Xiao Ai looked at the Soul Gathering Banner at the bottom of the pool, and suddenly said, "Then isn't the central range of these four-sided Soul Gathering Banners ......?"

"Not bad!" I affirmed, "This center is the intersection of the Soul Banners on all sides, and it has an absolutely irresistible attraction to the Yin Spirits...... And the stone seat under the bronze incense burner is in the middle of the central range! ”

Hearing what I said, Xu Yunshu came over and slapped her face again: "According to what you said, this sacrificial hall should be full of ghosts?" I guess there are quite a few people who die here, right? But why can't you see anything? ”

"What the hell is so easy for you to see?" I scoffed and said, "We can't see ordinary ghosts, only those resentful ghosts and powerful ghosts, with their own powerful grievances, can be seen by people in the yang world...... Why do you want to see the hell so much? ”

Xu Yunshu was stunned for a moment, and gave me a blank look: "I don't want it!" I've seen quite a few ghosts now! ”

"Uh...... Hell now? What the hell is that? Do you have yin and yang eyes? "I don't know.

Xu Yunshu smiled sinisterly at me: "Naturally, it's a nasty ghost like you!" Is there anything else? ”

"You ......"

The altar shouted on the side, "Why is there nothing else? He's still a pervert, you need to be careful! ”

"Fuck off!" I cursed at the altar.

"Don't make a fuss! Come and see here! Xiao Ai had already walked to the other side of the pool, staring at the back of the stone statue at the bottom of the pool and shouting to us.

We knew that Xiao Ai must have discovered something, so several people hurried over.

"Look!" We looked in the direction that Xiao Ai was pointing and saw that the back of the stone statue was not empty, but engraved with a charm. The charm is red in color, apparently smeared with cinnabar on the notch. It's just that these cinnabar have been soaked in this water for thousands of years, and they can't get rid at all, so they must have taken some kind of measure, and I really admire the wisdom of the ancients.

"I've watched those zombie movies played by Lin Zhengying, and the spells in them are all like this." Jar said.

"What kind of charm is this?" Everyone looked at me inquiringly.

I looked at them instead: "I just know a little bit of feng shui, but I don't know anything about Maoshan art, what do you think I do?" ”

"It turns out that there are also things you don't know about these side things!" Xu Yunshu was a little proud.

I snorted and replied to her: "Although I don't know Maoshan technique, I have a brain!" ”

"What do you mean?" Jar asked.

"I seem to have seen this charm in a book before, it seems to be called a soul suppression talisman, which is used to suppress ghosts." I say. Although the books left by my grandfather also recorded some things about talismans and spells, I always thought them were boring and not as interesting as those examples, so I always threw them aside and rarely turned them. It seems that after going back this time, I still have to turn over more books, as the so-called opening of the book is beneficial, and it is true, maybe one day I will still point to this knowledge to save my life!

I said to Xu Yunshu, "Now you understand, right?" Why do you want to see ghosts but can't, it's all because of this soul stone! ”

"That's weird! What does it mean to gather ghosts together with soul flags and to suppress souls here with soul stones? Xu Yunshu didn't pay attention to me, but said to herself.

"What's so hard about that?" The altar said, "This is for fear that the town is incomplete, and I am afraid that I will miss a few." ”

"Is that what it looks like, Brother Pei?" Hua Tianyu asked.

"Probably so!" I replied, "This layout must have been set up by the organizers of the festival, and they were afraid that the souls of those who would be sacrificed would not be gone, so they attracted them here and put them here, just in case...... It seems that this person who casts the spell array is also both good and evil, otherwise he would not have used the spells of the black witch shaman on the one hand and the Taoist technique of Maoshan on the other. ”

"Isn't there a spell to conjure spirits in Maoshan Technique?" Xiao Ai asked me.

"Absolutely!" I said, "It's just that the effect may not be so ideal, so the person who casts the spell will use sorcery instead." ”

The altar asked, "Don't people say that evil does not prevail over good?" How is it that the magic of the righteous path is still compared to the crooked way of the evil sect? ”

I said, "You can't say that." Those so-called evil ways really have a lot of outstanding points, and you must not underestimate them. Because in the eyes of the casters of evil magic, there are no taboos in this world at all, so they have no scruples about doing the Fa. They don't even think about whether what they are doing violates the principles of heaven or damages yin virtue, and what they are pursuing may be the efficacy and perfection of the spell. However, the authentic Maoshan Taoism is different, everything they use and every Dharma they do must be heavenly and humane. One has a limit, the other has no limit, and the results can be imagined. This is why the ancients always said, 'The road is one foot high, and the magic is one foot high'. ”

"This is a relic of the late Qin and early Han dynasties, so would there be these soul-suppressing spells earlier?" Hua Tianyu asked me again.

"Maoshan Taoism first appeared in the Zhou Dynasty more than 3,000 years ago. At that time, let alone the end of Qin, the five tyrants of the Spring and Autumn Period had not yet begun! I explained.

Tanzi was a little puzzled: "I've only heard that there was a fourth son in the Warring States Period, but I haven't heard that there were five fathers in the Spring and Autumn Period, who are these five fathers?" ”

I didn't pay attention to this illiterate, turned my head and asked Xu Yunshu: "Hey, Professor Xu, what do you explain to these Soul Gathering Banners and Soul Suppression Stones?" There was a mocking tone in his words.

Xu Yunshu nodded, and said lightly: "These things can prove that this was once a place of sacrifice, if it weren't for the large number of dead, there would be no need to gather souls and suppress souls." ”

"Hmph, I mean, don't you believe it now?" I asked.

"Believe what?" Xu Yunshu asked knowingly.

"Of course it's what you call 'superstition'!" I said, "Don't you admit that they really exist?" ”

Xu Yunshu smiled: "These things don't actually represent anything, it's just that the ancients put it here for peace of mind." ”

I was about to argue with her again when I saw the already smoky aroma above the bronze censer drift in a straight line.

In fact, since I entered this stone room, I have always been a little uneasy, but during this period, I was always laughing with the altar or angry with Xu Yunshu, so I didn't pay much attention to those uneasiness. But when I saw the white smoke drifting into the cave, the uneasiness in my heart suddenly became much stronger, and even when I saw the Soul Gathering Banner, it didn't become the same as it is now.

My face sank, but no one noticed, for everyone followed the drifting white smoke towards the stone chamber. I know that now we have no way back but to keep moving forward. If there is a dead end ahead, then we will have to turn back and try to fight the mountain ghosts.