Six.

Blood coffin. Judging from the name alone, it doesn't seem to be something that makes people think of it in a good place, but words like blood and coffins always make people feel unlucky.

But what kind of special coffin is it that can make the young man look so interested when he mentions it?

He didn't say anything, and the old man didn't pick up the problem, but only smiled by default when he heard the word 'blood coffin', and then said, in fact, they didn't expect that they would have such luck to see such a thing in their lifetime. Because they were just looking at this tree fetus, it was really magical, so they moved an idea that they had never hoped for.

Speaking of this, Lao Dao glanced at the Immortal Master and asked, "Brother, since you even know about the tree fetus and the blood coffin, then you must have heard that the Maoshan Sect had a very special cultivation method a long time ago, and the magic weapon required for this cultivation is called the 'Soul Coffin'."

"I've heard of it. 'Carrying the soul coffin, the soul carrying a thousand miles of ghosts and gods'. To be able to sum it up in such a sentence should be a very remarkable thing. ”

Hearing his answer, Lao Dao smiled, and tapped his fingers twice on the table again: "Brother is really well-informed, and even knows the saying that the soul carries thousands of miles, which really makes those of us who have lived a lot of years but realized it a little ashamed." ”

"Dao Ye laughed, but I once met an old gentleman who cultivated the Tao, so I happened to hear about it from him. However, it was not taken seriously at that time, after all, the rumors about this kind of coffin first began in the Qin and Han dynasties, and basically disappeared in the late Tang Dynasty, so even if it really appeared in history, I am afraid that the method of making zuò and using it has long been lost. But now listening to the words of the Taoist chief, it is really unexpected, I didn't expect this strange magic weapon to be real, and it was also controlled by the Taoist chief, but I don't know if it is really as magical as the legend, and why did it become a 'blood coffin'?"

"It's not a secret, in fact, the coffin was made at the beginning, but it was just out of a flash of curiosity, so it was made according to an ancient book left in our Taoist hall according to the gourd painting scoop. At that time, I wanted to try it to see if the records in the ancient books were true or false, and secondly, the tree fetus was born from the jujube tree that had been split by lightning, and it naturally carried a violent evil qi and aura, which was really the best choice for making the 'soul coffin' depicted in that ancient book, and it happened to appear in front of us in such a strange and coincidental way when we were on our way, which cannot but be said to be a kind of providence ......."

Therefore, the Taoist masters complied with the will of heaven and created this coffin. ”

"That's right. ”

"Then why is it a bloody coffin again?"

"What is this......" was slightly silent for a while, and Lao Dao replied with a wry smile: "Well, it's a bit long, mainly because of curiosity." ”

Just like what the young man said, the rumors about the 'soul coffin' first originated in the Qin and Han dynasties, and it was used by some particularly powerful Maoshan Taoist priests at that time to help them practice a magic weapon for hunger. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, this kind of thing was used the most and most blatantly, but in the Tang Dynasty, because some Taoist priests used this method inappropriately, it alarmed the imperial court, and felt that this method was too weird and terrifying, so it was explicitly forbidden, and the Taoist priests who continued to secretly use this magic weapon to practice were punished extremely severely.

Since then, this kind of magic weapon and the method of making it have gradually been lost, and what people know most about it today is that it is a tool that can control the ghosts and gods, which is quite powerful, but not just any kind of wood can make it out, which may also be a fundamental reason for its final loss.

Lao Dao said that from the ancient book that preserves the zài in their Taoist hall, the wood used to make this kind of ritual weapon at that time was generally Hainan Huanghuali, which is known as the 10,000-year-old flower pear, and a kind of sandalwood, which is now extinct, Jiaowei Iron Sandalwood.

Among them, the scorched tail iron sandalwood is the best. The thunder splitting wood is mentioned here, because the Jiaowei iron sandalwood is formed after being struck by lightning, the color is darker than the ordinary iron sandalwood, the texture is harder, and it perfectly has the characteristics required to make the 'back soul coffin' - the harmony of yin and yang, and the coexistence of evil.

So when he saw the thunder splitting the ancient jujube tree and splitting the tree fetus from it, Lao Dao thought of the ancient book and the weird and magical coffin recorded in the ancient book. He pondered, since it was impossible to deliberately find a large piece of rare 10,000-year-old flower pear in order to make such a coffin, then this tree fetus at the moment was undoubtedly like a providence given to them by God.

Isn't it providence that thunder strikes and trees grow trees?

Since Providence had sent such a piece of wood to them in such a miraculous way, why not take this opportunity to try to make the magical magic weapon recorded in the ancient book? So taking advantage of the fact that no one would go up the mountain for a while, Lao Dao took his two apprentices to completely drag the wet, and even seemed to have some warm wood out of the jujube tree, and then carried it down the mountain in a detour overnight.

Speaking of which, I really can't tell what kind of texture this tree tire is. Although it was born from the ancient jujube tree, the texture and texture are different from ordinary jujube trees, although it is not as hard and abnormal as the ancient jujube tree, it is also much harder than ordinary jujube trees, but at the same time it is very light, as if the inside is hollow, so even though there are only three people, it is not difficult to carry it down the mountain in one go.

In this way, after arriving at the foot of the mountain and hurriedly leaving the mountain village, the three Taoist priests spent several weeks drying and peeling the piece of wood according to the method in the ancient books, and then made a 'soul coffin'.

However, although the process of making zuò is completely meticulous and all according to the ancient method, after all, it is not the wood mentioned in the book, so Lao Dao has always had doubts about whether the magic weapon he made is the real meaning of the magic weapon, and whether it is spiritual or not.

But if we have to dispel this suspicion, we can't do it once with this coffin.

But in today's society, science and technology are in power, computers and mobile phones are rampant, and there are still a few people who can really believe in this set of cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods, not to mention accepting others to use coffins to do so.

Thinking about it, it seemed impossible to find a chance to prove it, so he was a little depressed, so on the seventh day of the coffin, he left the temporary residence of the three of them, and went to the town next door to where they had borrowed it, and went around alone.

Whoever wants to do this, but give him a chance.

At that time, he was about to find a place to drink a cup of stuffy wine and dissipate the sullenness in his heart by the way, but when he passed by the courtyard of a house, he found that there were many people standing inside and outside the half of the low wall, all of whom were comforting and persuading an elderly woman in the house.

But the woman, no matter how comforted she was, seemed to have not heard, and stubbornly lay down on a wooden board covered with a white cloth and wept. Lao Dao looked a little strange, so he went over to listen to the people, came and went, and inquired about the ins and outs of this family.

It turned out that the white cloth on the wooden board was covered with a corpse underneath.

I stopped in this house for almost ten days, and I still didn't bury it, one because the weeping woman refused to bury the body, and the other reason was because the body was the woman's daughter, who was only 15 years old this year, and probably did not do well in the exam, and was afraid that her family would scold her, so she couldn't think about it for a while and hanged herself.

But the strange thing is that it was already quite hot at that time, but the body had been stopped for so many days, and for some reason it had not rotted, so the girl's mother refused to bury her daughter no matter what others said, because every time she touched her daughter's intact body and the face that had hardly changed, she couldn't accept the fact that her daughter had been dead for many days, not to say that her daughter was still alive, and even asked the town doctor to check it two or three times.

But both the doctor in the town and the doctor invited in the city came to the conclusion that the girl was really dead.

It's just that I can't tell why the body didn't decompose for many days after death, and it looked like it was lifelike.

After listening, Lao Dao thought to himself, the opportunity has come.

Therefore, he immediately sent a message to his apprentices, asking them to prepare and prepare the 'soul coffin' to be invited out at any time. While crowding into the woman's door, he didn't beat around the bush, and said to her when he was straight:

Sister-in-law, you have also seen that I am a Taoist priest from the traveling side. Like the monks, they are all monks, and the monks don't speak, so I don't brag about what spells I have or what kind of altar I can do. But after practicing in the hall for decades, I have learned a little bit of skills, and I heard that something unfortunate happened to your family when I passed by just now, and I know that you are very sad at this time, and I also know the reason why you are reluctant to bury your daughter. As the saying goes, if people die and don't rot, there must be hidden secrets, if the sister-in-law doesn't dislike it, you see, can you let Lao Dao try to think of a way for you now, so that your daughter can open her mouth?"

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Chapter 69 of the text Blood Coffin VI.