Xingshu and Fan Meng both shook their heads and said they didn't understand, but they looked at the expressions of Yuan Zhenba and Samuchuan, coupled with the current situation, and knew that it was impossible to be alarmist, but if there was really such a big centipede, it would simply be a mutated monster!

"I'll help Bai Zhongzheng." Yuan Zhenba got up and left the tent first.

After Yuan Zhenba left, Samuchuan looked at Fan Meng, who was holding He Yuejia with an anxious face, and said two words: "Ghost insects." ”

He Chenxue looked at Samuchuan and asked, "Is that the name of that centipede?" ”

Samuchuan nodded: "The first time I found the ghost insect in what dynasty, I don't know, in short, it was after a Miao Zhai War, that war killed a lot of people, after the end of the end everyone cleaned up the corpses, because the number of corpses was too large to bury, so the corpses had to be thrown in the valley and burned at one time, so as not to cause diseases after the corpses decomposed......"

The burning of corpses in the valley was also carried out according to the ritual of the stockade, and the only person who presided over the ritual was the shaman of the village. The shaman, with his own shaman, must be present and watch the whole process, from carrying the corpse to the burning of the corpse, and recite the ritual incantations so as not to haunt the so-called resentful spirits.

At that time, the valley chosen was under the Ishikawa River, because only burning on the Ishikawa could avoid causing a mountain fire.

When the sorcerer and his sorcerers led a procession to Ishikawaguchi, they found a man in a green gossip costume standing there—a man in his early thirties, with two long swords crossed in the gossip mirror behind him.

The man had a silver carved hairpin stuck in his bun, and the wizard stepped forward and saw the hairpin at a glance, knowing that the Han man had the permission of the local Miao leader to enter and leave any place in the Miao land freely, and the silver hairpin was equivalent to a pass.

This man's name is Zhang Yuezhao, originally from Shanxi, when he was 14 years old, he went to Maoshan to become a Taoist priest, and at the age of 21, he became the youngest deputy master of the Tieyi Gate, a branch of the Maoshan faction, and also realized a set of Tieyi Gate's own swordsmanship from the Maoshan Sanqing swordsmanship in the same year, known as the Iron Finger Sword!

But in later generations, there were very few people who would really use the Iron Finger Sword, and ordinary people could not comprehend the essence of the Iron Finger Sword at all.

When Samuchuan said this, the torture technique interjected: "Then this incident should have happened in the Northern Song Dynasty, or before that, because as far as I know, Tieyimen really gained a foothold in the rivers and lakes and became famous, and it was also because of the arrogance and arrogance in the Northern Song Dynasty, they were called murderers under the banner of justice, nominally to eliminate demons and catch ghosts, but they did not let go of even those who had sheltered the so-called monsters." ”

Zheng Cangqiong once told the story of the iron door to the torture, legend has it that during the Northern Song Dynasty, a large family in the Central Plains took in a woman as a maidservant, and later found that this woman was a fox demon, and the disciples of the iron cloth door who heard the news threw a soul flag into the house less than two hours later, this big family together with the officers and soldiers who protected it, no one survived, and the cause of death was poisoning.

"Before that, Tieyimen once repaired a book to inform the big families in the Central Plains, giving them two choices, first, half a year to explain the aftermath, and then the whole family committed suicide, and second, let the disciples of Tieyimen come and send their whole family on the road!" Xingshu shook his head, "However, Heyumen was born from the Iron Cloth Gate, and the two act in almost the same way, sometimes if you think about it together, you will understand." ”

Samuchuan nodded and said: "That Zhang Yuezhao is indeed ruthless, he told the wizard that when he entered Shichuan, he met a group of bandits, this group of bandits is actually here to ambush the Miao people, want to pick up some things on the corpse, make a small fortune, because the Miao people will never take off the dead people's things as trophies, Zhang Yuezhao claimed that under the premise of persuasion to no avail, he had to kill the killer and kill all the bandits with his apprentices......"

After Zhang Yuezhao finished speaking, he led the wizard up to a higher rock next to him, standing on the rock and looking at it, there were more than forty corpses with incomplete limbs lying in the middle of the stone river, and in the pool of blood of the corpse stood a young man covered in blood and only seventeen or eighteen years old.

Zhang Yue looked at the young man and said, "Shaoqing! Stop it! ”

The reason why Zhang Yuezhao wanted to stop was entirely because Zhang Shaoqing, who was both his apprentice and his son, was cutting off the heads of the dead bandits one by one at this time.

The wizard was shocked, not knowing why, and Zhang Yuezhao calmly explained: "This Ishikawa was a battlefield thousands of years ago, and the yin qi is extremely heavy, if you leave the whole corpse here, for a long time, if the corpse only rots, it is very likely to become a zombie, and the best way to prevent the corpse from becoming a zombie is to cut off the head of the corpse, so as not to harm the world." ”

The wizard nodded silently, looked back at the corpse removal team waiting behind, and asked worriedly, "It's time, we have to hold a ceremony." ”

"No!" Zhang Yuezhao waved his hand and said, "You can't burn corpses here, I just said, this is the land of extreme yin, after thousands of years of yin, I suspect that there may have been a yin and yang crack here!" ”

The wizard was stunned, and the witches around him were also shocked, because in the land of China, all sects, whether they are Taoists, wizards, shamans, etc., all know what a "yin and yang crack" is, and Zhang Yuezhao said that there was a yin and yang crack here, at that time, it was equivalent to telling the wizard that the end of the world was coming.

At this point in the story of Samuchuan, except for the torture technique, Fan Meng, and Samuchuan, the rest of the people are at a loss, and they don't understand what is called "yin and yang seams".

Yan Gang was the first to ask, "What is that?" ”

Fan Meng hugged He Yuejia and frowned: "Among the earliest classics in China, there is a set of books called 'Xingshi Scroll', which records the earliest views on the world and the underworld, as well as some strange things that happened among the people, and the Yin and Yang Gap was mentioned there at the earliest. ”

In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, each vassal state established and wrote something similar to the "Awakening Scroll" as its own archives. Later, Qin unified the Six Kingdoms and established a truly systematic archive, which also has records similar to the Yin and Yang Seams, but the names are different.

After the establishment of the Han Dynasty, Tianlu Pavilion and Shiqu Pavilion became the palace archives, which were managed by Xiao He Supervisor, and then the Jiaku of the Tang Dynasty, the Longtu Pavilion of the Song Dynasty, the Emperor Shichen of the Ming Dynasty, and the Fangluo Museum of the Qing Dynasty all belonged to the archives department established by the government at that time.

Without exception, these departments have a book similar to the "Awakening Scroll", which records the discovery of Yin and Yang cracks, with different names, some called Yin and Yang Realm, some called Di Yin Gate, and some called the ancestor well, although the statements are different, but the things seen are similar, and the effect is also the same.

Tan Tong asked impatiently on one side, "Then what is this thing?" ”

"To put it bluntly, it is an exit from the underworld to the yang. ”

"!" Tan Tong was happy after hearing it, "Where is there such a thing?" ”

Xingshu shook his head: "Yes, it sounds like nonsense, Samuchuan, you go on." ”

Samuchuan nodded and continued: "Although Zhang Yuezhao said that there will be a yin and yang crack there, but that is just speculation, there can be no accurate evidence, and the only way in front of the wizard is to burn the corpse here, because the number of corpses left by the war is too large, and it takes ten days to go back and forth to another Ishikawa, it is impossible, and it is impossible to dig a pit and bury it in a short time, and the only result of burning on the mountain is to cause a mountain fire, and everyone will die together." ”

Zhang Yuezhao also understands the difficulty of the wizard, he knows that if he doesn't hurry up and burn the corpse, in this weather, once the corpse decays and produces diseases, the Miao villages in the surrounding mountains will be finished, and the results will be exactly the same as the consequences of the Yin and Yang Crack.

In the end, Zhang Yuezhao had to agree with the Miao people to burn the corpses, but he proposed that he had to guard the surroundings, he knew very well the rules of the Miao people, he could not enter Ishikawa, but he could watch from a high place to avoid any accidents.

When Zhang Yuezhao and Zhang Shaoqing went up the mountain from the mountain road outside the Ishichuan River, the Miao people also began to carry the corpses in, and when Zhang Yuezhao and the two climbed halfway up the mountain and looked down, they found that the Miao people's team was mighty, and there was no end in sight - the team was divided into two groups, one group was responsible for transporting the corpses, and the other group was responsible for transporting firewood, fire oil and other items used to burn the corpses.

Zhang Shaoqing stood there, frowning and said, "Dad, it seems that it will take at least a few days to burn, will something happen?" ”

Zhang Yuezhao sighed: "Will something happen, it's not up to us to decide, who knows if we will happen to meet them and burn their corpses, maybe this is the will of God, if there is really a yin and yang crack here, then we can only look forward to it, and it is only ghosts and insects that run out." ”

Zhang Shaoqing looked up at the sky: "Dad, what did the door master say when he looked at the sky?" ”

"He said that if the Diyin Gate is to be opened, the world will be in chaos, and the dynasty will be changed." Zhang Yuezhao frowned and sighed again, "The Liao State and Western Xia are all eyeing each other, the imperial court is rotten, and it is only a matter of time before the dynasty is changed, no one can change the mandate of heaven, let's go, we can't do anything else except do our best." ”

The two of them went up the mountain, and after climbing to the top of the mountain, the Miao in Ishikawa was ready, and after a strange dance between the wizard and the wizard, the wizard himself took the torch and began to light the firewood around the corpses one by one.

The torch was close to the firewood, and because of the oil, the flames immediately rolled and devoured all the corpses in Ishikawa, and at the same time, hundreds of corpses were swallowed by the flames, emitting a strange stench, coupled with the "crackling" sound caused by the burning of the firewood or the corpses themselves, which made people inside and outside the valley sound like a muffled thunder.

The black and white smoke flowed through the Ishikawa Valley, and because of the strong wind blowing at one end of the valley, it was like a wild beast that could only be seen but not caught, but the beast's running only continued at a certain height and could not be raised, so in less than an hour, the visibility in the entire Ishikawa Valley was so low that it was impossible to see people a foot away.

Standing on the top of the mountain, Zhang Yuezhao, Zhang Shaoqing, father and son, looked down, and could vaguely see that there were black and white air currents entwined and colliding in the dense fog, as if two dragons, one black and one white, were fighting there.

The wizard also felt that something was wrong, and had already ordered the Miao people of their clan to withdraw from the valley, standing at the mouth of the valley and waiting, according to the rules, they could not leave until the fire was extinguished, the smoke was not dispersed, and the corpses were not turned into ashes, even if they burned for a year, they had to wait here for a year.

In this way, the fire burned for two days and two nights in a row, and the smoke also surrounded it for two days and two nights, and the most strange thing was that no matter how the wind at the other end poured into the valley Ishikawa, the smoke would not be blown away, nor would it blow out from the end where the wizards and other Miao people were, but always only surrounded and swirled in the valley.

Moreover, Zhang Yuezhao and Zhang Shaoqing clearly saw that the smoke in the valley finally formed a whirlpool, and the white smoke dragon before had disappeared, leaving the black dragon hovering in it.

Zhang Shaoqing looked at his father's iron-blue face and asked, "Dad, is it ......?"

Zhang Yuezhao nodded silently, and said after a long time: "There must be a yin and yang crack here, but it should be different from the one I saw five years ago, it is much smaller, and it should be able to be blocked." ”

Zhang Shaoqing nodded and asked, "Then can we go down?" ”

Zhang Yuezhao said: "Mask your face with a medicine towel!" So as not to be poisoned, after going down, inform the Miao people first, let them retreat at least one mile, and be ready, if you and I can't bear it, we can only rely on them, if they can't carry it, then it's over. ”

Zhang Shaoqing took a deep breath: "Dad, the strength of both of us is limited, why don't we report to the court?" ”

"It's too late!" Zhang Yuezhao's face was ugly, "Don't forget, what happened to the imperial court last time, they won't believe it, let's go!" ”

Zhang Yuezhao took Zhang Shaoqing down the mountain quickly, but at the same time as going down the mountain, an accident happened - countless huge centipedes drilled out from under the rocks of Ishikawa, these centipedes were the ghost insects called in Zhang Yuezhao's mouth, and these ghost insects crawled towards the Ishikawa mouth below at a faster speed, and at the same time made a sound like a child laughing.

The sound of "hehehehe" echoed in the valley, making the wizard and his subordinate Miao people standing outside Ishikawa wait, and everyone involuntarily took a few steps back, and then raised their weapons in their hands, and waited for the battle.

The wizard looked at Zhang Yuezhao on the mountainside and waved at him, but because of the bursts of laughter, he couldn't hear what he was saying, and finally, the wizard saw clearly the first batch of ghost insects rushing towards him—centipedes with bodies as thick as human arms and at least half a zhang in length!

Zhang Yuezhao waved his hand and shouted as he ran down the mountain: "Run!" Come on! Come on! ”

His shouts spread to the valley, and in an instant, he was swallowed up by the strange "hee-hee" sound rubbed by the tentacles of the ghost insects, and he had no choice but to speed up his pace with his son Zhang Shaoqing, during which he fell down several times, and he got up in pain, and every time he fell, he would despair in his heart.

The wizard below took the lead in piercing a ghost insect with the waist knife on his body, and split it into two parts, but the liquid splashed out after the ghost worm's body pierced corroded and burned his shoes, and the wizard had to take off his shoes while retreating, and warned the other Miao people to use spears or stones to deal with them, and remember not to get close.

But in the face of the swarming ghost insects, the only way to kill them at close range was to use bows and arrows, but this time there were less than twenty archers, and the feathered arrows they carried were only used for hunting, so they didn't have much effect.

Ghost insects are overwhelmingly attacking beyond the Ishikawa Valley, and the Miao people are blocking these giant centipedes at the pass that they don't know where they came from or what their purpose is......

When Zhang Yuezhao and Zhang Shaoqing rushed to the bottom of the mountain, they only saw the corpses of ghost insects and Miao people everywhere, and most of the corpses of Miao people were corroded by the rotten liquid splashed out of the bodies of ghost insects, becoming incomplete, and emitting a sour smell.

"It's over." Zhang Yuezhao was stunned there, looking at the wizard who was dead on the side, his body had been turned into two parts, and then raised his eyes to look out of the Ishikawa Valley, and he could no longer see the Miao people who were still standing, nor could he see the ghost insects that had originally swept out.

Zhang Yuezhao threw the sword he was holding in his hand to Zhang Shaoqing: "Shaoqing, it seems that the number of ghost insects is limited, we still have a chance!" You go out of the valley to chase those ghost insects that go out, and I go to block the yin and yang cracks! ”

Saying that, Zhang Yuezhao picked up his sword and turned around and walked towards Shichuanzhong, Zhang Shaoqing raised his hand to greet his father, but when he saw his father, who didn't look back and didn't say anything more, he gritted his teeth to suppress the grief in his heart and ran towards the outside of the valley......

Since then, no one has seen Zhang Yuezhao again, and after Zhang Shaoqing left the valley, he met with the Miao soldiers who rushed to hear the news, and worked together to kill those ghost insects that ran out of Ishikawa one by one. The disaster of the ghost insects did not spread, it was effectively controlled, and finally liquidated, and there were more than 300 ghost insects that ran out of the valley and were killed, and the Ishikawa Valley has also become a forbidden place for the Miao people since then, and the Miao and any outsiders are not allowed to enter, even if you are the emperor. Samuchuan carefully recalled, "But I don't know where the specific location of the Ishikawa is, in short, it is in Xiangxi." ”

Tan Tong sighed and said, "Aren't you talking nonsense?" The focus now is whether the thing that attacked He Yuejia is the giant centipede, that is, the ghost insect, and if so, how to resolve the poison on her body? ”

Yuan Zhenba and Bai Zhongzheng boiled water outside, picked the herbs to repel the poison and boiled them briefly, and brought them in, first cleaned He Yuejia's wounds, and then applied those poison-repellent herbs to them, and asked Fan Meng to wipe He Yuejia with warm water to lower her body temperature and suppress her condition.

Xingshu looked at Yuan Zhenba, who had been telling Fan Meng, remembered something, stepped forward and lightly touched Yuan Zhenba, glanced outside, and motioned for him to go out.

Yuan Zhenba understood, whispered a few words to Samuchuan, wiped his hands and followed the torture technique out of the tent.

After walking out of the tent and coming to the campfire, Yuan Zhenba glanced at Tan Tong and Yan Gang who were patrolling outside, and was just about to speak, when the torture technique first asked, "Brother Yuan, what are you going to look for in the Jiacuo Palace?" ”

Yuan Zhenba looked at him, but asked rhetorically: "Torture, you are a smart person, I think, by now, you should know what I am going to do." ”

Xingshu shook his head: "I'm just speculating, but I now know that you should indeed be looking for medicine, but it's not just the 'wrath of the witch god', maybe it's the miraculous medicine of the Miao people, ancient medicine or something, in short, it's something similar, and I can also be sure that there are other things in the Jiacuo Hall in addition to the jade-related skill records that made the Jade Casting Society back then." ”

Yuan Zhenba nodded, stared at the bonfire and said: "I won't hide it from you, I think, what is in the Jiacuo Palace, only three people in the world know about it today, one is Xing Renju, and the other is my ancestor, but my ancestor has passed away for decades, and now I know." ”

As he spoke, Yuan Zhenba paused, looked away from the bonfire, and looked at the torture technique: "There are three caves in the Jiacuo Palace, one is the jade cave, the second is the silver cave, and the third is the medicine cave. What you are looking for is the Jade Cave, what I am looking for is the Medicine Cave, as for which part of the clues of Qimen are hidden in the three caves, my ancestor did not find it back then, and, most importantly, as far as the current situation is concerned, to save He Yuejia, the only way to save He Yuejia is to hurry up and rush to the medicine cave, in addition, there is no other way, because when my ancestor and they went to find it, there were also people who were bitten by ghost insects, and they also found the antidote in the medicine cave. ”

After listening to the torture technique, he asked: "You said earlier that three people knew, but you said that Xing Renju and you, who else is the other person?" ”

Yuan Zhenba looked at the torture technique and said: "You are not unfamiliar with this person, he has a nickname called 'Guanwai Buddha'. ”

The torture technique was stunned for a moment, and blurted out: "You mean, Chen Taidong?" ”

Yuan Zhenba nodded silently.