Chapter III. 72. The fall of Tiger Neck Village
In fact, judging from the various performances of this 'horse protector' towards the altar master, this original Tiger Neck Village should be one of the few 'sober people' in the entire Tiger Neck Village. It's a pity that his son is sick with a strange disease and has been asleep for a long time. Now he has pinned all his expectations on this 'boundless Dao' altar master, saying that he is sick and rushes to the doctor, or that he is unwilling to admit this fate. All in all, today's 'altar master' and Dharma protector are already on the same front. As for the legends and stories such as 'gods, demons and monsters', for Lao Ma, he didn't pay attention to them at all.
Even though he had already felt the extraordinary effect of the 'magic medicine' 'practically' at this time, he didn't have much awe for that 'Huayu Divine Sect'. First, he didn't have the self-motivation to 'become an immortal', and second, he always suspected in his heart: his son's strange illness is likely to be this bastard who pretends to be a ghost, shouting to catch a thief!
The reason why Old Man Ma thinks like this has to start with this 'altar master'.
His son, Ma Shishi, is an 'old man'. So now, he is only twenty-three years old; And Mrs. Ma was unable to leave the delivery room alive because of her advanced age and initial birth. Fortunately, the pain of losing his wife in middle age is accompanied by the joy of having a son in old age; In this way, even if they can't cancel each other out, they can finally give this 'new widower' old man Ma a head to continue to live.
It is said that it is not easy for this widow to raise children; And this 'widower's child' is actually not much easier. But fortunately, the two rough old men got together, and they didn't need to live a meticulous life; In addition, the people in Tiger Neck Village are simple, and the relationship between the villagers and neighbors is also extremely harmonious, and every family has a mother-in-law, who can also help the Ma family. After a few years of stumbling like this, Ma Cun has finally pulled his own 'little stone' bigger!
Due to the geographical location of Tiger Neck Village is very remote, most of the output and consumption on weekdays rely on the self-sufficiency of the villagers; As for some necessities for life, Ma Cunzheng personally put on a cart and rushed to the market in Julu County to 'barter' for exchange. But one day just two months ago, a Taoist priest wearing a Taoist robe came to Tiger Neck Village. He claimed to be a monk of the 'Huashen Sect', and he liked to visit famous mountains and rivers and caves on weekdays. Today, I just happened to be here.
It's been many years since there have been strangers in this small village, especially a half-immortal body who can pinch and calculate! These simple villagers took out a lot of fresh vegetables and wild fruits to entertain the Taoist chief. But before resigning, the Taoist not only left twenty taels of silver, but also left a yellow paper talisman. The note was written in the vernacular: In the near future, there will be a 'catastrophe' in Tiger Neck Village, and every family should be alert when they fall asleep in the middle of the night!
In the end, it is a 'living fairy' who can pinch and calculate! Not long after they left, in the middle of the night one day, there was a rock collapse incident in Tiger Neck Village, which is surrounded by mountains on three sides! Fortunately, there weren't too many boulders that had fallen into the village, just killing a large green ox that was used to plough the land and a few barns for storing farm tools.
However, in the next rush repair operation, a strange thing happened. The old and young masters who carried and cleaned up the rocks actually found a strange stone with 'a sword hilt exposed' from a pile of rubble. A few sharp-eyed juniors leaned over to take a look, and they recognized this magic sword inserted in the boulder, and the original owner was the one who had left a 'Warning Yellow Talisman'!
On the third day after the village was restored, the Taoist who was proficient in the Tao turned back again with a panicked expression!
This second meeting, the Taoist Daoist who is proficient in the Dao is no longer the immortal wind Dao bone when they first met! The hair that had been pulled up high was now loose; was dressed in a green sermon robe, and several cuts were also scratched at this time; The cloud crawler boots under his feet also lost one; Tired, dusty...... Just looking at his appearance, you can see that it is obvious that he has traveled a long distance day and night......
According to this Taoist leader, he had already calculated that there would be a catastrophe in Tiger Neck Village, but due to the reason that 'the heavens cannot be leaked and the will of heaven cannot be violated', he can only make a slight mention after all, but he can't reveal the true meaning; However, because the men, women and children in the village were extremely friendly to the outsiders, he was also grateful for the hospitality of the villagers, so before leaving, he nailed the magic sword he carried with him into the belly of the mountain, hoping to exchange his cultivation of 500 jiazi and all the remaining longevity yuan to the heavens for the thoughtfulness of the Tiger Neck Village......
But it's a pity that he has just arrived at the top of Kunlun Ruins, which is thousands of miles away, and he feels a true qi coming from the magic sword......
It's a pity that the catastrophe of Tiger Neck Village has long been doomed, and it is definitely not something that he can compete with as an ordinary monk. As the mountain collapsed for no reason, it also indirectly released the 'Ancient Nightmare Demon' that was originally suppressed by Hua Yu Heavenly God in the belly of the mountain! Now, this demon who escaped from the predicament is in the body of a tiger neck villager, by absorbing the yang shou and essence in the other party's body, to feed back his damaged demonic power. But when this 'Nightmare Demon' recovers his cultivation, not only will the soul of the person he parasitized scatter, but even the entire Tiger Neck Village will not be able to survive for half of it!
If this set of 'evidence chains' is very complete and vulgar 'gods and monster stories', and the people of Tiger Neck Village will be suspicious, then what happened next will make all the villagers happy and convinced of this Taoist priest!
Because after dawn on the second day, Ma Shishi, the son of Ma Muramasa, no matter how much he shouted, could no longer wake up from his sleep!
Since then, Tiger Neck Village has changed the traditional rules of worshiping Buddha and worshipping ancestors for many years, but instead followed this boundless Youfang Taoist and worshiped the 'Huayu Heavenly God'. Perhaps in order to facilitate the Taoist chief's practice and 'exorcism' for his son, this old man Ma also contributed his ancestral house to become a dojo set up by the Huashen Sect in Tiger Neck Village.
Of course, he, the 'funder' and Muramasa, has naturally become the great protector of the 'Tiger Neck Altar'.
However, when everything came true to this old man's wish, Old Man Ma did not see his son's condition improve for a long time! It wasn't until he once forced the altar master that the other party agreed to open the altar and officially began to exorcise the horse stone!
The official exorcism is at midnight when the moon is dark and windy. Standing on the altar, after being busy for most of the hour, the Taoist leader actually raised his head to the sky and let out a long roar, spurting out a mouthful of blood, and then his body shook and fell straight to the ground. Before he fell unconscious, he couldn't stop muttering some inaudible nonsense......
After the Taoist chief regained his senses, under the chattering pleading and questioning of the old man Ma, he finally confided the 'truth'.
It turned out that this demon who was entangled in his dream was originally a fierce demon who escaped from among the 100,000 hellish demons! About 3,000 years ago, this murderous demon obstacle that caused chaos in the world and killed countless people was finally subdued by the great god Huayu himself, and it was suppressed under the mountain behind Hubo Village. So now that it has come out again to bring disaster to the world, the first thing it has to do is, of course, to seek revenge on your Ma family, a 'family of wardens'!
In fact, if only his two lips touched, Ma Cunzheng would not believe half a word at all with his extraordinary experience and speculative spirit! But then he also saw with his own eyes that the altar master used a 'Piercing Needle' to temporarily seal the demon in Ma Shi's body, and his own son slowly regained his senses!
It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and before he had time to say a few words to his son, the Taoist chief immediately spurted a stream of blood from his mouth and fainted again. And Ma Shi, who had just woken up, was like a puppet with a broken string at the same time, and re-entered a deep sleep......
Since then, although this old man still has a trace of skepticism in his heart, at least he is willing to do whatever this Taoist chief tells him to do! Whether he was asked to offer 'goods for the worship of the gods', or let him take some 'trapped demons' and go to the official road to intercept passing merchants and pedestrians, he followed the instructions of the altar master one by one.
And when the Taoist Master proposed to Old Man Ma that he needed to refine the ninety-nine 'demonic qi' souls to make up for the soul of Ma Shi that was absorbed by the demons, he also acted in response to his orders.
In the past two months, the 'Evil Demon Outer Dao' planted under Old Man Ma's bowl of 'Trapped Demon Tea', even if not fifty, has thirty! Whenever Old Man Ma looked at those people who were contaminated with 'demonic nature' and were tied to the altar and burned alive, he felt that his son's three souls and seven spirits seemed to be really able to be filled up by the 'black smoke demonic energy' that came out little by little......
To say that this 'Huashen Sect' is demagogic, it is really enough to settle the capital! The rhythm of their deception is unhurried, and the advance and retreat are also relaxed; and can find the key person at a glance, and also pinched the other party's pulse with extreme precision; After that, use those mysterious 'ghosts and gods' to set off the identity of a worldly master for the 'front face' (the person who came forward to deceive), and then advance layer by layer, so as to achieve the goal of controlling the entire village!
Until now, even if Old Man Ma can wake up in time, or be willing to give up one of his beloved son's lives, he has long been inseparable from the 'Huashen Sect'!
This is the power of Huashen Sect! They are not afraid of meeting 'people who understand', and even if they really 'wake up' (understand that they have been deceived), they will either promise to lure them with heavy profits, or they will drag them into the quagmire......
Your old man Ma killed innocents indiscriminately for the sake of his son's life, even if someone can really understand your beloved son's heart; But the innocent passers-by who died at your hands, and their loved ones, are certainly not among them!
No matter who you are, once you get on the big ship of the 'Huashen Sect', if you want to go ashore again, you will definitely not be innocent!