70. Gu carving
"Lao Tzu is not dead, don't cry, you are not a goddess, you can't sing the essence of crying and mourning." The faint voice suddenly sounded, and everyone was stunned, and I turned in disbelief to see a ragged beggar limping towards us.
"Hai Sheng" turned around without regret and was stunned, and trotted quickly in front of the beggar, the five big and three rough men were so angry that they shed tears, he hugged Brother Hai Sheng's shoulder and said, "Brother, are you finally okay?" ”
In fact, he was not the only one who shed tears, with great sorrow and joy, and when he saw Chen Haisheng return safe and sound, the damn sand also ran into my eyes, and I was forced to cry as a non-sensational person.
"Brother, you ...... How did you escape from that monster? He hugged his head and cried without regret, and raised his head and asked after crying. This question was on everyone's mind, and everyone wanted to know what was going on inside the cave.
"That monster keeps absorbing my essence, and there is no way but to keep calling the soldiers to fill his stomach. Almost, almost can't hold on" Recalling everything he experienced in the Blood River Cave, Chen Haisheng still had palpitations.
Since the separation in front of the cliff of the Blood River that day, Chen Haisheng and Wu Regret continued to go deep into the forbidden area, and were led by the dead monk of Baidu to cross the Blood River and come to the Hanging Coffin Mountain. Countless human heads were piled up on a high mountain pile, and nine human heads paved by skeletons covered the sky and the sun, and countless rich evil qi gathered. At this moment, the coffin hanging on the hanging coffin mountain suddenly changed, and the great witch of Annan turned into a terrifying corpse puppet, coming to take the life of the invader.
Relying on his extraordinary skills, Chen Haisheng and Wu regret escaped the pursuit of these corpse puppets and infiltrated Jinling. In the Jinling, there are nine long golden roads that twist and turn, which are set up according to the principle of the Nine Palaces Bagua Array. No regrets and Chen Haisheng found a person at the entrance of the long road, Xu Ban, the successor of Lu Banshu, Xu Ban's body fell in the entrance of the long road, and his soul had been hooked away, thinking that he had already been poisoned.
No one understands the process, but Chen Haisheng found a map on Xu Ban's body, and it was with this map that the two of them were able to crack this roundabout nine-curved array and come to the deepest part of Jinling.
The deeper and deeper they went, from time to time there was a baby-like creaking and strange laughter in the long tunnel, as well as a strange roar that slowly rose and fell like a beast, and when the two of them entered the depths of Jinling, they were both stunned.
In the depths of Jinling, there is a pool hundreds of meters wide and long, there is a huge cage floating in the pool, the cage holds a huge hideous monster, the leopard body is carved with a mouth, the neck has three heads, one is like a tiger, two or three are like a pheasant, and there is a single horn on the top. The monster was playing with a long lock, and a baby-like squeaky grin emanated from the monster's body.
"Nine Rings." Chen Haisheng looked at the origin of this long lock at a glance, and looking at the new and old of the long lock nine rings, Chen Haisheng suddenly figured out the death of Xu Ban. Xu Ban did not come to build the mausoleum, but to reshape the damaged Nine Links, and the function of these Nine Links was to trap the giant beast.
The Nine Links are not a powerful magic weapon, but they are the most difficult locks to unlock in China for 5,000 years. There is a saying that "the nine links that can't be dismantled, and the easy Qizhong that can't be untied." "There are nine rings in the nine rings, which are staggered and complex, and it is not a simple matter to completely set the nine rings. Since ancient times, the folk have had a way to break the anger of the little devil with nine consecutive chains.
A baby ghost who drowned in front of him, died of an abortion, or suffered a misfortune just after birth, and had to die early with resentment in his heart. These ghosts have low IQs, and they only harm people because of the resentment that comes from instinct before they die. The sorcerer regains these harmful imps, but he can't bear to kill them. Sometimes, I would seal them up in the altar and throw them in a Nine Rings for them to play with, and make a pact with them that I would let you out when the Nine Rings were unraveled.
Then, the wizard will put them on the altar and let them absorb a little more of the righteous god's compassion to dispel their anger, these little ghosts have a low IQ and naturally love interesting playthings. Even if they can't untie the Nine Rings at all, if the wizard sees that the anger on their bodies disappears, they will also release them and let them reincarnate.
The nine rings attached to the cage monster lock play such a role. Lu Ban is the originator of the trick, and generally people can't make pure broken nine links, but Lu Ban's descendants must be able to, so Xu Ban was invited, and after reshaping the broken nine links, he was killed again. The giant beast in this cage, although it is huge and extremely scary, but judging from the baby laughter on his body, his IQ should be very low, so he will be attracted by a nine-link chain and have a lot of fun.
"I don't think this beast looks familiar." Chen Haisheng was affected by the baby's strange laughter, thinking that the IQ of this giant beast was similar to that of a newborn baby, so he boldly stepped forward and took two steps, who knows, it was these two steps, but it suddenly alarmed the monster in the cage.
At this moment, the giant beast suddenly transformed from a young baby into a man-devouring tiger. Let out a high-pitched scream, and shook the cage vigorously, this shaking made the entire cave rumble and shake, Chen Haisheng and Wu regret were shaken around, and they were unsteady on their feet.
The catastrophe didn't end there, and as they shook, there was a strange suction. The two of them flew directly off the ground and flew in front of the giant beast. At this time, the two of them were shocked to find that their mana was continuously flowing to the strange beast, and they knew that this monster was ...... It can even absorb people's essence and mana.
At this critical moment, Chen Haisheng threw out without regrets, and kept summoning the lonely soul and ghost soldiers with the Yinshan Banner. But the soldier was called out, and he was swallowed into the belly by this strange beast, and Chen Haisheng forgot how many ghosts he had recruited, in short, the stomach of this strange beast was like a bottomless pit that could not be filled. However, Chen Haisheng didn't dare to stop, if there was no ghost to replace, then the next moment it would be Chen Haisheng who would lose his spirit.
"Later, how did you escape?" Everyone got goosebumps erected when they heard this, and they hurriedly asked Chen Haisheng.
"More than ten minutes ago, I saw countless Heavenly Spirit Worm Eggs flocking to the alien beast one after another, maybe too much essence and energy poured in, so this alien beast let go of me." Escaped by chance, but there was no joy on Chen Haisheng's face, and everyone knew what it meant that the Heavenly Spirit Worm flocked to the foreign beast.
When I asked what this strange beast looked like, Chen Haisheng and Wu Regret roughly described it, and then saw Jin Si gasp
"Gu Eagle, this is the Ancient Strange Beast Gu Eagle." Jin Si said.
I lost my voice and said: "You mean the strange beast Gu Eagle recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, how is this possible, in the era of the end of the law, it is impossible for a creature like Gu Eagle to exist in the world." ”
Jin Si's eyes were complicated and said, "No, it's not a real Gu Eagle. There is a legend in Annan that thousands of years ago, there was a huge ancient beast that fell from the sky over Annan, and later the body of this ancient beast was collected by the contemporary patriarch of Batuo Mountain, as for where it was placed, no one knows the descendants of later generations, and this matter has become an unsolved mystery in Annan. ”
"If that's the case, then it all makes sense." Chen Haisheng took his mouth and thought about it: "From the first time I saw the form of this strange beast, I felt that it looked like a Gu eagle, but the Gu eagle recorded in the text was just a cannibal, but it never devoured the law. Now that I hear you say this, I understand that this is a Gu carving corpse, presumably this Gu carving corpse has been planted with a soul, and it should be a Rakshasa ghost baby that has been planted. ”
I asked, "What is a Rakshasa Ghost Baby?" ”
Chen Haisheng said: "The Rakshasa ghost baby is one of the nine sons of the Rakshasa ghost mother. There is a food ghost among the twenty-four ghosts. This ghost is not indulgent, does not hurt people, but is good at devouring the law, every time there is a monk preaching, or when a Taoist priest is meditating, the food ghost will appear at the right time, or the feeding machine sneaks into the Taoist priest's mind, or squatting aside, stealing the mana and aura of the Taoist priest or the Taoist priest's cultivation, and the Rakshasa ghost baby is the ancestor of the food ghost. ”
Chen Haisheng remembered the ancient pagoda piled up with human heads and the hanging coffin on the ancient mountain, and connected several places, so he figured out the related places. The human head tower is also called the human head pier, called the ghost head pit, which is a kind of burial method that is extremely vicious in the burial ground. But where the owner of the tomb, fearing that the coffin will be stolen, he will use hundreds of heads to pile up outside the tomb, one is to create a terrifying phenomenon to intimidate the tomb robbers, and second, the ghost head pit can gather resentment, and the resentment lingers around the cemetery for many years, and the owner of the tomb will become a "corpse of resentment" when he absorbs the resentment. Even if the tomb robbers are not intimidated by the human head pier, but when they enter the tomb, they will wake up the corpses inside, and at that time they can only use six words to describe the result: "The corpse turns into a demon and the person dies." ”
After explaining the ingenuity, seeing that everyone was puzzled, Chen Haisheng had no choice but to explain: "The structure in the blood pool is like this, there are two protections outside, nine towers with human heads piled up, and then the coffin of the Great Witch of Annan in the mountainside. There must be mana and aura left in the body of the Great Witch. The blood qi gathers the evil qi of the human head pier, and the evil qi is pulling out the mana in the body of the great witch, and finally teleports to the depths of Jinling, for the evil soul planted on the Gu carving, that is, the Rakshasa ghost baby to deliver nutrients, and the evil qi can confuse people's spirits, so this Gu carving has absorbed so much essence, and its temperament must be extremely vicious. ”
"Not only the dead witch in Annan, but all the villagers in Annan are the nutrients of the Gu carving." Chen Haisheng added. Who knew that as soon as Chen Haisheng finished speaking, Jin Si suddenly hid his face and cried bitterly.
"It's all my fault, it's all my fault, as early as ten years ago, when Tanshan kindly bestowed Gu and distributed disease talisman water to the villagers in the village, I should have stopped him. But I was afraid of the power of the mountain, and in order to save the Golden Silk Clan, even if I noticed the abnormality and didn't drink the rune water, I had to swallow my anger. It's all my fault, it's me who hurt Annan...... Whining. At this moment, Jin Si seemed to be ten years old, and there was no strength and rupture like a queen, only endless guilt and remorse.
Jin Si's eyes were blank, and he muttered to himself: "Five years ago, when the first generation of Gu clan elders escaped from Xianyang Palace, they brought with them the treasures of King Qin, countless gold and silver, as well as the immortality technique that Xu Fu dedicated to King Qin. If Annan can get it, all the people will be free from illness and disaster, and they will not be tormented by the sequelae of illness and Gu cultivation. In order to unlock the treasure, it is necessary to shape the Son of Great Fortune...... I'm so stupid, I thought that Tanyama just wanted to get the treasure inside, hoping that he would be able to protect Annan after he had immortality......"
As she spoke, she burst into tears, and without regret that she felt distressed, she took her head over and put it on her chest.
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