Chapter 182: Thousand Needles Punishment

"A thousand stitches?" I exclaimed, and the mere mere hearing of the name of the punishment made me feel creepy. I didn't ask what kind of punishment it was, but Ji Ziyang began to explain to me this kind of punishment with a thousand needles.

"That's right, a thousand needles. There is no record of the thousand stitches in the ancient books, and I have searched through almost all the ancient books that have survived in the world, trying to find a way to crack this punishment in the ancient books, but I have found nothing. I think it is possible that this kind of punishment has long disappeared in the evolution of history, and of course there is also a possibility that Ying Zheng did not want other people to know about this punishment at all, so he destroyed all the documents related to the punishment. Ji Ziyang said.

"It's just overbearing." I said angrily.

"Ying Zheng has done a lot more domineering things than this. The Thousand Needles Punishment is not a punishment method created by humans, but a means used by the ancient gods to punish the lower immortals. Immortals are all immortal bones, no more than ordinary people, so once they make a mistake, the punishment they suffer is definitely not something that ordinary people can bear. Although the name is a thousand needles, it is not so much to insert a thousand, and the actual number of needles is one hundred and eight needles, because there are a total of 720 acupuncture points on the human body, of which there are 108 vital acupuncture points. At the time of execution, the person is first fixed to a huge wooden ball with a wooden peg, and then the execution begins. The gold needle about one foot long is nailed into various vital acupoints, and the top is also exquisite, one hundred and eight acupuncture points, seventy-two are live acupoints that will not cause death, and thirty-six are dead acupoints, which can kill people. So follow the one from the feet to the head. The golden needle is nailed into the order of first living and then dying, and during the whole process, the inmate will not die immediately, but the pain will be extremely great. It takes a day and a night to complete this process from the beginning to the end. Ji Ziyang said very calmly, speaking slowly, just like a teacher explaining the knowledge points when he was in school, but when I thought that the person who was punished was him, I shuddered. I finally knew where those star-studded scars on his body came from, it was really a pain that ordinary people couldn't bear.

"It is said that the tortured person was executed in this way. Even if it becomes a ghost after death. The soul will also suffer from it, and the soul will be scattered. Ji Ziyang added.

"But you're not gone, are you?" I asked, confused.

"yes, of course I'm not distracted. Yingzheng has no yin and yang eyes. How do you know if I'm gone? Besides, no one had ever been punished like this before me, and I am afraid that I am the first in this history. And the only one who suffers this punishment, who knows whether it will be gone. Ji Ziyang said.

"What about you...... After that, how's it going? "I couldn't say the word 'death', it always felt very heavy.

"I really don't remember, you know, that kind of pain can make people lose any reason, and my only thought at that time was definitely not to live, but how to die faster. Meng Tian, as the first lackey by Ying Zheng's side, is not only good at using soldiers, but also good at studying various punishments, and he has a group of prison officers under him, who do what they do is to extort confessions by torture and deal with the deeds of death row prisoners. Ji Ziyang gritted his teeth and said, "I was a special prisoner at that time, and the place where I was held was different from other prisoners, I still don't know where the prison I am in is located, otherwise, I wouldn't even be able to find my body." All I know is that there is a special aroma in that place, and it is very pleasant to smell it. Ji Ziyang said.

"Aroma? Do you mean that Ying Zheng also sprayed perfume in his prison cell? I asked.

"How is it possible, he is not such a Yaxing person, this fragrance will definitely not be a famous name made by Yingzheng, because I have heard many times that the prison guards complained that this fragrance disgusted them, but where this fragrance came from, I don't know."

"Naziyang, how did you become the way you are now?" I asked.

"I woke up in the middle of a chaos, I didn't know where that place was, I didn't know where I was supposed to go, I was wandering around, and then I saw a red flower."

"Manshushava?" I asked.

"That's right, I've been to the other side, but there is nothing to live in, no one has cremated my body, and I don't know where my own body is, so there is no way to reincarnate, so I jumped into Lethe River, wandered in Lethe River for a long time, and fell into the world. By the time I was finally able to stabilize my body, a hundred years had passed, and Yingzheng had already died, and no one knew where his grave was. I suspect that my body may have been taken to their graves as a companion, so I have never been able to find them. ”

"Didn't you say that Qin Shi Huang's imperial tomb has been found?" I asked.

"It's not his tomb at all, it's just a fake clothed mound, isn't it that his body hasn't been found, so I don't believe it at all, it's the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang. For thousands of years, I have been wandering in the world, going to almost every corner, but I have not gained anything, Qin Shi Huang seems to have disappeared out of thin air, building his tomb in a place that does not exist in the world. ”

"But I saw you just ......," I remembered the embarrassed way the thistle had just looked.

"The reason why the Thousand Needles have a so-called unsettling record is because it has another use of its own. After I was tortured with a thousand stitches, I was discouraged, thinking that my people had already reached Bliss, and I was the only one who had nothing to worry about, and I had nothing to worry about. So I thought, so let's leave it at that, there's nothing wrong with waiting for the soul to fly away. But in the blink of an eye, another hundred years, I feel like I'm going to run out. But that day, when I woke up, I saw a golden needle stuck in my body. It turns out that this thousand stitches are actually the opposite, not to scatter people's souls, but to lock people's souls, but every hundred years, they have to suffer another thousand stitches. Ying Zheng did a lot of calculations, but he didn't calculate it at all, the eternal life he wanted in his heart was finally realized in the body of a captive, although I am not alive at all now, but I am still luckier than Ying Zheng. Ji Ziyang said.

"Every 100 years?! So you're ...... this time."

"When the time comes, I used to always find a random place to stay, waiting for the arrival of a thousand needles, but this time it is different, because of you, I am worried that you will be frightened when you see me again, so I will ask the flower demon to give me a quiet place." Ziyang said.

"It's rare that Arrow is willing to help you, her temper has never been good." I sighed.

"She really helped me a lot this time." Ji Ziyang said.

"You're hiding something like this from me......" I said angrily.

"If you see it, I'm afraid that it's me who will be sad, I've been around for thousands of years, and there are too many sad things, and I don't want to experience sad feelings anymore." Ji Ziyang rarely said very sensational words.

"That ghostly look, you still run to help me." I grumbled, "You think I can't do it alone, do you?" I said.

"Don't talk about anger, it's a gathering of hundreds of unjust souls, a little carelessness will form a ghost, and it will not be easy to solve at that time, at that time he was the most vulnerable, I don't help you, do you watch you suffer?" Ji Ziyang's tone of voice was like a father educating his daughter, which made me speechless for a while.

"What's the difference between you then and now?" I really didn't know what to say.

"I finally had a chance to ask me a question, and you want to know this?" Ji Ziyang saw through my thoughts.

"Of course not, I actually have more important things to ask you." I say.

"For example?"

"For example, you mentioned before that the people of our Yin-Yang Sect are not the people of your Yin-Yang Family, and you said that we have another name, what is that title? What do you know about our family, our family's history, our family's past? "I asked, this is a question that has been haunting me for a long time, the history of our family, this is something that I and my grandmother have been trying to figure out.

"What you want to know is this, I thought you were more concerned about some other things, such as the life and death of people, or things in the netherworld, don't mortals have a deep curiosity about the netherworld." Ji Ziyang said.

"My grandmother once told me that knowing what you should know is far more important than knowing what you shouldn't, so I never explored the things of the netherworld, and after practicing yin-yang techniques, I understand more that the mortal world and the netherworld should still be separated, and if I break this balance out of curiosity, it will not be good for me." I said calmly.

"I have to say, the way you calm down is really similar to your old woman." Ji Ziyang said.

"Tell me, how much do you know about our family?" This is the question I have always hidden in my heart, I didn't ask Ji Ziyang, I obviously had many chances, but I didn't ask, I don't know if I dare not ask, or I don't want to ask, once some truths are known, it may be more painful.

"Well, if you insist on knowing, I can't help it. I know of a reclusive family who, like us, live in seclusion in uncharted territory beyond the reach of the world, or rather, they are more secluded than we are. We will know that they exist because, their patriarch found us and told us to hide, because destruction was coming. However, we were unwilling to accept arrangements other than fate, which led to the extinction of the family. And I never saw this family again, until I was imprisoned in Yingzheng's prison, and I vaguely heard from the jailer's chat that this family was also exterminated before us, but a few people escaped. Ji Ziyang said.

"Extermination?!" I couldn't believe my ears, "What's this family called?" ”

"Hime." (To be continued......)