Chapter 55: The Taoist Warrior Fights Yasha
The Taoist priest had already revealed the details of the incident to the doctor, but I didn't know it, so the Taoist priest said it again.
Coincidentally, on the day we arrived at Toastai, the third uncle also arrived, but we were a little ahead of the crowd, and there were few people, so it was convenient to go all the way into the mountain, so we arrived a few hours earlier than them.
When we were having dinner at Lao Gui's house, the third uncle and they happened to enter the village, so we didn't notice it. That night, the third uncle and they also stayed in the village.
Because I had accumulated too much fatigue during the day, I was not alone in going to bed early that night, and after the doctor chatted with the old Gui girl, they also went back to the house to sleep, and the doctor told me that when he returned to the house, I had fallen asleep, and there was nothing abnormal at that time.
Here's the weirdness of things, the doctor said that he wasn't sleepy at the time, so he habitually meditated. This is a habit that the doctor has developed since childhood, and the whole person's spirit is in an ethereal state when he enters the meditation, and he has never fallen asleep when he has been in meditation for more than ten years, but that night, he just fell asleep.
When he first woke up, the doctor was as surprised as I was, but he woke up in an even worse condition than I was, he was completely entangled in the tentacles in the water, unable to break free and unable to breathe.
This is almost a mortal situation, but fortunately, the doctor happens to have a special 'martial arts' - turtle breath!
This is a way of exhaling to change one's own breath into internal breathing for a period of time, with one breath, which lasts for about twenty minutes, but during this time he will fall into a state of consciousness, which is why I saw him motionless underwater at the time.
The Taoist priest told me that it was not early when they arrived at Toasttai that day, and after arranging the accommodation of a large group of people, it was already very late, and he had eaten a good dinner, without much oil and water, and he was hungry enough in the middle of the night.
Tossing and turning and unable to sleep, the Taoist priest simply got up and searched the kitchen for food, but found nothing. At this time, it was already more than one o'clock in the morning, and the Taoist priest was really hungry enough, and remembered that when he entered the village, he saw a large fat fish caught by the villagers from the puddle in front of the village, and he couldn't help but drool, so he had what he just said.
At that time, Dao Ye was still some distance from the water's edge, although there was a moon, but he couldn't see it very clearly, but he felt that the two figures on the water were a little familiar. Dao Ye was still strange at the time, it's all at this point, why are there still people at the water's edge?
But what Lao Tzu didn't expect was that the two figures jumped into the water in the blink of an eye, and Dao Ye felt wrong at this time, and when he rushed over, there were only ripples left on the water, and he couldn't see a single fart. ”
"At that time, Dao Ye was still thinking, was it wrong, but at this moment, a shadow suddenly rose from the water, damn it, do you know what Dao Ye saw?"
When the Taoist priest said this, his face was full of frightened expressions, which made me nervous, and I subconsciously asked, "What do you see?" ”
The Taoist priest took a deep breath, "Immeasurable, you Amitabha, damn, that shadow, that shadow is a Yaksha!" ”
We were all stunned and looked at each other, and I asked, "What is a Yaksha?" ”
The Taoist priest told us that the Yaksha ghost was first seen in Indian Buddhist accounts, and was one of the eight protectors of the Heavenly Dragon of Buddhism, a demigod and a half-ghost. But in the records of Shenzhou Xuanmen, the Yaksha ghost is completely a kind of evil ghost, likes to eat human flesh, drink human blood, do all kinds of evil, and looks fierce and ugly.
It is rumored to be tall, with green hair several feet long, one eye on the top of the head and the other on the chin, and it is also very strangely shaped, with diamond-shaped vertical eyes. Its nose is also quite unsightly, with one nostril facing the sky and the nostrils facing the ground all the time, and both ears are not on the sides, but on the front and back.
According to the Taoist scriptures, the Yaksha is generally the minions of the dragon king, living in the water, and there is another folk theory that the Yaksha is a poor demon of the underworld, and eats under the hands of the Lord of Yama.
According to similar records in the scriptures and Buddhist scriptures, the existence of the Yaksha should be beyond doubt, but it is a coincidence that there has not been a single case of encountering the Yaksha in the past few hundred years, which makes people doubt whether the Yaksha really exists.
This is also the reason why the Taoist priest was so shocked when he saw the figure, because before that, he did not believe in the existence of the Yaksha ghost.
The records of the Yaksha ghosts in the Taoist canon are not exhaustive, but there is one item, that is, the person who encounters the Yaksha ghost will either be eaten on the spot, and even if he is lucky enough to escape, he will be haunted by bad luck from then on, and finally die of bad luck, because the Yaksha ghost itself is the embodiment of bad luck.
The Taoist priest knew this, so his face at that time was not to mention how ugly it was, and the only solution was to strike first and destroy the Yaksha ghost.
The Taoist priest is a doer, and he thinks about doing it together, but just as he was about to do it, the Yaksha ghost rising on the surface of the water suddenly twisted violently, and then swelled sharply outward, and finally exploded with a bang.
This change was so sudden, after the Taoist priest dodged the debris splashed by the explosion, he suddenly saw that in the corpse of the tentacles like algae in the sky, there was a black gas, which seemed to wrap a person, and after the Yaksha ghost exploded, it fell back into the water again, floating on the water.
At this time, the Taoist priest remembered the two divers just now, and he didn't know what was going on at all.
The Taoist priest saw my face and thought that he had seen it wrong, and at this moment, my body began to slowly sink into the water, and the Taoist priest hurriedly grabbed me and pulled me to the shore, but after pulling for a long time, he found that there seemed to be a huge force in the water that was competing with him.
With the brute strength of the Taoist, it was naturally impossible to lose, and soon, I was pulled out of the water by him, and at the same time, he also saw that in addition to those broken tentacles on my body, there was another tight tentacle that was entangled with me, and it was this thing that was fighting with him.
I don't know if it was because of the relationship with the water, the tight tentacles suddenly loosened, and then quickly retracted underwater.
The Taoist priest breathed a sigh of relief, dragged me to a dry place, ripped off the broken tentacles wrapped around my head, and carefully identified that it was indeed me, and he immediately froze in place.
Countless questions made the Taoist priest wonder if he was dreaming, but soon, his face changed again, and he turned his head suddenly to look at the sparkling silver water, he thought of one thing, just now he saw two people diving, one was me, and the other ......
The Taoist priest did not hesitate at all, and jumped into the icy water, he thought of a possibility, he would appear here with me, it seemed that there would be no one else except Lin Qiao'er.
As soon as he jumped into the water, two black shadows like aquatic plants instantly rolled towards him, the Taoist priest knew that there was still this thing in the water, and he had already prepared, seeing the black shadow rolling, he immediately took out a short dagger from his pocket, waved his hand, and the two tentacles were suddenly broken, and the dark liquid diffused into the water from the wound, like blood, quickly dispersed, and the broken tentacles also quickly retracted.
The Taoist priest frowned, at this time he had already seen the underwater situation clearly, and at a glance he saw the doctor who was wrapped in zongzi not far away, and immediately swam over.
Due to the kind of tentacles everywhere under the water, the process of the Taoist priest's rescue was not smooth, and more than a dozen tentacles were touched during the process, but also thanks to his dexterity, and the dagger was sharp enough, those tentacles could not stop him.
Soon, the Taoist priest had swam to the doctor's side, and was about to cut off the tentacles that locked the doctor, when the spiritual sense he had cultivated for many years suddenly sensed the crisis, and at the same time, he also felt the water behind him fluctuate sharply.
Although he was underwater, the Taoist priest's reaction was not slow at all, and while sensing the crisis, he swam out violently towards the place where the current fluctuated in the opposite direction, and almost at the same time as he swam out, a black shadow suddenly grabbed the position where the Taoist priest had just stayed.
Although he failed to catch the Taoist priest this time, he fell on the doctor who was locked by countless tentacles, and suddenly, several tentacles were cut off by the black shadow. The Taoist priest hurriedly turned his head to take a look, and was shocked to find that the sneak attack was actually the Yaksha ghost he had seen on the shore just now.
It turns out that there is more than one Yaksha ghost in this water.
Until this time, the Taoist priest finally understood that these tentacles densely covered under the water in front of him, where were the tentacles, this was clear, it was clearly the hair of the Yaksha ghost!
I saw that this Yaksha ghost who quietly appeared behind the Taoist priest, although his appearance was not as ugly as recorded in the classics, it was also extremely hideous. Its two jaws are high and convex, no nose, only two black holes on the mouth, the lips are extremely thick, as if red and swollen, a mouthful of sharp fangs shining with cold light are exposed, extremely long, especially the canine teeth, almost up to the eyes, the most chilling thing is that the eyes of this yaksha are completely gray and black, and when he stares at it, there is a feeling of hair standing on end all over his body.
In addition, the face of this yaksha was covered with a thick layer of scales, which shimmered with a dark glow, extending to shoulder height, like a layer of armor.
Compared with the hideousness of its face, what makes the Taoist priest's heart palpitate even more is the hair of this Yaksha, which can no longer be described by hair, those tentacles that are all over the water like aquatic plants, are actually the hair extended by this Yaksha ghost, being underwater, you can imagine how weird this picture is.
The Yaksha ghost that suddenly appeared grinned at the Taoist priest with an extremely strange smile, and then two gray-black eyes stared at the Taoist priest.
At that moment, the Taoist priest suddenly felt that his whole body was frozen and completely out of control, and in shock, he was busy chanting and practicing the Taoist scriptures in his heart, and under the operation of the Taoist true qi, his body immediately returned to normal.
The Yaksha didn't seem to notice that the priest had returned to normal and was still smiling, but the tentacles extending from the top of his head were getting closer to the priest, trying to wrap him around like a doctor.
The Taoist priest remained silent, and when his eyes turned, he saw that the doctor at this moment had broken away from the tentacle package and was floating in the water unconsciously.
Looking at the approaching tentacles around him, the Taoist priest thought in his heart, it was really not a wise move to fight with the Yaksha ghost under this water, and there was no guy in his hand, and he would suffer a loss if he started to do it.
So the Taoist priest resisted the urge to make a move, and when the surrounding tentacles approached him, he suddenly burst out, grabbed a tentacle with one hand, and pulled it violently, while the dagger in the other hand slashed, and the tentacle held in his hand was broken in response.
Because of the Taoist priest's previous bewilderment, the Yaksha ghost did not expect that the Taoist priest was not controlled by him, at this time the Taoist priest suddenly moved, and he was caught off guard, and before he could react, the Taoist priest had already thrown out the tentacles in his hand, wrapped around the doctor, quickly pulled it to his side, and then dragged the doctor to swim frantically to the shore.
Maybe it was luck, maybe it was the Taoist priest's beautiful plan, the two swam all the way to the shore, and the hair of the underwater Yaksha ghost caught up, and seeing that they were about to be entangled, the Taoist priest did not hesitate at all, quickly took out a small bottle from his pocket, and spilled it into the water behind him.
The bottle was filled with the incense case tribute soil that the Taoist priest had collected for a long time, which could restrain all evil, and as soon as the soil was sprinkled, the black shadow that followed the Taoist priest in the water suddenly seemed to have touched the taboo, and the black was like a tide that receded in an instant.
In this way, the doctor and I were saved, and the explosion of the Yaksha ghost was so loud that many villagers near the water husk were awakened, and under the noise, many people quickly gathered on the shore.
Tourists drowned, this is a big deal, Lao Gui who came to hear the news was so anxious, but there was no health center in Toast, so Lao Gui had to go overnight to invite the only one in the village to be a foot man.
The Taoist priest actually knows some medical skills, especially for the meridian acupuncture points, but this time both of us are drowning, and the Taoist priest has no way to do this, so he has to report my situation to the third uncle.
The third uncle's reaction to my appearance in Toast was as shocked as when the Taoist priest first recognized me, but fortunately, the third uncle prepared a lot for this operation, considering that there might be casualties in the head-on conflict with the Heavenly Witch Sect, so he brought people who were proficient in medical skills in his team, and after giving us first aid, he finally rescued us.
The doctor allowed himself to breathe internally in advance, and the Taoist priest rescued him in time, so his condition was not much serious, and I, although I was rescued, could not wake up.
The Taoist priest and the master of the third uncle's team checked me, judged that it was a soul, and they were helpless for a while, but fortunately, the Taoist priest abducted the old turtle over the phone before following the third uncle to toast, and the old turtle personally went out, which recalled my soul.
Listening to the Taoist priest talk about this, I remembered the conversation I heard in the darkness and the turtle's head that suddenly appeared, the secret path is so dangerous, if it wasn't for the old turtle's timely action, I might have completed the deal with the Rakshasa ghost, I really don't know what will happen at that time?
After that, things are very simple, although my soul has been recalled, it is not easy to wake up, the third uncle and they waited for two days, but I have no signs of waking up, and when it comes to the third day, another group of people came to Toast, and this group of people is the Heavenly Witch Sect.