Chapter Seventy-Six: Soul Hunting
“…… I'm also with me, so you don't have to do some preparation? ”
Xia Shijie said suspiciously.
He doesn't deny it now, the little girl does have some ability, he doesn't know if it really awakens suddenly, and he hasn't seen those spirit masters who are said to have awakened instantly, but even if the little girl is really a genius, she is only more than ten years old, no matter what, she can't be compared with the masters of the Xia family.
He is not a spiritual master himself, but he is no stranger to that set at all, his former cronies read Xia Yin, he is very talented, and he also worshiped Wei as a master, it has been five years now, and he is outstanding compared to his peers, in the current situation, Xia Shijie believes that Xia Yin will also have a way, but it will definitely take a lot of effort.
glanced at Hongchen, with her simple equipment, don't be like Shi Feng, and in the end she had to work hard to ask for help.
Shi Feng just made a move, he was on the same road with himself, and it was for the sake of the Xia family's guest qing, but it cost his own resources to find others, and it was also a point reduction project on the side of the Great Elder.
Hongchen didn't care what he thought, it didn't matter if he wanted to follow, he walked out on his own.
Xia Shijie followed nervously.
At this time, it was late at night, although there was a moon, but the moonlight was hazy like fog, and there were many shadows on the road.
He was also afraid, but his face was not leaking.
When he was young, he went to Beishan to find his father alone with Ah Chan, and twice he missed the night and had to walk at night, and Ah Chan was so scared that she cried all the time. There are also a lot of terrifying visions faintly emerging in front of him, and his heart beats like a drum every step he takes, but he can't be afraid, what should he do if he is afraid of Ah Chan?
The expression on Xia Shijie's face was too obvious, Hongchen actually saw his thoughts at once this time, and he was suddenly startled, and couldn't help but slander - if he really had a heart and soul with him, it would be disgusting to death.
Suddenly, it was a matter of aura here, and her spiritual consciousness was unconsciously scattered. Xia Shijie didn't think about it. This easily pierced his heart, it's not a big deal, but think about how much this person hurts Jiang Chan. In the end, I knew that she was not the daughter of the Xia family. is still holding on and not letting go. to not abnormal.
First, it was his sister who he loved since childhood, and second, Xia Shijie was afraid that he had paid a lot for Jiang Chan. Once a person to someone. The more effort you put into something, the harder it is to give up.
In this long time, Jiang Chan has become Xia Shijie's heartwork, and if she really wants to give it up, it will be the pain of dissecting her heart.
"Where are we going?" Xia Shijie followed behind Hongchen, and when he saw that every time he walked on a road, he stopped for a while, and couldn't help but ask.
Hongchen ignored him, picked up a piece of rune paper from his hand, folded it lightly in half, spread it out again, and turned around with ten fingers, and the rune paper flew forward with a swish, extremely fast, and she also trotted all the way.
Xia Shijie didn't bother to ask, and hurriedly followed, but Hongchen didn't run fast at all, but he had a hard time catching up, stumbling step by step, and after a while, he was out of breath, and after running for I don't know how long, the yellow paper in Hongchen's hand was one after another, and gradually ran out, and then stopped suddenly.
It was pitch black, and there was no moonlight in sight.
Xia Shijie held his breath and stared, he didn't dare to move for half a step, he didn't say anything else, he was really impulsive when he was impulsive, but he was so cautious that there were still some of them, especially at this time.
After looking around, he saw Hongchen standing under an old tree and was distracted, so he squirmed his lips and asked in a low voice, "What is this place?" ”
"I don't know." Hongchen's face was solemn.
Xia Shijie: "......"
Took out a fire fold from his arms, the oil in it was the lamp oil offered by the Buddha before, from Puji Temple, lit at this time, even Xia Shijie felt that his body temperature had risen a little, and then he looked carefully and found that they had actually returned to the mountain.
It's still a green mountain.
"This mountain is really evil!"
Xia Shijie muttered with palpitations, thinking that he was offended on this mountain last time, although the 'culprit' was Hongchen, but he still felt that he was in conflict with this mountain. I fell just now, although it wasn't serious, it was still disgraced, fortunately he didn't bring a small entourage this time, otherwise he would have to be embarrassed.
Hongchen took a look around with the fire fold, suddenly stomped on the ground with his foot, and pointed to a small hill that protruded: "Step on it hard." ”
"Huh?"
"I say, stomp hard!" Hongchen rolled his eyes, "You come along, you can't help with the things you use your brain, don't you do it at this time, do you want me to do manual work?" ”
Xia Shijie luckily, gritted his teeth, walked over and kicked viciously, as if he had treated this piece of land as red dust, he stepped down, and with a thud, the soil under his feet collapsed, and his whole person fell forward.
Hongchen stretched out his hand to push him aside, and looked over with the fire fold, it was a dark hole in the ground, Xia Shijie's legs were a little weak, and he felt that there was a monster with teeth and claws hidden in it, which would pounce out and devour him at any time.
Pulling Qingfeng out casually, Hongchen chopped down the withered grass and vines at the entrance of the cave, and the Qingfeng in his hand seemed to be a little unwilling, but he still consciously saved her some effort, and in the blink of an eye, the entrance of the cave became clean.
After ventilating it first, and after waiting for a while, Hongchen took the fire fold and lit some straw barley and threw it inside, and for a long time, the work was not extinguished.
"Alright."
"You want to go down?" Xia Shijie frowned, "Why?" ”
"You can't do it." Hongchen held the fire fold, looked at the probe, it was not very deep, and there was a slope if it came up, so it was not a big problem, so he jumped down directly.
As soon as she entered, she disappeared, leaving Xia Shijie alone to stand on it hesitantly, of course the top is safer than the bottom, right?
The problem is that the wind blows the trees, and the dark sky should not be cold, but he feels that the wind is very cold, gritting his teeth, closing his eyes, and tentatively picking at the entrance of the hole, slowly slipping out.
Hongchen heard him fall behind, so he didn't say anything, he held the fire fold and glared at him, inside was a winding cave, looking deep, black, I don't know how far away.
The two of them walked one after the other, slowly walking towards the front. Xia Shijie was scared and wanted to speak, but he saw Hongchen pursing his lips, his face was serious, and he was not too embarrassed to open his mouth. His physical strength was a little lacking, he walked for a while and rested for a while, and after resting for three times, there was suddenly a light in front of him-
"Ahh
Xia Shijie screamed, "What's that!" You, where the hell is this? ”
Hongchen was stunned. My hands and feet were also slightly cold.
"Follow the rune paper. Shi Gongzi must have been here. ”
She lowered her voice, narrowed her eyes, held the fire fold in front of her eyes, and shone it up and down. Glowing is the stone wall not far away. Green light. It's scary.
In front of the stone wall sat a humanoid object, which appeared to be a skeleton.
Xia Shijie suddenly stopped, and he didn't dare to go forward again. Hongchen is also a little stunned, don't look at her dying once, she is still scared when she encounters this kind of thing.
After hesitating for a long time, Hongchen gritted his teeth, "Let's go, let's see why my master can't go back." ”
Xia Shijie got a little closer to her, and secretly said in his heart: When the teacher's style is better, he must let him return an adult favor, at this time he no longer dares to act like he looks down on other people's Hongchen, he follows very closely, and he can't help but think that it would be good if this woman was really special.
At this moment, how can you still worry about worrying that Ah Chan is not as good as her?
Hongchen walked slowly, walked a few steps, and her heart settled, she was not a real fourteen-year-old girl after all, she had seen the scene of a river of blood, and she had seen the Jingguan with thousands of heads.
The two of them walked straight to the stone wall, and after a closer look, it was indeed white bones, Xia Shijie shrank his body, Hongchen took a step forward, and brought the fire fold over, and there was still black armor hanging on the bone shelf.
Looking at the style of the armor, it should be a general, or a big Zhou, but it is so corroded that it is impossible to see that it is the people of that army.
The generals of the armies of the Great Zhou Dynasty were dressed similarly, and the armor of the forbidden army was a little brighter, and the others were black.
Hongchen settled down, looked up and down carefully, this person didn't know how many years ago he died here, his clothes were rotten, but he was wearing beautiful jade on his waist, and he didn't look like an ordinary general.
"How could there be a dead man?" Xia Shijie closed his eyes and said carefully.
"Get all the bits and pieces off of him."
Xia Shijie was shocked: "What? ”
Hongchen rolled his eyes: "What do you think, I'm not so poor that I want to make a fortune, just check and check to see if there are any clues about Shigongzi and the Liu family." ”
"Oh."
Xia Shijie breathed a sigh of relief, and when he came back to his senses, he was so disgusted that he couldn't do it, when this person was not with Jiang Chan, he was quite reasonable, Shi Feng was his senior brother, but it didn't have much to do with other little girls.
He also knew that although Hongchen was the daughter of the Xia family, the Xia family had not raised her for a day, and he himself regarded others as outsiders, so it was not suitable for the family to do dirty work for the people of the Xia family.
The other party is willing to come to this trip, which is already very friendly.
Xia Shijie went to pick up the dead man's things, Hongchen rummaged through some dry grass, covered the man, and prepared to go back and dig a pit to bury the person, so that he could be buried in the ground, and the things were almost cleaned up, they were all old things, and they stayed in the dark for so long, it was really not very good.
Laid out in the same way, Hongchen carefully examined it, and took the jade pendant to the bottom of the fire fold to take a photo, and a strange black mist was refracted inside.
Xia Shijie trembled.
Hongchen pulled out a small thumb-thick incense candle from his sleeve, but it was shorter, Xia Shijie couldn't help but look at her sleeve, it was not particularly wide, and the cuffs were tied, I really don't know where these things come from.
Inserted the incense candle in the soil, and with a wave of his hand, the candle lit up, Xia Shijie rubbed his eyes, still not sure if Hongchen had used a fire fold to light it.
"Master, can you hear me?"
Hongchen shouted softly, in such a cave, her voice seemed light and ethereal, as if it came from the Nine Shadows.
Xia Shijie's feet were soft, and he sat on the ground at once, looking at the little girl in front of him with an unbelievable gaze. Shi Feng can stay in Liu's house well, just like that, he can't come here when he thinks about it.
Before he could speak, Hongchen shouted again: "Shi Feng, Shi Gongzi?" Are you absent? ”
As soon as the cave was quiet, Xia Shijie opened his mouth, and before the sound could be spit out, an echo appeared in the cave, but it was vague. His ears pricked up. Listen, listen, faint hairs on my body.
"Master, this way!"
Hongchen blew on the incense candle and said softly.
Before she could finish speaking, the sound of running and wheezing was heard.
"Huhu...... Miss Hongchen, is that you? ”
There was an echo in the cave, and Xia Shijie raised his head suddenly: "...... Teacher style? ”
Obviously, the Shi Feng, who didn't know the truth or falsehood, couldn't hear him, and Hongchen stood up. Stand against the stone wall. He lowered his voice and said, "Be quiet, stop running, don't move." ”
Her voice is also particularly soft.
Shi Feng gasped for breath and lowered his voice: "But." Something is chasing me. ”
"I know." Hongchen closed his eyes. A map comes to mind. Only one of the black dots in a bunch is a white dot, and that must be Shi Feng.
"Take three steps to the left, crouch down and don't move."
Shi Feng instinctively listened to Hongchen's words. As soon as he lowered his body, the tightness in his chest suddenly disappeared a lot, and the feeling of suffocation and oppression was reduced.
"Close your eyes and don't look at anything."
Hongchen said again.
Shi Feng cautiously responded.
The map is in her imagination, in fact, it is to project the place where Shi Feng is located into her mind, a very simple trick, but there are not many people who can learn it, Mr. Guigu told her back then, including his old man, can learn this trick with one hand can be counted.
Moreover, most of them can only see a vague shadow, Hongchen has never learned in his previous life, and he tried it in this life, and he succeeded once.
Xia Shijie stood beside Hongchen, he could only hear the voice, his heart was still hairy, and he was very worried, seven up and down, but the cold sweat on his palms was all over the place, and he didn't dare to alarm Hongchen, for fear that if he was alarmed, she would make a mistake, and it would be a fatal thing.
When people are ignorant, they are most likely to be cranky, and now their minds are a mess, and many horrors are born out of thin air.
Turning his head, Hongchen was like no one, he first dug a handful of soil near the bones, took Qingfeng out of the cave easily, found a vine and threw it in, and beckoned Xia Shijie to tie up the bones of the general in the cave.
Xia Shijie's mind was very messy, and he didn't know where to start when he wanted to ask, so he could only instruct one action at a time, and waited for the hard work to dig the pit, buried the white bones, and listened to Hongchen, and burned a lot of yellow paper.
After doing all this, Hongchen stretched his waist, yawned, turned his head and went down the mountain, Xia Shijie followed a few steps behind before he came back to his senses and broke out in a cold sweat: "What are we doing here?" ”
He asked this sentence tonight I don't know how many times, thinking about him as the eldest son of the Xia family, a look on weekdays makes people think about it for a long time, or make his meaning clear, I don't know how many people can't sleep at night, now it's good, change to others to ignore him, that kind of taste, I really can't even describe it.
But I still can't help but ask.
Hongchen said lazily: "What else can you do?" It's almost dawn, why don't you go back to sleep? I'm going to school tomorrow. ”
Xia Shijie was stunned, his complexion changed suddenly, and he endured it for a long time before he said, "How can we go back?" What about Shi Feng, didn't you say you wanted to bring him back? ”
"I've found it, you didn't hear him." Hongchen said with a smile, "I said that I wanted to lead him, but I didn't say which day, at least not today." ”
She doesn't like to talk to Xia Shijie very much, but at this moment, he is so angry that she has to endure it and be polite to herself, which is not bad.
"You...... Miss Hongchen, please save Shi Feng......"
If he wanted to say that before what happened just now, he still thought that he was looking for Hongchen because she was close, but now that he was frightened, Xia Shijie didn't dare to guarantee that he could find the spirit master at home and be able to wake up Shi Feng.
If he loses his mentorship in Qi County, I'm afraid he will never get the position of patriarch again. The Xia family is different from other families, the elders have the right to choose the patriarch, and it is impossible for this position to be occupied by a room all the time, besides, even if there are no such drawbacks, he can't help but save the teacher, no matter how many talents the Xia family has, there are very few like the teacher's style.
Hongchen turned his head to look at him, but he didn't take the opportunity to tease people more, and said calmly: "Master Master is my friend, of course I will save him, so I don't need to say more about Xia Gongzi, but although he is not dead yet, he has already stepped into the Netherworld and wants to take him back, which is really not good at this time." ”
Xia Shijie's eyes darkened.
Netherworld, Netherworld......
My heart was frightened by these four words, as if I had felt the gust of wind. The people of the Great Zhou Dynasty were different from other countries. It has always been not only a serious interpretation of a new word, but also countless speculations about death, and all kinds of legends about the underworld, Huangquan, and Yin Si retribution are familiar to even children.
However, Xia Shijie never thought that one day he would be able to hear the voice coming from that place.
Whether there is a hell in this world, Hongchen is not very clear.
She is born again because of herself. Particularly curious about this issue. Collect relevant information at every opportunity.,When I followed Mr. Guigu in my last life.,I heard him say a little bit about his research results.,Mr. didn't understand these at all.。 It's just that I found that some special people seem to be able to communicate yin and yang. It's just a little tricky.
Hongchen remembers it very clearly. He always said that there is a great terror between life and death, and to get rid of this terror, you have to know everything. Mastering everything, it's a pity that in the end, the old gentleman is far from being successful.
Ever since her senses became clearer, and she could even use her own aura to let others talk to some 'people' over there, she knew in her heart that there must be a underworld in this world right now.
Even the great power in the Yujue space was very surprised, it is said that some of them have explored for thousands of years, and they still can't figure out the essence of life and death, but I didn't expect Hongchen, who was just curious, didn't want to think about it at all, and didn't care about any theoretical things, only cared about whether the skills she learned were useful or useless for herself.
Seeing that Xia Shijie was still stupid, Hongchen was too lazy to entangle with him, but just advised: "You go back with me to get a pot of lamp oil, and when the time comes, use this oil to light the lamp for the master and son, and the lamp will not be extinguished all night, just keep it lit." ”
Xia Shijie nodded in agreement, and he was not stupid enough to rashly say that there was no shortage of lamp oil at home, he was afraid that he would be the most obedient and the least picky in front of Hongchen at this time, and there would be no similar opportunities in the future, I'm afraid it would be difficult to say.
Hongchen didn't want to be in a hurry, so he went back to the teahouse to get the lamp oil first, and went to add it for the first time in person, and gave the little young master of the Liu family a recipe for him to eat.
The elder of the Liu family was very nervous, and Hongchen only smiled: "Let him quit the medicine, don't eat indiscriminately, he doesn't have the habit of taking it, right?" Give him more warm food, don't go out for a month, don't worry, it's not serious. ”
Chang Sui hurriedly said, "How dare you?" My master was strict when he was in charge, and the little master would never touch the cold food, but he occasionally ate some home remedies, which was also because of the lack of energy recently, and he didn't take medicine and went to sleep. ”
"Then let him sleep, just eat three meals on time."
Hongchen checked around, and sealed the room of the young master of the Liu family with yellow rune paper, which looked yellow at first glance, and he was a little panicked.
"There's no way, your family god asked your young master to drive him away, I'm afraid I want to be angry, first take a yellow paper and seal it, and when I invite them back, it will be fine for the time being, but...... Forget it, heal him first, and I'll tell you the rest when I'm done with the trouble. ”
Chang Sui nodded again and again, and did not ask, as long as the young master can be good, he will be content, and there are endless words of gratitude.
Hongchen asked him to prepare an old master's clothes, and then went to the ancestral hall of their Liu family to get a handful of ashes, then took two pieces of yellow paper, cut them into almost the same, and then took the ashes to adjust the color, and drew two door gods on the paper.
Chang Sui stared at it without blinking, and said it again and again.
Hongchen smiled, this time he didn't stick it in their store, he stuck it directly on the door, patted it hard, and said loudly: "The owner of the house knows his mistake, and he has asked the door god to return to his place." ”
Before she finished speaking, everyone seemed to see a glimmer of golden light in front of their eyes, only a little, only for a moment, but now the sky was not yet bright, the sun had not risen, and even a little light seemed quite strange.
"Don't go out this month." Hongchen admonished.
Chang Sui solemnly agreed, looking at the expression of the girl in front of him is similar to looking at the fairy, looking at his appearance, I am afraid that if I tie up my young master, I will not let him go out casually.
Xia Shijie was also surprised, but he had been surprised many times, he couldn't care about anything else at this time, he was only at Shi Feng's place wholeheartedly, always wandering around behind her, wanting to talk and stopping, with an expression of I endure, I still endure, I endure again.
He's too tired of following him like this. Hongchen shook his head: "Didn't I tell you that the reason why Shi Feng has no sanity now is because part of his soul has stepped into a world that people can't set foot in, that's right, you can also understand that place as a place to pass through before entering the Netherworld after death, we living people can't enter, we can't try it until July." ”
Xia Shijie was suddenly shocked: "So long? ”
They plan to return to the capital immediately.
Hongchen was speechless: "When the ghost door is not opened, only the soul can enter, and I can't learn the spell of leaving the soul, if you want to try, I can help you, but whether you can come out depends on your own ability." ”
Xia Shijie was suddenly silent. (To be continued......)