Chapter 8: Wood Ghosts
[The book continues from the above, and in the last book, it was said that Mu Qingming and Mo Han were caught off guard, and they were both frozen in the terrible ghost cry when they were caught off guard by the remnant soul in the guqin on Ah Hong's back. Ah Hong took the opportunity to escape, but after crossing the Golden Juice River, he almost fainted in pain, and it was difficult to move an inch. The old scholar appeared in time and rescued Ah Hong for his ulterior purposes. Then he took Ah Hong back to his home, fed him stasis medicine, and proposed to cooperate with Ah Hong to break that formation again and absorb the aura in it. Draw out Ah Hong and the old pedant, for their own interests, regardless of the safety of others in the city, and then conspire to sabotage the position. Miaotian received a message from Mu Qingming, and when he rushed to the forest, he was good at perceiving, and he could only smell a little faint ghost qi and a wisp of grass and trees from the night wind, and he couldn't find the slightest breath of Ah Hong. 】
In the old pedant's house, on the windows left and right of the main door, the tattered window paper could not stop the whistling night wind, so he could only let the night wind blow into the house from the broken windows, and the tattered window paper was blown by the cool breeze.
The old pedant's words were spoken, and the look of gratitude on Ah Hong's face appeared.
Ah Hong is simple, and he has only been cultivating for a short time, but I don't know that in this red world, there are many people who are in front of each other. I don't know that there are thousands of strange magic abilities in this world, and his double pupils can see through it, only this person's human nature, even if he changes Mu Qingming's view, he can at most see the leopard.
When Ah Hong heard that the old man was willing to help him, he was already warm in his heart, and it flowed all over his body in an instant.
Before Mu Qingming and the others arrived at the place where the blessed land was, Ah Hong tried to break the prohibition that protected the blessed land, but it was all in vain. Not to mention the second prohibition, the strong aura of heaven and earth made him helpless. It was the first forbidden Dharma, the powerful Heavenly King Mantra, which was enough to discourage him.
If the old man had a way to break the ban, he couldn't ask for it.
"But you have to tell me first, what does that prohibition look like?" The old scholar stroked the white whisker hanging down his chin, and then said to Ah Hong thoughtfully: "Only by knowing yourself and knowing your opponent can you survive a hundred battles." ”。
The night wind whistled endlessly, and the tattered window paper blew again.
The cold wind rushed in his face, blowing that Ah Hong's body shook involuntarily, and he also put away a little excitement and calmed down a little.
Indeed, the old pedant is right, knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can survive a hundred battles, and he was too eager to succeed before. After calming down, he thought about it, and then Ah Hong told the old pedant about the prohibitions he encountered, what type of ban it was.
In the process again, the simple Ah Hong did not doubt the old pedant, this talent of the previous dynasty, who did not understand it, how could he know very well about these strange tricks.
There was nothing but the cold wind howling through the courtyard, and nothing else. Even Ah Hong's voice in the main room seemed soft, as if he was muttering in a low voice, slowly echoing in the main room.
After a long time, Ah Hong made the ban clear to the old pedant before he stopped. But when I saw the old pedant in front of me, there were slightly open chapped lips, and there was a trace of surprise and surprise on his face.
The Heavenly King Mantra, the ancient Buddhist ban, the ban that few people in the empty gate know now, appeared in the ban on protecting the blessed land, which simply caught the old scholar off guard.
He clearly remembered that when he found the blessed land, he had not seen these Dharma prohibitions.
How did he know that after Mu Qingming defeated the Immortal Dao, he spent a lot of money to invite the ghost city lord to secretly bless the original prohibition, thus forming today's double prohibition.
And where Ah Hong found the blessed land tonight, the power of the Heavenly King's Curse was far greater than that of the other forty-seven blessed places; There is no other reason than the fact that there was a ban on Buddhism there. It turns out that there is an ancient Jizo temple in that place.
Although the temple is no longer there due to military disasters and earthquakes, the prohibitions imposed in the past are still in place, and the Dharma still exists. Therefore, the lord of the ghost city laid the Heavenly King Mantra here, and gathered the forbidden Dharma in the previous temple, which was far more powerful than the prohibition in several other blessed places.
After being silent in astonishment for a long time, the old scholar suddenly looked directly at Ah Hong and asked, "If I can break this Heavenly King Curse, how sure are you that you can break the second prohibition?" ”。
"When I heal my injuries, I can have seven or eight layers of certainty to break the second prohibition." Ah Hongzhong thought about it seriously and replied in the affirmative.
This second prohibition is the barrier formed by the aura of heaven and earth, although it is endless, but it has been a long time, but it is not difficult to defeat Ah Hong. It's just that he was almost dissipated by Mu Qingming's demonic energy, and it is difficult to recover without three or five days.
"That's good, you and I have to work together to break the ban, and the other party can't break it easily, we still have time to prepare, but not too long." The old pedant's brow furrowed even tighter, and then he said thoughtfully: "In three days at most, we will have to act." During these three days, you will recuperate in my house, and I will give you medicine to help you heal. ”。
As he finished speaking, Ah Hong suddenly found that the pain on his body was much lighter, presumably due to the miraculous effect of the two pills that the old scholar fed him before.
In addition to feeling the miracle, the innocent Ah Hong didn't wonder how this old pedant could prepare this magical drug, but actually popped out of his mouth and asked politely: "This won't disturb your family, right?" ”。
The old pedant smiled, shook his head and looked around at the four walls of the family, and in the smile on his face, he suddenly felt a little more bitter: "My family is alone, so I don't bother at all." ”。
"Huh?" Ah Hong blurted out in surprise when he heard this, stared directly at the old scholar with wide eyes, and asked, "What about your wife?" What about children? Also, why do you dispense medicines, why do you know so many strange arts, and little-known legends? Aren't you a showman? ”。
As he spoke, a suspicious look finally appeared in Ah Hong's eyes, and he looked the smiling old pedant in front of him up and down again.
"It's my secret, but since I'm going to cooperate, I won't hide it from you. I'll just tell you one person, you have to keep it a secret. After hearing this, the old pedant's body shook together, and the words "wife" and "children" seemed to have something unspeakable for him. But after the expectant Ah Hong nodded, the old pedant who wanted to speak for a while, in order to win Ah Hong's trust, still said slowly to Ah Hong: "A secret that no one outside knows." I'm not really a showman, but a herbalist, and my wife is a witch doctor who is proficient in jujujutsu, so that's why I'm familiar with some foreign arts. It's a pity that he was lost a few years ago, and even his only daughter is missing. They have really been lost in this city, and I have stayed here to find them. Outsiders don't know this secret, and I hope you can keep it a secret from me. ”。
This simple explanation not only eliminated Ah Hongcai's suspicions, but also made Ah Hong deeply sympathetic to the old man, and said without thinking: "When my piano is repaired, I will stay and help you find your family." ”。
"Thank you." The old pedant smiled indifferently and didn't say much......
The murmuring waters of the Golden Juice River flow slowly ahead in the night.
The ghostly atmosphere in the woods on the riverside dissipated without a trace, and there were no withered trees in Changchun, swaying their branches in the wind at night.
Miaotian received Mu Qingming's notice, so he immediately rushed over, and when he came to the forest, he only saw Mu Qingming and Mo Han, and there was no trace of the enemy, and Miaotian looked around and asked, "Is it the Tao of Immortality?" ”。
"It's not." Mu Qingming shook his head slowly and said, "There is no sign of cultivation on the other party's body, and the qi that runs is also demonic qi. ”。
Under the night wind, Miao Tian listened to his words, and had already squatted down, and after pinching out a sword trick with his right hand, he raised the tips of his index and middle fingers and lightly tapped them on the fallen leaves on the ground in front of him, and at the same time concentrated his energy.
"Why do I think that this kid is so stubborn, and it has something to do with the instigation of the Immortal Dao?" Mo Han frowned as he pinned the hair behind his ears.
At least Mo Han knew that he knew so much, and he only had the Dao of Immortality in the leylines of the city that was eyeing the aura that operated the Feng Shui Great Array.
So the first thing she doubted was the Immortal Dao.
"Well, I can't rule it out." Mu Qingming replied, and then looked at Miaotian.
The top priority is to let Miaotian find the little demon just now, and then subdue the little demon and bring it back to ask for clarification.
At this moment, Miaotian beside him frowned suddenly, turned his head, looked at Mu Qingming in the darkness of the night, and said suspiciously: "In addition to our breath in these surroundings, only the breath of grass and trees remains." ”。
When the words landed, Miaotian, who paused, couldn't help but ask, "You can't have met a wood ghost, right?" ”。
Mu Qingming was suddenly stunned; I was just busy subduing that kid just now, but I forgot to look at the other party's primordial spirit, what is it?
After being stunned, Mu Qingming turned his head to look at his wife and asked urgently, "What is the ghost in the shadow under that kid's feet?" ”。
Mo Han's fox demon eyes can see their true faces from the shadows under the feet of various creatures.
Mo Han was suddenly asked by him, and he was stunned for a moment, then he came to his senses, and after a little reflection, he replied thoughtfully: "It seems to be a grass, a bit like those orchids you planted at home." ”。
"That's a wood ghost, no wonder I can only sense the scent of grass and trees." Miaotian, who stood up, said slowly with a slight chin on his head.
For Miaotian, no matter how good he is at tracking techniques, he doesn't directly fight with wood ghosts in a place full of grass and trees, and it is difficult to track the breath of the other party, but it is not impossible.
Miao Tian settled down, slowly closed his eyes again and began to gather his energy, and instantly concentrated his spirit.
Bathed in the night breeze and listening to the rustling of the trees around him, Mu Qingming suddenly regretted it. Before, if he had opened his eyes to see the other party's true face, he would not have mixed so many fallen leaves into the whip.
In this way, it is equivalent to hiding the breath of that kid.
"What is a wood ghost?" Just when Miao Tian still didn't give up and was continuing to track, Mo Han asked Mu Qingming curiously.
"A kind of spirit, although it is called a wood ghost, but it is not a ghost and a spirit, but a spirit cultivated by plants and trees. For example, the tree god recorded in ancient books: 'In the first month of the twenty-fifth year of Jian'an, Wei Wu built the first temple in Luoyang, and cut down the dragon tree and bled out. He also dug up pears, and the roots were wounded and blood came out. Wei Wu was evil, and then he fell ill, and it was the moon that collapsed. This account is a wood ghost. Another example is the legendary Huang Zu, who is also a wood ghost. After Mu Qingming explained to his wife, he suddenly remembered something, and asked with a frown, "Why didn't you open the enchantment just now?" ”。
Can the dragon lockers track down Ah Hong? Find out what happens next, and listen to the next breakdown.