Chapter Forty-Nine: A Thousand Corpses
Although Lilac is indeed a senior sister, but after all, Yiyi is from the underworld and not the spiritual gate, and the shopkeeper is also me and not her, so although she is dissatisfied, she can't really drive people away.
Shan Yufei's luggage was all placed in the back hall, including his spare robes.
I pulled him into the back hall and asked him to change his clothes, and when I came out again, Lilac leaned against the cabinet with her hands folded and looked at me dissatisfied.
"Senior brother, how did you mix up with the black-clothed one? None of the people in black are good people, have you forgotten? ”
I scratched my head, knowing that I couldn't talk to her at this time, so I said, "Senior sister, I know." But you see that he is so miserable, if we drive him out again, won't it become an unkindness to our underworld and spiritual gate? ”
"This..."Lilac obviously didn't think about it, and was slightly stunned when I said it, and then snorted unwillingly, "That's not good, you mix with him, and sooner or later he will be calculated!" ”
"I'll pay attention, in fact, the others are fine, if he hadn't sacrificed his life to help me this morning, I might have died in the reeds." Seeing that Lilac's tone was a little relaxed, I quickly picked up the conversation.
Lilac was also surprised when she heard that I was almost dead, and hurriedly asked what was going on.
I took advantage of the situation to tell Lilac about Li Laosan's corpse, demon spirit, and then catching the water ghost, being set up against the bureau, and telling Ding Xiang about the thousand-year-old white bones and war spirit, especially the thrilling and nervous story of catching the water ghost in crisis.
Lilac didn't expect that she had only been away for only two days, and so many things had happened in Hulukou, so much, she was dumbfounded when she heard it.
When I was said and done, Lilac seemed to need some time to sort out her thoughts, and I took the opportunity to pour a glass of water to moisten my throat.
When the curtain was opened, Shan Yufei was standing behind the wall, and when he saw me coming in, the corners of his lips raised and said, "I didn't expect that your words are sometimes quite useful." ”
"When did you change it?" I glanced at him and poured a thermos into the cup.
"Probably when you said that we were choked all over the yard by Li Laosan's zombies, right?" Shan Yufei said, "You are quite talented in storytelling, I want to applaud you." ”
"Excuse me, why don't you go out?" I rolled my eyes.
Shan Yufei said: "It's not appropriate to go out, do you think she will give me a good look, or will I give her a good look?" ”
"If you do something to my senior sister, I won't let you go." I glanced at him, just in case, to warn him.
Shan Yufei shrugged his shoulders and said faintly: "Brother Lin, it's not good for a man to be too afraid of guilt... Wow, what are you splashing me for? ”
Thanks to this tease, I poured another glass of water.
Leaving the back hall, Lilac seemed to have sorted out what had happened in the past few days, and I noticed her pacing back and forth in the lobby as if she were fidgeting.
"Senior sister, what's wrong with you?" I asked, confused.
Lilac stopped, brushed a few strands of hair hanging in front of her ears behind her ears, looked at me and said, "Senior brother, you just said that the demon spirit wants to make a thousand corpses as a furnace and ten thousand spirits as a fire, right?" ”
"Well, I heard him want to do that. Senior sister, did you think of something? I asked.
Lilac showed a little sadness on her face, first nodded, and then shook her head: "It's hard to say... I am reminded of an old legend in our spiritual gate. ”
"It's a legend again... Don't tell me there's another demon Jiao coming out? I rolled my eyes and said half-jokingly.
Unexpectedly, Lilac glared at me fiercely and said, "When is it, you are still joking!" If someone really uses a thousand corpses as a furnace and ten thousand spirits as fire to make the ultimate leap, the consequences will not be lighter than the demon dragon transformed into a demon dragon! ”
Seeing Lilac so serious, I also realized that what the demon was going to do might be much more serious than I thought.
"So, what legend has been passed down from your white clothes?" Shan Yufei lifted the curtain and walked out, but did not come closer, just leaned against the wall and looked at us.
Lilac glanced at him with hostility, but still spoke: "The ancestor of our Lingmen left a legend: all spirits are fires, ignite copper lamps, gather the grievances of all spirits, and become supreme Shura!" But picking all the spirits to light the fire of the underworld is a great rebellion in itself, and it hurts the heavens and the peace. Moreover, the bronze lamp is mysterious, and it is not known which ancient tomb it is hidden, so no one has ever succeeded in it throughout the ages. ”
"Senior sister, the copper lamp you said... What is it? Is it essential? "I noticed that Lilac seemed to have a little hope when talking about the bronze lamp.
Lilac explained: "It is also a legendary thing, it is said to be one of the eight bronze vessels that the First Emperor supervised with the power of the whole country when he was seeking immortality. That bronze lamp is said to have unpredictable powers, people who light its fire will get eternal life, and demons who burn its fire will become a great demon! ”
"I know this legend too." Shan Yufei took over and said, "This is quite widely circulated in the Xuanmen, and there is more than one version. Some say copper coffins, and some say copper tripods. ”
"But... Qin Shi Huang doesn't seem to live long, huh? "I thought about it for a while, and it seems that the Yingzheng in history only lived for less than half a hundred.
Shan Yufei shrugged his shoulders and said, "Legends, there are some exaggerations. Moreover, according to the legend of the sorcerer, Qin Shi Huang died because of the creation of this anti-heaven eight bronze vessel, which buried the national fortune of the entire Qin Dynasty. ”
This kind of legend, to me, is more or less like a mythical story without a shadow. Shan Yufei has the same opinion as me, but Lilac still cares a lot about what the demon spirit says about all spirits as fire.
"So, do those bronzes really exist? Has anyone seen it? I then asked a curious question.
This time, Lilac and Shan Yufei glanced at each other, as if they recalled something at the same time, and then quickly turned their heads as if they didn't want to see each other's faces.
"To say it all... Probably no one has actually seen it, in fact, many people are also wondering if there are really eight. But a few of them... There are quite a few people in history who have seen it. Lilac said, pointing at herself and me, and then pointing at Shan Yufei rather reluctantly, "Our ancestor once saw a bronze coffin. ”
"Wait... Bronze coffin? Shan Yufei's eyes lit up, he groaned slightly, and said to himself, "A thousand corpses are furnaces... A thousand corpses are furnaces, I feel a little familiar, you talk about the copper coffin, I remember! ”
"What? Do you remember that it was finally time for you to go? Lilac scoffed.
Shan Yufei couldn't help glaring at her: "You want to quarrel?" ”
"Alright, alright, stop!" I had to interject to interrupt the quarrel they were about to break out again, then looked at Shan Yufei and asked, "What did you think of you?" ”
"It's a legend about the copper coffin, and the last time the bronze coffin appeared in the legend, it seems to be in the hands of Emperor Wu Cao of the Tang Dynasty." Shan Yufei snorted, ignored Lilac, and explained to me, "The bronze coffin was seen by our ancestor at that time, and because the coffin buried the corpse, the relevant legends were also left in the classics of the 'corpse' door. ”
"What kind of account is it?" This time, even Lilac was curious, because she was dressed in white, which was a secret legend that she didn't even know.
But Shan Yufei choked the conversation at this time, and raised his chin at her a little proudly: "Want to know?" Please. ”
"You-" Ding Xiang's pretty face turned crimson, and her willow eyebrows were upside down.
I rolled my eyes and threw the glass of water in my hand at him.
"Damn! Heavy color and light friends! Shan Yufei hurriedly dodged to the side, muttered a sentence and said, "Actually, it's nothing." It was the ancestor who used the light of the oil lamp to accidentally find that there were words on the inside of the copper coffin. ”
The interior of the bronze coffin... Got a word?
I was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously recalled what happened in Zhangjia Village.
"What word?" Lilac threatens with a whip.
"A kind of writing from the Qin Dynasty... Our ancestor is not an archaeologist, how can he be so clear? Also, I warn you not to take the whip at me. Shan Yu Fei shouted.
"Zhong Dingwen." I spoke, my face a little solemn, "The font commonly used in the Qin Dynasty was Xiao Seal, but Xiao Seal was rarely engraved on bronze ware. Most of the engraved bronze objects are Zhong Dingwen, which originated from the Jin Wen. ”
"Uh... Senior brother, you have a lot of research on this? Shan Yufei just avoided the whip drawn by Lilac with a short head, and couldn't help but be stunned when he heard me say the difference in the Qin Dynasty font.
"Senior brother?" Lilac looked at me with a whip.
"He screamed casually himself." I said calmly, "Shan Dao Chief, did the ancestor read something out of the bronze coffin?" ”
"Don't read too much, but there is a saying circulating in the corpse gate." Shan Yufei recalled for a while, "The corpse that enters the coffin does not enter reincarnation and does not give birth to the six realms." Thousands of corpses are the furnace, the copper coffin is the core, and the gas of thousands of corpses is collected, and the corpse king will be born to chaos in the world. ”
A thousand corpses are furnaces, and all souls are fires.
The corpse becomes the corpse king, and the spiritual Shura.
When Shan Yufei said this, the three of us looked a little ugly, whether we wanted to or not, we all had a sense of authenticity that the legend gradually had a trace of authenticity......
"Should... Impossible, right? Copper coffins, copper lamps, these two things have been unknown to anyone for more than a thousand years. Shan Yufei said, "The last record in the Xuanmen is only that the last person who owns them is Wu Cao. Even if it exists, it should be in the Qianling Tombs of Wu Cao and Tang Gaozong. ”
I looked at them, took a deep breath, and said slowly, "I don't know about the copper lamp, but ...... Bronze coffins, I seem, probably, have seen them. ”
As soon as these words came out, Shan Yufei and Lilac looked at me in unison, their eyes glazed.
After a while, Lilac shook her head and said, "Senior brother, don't be kidding, no one has seen the bronze coffin for more than a thousand years..."
"The words on the bronze coffin can only be seen by the oil lamp, like birds and beasts, right?" I ignored Lilac, spoke, and looked at Shan Yufei, who frowned at this time, stared at me and asked in a deep voice: "You... Where have you seen it? ”
"Zhangjia Village." As soon as I spoke, Shan Yufei and Lilac got up at the same time and were about to go out, so I hurriedly stopped them and said, "It's no longer there now, when I left Zhangjia Village that day, Sister Fang came and took the copper coffin away!" ”
"Who?" The two of them were obviously nervous, and they didn't remember who I was talking about Sister Fang for a while.
I helped them recall: "Jiang Fang is the woman who appeared in the ancestral hall of Zhangjiacun. ”
"She?" Shan Yufei and Lilac gasped together, obviously remembering that they couldn't stand up for a long time after being pressed by the sentence 'kneel'.
"The bronze coffin is not in the hands of the demon spirit, it should be a good thing, right?" I tried to think in a good direction, but Lilac still seemed worried.
At this time, my phone vibrated in my pocket, I took it out and looked at it, and I couldn't help but be stunned, it was a number that I was familiar with.
"Lu Jia?"
How does she know my new number?
But what made me feel even creepier was the content she sent: Help me, there are ghosts!