only we haven't searched over there, and then lower the flight altitude by about fifteen meters, the snow on the hillside is too thick and the sun is too much, it is easy to produce snow blindness and reflective ......"
The pilot made an OK gesture and pulled down the joystick, and the nose of the helicopter suddenly dived downward, and then flew towards the northwest of Yuxu Peak at a low altitude.
At the mountainside of Yuxu Peak, about two thousand meters above sea level, a black spot gradually appeared in a snow-covered area, it was a Taoist temple, covering an area not very large, except for a row of wings in the backyard and a scripture pavilion, there was only one hall in the front yard.
There was a young man in a robe in the Taoist temple who was sweeping the snow that had fallen yesterday, and suddenly heard a roar in the distance, and after he squinted his eyes and raised his head, he saw a black dot flying in the air from far and near.
"Boss, found it, there is a complex at nine o'clock below, ......"
The boss, who had been frowning, hurriedly took over the telescope under his hand, and saw the Taoist temple, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and said in a trembling voice: "Fly over!"
A few minutes later, the helicopter landed on a flat ground outside the Taoist temple, and the boss stood against the wind and snow brought up by the propellers, wrapped in thick cotton clothes, and walked towards the Taoist temple in front of him with his head down, and at the same time ordered his subordinates: "You wait for me on the spot, don't follow me"
Outside the Taoist temple, above the two vermilion gates, there is a plaque that has lost its color, with three big characters on it.
"Kunlun View"
This person's name is Xu Rongsheng, from Lingnan, who traveled thousands of miles through the mountains and rivers to the snow-capped mountains, and made a special trip to Yuxu Peak to find an ancient Taoist temple that his father had told him about before his death.
"Squeak" The gate of Kunlun Temple was open, and the young man stood at the door with a broom and saw Xu Rongsheng, and asked: "My Taoist Temple is far away from the mountains and rivers, and the mountain is closed by heavy snow this season, if you don't have an old relationship with us, you shouldn't be able to find this place."
Xu Rongsheng leaned over slightly, and said in a slightly respectful tone: " Many years ago, my father came to Yuxu Peak to climb the mountain pilgrimage, once in the view of the circle for a period of time, at that time the inner courtyard wall of the temple was dilapidated, the pavilion was in disrepair, so my father let people come to repair the Taoist temple, and then the Taoist chief once asked my father what to pay, my father frankly said that the repair of the Taoist temple is only the belief in the heart of the cause and effect of no reward, but the Taoist chief did not agree, said that the Kunlun view has never been subject to cause and effect for no reason, my father laughed and said that I have nothing else to ask for, if the Xu family can reshape the glory of the ancestors several generations ago, I did not expect that the Taoist nodded after a little thought, and said yes, he pointed out for the father, and then when he came to leave, the old Taoist and the father also told you that the Xu family is also cause and effectIf there is an accident in your family after you die, you can come to Kunlun Temple for help...... It's a good karma."
The Xu family was once a famous local family in Lingnan, the ancestors of the family were the first to worship the governor of Lingnan and Lingxi, and later did the largest salt merchant in the south, but more than 100 years ago during the war, the family fell in the middle of the road, after the war to the nineties when Xu Rongsheng father's generation, because of an opportunity Xu family rebuilt its glory, in just 20 years, it became the top merchant ranks in the Liangling area, and its influence spread all over the Nanyang.
The Xu family's accident happened a week ago, Xu Rongsheng's father passed away.
The young man let out an "oh", nodded and asked, "What's the change?"
Xu Rongsheng said: "Sir, my father passed away a few days ago......
"I have told you more than once that the prosperity of our Xu family is because I met that Taoist priest when I went to Kunlun Yuxu Peak, and I have told you the specific details since you were young, and now there is one more thing I want to tell you before I die, and you must also keep it in mind...... That is, if something happens after my death, you will immediately go to Yuxu Peak, you will have to find Kunlun Guan no matter what, and from now on, no matter what the people of Kunlun Guan want you to do, even if you want to ask for the Xu family's Wanguan family wealth, you are not allowed to be disobedient, understand?"
Old man Xu died after saying this, and the body was kept in the mourning hall built at home for the first few days after his death, and the body was packed in a low-temperature coffin according to his requirements, and then the people of the Xu family began to take turns to keep the spirit, and there were no accidents for several days, but until the evening of the seventh day, the change came.
This night is the first seven days of the old man, which is commonly known as the night of returning to the soul, usually the soul will return home on the seventh day after death, and at this time, the family will burn a ladder to send the soul of the deceased to the underworld so that he can enter the reincarnation and reincarnation as soon as possible.
That night, at about eight o'clock, Xu Rongsheng and his children, brothers and sisters were burning the ladder for the old man in the courtyard, but a surprising and incomprehensible scene appeared, the ladder that symbolized the sending of the deceased to the underworld could not be lit no matter how it was pointed, whether it was with a lighter or a match, and the flames were extinguished with a "poof" when they came out in front of the ladder.
The invited Mr. Yin and Yang said "Huh" and said: "The ladder can't be burned, this is because the old man doesn't want to go, his soul is back......"
At that time, all the people of the Xu family had goosebumps from head to toe, and several timid people were frightened, only Xu Rongsheng, who had heard the old man's last words, was still calm, because his father had solemnly told him before he died.
"Meow!" When the Xu family was puzzled, suddenly, somehow, on the mourning hall, a black cat with black hair and no impurities suddenly appeared, and the eyes of the black cat were like two gems, unusually transparent.
The black cat's eyes swept through the crowd very humanely, and finally slowly landed on the corpse of the old man Xu in the coffin, just when everyone was surprised where the cat came from, the black cat suddenly took a few steps forward and jumped down from the mourning hall, and then landed right on the old man's body.
The Xu family hurriedly ran over, and several people waved their hands to chase the black cat in the coffin, but the cat didn't pay attention to them at all, and jumped out of the coffin directly, and jumped away in a few clicks.
A small episode passed in an instant, and when the people of the Xu family were about to continue to burn the ladder, Xu Rongsheng "chuckled" in his heart, and he vaguely felt that the change that his father had reminded him before he died might have come, so he leaned over and looked at the corpse in the coffin.
"Huh"
Just glanced at it, Xu Rongsheng was numb from the soles of his feet to the top of his head in an instant, the old man's whole face became extremely black, and he also grew thick black hair, when Xu Rongsheng looked over, the old man's eyes suddenly opened, and the two pupils were exactly the same as the cat's eyes.
Despite his preparations, Xu Rongsheng was taken aback and took a few steps back before he was helped without falling.
"Big brother, what's wrong with you?" Xu Ronghua asked in surprise.
Xu Rongsheng swallowed and foamed, pointed to the coffin and said, "Dad, Dad......"
When everyone followed his fingers, the old man's body in the coffin suddenly sat up straight, and then slowly turned his head, the light in his two eyes was like two black obsidian, which looked extremely demonic, and the old man Xu's face looked like a cat's face covered with fine fluff, and suddenly all the people in the mourning hall were stunned.
Only Mr. Yin Yang knows a little bit about the doorway, he hurriedly said: "It's a corpse, although this kind of thing is rare, but it has not never happened, you hurry up and bring a dog over, and see who has a rooster nearby, glutinous rice or something."
On this night, the Xu family was so troubled that the chickens and dogs almost jumped, and after the old man Xu deceived the corpse, he sat in the coffin so straight and motionless, with a tangled and struggling look on his face, which seemed to be very painful and helpless.
When a black dog was brought over, as soon as he entered Xu's house, he began to bark wildly, the dog barking never stopped, Mr. Yin Yang directly asked people to hold the black dog down, and then cut the dog's neck and received several bowls of black dog blood, all of which were poured on the ground of the mourning hall, and then someone borrowed a bag of glutinous rice from the neighbor's house next to him and spilled it on the ground.
The pungent smell of dog blood filled the air, making the old man Xu in the coffin seem to be very jealous, and there were strange whimpering sounds in his throat from time to time, staring at the people in the mourning hall, but in the end he still did not crawl out of the coffin.
It wasn't until the next day, after dawn, that the old man's body lay back down.
At dawn, from ten minutes of dawn onwards, the sun is at its heaviest, when all ghosts and spirits will retreat into the darkness and hide.
After the accident of the Xu family, Xu Rongsheng asked people to go to the Taoist temple on the White Horse Mountain to invite a few Taoist priests to come to chant, and also told the Taoist chief of the White Horse Mountain about the changes last night, after the old Taoist heard about it, he pinched a long whisker on his chin and said: "The cat is the most psychic, especially the black cat is the most spiritual, last night the old gentleman first seven days, I think it was his soul back home, and it happened to be frightened by the black cat, which caused the old man's soul to return to the body to cheat the corpse."
"Then what can I do about this? Is it okay to bury the coffin directly?" Xu Rongsheng asked worriedly.
Lao Dao shook his head and said: "After the first seven years, the three souls and seven spirits of the deceased have not left the body, and they have not entered the netherworld, they are trapped in the body and can't get out, even if the coffin is buried, it is useless, do you still think that your father can't even go to the underworld, and has always been a lonely soul and a wild ghost...... Otherwise, after a long time, this corpse will probably become a zombie."