Volume 1: Dou Onmyoji Chapter 7: Seven Star Array
At the end of the village, there is a highland formed by loess, and many villagers grow peanuts and various kinds of plants on this land, forming a forest with no end in sight, at least ten miles long. And the small temple is deep in the woods.
The small temple is called Tianxuan Xingjun Temple.
Xiao Yue stood in front of the door of this small and narrow temple that could only accommodate one statue, looked up at the five big characters of "Tianxuan Xingjun Temple" on the lintel, and fell into deep thought.
The place of the temple, even if it is dilapidated and dilapidated, as long as the statue does not fall, there will definitely be a peaceful and sacred aura here, but there is no such atmosphere here, but it is full of yin and evil atmosphere.
Because some ominous things always happened in the village during this time, Li Yan came to this small temple in the afternoon to worship Xingjun and pray for blessings. She is young and ignorant, but her heart is innocent and kind, thinking of coming to the temple to worship the statue, hoping to bless the safety of the village, where would she think, so she got a serious illness.
At this moment, the twilight has ended, and the shadows of the trees are thick, making the surrounding air instantly become cold and cold.
Xiao Yue walked into the temple, looked at the idol, and found that there were several talismans attached to the lower part of the idol's neck.
He asked the village chief, "Has this talisman been in existence since the statue of the god lived in the temple?" ”
The village chief also looked puzzled and said, "No, there were no such talismans on the statues before, it's strange, how did this be pasted with talismans?" ”
Xiao Yue's brows were even tighter, and after looking at it for a while, he suddenly jumped up, his body was in the air, higher than the shoulders of the idol, he reached out and was about to pull the talisman attached to the idol, his fingers just touched, only to hear a "snort", making an electric shock-like sound, stirring Xiao Yue's whole body away.
Fortunately, he reacted in time and stopped his body, otherwise he would have been shocked and flew out.
It turned out that this talisman was even banned.
"What a prohibition." Xiao Yue secretly praised in her heart.
He had just jumped up when he stumbled upon the runes drawn on the talisman.
These runes are intricate and horizontal, not like the mantras on Chinese Taoist runes, but like Japanese.
There was a hint of ferocity on these runes.
Xiao Yue now understood why the surroundings here looked so evil, it turned out that those talismans had been spelled on them, pasted on the body of the gods, suppressed the power of their gods, and attracted evil qi to condense here, so as to counter the gods.
But what do the people who cast the spells do this for? Could it be that under this temple, a demon is suppressed, and he wants to use the evil aura to disperse the power of the gods to save the demon from birth?
But isn't this idol a god who suppresses demons?
And this temple is called "Tianxuan Xingjun Temple", obviously this god statue is Tianxuan Xingjun, and Tianxuan Xingjun is obviously the star god in the Seven Star Beidou. These seven stars and the Big Dipper cannot be separated, otherwise it will lose its power and will not achieve the effect of suppression at all, is it ......
Xiao Yue suddenly asked Li Jun, "In addition to this temple, are there any other temples in this area?" ”
Li Jun really said: "Yes, except for the temple in our village, each of the other villages has a temple, which is the same size as this temple, but the statues in the temple are different. ”
Xiao Yue fell into contemplation again. There are seven villages here, and each village has a temple, so what is the purpose of these temples? Seven villages...... Heptad...... Thinking of this, he suddenly became excited, his face was complex and changeable, but his mouth shouted: "Yes, yes, that's it." ”
He looked at Li Jun and said, "Are the names of the temples in these seven villages called 'Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji, Tianquan, Yuheng, Kaiyang, and Yaoguang Xingjun Temple?'" ’”
Li Jun was also a little excited: "You...... How do you know? ”
Xiao Yue was overjoyed, looking extremely excited, "Yes, the combination of these seven temples can set up a formation, and there must be a very vicious demon suppressed in this area," his face suddenly sank again, and he muttered to himself: "But with such a huge structure to set up the Seven Star Array, where will the suppressed demon be suppressed?" ”
Speaking of this, he thought that the person who killed the maiden must have a close relationship with this demon, and judging from the evil things he had done in this area and the evil qi he had attracted to gather here, he wanted to use this vicious evil art to crack the Seven Star Formation. It's no wonder that strange things began to appear in this Qinghe area two years ago, it turns out that he has already started to plan here, such a sinister plan.
In the past two years, there has been a strong evil aura here, thinking that his plan is about to be completed, if Xiao Yue comes to Qinghe one step later, I am afraid that there will be one more demon in this world, now that he is allowed to touch it, and there is still time to stop it, he must not let this wicked person succeed.
Li Jun said: "It is said that these seven temples were built by a Taoist 20 years ago, when I was still young and did not know the specifics, but many old people in the village knew about it. ”
Xiao Yue said: "Who in the village knows this matter best?" ”
Li Jun said: "Old man Li." ”
Xiao Yue thought that this matter was closely related to the suppression of the demon, maybe this was the source of the disaster, so he asked Li Jun to take him to Old Man Li and listen to the origin of this story.
Old man Li is naturally an old man, he is over sixty years old, his white hair is thin, his face is wrinkled, hunched over, although he looks lifeless, his eyes are clear, and he gives people a sense of health.
When Xiao Yue saw him, he was cooking on the fire.
His home was very shabby, because he was the only one in the house.
He was a bachelor and had never touched a woman in his life.
He is honest and sincere, and he is very respectful of people and things, but he can't marry a wife, and this kind of thing is not strange in the countryside.
Fortunately, Old Man Li is not depressed by this, on the contrary, he is a very cheerful and open-minded person, in his era, he has seen a lot and experienced a lot of things, which makes his life realm also improve invisibly.
I usually like to talk to people, whether I know it or not, I always have to find something to talk to people, otherwise life will be boring? It's a bit lonely to be boring.
This damn loneliness!
Old man Li often muttered this in his heart.
When a person is old, he may see many things, and there is nothing to fear them, but only loneliness.
What they fear most is looking at an empty house. though the house was full of things, there was no one to speak; A day of idleness, seeing time creeping through his fingers, but unable to do anything; When the twilight is four, looking at the darkness in front of you, it seems that everything has disappeared, and the world is only yourself.
At this time, that feeling of loneliness is like hundreds of millions of insects and ants devouring your entire body and mind, and you can't get rid of it. Then fear arises spontaneously in the bottom of my heart, and then I ask the question "What is the meaning of human life?" full of life philosophy.
Seeing Xiao Yue and Li Jun suddenly come to the shelter, Old Man Li was flattered, but he felt happy. He has not had a guest in this house for a long time, and seeing Xiao Yue and Li Jun arrive today, he is as happy and joyful as a child who is about to celebrate the New Year.
He hurriedly beckoned Xiao Yue and Li Jun to sit and said, "It's just cooking on the fire, don't be in a hurry to leave, accompany the old man to drink two cups first." ”
Li Jun said: "Uncle Li, I'm not here to drink today, I have something to do." ”
Old man Li said: "What can I do as an old man to help, you will have something to do with me?" ”
Li Jun said with a smile: "Don't worry, I don't want you to help do things, I want to listen to your story." So he told him what he meant.
Old man Li laughed and said, "Okay, you came to me to tell this story, you really found the right person." ”